The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-10-14 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

MILITAIT.-Bomon-Major Wilson haa Bucceeded
Surzeen.hlafor Fox as medical offioer in charge of the
troops at Portland.
RIMOVAL OF CoNVICTL—Six invalid convicts, In
charge Principal-Warder Terrill and an infirma y
nurse. left. Portland on Tuesday by the nai idey train
for Woking.
If. NIS. BodkliWlN has tupt,lio,l .e•eeal drafte of
boys for sea-going Alp., cod her complemen• is now
oon-iderably reduced, there being only about 309
young tart on board.

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SLOW Wonc—The works at the eedim•nt tank at
the bAtom of kfaiden-well are progressing hut slowly.
The ground has been open some months poet, and the
thoroughfare is greatly obstructed, there being not
enough room for one vehicle to pea.. The unprotected
state of the ground makes it ego sedingly dangerous to
pedestrians.

THE Wimaca, steam yacht, having her owner,
the Baronage Burdett Coutte on board, is reported to
have had a narrow eecape while cruising among the
Channel Islands. When off the mouth-west point of
Jersey, in charge of a Guernsey pilot, the vessel being
taken too close to the shore, she struck on a rock well
known in that locality, and had a large hole knocked
In her bottom under the engine-room. A signal was
made for a Jersey pilot, who boarded the yacht and
took he: to Cha•Warg, where the damage was
repaired.

TkLB Fciter.-14.14.8. Agincourt, Captain Buller,
C. 8., bearing the lag of Raw Admiral C. L Waddi-
love, as second in command of the Channel Squadron,
and H. MS. invincible, Captain L Brine, arrived in
our Roads on Friday, and H. 4.9. Defence, Captain
it. P. Gator, arrived on Saturday morning. Before
leaving Plymouth for Portland the Defence made a
sati.factory trial of her engines out.ide the Break.
water. The Minotaur, 17, iron-ecrew. armour-pl4ed,
Captain Harry H. Rawson, bearing the fie/ of Vine-
Admiral the Right Hon. Lord Jolla Hay, C. 8., after
ca ling at Spithead to take in powder and shell, arrived
on Wednesday. The Beet will leave on Friday for
Queenstown, and are expected te return early next
month. It is expected they will spend the areatar
portion of the winter with us, it being officially
announced they will spend their Christmas at hcme.

HARVINIT TH.UIIIIOII7IIIIO Stivices.—Theee WAIL
enjoyable services were held on Sunday last at Si.
Deorge's Church. The sacred edifice wu beautifully
decorated with Sowers and evergreens, LEW preseired
a most pleasing and tasteful appearance, reflecting
great credit on those ladies and gentlemen who
assisted in the work, viz. Mrs. Bator, Mr. and Mrs.
14,40, Mr. H. W. Smith, Mr. Her.ry Stone. Mr. and
Mrs. Wood, ea well as other friends, including the
pupil teachers at the school. The services were most
appropriate, including special hymns. The anthem
In the evening was by Barnby—" The eyes of all wait
upon Thee—a .d was very niosly rendered by the
choir. The collections, amounting to about £5, were
In aid of the Dorset C.eurity Hospital. A special
service was also held at Southwell Church. Hymns
appropriate to the occasion were sung, and the whole
of the musical melon of the service went exceedingly
well, Mr. H. W. Smith presiding at the harmonium.
The collection was in aid of the building fund.

DISTURBANCES ON BOARD mut Baocitarri.—Some
little excitement RSA caused on board the various ships
in our road, and through out the locality, in
consequence of a rumour that • disturbance. multing
in open mutiny, had broken out on board H.M.S.
Bacchante, and that Captain the Right Hon. Lord
Charles Scott and Commander Hill and an officer of
the nomoombatant branch had been seriously
maltreated. The rumour was so general that the
Admiralty was communicated with on the subject, and
the reply was that no information as to any
disturbance had been received, and that everything
was reported all well when the Bacchante passed the
Lizard on the 26th ult., on her way to Minorca. It is
difficult to trace the or of the rumour. The
authorities here attribute it to the circumstance that
• few second-clam conduct men were removed from the
ship before her departure from Portsmouth, her
captain being of opinion that the proportion of second.
class to first-rims men was somewhat larger than wax
desirable. The ship sailed from Portland last
Thursday for the Rock. No disturbanoe took place
during her stay at Portland. but it is rumoured that
the ship's company were offered a few hours' leave,
and on being mustered to go on shore they were told
that it would be at their own expense, upon which the
men did not avail themselves of the offer, but returned
to their duties. Previous to the vessel sailing from
Portsmouth the utmost dissatisfaction existed among
the crew, who complained of the "nigger driving," to
use a nautical expression, to which they were
subjected, and that while they were compelled to
work each night until nearly nine o'clock, they were
forced to commence again at four a.m., and that leave
was altogether out of the question. We understand
the rumour ham been entirely repudiated by the
Admiralty.