The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-07-19 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

ApniAcrt AreoniniFirt.—!...i...cl6J2Witmismea
riVoal•nd Roads.

THE GRAIN CROPS IN TUX DROUGHT.—Harveet has
eommeocod on the hill. On Wednesday a field of
I rye between Wakeham and the Grove, and belonging
to Mr. W W. Comben, was cut. Further on, were
seen some oats in ...thy ; tht latter belonged to Mr.
Andrews, of Fortune'. Well ; but were not ripe, and
had apparently been cut on aocount of the scarcity of
feed. The wheat has scarcely passed what appears to
I have keen a good favourable flowering time, and the
barley seems full in the year.
TUX DROUGHT AND THB WATSI EICIPPLY.—Mthongh
the springs at Fortune's Well have yet held out, there
Is an awkward aeareity of water on the bill. The
springs have begun to fail, and the want of water is
felt all the more on account of the ottids having re•
1 rosined dry so long, whereby part of the neoraaary
liquid provide I for the inhabitante is diverted to supply
the esttle, horses, and sheep, especially the two latter
clamor of beasts. Frequent enquiries are now made for
the projected Water Company, the need of which is
I now deeply felt.
WZSLITAN ScePot. Titerre.—On Wednesday after-
noon, the Fortune's Well end Chesil Wesley tn Sunday
• Schools, number ing about 250soho1ers, with 45 teachers,
and under their superintendents, Kr. Flow, and Meows,
T. and E. Comben, had then treat below bill. They
assembled at the chapel end with gay flags and singing
hymns at various points of the route marched thence to
"Castle," returning through Chesil to a field at
the back of the minister's house, where they were
regaled with tea and cake. They then pro.
needed to the Naval Cadets' ground, kindly
lent for the Passion, and enter with spirit into vs, ions
game. The Eaton, Weston, and South well Wesleyan
Sunday School. had their treat on the same afternoon,
and this was a much grander lath* than the under- !
hill one, the scholars numbering about 400. It WU a
fine afternoon, sod, though the midday was rather
warm, it was shaded by friendly clouds later, and these
served to allay the bait. The scholars eoj iyed them-
selves heartily, ant will remember the annual treat, no
doubt, till nest year comes. Bless their little hearts I
For their sakes, we hardly tell when we mild wish for
even the much•wanted rain

Tax Now Diaraim CHlliteff. At • meeting of the
Salithury Diooesan Church Building Association, on
Thursday, the committee emnsidereel an application for
• grant to aid the erection of a new District Church at
Portland, in the Rural Deanery of Ihsrcheater and
Arandeaconry of Derset. The potulatioo for which
r church accommodation is required amounts to about
1 000 persons, consiasing chiefly of persons employed in
the convict eatchlishment, agricultural labourers an s
quarrymen,thegreater portion of whom live at •distance
of • mile and a quarter from the parish church. It
wasstated be the applicant (Rev. A. Hill) that the total
estimated expenditure on account of the new building
was £2,681, but of this PIM only £BlB remains alto be
raised, the difference, £1,863, haying been provided for
io the following manner, 'is. 1:425 by the amen contris
butious of the warders and their familia. ; the site,
estimated at £4OO, given by the Lords' of the Admiralty;
labour of the csonviat establishment, authorired by the
Secretary of State for the Home Department; and the
remainder by the gratuitnus tervicea of Capt. Du Cane,
IL E., Inspector-General of Prisons. as architect ' • and
of Mr. Rhodes, the Government Contractor of Works.
The pl.ns prepared by C.ipt. Du Cane have been
thoroughly approved by the diocesan architect, the ne
church being calculated to bold 300 persons, and to be
built of Portland .t me. It will be • very handsome
edifice, anal will consist of a nave and transept, with a
circular aps..s. All the sittings are to be free, and the
coruiiii.tee therefore voted • grant of £iXO towards
carrying out the object.

CRICIM. —On Thursday evening 14th the weekly
match of the Portland Cricket Club was played on the
C olvta ground between Mr. T. Id. Croaker's and Mr.
Z. Mille lite's eleven., the latter eleven winning by 55
runs. Subjoined is the score :

MR. Z. MILLEDGER.
I, Crocker •20
Hedge c Landers b Crocker .. 12
ScflorocSo o,nbEllloU • 9
Parker b Elilott .. 10
Ch.! C Sansom b Crocker.. ... .. 5
While b Elliott
Keloy c Ransom b Illiott.. „. „ o
Stublo c Elliott Jun., b Elliott .. . 8
Boxliall not out .. • 6
Johnoon c Ransom b Crocker 1
Ilart b Elliott.. 1
Byes 13,1 b It, wide. 9, „ 25