The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-06-21 00:00:00

IRSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL G,

H.IL Fix:gr.—lt le hoped that the Channel fleet wil
Mara be Portland the an week in July, and leave
with the neeemeitone Bothell population the few
farthings remAnine from the immense cum they most
lire. spent in the Tutus on The Portogues..
PASLIAHIGSTAIT OUNMIINI .N. The Err! of Devon
and members of the riwlramenttry cumin:soon granted
a few *eel., erro to enquire into the treatment of lb*
Fenian' at Portland Prima, have been sitting daily at
the prison, on and since Monday last. Several 00SVIGSI
and other witnesses have been examined; bat the pro-
ceedings will be, of mune, private, until they are
submitted to Parliament
Tea Bap Tfean.—on Mender' a party of young men
left Portland for Australia, daft:wring of obtaining
Permanent work in the Irelasid. Another party go to
Caned& on Mouday next. The cause of the deadness
in the trade seems to be that the commons railway
cuttings bays exposed to view stone that was never
tbourlit of before, and the Portland merahante decline
to redone their prieert, w as to enter into competition
with the new aorta of Was. Unfortunately the rumour
se to the order of stooe for tbe General Poet Office has
turned out to be antral, and the island hos relapsed
Into despair.
MACIIIXL FISHING ham been progressing, and last
week the numbers caught were extraordinary. The
boats belonging to Mr. Way sought 30,000 on Friday
last, and on the same day Mr. Pitta's seine enclosed
about 70,000 ; bat the net unfortunately broke, and
only about 6,000 were saved. All dames of people
visited the beach, and 'misted in hauling the nets to
and marrying them to the station. They were
sent off by two trains, but London and Portsmouth
seem to be pretty well supplied, and the fish were sold
in Portland al 3d. per doses. If they are equally namer-
-0.11 about harvest time, they will be salted in, for
winter provision ; but la present they are scarcely fat
enough. In spite of the abeepnew of the fish, we
understand that the men is Mr. Way's boats shared
about kV per man.

jumped into the water with his clothes on, and
towards the other side, bin after a few strokes be die-
appeered quite suddenly. A girl named Bird and a
boy unwed Whilby were to the shore, and they gave
an alarm, when the pones, Villt.ili Wallis, a fisherman,
and the easel-guard, searseed for the body, until nine
o'clock at night, when it tras too late and too dark to
a .otinee the eaarah, ore,t credit is dee to Sergeant
Biles, P.C. Norte, and William Wallis for their emir-
tioas in trying to find the body. They arrived by the
shore at two a.m. nett opining, and searched in a beat
until four o'clock, whim thew found the deceased in
about 14 feet of water. hot one of his brother fisher-
men ware there to assist in the Degree. It is thosght
by some that the cause cf dessased's sinking was • fit
which he must have had is the water. The family, it
is said. are all liable to fib, and one member can Dever
, remain long in a chersh or chapel withost being thus
' aniseed. Others menue that deceased got entangled
in the weeds, of which there were a great many at the
pleas.
The iimaest was held oi Toeisday afternoon at the
Albert Inn, Wyke, brfire H. Lock, Seq., depu.y-
Devour, and • respectable jury, of whom Mr. Abraham
Clark was the foreman.
Mary Bird said os yesterdsy afternoon about five
o'clock she was near the Fleetwater on the Wyke side.
Her little brother was with her, and also a boy named
George Whidby. She met Hussey, spoke to him, and
asked- him where his his boat was, and be said 'Over
there," meaning jest across the water. She then want
on, leaving deceased belied. About five minutes after
she saw him in the water, oeither walking nor swim-
ming, but only scrambling about in the water. He
went under water, and she did not see him again.
Deceased did not call fir assistant*. She was only •
short distance from him; but she did not do anything
at that time. Shortly after she met another man,
to whom she told what had happened.—By • Juror:
She oonsidered der:easel attempted to mini, because
tb°r° were 00 tere. He appeared perfectly
asonable and sensible.
George Whidby, • bey in his teens, said: lii,. at
Wyke. Yesterday afternoon about five. I was near the
coastguard landing.plans. While I was there James
Hussey came and pseud me, Mary Bird was with me,
and as James Hussey went on be cried out "Come on,
come on, here's a icet here r Deceased went on,
when he came back and said "1 must gen across.'
Witness saw demand in the water; he swam a little
bit, and went down. He appeared to be able to swim.
When he was in the water hada not call for assistance.
The water runs rapidly there at the spot where he
was swimming. Duman boat was the other side of
the water, for witness went across afterwards.
I The Coroner asking if any one amid assimilator this
I place, one of the jury said he had swum across hundreds
, of times; it was where he learnt how to awls, and
several of the jury said it was quite common to .win
11110TOSIL
William Wallis, fislyrrean, of Wyke, said that after
bearing of the amideet. be went and got the line with
trots, and swept the rater twies, frorrl half-put sit to
seven. The tide WY running rapidly, and they could
not get the lines to work. He was called early this
morning, at two o'clock, by Sergeant Biles and P.C.
Norton, Mad they went to the seaside, looked for the
body ; bet it was net light enough to see. About
twenty minutes to four he dlerotered the body, dragged
it up with a rake from the bottom, and took it ashore.
*hence it was removed to the Albert Inn. The water
where he was lying was about 12ft. deep. In answer
to quetions from theinry, Wallis mid he oommenced
searching at half-past-eve. The tide was running about
seven miles an hour when declassed was drowsed. The
body was washed shoal 40 yards from the place where
he went in ; had it net been for that, it would pro-
bably hare been found on Monday night.—Verdict
" Accidentally drownd."
Tile dummied was 34 years of age, and his wife was
said to be so near her confinement that she wad not
attend the inquest.