The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-06-12 00:00:00

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S A LIBBIT RT. - Teetimonial. —We understand that
a silver hunting horn, with • purse of sovereigns, has
been presented to Henry Nason, by his Wiltshire
friends, on his leaving the South Wilts Hunt.

BALL'S BANKRUPTCY.-011 Thursday there was
certificate meeting before Mr Commissioner Evans,
and an" alleged sitting" for the purpose of auditing
the assignees accounts, under the bankruptcy of
Joseph Charles Ball, of Salisbury, miller. Mr. Med-
calf, from the firm of Messrs. Vanning, Naylor, and
Co., agents fir Messrs. Cobb and Smith, solicitors,
Salisbury, represented the trade assignees, Mr. Wil-
liam Felthain Terrell, of Salisbury, corn and seed
factor, and Mr. John Selfe, miller. No opposition
being offered by the assignees or any of the creditors
to tbe. bankrupt receiving his certificate, the learned
Commissioner granted one of the second class.
OPENiNG TO YBOVIL OF Till SALISSURY AND
YTATIL Ramo/ay.—The opening for traffic of the
last section of the above named railway—from Sher
borne to Yeovil,—took place on Friday. There
was no official demonstration, and the proceedings
, passed off in an entirely quiet manner. On Thurs-
day evening, Mr. Godson, the senstant traffic
manager of the South Western Railway, proceeded
to Yeovil, for the purpose of superintending the
noomary arrangements, sod os Friday, 0. Pak and

R. Hetley, !..qrs., of Salisbury arrived, accompanied
by Mr. hotman, the manager of the Salisbury and
Yeovil Line, mui Mr. Townsend, solicitor to the
company. These gentlemen left at about half-past
three o'clock, after partaking of luncheon at the
Three Choughs HoteL Theitrains throughout the
day were the nine as announced in the published
tables.

W A 1111111:CNTER. Wine Reformatory School—
Three other boys hart absconded at intervals during
the past week.
The second race between the horses Miss Coventry
and Melrose, Mlle off on Tuesday afternoon, on the
down. Jliss Coventry at first took a considerable
lead, but Melrose crept up, and went by the winning
post in beautiful style, two good lengths a head of
her opponent.
Mammuntocuo.--On Thursday, an examination
of candidates at the Marlborough Cestre, for the
prizes of the Diocesan Prise Scheme, took place in
St. Peter's Schools. There were 38 candidates, viz.,
1 from Collingbourne Kingston 17 from St.
Muy's Schools, and 20 from St. Peter's School.
The examination consisted of written answers to
Scripture, Arithmetic, the Prayer Souk, and
Catechism for both boys and girls, with needlework
for the girls, and grammar and geography for the
boys. The Bev. T. L Kingsbury and Dr. Fergus
were appointed to act as the local superintending
examiners on behalf of the Diocesan Committee.

M AULDORoUGH DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SOCIRTY.
—The ploughing and shearing matches in connection
with this society take place on Tuesday the 12th
inst., the ploughing in a field of Mr. Robert P.
Tanner's, at Ogbourne St. Andrew, and the shearing
as near to the field as practicable.
Swi noN. - Pardon to Euyenia Plummer.— Mr.
Walters F. Pratt writes as follows to a contempo-
rary :—As I and other friends of Mary Eugenia
Plummer have received many letters from stran-
gers expressing sympathy with the child, and an
opinion that sbelhad been unjustly convicted, and as
—notwithstanding the efiorta made by articles and
advertisements in the daily real before and since
this secotd verdict to bias public opinion in favour
of Mr. Hatch—the confidence of a great portion of
the public in the truth of the child has not been
shaken, it will perhaps be a satisfaction to them if
you will permit me to make known through your
columns that Her Majesty has been graciously pleased
to grant a pardon to the child on condition of her
being placed in the care of a lady selected by her
friends, and that she will to-day be taken into her
care. lam informed that it has been stated in one
of your contemporaries that the child has been sent
to a reformatory, but this I beg to state is not the
fact. I have a firm belief myself in the innocence of
the child. and lain one of those who think that,
however public opinion may be misled tor a tiros, it
ultimately comes round to the side of truth and jus-
tice, and I have no doubt that eventually in this
case the innocence ot the child will be made to

appear.
Tux WINNER OF Tux DERBY.—The greigtwinner
of the Derby, Mr, Merry, has devoted a portico of
his good fortune to charity. He gave a dinner on
Wednesday to every poor family in the parish of
Bishoptone, near this town, the place where his
valuable horses are trained.