The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-09-25 00:00:00

!MANAGE.

TIM annual circuit tea of the Wesleyan cause was hell
in the Congregational Schoolroom on Thursday, the
13th lest, followed by a public meeting in the Wesleyan
Chapel, over which Mr. Havnea, of Langton, presided. The
Chairman said that they took this opportunity of welcom-
ing their new minister among them, the Rev. J. Clegg.
He then called on Mr. Greigg (mission ball) to address the
meeting. Ile heartily welcome' the new minister, and
looked with interest upon such changes, and he trii.tril
they would pray for their minister and not worry him,
but cheer him by telling of the good as well as the evil.
The speech was exceedingly practical, and had a hearty
reception. The Rev. J. Clegg, in a kindly and forceful
manner stated the object of his mission and the manner
in which he should endeavour to accomplish it. He should
exercise charity to all denominations without the sacrifice
of his denominationalism. He reviewed some of the
bright and the dark signs of the times, and exhorted Lis
audience to aid him in his particular work by being brave
themselves towards God. The Rev. C. Chambers (Con-
gregationalist) referred to their late minister as greatly
missed by whomsoever he was known; and from the
difficulty of meeting the wants of all by any system of
religion or philosophy reasoned to the impossibility of any
preacher satisfying everyone. It was for us to try how
much we could like in persons and systems. If now their
new minister was an angel they must keep him well. Gal
would doubtless help us to discover at least that Mr.
Clegg was a man and brother. and he was heartily welcome
among us. Mr. Millward (Langton) trusted their new
"super" would be a true lamplighter. Their past hiul
been successful, and there were hopeful signs in the
future. The usual collection amounted to .£1 Ils. 41.
SWIMMING AND BATIIING.—re the grlitor.—We commend
the Clerk to the Local Board for the manner in which he
disch. . his tiny, but think that be oversteps the
mark, when he tries to bring the teaching of swimming
under the bye laws. as appeared in the Telegram,
August 31st, V 177. There are very few, if any, of the
women of Swanage who have any wish to learn the art if
swimming. The parents (who wish their daughters as
well as their sons to be acquainted with this much
neglected branch of science) of those young ladies who
have been put under the instructions of so competent a
master as the one at Swanage, would he the best judges of
the propriety in which the lessons are given, who also
rank him as one of the most efficient on the south coast
I can only account it to a mock delicacy of those who have
lodged the complaint, and would advise them at once to
take up their abode in a nunnery. lkis worthy of remark
that this noble art had nearly died out in England, but is
riAng up again, owing a great deal to the influence of
Professor Beckwith, of London (professor of swimming),
in which city a great many very large swimming baths
have lately been erected. But what are they compared
with the lovely bathing beach at Seranage, but visitors
there would be greatly a a loss to find it without a
teacher of swimming, which is one of the main things to
those with families, and who could fill this post so well as
the one who has held it for the last eight or ten years, we
believe. By inserting this in your valuable paper, the
Telegram. you would greatly oblige A WELL WISIINR
01 SWANAGE.—Dreiden.

XAIDEN NEWTON.
AN inquest was held at the White Horse Inn on the
20th inst., before Mr. H. Lock, deputy-eoroner, touching
the death of James Passmore, aged Fdyears, who came by
his death under the following circumstances. Deceased,
who is a native of Chard, Somerset, was employed by a
travelling showman named George Rolls to look to the
"roundabout horses" at fairs, and when on their way
from Bearninater Fair to Woodbury-hill deceased and a
la! named Charles Coleman got on the foot-board of nue
of the vans to ride, and is supposed to have gone to sleep,
and when near the Jolly Sailor, about four miles awl a
half from Maiden Newton, deceoaed was seen to fall under
the van, weighing about two tons, by a lad named Charles
[terrine, who was driving another van behind him.
Boring immediately jumped down and stopped the van
deceased was under, and with assistance got him out,
when it was found he hal received severe injuries about
the chest and head, the van wheels having passed over his
chest. He was brought on to Maiden Newton, where he
was seen by Dr. W. Rendle, but life was extinct : and it
was found by Mr. Rendle on further examination that
deceased's left ribs were broken in, his left jaw broken,
his skull fractured, collar bone broken, and other injuries
sufficient to account for instantaneous death. Sergeant
Freeman having been communicated wit!, he at once
gave information to the coroner, who held an inquest the
same afternoon. Evidence having been taken in aupport
of the above facts, the jury returned a verdict of "Acci-
dental death."

EVEILISHOT.
Tux Eel of Ilchester, who is a large landowner, not
only in Dorset, but also in Wilts, is, by an exchange with
the Bishop of the Diocese, about to become patron of the
living of Farley-with-Pitton. The church, St. Peter's,
Fitton, is undergoing restoration, the work having been
undertaken by the Ecclesiastical Coinmissioners, and the
cost. exclusive of the chancel, is estimated at 11,500,
towards which £2OO haz just been raised by a bazaar in
Clarendon Park. It is proposed to add an aisle on the
north side of the edifice, and to heighten the walls and the
tower. The Esrl of Ikhestar and Sir F. IL Bathurst will
be considerable contributors towards the expense.