The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-05-20 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

TUE P P.O. FTHIOPIAX LiocPl.—Th• services of
thi• hr up h b,r th no,xt co, a,it at
th, I Aim., We haw. n doubt tt will ba
al M . Mar al. the P. P.I hatalmut r
ha. taken ti..en in hand. Is re-pac•
an I er.• b here they ha., an incr..a., nft
atroodth in Oven branch..., a step in tint right ^ 'rut-
thm. _

ST. PITH'. i-HCBCII. Poutt.emn.—Speoial sey•io•
on A•o•os ck Day, Irl iy 21. HB4. —Choir Het
Pr“oeeel.nal h% ma bet... .• ry c . 166 i P.m.,. Re.-
pone.. .04 Verslehm., Pr per Pe.dtoo• gt 47
sad 108. C ...k in ; acnifirat. Tnee nt
Nunn I)im.tii., Dr. 0,1, ; anthem, °Uft
up your locale," Me. ih (Handel) ; If yam
hvfore verm•m, 117 ; Hymn after eerrn n 301 The
svrionn will ',reached h the lie.. F. r. Lang
(Ihaplala of 11.N1.8, /Ivrea!, . After the enc ,lose,
selection.; from Ile Mee•r3l will he • iv'', hy
cheir. anoompsoied by SI.. (ogee ad the Inii hand at
the 22nd •.:one..t Pro n•svi lit' Hymn aft, the
'service, 391. 011,,0ry in aid of the ch Iv funds.
Xern.iii_, • rv.c • t 1.30 p.m.
INIPBOVP)II.Nfs BY CusTlCle —The c,nricts are ••
preeent cartyi g ohY • • imprnyemest by
wi•leolog the r•md leading to the V. roe. In ea 30ing,
thy, bee.. left abcot 10 I et of ti • wallkg ju tits,
onl. I locher improvement er,ml,l be tff cte.l if Shit
pial,el ,Iwo.

•
THE CesTLItroWN koeD wi 'ening ni thy
.ertner r .a.ll by gni.iet lab it now Dearly
rlt ted lii.. von, woo& impr..rem-e%
T.. 6 Cugisu V.Ltcriox. —Too wool of Om Comity
0 wilt,. b,Aerogi.t.on bane boon my busy
im the 14 n I the Mot few days MAI g loam .ed
toroth g comm We.. One of the Um. C..nservetiv•
het .re the county b.. visited the Wand.
and movs.sed some t.f th. price.* „I
la.,onr in the 1.1. E d. %%114 me the Lihersl party Is
Portland doing 7__

KAHIN.N BAND Or HOPR —The II 1141111,11thi• (DWG
I. gof thj lj nri.hig K ti of linos wan held in the
Esotno—noar • It 'in on Woine.d .y
Th. st.sodane. was somewhat bloat in cnosequoies
of the fine month r.

ARRIVAL OP f'HE CHANNEL SQUADRON.
The hannel ..Iron, under the continuo' ol
Vice-Admirel the Doke of Felinbitrch, errivesl in
England early P.1..n.1ay morning from Gibralt r, which
port they left %fon ley evening previous. Thetiquadreie
wive I off Irshent at four o'clock On Sunday aft..
noon, end th n patted C mp any. The estetern
i with th- Duke sf Kiinhargh, pr. cserlai to Spitlpad ;
I while the we.tern node, RestsA Itniral WS-
! Non, ronsieting of the Agiso Ceptaio J G. Meal,
! Achilles, Cspt dn A. Sutle•, C.II. ; and N. rthumder•
i hind. Captaio F. C. R0bi,..0. steamed for Byrn !nth;
where It arrived about six o'clock on Monday in..ro-
it g When patting off I.l.llent the Doke ..f Klinhorgh
eig iallsd hie good wiehes to lisar.A.lmiral
who le relinquishing hi. position as second in c .tco
mond, end wee sum-, led on Tuesday by Admiral
Whyt Diarinir the et qi of the western divi.ion in
Plym !nth only slight &meges are to be smell.!,
for which no more than a fortnight will be rsq died.
Six month. stores and provisions will be taken .41
Moira, as well ars torpedo., store., and apparatue for
the forthcoming experiment.. A' out one o'clotk 011
Sunday morning, after a beautiful rip einlight night,
the Squadron surbieoli found theme less in a thick fog,
awl without any werning the two linc. loot sieht of
tch other. As, dense did tbe fg b came that very
111)..n each weasel of the Squadron we ut of eight of
the other. The Mesta 'siren" was sounded, gene
were fired, the wit r.tigbt door, were closed, and
speed was minimised, end it was not until nearly for
o'clock thet the fog had suflioiently risen to enaide
the Squadron to prices I at its pre•iona rate sl speed.
Oa sunder sight snoehes fog began t •mt in, but the
Admiral locreased the *prat and in .neois Ito clear it.

DYNAMITE OPXRATIONS IN PORTLAND.
flawing head th 4 pr-parsiione wore hen, mode
I, one of Mr. (;),icittuay'e guards' to o,ierate with
dynamite, and haying d so much about that
article .1 late, I availed tu.relf id the opportuoity
and wait an eye-Irksome from the time the operator
c mimeo° vi to the completion of the saute. The
person operating was Nobel's agent, Mr. Read, who
../611211 quite at MIA and at home in the woof
dynamite; an I to me it wan most intereetiog to Me
him charging the hole.. which, by the bye, 1110, to be
fired by eleciricte. After everything wee pretiared,
ad the hole, filled up with water,theoperator glv.e the
word for all ban le to clear out, be retdes to amt.
dietance, ab mt one hundred yards, and attach.. the
cabled to an electrical machine, and getierstau
aufficient electricity to ilo the work. it was fired with
soch • result fte I DDDDD saw before. fro give some
i lea id the work done, the debris Of cap (the local
tern) arm forty feet long, ten feet wide, and
'immuring three hundred and eighty tons, which was
cut Off from the in tin body of the cap and thrown
forward three feet so that the men could walk arousd
it.. Toe quarrymen were delighted, who Mated that
they wi.ul I bo able to Ilu in one web .134 would
utherwiee have taken them • fortoighi, whio'i, at
...Urea LI • gre t • working man. I could
but think how very .-ffiictive ad umful an agent wheat
properly applie.i.—Oonatunscafett.