The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-04-17 00:00:00

WIYBORII B.

ST. Joint 's BA ND— (771.17;;;:lin Monday evening
the usual fortnightly meeting of this aociety was held
In th, Minion KOO/0. Recitations were given by Ada
Vosper and Beatrice Oat, and matilgs by Winifred
Judd, awl Master. Lockharn and H-ni. During the
evenius sever .I melodie. were sung,„_Mias Gibbs beiatt
accompanist on the harmonium. There was, as =Wit
a nip, go attendance. _ _

WiteLeTAK Fitl•Lit BIBLI CLA44.—On Monday
evening Mrs. (ill, tas wife of the 1f.,,. W. T. Gill
(Weal-pin Micidder), entertained the members of her
Bible Cl iss to tea, which was prepared In the choir
vestry of the Wealeyan Chapel, King-street. A most
pleasant and sociable h .ur or two were thud indulged
in.—We may .tide that the Wimb iroe Wesleyan
ty will be losing the services of the Its,. W. T.
Gill in the awl/Min. He will be greatly missed, for he
renders valuable services in many ways (other than
preaching). He takes great interest 1., the Band of
Live c inneutsd with toe Sunday school and in the
tempera.ce movement generally. Be Is most highly
es eirped by .11.
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O.E.T S.—The Minster Branch of this society held
it• Ina•ting on M,nday evening, in the
Na• lomat Schoolroom. The Vicar, the Rev. F. J.
pr<si led. The meeting began with singing
hym • 45, falowed by prayer, after which the Chair-
to in his introductory remark., said he must ap dos
g;g s for not having a better programme to set before
ti. in. It wee, be might say, like the oil story—" Too
•y c •oks spoil the broth." Re was very dis-
appointed himself, fur various friends had promised to
h-lp, but throng some misunderstanding arrange-
tomb / ha I not been made soon enough with them, and
as this w dB their preseot state, they had a battle to
fight.. Io ancient naval battles they had ships which
est.. ied 70 guns, now in these modern times they bad
in. eff,tive machinery, and • ship bad one big gin,
sod this evening he might vay they only bed one big
an. and that was • very wassl o e indeed. Ile had
great pleasure in iutro tuning t them Mr. Berjeaat
Tind sl-Atain on, t give tnem • reading.—This gentle-
man, on c mine forward, aaid that as their cooks bad
s • vpoilt their b oth, he woull endeavour to make up
for it by dispensing to them some very good soup from
his lit.. ary tiireeo. Ile said time were some light
An I the.. w-re he ivy snips. If. would c om-
mence with the Hot coup by reading one of
Th •ekeray%, [sotto., entitled, "The Cane-Bottom'd
Chair." Aft r g.viug the in a maaterly style,
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he sal I he would tirer give thema taste of the •Itesaie;
coup, th title of the piece WPM ‘• The K ding of the
Play." Tnia wee m et pathetically renders I, 'ad called
Utah much appl ins.. Gen-nal McLean, ILA.. then
sp he a few word+, in which he said there were five
th.tinct e toured before Parliament in connection
with the bqu tr traffi.,--restrimive licensing measures
for st: Aland, Sunday Claeing fr England, ale t one for
Ireland, to extend toe Sunday Closing to the five large
t twns—Du .fin, Belfast, &c , &c., the people living
there wishing to have it; tut) working men of
Manchester and ther large town. in the north wish
sl.o to hove it; there ii als in measure rtspectiag the
gtomrs' tic-n.es, and a measure prohibiting the pay-
ment of wages in publich use.. He said • Freemason,'
Ige heal recettily been started, and named "Th.
tVoisel.y," from Ii rd Wolseley, and will bac o ncted
in purely temp-ranee principles. If. concluded by
mayin we might cotter Anima. ourselves on the prevent
aspect of the temperance movement generally. Mr.
-erjeant rind d-Atkin.on then gave an dher reading
with smelt telling effect, briogi tg, as it were,
hi. an Hence with him int, the battle field. The title
of the reading was " It tory of Navarre," by fa ezatilay.
The Chairm to, in his conclu lint remark., said he had
el *aye proved th it the working men who ad qat
tstnperance principles, as a rule, hone the brightest
oroepec ; a sport thing takes time to put tugefher
properly, no dies our work in this temperance cause,
we may be getting in slowly y.et, surely... Although

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we have not done what we c-,nrclhave wished during
the past winter m dulls. yet we hopeto make up fork by
Ii sviog ago .d meeting n the 7th of May, and, as
Coat will be our last meeting of the ONIIJII, each one
most try and get their friends C 3 come and make it
sue:es/ski. Hymn 4 haviog .been sung, and the
Bens tkt,on pron mooed, an invitation was given for
any of those present t , come forward and take the
pie Igo. We have mob pleasure in ad lin; that
Serjeant Tindal-Atkinson, to the present's of a few
friends. signed his name to the uon.abstaining section
of Vie s c sty. There was cmo erode attendance.