The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-10-28 00:00:00

" Clear. plecid Grata I thy contracted lake.
With the wide worldil dw.ll in, is a thing
Thst earns me. by its stainers', to forsake
!Artie!, troubled sratus for a purer spring.

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If the majority of pleasure-woken hays been dis-
appointed in befog prevented from making tholr
simnel oontinental tour, lot us how that their have
derived se much benefit from • visit to thla " Naples
I England " and its nolghboarhocd.
The various lodging-howes facing the wa, consist-
ing of the Victoria, Belvidere, Glutamate, and Royal
terrace', have twee or lees been occupied .by visitors;
as also have the Imperial Burden, the Gloucester, &IN
Royal, and • heat of °thaw hotels, all 1 which passes
• fine view of the Breakwater, 'Wolff a Heed, and in
the admen, St. Read.
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Oa the bay our visitors hays spent many delightful
hours in rowing, lashing and sailing, and they will, no
douht, carry to their distant homes • favourable
recollection of Weymouth and its surroundings
to way hist wawa. Soma of th. m came to recrolt their
health, awl than invalids have probably ends•vonred
to make the heat of their stay by being wheeled about
the Esplasads ; other. have passed their leisure hours
In !thatching and painting suoh of the landmarks as
have caught their fancy.
The younger portion of our visitors hays also tried
(and we believe with soccer) to make the bast of
their h ,lidsr. On the sands we have often watched
theta buy in building their cacti*. and earthworks;
and have of two swim those works of juvenile construc-
tion gradoally disappear by the action of the rippling
waves. They hod no time to bewail their loss. for their
attention wsimoost attracted to a Poach and Jody show.
Tim children 11 naked from all part., and not only
they, but ths more serious of tha spectators
were amused at the various jokes which were cranked
by Punch and his fellow-actors. This was not the
"sly amusement to be found on the sands, for there
wars the " negro mil:steals' of old, and a hundred
whe, in soellaneona eight. for old and young. Kamer.
sio .s by land and water were well matronlsni both by
reel lento. aid visitors. Maur.. Omens and Company
have thi. yea. ad Isl • new steamer, the Victoria, t
.jr has fiset. These vowels began their coasting
sal... on May-'ay, an I are t clot, at the end of
°lobar. Sin, of their finest trip, were aroun I the
Ills of Wight daring the Ryas Rmtatts, to Da.t-
in ui,, Aidetner, Dudieigh Ssiterlun, and Torquay.
Getting ties I of sestevoy gee, vicit re ha I the *lva.-
tags oi visiting o.mington (3eleNratml for It. I .heters
ant praw: B re, Wedlock, Dorchester (with lovely
are trees, it. museum, containing many valuable
corimitim, and, ab ive all. its Roman remains). &3.,
by lb. Weyrnotrh Favourite " coach, startml at
the beginning of Jour. _

Lair August the Weymouth n cal 8 ictiety, undrr
the enter, rl.io, sod enerietio leaderehip of Mr. W.
Mu. donut 'Marlton, hell their annual elan* at the
Attires Ira Garden.. The sowers, we notioed. were
beautluily arraug.d, se &s., were the fruits gni
vegetable., ell combining to show that the year has
one of plenty. Toe poets, In perticular, have
for ion+ sung the praise, of flowers ; they hove
:age I an I wa.che I over them from their' are Ile," Lai
ail it were t their " ." Atirl In their gongs they
have Wight, es matey lersous of comparison. Long.
fellow thus sings of them—
t, all place., then. an I in all seasons,
yi erpsod lb ir light eel soul-like wings,
Teaching us, hi. ono.' prinuaAve rissronr,
Ita• altui they are to human thing..
Act with child-like, rrert oleo affeetioe,
We beh 'II their teigler but. man
Erte.litoss oi o if grad re.tirrectio
Emblem. o th, bright sad better lent"

A few week. after the Weymouth Regatta (under
its wn seoretary) took place, closing, as usual,
with • fine display of firework., the eet-piecos being
two "ships" engaged in action, the noise of their
" guns" reminding U.much of actual warfare. We
most not forget, in viewing the pest gismo, to
mmtion the nervitees whieh have been reorient to the
two hy the Brunswick 'lan I, They helped to oboe,
u• during the drrary winter month'. mod have also
✓iven much pleasure to the visitors In the summer.
11 it were not for them the promenade on the
Esclanai's would lodes)! be very dull.
Weym uth and Portland have this year bees
honoured w'th visits by the Remove Sqoadrou and the
Channel rint. the latt•r nod-r the con:maid of His
Royal Rieman the Mike of Edinburgh Afternoon
dances and "at home," were the fashion on board
thee. "iron wall." rf Raglan I, at which the Duke,
scoompatiled by his eon, Priooe Alfred, in the dream
of an able manna, were often to be seen. Talking of
the fleet, recalls to our mind a little incident which
I', .It plate on R-11 9 Aginoourt. Invitation., were
hone I to rani ms ladies and gentlemen of the noigh•
boorhoo t, by their friends belonging to the ship., to
en afternoon dance. TM. was accepted, and in due
time the visitors arrived ; but not to dance, for 1'34
as all was arranged, and everything appeared promis-
ing, • mem .ge was received front the Admiralty
ordering this particular vamiel to proceed to Dwrouport
for a court martial. We shall leave our readers to
imagine the dimppolotment which we. caused by this
nrl•e, but, as the oil saying Is, "There ix many a Flip
betwigt the cup and the lip" We are sorry to say
trot some of our resident,' are labouring under the
icoor.sdon that Weymouth. as • town, in going down
hill. This we know t be untrue; for were thew to
look about them they would se* for thems.lves the
various improvements which are gradually but Barely
taking plow In one way or another, which point to
the fact that the future of Weymouth will be • bright
and p•oererone One.
In corclusi .n ws wooll ask three who have enjoyed
their Play in this faehlonable seaside to recommend
their hien t pay on • •i-it neat year, when they
will be able to ja Igo for themselvee as to what Wey-
mouth and the neighbourhood really are.
October, 1884.

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