The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-08-28 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

ACCIDENT TO • Cony= —On Monday • convict
working In one of the Government quarries tied both
h. leg, broken by the giving way of • crowbar.
The man who was injured by another convict last
week is tin greseing favourably towards recovery.
BOSCsWeII BOTS. LIAEL—Tbe first batch of
&Nineteen hire departed for their Michaelmas leave on
Wednesday. and numbered between three and f or
hundred. They marched to the station. headed by
their band, ant left by the 9.45 a.m. train, London
and the North of England bein; their destination for
the meet part.

REMOVAL OF THE "QUEEN'S" REOIMIENT.—The
" " Royal West Surrey Regina tut, stationed
at the Verne. h sere rec .ired inatrostions to leave
Portland for Trak*. Irdand, o the 24th of Reptember.
The draft for India will leave on the 14th of that
month. The " Queen's " ar t to be superseded by the
220,1 Regiment ot Foot, e present stationed at Jer.ey.
who will arrive in Pottland on the 23rd of

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September.
a.OOAL Bo MD MitUritto.—An ex.raordinary meet•
ingot the Loco' B ,ard woe held on Monday to take
Into c meiderati ,n the present ata'• of the various
water supplies of the Under Hill District, and
decide what steps shoull at once be taken
to im rove the IMMO. Mr. J. &riven occupied
the chair, and there were also present—Messrs. The.
Gibbs, H. W. Smith, J. B. Gibbs, It. Saneom, 11.
Ransom, T. C pother!, G. Mitchell, J. Hod ter, F.
Pearce, and J. J. Patten. After a ah,rt &lacuna .n, it
was propoeed by Mr. Patten, and seconded by Mr. H.
W. S nith tbst excavations be made behind in the
garden b I ,uging to Mr. C. Hancock to assrrtain
If the whole of the water (um the sprisga fl ,w into
the present tanks at Fortune's Well.
' I 0.G.T., PORTLAND "SON" Loma, 1,712.—0 n
Welnesday the members r f the above Lodge held their
usual weekly meeting in the Young Men's Institate,
Keaton. The Lodge was opened in due form by Bro.
Clarke, W.C.T., when:there was one initiated. AUer
I the usual business the following programme was
! suern =fully carried out :—Melody from Hoyle's; song,
Bro. Clarke; recitation, Bro. Gordon' song. Sic A.
Pound ; song, 1170. Aid ; song, Bro. Tizard ; melody
I from Hoyle s ; !song, Bro. Clarke; recitation, Bro.
Gorden; aong, Nip. Comb, n; eccvg. Bro. Third ; song,
She. A. l'ound ; melody fr. m H The Lodge
was closed by Br.. Clarke, W.C.T., at 1130, all having
spent a pleasant evening.
THE ARRITAL OF THE CHANNEL SROADRON AT
PLTNOCTH.— On Wednesday lad the ships comprising
the ebanisel Squadron, viz., Minotenr, 17, Captain
John Fellows, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir
William K.(.13., senior officer; Agincourt,
17, Captain J.Hrl.4 G. Mead, bearing the flag of
Rear-Admiral J. C. Mem, eecond in command;
Achilles, 16, Paptain G. H. Morant; Northumb.!,
leaf, 27, C ,ptain G. S. Bosanquet ; and Neptune, 6,
C,Main W. H. Maxwell, were signalled off the Lizard
at half-past eight on Wednesday, and at noon the
two divisions ported company. At two o'cl mk the
Minotaur and Neptune passed up Channel, at the same
time the Agincourt, Achillee, and Northumberland
arrived In the Sound, with the &nista nee of • tug
previoualy sent into the S med. The Northumberland
wee broneht direct int, harbour to mooring off Tor-
point. Their stay at this p .rt is expected to be about
three weeks, when the ships assemble at Portland
prior to leaving for a months' cruise to Lisbon an I
Gibraltar.