The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-08-29 00:00:00

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Onntrrr POLtna, Satnrday.—Belore W. Bonniell aad
W. Collo:, liaqrs.—Mias Elisabeth Boris, ot Mot,
combs, pariah of Wintelturob, was charged in custody
Co oomplalat °I P.C. SAtriok, with Wog drank and
disorderly 011 elm previous avening.—Battrick stated
be was road Muntrrobto about seven o'clock last
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evening, and there found prisoner drunk and ore--aitn7ir
• disturbance. She wag 11.lng with • man as his bonne-
keel Cr, and ha I fallen upon Wm, so had witness had
to pull her away from him, lie advi•ed her to go
away, which she did, but eventually returned and re-
commenced her disorderly behaviour. ifs bad remind
van i us complaints &bomber. —Mins 8008 dialed being
ender the infirm*, of drink, declaring she had not had
• pot of older for the day. In • very voluminous
• hirers she informed the Bench of the m•rtyrdant she
had undergone through the gratuitous persecutloae 01
a young lady, who took • great delight to motivating
her, In proof of which she exhibited her tattered gar
mints to the magistrates, who, in return for the exhibi-
tion, fined herb.. and CAA reminding her of a previous
conviction. Allowed • week.—dhe hoped this Biwa
would extend the time se she was very poet, se Ista
"master" only gave Ws her " grub."—APPiketion
refused.

DEBTRUCTION OF THE CRANE HOUBE BY FIRE.
A fierce fire raged at the Harbour on Saturday night,
between 10 and 12 o'cla, the existents, of • large
osalagation being made known in the town, and for
miles monad, by volumes of smoke, the sky and the
bay being brilliantly illuminated for more than two
hours. Indeed, the glare from the burning mass was
so notimable that crowda of people rushed to the
Harbour, a distance of two miles, believing that the
whole of the buildings the.. most be on fire. About
quarter to 10 o'cl ck Mr. H. Eves arrived at the
pollowetation on a bicycle, and informed P.S. Hasmrd
of be circumatanoes. Within • few minutes the firs
engine, under Supt. Cooper, and accompanied by eight
firemen, was on the way to the Harbour, al were
constables Pricker, Short, Freak, and Fordo,. The
roof of the crane house had already fallen in wham the
men arrived, and at once the efforts of the
assisted by P.S. Hansard and Mr. Coopsr, wont=
to the thatched roofs of homes, occupied by Kr. Berm
(Harbourmaster), and others, dangereuely oboe to the
fire. The neighbouring roofs having been plentlit.
watered as a precaution, volume. of water were poura.
Into the burning house, but the mass of well.tarred
wood and blazing thatch burned Barad, on, defying
the resistance of the cooler element. It was Sunday
morning ere the fire we. well got under, and even at
midday Sunday there were signs of another outbreak,
but those left In charge did all In their power to prevent
it. The crane house, which has stood at a earner of the
quay for the past century, was aawaructed of my.'"
piles of wool, covers' with • deep thatch. It had, no
doulat, worn se many coats of tar as it bed seen
and this fact alone will explain the intensity or the
fire. We are informed that the building, the
of the Harbour Commissioners, we. inintred
time of the outbreak a quantity of nets and caning
tackle were stored in the place, but nothing could by
any poodbility be saved. The origin of the fire is
unknown, but ill, not believed to be the work of an

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