The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-03-10 00:00:00

PORT LAND.

POLITICAL—Both plaice here are (Filet Is it
assldoously workinw. Several consmi tse in3ttioga
have be o held dodos the past ten dal sod
public) meatioge " with big goal ' sr s Arran ;.d for
ehort:y.
THI SIONZ TH mit —Mr. W. H. P. We t nn i of
the principsl quarry owners°, the I.l.tni. has roba : d
his employes to half tin., a pirt of till :nee workirg
the first and the others the last throe days of the
we, k.

SMALLPIX 01 nts (U4itc./ .°creice
o,e(fle) hear that s3veral cants of xul kllp .0 have ..hoa n
theroveivas apiongat the boya on h.r I the trainivg-
chip Boscawen, C ,mtnander A. F. 3% dr, at
Portland. Fortunatdy none have 1)g-a of aA 1 vere
auJ each bet bum seat to the sick golrtere on
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OBITUAIIY.—Tae Wesleyan cammnnity of P wtlard
has jidl od by the death f Mr. W.lliain Nape one
of its oldest member.. Mr. Pear.; was • man nf
tudet unassuming manner which, t 'tether with his
steelier worth and int 'gaily, writ the reyeet of all
with wh .m he c one in to ,ntaet.
Titan .Y.—Life. Fl., aud other Ai uranco Com
penis, have of let, yews done a goal business hi
Portland. and "still th-y 0n.," the last being the
old established Beck Life Assurai C 3 Company with •
imenial new plan giving ailsolute weevily. Mr.
E Iword 5.0.10, of Reform.. lath, a:ent.
Tule Vintet.—On WHOA,' all the sillier, at the
Verne were medic ally t)ll amin. i by a me lira! olli,aer
from Portent inth, to sea whether they were fit for
lo,eign service, in ac:.rdance with a g .nerel orler
which hat been hewed. About 40 recruits hove
arrived from the &VI%
INgratt.s.--,),1 %Vedas* lay afternoon a marine
from the B ricawen named B iwyer, 5 years 01,, was
i .leered in tile military burial grJund near the Verne.
A by who had been on Ihs training ship was also
B ith he I tied at tho N anal Sick 4 sa-t. r
Cast!. t ,wo. Too II scasren Paid, under the leader-
ship id lieu iluis'er Sii.pperl. was ;0 attenigne,.
and playod several foneral maralie.. There was alai
the mull firing party over the grave..
INDICIter Meal:LT.—At the archoster (jaunty
PAte tiowdons oa Tuesrley, before Colonel 11.nghsin
and C.aptdo Man-el, Frederick B iatswato, of Port-
twat, we. summoned far indeoiutly assaulting
aeor:ina H uwell, C istletown, on the 214 init.
Compla'nant WA% on her wy from 0 •stletown to the
Vero. Citadel between twelve ail one o'clmk in the
, day, when the i•ffeoce wai c .inutitted. Evidence was
given by complainant an I Willi am an
evangelist of tie Erangtli.ati :inci-ty, at pe- eat
hol llog a mission in the I.lsn I. Fria nor, against
who-n there were live previous c anvictions, Was
sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for two
, months.

—..rif-L-CZANNEL Fig-AMON —lAters reedvedi from
, Gib-altar announce the arrivel there of the Channel
Spierlron after a yr ry rough pa,ang fr rn Madeira.
8, sfring • pis wee experienced thet it became •
necessity t reduce the s,,eed c)nsiderably, but when
about sixty miles off Ghraltar the Admired, anxious
to get in us .n u poseible, r lered a epee I of eight
knit, t , be leapt up. Ts, however, fell through
°whir to the supply .if c 414 running .I.lnrt 03 boar I
the Neptune. and the 'qua Iron had to se It shelter in
Jeromiah's Bey, ab int live as I se south of C tpe Spart3l.
It wee ni,t until the weather Eno lent 5,1 that the
squadron proceeded ti Gibraltar. According to the
official pri'gratran I they were to lc ire there on
Monday for Palma (M ,j mea), where they ara due
to arrive on the Et h instant. They leave there on
the 9th for Cagliari, and will remain until the Ir, h,
when they are to return to lihralltv. They are
dire to arrive there on the 21.1 t, and will remain until
rdera are received (rim England as to their future
movements Mr. Sanaa°, paymuter of the Achilles,
who fractured his leg before the equadron left Ply-
mouth, has had to on largo amputation In the Naval
Hospital at Gibraltar, where he will now await
passage to England. Ile had been previously
Invalided, and the vacancy Ix the Achilles has been
temporarily filled by Mr. Woolward, assistant-pay.
maater of the Agincoutl, who his been appointed by
the vice-admiral as acting paymtster.