The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-06-13 00:00:00

WEYMOUTFI.

AQUATIC TRll.s.—DuTrin—g ihe-pa--4 week the beautiful
steamers belonging to the We•mouth and Port Lind
Stlntuiboat Company have carried • lerge number of
pertins chi filessomt exeursions to Lnlworth,
the Bill of Port end, and the Channel Fleet. and in the
evenings some delighPul moonlight. exeursions have
been ma e, when to the Inspiring streine of Jones' bind,
lada and lasses have indulged in the merry dance.

ATHLTTIc Associrirtote —A club has been formed
bearing the name of the Weymouth Athletic Armiria-
tioo, and already several of the young men of the town
have become members. The ass,ciat,on is instituted
for the exercise of athletic games, more especially cricket,
with quoits., boxing, and fencing, and such other
Aditiens as may be ...it fit by this members from time
to timt. The eratioripton is 10s per annum, and
viaitors wishing to join in the sports can do so by paying
that only and be exempt from fines.

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A Vietlon IN Tisoutim —.At the Guildhall, on
thdradayi before the Mayor, Philip Robertson, who
described Mantel( dd a visitor, wee charged with
being drunk and disorderly on that morning. At
a very early hour he wee found by Sergeant Brine
in a state of intoxicatiomendeavouring to lake away
the fastenings out of several shutters. Upon being
desired to leave the shutters alone he refused, and
consequently was taken in custody. Upon being
matched £r'6 2s. were found upon him, from which
sum a penalty of se. and wens Was deduoted.
BOARD or HEALTH MERTIIO.—At II meeting of the
Board of Health on Weduesday, the prinuipal subject
of dlscusftion was relative to the drainage of Rsdipole.
• Thonliss sooddered it was necessary that Etadipole
should idrdrationi, and that snob drainage work, should
bo carried out, Whereby the refuse from all parts of the
town could flow intothetti. /n order,however,to reme ly
the nuisance which existed at awlipole. he proposed that
the Surveyor be instructed to repair the present surfaoe
drain from St. Johp's Church to Igainsore House, until
tna *Yard Carrie to 'sante arrsogement for a more com-
prehensive aysteen of drainaire.—ln reply to Me.
Maunders the surveyor aWd the expense woild be ab nit
£.500 to take the drain to the Backwater, —ll-. Poth 017
coosidered the best course to adopt for the preaen, was
for the surveyor to repair the surface-drafu until a
better system of draioage could be carried out He
should itterelore second Mr. Thomas' proposition.—
Mr. A yling maintained it was high time that the Board
nlgArbd AG something to improve the rising dist.i tof
Ea hiStio. The ratepayers there were as meoh .ntitled
to have improvetnente made as those in other parts f
the town. The motion witl earried.—Mr. Roberts, the
American Vice-Consul as this port aeked whether
it was the intention of the Council to forward a
letter of ayinpathy to the widow of the late
President Lincoln. Some d.sultory conversation
ensued, but it appeared to be the opinion of the Board
that it was now too late to do so.—k memorial signed
by seven opal tuerchauta, was read, urging the Board,
etre that the bridge dues were abolished, to dispense
with cod meter', as there was now no necessity for their
be ng employad. The unisional was rsferred for
di.cusdon at the next Meeting,
MaLANCHOLT DRAT!! 01' A IBRAHIM —The Deputy.
coronae, Mr. H. Look, held an inquest at the
George Inn, oat Friday evening, on the body of
Thomas Richards,, late a seaman on board the yacht
✓ier-onka, who was found drowned. John Mabb, •
fisherman, if Weyttioetli, was in • boat near the pier
head early on Friday morning, when he discovered*
boat bottom upwards. He righted it with a boat-hook. ,
and underneath raw • man's hat. ne brought up •
slipper with his book, sod after Warde lotted deinsim.ti Ga.
• barrack} leek, about 30 yards from where he (naafi,
the boat. With eseistance be picked up the body,
hlab was hot then t rigid. He reordered the boat safe
to rid* In In mita weather. Mr, R. ()Min, surgeon,
examined the body, upon which there was no bruise or
iodication of VlOlOllOl5. There were small *minds about
the face, which be believed to hare been caused by
crabs or insects. lie attributed the death to drowning.
Michael Donovan stoker on board H M.s. St. Gouge,
uot deceit:did at 11 o'clock the previous night, end wen,
with him toe public-hon•e, and called for half a pint of
ram, of which demand sod some other sailors partook.
Witness did not, being a teetotaller. They remained
there till 12, when be Walked with the dec. sail to the
quay, and both got Into Eberhardt, bent. Witness after-
wards got oat, wished .decemed "good night," and saw
him pull oat of the harbour. Deceased wag rather the
worse for liquor, and he wished him to rem.iin on shore,
but he weird not. Richards had been • teetotaller the.
three months previous. He and deceased were good
friends. He thought him ins fit state to pull to the
yacht, which was at anchor about • mile distant. John
Field, mate on board the Ver-onks, identified the booy
of deceased and said Its was • very sober man and 26
yeaneof age. Tie coroner having briefly summed up,
the jury teturned A verdict of "Found drowned."
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