The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-11-11 00:00:00

WLMSOIN B.

TUE NAVVIts.—A good work is now being done
among this numerous class of emplopts at present
engaged in the neighbourhood. A missionary has
been appointed to work among the unvviss, and a
temporary coffee tavern, reading and recreatiou.
room, is now being provided in the iminaliate vicinity
of the railway worst. Lord Winiborne has generously
given instructions for the erection of a number of
temporary but very conifortable buildings for the
many navvies who are unable to obtain lodgings at
NVimborno; and, amongst other things, a sick fund
has been, or is a.vnit to be, estabiished among the
man, who have gassu a proof that they are considerate
towania one another in times of sickness or destitu-
tion, for, only a week or two ago • few of their
number made a collection among themselves for the
relief of a fellow workman who, fir a fortnight, had
been unable to work owing to ill-health, and presented
the man with the handsome donation of £6 odd.
Ucr Fswrve Degefiviraartoe —Notices having
been distributed during the past week that the usiW
bonfire would take place in this town, of course,
something had to he done to make some kind of
celebration. Fortunately, there was no attempt at
anything like a procession or perambulating the
principal thoroughfares, for at about five o'clock the
weather set in so wet and miserable that at one time
it was thought there would be no display of any sort.
However, during the evening some of the daring
bonfire boys braved the elements, and put the match
to the fuel prepared in the Cricket Field at Eastbrook.
As the tunes rose, the weather began to improve, and
very soon many of the Wituboruians left their homes.
What for ? Only to see two small fires of dimensions
that would not no any way coinpare with those of
the past few pairs. and as for ths fireworks they
were of such a trifling description that it would be
superfluous to name Surely the boys miss their
friends this year—the Bros. Conway and Lloydsfones--who always took so much interest in these
annual festivities when residing here. Considering it
as • whole, we might say it was a very quiet awl damp
affair, yet one pleasing feature connected therewith
was that nothing noticeable of an objectionable turn
transpired to uivr the peace or comfort of these taking
part therein. The scholars attending at the Grammar
School had a private demonstration in this school
yard. which included seine very good specimens of
fireworks Towards the close of tin proceedings two
son, ruo th5,..,,h its Hicks,
ing embers, and in so doing both fell together, one
of them having his coat sleeves, burnt and the
other had the seat of his trousers burnt away ; their
hands also came in for • share of painful roasting.

BL NMPORD.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS) ACT —On Thure.
day morning, in consequenee of an outbreak of
sheep.cab on a farm near Blandford, a meeting of
the committee appointed as Local Authority under
the above Act was held in the Town Hall. The
police-superintendent reported that 29 sheep of the
flock belonging to dr. Gilbert I. Grote., of Damory
. Court Farm, were affected with scab. It was recour
' mended by the committee another fencing of hurdles
sheuld be made round the fold and proclaimed the
! field in which the sheep are depastured as an infected
I area, so that none could be removed therefrom, and
none of the flocks on the farm to be removed off,
except hy license.
THE / lETII ,IT NOVEMBER was celebrated here by a
huge bonfire in the Nfariih, a torch ight procession
through the streets, healed by an extemis,rised twin,
an.l a fairly good disyloy f dreworkii. The weather
during the fore part of the evening was very until,.
• drizzling rain preventing the contemplated
precession at the appointed tune, and this doubtless
detracted somewhat f row the spectacular part of the
display. The latter ['Art of the evening proved tine,
and many persons witnessed the proceedings from the
liiichway and the bridge: abutting the Marsh.
CoUNTT POLICE., hAturday. Before Mr. J. J.
Farquharson and Major-General Denne.—iiampson
Light, a travelling hawker, was brought up in custody,
on remand from Wednesday, charged with stealing
a drag-shoe and chain from a gate in the parish of
Ansty, in the 30th of October the property of Mr.
Drake, farmer, of thatjiarish. The case was proved
by prosecutor, his carter, named Hallett, and P.C.
A previous conviction for larceny in 18/3 was
proved against prisoner by Inspector Duke, if
Andover, and the Borsch sentenced prisoner to two
months imprisonment with hard labour.