The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-01-11 00:00:00

POSTLAND.

NATAL —COMMILuder A. Markham of the trainin: ship
Boseawen, hes been Promoted to be . captain. RN. .
CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIRTY.-011 MA; special
sermons were preached at St. John's church, Fortune's
Well, in Rid of the Church Missionary Society, by the Rev.
W. H. Barlow, president of the Church Missionary
College, London. At the evening service the congregation
was particularly large.
The distribution of prism to the @choler@ took place in
the Reforne School room on Friday evening the Rector
(the Rev. J. A. Beaaor) presiding. Mrs. Beezor, other
ladies, and some gentlemen rendered a good Programme
of music and elocution, and a most pleasant evening was
passed.
MEAT roa ma Navy—The new slaughter-houses which
some time ago, we said were to he built, have now been
completed, and all animals intended to furnish meat for
I.N. Ships have to be slaughtered there, after being
passed previously by the paymasters. Thin reputation
came into form at the beginning of the present year. Mr.
Lever, of Chickerel, is the contractor.
Farstm Aline° Ssit.ons.—An American ship, the
New World, of New York. trading between that port and
London, has been at anchor in the roadstead during the
peat week. On Saturday morning, one of the crew died
on board and was Interred In the Naval Cemetery on Mon-
day morning. On Monday morning. also, the master of the
some vessel (Cept. Champion) expired at the Breakwater
Hotel of bronchitis end heart diseue. He had horn
attended by Dr. McLean, and on Sunday Dr. Lush WWI
also called in from Weymouth. His body is to he
embalmed and taken to America in the yowl for
interment.

THE REV. IL J. STACK —The curate of St. George's
parish, the Rev. Maurice John Stack, 8.A.. of Gonville
and Cain, College, Cambridge, and the Salisbury Diocesan
Theological College, was onlainal a priest on Sunday, the
19th December, by the Bishop of Salisbury. Ile is the
youngest brother of the Rev. James West Stack, of
Christ Church, Canterbury, New Zealand; and also of
the Rev. Edward Moiarty Fitzgerald Stack, Viear of
Lablenden Foot, in Yorkshire. Their father is the
venerable James Stack, of Portsmouth, now in his 7th
year. but still strong and vigorous.
Ilazasa—The Fortune's Vell Wealoyan School was eon-
vetted into a Bazaar and Fancy Fair, and a brisk sale of
goods was effected the during the day, in aid of the circuit
fund and the erection of new Wesleyan Day Schools on
the island. The room was tastefully decorated for the
occasion, and the stalls were laden with an attractive dis-
play of go-ale arranged on each side. The stall-holders
were Mrs. Maslen and Miss Pearce ; Mrs. White, Mrs, It.
Scriven, him Beaumont, and Mrs. R. Wallis Mrs. S.
Seriven, and Miss Pearce ; Miss Kansan and Mrs.
Plana : and Miss S. Sloane, sal &Gls S. Well,. Misses
Bird, Lake and Sansom presided at • stall of confec-
tionery, fruit, lc. and Miss Wingate and Mrs. Peten, at
the refreshment department. In a side room Mr. Robort
Pearce exhibited some good magic lantern views, and
there were other attractions In various parts of the room.
The bazaar was open at two o'clock hy the Rev. E Medea
with singing and prayer, and the blames% of the day pro-
cassaba' briskly during the afternoon. In the evening, the
choir from Easton Chapel sang a ~election loi good music,
aal the room was crowded with listeners and purchasers.
Ito Monday evening a very interesting missionary tea
meeting was held in St. Cusorge's school-room. About PO
sat down to tea, after which, the tables having la-en
removed, the Rector introduced to the audience the Rev.
Mr. Barlow, Principal of the Church Missionary Colleze,
Islington. Mr. Barlow's address was deeply interesting
and instructive, and well calculated to deepen the
sympathies of his hearers for missionary work. Ile
urged the necessity of having three classes of missionaries,
viz, lay agents, itinerant ordained men, and stationed
clergymen, for the instruction of candidates for mission
work. But none of these could Ise secured or maintained
unless the requisite sums were forthcoming; and an
earnest appeal was made to the sympathy, prayers, and
purses of all who wished and worked for the spread of
Christ's gospel. After • few words from the Rev. NI.
Stack who read the affecting account of the death of two
of Bishop Patterson', favourite helpers, at Santa Cruz, the
kea.. J. A. Beagor appealed earnestly to his hearers to
increase their contributions towards the mission funds.
He was forced to confess that many Pante aPPeweed to
believe in • dwartlah kind of liberality, as though the lea
they gave and did, the greater was the fruit of their
labour. Against this danger we must guard ourselves.
The meeting was concluded with the blessing.