The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-07-29 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

TIME AM only hur.hige belonAng t tho Fleet
ol+ in the Roal% the Sultan hAviu.: I It br gun

tfe)RDING to bill. pitted up off Atm E 5 r•wari. •
NVhitehezei torpedo Mu ivien loat whiltt the boa..
have been staying in tho 1.. 1.. It I t%s.l that •
,up'e of them were lott whilet the Fe were in
Bantry Bay. sod •• • Whitehead torp•l filets about
£250 each, the Ices of threo of them ia a rather serious
mat. ‘r.

A &tett'. TRA PARTT, attended itt ahout
20 aril tiers. awl other. t k place at tho You,,g Men'.
Melt! and Moral Improvement Institution on Wel-
lies isy. After the repast • few member. were
listed, end an entertainment c inal.ting of songs,
readings, itc. took place.
OS Wednesday the scholars atten Hog the \Veslayan
Schools Fad their annual treat. After parading the
street' they hwl tea In the Schoolroom., the weather
b ing tomb that the ides of having the rennet in a field
Id t• in abandoned. Various OMNI afterW4l.43 took
place. On Thursday last the teaehere and
! senl rnt-holars had tea at the Lighthouse.
Tin obllrlrea of the officers connected with the Con.
vict Fetnblishment here had their an•inal trnat on
Thorwley, when about 1,000 were enteit.ined. A
proasseton having been formed the youn.tete, pleaded
the streets, being headed by the bend, nu afterwards
returned to a field, where tea wax pettaken of. *ports
of Varl,MS kind. following. In the evening there WM
a di.play of fireworks, and before the children were
diemianal each one wee given 61., shout C•3O beteg
distributed In this way. It I. needle.e to edit th.t one
and all spent a moat enjoyable time, and the liberality
of the Miners who provided the tart was mach appro.
Aga&

TORPEDO PRACTICE—AN ATTACK ON THE dently having event a nuaiiit enjoyable evening.
FLEET. Aiming the fnenil. of the came prewint we noticed
the Rev..l. Wet-m, vicar of St. John's, Revs. E. E.
Fr several days past a look-jut has been kept
both hoe and at ‘Veyna oath f, the torpedo ottack T S. T. Little, Badger, and
on the Foot, wttsoi., on accouot of the numerous K.'n'idlife. Russell, Fillmore, Howell, Brett, King,
enamors we. nightly ext.cted. Small attsoks bare Th"l"l''''"4 l'`l'l4"r• I.3"'li•iril• and Re.ee'U. juin' The
b mad- at inteival..imtion the psi week, but the
great assault nit Like else, u., 11 Mon ,y committee were indektigriile iu Weir endesvoure to
give eativfaction throughout the festival
inn. The men be I turued int their naIIIMOCK., when
sou* led fir them to esofonble on deck end
at th, guns. In. eery few minute, the men were at
this wet.. au I the electric ltght, which was beiog
fl..ll,lacrot. the R ,s 10, soon .h iwed tame W .11,167-
tatty cmetructed sod extraordinary travellere—tim
torpedo ,oste. .It one of toe ship.. the Silltani and
at the heels t tied' er,re fired, but toe nets which
Were buy Lida the Teasels prevented them from being
lost I
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