The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-01-10 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH.

CO•OPZILATIVi St/CI ITT. —Tile quarterly balance sheet
of this society has been issued. The cuh account shows
that commencing with a balsam of ES 1:31 60, the
quarter aloud with a Wane° of £l5 Os 10ed in favour.
I:585 i 31 haa been paid for goods, and *35 Ili Ilid
capital and dividend withdrawn • but £661 lie 10.11
was received, and members invested £213 81 3id, the
total receipts being 1:699 is 21a. The stock-in-trade is
valued at E. 30.1 9s did and the fixed stook at £7B,
depreciation being duly allowed for. After paying all
expenses, interest on capital was forthcoming, at £5 per
oent, per annum, Is was allowed on every E of 1.110112-
b,rs' porgies.; and GI on non.inembers', and after all
this 1:12 OS 3,1 was added to the reserve fund. The
quarterly ine,ting gave • cordial vote of thanks to the
chairman, sri aparated well satisfied.
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MILITARY UNERAL. —On Welneeday afternoon last,
Edward Guy, the soldier who was killed by falling
down the barrack eel's. was lowered at the Cemetery.
The prooession was formed at the barracks in tie fol-
lowing order.'

Firing pan) of 14 with arms reversed.
ri re:ins:mai hand. under Sernsant Steele.
Ilearse, witli bearers belonging to necesusal's Conspehy:
11,ornl.v coach with relatives and friends of &sawed.
Ail the soldiers stationed at Weymouth, who were not on
duty or on leave.
Ensign Clarke. Ensign Si, Maur.
Every man in the procession was in mourning. and the
baud played tho "Dead March in tisuL" Some
hundreds of people assembled on the road, and in the
streets by which the proccesiott passed, and great sorrow
WWI express-4. The proceeded from the bar-
r4 over Weymouth Bridge, up fit. Thoinu.street,
docwk:i. tle.rge-street. to the Gemet4y, where it was met
by the it.v. J. Henderson, who performed the service
inipres.sively• The usual three volleys were then fired
oVer the ~,r.tre, and the party returned to the strains of
lively music, at a brisk pace.
MUSIC AT CLIIIISTMAS £5l) New Yeast's-neg.—The
Waymoutti town bend have, &wording to their usual
custom, provid3d the inhabitants of the town and neisb-
bourhood with music during the late festive season,
,dtbottgb under very unfavourable eininmstanem, the
weather being so very severe as to frees, the instru-
ments, On New Year's Eve the band played through
the principal streets of the town from a quarter past
eleven o'clock till midnight,and were very kindly enter-
tained by some of the inhabitants with seasonable
refreahruents. On Monday the band proceeded by way
of Radipole, Nottington, Broadway, and Upwey, play-
ing the Chriatinas programme. On Tuesday titer
favoured the Weymouth side of the water, meeting in
flope-squarc, and proceeding by way of St. Leonard's-
terrace, ttodwell, and the Wyke-road, not forgetting to
give the inmates of the Union home • Mine, and they
afterwards went to the Trinity School for the evening.
The following was their programme:

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Overture By It. Smith.
Cruis h.dineur Bleger.
C.,ltlee Drums Waltz lkauceurt.
Selection. t.ltristiens! awake! J. Sewell.
hell! binding mum - - - Bporturth.
The band have porforme4 OD many occasions gnat, and
it was most cheering in the bitter evenings, to hear the
sweet strains pouring out on the frosty air. The pleasure
was not given without oonaideratile ID0011•111Di011ie and
what mast have been even suffering, by some of the
inembers, and Weyninuthiana wiU not .forget the
meritorious acute of their town bend.