The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-07-25 00:00:00

HOMINID/LOUTH.

UOnlinSsiONEns ILLerfau.—An adjourned of
this authority was hell in the lioard-ro on of the Town.
hall on Tuesday, the chairman —Mr. j.
presiding. The business for consf.leration metope*,
taut. Mr. Laidlaw's motion " That the 'aniuo.,.i alert
provide a market for the town," was altered to, "p, it
is desirable that such should be dose." In the course of
the discussion it was stated that Mr. lane's plot lietwven
the back of his premises and Albertchota could la had
for the fancy price of 1:2.0W. The report of the .05.,,,,,55ee
to examine into the Commissioners' workmen was tool on
the table and the working hours arraft4e.l. A (cv other
reports were considered and some adoinol. The nest
meeting will ho the ordinary monthly one on the mis
proximo.
NEW Barvisv (II ‘rxi.. —This handsome new stractlire
was opened for public worship on Tuesday. The 4,',1,3.
t. service was conducted at 12.31.1 by the Rev..‘lesandee
Maclaren, 13. A., of Manchester, who preached an eio.i.ons,
and appropriate sermon from Philippians iii, 15, ''lo as
therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded awl if in
anythin: ye be otherwise minded God shall reveal even
this unto you." The offertories amounted to £)ss. At
two o'clock luncheon was provided in the British School-
rooms. The Rev. C. 11. .eonsrd, 111. A., of 1t...0w15.
presided. Addresses were delivered by the Chairman,
the Rev. Mr. Coleman and other ministers. At 5.:11 thy
same schools were crammed to excess the OCCIAOIII being
a public tea. The evening services were again conducted
by
_/*lr. Maclaren.

.tLI. BUT—On Thur,day evening as the !leather Baur
was starting on her accustomed trip to Swainige with.
about MO passengers on board she got rather far W.
leeward on leaving the pier, and all but ran foul of Mr.
ilelyer's yacht, the Madora. With connuendalde pre.ence
of wind, however, the engines were reversed in a second,
and after getting clear .4 several other yacht. &whored
close by, she proceeded on her journey. Another revolu-
tion of the engines would, in all probability, have seriously
injured the 4orepart of thin Madora.
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AIteATIC SPORTS. -17OWniall ;171.0110 poople ammuldea
on the pier and beach on Thursday to witness a wait, of
waecnuan's races, got up through the exertions of Messrs.
S. Newlyn, Robitosin, and G. Softhw. The evening was
one of those delightful summer evenings to which we
have of late been accustomed. A slight swell rolled in
from the westward, lint with this exception the sea was
smooth and the wee' mho. The first event was on the
card for 5.30, awl punctual to a minute the inee for fours
oared galleys started at that hour. There were but three
entries, and after a g-md row they came in as follows:-
let Egeria, C. Cutler 2nd, Nellie, W. Davis ; 3rd
Samgull, 11. Cutler. --The next race war. for pair.osecei
boats. Gig started and kept tolerably well together until
they roweled the distance nag, wheu the Alice, W. Davis,
took the lead. which she afterwards maintained through-
olit. The Pet, Mr. J. Hollis, was only ahout a length from
; her stern at the winning point, awl she in turn was
elmely pursuol by the Mayflower. Harvey, the others
came in more or Icss stroggbaig, Gertrude. Baker, being
Ith ; Jessie, Cutler, 3t1,; and Sir Roger, .1. nuk,. a
Ion" way in the rear.-A handball match, similar to what
-3escribed last week, was the next event, the cantinas
were MeStn.S. Nash arml Mootham, but shortly alma
entering the water the former was seised with cramp, and.
; bad to retire from the contest, and the team seperin-
j tended by the latter won two goals in succession which.
' decided the game in their favour.-A watennaa's mint
! race came next for which six started, and pamed the•
winning point in the following order. let, Ada, Devi' ;.
! 2nd, Swallow, Hollis ; 3nl, Fiona, H. Cutler; Ith. Dove.
Baker sth, Mayflower, Ilarvey ; fith, Sunshine, T
Cutler.- The fifth event was a four-oared galley race.
between two crews of the Premier Rowing Club. TM-
Lothair and Adeline were the galleys selected, awl Mr
former wen by two lengths. -Sixth on the cards was a
race for punts lebinging to sailing boats. Four retries
were made, hut enly thiee game to tte scratch. awl they
came in as follow,: -Henrietta, Redman, Ist; 1 Mintless„
Cartridge, tind Rapid, Fricker, 3rd. Three entries were
made fez the race between ~ •of the beatmee. The
youth worol exceedingly well, and got home in peel time.
The Dove, Baker, came Ist ; Swallow, Hollis. 2wl ; and
Davis, 3n1.-The iseventh and last was a "Mick
bunt," an event which created not the least merriment
ainotqat the living nendes on the pier. Tom Cutler melt
a capital "duck," and evaded his hunters for sone: time,
at last, however, lie got caught and well ducked io bsit
-Tli ~,,, About the evening the Bournemouth geadrille
Band discour.ed an excellent selection of tousc VII the
pwr, which, as. well as the yeelital laying off at anchor..
was gaily rigged with bunting. The whole we., or
nine o'clock. awl this perfol MICCO,, attending the Moto
proceedinga reflects the greatest redit on Messrs. S oft-
law. Robinson. and Newlyn, to whose enterprise to.
,glectingsubseriptinns and superintending all throughout.
the nubile are indebted for a capital evening's enjoy-
ment