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

Pis OUROLASTI jORTII.B4/11ARE.

The soldier,- Cassie. Du. an. Woe brought up on remand
for breaking into thp homy ofr barter puss& in North-
square. The evidence given at tin previous examination
was read over and coalirmed.-John liiinaniers. assistant
to Mr. Laxareck, at Aldershot, said on Saturday eventu
the 15th, prisoner came to his master's shop and offcred
witness a watch to pledge, asking 10s. for it. lie looked
at the information It and found that. watch answer-
ing that description had been stolen. He did not know
wherdrom but he had received information from a
4tective of the Hants constabulary. Ile did not advance
the Coyney but gave information to the police, at the same
time detaim.g the watch, and prisoner was apprehended
at the shop. OD Monday the 17thhe handed the watch
over to Supt. Coward. That ems the watch now produced.
-P.C. Gould was on duty on the tight of the Ord of
May, in Dorchester, at two o'clock in the ra4Cllll/4 he saw
the prisoner, concealed in a shutter box. Witneev was at
the top of Pease-lane when he heard footstep. Ifs
yent through Shirehall-lane expecting to meet the person
1 lee be4rd. The shutter box was in Parkins' passage,
OWthegisrd's the basket maser, and prisoner was
kneetula dow c oes lope knee. Ile asked him what he
rim up to shore, _ sad via;ner replied he thought it was
am _ old yellow ed theses,kitil anteing asked who
he amill replied the pewee*, ( toes' told him he bad
hotter est ois in the barmaks, gad he weat through into
' High N'Vest-street. Ha appeared se il be hed L'eelV drudung
In the early part of the night -The Town Clerk e*plabied
that this was • case of burglary, and not triable it the
I seesions,2: they had no jurisdiction, and must be sent to
,
the --t -Prisoner said he had never broken into •
house in his life; there must have been someone to show
him the way! He was never in • court before-Prisoner
Vic:ot, write. He had been 15 or 16 years in the
m.let the Town Clerk said he should liked to have
seen some gcos conduct stripes on his arm, but prisoner
said beer had remove.; oil thent-The Town Clerk: Oh I
.that's it-beer eget& -Flieouc,- was then committed for
trial at the nest March &mime Thy Police wish us to
slate that Mr. Laxareck has on Imlay Oefie,Cll4 rendered
tbem valuable assistance in recovering stolen te,„port;.
'mugs% Collins was brought up on remand eharge4
itof the value of 71.-The evidence of the assistant,
steeling a pair of boots, the property of the mi..
freed over to him.-. 8 Mitchell on Mon-
. n
the &Ilisero ,o, orsui tof prisoner, having pre-
iviard, received the boots fe.m..Layrie. lie found pri-
or D
front recite uke of Wellington.
.4wir Siethill is ihe •cb b deniod.
, siod then he took
"se Off diarcit wig e
Told „,„. 'ss. On the road to the etation he said some
him in mum.... - ..,,,v, • nnhongeir the boots add given
other man must h.. "4sw IteitOßEin named mei
them to him. At the P+. - ...441 . t., the e'en that
Bugler came in, and neurone . - yClariliirink.
give me the boots." prisoner W&.. "
-James Bugler, in the employ of Messrs... i %
opposite, saw the prisoner unhang the ....
Irom okeerds. at them for • bit and then " drawed- hints...
away up the street, and put the bouts under his arm. He
was about to inform Miss eurtis, but saw Mr. Warren
tonic across and did not go himself. He afterwards saw
Prisoner at the police station.-Prisoner pleaded
_guilty,
and wished the case to be disposed of at once. He was
in drink at the time, and now threw himself on the
mercy of the Court He had never been charged with
stealing anything before. Nothing was known against
him, and be was now sentenced to two months hard
labour.

BILLACH OF CONTRACT.
Thema; Sareways was charged with a breach of contract,
under the Masters' and Servants' Act, 1875, and damages
claimed by Mr. R. Hunt, of Fordingtoe, were laid at
.C2.—Mr. Robert Hunt some time last April engaged him
as a thatcher and farm labourer for a year, he wages
woe to be tea a week, and 30a for the harvest- He com.
menced on the service, and continued up to the Saturday
before the 3rd of July. He was paid every Friday night.
Ilad not come on the Monday. On the 2nd of Jule. •
Sunday his little girl came to his mill and Raked if witness
would let her fadier go and thatch some ricks for Mr.
Lock Witness sent the girl to tell her father to come
and 'mask to witness himself. He did so, and said Mr.
Read—Mr. Lock's bailiff—wanted him to thatch some
ricks, and witness said if that was the case Mr. Read was
to come and a peak to witness himself, on which prisoner
said he should go whether he did or no. Witness told
him if he did so he would go at his peril. He rose his
wages in the month of May, and before the hayinakin4
save him 2&d * have n
se
d. a day. He would • been usfied it
.(cadent had given him • week's notice. —Defendant
given Mr. Hunt a week's notice, but this Mr.
Vote d— collect -7elendant argued his point in a rather
' 'Or. Derenish told him he aPPemod
.vas
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week,Lto.in detofaulooLit •
in
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to
mu.. Mills,
Foot. and Meech.

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..• ._____, ... De would
.1-- i-nr-'-ib .sdjutant C. T. Griffis, Dr. .1. Good:and
swum mica • groat rurPonsibility m 7 ill's tan v-et:rinarLc.r. s rpto I Rowe, were the staff officers
certain that ern4rattag would be the bee. light
c°ukl 'l°. Mr' illnimi° 1"8 no de** to hide ‘..41
..,e, present. Tbe Melba?, trozeuwtereFeirropwrier
untedu.rteyby
tinders boehel. and he km •uthcriesd us to wee his or Lieut W. K Brrner' LP.,
If by a we can help to convict,. thew whe ea
~ter R. Gonsorc,e, four sergeants, and about 4o rank
whweet to leave en overstocked labour market, ms. The heater troop was in command of
for o Lad. that if it is not flowing with milk and b r and file. tt- Fester, also present being Lieut. H.
win aocsi smirr one who is not afraid of hard woorlir ' cnntain A.
,„. ..t. li., D. mornion, Quartermaster
Vity's war for th••• lab•art Imid • locefortable Isom: -16.17- Lie... -mints, and 30 rank and file.
into tilt bakon.wsboco le Isar repass in almond B. iddleton,
of all dialler m • burden to bis Mews. awe K Boonton, three mu. ,f the two troops was
muster. .... ' nest, perform
occupant of the Good news seldom comes Thus tit°
alma, any more than trouble, and we have head a above 70, atiCgaptinuadron marcheo ~ 'I exercise,
another returned emigrant, now a resident ofthe *ask parade movements, and went through swot, The
bourlsood of I.Txteldge, who has been out in
the men ultthor themselves in admirable
three "en and
"w
bc"t
a luiripg Zilli 17' &col th-af elbUry troop competed in which he intends devoting to takba his /*Awn , lumbers
,ost vri biro to 1411 adoPbed load. Fads like time gmk 1
,exercise for two
.zes-presented by. Lieut. W. E.
far theasesives without note or comment, sad them •o
who I __•Yrraer, M.P. -TrooPer B. Boatswain and TrooperMkt it • Mikan task to maks both ends meet m , eves after • (lent being the winners. The members of the
1_ wales hard work, will do well to consider if they had Melbury troop dined together at the King's Arms
,4 awes do and do likewiss.-Ths Mania mid X iddisees Hotel, at the invitation of and under the presidency.
, Jens &h. Mt
ne Limit. W E. Brymer, M.P., Quartermaster Gangs
paatZ• 0•02•.--Ciaererur. Ana Coerourrnia.-" By a tie vice.chair. The
tumid wait.
were
pro.
17.14rianc4 the
-natujal"-2awa--rwhiah.-- • assofireaar2l aba-- cr v.. mix from the establishment of Messrs.
a the an.....=•_•;;Z=a, ~,,..,..'"Ig: n arid Jacob, eilveremithii, of High &d-
-ui, „masted ruiYesTig;et tehies-7"rith a d—ericately 44" k were laid on the table in f tw of the chairman 1
which may ea" us many hoar, fee the ehr.ie• a Mesuro• Boobs:Lill ar
the Judicious and Cleat. The
81••••••dburert CI bp c:Judiciousaae a such es 04 selection having basin made wimp. www vs. and
FISHING WITH CORMORANTS.
terreths,
.00.41,,,ti0n may be gradually built De. um( °•11•7 ta•'•• PraPaalat Th• D.:coo
aht*
(imiliad A very curious sport is gaining ground in this
...,44 t. raid tandem, to asseee- dinner at the Antelope How. nada th
dean& are around us roe* of Captain
tomb& mbirme =1•11: ri_ek_rin Vce,lllaTte= ing ea vlosekairraaa. Idr, say aaaaW,CO3,_'-'" has been practised for centuries by the Chinese, who
fatal 'heft br Imelfing ...•••••• well, excellent style. The toes*. a „,,____ ,""Ueuel__
_, carefully train these birds to deliver their prey
gala' a and • properly neurielied frame. -cwil sonnies
rgoutioad• complimentary character. a •-•'""1" •nu uninjured to their master, instead of appropriating it
k. Qa Pee; and from China, and other Oriental

•countries, it has been broil rlit to England. Connor-
ant-fishing recalls, in a mewaire, the old days of .
falconry, with the exeeptim that, while the feats of
the trained hawks and falcoos were performed in 11l il I
air, the performances of the " sca-crow," as the French
call it, tAke place in the we r. With • tin:: plated
round their necks to prev-ant them from ew.ll,,wing
their booty, though well-trained birds will ,!i.l.ense
with this rest:aint, the cormorants plunze at a given
signal into the water, and luully ev.e fail to bring up
a finny prize. Their broad n.eW.e.l lee', an 1 their
thin, keel-shap,l body, I..pt them for •
swimming nit.' diving ; And they wi:l oft -a use th.ir
short, stiff wings as an 3.1 Hama' time sus of propnlsion.
So swift are they., and sostablen their des.ent,th .t the
nimblest fiah cannot, esea:s? them. If they seize their
prey otherwise than by the head, they axe9ll to the
surface, and quickly jerking it into the air, will
adroitly catch it as it tensile:olomin .st. I'hr appear-
ance of a number .d eonnorauts thus eugai.:ed, and
regularly bringing their booty to their owner's hand,
Is a very pleasing sight. Thus employed they will
continue fishing, with but little intermission, and with
the occasional encouragement of a handful .of the
mailer fry, for several hours together. Otters, indeed,
can be trained to act in a similar manner, and if this
mode of fishing is likely to becutue at all general, it will
necessitate a new reading of certain Acts of Parliament.
Under the Salmon Fishery Acts, for instance, a duty
is payable on " instruments " used for the capture of
salmon, and it may become a question for the lawyers
whether a " cormorant " can properly be called an
" aquatic totipalmate bird" at other times. There
are, at any rate, few kinds of sport which are not open
to objection from which cormorant fishing is free.
Cormorants must have fish to eat, and it is Tic more
cruel to let them feed themselves in the presence of
admiring_spectators than to catch the fish first of all in
a net. It in even superior to the ancient falconry,
since the wined prey of the hawk is a more sensitive
animal than the finny prey of the cormorant, and the
fish do not probably feel any pain in their ignominious
descent, bead foremost, into the capacious beak of
their captor.

THE BEGGARS' KNAP CONTROVERSY.
The following letters have been received by the
Rev. H. P. Raikes, who presided at the " Indigna-
tion Meeting," relative to this quest' : -
" Treasury I %ambers,
"21stly I sin.
"Sir,- I am directed by the la,r.'sa lunmissioners of
Her Majesty's Treasury, to transmit to you herewith
for yonr information copy of a letter which my Lords
have caused to be addressed to the Mayor of Dor-
chester, conveying their approval of the grant of
building lessee of a portion of the land known as
Beggars' Knap, recently acquired by the Corporation
from the Duchy of Cornwall.
" I arm.sir, .