The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-08-22 00:00:00

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LWOW% Irt. ROI' KY 'MOUTH. —The Fsirl of Sfalitiosbury
writes in the Times, under date August Itith I observe
that Bier, has been a large meeting at Bournemouth to
improve the coinu uldation between that town and
London. 1 sin not mrpstesd, travelling uI do constantly
.m that line. Yesterday 1 canto up by the Bournemouth
Express, which affects to leave the latter sill Lin, and
reach Loudon at 2.27—n0 great foot for 115 miles; but we
Aid not arrive at Waterloo station till past three, having
lost 25 minute: in that short distance. Why was this
Because we !stopped 25 minutes at Bishoutoke, waiting
for one of their own trains for Stokes Bay, and 15 minutes
at Basingstoke for • similar reason, the guard informing
usi that they waited any time for their own trains. lam
a large shareholder in the London and South•Wirstern
COUily, and, inasmuch as the shares are now at IE9,
and their pay 61 per rent, I think we could afford to send
the Express on to London when cur tributary trains are
late, and not expose the pasaengers who trust to our
notices to the inaonvenience of arriving so late as to lone
the London trains to the North or elsewhere."

On wedsesday afternoon the Lord Bishop of Saßantry,
who had ia the morning consecrated the church of St.
John the Eviugelist, attended Divine service at the
Minster. After evening prayer his lordship admitted Mr.
Alcott Bowers, 8.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge,
and Mr. Thorndikm, 8.A., of the same College to the
office of lay reader. Tb. former gentleman was prisented
by the Bev. E. F. Trotinan, for the parish of Wimhorne
Minster, and the latter by the Rev. Lionel Dawson Denier,
(or the parish of Ciudad Magna.
CONSECRATION Or • CHI:RCM—The Lord Bishop of
Salisbury consecrated the new church of St. John the
Evangelist, at IViruborne, on Thursday last. The new
edifice has been built and endowed by the Rev. Carr J.
Glyn, of Witchampton, with the object of supplying the
rapidly-inciessiaig requirements of the neighbourhood of
the station and of the new district of Rowlands. The
stricture has been detested and carried out in the simplest
style of early &With architecture, and with the
tage of an excellent situation, is altogether • comely.
without being a striking, edifice. The outside walling is
el the best red Farnham brick, painted with black mortar
and dressed with Doulton stone, and the Inside walls are
stuccoed. the interior stone work being of Bath stone.
The church consists of a nave Tilt. long by 241 t. wide,
with • north and south transept each lfil t. long by gift
wide. The roof is open and tilled in with plaster between
the rafters, which are varnished. At the east end there
Is an apse Instead of • chancel, and • handsome double
bell-cot crowns the roof at the west end. The floors are
laid with ornamental tiles, and the seats, which are of
varnished pitch pine, are all open. The pulpit, reading
desk. sad communion table are of oak, and there is a
small vestry in the north transept. The cost of the church
and fittings, which are complete, amounted to £2,500.
The architect was Mr. W. Fletcher, of Wimborne ; and
Mr. A. Green, of Blandferd, was the builder.