The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-11-11 00:00:00

TEXPLIBOOXBR

FRIGHTFUL RXPLOVON AT TEMPLE-
COUR&

This quiet village has been thrown into great
excitement by a tremendous explosion which occurred
just after midday on Friday. A young ironmonger
named Smith, who was lately foram in • shop at
iliberborne, bad married and started in business at
Milborne Port and Templeoembe. Al the latter
village he occupied only • shop and store-room, the
upstairs being tenanted by a " °barer," a wid Ar with
half.a-dosen children. The rooms were formerly an
old club-room, and extended over both shop and store-
room. Mr. Smith was tapping bensoline and in-
cautiously took • light to do it, the store-room having
no window. The neighbours were startled by a
tremendous report, which was followed by two ether
expkeione caused by the firing of • second cask, and,
ills said, some gunpowder. Mr. Smith managed to
make his way out, but besides the shock he was
greatly burnt about the thighs. A police a minable,
who had been married only the dar before, was
walking past the house with i friend, and wee
knocked down and hurt, and his friend's nose cut ores
so badly that it was necessary to taw up the wound.
Fortunately Mr. Long, surgeon, of Stalbridge, was in
the village, and he, the rector (Rey. T. Fox), and Mr.
Peck, with others, rendered imetaat aid, and the
tire engines came In from Henstridge and Sin!-
bridge. Of the house nothing remains but •
portion of the walls. The adjoining hones,
width woe in the occupation of a butcher, wee
so numb injured and shaken that that elm must come
down. The largeet window hangs by its skin, • large
hole has been blown through the roof, the doors are
I shaken, and the walls are blackened as though they
had been painted all over with Lampblack. The houses
opposite had most of the windows blown out, including ,
a shop front of four very In ge panes. In one of
these houses lay an old man of SO very ill, and the
column miaow to him am likely to be serious. We are
sorry 13 add that whilst the buildings themselves were
but lightly insured, Mr. Smith is understood to have
allowed his policy to lapse. He was conveyed home
to Milborne, where he now lies in a state of great
suffering, but the retest amount, that we hem received
are more favourable than might be expected from the
terrific character of the micident. Fortunately, the
woman and all bee children were out, but they lost
everything, even to their food, and are left utterly
destitute.

.4•••.111,IM
A Nice Tnasir.—At the Borough Police-oourt on
Friday a young men named Wil/run L01111,61X was
Sued half-a-crown and la &L c at . (in dsfault seven
days) for being drunk and disorderly early ou the
same morning,— P.C. Penne, who proved the case,
misted he was threatening to go home and shoot his
niother. A gun was found beneath his pillow I y
prisoner's mother.—lergeent Gale said he did not
think prisoner had any ill-will towards his mother.—
Primmer said the gun wee plead in his poeseesiou to
repair it.—The Watt allowed him 14 days in which to
par the morey.
Tits LORD MAtos. The London Ster.
Company, ef which Mr. Alderman Nottage and
Kewiard are the proprietors, have taken the pre-
liminary steps in an action in the Supreme Court for
slander against Sir Charles Whim (the Lord
Mayor), for expressions used in his magisterial capacity
on the recent hes4set the Mansion House of a sum-
mons against a per in the City on a charge of
gelling and exhibiting indecent Zulu photographs- The
Lord Mayor, through his solicitors, has accepted
service of the praxes, with a view, according to hie
so loiters' explanation, of having "an opportunity of
ettiii=gibtehsPublic on thetrue into a
the
ease,

AFGcIANItITA.N.

&nu, Nov. 11.
General Macpherson elleoted a inaction with Major.
General Bright, at Hata Bang, on the kb Wet.

SOUTH AFRICA.
°Arnow's. Oct. 21.

Adrian from Pretorte to the 19th state that air
Garnet %Wesley has sone to Sotooooort couotri•
Yestenlity Major Clark* delivered an ultimatum.
The reply has not yet been received.
Colonel Lanyon has returned from Middleburg.
The Boers who took the powder are to 1.), tried for
theft. . . . .

--fts.are I s nothing new from Id Arad.
The reported *scission of traders and miasionaries
from Zululand is without foundation.

aircrew's, Oct. 21.
(Via Madeira.)
Hostilities will be resumed against Secomeal if that
chief refuse, to submit to the British authorities. Sir
Garnet Wobieley is on him way to Secomeni's country.
Mr. Gordon Sprigg, the Cape Colonial Secretary,
was present at a very largely attended meeting held in
Basutoland on the 16th instant. About 10,000 natives
were present, and the proceedings were orderly
throughout, a feeling of loyalty to the British being
generally manifested.

ENGLAND AND TURKEY.

Pester LJ.gi says that Feridan Bey, the Turkish
Consul General in Faith, is authorised to give the
most formal denial to the sensational telegram of the
Armee Haves of the 2nd instant, and to state that the
news therein conveyed is absolutely false. The Porte
has received Inns the British Ambassador neither a
note nor an ultimatum, and the relations between
Turkey and England fortunately continue to be ae
friendly as formerly.
Beaus, Nov. 6.
The I'46nm! !kissing to-day publishes a letter on
the subject of the rcpreeentations made by the British
Government to the Porte, in which the writer state. that
the demand of England that the Porte should at length
take the necessary reforms in hand, meets with the
concurrence of the whole of Western Europe. "If
however," continues the letter, "any action beyond
this demand be taken by England, it will fur the pre-
sent have to be at her own risk and cost. Germany
and Austria are agreed upon their respective interest.
and the measures which may be eventually necessary
to protect them. The nature of such measures will be
known in due course by the party by whom thoee
Interests may be attacked. To enforce the execution
of reforms in Asia Minor is solely the concern of
and it is her political sagacity that will have
ttutLinc.
itnine how far she will proceed, and to what
extent pressure may be applied, considering the
danger of a fresh conflict of the utmost gravity, not
only with the Porte, but also with Russia."
The Central News Agency says it has been officially
Informed that the report telegraphed from Constan-
tinople, that the British Government had counter-
manded the despatch of the Mediterranean Fleet I.
Vourlah, is untrue. No such order had been given, but
Vioe-Aduziral Hornby has telegraphed that he is
delayed at Malta on account of the unfitness for sea
of the Temeraire.