The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-08-14 00:00:00

WRYXOUTR.

Tog Gas Egetiarrion proved 110 great a success that 1
It was contitued uotil Wedneeday evening. The
attendance haa been eery good.
TREAT TO THZ Milos CHILMIZN.—The children were
enterrained at St. Marjs Schierl., .0 Thursday last,
with a sumptuous dinner of fish, f illiiwed by plenty of
pastry. cooked by gas in the exhibition.
OUTING TO WITHOOTH. —oe Tuesday the work-
people employed by Messrs. Webb and Co., of Tree-
brilge, had their outing to Weymouth, where ti.ey
were conveyed in a special train of 22 ouches. A very
pleasant day was spent.
MAD Lb:G.—Some excitement was caused in St.
Mary-street on Tuesday by the vagaries of • mad
retriever dog, helon:ing to to one. The animal first
went into Mrs. Green's shop, and afterwards into Mr.
Robert... and upstairs into a bedroom, where it WY
even really shot by Mr. Hayman.
BANK ifOLIDAY.—MondAy was pretty generally
°buret d in Weymouth as a holiday, moat of the shops
being clued. I iurn g the day an enormous number
of excursionist. visited the town, it being computed
there were from 10,000 to 15,000 visit os. They may
ly
came by rain, and in the evening Mr. Collett acd his
aseistauts bad the difficult leek of despatching the
specials" to time, the new excursion platform (SOO
feet lone being used for this purpose. All the officials
are to bee ingrotulated on the eueeessful Way in which
they despatched the extra traffic, as none of the local
traine were deleyed a minute.
SHIPPING. —Arrival. : Great Western, Blampied,
Chem .urg, gin • rat ; Aqilla, Painter, Jersey, gensral;
Ethel, Cleves, Jersey. potatoes; Premier, Bowring,
Seaton, passricigrrs • South of Ireland. l'earn, Cher-
bourg, general ; lirightsn, rale, Jersey, g I ;
Empress, Courts, Beurnemouth, paseengers ; Prince,
Mast.,., Swansge, passengers; Lord Vivian. Nfounti-
field, Portsmouth, Government store'; Queen. Neill,
Bournemouth, nil.—Soilines : Aqtrila, Painter,
Jersey, geturcl ; Premier, Bowring, Bournemouth,
passengers; Empress. Osseo., Bournemouth, pas-
sengers ; 8 iuthif Irelan I, Purn, Cherbourg, general;
Prince, Masters, Sourness oh, passengers ; Great
Western, Blampi-d, Cherbourg, general ; Q.lOOO,
Brill, Bournemouth, nil ; Brighton, Fail,, Jersey,
general ; Albertine, Virus, Tregnier, b.lla,t;
Minerva. Ells, Portland, nil ; Mermaid, Lissenion,
Sunderland. ballsat ; Celerity, Mann, Newcastle,
ballast; Eihel, Clagne, Jersey, empties.
Sig. JOHN./ Cricamt.—The chancel of this beautiful
church has recenti been embellished by the addition
ifs Sue reredos in Chen stone, and the carrying out
of • scheme of mural &emotion. The reredos is a most
beau iful work of art, Carriel out with exquisite tute.
rho central subject is the Good Shepherd in white
alabaster in an arched and richly moulded niche, sur-
mounted by a cross. The four elle panels, also richly
moulded and carved, contain the emblems of the
Evangelists, over which are the roar, the lily, the
plks•ioa fl 'war, and the pome.manate, beautifully
carved. The reredos is Soaked on either side by wail
panelling cusped and crocketted. The colouring of
the walls and roof is quiet and unobtrusive, the
colour, used being of a neutral kind, but some of the
eork is elaborate in form, and, by continuous repeti-
tion of small features, greatly enhances the scale of
the chancel. The colouring of the organ pip •• is rich
and varied, the prevailing colours being blue, green,
buff, and gold, and the organ cue has been remodelled.
The reredos is by Earp, of London, the colouring of
the organ pipes by W. Sims, of St. Thomas-street,
Weymouth, the organ case by W. Purchase, •if thia
town and the colouring of the walls by Messrs.
BeibUsit, of Wells-road, London. We moot not omit
to notice • very fine alter fr intal, the offering of • lady
in the congregation, worked in Hob colours and gold
upon dull ret embossed silk. The work generally has
been desigmed and carried out by Mr. E. Francis
Clarke, of London, architect, and rte cts the highest
credit u, on him.