The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-06-12 00:00:00

WIMBOBSE.

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SWINg FaVea.—A meeting of the L mal Committee
appointed tinder the Contagious 'bagasse (Animal.)
Act wad held on Friday. Tu. Rev. C. J. Glyn
presided, and there were also ]present General Maclean,
Mr. S. Bartlett :mad M.. Idsik. Swine fever was
r,p ,rted to have br Men out At Oranborne on premises
belonging to the Hector, the iter. H. G. Rogers. The
%lanai orders were male. To* premise* of Mr. 0.
White and 31r. D. Phili,ni, at Lyuthett, tv.lo
declared free of disease, an wag also the whole of the
Rine in district.
Baer) ne HOPS Mtrelaos.—Oae of the moat
4r,stilying signs of the tunes is toe increasing interest
tike. IQ the Baud of Hope 31 vetnent turouguout tne
land. The t ,wn of Wouborne appears to be well
alive tithe matter, having no lees than four Bands of
Hop.--The Minster, St. John's, Wesleyan Iletho list,
and the Congregational. On Mon My evening the
weld fortaightly meeting of St. John's wan Iliad in
the Mission-r min, and, ails matter of sour... was well
attended. The chair was taken by the doperintendent,
Ms. G. Filimole. Tire meeting coosine.oed with
singing the melody No. 15, &Ler which a p of
sm spier., was read, followei by prayer. After eingi rig
inelady Ns. 107, Alan But ,n 1 anti Winifred Judd
nice recitations ; teen followed • readlog, " Who
Killed TOM Toper?' by E. Saeppard. ' After sing-
ing melody Ns. 99. Muss Short ke,A the litt e
spellbunod by reciting " The fwo Homes," which
was foilowed by that ever favourite hymn, Dare
'.be • Damsel. Tr.'. very
_pleasant meeting wits
iw eight I, • CI AO with a reading by Nils* Whiten',
Tue,lay eve.ing " The .giustar " met at the
National School. Mien Parkinson, the Mitee•
an t t tern c taductol the meeting. The Wesieyans
also wet on T esday evening in the large eebool-
r....ca uudernea h the ehagail. 'roe meeting was
preei.led over by 'he Rev. W. 'l'. Gal. Sir. Bell (of
the Dorset C relaperance Association) wan in
attendance, and gave an addre.s, which will be long
rememb,re I; it can h.,th interesting and instructi.e,
being nicely into-spooled with very telling an I touch-
mug emec int-a. At toe close of the addresa the
children 113 collected their approval by giving a long
and hearty clap of the hands. Miss B. Ward
presided at the harmonium. this f'slog • spc.ial
meeting to hear M... IS. there wag a good attetid-
anal of juvenile*. Tall ueuol fwinightly meeting will
take place this (Toursday) evening, at the usual time
and place.

25E MINSTER TOWERS.
The MoatAlv Paper I.a. Jane, refer' iug to the restora-
tion of the &Looter rower., say.
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It must be matter of &locate coagratulation to all
parishioners that the repairs of the towers of or
thirster Capron Cr. now completed, and that the
word, which was one rd vital neceeeity, hem been eo
well awl solidly done. Like a great deal f rimilarstone
work there does not seem much ti snow for the moury
that has been apent upon them, but if auy one tied
watched the work in operation, cud damn the enormou.
quantity of costly cemeet the' was poured into the
aping thisures, and the patisut careful wey in wuich
every defective stone in the Western 'rower was
removed and e sound block inserted in its place, at
would be very evident that so much skilled labour, and
so much valuable material smut 0.1 a good deal of
in2usty. But, we may he satisfi-d to know that, iii the
opinion of those gust& d toju lgo, the work barn been
do thoroughly and honestly dons, that the rower I.
probably stronger now than it ha. ever been, sod will
stand. for many a long year witheut need of further

repair.
We may remind our readers that the Western Tower
4 of coosi tenthly later date then the Central Tower,
but still, in our opinion, a work of great beauty; its
proportions exasediogiy graceful. It was built about
1450-70, on perpuse to receive the five heavy bells
awned by tradition to have been bronchi hither
from the chapel of Si. Jlitl2llll, at Kingst ,a and is
of the same architecturri order, the " Perpendicular,"
as the upper Clere-tory which must have been raised
over the old Norman windows about the same time.
Although the subecriptiotui received bays been most
generous ad wide spread, yet a deficit remains of
some £7O.
This we are ocessimed will speedily be paid off, and
leave us free to consider the next great step to be
taken in the perfecting of the Minster, namely, the
re.torati ut of the transepts; when that is done, as,
please God, it shall be done some time, we shall
premiss in the Shuster, a noble unblemished church,
of which the whole nation may be justly proud.