The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-10-03 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

Mgrotc•L Orricsit.—thir L cal Ilmrd &deedless for
• medical officer of health.
DR. ASIMAN, we are glad to hear, is a little better,
and we hope he may yet he sparel to the good practice
which he had already gained at Woking.
CAIITLITOWN PIOPLI are to be commended for help.
ing themselves to improvements needed, and we hope
the "heathenish" custom c implained of will soon be
things of the past, since the ladies have taken a share I
in aanit iry reform. I
liINCULIFS has received order. to return to
her stAtion at Portland this week, after repairs and
refitting now completed at Portsmouth. The Seamew,
which was transferred to Harwich some t:010 ago, is
ordered to take up her former position as tender to the
liercu'es, and has alrAady revisited these water,.
COALING Deror.—We omit:a-eland that the arrange-
ments are elm sit completed, whereby the c %ling of
the various ocean steamers can be effected in Portland
Road.. The hulks are daily expected and will be
eta.ioned at the Admiralty anchorage, in the bight
Formed by the Admiralty coaling station. We hear
nothing of the large and expensive calin depdt
erects I at the Inner Breakwater being useable for this
Important purpose.
THI CONIDNID PLZEN which have been co-operat-
ing in Egyptian waters have received Admiralty
permission to part company aa Admiral Seymour may
c Insider most convenient, and the principal vessels of
the Mediterranean Fleet are ordered to Malta, at which
port the Channel Fleet will call previous to sailing to
Portland, while the Inconstant will be paid out of
service at Portsmouth. Admiral Sir William Hewett
proceeds to his station with the vessels ender his
command, but a naval force will be detained for the
present off Egypt.
Lass or • PORTLAND MAN ABILOAD.—The second;
son of the late Mr. Charles Whim, wh was of late
the second mate of a vessel trading In the South
Bess, it is feared, has been lout. Young Mr. White
was in Portland rather more than two years ago, just
before hie father died, and since that time he had
finished his apprenticeship and settled in the South
Sea traffic. Abut half-a-year past the vessel went on
• month's voyage, but as she has now been miming
fire or six months it Is feared she must be given up.
PRL9II WATIR.—A Well has been sunk on the
preinims of the Gas Company, and a splendid supply
of drinking water obtained. An engine house and
pumping station are being erected, and no doubt
fresh water can be supplied from the works.
IL MS. Boec•wmt has just completed her repair.,
the men having been her. at the work about six
months, and having left only last Friday. Although
Southampton is trying to get the training ship away
from Portland, the general opinion on board Is that the
Hampshire people will not succeed in removing her,
unless they are assisted by the action of the Port-
lenders themselves. It I said that omplalnts are
continually being made to the Admiralty, and these
letters are sent back to the captain of the Bowmen,
causing an uncomfortable feeling between the dwellers
on board the ship towards the reel& nts of Portland.
If the ship goes it will be on sec mot of the many
faults found by the people on shore, for there is no
disposition to move her. Even when it was proposed
to send her to Portsmouth for repairs, the people of
Portland petitioned, it was ordered that the repairs be
oompleted hare, and a amber of men were sent from
Portsmouth dockyard to do the osieriary work.