The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-08-14 00:00:00

WEYXOIITII.

TUE PRINCR OF WA1.F.14, it Is said, will sail a yacht at oar
Regatts, and the Borough Members, Mr. 11. Edwards and
Sir Frederic Johnstone, will come to Weymouth on Ws
grand occasion.
ARMY SCRIPTURE READER'S SOCJETY.—This valuable
society had the meeting of its Weymouth auxiliary on
Thursday evening: but, in spite of the impottance and
interest of the society's operations to the inhabitants of a
garrison town like Weymouth, the attendance at the
meeting was Mall. The Rev. T. A. Greaves presided.
and Colonel Willoughby spoke as deputation from the
parent society.
THE NATAL CDLIDOE.—We have already stated that the
vLoptomesd vote on account of • College for Naval Cadets at
outh will not be brought forward during the present
Session. A Hampshire contemporary says that pending
the decision of the Admiralty upon the queition of
establishing a Naval College ashore at any of the southern
ports, the Britannia will be retained as a training-ship:
and meanwhile, the contemplated purchase of the Mount
Boon site will law, as it cannot now be completed within
the period prescribed by the vendors.
A ?LRAM...NT GATHE/RING that will he OD Wednesday
neat, and again on Thursday, when • grand homier is to
be set out at Gloucesteratreet school-room. The chapel
has been made very beautiful, and while they were about
it, those engaged did it well, and it may be an additional
pleasure to meet the Indies who so charmingly play" shop.
girlii—we beg pardon—" young ladies behind the
counter--faultlessly tirefted and, if ponsible, extra-
pleasing in manner, they will commend their beautiful
wares, of which we hear there ix a large, varied, and taste-
ful supply. At the same time the friends may be pleased
to examine the chapel, and see how tastefully the renova-
tion has been carried out. Our affable Mayor, Mr.
Lundie, has kindly consented to open the bazaar.
BURISL Boo.—The :sedan, of the Burial Board
accounts were to present their report at a vestry meeting
on Thursday last. Mr. Tigwell, churchwarden, was in the
chair, and the attendance was, ati SARNI, small. Mr. J.
Style, produced the auditors' report, and it ihowtNl that
the Board had paid .C 3 3s. Id., to the mortgagees for
Interest, and Eat lth. lid., towards paying off the princi-
pal During the year the Boma have received
.C1:15 to. 71, for fees on interments, vaults, sale of grave
spaces, gr., and have paid £155 tis. SI, for repairs, wages,
salaries, and incidental expenses. It is said that the lent
Instalment of the mortgage debt has lately been paid off,
so that the whole of the money nand has been returned,
and all the property now bona Me belongs to the Burial
Roar&
Tux CABBY AND TIIR TESTAMENT—John Conriney SW
131.01104 tllp on Friday lard before the Mayor and Dr. Drew,
for beim, drunk and begging. P.C. Riggs found him about
belfeeet midnight drunk and asleep opposite the White
Thet, Ileadutreet. When he was brought to the station
sad learthed,S4d. was found on him—Arab driver named
Jobs Collies was about to be put up am • witness, when it
was found that he did not know the nature of an oath,
although he was IN years old. He could Teed a little, but
could net write, and had never mad the Flew Testament
He saw prisoner laat night near the Star and Garter, and
Courtney begged for coppers for a night's lotting wben
wit..s and another gave him Id. each.—Prisoner said he
had been a labourer at work at Dorchester , but had been
for a week out of week—Mr. Arden asked the prisoner to
show his hands, and they were smooth as if he had not
done any work for month& —Fourteen days hard labour
INSPECTION OF THE BOROUGH FORlClL—Captain Willis,
H. M. Inspector, on Thursday morning reviewed the polka
force of this borough, and inspected the station, cells, gc.
The captain was received by the Mayor (11. r. Lundie).
Mr. Alderman Thomas, Mr. B. Hopkins, and, the
inspection was very gatisfactory. The members of the
Watch Committee meant then explained to Captain
Willie as alteration yreposed in the arrangement of the
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