The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-09-16 00:00:00

Tut Editor.

Sir,—Publio attention hat ocians m ire b.no call A to
that pest of the N.wth Sas, the ti i.tint ge g
Wialell minions with the trawling it eta. A writer in
one of your weekly gout •Inourarteci camera., that what
bag already been cue by legialaLioa ti chezit
evil ' amounts ti an BIC ,110111 1U1it.1.4 'a of nottiliig.”
The fault it nut, howiiviir, lii au, DatUro .4 tie
remelts., hut in the difficlliy of thou applicati in.
'rue Coopc, i. practi,ally beyond the reach of law,
sal the gowitiLiu be, em, nit he the taaffi: may
be put .ioain, but how the Coopers theill.oll/0.1 may be
keio ol the filets.
Let me illutircto what I Me.lo. 0.1 a recent
S tiid.y morning, in the "Shct Blue" diet, 25
ilatacks' boats wars I/ i.e •IDOLI to hug eat ?rta .4 the
II iatitig church, mad only three averts ,I thi troolecr.
About the some Into, in in, .•I Lb, Grini•by H met.,
two Du cli Couptes appeared Pitt MI the •lIIBCKLU.
I ware usetuutiog fir morning tend., on board tile
A1L.14U1.-11411.,, whine skipper, hawing Witaktose4 tiU
4111214ar 0k0.44...1 110.11101 11,g.1i.g 0,54 ii 144telill•ni.
feared their wivel would treacly if:minion lii. 000.
ere, Aloe ; hut only tine • .litaiy b ,at ug to 1.118
Coopers. B. di the uuwelcone visitor., &chow: an
01, ion to Ismaili an i sUed Diem. &Irk.,
present y 1).r• away In differ :at direcuons in aearcn
if eati,r prey. . _ .

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It as uon' three yews sauce the Thames °attach
Mesioa, of wbice I am Pr•—ident, tuatiguratel its
Marion to Deep-Sea lishernueu,' under the c
lion, amply oorrub .rate I by results. dug the bait
eutidote for tee oval wrought by the arope, woakl be
the peeeonoe will each fleet of • ••••li wt.iti 11
be at 01304 • church, disponearv, library, temperance
he/1, and club—s roust who,. itati niece &boatel extetel
to and be aeknowledged by to. roughest an I melt
depruod.
Your mach ship. are now stationed in the North
Sea, and by the men in the ila-t no! the •u I
children üboro they are regudod with grAttio le a .d
agutiou.

0,,f00r0, to,. il•Ve Spont.opteotuly ack,,,,10..146,1 the
vast hepatic cuotertel, and uue large firm, in writatz
tu the eeeretary. said, 'Our mom haws houn C1,,-
plotaly sad Wd goalie bee Mitt ai3OU 41
euhearibete at tin 011406.1 t, the fund. of tUe
Ml4lolqll.'

Se, VlOO4 Sr. condo hod on board the miesion .me .ke
by cler_y or saleable ley ini•sion•risx, an I meitzel
and surgical axsistanoe la dispxueed to uisny poor
fellows woo but for thie boon would be in immioeut
of toeing life or limb. In fine weather tbe
'lt= library le extensively toed, while inetructi in
in reeding and writing is effor le I to those wtzi or.
iguur.at of these rudiment., and in many other ways
the men are taught to appreciate the relation dap.
This important and suooseeful effort has, in mr
opinion, praotiesily dealt a mortal blow 10th. Co ,per s
pestilent trail; and my friend M E I ward Birkhoc.i,
M.P., whose sympettiy with the liMerineu bleu widely
known, when speaking of the mmy cameo of direct
evil wrought by the fi *ling grog shop, obeervxs
"Saab f scup convicts to. more and more teat U there
I. one way in which great good can be done among the
deep-sea fishermen, It is through the instrumentality
of the stemmas sent out by tip Thames Church Mission.
They are doing to the North Sea a grand work,
worthy of the Bopp irt of s great maritime nation like
England, and I befieve that the results of their effort,
great se they ere In the preesot, would, if only
supported liberally by the public, be of not rid value
In the future."
Such work se this does indeed deeerve (as it greatly
needs) liberal support, and contributions in it, aid
will, I know, be very gladly received by the Secretary,
31. New Bridge-street,
In the wools of Loid S'adteeboxy, "I r moral
purposes, for patriotic purpose', f •r social purpose,
for religious purposes, there was never devised a better
agency than the Thamos Clurch Mission, and it
ought not t want the 1130&111 wuich are nermissary to
extend its operations."
I em, tir, your obedient servant,
N. N. Fowteit. Lord Mayor.
NI Lesion Howe, EX., August