The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-01-15 00:00:00

WIMBORN E.

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nueMASONRY. —The ceremony of installation of the
Woishipful Master of the Lodge Cuthherata, No 622,
took plum no Tueedry, in. thepramenoe of a full lodge
.4 brethren. The interesting oeremony was per.
formed by P. li. 8r,,, ,bionbo, of All Way.
month, at the dose of which Bro. Rev. W. Mortimer
Heath was inducted in the chair of offloe, in the
room of Bro. Clarke, the retiring W. M. Bro. Heath
then nominated, and severally invested with their
odlars and badges of office the several offloe bearers
for the ensuing year, as follows : —Bro. Barrett,
3.W. ; Bro. Forrester, J. W.; Bro. Fletcher, 8 D.;
Bre. Kerridge, J G.; Bro. W.L. Adv., LG.; Bro.
Lotter, see. The treasurer and tyler were previously
elected. The banquet was held at the Crown Hotel,
at the oonoluaion of business. W. M. Bro. Heath
presided, supported by the senior and junior wardens,
and there was • Rood attendance of the brethren.
The usual routine of Waste wee gone through. and •
thoroughly acresable evening WU eopyed.
Wiisioa,,s Mete Coars. -The anniversary dinner
and distribution of prises in oueneetion with the Cith
( Witeborne) D.S.V. took place on 'Eneeday evening,
January 8. at the Crown Hotel. The °hair w. warted
by Ceptain Montogn Gaest (6th D. H. V. ), who was SSW
portd be Colonel Meow, Captain Biddle, Captain and
AdJurant Barrett, Hon. Surgeon Rowe, Rev. 11. Pis.
Wm. W. Mortimer Heath, ka Lieutenant Weld
Taylor and amigo Pope Ailed the vice shalt., and
ansinqpit the company present we oblerved G.
Leff, Mr. F. Huntley, Mr. Martin Smell, Mr. A.
Bartlett, Mr. Hopkins, Qtertermastevaeretetnt Blount,
Seigetat & F. Buddeu, S.r.ponh A. Clarke, Bugle-
Mai ir Mackenzie rterteant A. J. Sudden, Corporal
B Wok, Corporal Bed, laborCoiponal Ford, uer-
gaunt Arm.. rer Wallingford, to , Ake The loyal toasts
were warmly reeeived. The Kee. H. Pie and the Kew.
W. 111. Heath responded for "Th. Mahn. slid Clergy
of the Diocese." te. nesse of Captain Biddle, formerly
eo omandant of the In D.V. IL. was eamciated with
" The Army and Navy," and he re-pnucle-1. ifs alluded
to the diSsulliy esperieseed by the Hone Ottorda in
maii~ing eligible reernita, whia be thought attributa-
ble to their not beim aullideat hadocementa offend to
reopeetable men, and salil he trusted the attention
reseed, called sn the matter would lead tom. alteration.
He thought the army wee never more eliciting than at
pres nt, and from the ready mannerl In which the
volenteer movement had been adopted, he emcluckd
that there would b. no lack of good veer 11. should
new salty arise. If. bore witness that they did prewent
themselves in ample numbers during the Crimean war.
From his I-.ng accotintance with the Wim corn, Corp..
he was gado certain they would
good front when the time of trial and neeeteity Mee—
(cheers). He looked back upon the dey. be spent with
the 6th Dorset.. some of the happiest of his life. He
had spent thTle. or four years amongst them, and eon-
p-quelitly he did not regard the present company..
igers, bet limk-d upon them es old and
Mende -(cheers). He wet sorry that hi. position in
this oelghboil-bocd was not stab as to *sable him to be
Of any great ann./dame to the corps; bet he was always
ready. in Ids ansit was, to promote the Interests of tee
force, and I. could ever be one of its best friends—
(sheers.) The Chairman then proceeded to distribute
the prises which had been won at the company shooting
at Bs Shari Rings in the autumn. In doing so he ad.
dresied 0011). word, of congratulation to the aumeeetal
compeiitors. and eneounised those who had been nu.
successful not to be disheartened, but try harder next
rialro.winThi he were than awarded according to t
list
IFirst, Capt. Clueda's !Myer cap and the challenge
badge of the corps. Bugle-Major Mackens:e.
Seeond, LS, Irmerthe pct., fend, and • short Ifalleld
rid presented by Lieut. Taylor, Private K. Hibbs.
Third, 104., Private I-midge.
Fourth, 10.. Corporal Beat.
Fifth, El 10a., l'rivitte Lansing.
Math, E"2 Corporal Garland.
Fe-venth. £2. Lanes-Corporal Ford.
bet, 1.1, Sergeant A. J. Budden.
litioth, £1 10... Private Traloar.
Tenth. Cl, fron, the prize fund, Lieut. Taylor. Lieut.
ill., relinquished his prim, with the desire that it
should be added to the awerd due to the neat beet 61,4,
and the prises were aceordiagly taken by Private
Treloar. . _

Eleventh, aggregate prim at 200, 500, and 600 ya dr,
yzareented 117 Mr. R. P. Hopkins, Private

—itnouTt's prise, a eup presented by Bugle-Major
Ilsokentie, Private S. rt sr I• w
it,ornit's prtee, ,CL presented by the sergeant, of
the earns, Private Tip ant.
Country volunteer's prize, Et Private nowdea.
. . . . .

cou.tri volont.ve; 9';ii,;:..iii;., Private Hart.

Best wow at 900 yaida, El, Ensign Pope; Ditto at
500 yard., Cl, 8 reams Blount ; ditto at 600, El,
Private W. FL Reels.; ditto at 200 and 500. Cl. Sergeant
R. T. Budden ; dtto at 200 and 603, Cl, Line..
Corporal T. Gray; ditto at 150 and 600, Et, Private
Waterfeit
The Chairman iken pee tin health of Colonel
Hansel, making reference to his great ivervicee in Von
0.04011 with the volunteer movement especially, and
,4 his high position as • co 'sty gentleman -(applause).
-Colonel Hansel, after exprewin. his thank, for their
kind reception, aid Ida continued interest in the
volunteer cause, said be believed this country of ours
was not safe without • large army reserve, and, as the
British volunteeri bad undertaken to ato their duty.
ahemn to them and woe to England if at any moment
that patriotic force should oollapee. -(hma, bear, and
cheers.) lie wondered that every young man who had
any strength or pluck in him ought to be • volun'eer-
(bur). He felt very strongly on the subject, for be
considered every 031110 in England ought to serve hi.
.ountry in some way or other, either in the volunteer,
or the militia.. Fie should he attrinnely plowed in the
first place to sic the militia balloted for, as it would
tend to fill the volunteer woke, and he was glad to ray
the trmt Commimionere had directed their attontion
to that very old wei.titutlonal tree-the militia of
England. -(ollows.) There wail a feeling ahroed at
this moment-that the volunteer movement was rather
on the sane; e. that volunteers were Dot so 5-aloos
as they were a short time nines. The gallant
Colonel thee relioi an extract front one of the London
daily papers, as follow.: -"Recent gatherings of ration.
volunteer regiment. have wiled attention to
our citizen armr, avol the report. show that their
condition demands • searehing enquiry. Nominally we
have a muster roll of 178,000 volunteers; out of sin
memento tabs by chance, we dud that out of a
nominal fume of 3,938 but 2,484 are eflieients--only
two-third.. In order id boom. 'tootle., ofily eight
drills ore reqoired ; yet out of 3 936 men, 1.452 could
or would not And time to psiform drills." After la ad-
ing that he went to his desk an I looked at the li-t
which had lately been made out by their adjutant,
Capt. Barrett. He found that, so far as he could make
out, that the writer of that entrees Was both orirreat and
incorrect, if be might so say. He was cornet by
proving that only about twothirde of Wm volunteer.
were elleienta ; but the actual number of volunteer,,
was inerewielLitltd tub number of efficient, was also
paean-wing. The volentier Het itinsisiet: shoot
17.000 men MO year; bat be t another
had now augmented to nearly 930,000; he spoke on
good authority- -*ix, Colonel Lindsay, the Inspector of '
Volanteera-feheetrid. Instead of 181,000 effective
members ea last year, there were now 141 000-febeere).
Of wade titer had 4 fe* enemies In tb• country who
were glad to crop op well things and throw a dia.
eredit an the movement ; but he was satisfied their
wow was good, and that it would still continue to
prosper. The paper from which the extract was taken
was the Daily TekrupA. which had always been
favourably disposed towards the volunteers, and be
erm We the Weide wet not written out of any an'
friendly feelitth -(hear) I bat it *tithed the Govern-
ment to re-organise both the militia and the volunteers.
Re knew that, whenever the volunteers of Dorm*
battalion were wanted, they were always reedy to go
either to camp or review-(bew); and he ventured to
thbdr, if the Government invited them to go on to
Alterahot for • web, they would turn net a battalion
of 700 Meh from this ownty-febeer.). They all knew
from the Hato/ of the Crimean war that • regiment
scarcely ever in t 0... days Was brigaded or saw a vast
body of troopa, and therefore, when our army went to
the Celine& they had to leans a great many lessons in the
very (root of the eamey-(bear). He ceosidered the
novernment ought to take them as • battalion into
hemp, end not, as at present, to throw all the expense
upon the Ilosett Imd it was right that their opinion
should be ezprssssd 09 the Matter in • rain" war
He said the Government ought to pay their expenses in
going to comp, and not to tall ;Woe the volunteers as
at present If the Government would do that, and
show 9s. volunteers they desired to promote the came,
be believed they would be ready to do anything the
eountry required-(hw, bear). Therefore be wiled
epos every member of the Wimberne tarps and every
member of the battalion to tanks hinnolf as proficient
ma partible, and to fellow tbe exeelthet *sample it the
Robs Howe, In Nottingham, where, out of a regiment
of 1.000 men, 990 were efficient& Of ware they had
Ipotter advantages b being is • town where • coneoll-
dated battalion mold go out very frequently. and get
Ithrough their battalion drills easily. He thought there
was an isemease advantege derived by the wimp at
Lelwortb, where they weld get through their drilla in .
• few days. If the county refused to ease forward
thla year, and the men were unable to go to mop, they
would led it a very dillisult and expensive thing to get
three battalion drills in the yesr--(epplaare). It would
then fall very heavily bon the staff, aod on Ge.tate
Barrett and himself, because they would be obliged to
have wing drills, and instead of three in the year they
would have to be dr -(hear). Ihis they would Gad
twboeumld
wegreat.tb.d.ifilcualtythW. owvereotaion.uni, aotod Ispe advised
uttheir
shoulders to the wheel to endeavour to go to camp next
itatumn-(ehmers); but of course they could not p
then. without the neceenuT fonds. The camp saved a
viagetvewg"lellss.dimnponwetithhag "ers.ffig eietitgrcirt.ykb"gof.th.g:laisw.thit.h..kmit-nintgreggsal(obeenia
airj.
Jamie fkarktrn speech at Bandy, who said the resew
el the digee *Bebe*, of oar volunteer regiments m the
pampa, and that opinion WVA borne oat hr every
-citing officer who CARP into this county; that
' he Ohs Colonel) should be very sorry to give
personals, -thear, haw, and apples...), But he
op
the camp- "astir shoulders to the *heel, they
th"eltht, If they Pas -ars, and go to Lalwottb this
would sure lid as i; pew down Is t
etwitner-(elcvaL L. • Owtsin Onset"
heWimborne
propane "The health of their ezeolltm.
-(chaws). lie (the Colonel) cooddered the ••
serge had been peculiarly fortunes ever sloe, ita fog.-
tn,
ion. in always obtaining *Mows from the regular
erfTWP. He referree to the diSoalty which exist* in
men who -bilti: I. the line, and who
who knew their work it was extremely thing;
fortunate and be wag anelF glad that Captain %wet had been kindeociaeli
to i.ke the command of the 6th Dorset-(chisers).'
The Chninn" in "wWwdlne, said he holed he ahoule
be Nene pent in the Window
only say vow a. h. • CerPg. and be could
.6..1 by hi.,
so„to get say volunteer. to
therm). He thee proposed he.sytwed by thead--(load
ik,...hettettelLabo-D:r.ph".• Rowe re•ameewded.h.‘--Climkn agretthealff nosifeAdDj:litt

denounce U. inentaient volunteers. He hoped them
who did not COMO out and identify themselves with the
movement would doff the uniform altogether --Ptoot
and applattiej. The number of nq-lred tees eery
ern ill. and those who could not attend aeon w tall 40
very well to leave the fore,. He ortw man. berme hien
who attend. d regni .rly to 41111, an I lov hoped Next
year they mig.tt boast of an incremed number of
cdente —(ohire rad —The Chtirman nod t gave The
Peer," which was duly acknowleigert—Lieut. Teylor
the "health. of two god frio.nd• of the 6 h
Mr. Martin Small, end Ile. T. Paerlina,"
In dninc which he ey rezret that the litter
itentlenu•n 1,44 not to.-exerot. Mr, Martin fimall
reloyondet and wiehed to taupe dicreirel crimperitv.
C done! Manael nropa-ed the •' health of If rt. G.
Stud. clown). A. hie nolo,e fall or tufore
had dans. Me. Start !owl pooll.erihed ono-I hem'.
on:lnlay to Muir lend., and d there it any deficiently at
lost, he totemic to p‘y it —(lou I ,11.44.).-04°M.1
4 ,neel next rave the 'health of Mr. I,riff, Comfort',"
who respinded in • hum ee a.. speech. The "health* of
Lient. Taylor end Pneign P. pie were next eitten, and
several other complimentary tenets aemateded. A
numhrr of coot song. were atm sane, the antomment of
the evening tieing moon leeebly enhanced by Moo per..
fcrinancor of a glee party.