The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-10-31 00:00:00

WEICKOI7TH.

THS PRINct or SAKE WEIN %R.— dim Serene High-
nese at'ende I divine service at Holy Trinity Chinch '
on Sun lay morning. The serm ens preache Iby
the Rev. .1. D. Addison. vicar.
I'OATING AT THE I.OiT Noyemh-r and
afterwards a letter b in to be a.tached to all mail
train., and the public may, by paving an extra
half peeny, remit a letter there up to the lent. moment
before the train goes.
DIPARTONE Or THE SEA.ON BAND.—This well-
behaved band lef t on Wednesday lent for lem lon, the
Mayor and committee having pretended them with a
framed and gilt certificate, commending their ;Malting
and general behaviour hnre. The Mayor and com-
mittee have paid the deficiency of EG in the band
funds, Mr. Abbey, of the Loohn Hetet, kindly en-
tertained the band at supper. :IA Mr. Wheel r painted
and framed the handmanter'e cert ificate.
LaNtdoeu nit TEvANT ItATE —At the Borough
Petty S .ssionn on Tuns lay hat, a railway employde
11•1111 summons I before Dr. Drew an'! .1. E. Robins,
Esq., for nompayment of an Urban Sanitary Rate.—
Mr. Pally Hooper appeared f. r the Urban Sanitary
Authority.—lMendarit stated that he agreed with him
landlord that the latter was to pay the rate.—Mr. l'elly
Hooper stated the rateable v dee f the houee was
£lO Ha., and therefore being above £lO, the tenant was
liable, aiel not the landlord If it had been only LIO,
the landlord wonla have compounded for the rite, and
no doubt defendant had been led astray by the f set
that the next deor neighbour`e was paid by the Ind-
lord; but this d cl not seply to defendant's bon e.
Ordered t 14,y in 14 lay.
INSPECTION Or THE Teo Ot4.—On Material, het
Prince I ward of Saxe Weil..., inapecbel the Ist
Battalioe queenhi Royal We-,t Semeex, at leant th a..
lif them who were in the Barr nice at W. ymouth.
The de.achment was und r c .mmatel of Capt. Nourse,
an looked mart, e oldierlike, and clan. Everythint
in the Barracks Was ale,, satisfactory, alhon .h at
present mod of the men are at Port' in I. jud en, ugh
being left at Weymouth to furniab • guard. o'l the
same day the Prince-General visited the Nothe Fort-,
and inspected Battery 2-1 Lancashire Divinion. of
Royal Artillery. They pared el on the Barrack.
ground in the centre of the Fort, about 70 in number.
commanded by Captain Monekton, and bathed smart
and "proper," so that the Prine...General praiee I them
for the way in which they turned ont, lan.l their
military ap, earance. The Barrack-rooms were also
inepected and evirythiug fund hi proper miiitary
style.
A " Timximiume."—The storm on Tuesday morn-
ing was neon, heani. an I fel hers with tremendoes
effect. flashes of intense lightning alternating with
awful roars ,d thunder, and fiercn WWII of wind driving
sheeta of r in, Standing at Ghrierchurch porch, the
rain re ened te ewe';) nit frmi Park-street an lane
might fancy throu:h some mountain gorge in a
tropic al cyclone. A few -eomls' lull, and then when
passing over the yard to the Itailwey Station, every
object lieemed to be lizhte 1 with intenne white lio,ht,
with such et :Wing effect no we have never before meen
in daylight. For theu:h it was about eight o'clock in
the morning, a DM day seemed t fi eh upon the
world as if a sun had just risen or rather as if
one had en,ldenly fallen from heaven, for
there was the Hahn of a ball of white-hot fire, sheet
! hall the apparent diameter of the sun eteiking from
clouds to earth. Whether it struck at Hardy** mono.
meat, or, se commonly reported. in the II ickwater,
we are onlble to pay, ao end lan and startling is the
H gib on such on.esions, and it is seen which ever way
you are looking. Thom who looked toward. the Back-
water spread the report that a thunderbolt had fallen
there, others put the lilacs ~f its fall just wherever
thy chanced t be lookieg at the time, for Us it
'seemed t I MI the railway train iminseliately in
front. With startling quiCkneal there foil .we len:h a
clap of thunder an! seal a roar of eboes as male
every one shrink availed, and a gust of wind tore
open the do ,r of tiis new platform at the railway
.cati in. and blsw down h or Is inside, etrikinz a
passer-by at our very nide. For some minutes the
strn:gle of the elements was awful, the rain of itself
threatening to beet in the station roof. Yet ere many
hours had mod Um sun shone calmly out.