The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-06-28 00:00:00

BLANDFORD.

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THI Cith.tRYLNSHIP or /HE Boasts OP GIILIDIANS.
—The Rev. J. Penny ha• been unanimously elected to
fill the above office.
Agorossrre.—A.. Mrs. Groves, of Damory Farm, wee
driving to chards on Sunday morning, she accidentally
drove over a child which ran across the rout, and was
knocked down by the carriage before the horse cool 1
be palled up. The wheel passed over one of the child's
legs, but fortunately did n t break the limb, and the
child, whose name is Hiscick, is now progressing
favourably.—On Monday morning Arthur Walton, a
lad who worked at Chorch-street Mill, met with a
serious accident. His right hand beams entangled in
the revolving drum of the "gig," and the consequence
was that his right shoulder and a part of his head were
drawn into the machinery. He was observed, bow.
ever, and rescued from • fearful death. He was
immediately attended at his home by Dr. D. Lovell,
and, under his care, the lad is progressing more
favourably than could be expected, considering the
serious nature of the injuries received.
F001,A50-MOUTH DisitASE.—At • meeting on Tam-
day of the inh-commithre of the local authority under
the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, at which there
WM present Mr. .1. J. Farquharson, Lieut.-General
Parke, and Mr. (1 Groves, the inspector reported the
farms of Mr. G. Stay, of Hought and Mr. Tory. of
Turnworth, free of foot-and-mouth disease. Only
one sheep bed died on Mr. Stay's farm and none on
Mr. Tory's. The committee declared both farms free
of the decease. Mr. Sampson, who represented the
clerk of the peace, read a leWr from the Privy
Council, enclosing the following reports of their travel,
ling inspector:—
Jane 11th, 18ffi, Crown Hotel Bsleyard.
"1 have the honour to inform you that! this day visited
the above saleyard. Salm are held bete alternate Wednes-
days by Mr. T. Ensor, auctioneer. I found that the orders
of the local authority of Dweetshire with regard to the
cleansing of the showyards are not attended to. as this
place, which is situatate in the cminty of Dorset, has not
been syspt since—much less cleansed with water-14'A
sal. day, the &tale dune of animals being in various Pule
of the yard. The Boning cf this place ii of loose earth
There are several parishes in the petty sessional division
of Blaniferd Infected areas."
A letter to the game effect WM also read with re&pect
to Ntessre. Senior and Creech's saleyarl, sales being
held on the third Wednesday in the month.
" June 10tb, 1891, Mr. T. Elllol.llBsleyard,
" Wimborne, Dorsetshire.
"1 bays the honour to inform you that I yesterday visited
the above Plate it being the weekly sale day. No tart of
this saleyard ii cleansed with tester between the days ot
sale, and it does got admit of being cleansed In accordance
with the local authority's orders luue4 in 1879 owing to
the loose earth flooring of all the lairs. The flooring of
the sale ring in which all the animals are placid is peal-
cularly bal. There *re swami pari.hes in the petty
eeesional division of Wimborne Infected areas, and large
numbers of animals are weekly brought by road from the
eurr)unding country to this auction saleyard."
It was decided that the lemma of the saleyards should
be communicated with, and their attention directed to
the regulations of the Privy Council with regard to the
sallower&

IIPaHLDXAGDALEN.

Mantuan OP Miss HuN-r.—On Thursday, at the
parish church, the Rev. Francis Arthur Smith, of
Deepear Rectory, Shafts! LOU of tbe Rev. J. R.
Smith. formerly of Moore and Hayford Manor House,
and Rector of Bislingbory, Northampton, was
married to Mies Emma Monk Hunt, daughter of the
Rea. J. Hunt, Rector of Fifehead Magdalen.