The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-04-06 00:00:00

WHYMOUTH.

BANC HOLI DAT. —On Easter hionlay all the shops
were closed awl business almost entirely suspended.
The excursion trains brought large numrs of
visitors from all parts.
STIAX BOAT EIC MOON& —The excursions on Good
Friday and Raster Monday by Messrs. COWL and
Co.'s steamer Commod re were largely patronised.
The weather was delightful and the tripe muoh
enjoyed.
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Ts@ CHOZOI(IS.—The decorations, thosgh
DO pro-
fse have been most tasteful. The @pedal
which sere held during Passion Week were largely
attended. Al Holy Trinity the services on Sunday
were choral, and in the evening the " Hallelujah
Chorus" was sung by the choir. _ .

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POIIITJIMIUR Or SALT.—WO 16111 desired by Mr.
T. IL Charles to mil attention to the fact of the im•
portant sale of fungi:are entrained by him to take
erne at 14, Royal•terrsoe on Tuesday, March 90th,
postponed until Monday and Tuesday, April
sth and 6th.

SVDDIS DUTIL-A cosstiardeman, named Peter
Eiddols, died suddenly early on Saturday morning.
He went on duty on Friday night about 12 o'clock,
and on his return about half-past three the I
morning he was seen by a man named Doblintwol2l
down. Hs was taken to the coastguard statien and
Dr. Tizard was promptly in attendanoe, but his aid
wee of no avail. he being quite dead on his arrival.
An inquiry was held on Monday and a verdict of
" Death from natural canes" returned.
Sweet:vs News. —Animas: Vulture Pearn, Cher-
bourg, general; Teresa, Hebley, London, imports:
Laritza, Brun, Stettin, potatoes;
Western, Blampied, Cherbourg, general • Maggie,
Warner, Newhaven, ballast ; Brighton,Fue
general; Vulture, Pearn ge , Cherbourg, ; Jo
and Emily, Higgins, Southampton, nil'
,
M Southampton,Elizabeth
and Mary, abey, n11; Alpha, Iverms,
Archangel, deals; William Dyer, Hayward, Sunder-
land, cat ; Emma Maria, Warner, Portland, stone;
Great Western, Blampied, Cherbourg, general; Sate,
Beale, Hartlepool, coal ; Vulture, Pearls, Cherbi,
general; Mayflower, Dawkins, Hartlepool, coal;
Brighton, Fall., Jersey, genersl.—Sailanas: Vulture,
Pearn, Cherbourg, general; Brighton, Falle, Je•sey,
general; Great Western, Blampied, Cherbourg,
general' Vulture, Pomo Cherbourg, general ; Brigh-
ton, Fats, Jersey, reneril ; Groat Western, Blampied,
Cherbourg, general' Laritza, Brun, Newcastle,
ballast ; Ino, Nagel, Elsinore ballast' Hanna, Peder-
sen. Elsinore, ballast; Jamie and Emily, Higgins,
Southampton, tar; Elizabeth and Mary, Kathy,
Bouthanapt in, tar; Vulture, Poem, (...%arbottriti
generaL

THIC "C" CLAM Or BTUL CORVITTES.—The pro.
m's of the Comm, corvette, commanded by Captain
Nut, of Weymouth, is watched with considerable
Interest by the Admiralty and by thou who occupy
themselves with the architecture of modern war
vessels. Her Majarty's ship Comte, the representative
of the "C" class of steel corvette', left this country
for the China station on the 24th of December by the
Cape route, and was instructed to do as much of her
voyage under canvass as was consistent with her pro-
gress at all. Captain East seems to have carried out
these instructions very oonacientionely, and we are
told that only on the oocasion of dead calms or very
light winds were the engines ramted to. The Comets,
like her sight Ishtar", whose names all begin with
"0," is • well-armed corvette, but unarmoured, for
although built of steel, the metal is but a fraction of
an inch in thicknees. In a word, steel has been need
for building, not for the sake of protection, but by
reason of its strength and lightness. The Comma class
are to be the cruisers of the future, and hum the
despatch of this first vsseel to the Cape under canvu
was • remarkably good plan of tasting its capabilitise.
Its speed under steam is well known. With its finalises
and its engines of 2,300 horse-power, the Cams can
be trusted to ran down and overhaul any ship of war
afloat ; but whether the steel corvette would-be able
"ItisitotorilY to cope with ite enemy when caught is a
1 point open to question. The object of the new steel
corvettes is rather to cruise rapidly, and look after and
' protect our commerce in case it should at any time be
threatened with Alabama' or swif:out=yand
with craf t of this kind the Omni be
able to deal with advantage.—Doily New.