The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-02-20 00:00:00

POOLE.

COUIRT 001311 T. —The business at Lb. Court oa Toes.
Gawy Fob. +l3, was .t.. watalsrestias aad unimportant
,dlaractsr.

Ts a SABOTIOII A mums. —Waring V. P., sereeit Hay
end Sydeshear. —Theme maker for Ebel, is whisk the
• damages were laid at mow, mese ca for trial hi the
(butt of Coalmen Pleat, before Lord Chief Jeettee Erie,
on Monday. 12th inst. —Yr. Coleridge, M.P. for Exeter,
arieared for the plaintiff, Mr. .in. H.P. for Guild-
ford, and the Hes. A. F. neaps' for the deleadaste.
Coleridge was about to opera •„he cam oweit woe
,gueited to the Court that an aelonirsodaties eight be
arrived at. After oonaidereble delay, neraddosed by
conference. Wines. Cou-.,ael arid the differeat parties.
Mr. Coleeidge ansour.bed that die Coast mid the Jary
would not be irc Ailed eft& • h.srlaq, it laving bees
armed ti.St it. juror should be uitbdrowo epos Mr.
Mely's Covtorel asdert•ltiag on the part of their sliest
to eithdrew any eepriaelose of hie relleaing upon the
Situ of Maras Brora and apologies( therefore. He
+toped that this would put aa end to al ON dellee
ari•iag oat of the lase Poole elemeios.—lir. Bon% as
Its part of Mr. Hay, express. d hirseeff is the term
indicated by Mr. Coleridge, sad the learned ledge ob-
served that this wee • very satastastory coordusiors."
A. juror wee Mies withdrawn in the satires neatest M.
Maly, ands ala prenterae eutered I.lk. awe of Mr.
:Aydedbelth, the plaintiff thus withdreeing the belies
or t 5,000 damages aphis% him—Theis retells lea.•
the calla of the several melte LI be bares by the pasties
de tbe ardor' reepeetively.

THS CONDUCT OW THIB POOLS PILOTS ALI) 14/1-
SnATIILII Dump° TH2 LATH GAL/L—Ws understand
that a short preliminary inquiry into the conduct of
the Poole pilots end lifebeatmen dating the late gale by
which tray limas ...a mach property was lost is
Bindland hay, took pros oil Tuesday Yob. 13,. The oldest
was simply to rent& it an ofileial limitary was
nem-wiry, sad w• have bees informed that. la the
opinion of the 'enflame's oonetitatiag the initiative Is
the matter it was highly desirable. For our part
we think this counts wir. In the lirse place,
to give the pilots and life-bostmen an opportunity of
wiping off the stigma that has been oast upon their
obsractr, if they are guiltier of any Meridian of duty,
and 'mood'', if, as is almost universally sesareed, that
they might have saved many velar& lives had they
elmern, they may meet with their deserts if guilty.
mt the lifeboat was aloes on Smiley tut arms he
*labored. as manned salt was it did no good whatever
--yet without Warm, if there mre a doses or two of
snob brave hearts as live at Deal, the probability is that
indter of rye& vessels' crews being lost, every seal
trete hews been saved. Another Mart is quite certain,
from the terries' of eyertneeme, more the Poole
pilots and berme or give a utisfestory aroma of
their coedeet, there same will be a reproach to their
country as Beigliohntes. Until the rich' investigation
takes place, however, we defer farther comments.
leen rues On Till BOWS. Or TWO Riau=
Wawa= OS 84:111D•T LAST. -0. Tuesday ao
inquest was held before Os Breath Corer, at the
To wn•ball, rot the body of Eli.. Mitchell, aged 22.,
Edward D.via, roman on board the brigantine
both, of Teirtocauth, said the crew °wrier of the
o male, three able-bodied seamen, and • boy,
C.prin James Freer was the surer. They metered
.on Seaside' sight at the oral anchorage pound in
steril•nd Boy, owing to contrary red.. About half-
past three o'clock on Sands" • gale our on from the I
south, which increased till about seven, when, firing
that the vessel was dragging her arbor and driven an
the shael ground and striking heavily, they ran up the
pilot fir,let go another anchor, sod payed out cable to
both anchors. Bet the vowel struck more heavily, and
they hoisted signals of &err They boogied the
pump., end trod that the water was gaining ou them.
All bond. were as deck sici working The mate, who
wishe4 particularly to preserve earething, DOM down
into the cabin, and on cocain back said the erre was
store in and the ship was bombing op. TWO dieters
signaln had then been hoisted perhaps tbree-quarten of
•n
hour, but no one came to their ardente They
saw a pilot bra—No. It -It mune out • short distance
from shore. but put hack again. He had heard that it
was not fully maned. Had it been properly manned,
all bands could have berm saved early. At the same
time the rap Bliss, of Teignisorh, belonging to the
✓ims compthy r the Blisthath, showed signals of
rt. Lea whealtes may of that crew
had been saved. When he maw that no assistance from
shore was likely. he told the captain there was no he
ha to launch the boat. The captain replied, "
Ned. I'll icor it to the weer to do valot they think
beet." They laund ed tbe boat and •Il got into It, and
milled towards the pilot boat, but after pulling a few
fathoms they found they could not get on and they thee
ran the boat before the sea. They had got about 10
fathoms from the rear when a heavy ses spear the
boat. H. got bold of the keel, and after Übe" an is-
mortar, polled off hie monkey jacket, and swam for the
nearest point of land. Shortly afterwards be saw the
boy, and caught him by his hair and kept him above
water for about four minutes, whoa • war sari sad
parted them, and he saw him DO more He saw noes
of the crew afterwards, but he saw the oars and swans
for them, but raid not reach either. He them
swam for the rove. Be had to SWIM a mile
and a half or two miles, and wee warted
ashore sir rota as his e.a, and drawn into the ass
again by the "under tow." On the seventh time,
monaged to regain his legs and got on shoos.
was no one at the plass he 'mead He had no feeling
in his limbo till Seat day. He was now rippled In one
leg but did mot kaow how it neenr .
assistance reedier" to the Eliza In Wirer Was quite
sure the pilot bra could bre tome out and saved theni
al.— William Berry, another seamen am board the
Elisabeth, corroborated the statement of the het
witness. lie also was tarried the pilot boat might
bar saved them After the boat espeleed, be sot on
the keel, and while grief: there, re the hey parted ,
from the last wirer by a wave. and saw the boy, sap
tea, mate, and deceased go down. Re stuck to the
boat. It righted itself three tires, and thr be got ta
it. When tamed over he gr on the keel. He
was capsized 7 sr 11 times sad always repined the boat
nolo. Fates raid up from the boat by the reamer
he was inimmiblea.—Willier Poole, chief river of the
coast paid at Branksr, proved to seeing the body
washed ashore as Kerry, and the jury returned a
venclict of accidentally drowned by the overarm of •
boat—Another inquiet was Mid on the body.' • sailor,
name unborn. The deceased was bolershly well
dreamed. He wore a Kerry shirt, in or of the ee rare
of the front tad of whir was marked with white soros
the Y." He else wore round his seek, next
his skin, • medal from the Shiperreked Morison
Society, Na BMA, In the year 1.1163. The holy Wa,
found by err guard Jobs Brims, shoat 10 e'er* am
Monday morning near the Chine at Brankssa. The jury
in this c as returned aa opts Tweet of "found
drowned."