The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-11-06 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH.

F.rminso CONZCRT. —Mr. T. Avant, repaint of
St. .lohn's, pee • conoset at the Royal Hotel
Assembly Rooms, OD Monday es nnigia. Miss Berry
.reening, vocalist to bid Imperial Majesty the
Emperor of the French, smarted, as did also Mr.
Brown, • tenor of Exeter Cathedral. A Mr. North.
way wee set down for sere/a mega hut Mr. Brown
wee substituted, for which Mr. Avant apologised.
The singing of Miss Greening was mail admired,
and fluty sustained the flattenng critiques previously
received. Mr. Brown also net with gratifying
recognition. The front emits were well filled, and
we bops no loss soared to the gentleman who
w wised the concert.
%Roam Pouch, ltooday.—Befere R. Griffin,
EM.—Alltset Evans, • sailor, vas *barged with
steslieg • cost, • pair of trowvers, • asp, and a
puns, eimasining shook tec or twelve shillings, from
the stop William Dyer, at Weysemth, on the 6th inst.
It, was apprehended by Eleperintendsnt Everett at
Drapes, near Lauver* in conseileenee of information
remind from Superintendent Wisely. Upon prisoiser's
lodgings tieing searched, • pair of frowners, • goat, and
a cap were fosint When in the lockup he mid, "Toe
:my as well give on that met, that is not the tee ; the
on* I have on Is the stolen one, the met you have I
bought in Trasee."—itemeaded until Monday, in order
1. procure the asteedsom of the eaptsis of the shio who
at present is at RI. --TI7IiD•T : Before the Mayor
and E. Bayly, E.g.—John Boyd, who at the last sessions
was °barged with having • defective slate to his house
so .2 to mime a nuisanos, and whose cow was adjourned
in order thtt he might abate the DuliSlloo was reported
by Supt. Lidbary m having been remedied, end the
ease wee dismissed on the payment of costs.

Coutrry Towne Miamian —Tbe annual meeting
of the Wrymouth branch of this moiety woe held in the
Ou.lbiil on Ilooday se'nnight The chair was oseepird
by O. Andrews, Esq., who was tupoorted by MOW& T.
Anderson, R. Donlon, J. Robertson, Captain Livalridge.
and the deputation, E. Wilson, Esq., secretary to the
society. The meeting having been opened with snugging
and prayer, the chairmen said he should sot detain thew
by nay leagthened remarks, an they all kumw the scope
and object of the moiety, bet he should call on Mr.
Wilson to address them, wbo would give them IMMO
inaight into the working of the society. They had before
listened to Ida as to the Lard's work amoog the poor
with pleasure, and trusted they would again, and that at
the oonelesioa of this meeting they would go away
determined to support and encourage the society's
work in the town. Re thought he could not better
Pet forth the objects of the society than by
quoting its own words, from which he reed an entrain.
The object of the society wee not to supersede, but to
itipply those who were out of the ordioary ministrations
of church or chapel, with the word of God which taketh
away the sins of the world. —The Secretary, kr. T.
Aoderson, resd • statistical report, from which it
appeared Mist the number of hours employed by
The town inimionaries during the year ending October
let, was 1656; number et sleeting' held, 166; average
attendance- at meetings, 10; number of visite, en-
desire of them to the sick, 381113; number of whits
•te the deb. P 64; number of open-air services. 78;
number of times the scriptures were read, 4415; cam-
her of tracts distributed, X);20 mad lodging-house ler-
vier, le. In the coarse of his remarks, Mr. Andersen
nail if ever the committee had reason to rejoice that this
moiety wan started, it was dairies the past year, for the
instance. of conversion to God through it. agency bad
been of the most striking character. This little society,
hieh wee carrying out it work jo no quiet end uormten-
tatkus a manner, wee armompliehing a great deal of
feel.—r. R. Damon, the treasurer, read the financial
situ-mint for the pant year, here whisk it appeared
that the receipts, including a smell halaneein lb. hand&
of the treammor, &unwanted in rrs us" Rd, the eXPeedi•
tare to V 75 17a., leavinge balance is head of Et 2,
he depotatioe, Mr. E. Wilson, gave an Interesting
whlresa, in the course of which he pointed out twiny
instAtmet in which Arno the labour of the Town
seiciety's sgei.l &Bain bed beep led to torn
Irma their evil ways, aad had met death with bop. sad
"deicing- Others, alas I had rejemled the kiwi overtures
of the sonetry's ogees, see bad still muntieued to walk
the heeed_peah, the end of whisk wee awful to con-
te'eldera —W. J. Rebettemt bees his testing., to the
it'"4l4 the Mimics in the seta. It
had Wen Mallet. privilege to visit many
,eftkice meet nn't deetb bee, the week of which was
dynagt:7,4ll.l."Ree. In eue Inetneee, h. said
e
believer remold, N you no fear of death '5 Th
o, the Lerg y
Tts4 owe _ ems is alums, with
In their labour., but ii" "'flamer° terntrurtei etre death 1.4 et a loser wleZiljr7L• bE•1116744; an 4 concluded by remextrhy ow, b. hoped
they
.rosm
all be stirred RP t. take • eeePtr interest in the society's
work—The meeting in. bepot I. a N.,
douilogy being se yr Übe eloss
tad
a oAcietion made 01 'the dean.

POMAND.
FiIINT, 8. Co-- lent cam, has
arnved ia deo Ikeda m Miler the liseriven.

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Tan Beeo•w (WO Towswar POO. BOYS.
—blow errsvel ot taie eldip feeepleseeet
boy, hie comeideesbly lesteeell& 4 by dors Igo

100 boy ware meowed hither par Government
straw from Perlman* and /64 planed cm
board thia valuable ái9. Too mob name' be said
in &Van of tkin brash of the sisrvico, as in oar
aviation gfamm tha pale= of the Royal Navy.
Immo? at am Pania.—On Saturday week
an inquest was held at the Convict Ritablishment
before F O UWJI,RR.. coroner, on the body of •
Galva Named Arthur Poker, who was under the
mintenoe of five Imre penal mrvitods. His ago woo
about 26 pars. The usual evidence in saah cases
via taken and from the medical tantiniouy It ap-
pearedtha Poker was admitted to the hospital
:so
scr as the 26th July lam, sod died on th• 25th
&Da that he was naming from Area d•bilitY
and omeninptiou, and gradually mak till his death.
Verdict—died from natural muses.

FATAL ACCIDINT ON BOARD H.M.& BT. GINDRON.
—A inelmicholy accident mooned to a marine
MOW' Robert Reston, on board the above versa on
Friday week, which resulted in the death of
the unfortunate young man, whose age was sot over
2l years, and as the whole of the particulars were
given in •Titifilloll bellore F. O. Bieggaii, Raq., ooroaer,
es Eletarday, at the Breakwater Hotsi, we give the
following hue of tbe inquest :—TOs Ana
witness callad wee Charles looook, Royal Marine
•rtilleqinan, belonging to H. U.S. Achilles, but now
on board the St. George, and waiting to rejoin hie
alp. Witmer stated that hi was on board the St.
George at haltpest 1.. on Friday worming last, He
was at the time iniptain of the gun at which they
I were practising. deceased beim amongst the number
engaged in firing the gun. Witness was employed
serving the gns. Decessad was engaged remain
home the aerie, and when about three parts the wag
home an sidposiou took plaos. drove witnesses'
thumb off the vino and injured it. Wilson stated
that from the particular position of the gaa it was
the duty of deoeseed to sponge the gun. —ln reply
to the ooroaer as to the cause of the onident, wit-
nem slid there must have beep Sr. loosing in the
pa, which was an old on., but as far as be could
judge the gun was in good order and lit to he tired
from, but from die aooideat (marring to himself at
the time he did not see deceased receive
injury which caused his death.—Jacob Oaths, the
gunner of the St. George was next railed. He was
at the time of the accident in the magazine. He
had &are* of the guns and was responsible for the
state of theme ad generally inspected each gnu after
being Bred from. Tb• particular gun in quoition
was an old one having "G. R." on it. The register
received with it on its being sent on board the St.
George sheered that it had not thee beset fired from.
He (witoess) believed that the gee was in a lit slate
to be Bred from.—Lieutenant Hare, the allow at
the time in command of the St. George, explaiaed.
the mode adopted when at target maiming. He was
on deck at the time the accident took plain and as
the guns were being tired in rotation be beard a gun
Bred aft out of its proper turn. He immediately
west te the plibli• and there saw that an explain=
had taken plaos, the unfortunate &messed having
met with savers injuries, and was at 000 e conveyed ,
to the medical hospital on board.--John Peaces, a
merino on bosrd the St. Oolongs, deposed that be
was No. 5 man at the gun when Si. widest took
place. He saw deceased in the sot of ramming
home when the explosion took place, and saw the
deceased knocked down with apparently both arms
sinceleed, and doomed was conveyed to the hospital
—Patrick Digaa, medial aloes on board the St.
George, deposed that the deceased was brought to
the sick hospital shortly after hilliest ten, and at
the tinie was in a state of oollapes. The right hand
was in one maws of pulp, and both arms wereseverely
fractured, he ;was also severely lamed abase the
sheet, and was wounded as the head. Wilms'
applied the usual restoratives, and whim deceased
was suffioiently revived be sonsidered amputation
of both arms neosseary, which was accordingly dose
under chloroform, bat demoted did not rally and
gradually sank, itot surviving she accident very long.
Witness considered that the shock to the system
from clop injuries received was the MIMI Of death.
Its bad since ascortaiiied that the right lung of the
deceased was completely disorganised. The wound
on the head was iodinated, but there was no fracture
of the skull.—After • brief summing up by tie
coroner the jury retained a verdict of " Amidestal
Death."—The remains of lb. unfortunate demand
was interred with military boaors in the Owneteirr.
on Sunday afternoon, when a lards number of peewee
wars present.