The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-07-19 00:00:00

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Exrrxx.—Captain Tanner, the present Mayor of
Exeter, paid a visit to the Theatre on Wednesday
evening week, on the occasion of the amateur per-
formances. As he was passing through the lobby,
and acknowledging the compliments of hi* numerous
friends, some one anxious for a memento of his year
of office, dexterously detached his gold watch from
its guard-chain, and made clean off with it. The
Right Worshipful offers a reward of two guineas for
the recovery of his stolen property.

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GKAND NATIONAL ARCHERY MEETING AT EXETER.
—The members of the Grand National Archery
Society honoured the city of Exeter with a visit
last week under the combined advantages of tine
weather, capital arrangements, and an amiemblage of
archers from all parts of England, including of
amuse a fair sample of the youth and beauty of the
counties of the West. Exeter tame out in festive '
array. The ground for the fete was a site called the
"Sixteen Acres," in Ilatford-lane. The shooting for
the society's prizes commenced on Wednesday and
concluded on 'Thursday evening, and on Friday some
handicap sweepstakes and local prizes were shot for.
The amount given by the society in prizes was .tiAIS
—£266 to the gentlemen and £152 to the ladies.
The value of the local prizes was about £6O; in
addition to these several extra prizes were presented
by Brothers Ellis, Mr. Clifford, and Messrs. Grant,
of Exeter. The ground was laid out under the
superintendence of the hon. secretaries, the Bev.
Octavius Luard and J. C. Pigott, Esq., and the local
secretaries, the Rev. T. B. Nlelheish, Huxam, and
F. Milford, Esq., Matford House. The gentlemen
shot from three distances-100 yards, s 0 yards, and
60 yards--and each archer shot 12 dozen arrows
each day. The distances for the lady archers were
60 and 50 yards, and each had to shoot six dozen
arrows. The target list contained the following
among other names :—Mr. Aubrey Patton, Mr. b.
W. Newton, Rev. W. F. Bryant, Captain Malet and
Mrs. Malet, Mr. It. M. King (West Somerset
Archers), Mr. W. Berridge (Culin Vale Archers),
Miss Mules, Mr. IL V. -Mules, Mr. 11. C. Mules
(Royal Tuxoplulite Society), &c. At about two
o'clock on each day the shooting was suspended, and
the archers lunched. The repast was laid out in
elegant style in a ap-ious tent, near which the
Yeomanry Cavalry Band was stationed, and per-
formed some excellent music. The annual meeting
was held on the ground on Thursday evening, when
resolutions selecting Bath as the place of meeting
next year. and conveying thanks to the nobility and
gentry of Devonshire fur the supprrt they had given
to the society, to the geutleuaen who had presented
primer, and to the local officers for their strenuous
exertions in behalf of the society, were carried. A
ball was given the same evening. The 6th Ladies'
Prize of £ll was awarded to Mrs. D. Luard for MI
hits, total value, 413. The prize of £3 10s. for the
greatest golds (s) was awarded to Miss Du Itoulay.
For the greatest score at 60 yards, 53-23 i, to Mrs,
A. Malet, £4 10s. The greatest score at 511 yards
Miss Fox, 42-204, £4 BM. The best local gold*
Mrs. Fitzgerald, £4 10s.
Ds w —.3lOcbri, I. The Dawlish fisher men
made some barren hauls upon the beach on Monday
evening ; but during the night they met with b-reat
success in the open sea, and on th .11owing morn-
ing landed 5,000 fish at the pier. The mackerel
sold at Id. lid. apiece, from the boats, but the mime
of the " catch " were packed in tuaunds and sent
up the line by the 9 o'clock train, for the Exeter
and other markets. In the course of the day other
considerable catches were made—bat the largest was
in the evening, when the boats brought 11,000
mackerel to the pier, where they were sold from the
boats at bd. a dozen.

PAIGNTON. Opening of the Railway. —Tbe
people of Paignton have determined to inaugurate
the opening of the Dartmouth and Torbay railway
by that welcome old general—general holiday—
when a substantial dinner will be provided for
nearly two thousand of the poor of their own and
adjacent parishes. The ancient charter of "the
Paiguton pudding" will also be revived, after a
lapse of nearly fifty years, and a plum pudding of
the unprecedented magnitude of a ton weight will
be drawn in procession through the streets, and
will subsequently form the crowning attraction of
the feast.

BAIINSTAPLZ. —On Monday, before the Magis-
trates, Mr. Alfred Guppy, • solicitor, formerly of
Honiton, late of Taunton, and now residing at
Braunton, North Devon, was summoned for assault-
ing Mrs. Harriett Lake. Between the hours of
three and four o'clock in the afternoon of the 25th
of June the defendant, without the slightest cere-
mony, entered the complainant's house. His shirt
collar was open, and he was usinu4 his hat. His
appearance somewhat frightened the complainant,
who told him he had made a mistake—he had come
into the wrong house. The defendant knew better
—"he would stop there as long as he liked," and
l_fewin to make himself "quite at home." Mrs.
Lake didn't like his company, and she shoved him
out of her house; but instead of closing the door
against him she seems to have stood there and dis-
puted the legal points which were unfolded with
great volubility by the defendant, who afterwards
seized the complainant by the ann and dragged her
into the street. At last the police came, and
hoetilities ceased. Mr. Inclodon Bencraft acknow-
101'041 the assault, but assured the magistrates that
his client was exceedingly grieved that the affair
should have occurred ; and if the Bench bad only
cast their eyes towards the public entrance to the
Ouildhall they might have wen the "deep grief" of
the defendant, who sat there in a mournful attitude.
Mr. Bencraft likewise stated that his client had
made an ample apology to Mrs. Lake, but the
"ample apology" was only forthcoming after the
summons had been issued. It appeared that the
defendant had been ejected from a certain house
near, where his hat, &c., had been retained in lieu
of cash. He was fined los., with the expenses.
There is another charge hanging over the head of the
unfortunate Mr. Guppy, tor having broken into the
bedroom of a respectable married couple at Braunton,
stripped off their bedclothes, and otherwise acted in
a most indecent manner. The defendant assured
the magistrates it was a trifling affair—not worth
mentioning; and ash. was not prepared with hi
defence, the case was adjourned to the 20th instants