The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-04-01 00:00:00

FRIAR WADDON.

A GOOD KILL. —A young man named Molina boa
killed 11 adders and • masks within tie hat forlaigisi
00 Friar Wadden Farm.

WIRY MOIJTH.
THR Purys KITHODIIIIII.—The HOT. D. K. 441,
superintendent minister, *henget to one of the Londen
eireulte io July nest.
Tim Melva or WitritOtrrit, Kr. J.
represented this borough at the Lord Mayortbbseristgoeu
st
on Wednesday night
WIIIIRTAS CIROCrIT Fistukust. flonaks.—A tea sod
public meeting was held in ecumenlitou with the
W 011•7111 Chapel OR Thursday (meshy& The RSV. B.
Nakh slated that the remota from the flaaselal
soherne,—wideb wee to provide for the banding of a
vestry, warmitg the chapel, furnishing the semood
miolater's house, and helping to pay off • debt on Perk
=-- stoounted to £470 odd; bit this bad been et-
by about £3l, through the expenses. To meet
this (*nesting wards were introdneed, and it Is
hoped the debt will be paid of by September. H.
Edwards,lloq., M.P. bad bean applied le by Iffr.Sberreu,
and the Libaral K. ,snots that he had been giving so
much that bia mobequer warn rather low; but be
encloaed a cheese for £5. This persevere's:a in well-
doing warn of ammo received with applause, and • vote
of thank' wadi aceerded to Mr. Edwards as the motion
of Mr. Sharron, seeonded by Gonda Pitt. Speeches'
were made, and the meeting closed with votes and
thanks, dosing and prayer.
Coutelt Pam finaluots, Friday.— Before Mr. H. C.
Goodden (chairman), Yr. L ff. Mot, aid Kr. G.
litot.

Williams ad Diary Palma* were 'barged with
stealing turnip greens she property of Kr. John Gard.
The pesos, which matched turnips growlna ha Mr.
Gard's Geld, were sold to Albert Watch and Henry
Dwardag, and obtained irons them by P.O. Roper. The
lot told to Watch istebed 2a. 64.
Prisoners said they had masked them up loose under
the shore.

--ilsotry—had been before cenviened, and he waa msn.
twoord to a montla's impriamainent, William to fourteen
days.
Claris Lee was summoned for driving • horns and
waggon without reina ; bet his father wee the roan in
awe, and he was ordered to be summons&
Jots Bamford was summooed ler *Ran as the
shafts of • waggon between Chicken' and Weymouth.
Fined is, oasts remitted. P.O. Batley proved Me
mew

Maria Seryccua, for being drunk sod tido= al
Omingwo, slier provloss offences, we oolaisitted tor
14 days:.

P.C. Powell proved the ere.
Defendant had got drunk whoa feeding a threshing
awhile*, fill off, and nearly lost his life. Then he
wanted to fight the engine driver bir.llolllo be would sot
give him more drink.
Mary Ails 111111 was summoned for damaging • live
fens., at ChickereL
P.C. Chafe, found the woman breaking Wake in the
road, and that thaw. sticks had been taken from the
kedge
need is., noels roatittod.

WARRHIJI.
Ma. iraewee PILLI7II3, Tows Clerk al Wsweitena.
warn present at the 15th anniversary dinner ol tier Rail-
way Haney°leat Institution, whieh was prodded over
by the Primo, al Wales.

Yr. Shaw as lagliek settler at at. Looia, has gleam
a park of lei sores to Vie lababitasta ; the value at tbs
Oft ie astinatod as £lOO,OOO.
• Greek sailor tall ea Friday from the mast lased of
tie brig War* Wag Is thp North Dock, Swansea, a
bight al so lest, sod eras killed ea ths spot, his brains
beteg dashed oat.
Lb., altering *be alnaiagliaa theatre, os Wednes-
day Eight, throw too* powder Into a obooktokses oyes,
sod road* oN with DS of the reselpts.
SODOM DIM'S ON • CLMIGTX•X.-11wi ilov Jamas
Ooirs, while weUdag with his wk. Is lienriek planta-
tion, as /ride), foreleg tired, mat (Lows to rook, fell
book, sad dlool. Ho WS about 40 years ol age aisd
==liof rebut soisseitastes. Kean disease la
ti hies bass the Mee Si death.

THE US OFTHM PEpu.
A Board of Trod. isjuiry was opeoed oo Wednesday
at Greenwich, hal CITO Mr. Patteeoo, the rasaLtrate,
and Capt. Harris sod Whit., nautical samatom, relative
to Mae anmeaworthinase of dm Pero' sad bee abandon-
ment whilst oa a Voyage from Caruaff to Lilo de Janeiro
j D Jenson last, and the lose f lii. atteadast thereoa.
Mr. H. Hamel sod Mr. Raysabill appeared as comae'
for the Board of Trade, and Mr. reignite &MIMI for
that owners. . .

Pero wait three-masted wooden ship, Ameeieree
built in 1854, and r. ered in Liverpool in 1872;
registered tonnage 1,146 tons. ithe was r•P.ir.d. et
Cardiff to the amount of nearly £2.003, and after beteg
re .istered A 1 Anseriose Lloyd's, t nb in o °aro° of
2,062 tone of coal. She was worth 116,400, and insured
for .C 5,200. The vessel was ooincarided by D.
li'Donsld, and bad • grew of 19. On Dee. 4:h she smiled
for Rio do Janeiro,oneceintered bad weither, and oo the
Sib put lobo Pottland Roads. Part of the crew refesed
, to prated to sea in her, and were smareneed to leave
weeks' hard labour. Their pleura were supplied with
I mother crew, who left next day, but • third crew
stood by her. On the 29th she again Itrneeeded, and
on the 3121 of December collided with an American
vestel--the Respire Prom this until 18th of January
she experieoeed gales, shipped water, and leaked. On
the 19th of January one of the morns in the ship's side
opened to the extent of two hushes, and water poured
1 in. A paean dreamer was signalled. but Web no
notice. Oa the Eird the Astoria took off sixteen of the
mew. On the afternoon of the 23rd of January she
had too feet of water ha her hold. When off 80C311111133
I UM JUDO* of Faversham, took off the remainder of
the wow, and the Peru was abandoned.
I Capt. IrDonald said 1801 the crew were foreigners.
Of the fifteen men sent to prisms, four were English.
Whoa they left Cardiff he ooealdrired the ship to be
seaworthy. The tarpaulins of the ship were not good,
but after tiny left Cerdiff he net the mat, to work to
make • new are for the fore hatch, and that was
Galahad before the bad weather came on. They bad
new nuntigg rigging fitted at Weymo uth, in souse-
quince of • temp/ant of one of the 03 On, before the
ossfistrates.
John Barry, chief mate, pad on Do Amber 4th he
looneidwed the vessel regularly ship-ghat it. On the Rh
' there wai about 24 Mines of water In the hold. On
the 10th the ship Leo pumped dry. • gentl.maa
nomad Roberts sante on board, rema had an hour,
sounded her and found her making abut it half an inch
an hour. When the crew were before Ihe magustretes
they eomplelned of him In general terms. lie did not
hear any charge of unseawortlaziese made against
the ship. No ooreplante were mod • about the
Pampa Whilst In Portland Roads mew mile were
heel and new gear plmed where required. On
January 18th the ship sprang a leak ocelot, the 19th he
(meld see daylight through dead*. About four o'olook
that afternooe a banm came under flu us remand they
got out the loltoat, whisk was ow moped alongside
with ten m.o. The boat 111111 lost, but the man were all
at as board again. On Tuesday, ti cry sighted the
Elbe oonsestA to stand by t 110131 alt night.
On the 220 d they launched • boat, an d sent bar with
mixllloll of the crew, to the Astoria. . the left them,
and they hove to. Shortly after this the c iptain,witnesa,
and the whole of the grew wersat the pumps. Al
that time a, thunderbolt or somashing elsa- buret aser to
witness, throwing out balls 01St., some. it org. has
hie bead and noses smaller. The effe. A complete('
paralysed them. After that the men wen t below, being
oompletely exhausted. At three the nes :1 mortitog he
smiled the roes and set then to the pen p. Al eight
&Moak it was determined to beach the sh ip as tie only
chum they had for their lives. They alighted the
reboots*, Lurie* and were all taken al. The log-
book and all the ship's papers were tied up so • bundle
with him clothes to be taken in the boet, but It was
importable to take them. The last aoundiag which he
saw taken showed 9i feet of water in th • well. The
carpenter afterwards rounded, and found RIO feet of
water. The Pere appeared to be 'dug does
gradually.
By Captain Whit.: Whom dld not think the Peru
was too deeply lades. On the Bth the men appeared to
be frightened at the gale, and he would not get them to
work. They could not tell whether the pumpt necked
on the Bth on aooout of the quantity of voter on deck.
yet he did not oonsider her a wet ship. He considered
that the ship was aufiloeutly manned, as ships &re man-
ned now-a-days.
Captain Bands: You had lees' than two meo to •
hundred Wu fon cannot call that irdlloieltly man-
ned.

lobs Dempsey said—l am an able seaman. and have
bet, et iee seven years. I joined the Peru at Lives pool
last November, and shipped at Cardiff the toiletries
=oath for a voyage to Iti• Janeiro sod other parse for
Woe years. There were 18 or 19 of us went at the
Immo time. I got on board about nine o'clock at
sight, sod when I got up the next morning I woe sorry
that I had joined the ship, she wee in web a state.
There was no tarpaulin for the forehatch, no mat for
the foremast, and, in fact, everything was in a state of
eeriftudon. We got away that morning. The foretop-
gallant royal backslaps wanted setting up. In the
evening of the day we sailed the wind delight us, sad
we took in the foist op gallant sail. All wont on right
till Saturday. the TI b of December. when the wind blew
stiff. All was pas right by this time. About noon on
Saturday we tried to take the maintops &neat sail in,
but we could not get it down. Two sr thee. of us went
aloft with the oft,itain to try it we ciould get the yard
down, but we failed. We sang oat to the carpenter to
Bring epa mallet. He brought it up and ledges' hammer.
ins. broke the crane, sad the yard came, down with a
run. The pumps were choked that night, and all heads
were no desk lifting them. We lifted the sic:hoard
Estop brat • the captain wept down himself to clear it.
The aortal called out to get the portable pump out,
and we endeavoured to get some water out of the. well
with it, bat we failed. The pump bed worked before
whoa the hose had bees throws one the side. We re-
plaeed the starboard pomp, sad it worked.. before,
oaly throwing out • little water. We then lifted the
, port pump, and tee captain went below again, but whoa
we lowered it we maid riot get it to work at &11. The
weather was getting worse all this time. The pumps
Deem worked well, and we had to pump twice every
wateh for 16 or 90 minutes. We bad a gale on Sunday
night, and were working the darbeard pump
for about four hours. While as the pumps
another man and myself determined that one of us
• °old go ou the look-out, as no look out had been
kept during that time. The ship was then goiug before
the wind. nett off pumping, and met the mans, and
la reply to a quistioo from him I said I was going to
the top of the home to keep • eook•ost, as there were
no side-lighta out He SOW me that he would keep •
look-ont. I returned to the pump, and the mate went
aft. The eide-Ligists were not put in their please till
nine eglook that sight. During the whole time I wee
on board I only had oaf watch below without Wag
galled oat. That night we threw a spar overboard.
Thin Ira no one to give se dissident about this spar.
We thought IC would host see, and so we threw It over.
board. I that walked forward sad met the seemed
mate. I asked him where the °vials wee roaming the
ship for, and be said that, to the beet of his belief, the
captain was going to do away with her. Water used to
go down the fore heath mad down the chain pipe, as
tiers was nothing to provost it. The sea was melting a
sheen basilisk over us at this time. Two clays after, the
mate, the carpenter, and swell weal between r!t=
and dated four deed lights Whoa we got into Po
Bonds it took us tan oslauka so let go the anchor,
owing to the stopper bane fold. The mate got •
Warms and tried to knoelat out, but he could not do
so. Next day we got into the inner roads We had
arranged among oluseives the day before to boost off
work. The captain heard of it, and coiled us all aft
sad toll an to wait for a wools of days uatil the
emote atom rou3d. Ha Bald that possibly the ship
might have Co go to Portmsoutt to &dehisce her cargo,
and then Ulll °wain would be glad to get rid of as.
The pilot said it wee wiry fair of the captain, and we
agreed to wait the two days. Two days &nee a repro.
meletive of the owners same aboard, told us that we
were foolish fellows, and that we aboald get our fall
complement. We got twelve weeks' imprisonment. I
don't know whether that is the fall awspierewit, LI
they amid give as any more, I suppose they weak' ghs
es It. I mad the ship was not seaworthy, and I would
rigto bar. Fifteen of us were sent to Dorchester
and nerved the whole of oar time.
By Captain Harris: I signed article, at Livirioool
to serve at 1:3 • month. I had an advance seta
By Captain White: Our watch °misted of four
boars, and we pumped every two boon. One of my
reasons for thinking the ship unseaworthy wee that
neither the mates nor the otiptiea seemed to take any
interest in her.

-Tint -Soh—o-Men • Swede, IS years at sea, who alao
bed 19 weeks in //orchestra Osatle, corroborated. lie
complained to the mooed mate that the vessel was
making water fast and the pumps would not work,
whoa he said be could do nothing, for he hal heard the
captain say that he would all the ship or Imo her.
There were no tarpaulin. in the ship, only two old rage.
On Ms Sudsy edteruoos I was ordered to sew • tar-
paulin for the main batch. The ship WS4 making very
mash water, labouriag very heavily, end the pumps
would not work. On the Sunday night I was going to
attend to the side lights, whea I met the cMel mate,
who said. " the lights, let them look eat for the.-
soiree; get to the pampa, or the will tisk." I weal
bask to the pumps, mid Dempsey asked a. if there was
any one on the look-eat, and I said that there wee
neither a look-out net side light.. We both loft the
pumps to see the eblel mate about the hok.out, and I
walked right round the ship. I saw no Alter except
the sesond mate, who was so @shouted that he could
siareely Mond; The dap before he bad had to keep his
owe utak and the chief auto's too. I thought the
ship was not seaworthy because bet timbers were foul
with send. I also think that the .hip was too heavily
laden, because she laboured so murk. I think the
pimps were warn out. The gem was vmy bad aloft.
All the running gear was bad. The stencluig rigging
was all very good, being nearly new. It took as two
boors to heave the maw, In oonissenenco of the
defective condition of the Medlar, which was old and
worn out. I heard the olds( mate say that mooning,
" Haire never been in such • ship in all my life." I
told the magistratesl would join the ship on *tradition !
that she was to get her timbale altar, have new gear:
scatted up aloft, new pumps, and a new chief' mate.
The ohlef male sometimes got in • gnat petition, and
mated • gaud deal of foolishassi oa board. The mash-
trot, said that sorb ovum were idle, and that ha
thought the capteln warn abetter jadge of the vassal
than we were. I underwent tisehe weeks' imprison-
meat. I had reosivod an &dreads note, and had bad it
cashed at Liverpool. I us engaged at Ci a sheath
William NUM mid I am • y-hottes Slot for
Witymioatit, and I aim bold a taaseras eartlioate. I
boarded the Peru on the 10th of Doestaber. The
=temployed me to proeure • tag and Mks the
o tat inner harbour. The windiest was out of
order. On the zooming of the 11th th. ambits called
the arty together in my preesue--they had refused to
work. They complained that they would not to in thet
ship unless something was dose to her to make her
seetreethy. (Witeees sonaborated the previous wit-
nesses aa to the stetemeets made by the instate to the
orow.) I told the men that the imprimis of
the captain were fair, sad advised them to work again.
, They did so until after Mr. Fos emu on bow the
goingshmyip:smosteal"abe
.fizidlagoarriedu
thatruibt,ethewhzetwalwiew/droPmaiiadapp:lrythugairlaiwtoreni.t.
both in atiaber and streegth, for • ship of that sits. I
would not have gene to ma In Ms skip with the crew
which sb• bad. I did not Ms the look of the meal;
they were oil very SOL
By Oaptala Whit.; I Ea ao. oso the Wadi* that
wore books. of, I ow Moon Noy had broke, of,

and II appeered Writ half decayed wood. I did not
natio.. that Om chief mats wee over rough to the trbee.
Some people are more bet-tempered thee others, end
lzpreu themselves in diffment work. The only Vac,/
I Dotter:l .bout the chief mate wee thtt he spoke strong
poundals., sud th.n b., is • big mau—(laadrker.) I
should not object to go to lee with him; but inoun
not have rem to ess with such • drew.
Of orge Charbett :lam 14 years old. I w.nt to
ors in the P.zu. Tberr. via sgotbe, 607 cm board bel-
et.t... me. On the sight of Dee. 7.12, hands wore
0•11,n on deck. I went down in toe hold with the
eeptsin sad the oarpenter to ales., oat the pimp.. I
fouu.l there clsok.d up *kb • lot of dirt, smell btu's'',
assd °tele, which I ote•red &v .y cit. my Mind. I took
away about two or three Lualt,tmul. Ti. pumps were
to°4re I out again us Potlltud. I was mouel from the
Peru by the steamer Astoria.
Tholinguiry stash adjearood.