The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-04-29 00:00:00

PORI% 4ND.

00111VICT L42)011 Arta& —t gang of convicts hare
been employed war the coaling shed at the 11-eak-
water, in building • long beat house for the boats of
EL WEI Achilles and of the Trafalgar and Bonswen,
when she arrives. About • down work on it, and the
work Is very goad; but as to the rapidity with which
We done, the leas sail the better. Flow out it be
otherwiu, whim, as an lustuot of tha *lowness of
spplication, we learn that they march away to dinner
and are &beset about two haunts the middle of the der.
MILMIBT CHLINIIII. —The dope. of the WA minuet
left Portland on Friday last, to the greet regret of their
°comrades of the 771 h and of the tolublunte. Toe
bugle mounded shunt four o'clock, and they formed on
parade Is about half-an-hour, quite propene& Bo
eaddea was the call at Font that one of the Wipers was
actually passiag time in ezaasioieg • stone qierry when
he law the Seraph stemming In, and he left We anemias-
lion and prepared is good time. Colonel Sent gave
the departing soldiers when on parade a farewell
address, in which he stated how much he respected
them and how sorry be wag to part. The 29:h del at
and the re/insult to whisk they were attached agreed
go
well together and were in fact so mach fused into
one thet they worked brother as If they were only one
regiment, bath 291 and 77rh always spoke well of
, each other, and they were very loth to pert. Among
the 29th there was a good sprinkling of sincerely pious
men. The dei6 marched down from the parade
ground to the B. els water Jetty, •0101112,411tei by the
two binds of the 77th regiment, ani thence embarked
on board the Beamew, which steamed off to the Simple,
lying outside the Huttour. owl by neat day the ship
was puled from sight The pleases of the 29th were
ailed up from Weymouth on Marley by the nib, and
soon the dept : mitre at Dorchester will be formed,
though in some quarters it Is thought that Weymouth
or Portland is just a• likely to be the I Hutto's of the
military centre u Dorakeetsr.

THB SHADOW Or TnIB CHURCH RATB3
ABOLITION ACT.

The great vietory in Portland by the Chureh party
has turned out fruitless. Tnill Bathslsstioal amain.
dollar. refuse to authorise the rate foe enlargement a
the churchyard, muting in wardens, with what they
believe to be the spirit of the Corn Mosey eiturell.ratos'
Abolition Act. Will this deolsion offset teller pleas,
where elealliar struggles have taken plies, sr far last...see
et Chiekerel, wherefore long thils the wish was by
the ears?

BLANDFORD.
InTOZTLIST QUINTON TO AGIRIOULTWUTTS. —A couple
of eases of very great Into set to the fanners of this
district, where sheep Weedier on a large sods prevails,
have been recently before the meglatrates of • neigh-
bouring town, Wineentoo. The shepherds of Yr.
Charles Bugg ani r. Walter Barg blouse, two orro•
riderabie farmers at Ifiliserne Wrok. have bees app.'.-
Minded on • ober(' of stealing lamb; o' their masters
by wholesale. The defines is that when • ewe drops
twins and mama nurture mon than one I tmb the shop.
herd hie • right by sworn of selling the other. Is the
ease" Wore us this custom bee been plehed a little
further, end it is melended for the shepherds that they
have a right to dispose of any lambs that they
may think the ewes mariot sockle. In the we of the
shepherd of Kr. Charles Bugg se many as 30 lush.
were disposed of to Kr. George Arlen* tertner,at 2.. 61.
a heat the rota on this traumatism alone Wier ZS 15i.
In the shepherd's pocket. To two other fermgre how.
ewer the shepherd had sold I.mbi, to one 19, to the
other 7or 8. The shepherd, William °meats, in this
saes he. been oommltted for trial. In the o.ee of Kr.
Walter Bugg'. shepherd, Edward Forward. 'video's has
been riving to "hew the sales of 10, 6,5, and 17 lambs
to different permits. Oa these Murree the shepherd
was remanded until Wednesday, sod than ecisninitled
for trial.

CotOrrr COMM, Mciaday.—Bsfore Judge T. I. P.
L•froy.
Only three OWN saute before hie Honour.
Mem amnatmed, corridor, of Woodford, v. Messrs.
/wrest and Skase, saaehlaista. Blandf.ord —This was a
thin of .£/$ Si. 94., for bores hire and dameg• door.
—Mr. Atkinson for the defendaat—The amount
charged for horse hire,C2 17.. 91. was oald lot, Enid,
but the remolds' sum of £2 6. for damage done to •
horse and van WMI dieputed.—it seems thst on
September 9 b, 1871, the deleadaste hired • horse and
van of the plalatiff to take some machines to thi
Woodford Fair Field. When returning from the
field the horse took fright, and mind through the
railings, knocking theca down, and breaking the
wheela of the van and oleo the bantam. The defeedent
had sines put the rolling. in repair, and !Aldan looked
upon this ea an admodeion of hie liabliity. Tie
plaintiff did ant apply for payment till Christmas, 1871,
whoa he seat In his bill Is the usual way. During the
fek the defendants hired • home of the plaintiff, and
ea plaintiff had not amorsatodation lee it Ii woo oot
sent back directly, and while tied up Oa deldteditat's
yard it got loos*, and getting among thiaf•shices cut
It, hoofs. This duo was koluded in the dossage.—Yr.
Atkisson ocoateoded that it was not the fault of the
defendants that the horse was hurt, and callei
Willis,. Page, in the employ of the defendant., who
said that he had been used to horses and uuderstood
them, and that the damage to the horr• and van vu.
pure occident —George Stoodley, im the employ of the
Corporation, also spoke in deleadoat's favaar.—His
Honour gave j abased for plaintiff for p, In addition
to theism:mot paid Into oodirt,
news/ Auld and Sox, ohoesaskera dhillingstoue. v.
!seer Sided, labourer, °battle.— t sham .1 14..
for boota—Ddeadoot &anted having ever bought any
boots of plaintiff, or herlos any work loos. On
qaeotioning the pialutiff Lk Hilmar elleated that the
lather-In-law of defendant, who bad Mom died, bought
Skil boot.. Dafeedont said that ho had the boots
Siren him, and he thought it no harm to wean the,.,
but plaintiff said that de,ondoot promised to pay him
for thero.—Ferdlot for defendant, but no oasts
allowed. _ _

JosepA Hart, f wruer, Blandford, v. Merl Hail,
labourer, Blsoatord.—.t alai= ot AL lia 91. for
cottage rent.—Delendaat's wit* appeared, and said she
owed no rant, but its tailed to prove it, and the
Judie gave a Telliiol for plaintiff —4a II month.