The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-09-06 00:00:00

ORZWICisBX tr.
POULTRY AND PloEuN SNOW.

The newly-formed Crewkerne and ilminater Poultry
and Pigeon Association which intends to hold its
annual ehows alteruately iu tre towns named, held
their first exhibition at Crewkerue on Thursday and
Friday. On the fir.t.named day the weather was
uuprupitious in tho extreme, and oi Friday, also it
was stormy, so the attendance was not nearly Ili line
as the ex.-idles:ice of the show merited. Th. poultry
were cooyeniently arranged in the Boys Schoolroom,
and the pigeons, dead pm try and eggs in the Girls'
Schoolroom, whilst the ducks werd limas cunfor.able
in the yard, an Is few other birds in one of the lobbies.
The following are among the prize list :
POULTRY.

Br shmas, hen (lark) Itadclyffe. W.reham.
Br ih crck (light).--Couim-nd,d, Stanley D. Adya,
11 mrnemooto.
I) ,rkinss, cock. (zoloure4).-7.. 6,1 . Mrs. If
liwk.ng. cock ( ,ny V‘rittp).-43. E 81,31. F‘lllll.
1. 0411 ; Lsa.. Tho.nes Hoare, Y,ovii.
Dorking. ban (lay other eariet)).-111, Thomas Moors.
Yeovil.
Gan% cock (black or brown red),-15s, T. and G. 11.
kludford, West Cainnock ; 7s. 61.. 1. ao.i U. 11. iluotord.
Gauen. ben (back or b own red) • f. and G. H.
lludford: 15a. T and G. li. Modlord ; 7s. dd. T. and G.
M0.11.4.d.
L•ell Tan c (any oolour).—A11, W. F. ES. Stephen%
: commended, Rev. Henry Williams, Bryinpton
ciory, Y.,01111.
F. erica, cock (any variety). —Highly comusenled, Capt.
the It.. E V..-y. S I*,l
Trench. ben (say raristyl—C.soopen led, Captain thi
Z Veins.
Polish, cock sod ben (any variety).—llighly commended.
Stanley J. Adye. It ureemouth.
Any variety not m-.nuoned • Itlbert Luck,
15,, F. St .odlsy,Cre .kern.; Mealy commended,
H. J. Cuard, Yeovil.

SELLING CL•3B
D whinge, 'wahines. (ail* of htno)
commended, G. Gewler,
Cock (any other veriety).-15e, W. E. Tucker (golden-
epengled), Ye mil.
Ballwin.. cock and hen (black or br ~strn red g
Highly oonitnended, H. .J. Chard, Yovil, eau A. 11.
Huss. y, Crewkerne.
B.al anue,cock and hen (any other variety
Stanley J. Adye.
B sultana, rock and ben (any (her variety).-15a, It.
Leach, Yomil ; very highly commended, Stanley .J.
Ducks (Aylesbury and skin, drake and dock(-1. 7.
R. Sutton, Came Rowe, Dvrcbester ; highly c.anmended,
Yeovil, and J. Scu4ley, Broadwanaor.
Duck; drake and duck (any other variety).-7e. ed.,
Captaut the Hon. Z. Vale,. Sedgebid, fieuiley.
PlOlO/11.
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Barba (cock or hen).-55., F. R. Sutton. Came Rouse.
D irchest.r.
Tumblers, cock or hen (shoit-faced). BL. Charles
Riard-11. Pools.
0.1.. &Wish (city colour).-10s, R. Leach.
Ituglish (soy colour).—Commeaded, J. T. Chain,
Yeovil.
Thetas. cock or hen (soy other colour).-sk, R.. Leach.
cock aod hen (say colour).—Hughly GAO-
meod.d. F. II Sutton, Cane Rouse, Dorchester ; coin-
J. K Chubb, Yeovil.
Dratons, c ck or hen (blue or silver).-10t, W. Osmond,
Ilorch.ter ; ,W. °mond.
Dragnat, cork or hen (white).-10s., F. IL Sutton; 53,
F. R Sutton.
Dreg ns, cock or hen (any other colour).-155., W.
Osmond ; oommended, W. Osmond.
Jacoblusr cock or hen (red or yellow).-15i., John
Andrews, Poole.
Jsoobins, ock or hen (any other colour).-15a, John
Andrews, Poole.
Swallows, archangel, and trumpeters (nork or hen).—
!body commends], Sidney Swadiell, Wyk. Rouse,
Weymouth.
Antwerp, cork or hen (other than horning) —los., W.
H. Mittman. jun.. Troytown, DJrchisster ; highly com-
mended. R. Leach.
Homing Antwerp., cock or hen (tar variety)-15t. C.
rgr,,one, Dorcheet •r 10. Fronk oduontl D ',cheater ;
5... C. Par-one ; highly commended, J. Butt tt C 4., and
W. H. Daimon, ion., Troytown. Dorchester.
Selling chts,, cock or hen (any variety).-101.. John
Andrews, Poole.
Selling my.. cock or hen (any variety).-10‘.. Charles
Ilitrdeli, Poole.

AN ENGLISH ELEVEN FOR AUSTRALIA.
On September 17th, • strong team of professionals will
leave E3gland on a cricket tour through Am lies.
Australia. and New Z .aland. The ham will could of
the following player. :—Alfred Shaw (captain), James
Lillywhite, Jour.: Arthur Shrewsbury, Ihn Sdby,
Myatt, Ephraim Lockwood, William list'.. Edmund
Nate, Richard Gorton Barlow, Richard Pilling, Win,
Midwinter. and another—possibly Flowers, Scotton. G
wI
unn
or Emmett. It will be i.beeryed that of this el.oren
hare alined the agreement to go out, four are Yorkshire
ono, three come from Nottingham, two from Lancashire,
and one each from Susses and Gloucestershire. This
eleven very fairly represent the Players of England. and
if Emmet, ehoold decide to go, there will be • team of
which the Olt Country fussy Juatlr he proud, and ..hiclA is;
certain in. to dilisitve• it PONDS iv ‘tie beet wicket-
ke.per in Ea.terei. Ulyett is the best professional thtm
MM. and Peat., Bate., Shaw, and Barlow are or ,bably
the tour hest profemionsl balere on this Year's form:
while for changes tLe's will be Lfilywhim, Myatt, Mid-
winter, and Lvk wood. net batting and fieldirg are good
nearly ell through. Barnes and Morley would perhaps
atr mithen the dove, though fat ',Paling does not play
a important • pat in cricket se it did loymerly, ant there
ls plenty of yarosty &heady in the b wing of the team
Th. tour I. an Mulish apeculaVon, Shaw and Shrewshury
taking the risk, and enmeine to de' rsy all trmelling and
hotel extemse• and ti ray deck man in the tam LIM
for the tonr, and Lift as an equiyaltnt for outfit mid
Incidental personal cspenneo.

ANOTHER MANIFESTO BY MB.
BRADLAUVH.
11'311408111 I. iii, t tol tune s inani,este *stiller!,
"Riobt g &Ist brute H., says the' NO public
force."
to eti re er•en.led to 350 per• me, mid 10% petitions
with 175,000 signatiaree, have emlorrei his claim. Ile
rout d. thet the e had nn trait to uo behind dm
return f Anril 9th, and tbat the (.3 meervatives affirmed
this in 1880. He chances Sir S•efford N. reboots with
haring del kmrately h•okrn U. w, rd in blocking the Bill
introduced by the Government to extend the right of
eftirmation. He has never introduced his religious
bonlido, into his D dilical enriches. The G .verontent has
net weds a delinits promise to see the law &rein d It hsa
only rrognirod to roneater .het It will dr. It. duty is to
enforce the law, even for the meanest, the most monopole+i
Lb. gnat nbeeitione In v... w.r asern.t him ti Gonert.
eat,. p,,rty hi, broken t r ugh all he riles rf decency,
of honour, sod of truth. II•en his daughters we nor. mete
from the es.ailment of a Perliamentary e,,eard like Sir
Henry Twist. Law proceedings have been mu.tipited to
ratshm.ad be osa cal, oak justice tram the people.

WHAT THE WORLD 8A YB4

It is really Io bad to make it appear that SWIM.
tional precauti .ns were taken during the railway
jour..ey of the QuEen from the routh t Sco land. No
danger wan app ehended, and twilling was done out
of the c,rumen. Her MajeAy wanted t sleep during
the run ; and if cheering at intermediate .tations by
loyal crowda had ben p-rtnitted he- slumbers a/mild
hove been velr fre piently disturbed. Whenever hie
Majesty travels, elaborate arrAngements are made to
avoid, as far s human foresight can avail, the ps•rii•
bility of an a,cir !tin ; an I staibm-ma.ters all along the
lines over which the royal tr.in passel, receiV. the in it
definite and complete inrtructions. NVh I.a. hitherto
been done wit' dune last week—nothing more and
nothing lest.

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The characters of the two sons of the Prince and
Princess of Wales are well reflecte lie the reply they
made to the address presented to them by the boys of
Princ3 Alfred Collate, Adelaide. It ran thus : " Boys
of Prince Alfred College,—lt gave us great pleasure to
Mlle amongst you and to o over your school and
grounds. We shall loos; r. nittnbor the sound of your
voices, and trust that if ever again we skit Adelaide
some of those we saw an boys we may meet them as
rasa, a credit to their sch ail, to thomselves, and the
colony." Their Royal mother may real that address
with reasonable pride.

Lord Rowton's Ismail. is not the result of a 6t of
the g .ut, as his enemies set forth. He dropped • jug
on his foot while Cowes, ant the result has been a
tetniv.rary inconvenience which has compelled him to
wear a list shoe.

The town of Woymou—th held a regatta on the two
day. following that of the Royal Doradt. The first
day was 0.. e of the very few summer days we have
had recently; hones the aaling WAS most enjoyable,
the bay Vokin.r ire I oit in the bright sunshine. Tb•
class racing, to which the first day warn devoted was
very 1111) I. Annasona and Sleuth !found sailed a
erand match. which the former won by ',short distance.
The twenty Withers also sail d a pretty ra,r, winch
Freda won by ratner more than the van .1 number of
minutes from the Atuathea, wlb. wan second. The
second day's sailing warn as unpleasant as the first
day's had been pleasant, owing to the rain coming
down in tor:ents, and corripletely spoiling the sport.
The match was for large )achts, and was wol by
Latona, Miranda b,itig second; but had thtre been
the usual time allowances, Annasona would hare taken
the prize from the pair.

Getting frmn Weymouth to Dartmouth was tipples-
sant work, as it blew very hard from the we Award all
the week. Mole than one yacht would not venture
rodnd the Bill on Wearies lay, and had to remain in
the roads till ail gale of Thursday blew itself out
and thus were lat, for the Li art Regatta.

Thera can be no doubt that the navy of France—its
risatdriel at all event4—has ben increasing ~1 late at a
rate which Germany has found it impossible to keep
pace. We ourselves are, if not being caught up, at
lea‘t being neared. The Italians, judging from the last
amounts, seem determined to kevp up a kind of ship-
building race with the French, but they can he-illy
hope to approach the latter very closely.

It is a striking symptom of the greater interest
taken by GOIII2IMIII in foreign affairs than in home
politics that the French elections have been more
closely watched by them than the efforts at reconcilia-
tion between theleeveral soca Jim of the Liberal party in
Germany which are being made just now. Not only
do the newspapers take more no ice of the elections for
the French Chamber than of political events at home,
but the omversation of a German of toe middle class
seems limited to two subjects—the future proceedings
of Gambetta and the insolence of the Jews.

I referred a few weeks ago to the actin) of the Mid-
land Railway in relsti in to the payment of the
dividends of the shareholders direct to their bankers.
I have beard officially that this step is to be followed
by the Lnidon and North-Western Railway Company.
At the same time nothing has been done toward the
expediting of the payment in the manner I suggested.
It seems a tiresome delay to fin] that dividends earned
bud banked at the end of Juin are not on some linem
distributed ti the shareholders till September. If the
directors of companies would devise some means of
expediting this 'distribution they would materially
benefit their shareholders.

The Inflexible is an extraordinary development
of naval arzhitecture, and the uiwit recent addition to
her long list of norron is a fog-horn of excruciating
shrillness. By a warcaatic misnomer it is called a
siren, and if Cie concentrated bellow, indefinitely pro-
longed, of five hundred mad bulls can bewitch sailors,
the musical occupation of mermaids will be gone. The
Prince of Wales has been vory much amused by this
skein invention of Mr. Holmes, and during the yacht-
ing season in the Solent has found timi to iiccasionally
cross to Portsmouth to make the alien scraion. Ills
Royal Highness' thought her Majesty might also like
to bear a fog•horn of powers so peculiarly penetrating;
and thus it came to pass that wheu the royal yacht
was steaming int ) Portsmouth harbour with the
Queen on board, the siren sent forth its outrageous
wail, and continued howling until the royal saloon
train had started from Clarence-yard for Edinburgh,
by which time her Majesty hal had more than enough
of the "unmusical monster," alit vas rightly calltd.

The siren can make iteelf heard any remonable
distance ; and, to be candid. its merits are none the I 8,
because its noise in a harbour is Catty(' to semitive
nerves. I am, therefore, not surprised to learn that the
m.is of the Admiralty have decided to lute minas 001
particular kind of fug-horn into vessels of the navy from
sloops upwards. What an euviahle experience it will
be for the officers and men of a fleet when five or six
ships indulge in • chorus with their irresistible sirens!