The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-02-09 00:00:00

BILIDPORT.

INFANT licoorit--AcTirii-plea.,e I to publish the success
of another of the pupil teachers of the General Infant
School. who has completed her tem& of apprenticeship,
and sat at the examination for queeu'. scholars at surd,.
well training college. Miss liehe ticablen has just pate
to the training college a. a Queen's scholar, having taken
I a position in the first class." This fact reflects
great credit both on Miss &midden and the mistress who
Ism gabled her studies.
PROXOTION.—We understand that Hr. Caleb COI. for-
merly of Bridport Harbour, who has been collector of
customs at Perth for about four years, has been promoted
to be collector at Preston. During Mr. Cogs stay at
Perth, by his genial manners an.l.dispwition, he gained
many friends. and hi. depirvire in that respect will be
inset regretted. Possesmd of the sterling qualities which
make a good collector, Mr. C•ii, we believe, has don.• good
service to the port of Perth. as the greatly increase.]
revenue rtillee be came will show. We who bun all
tiliVeXTld in Ilia new sphere. —P.M' .1 deer( imr.
Cssi MUD. MATHIMATICAL Twos, 1,75. —ln the list of
wrangler• who lately pamml we notice the liaMe of Mr.
Francis Compton Lewis, of Trinity College. who is the
only son of the her. IL, Lewis. Wesleyan Minister, of
stugue,i, and formerly of Brhiport. Ile was born in
November. ISSI, and was educated before entering the
university at New Kingswood School, Bath, and Clevedon
College, Northampton. He obi-aiI:TA a minor scholarship
on entering Trinity iu 11.71, and WM elected tO a fmtndation
scholamhip. it Easter, ICI lle wao bracketed with Yr.
Lord false of Trinity) for the Sheepshanks Astronomical
Exhibition and has obtained various college pima His
none tutor w. Kr. Prim, his private tutor Hr. Routh.

Mnt. STEMBRIDGE, wife of Mr. S. Stembridge, co*
nterrhant. Sotith-street, who for the past six months had
been an inmate of St llartholowew s Hospital. London,
autferinz from an affection of the knee joint, died on
Wednesday. Afoot a month ago ainpukdion of the leg
was found no:et...au, and site° that ticie the deceased has
gradually !oink.

PRIX/RIM{ 01' THE WATKR WORKS. One moralist last
week, the weather living line, and the roads not quite so
mud.ly as they have been for some weeks past, we paid a
visit to the site Of the reservior, 0111 lls,thenhampton hill,
being anxious to know how the works were progressing,
and feeling assured that any particulars would be inter-
esting to our numerous readers in Itridport and the
neiglii.urh,iod. Seim months ago when we visited the
locality, there was nothing but an immense excavation to
be seen, and the place seemed quite deserted, but on Mon-
day we found &Isn't a dozen men, under the superinten-
dence of Mr. G. Crokam, busily at work, and saw that a
considerable amount of masonry had recently been get
through. The walls for the tank, about nine feet In
height, and three feet in thickness are built of Dothan-
hampton stone, cement being used; whilst looking at the
machine by which the cement is made we were informed
that it hardens so fast that at times the machine became
choked, as it had been once that moraine. The tank is
sonic 66 feet in length by 32 feet in breadth, and will be
covered in by a roof consisting of two arches • this is
certainly an improvement on the plan first prop:wed, by
which the tank was to be left open; we may state, how-
ever. that the original excavation for the tank is about
three tirsies the extent of the one now being proceeded
with, it being found that the emetic' one would be quite
adequate to the requirementa at the present : and it car-
tainly ioems that, such being the ease, the imnsense
amount of labour and expense entailsd by the excavation
wan useless, and entailed unius-essary expense; but it is
thought perhaps another tank might at some ,future thus
be found necessary. As yet there are no. pipes laid, and
It is not known, we believe, whether a sufficient supply of
water will be obtainable at Coombe. The weather, of
course, has not at all been tit during the past five or six
weeks for putting in the pipe.; but even had that been
favourable, the pipes have not yet arrived. "Oh they left
Newcastle about two months ago in a vessel, but have not
yet come to lian,L**" How is that?—"Why the vessel has
been unable to come into the Harbour : nhe 11T10T. 11011141
nine v ten fret teeter sad was off one day last week but
had to yut back into Portland Roads, for lack of sufficient
water. So much for the port and harbour of Bridpork in
the winter season ; we have been told that it was a difficult
job indeed to get captains of vessels to visit our Harbour
in the winter time, so dangerous is the entrance, and the
chances of Icing at to get in so small. However, we
wen] toll that when the line weather acts in, and the
pipes conic to hand, rapid progress will be made with the
work, and we hope ere boil; to have to chronicle
the fact that we have an abutehust nupply of pure water,
and that the alrantaesei are so apparent, that the inhabi-
tants have all determined to avail themselves of its advan-
tages.