The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-02-27 00:00:00

OHRISTCHUROIL

Luseurs on The Ounto.—Tbe Earl of
biLainsesbury in drawing attest* M the subject of
lifeboats, in the House of Lads lest week stated
did on Sudsy, Ifeb. 11, the ohms in the English
i Cheasel wp se severs . the mind blew at •
strength et lith, open , ' Jamie 'Mob, while the
unman mums itee lisitliben 2101 b. or 361 b.
The um* letween the Mint was moth
upend, and only tad , ' was thetioned there.
On theaday, wises UM . ehe 411. height, • brig
wee is danger, NODS 201 oft PM Medd from short,
re eftnetaseth. . II was theight so emus= butt
wield live is the sea that mei *ere; but • gallant
issl was pettensed by emu mom in • fishing boat,
who put al_end suesetiOL:he crew of seven.
re The st aid from ; his eve» fisherman
ea Ifie
_ems' was reedy that if simour had
MAU those seed Walks SW would all have bees
=Why then woe think ow _West at Christ-
He feenii as refentoe he the chart that
Ohrisislemeh hell been tranenisatod ep Wm mouth of
the Southampton Water, NA lithe position imit
to it bed .sly hese earreth, of oOntal DO life
would has. bete squired. He also letut that the
caw of the Othotetwed lthl beenulkiii if their was
• seasiest avistiori of boatmen in the neighbourhood
to muse a lifeboat led that the answer was that
Shire were ealßoiset boatsmen bat none who could
be defended sus in um of em unless they
were remissmaled he there nerviose. Ru also stated
this he did sot know how ea hooorary committee
amid he tossisd among the neighbouring gentry for
the purpose of managing the lifeboat tion. He
certainly coati assert that, as far as he !timbal( was
couerned, he had sem bun said to Join meth •
committee, and he wonlitesmire their lordships that,
if he had bees, he theold with sthaute have dose
what he could to teaks litemelt meal He would, if
required, band in the paper Lem shire he had
ahthined this information, although he would not
mention the name of the Cousins» caw who with
eselneempithe igoranos apse thesthjeot, bed yet given
such advice to the National Lifeboat leetitutioo ea
bed prevented them trim plesiug a lifeboat at that
=L • coroner's key bed uthreed • ' verdict in
OW of the mea drowsed upon the foundering of
the brig to which he bad allaSalid ta that verdict
they expressed their opinions fits 'night have
bees saved if the Oustraird rendered the (Sher-
um that aniiithece which they ought to have done
in preparing the boat. In reply_ the Duke of
Somerset maid that the noble earl had not informed
him betorekuind of the °barge whisk be intended
making against an iadividnel bras& of II» Cue,
arid he had dome* been usable to make any
.f :: 44 .. , into the eiteemthasoth He condi only my
that the Oossigeard had testributed largely towards
amiss We. The Earl of Halmeshary had referred
to the report of an impost is • tootisolar ease which
had appeared In the palate newepapeth Li the owe
of Christchuseb, be which he had retured, the life-
boat which was awed, but erhosed, might have
mired by" loot Soodff- Lord Iliisley st Aided,
said, perhaps the sous lord was maturate that it
was earressery beton • Mhost ires mistimed at •
plum that it should be shown that it could be ad-
vantageously employed, and that there were a mei-
Mut number of persons willing to come forward to
form • sossmittee. Had this been the awe at Christ-
church a lifeboat would doubtless have been stationed
it that piano, although it would not siy• beim of
nub ses, m wrecks off that coast were yeti ram, it
being only frequented by logien omits» The Earl
of Kalmethery said the result the» wee no liksbms.
at Christchurch was, that the Cosetenard Abut Ltd
Amen to make Matemente latish were sostrarY to
the fact with regard to the nementy kr • WAIL'S et
that place.