The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-10-11 00:00:00

BLANDFOID.

THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. POND
Took place, on Monday, at the Congregational
Chapel, Blandford, and was made the occasion of •
most interesting exhibition of the esteem and respect
in whicu a good Christian and • thor,ughly useful
citizen is held by his feilow-townsmen. All tee chief
public bodies of the borough were represented, and tee
town throughout by drawi blinds, and other evidences
of mourning, united in paying the last tokens of affec-
tion for one who had lived in their midst so log, and
had ever been so careful of the interests of his
neigh were. The funeral procession, altnough not in
the ordinary sense of the word grand, yet was rendered
imposing by the attendance of all who had been
&mod .ted with the deceased, either with his private
public capacity. The lown Council with the Mayor,
Ali. Dunbar', headed the procession, the Serge& 4-at
Mace preceding the corporate body with his emblem
id office draped In black. Then came the Bawd of Guar-
dians, of which the late geutlemui had been for many
years vice-chairman auloug the members present
thing the Rev. Mr. &tiny, the chairman of the Bo.rd,
the Rev. Iyues-Cliuton, the rector of Blandford, and
the Rev. Mr. House, of And.-reon. Next, fo lowed
the members of the Local Board, of which deceased
was als a hard-working member. The body, on •
hand hearse, theo came, the coffin being covered with
handsome wreaths sent by private friends, while on .t
lay a cr as of Bowers, sent by the children of the Sun-
day School Union, of Kieget -n, of which he was the
preei lent. Behind, came about 25 members of the
Kingston C o.gregational Chapel, where for yeas, in
comps.y with hi, friend, Mr. Councilor Smith, the
deceased had been in the habit of going to preach.
The mourners who, of course, imme liately followed
the body, were Mr. W. Pond, the brother of the
deceased; Mr. Samuel Pond, his nephew. Mr.
itoughton, of Loudon, his brother-In-law; Mr. Robert
Cunnings, draper, Gillingnam ; Mr. Jobe Hobbs and
Mr. Henry Hodges, his executors, and Mr. W. Gill.
On the procession arriving at the gates of
toe chapel, it separated into two lines, bet Preen
which the body was taken and thenoe into
the church, were it was deposited In full view
of a crowded congregation. The Sunday School
children, who were stationed in the gallery then san;
"Safe in the arms of Jesuit," after which the Rev.
B. Gray, the pastor, to whom the dowered wa. chief
deacon,read suitable passages of scripture and engaged in
prayer. the hymn commencing
Days sod monieute quickie flying
Blend the liviag •Ith thd.el,
having been sung, the body was then bought out and
buried in a bricke I grave, ju.t out Nile the ourch
Toe procession reforeed and m rched beck t the
late residence of the deceased, sod the mournful
proceeding* terminated.

LORD WOLVERTONS HARRIERS.
Oa Tuesday last I warns House, the Mat of Lord Wolver-
ton, preowned an exceedingly gay and pleasant scene, the
fl
eettoast of his lordships new pack of harriers having
been held iu the park lost outside the noble mansion,
recently erected at enormous expense. A moat elegant
and sumptuous breakfast was laid in the spacious and hand-
some dining-room, to which all comers were generously
invited, who seemed thoroughly to enjoy the delici us
viands provided, washed down as they were with copious
libations of champagne, in Breakfmt concluded, his
lordship took his spotted darlings (of which he teemed not
a little prou 1) int the park, where a hare we' soin started
and afforded some very pretty sport, passing and re-pass-
ing in (root of the imuee to the delig it of the ledies &swum
bled, and afterwards escaping to crow the road into the
ornamental grounds oh the opposi aside, and final' being
pulled down in the road, nearly opposite the Principe., entrance to the grounds, he. The hounds, which, we
hear, come from Lord Pembroke's kennels, and are
descendant, from the famous "Nihon barriers.," Po well
known in Wiltshire, under the tnanagement of that true
sportsman, Mr. Walter Fowler, were in splendid condition,
and did their work creditably, and were rewarded by being
allowed to enjoy their first ham to which they .0011 go.
the nappy despatch" They aftererarcie soon found
several other hare*, and kills i three of them after some
pretty bunting. Nearly a hundred hot-mann and several ,
ladies, beehive numerous pimple in carriages ant on foots ,
were present, and thoroughly enjoyed the noble lord's
hospitality and the subsequent sport afforded, and we hope
to see sunny similar days sport before the season closes.
The weather was delightful.