The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-12-20 00:00:00

973Y11017TH.

SINGING AT THI WINILKTAN SCHOOLROOM. A
pleasant evening sod a pr,ifitable one, we hope, was
passed on Wednesday at the St. Edmund-street
School, Mr. J. Sharron chairman. Hymns illustrating
"The Old, Old Story" were sung my • capital choir
to good tunes, composed by Mr. J. Squibb. The price
of admission was I.w, and a very fair audience
assembled, c ,nsidering the wet night.
Homan:mut, Soctsrr.—The Earl of Shaftesbury,
K.O. has very kindly written to Mr. W. hiordaunt
Thbielton, boa, secretary of the Weymouth Horticul-
tural Society, promising his patronage for 1882.
Owed birds, as well as fruit and flowers, are to farm
part of the show next August, the Mayor has promised
his assistance, and it only rem‘lns for the town to
support the society, and we shall have a magnificent
show.

POPULAR ILLUSTILLTION.—Mr. Henry Blackburn,
on Thursday evening lectured at the Royal Hotel, in
connection with the Weymouth Lecture and Entertain-
ment Society," on "The Art of Popular Illustration,"
and wee at some pains to show what people have of
expressing themselves pictorially instead of by descrip-
tive words alone. Although Mr. Blackburn was editor
of "Academy Notes," yet the weather was rufficient
deterrent for many, and the audience was small, and
that being the case, no enthusiasm was manifested.
We hope that the management which, we have heard
• rumour, is to be somewhat different in future, will
succeed in gaining for the society's entertainments
more even encores.
PALILITIN R. —The Rev. Sir Talbot Baker delivered !
• lecture on Friday night at the Working Men's Club
!entire ro on. on Paleetine. The kindly baronet
descriSed his journey ovsr the Holy Land with the
care of a wellonformedtiasoll-r and • reverend clergy. ,
, man, his lecture being quite • store of facts and
'descriptions of Palestine from Joppa to Jerusalem, the
I Dead Sea, the Jordan Valley, Plaits of Sharon and
Endraelon, Samaria and Oerizim, Nazareth, blue
Galilee, t horazins, ttethsaida's. and Caperoaum's
mine, Waters of Merom, and the Lebanon. In the
sites around and in the Holy City of Jerusalem, Sir
Talbot was especially graphic, and his description of
her down-trodden condition, her quarrelling sects, and
neglected Gethesinane opposite, should make his
hearers long for the time wheo Jerusalem shall again
he the joy of the whole earth. Some boys from St.
John's sang "Jerusalem, my happy home," and
"When his salvation bringing, to Zion Jesus came.'
At the close Dr. Moorhea I moved • vote of thanks,
which was unanimously accord-d.
COUNT! COUNT. Tooriday.—Relore Mr. Sergeant-
Tindal atkinsan.—So little business was there before
the Court that the Judge said he thought he ought to
have • pair of white glove..—Mathias -lurton v. John
Rooks was a claim for £.2 17s. 6.1. wages for breaking
up iron belonging to tbe Arklow wreck —Defendant
admitted the debt; but sag ha bad no money and
would pay when he could,—Thi., his Honour said, was
rather a vague pr mi.e, and defendant must try to
boa sw some money of his friends. —Ordar was made
that the debt be paid in two monthly instalments.--
Galpin v. Mary Ann Slade.—Mr. George appeared foe
plaintiff, who said he owned at Preston • c ,ttare and
garden, which he let to Mrs Slade on October 18, 1890,
at £7 a year, the rent to be•paid monthly, with a
mouth's notice on either side, before terminating the
tenancy. Mrs. Slade had paid up to October 18th
last, so that lls. 84., a month's rent, was due up to
last month.—An order was made for possession to be
given up in three weeks.
Barmy SUNDAY Smioot.R.—ln spite of the prepara-
tions at Bark Buildings Chapel to warm thebuild inch
which had rather displace-1 touring, Ac., on the
previous evening, by Thursday night the friends of the
two schools were well accommodated, and much
enjoyed one of Mr. W. 'l'. Hallett's agreeable show of
dissolving views, interspersed with singing and play-
ing. A good r umber attended, and the views, which
were some of the best ever exhibited, illustrated
scenery and interiors in England, India, Amer ca, and
the Holy Land. The pastor, Bev, J. Trafford, who
hu been a kind of missionary bishop in India, train-
ing young students there, explained the views, and
his Inbar nation about India was especially fresh and
interesting. Of the instrumentalists Miss Merrifield
played "II Corricol, o " the Misses Werner. "Holy
Family,' Miss Laura Rogers, "Echoes of Lucerne,"
and Miss Carry Humphrey, " LAstafette. and all
were well received, as they deserved. Miss Maggie
Hallett sang • solo very pleasingly. Mies Rogers
and Miss Hubbard sweetly sang " 0 Lovely Night"
(duet), Mrs. Rogers very kindly and with her favourite
style Wave "Rock ma to Sleep," and the choir sang
" wean Evening's Twilight" and another chorua
Mr F. Mace satiated Mr. Hallett, and the 'whole
entertainment was p-onounced excollent.