The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-12-17 00:00:00

DORCHESTER FLESIRS' CLUB.

The Deoember meeting of this obits WY held last
Stlorday overdo', st tbs Km"'s Arens Hotel. Der-
°hooter, when there were prosent—Mr. J. G. Fiontor
(President), Mr. R. Geste rirlee.President), Mr. R.
Mr. T. 14. flounders Mr T. A. Homer, Mr. H.
W. Hawklne, Mr. 0. Kent, Mr. K. Pope, Mr. Alfred
Pope, Mr. J. Gdpin, Mr. G. J. Virtue, Mr. G. W.
Homer, Mr. J. Jolty. Mr. T. A.. Ronne, Mr. W. Atkins,
Mr. R. Whittle, Mr. A. Look, Mr. C. Jesty, Mr. T. C.
8"thd000 crrosertrorl. Mr. F. Leek. Mr. T. Loci!, Mr.
R. fowler. Mr. It. N. Howard, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Warm,,
Dr. Altridge. Mr. T. Ohlok, Mr. J. A. Denten, Mr. O.
Short, Mr. 1. Homer, Mr. Chlloott, Kr. Loth, Mr. G.
J. Andrews (hon. eserstery), and Mr. P. Pewee
(sosteMat wooretsry).
The next lectors will be glven by Mr. R. Whittle, of
on the It NNW of disease smoopt cattle. on
Jsn. 11th.
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••••••••• ••••••
A. L. Cooper, of Whitoombe, was elated a new
member; goo Kr. Arthur Look, of Domineer, ; and
Kr. J. Tread, of Frome Yauotioroh.
The Peasionwt Wiser intrornioed Kr. Howard to
the meeting, and expressei the pleesere it afforded
him to use so many peesent
ablltiscr. LaaPF..romf
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uibeted atereehis.
Capital,' awl he dealt with It In an able and lengthy
paper, of whioh the following is a summery. We
understand that the writer contetapletes publishing it
is Wow In • permanent form. Hr. Howard et the
I outset jostled the general interest taken by all °lawn
In agriculture by the foot that If • farm Is badly managed
tatierldiiliotyfirroaeFlaroomonteosbryrsatebsedoafarmi*nrumarwuigh.rehisreglataw:irdlojib,:lbsill
and training, but everybody had • right to discus thou
queetieel in eeeesegos with agriculture witioh sleet
the national wealth. The liberty of sodas of
In a well-regulated state is 000 trolled beyond this
extent—that you may do as you like with your own
provided it is not unizery to the exigencies sod
requirements of the general body of the nation. The
...du of hew. is amused the carrying on of trades
Is therefore regulated; aid dealing with land from the
time of the great Charter doenawards has been con-
trolled by law. lie nodded that the law of Primo-
geniture only applies whet • men dies withost • will,
and said that almost all Hu greet estates of this oountry
were the subject Of re-settlement every generalists, for,
however strictly tied up, • mass won on attaining the
ago of 21 might, in coojunetion with his ton, eel the
Meaty. Attempts hod been made to tie up property
for a longer owlet but the law discoustonanood It as
oontrary to the exigencies sad rsquiransats of the state.
No interest could be supported in anything prejudisiel
to the general community. Speaking of the sgrieulteral
Interest hi included all who bad embarked their capital
or Industry, or both, In egrioniturs. Questions arose
from tine to time touching such and such an Interest
to the quick, whereupon they soothing to exert their.
infleence Is the way they conceive moot adventegues
to their own immediate twat and take the littering
unction to their souls that they are guided by philo-
sophies' views Instead of milk motives. Stream
expressions are used, and people are misled. Boob is
the ow with the labourers under the Influence of the
agitators. Let them look it the subject before them on
that wagon tree from any prejudice. First, the pod.
doe of the farmer ; and he wild not help oongratulating
them on • statement made be the President it the last
meeting, to the greet that £15,000 of egrioultural capital
20 years ago as 1.0111 worth £7,500, in other words had
gone up 50 per cent. This was glorious new, 03 Chao,
the aching heart and troubled bosom of the distressed
ogrooltunet. In conerionenea of the high price at which
lead is purchased, In no country does It give et poor a
return an England: the profit Is miserable compared
with that of investments in eomniereal undertakings.
Yet they saw the merchant who had aosumulated emelth
by trade, and had opportunities of realign( £5 per
cent. Invest that money in land, and thereby demean
his income at lust one half. He attributed it to piisie
—that a man could pat his foot on the ground, an say
this Is min., and by It perpetuate his items. At the
present time lo rid is not purchased as • comaserolal
Investment, and beau 11. high prim. The peal is geo
enhanced by the limited extent available. Is sonseqttense
of the large holdings, the quantity held by cio=nftle.
bodies which seldom Usages owner., and the 19
of sores uncultivated. Consegunt on the high raise
laud realises, the farmer has to pay high rent. Their
Interval thers'ore was in the direction of all matures
tending to the elthspening of land, lot/nosing Its supply,
and freeing the large exact now tied up. When sash
land was liberated the largo holders might endeavour te
absorb It, bat as mesa In agriculture involves an
thermos to the wealth of the nation, the Suite had a
right to control private wills. Next oeturider the
position of the farmer towards the incidents of the laud,
one of the chief being taxation. When • moo takes •
farm b. calculates the rent and taxes, and the two
wculd form his animate of the outgoings. If he let •
Louse for £4O a year, and the taxes were generally £2O,
the property should be worth to the tenant £6O: and if
the trues bureau to CIO, the rout would have t be
reduoed £lO unless from other circumstances the value
of the property had Increased: so there seemed troth
In the observation that taxes may ultimately come out
of the landlord.' puke* and any reduction thereof is
a berthas to them. It the landlords could be benefited
without any detriment to the tenant fanner and the
requirement+ of the state it ought to be done. Bat taxes
aff•atari a !awe hamar or time term of his
Ii dilute, consequently the prude* of the
legislature in continually adding new charges
to the rates wee injurious to the agriool.
tura interest, sod they shoold resist frequent charges.
If they got a ex removed there would be sure to be a
a readjustment of rent at the end of their current
term; sod • tax ttken off one toted mud be put on
another, so la teem lake oars they did not lend them-
selves to free land from taxation which indirectly
comes out of the landlord's pookets, and tu themselves
as the ratepayers of the country. Without doubt the
land beers exelusively tones when it ought not to bur.
Personal property hes been taxed rapidly in proportion
to Its growth for the ezigensles of the state, and all
kinds of names given to it • land Ur was originally
impend, and remained at its original value, but other
taxes had been created, and the position of the tenant
farmers was to me not only that new °bargee are not
rapidly placed on land, but also to see that lend bean
It. fair proportion of taxation to the other Interests of
the sonotry. You mast eft that rates word effect
ogrioalterg produse, although perhaps to • very slight
extent they may retard the development of the gullin-
g** of certain leads. As to tithes, let than when
discussing It get rid of the old hackneyed notions about
original donors and the wills of people, sod apply the
principle of the exigenoiss and reguirenteots of the
state overruling everything. He favoured their removal
as an ineubits on the lend, mid • !Andrew to ito free
transfer. Theo as to the game len, lot them look the
subject boldly in the fee. Be fueled he hoard tummy
What! do away with sportl the presences of your
andlordf resident gentry? oh! you bombe' I you
revolutionist!" But as tenant fusers they most
no
tire "Is the preservation of game for our Musk !"
They loved, and honoured, and reepooted the resident
gentry, and the mon they saw of them the better not
only for the twat farmers but for the watt, at
large: yet. looking at the occupation of hied as a
oommersiel °attract, he said all that wee no immediate
bone& to the tenant, and he maintained that real
legitimateend sport would be promoted by the game
being In tho hands of the wapiers of the land.
As at praseat it could not be pleasant for a
farmer whilst be. was Weep to have all along the edges
of his fields the crops Wen or destroyed by game for
the landlord's apart. Be quoted the foliowleg in
illustration of modera peas prearring, amidst laughter
and velure :—"A partioular didelotec uslasky enough
to be singled out for • game preserve, thanks to the
glues of some large hues being built upon It. It is a
esnetuary for tome 350 days la the year. It Is
by day sad, if neosseery, by night by drug =Ulf
keepers, for it invites tie depredations a every idle
ramp in the risighieurhood, Not • shot is Lied,
UAW at the vermin which oaten sends to prevent the
undue intrude of the game; and the Vanala are shot
and trapped without mercy. AB the game of the
neighbourhood pities into times sacred woods and
shelteredPeldt Harm and rabbits grass In herds spat
the crops, and after their ravages the peskings of the
looks of winged fowl ere almost inalimillouth Theo
the great day arrives, when the ' sport of the Uwe
some off. The pheasants run like Alamos before the
guns, to be headed aa by boys Upping in front, sad
toned up in aloud, to fall in showers. The
hares,
holding to the last by the undergrowth and hrushe
in which they have hitherto passed their unmated
ezistesess, go twain( about woos the gaiters of the
aemetias, to be knocked over by outride,' that hen no
shoe to burst. The dwellers in the adjacent
bear the soles of the pletooning during the plvelong
arishes
day, and see the spring 'arts laden with fur and nether§
driving towards the game larders of tie hall. That is
the last they do en inmost inasnose of the game ebb*
has so often bete • cause of so much diesostent. As
some of It most probably 01=14. from Loodenhall
to be turned down in the woods and swell the day's re-
turns, so most of it gum .to Leselenhall that It may Ginn
at the wilt side of the game preserver's belaneselson."
He proseeded—Not only that but keepers and parties
shooing over the lead was objectionable. It was
thrusting before their eyes that toe lend we. not then
—that they WWI merely depesidesto. It was almost
like the badge of the livery servant—although he is
dressed In good clothes, It may be better than his
master's, he is glows to be his servant. Chen again
gene consumes • greater quantity of food than the
value pg the ewe for meet purposive, and applying
the prinelple of the requirements of the nation—leave
slope all that ineresee of taxation ocionectsd with It—
it ought to be abolished ; and he maintained that total
abolitionvras the position that ought to be taken by the
tenant farmer and the general public, In addition to
this, jut let them think shahs: the proteetion of came
had not • great deal to do with the desire of -,,,,m-
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he
mesh his ante es mosey and mind to the troding
community: and if that capital was not guise its fel/
return It was aertainly as mush the fault of the
capitalists as of any other poison, provided no undue
advantage had been taken of his digressed siren...
ataams. He attributed the dapnantits of the labourer's
sapital hare sod throughout to the supply
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congaed to the immediate neighbourhoods where they
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remora why the laboerer's oap!tal went up In the market
erm the decline in he purchasing power of money, and
the standard of firing being higher and the education
and moral condition of the working claims bettor; and
the result will be the more perfect solidity between the
Industrial classes throughout the civilised world. It is
ehildish to talk about stoppiag this or that —diseharg.
, lag this labourer or that : you may as well talk of
slopping the Thames from roiling into the me. And
we have no right to blame or and knit with • working
man for selling his labour at the best prim, any more
than • landlord would have to blame • farmer for sand-
ing his cheep where they could realise most. He
pointed out that high wages did not morisserily imply
dear labour. quoting from Yr. Braseey'ap book his
experience that in carrying out eztessive contraela in
all parts of the world, though the daily wages paid
varied as machos possible, almost Immutably tha same
amount of work wee done for the same messy. High
wages meant fewer heads employed. In Ramie and
Prawn., where labour is cheap, one pens. la employed
to about It sores, *Mist in Pennsylvania two men with
two horses manage about 100 mires. I. the shipping
trade on linglish ships one man was employed to every
15 tens; and Is American ships the average was one to
26 tone; so that though ia the latter NM alla Individual
wages were higher, the met of working the Alps wee
not greater. With higher wages they must have more
work door. Way would only keep able men, and the
obarities—blanken, nothing dubs, oriels, and basil
*loor—would be swept away. Then high wages
stimulated the Invention of labour-saving maeLinery.
He quoted statistics of American parents in proof.
From these foots be did not believe high wages would
Isms **bloom. of the farmer and landlord. Then
they must r. member that high wages Impressed the
meat rionsuming population; and to the Issressed
wealth of the artisan dame' he attributed in a 011111401‘
the present blab prices of stook. He doormats& • I
Liebe being formed on • rising market, tied said wages ,
bad rises from the eireerestecost to whisk be had
referred and not through the U elem. It wee the same
all over Europe. He then referred to the abortive
Alike of the gas mew el London and said a tints, wee
only loneliolel aa it helped to bring into notoriety the
claims of any particular olam He thought it to the
general interest that the supply of and demand for
Lbour should be got 'woo • par. The Torment Farmer
got sloe' perorates* for hie ospital,tima say other edam,
but men booms agriculturists for the comfort, and
ease, and the feeling of being their own mestere.
Having remarked on the desire of the farmer for •
eomfortable homestead, he went on to my that the
labourer ought to hays • oettage with routforia and oom
violence. suited to his life. Lord Napier said there
were 700,000 cottages, which would poet at least
£7,000,000, requiring to be befit forthwith. To show
the necked which had prevailed he quoted from the
builder a description of four pottage. at Wineanton
the property of a oonsiderable landowner brim;
In the neighbourhood. They were in a fearful state of
rain, dirt, and nailer •' and Mr. Howard said it was
frightful to read. A roes living in each • place must
be the refuse ef the labouring Glass, or be well compel'.
mated for it. If compensated it mime out of the
tenant's pocket, and that farm mast be " wooderfully
well lea' This state of things it was the bounden
duty of the landlords to amend. If they do not they
will drive labour ospital from the market, and ulti-
mately the lam will all on themselves. The landlords
cannot take their Lando to distant climes, but the
farmer can his espital, and where there are good open-
ings for labourers there are advantages as great for the
taunt farmers. He dwelt on the trials end privations
labourers most endure In • strange country, and said
. they iroeld wake anything tilt rather than go away:
but, let it be remembered it was not the Morinte' fault,
It was the landlords had not done their duty. In con-
elusion he engirded that the slab should here modelled,
and that instead of disameing practical farming so mash
they should eassider the various matters, such as he
bad touehed npoe, whteh affect their interests
The PISS/DOT said Mr. Howard had given them a
very learned and instructive leeture. though they might I
differ from him on some points. its to firming capital I
now as compared with 20 yams ago, his remark was
that formerly where £5,000 would stook a fann it now '
took £7,500 to do the alma. In addition to rent and
texas the farmer had to madder the labour question
and his tradesmen's bills, for the tradesman recouped
himself for lb. increased wages he paid in • way the
farmer was not certain of. With corn coming from all
ports of the world, the poor lands, only worth a nconisal
value of Is. per mire, would not pay to sultivate ; had
at 40. or 50e. an sere Nang more profitable. Ho
believed they should be able to mean the labour din-
salty, but in taking land at the present time the had
to not °fay comider the prim of labour but it tbe ,
the loss of labour; and if they had not dent
labour they wall not get proper produce and make
the land pap Then they were unlike the tradessest '
having to pay their I•bourers on wet days though they
did nothing. The introduction of machinery had been
beneficial, though he did not think it; had leesesed the
labour they employed. Tbe high prime of meat he snot.
bated to the population increasing rapidly while he did
ant Wive there was more stock than 20 years ago In
c 1 !
saes of homes and bad semen& He agreed
e.:4:111E. Howard that many of the cottages were In a
bid state, though in his parish (ilartinstown) he solid
net make that complaint. But it was the landlord's
duty to pet to. eottaget I. • (nowt state, and the
tenant's to give the labourer the full worth of his
lebou..

—The- Vlog-Pazawairr said they had beard • very
talented and long paper from Kr. Howard. [seep*.
tom to Mr. Howard he wee in favonr of large lead-
onion for it was not the interest of • tenant farmer
to rent of a small propristosr ; and he maintained that
the dwellings of the labouring popelaUon in towns an
often worse than times of the agricultural labourer..
In regard to the cottages at Winanton, because • ,
statement in • newspaper had not been sootradkascl, he
did sot conilder it should be accepted as • fact, am some
sewspapen were teo contemptible to deserve notice
—(Voisse : It's the Beady). The bed oottages, Mr.
Howard referred to, were probably on ea ends' of two
or this, farme, the oweer of whin having • large
finally could not afford to improve, and put up the
farms at reek rents eo that the tenants mold not. The
*mews would most likely be bitter if the estate wen
ten tame* as large. As to the Genie Laws he thought
Lord Derby put that qualities in the proper light. He
said gentlemen should be content with the sport their
grandfathers enjoyed; and be (11r. (hne) thought if
they only did that nobody would find fault. Mr.
Howard had given an amain deeeriptioe of • batten;
bet there was another side to gene preserving. What
tenant farmer did not think it an honour and pleasure
to have hie landlord walk over the estate; and often it
gave them an opportnity of pointiag out improvements
whin wore done. Lf then was no sport, they might
exposit landlords to 'crew up the rents, arid go else-
where to spend tt, and they would have a system of lead-
lord absentesiem, which badness the curse of Ireised.
He objected to the term "aseeede" bengneed la eon.
notion with sporting. The labour sombnalion and
strike" he attributed to • low Raclinl party who would
do anything they could to set elms wine elms, and
upset the institutions of the country. The !abeam
multi Mks his capital to the beet market but he
thought high wages sometimes motet bad
saervi. Mr. Breasn't oontrecte were carried out
before there was nab • Radical spirit in the Ind.
Partners were willing to give the stamen they °paid
afford, but who was to say what? Mr. Howard ad-
mitted farmer, got • leis parentage thew Lannon In
any other business, and yet probably they should have
to Inman the payment for their labour 25 per nut.
Mr. Howard said that mast be met by the landlords;
but that gustiest remain& to be fought. Wham
labourers got • high rst• of wage they tried to shorten
their hours of labeer, but be did net think the latter
would sensed. Instead of bringing wane land into
onitivatioa, the probability was more would go oat of
oultintion. In America they had a visite soil and
more settled climat., He bad no doubt if labouren
had higher wages they weld live better, bet from all
they heard from the colliery district' he thought they
had better have less wages and live in • more moral
way. The agricultural districts' had always fed
the army and the mnufseturing °entree : trade had of
late been Ind‘reoedentedly actin, hens the demand.
But by and be a there would • plethora, and the
people wo come back. Not long ago the agrimiltu-
rel district' contributed to relieve the distress of the
people in the North. Formers had to UM* an average
of several years to got their per seatage of return, for
means beat the most skilfaL
Mr. KM thought Mr. Howard had Wren a temper.
ate view on nearly all the subjects on which he had
spoken. The Lamar mast now be • min of eduoation
and capital, end he thought they should have • system
of tenant right, had oompestation for unexhausted ire-
prominent". He wished every gentleman or his steward
wee man enough to draw up an agreement without
having any law to interfere between them. As English-
men inn accepted the law very well, but he did
not want to have too mttilt of It with regard
to landlord and tenant—(hear, hear.) tie thought the
law Oa to land not to bi the same im to earthing
elm: That if he had money he should planless la nd
111, any other marketable &Weis, and make what en
he liked of it—that if he chose to buy 1,000 acres end
"took them with pheasants, harm, and rabbi* to shoot
one day a year, he should do it, Ind se mush as • mon
might rent a large warehouse in the sky of L *Moe and
Mike DO profit by it. Mannery,lie thourin. had *nog" them to get the work done with greater despeteb, but,
as to wages, his experience had been they had intend
from .C4O to £6O • year. As to Unless he
_pressednl
the bad spirit of them in awns • master 100• M nalgol
Tom or climbers* Dial' and take niters part se they
liked. With regard to cottegatitrese when they
were leasehold or belonged to they
were often in bad condition; and trOrjetntkon to
building cottages wee they were heavily tean 401,1011.
But if the lawmen oonU have good seetagee, good
garden, and good mantra, he did not think they would
want to roam about the country. He thought the
Gotten* Mr. Howard described aboald net be held up
sa general, sad he spoke of the good Gottene provided
by Mr. Marini PleydeLl. the Marl of lidee, sad Mr.
Mr. G. W. loin said the land wee like the pliant
camel, whish hod had weight after weight pet on its
bask, till by and by. it begun to break' oneel the first
Babe was the egrienitural labourer, and perhaps the
second would be tenet farmer. The ogiokig,
between the tenet and his labourers wee different from
that of employer sad employed in other buaess,has
it wee most &Meals to apply enimerelal
them. Machinery had Waned the drudgery et tile
labourer, net his employment. Ho did not think
edneation had anything to do with the present &saw-
lanai : the more ignorant the um the easier be wee
inalgratios agents had tempted some men to
go is Brasil, but pawns might to be Informed it had
• climate In which mares any bat Diggers amid work.
He thought it sutras/ninon that the Lord Meyer of
London should be willing to Wake *echoic at soolaii
to sympathise with the Demon lebourer, whoa within
fear miles of the Manisa House be might iad more
Weary, deetitaths, badly hissed people, imissmissy.
sod wrotalbodaas khan la the Wale -or thh spatiff.

Nan west to Leaden and the North but tha
t.oe to some book sad work in Dorset, 14 WWII am.
Mr. Howard's ranierlis about getting rid as :=ll4
for he Simi to see la tit. lab.ceem„ "
spirit. Be did not Mink there was • mama' dead
for eatigratim In this oouaty : they mated oseafertehis
houses, sod • swish &111001111 of load they maid tal
after hours, with rrhaps on ommiosal day In ths
soriog of the year. The feeling amongst the best of
the labourers was " Zoesed, with all thy faults, I in,.
gate, ecilL" He strongly advomted pres wait, aad odd
daring tio past wet month his men had bees mepioyed
Dearly the whole time at pimp work: ots of Um isom
workmen making somothing like 15a. a week. He Tiall
very Loopy to pay it, became it was earned ; sad he
wait glad to say that one of his men who had hem ni
Ix or *emu woks, sad had • Imp family, had be,
mush Kid* to 'poly to the pariah- (bear, hear)
Kr. Dollar sal I in rotreom to the labor quadsu
an smallest opseeh was made at Oilliasham by hge.
Pleytir. Hs thought that every smouradament should
be given to the labourer to emigrato or migrate to any
port whore he might be bettor o thaa hare. if. woo
sere none of thorn would wish to stand In the way og
km prosperity. He hat seen th• greatest Madams mil
eonsideratiou exercised betw,eo atom and man: sod
ii men wished to emigrate Choy woo. fres to do ea, sad
matters would bs glad for them to beater themselves In
aay way they mall. BM he belismd, ae Mr. Omm
said, that atom .Uses many of Moss who go away will
be glai to return. Only • few years me lb. North
appeald to the South for altari,y to food their work.
people. Ho did not think Mere was soy asosesity for
removals, and that som the labour question would settle
down of Kea& H. diffdrod from Mr. Keat on the
puts goestion, eonsidering that no one had a right be
use Mod for a purpose detrimental to tho genital
interest of the community. With redeems, to the
ampeation they had to meet he centered to say than
we. non Fresteh earn oomumed in this meaty thaa
Inglish : thsre had been ton cargoes dam harvest.
The Proneih labourer was paid me from • day sad
that tem all, intik hers Me UgUsh labourer was paid
2g or 3 trams: yet the English produeor had to ample
with that low paid labour aortas tbochaaseL He had
so doubt the agriculturists would do all they could for
their labourers, but the competition they had to meet
woman Importmt elenteut la tho solution of the gam
tioo.
Yr. llowalto replied S. tho wallow oommentaries
on his paper, netataluase Itie position with masiderablo
skill and sumer, and laaaing partioelarty on the
disgramfal mato of very many *mimes a.... of the
crying evils of the Sm..; and there via an Lot ad
Parliamont waists enabled owners to raise mosey for
that purpose at • very moderato nap of interest, at
whisk they could more then mem the
A very cordial TOW Of thanks to lir. WC
mord closed
an unusually protrested meeting.

THZ GAL; OP SUNDAY AT PORTLAND.

At thin via-bakes LW*, the gale, oi, nisy be
inpix,mg.... meorolg felt, and 000sidetablo damage
was don*, among it the following :

LAPCING TEI TILIGIAPII.

The eleetrlo telegraph wires nen broker, &ea th,
eiroult interrupted. A good-natured asvv7 busing ky.
sod observing the damage, took vpoo himself to Uri the
wires together nein. But, not knowing theta fres
each other, be tied tbe wire from Yortlead le
post Aloe to tbst beloaging to the Railway etstioir
sonsequenoe being that the rail's., cfilatels knew ell
that the telegraph ago* vu " talking about," while the
post-telegraph Gould not send its messages beyond the
station.

CONOILIGATIGS TIOSUI UT.

At Fortune's Well, several slates blew of the Boyd
hotel, sad miagiod wieh oltlia from the Primitive
Methodist *impel, brooking some ol the windows el the
latter, sad so blunting ths ossireirstias that they got
adidsSer to Map tbs aerobe, sod the moirmrotios
esospod bone. Bath the hotel sad chapel were mid Is
ham visibly rooked.

eras CADZII GTKIIUII
From the naval marls' play stied, • great pleat of the
roof, about 20(t. long was blow. b31i17 off, and pilau's
on the Gadle Road, t)re it up as If • plough bsd bees
through h. Thence tilt, piece of roof buts over the
Common wall Into the common and came to rest.