The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-04-21 00:00:00

jorrign intelligence.

EIRITINCII 07 LI AMERICAN 000 RT MARTIAL—A
rinrooral named Henderson, attached to the garrison of
Columbia, South Carolina, who was tried by court-
inertial and found guilty of striking Colonel Guenther
while on duty, was sentenced by the court to be reduced
to the ranks, drummed out of camp, to have his head
shaved, to forfeit all pay, and to be imprisoned for three
years, with hard labour, in Fort 'flacon ; and durin a the
term of his imprisonment to wear a ball weighing 321 b.,
attached to a 36-inch chain.

A IntigigiA.—lntelligence reeeived from Abyssinialc
very satsEfeetory. On the 23rd of March Sir Robert
Napier left Let with the advanced oolunan. Sir Charles
Staveley, with the second column, la ono day in the
rear of Sir Robert. The distenoe from the adieu:wed
camp to Kagdals is sixty miles, end it eeems probable
that the fortress would be reached in five or six day..
Theodore was still at Idegdals, but he was exhibiting
uneasiness at the near approach of the English troops,
and his intentions were very uncertain.

DORI. BETWIRN TRI RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR AT MB
FRIFCM COURT •lID BARON BIRTINDORPF.--Snuse two
month, sloe. Baron Butiberg vas returning to Paris
from St. Petersburg, a fracas took place at the buffet of
the Vervien Station of the Northern Railway, between
hi. Excellency and a Russian nobleman, M. de
Meyendsoff. no clear account of which has yet appeared.
It had been given out that M. de Mey.dorff we
insane ; but be published a certificate from two eminent
London physicians clearly disproving the imputation.
A curious acquel to the story has just taken place.
Baron Budberg has resiped his poet as Madan
Ambassador to the Court of the Tuileries and gone to
Munich, where on Tuesday • reaconfre with pistof.
took place between him and Baron If. eyenderff. If. de
Budbag was wounded, and immediately returned to
Paris.

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COLONIAL FANNING.- (Prom S. W. &leer's and Co.'s
Cisnaar.)— Vidoria, Feb. 4.—Commercial matters im-
proving. Vision iin flour. Els to £l5 10s. Wheat
scares. At a bodieg-down establishment in Geelong.
a tarteil in October lest,ls,ooosheep have yielded 270 auks
of tallow ; legs of mutton sold at 61 itch; the result,
on the whole, considered satiafastory. Sales of wool during
the month, about 13,500 bales, prices, 51. to 10.1 d. for
ere..,; 13d. to 20d. for &We, and Ato Ild, for
moored. Shipments to London since 24th December,
42,643 hales. -New South Wales, Ist February.—Trade
quiet. Wool market flat; ales considerably below
the average; the clip has been heavy and quality
seperior. Parliament has passed a bill granting sheep
owners the power or giving a lien upon the next ensuing
crop of wool on their sheep, nothwithatanding that at
the time of their giving such lien an dieting mortgage
remained unutisfied. —South Aufraiia, January 31.—
The business done during the month has been of little
importance. The cold and wet weather materially
Interfered with reaping operations, but the harvest is
nearly all gathered in. Government is oollecting
atatisties of the season's yield. The total export of
wheat and flour in 1867 (reckoning 45 bushels of wheat
to the ton) was 96,865 g too. ; the export this year to
25th, 2,114 tons. The expeptionally high priors quoted
last month hey, not been maintained—new flour has sold
at £l6 to £l6 10e, Old wheat for mixing finds buyers
at 71. 4d. per bushel; new wheat is of very varied
quality, some samples being worth not more than
2s. 6d. to whilst others realised 6, 64. to 7s.
Business in wool U limited, and at a decline of Id on
the better aorta of grow. Boiling-down establishmenta
are being formed in various parts of the Colony, and
steps are in progress for the formation of a company,
with • view to preserviog meat for the English market.
—Queetufulad, 30th January—Businees brisker; atoeks
much redooed, and many articles of daily consumption
are becoming scarce. Wool is coming down freely.
Much attention given to the subject of meat preserving,
and • bill has been brought before the Legislative
Council offering 10,003 agree of land sea premium to
the first person who lends 100 tons f sound unoooked
meat in Europe ; it Li probable the bill will become law.
—Western Australia, Ist February—Trade without
change for the better. Wheat has advanced from sa. to
Se. 6d. per bushel, and dour from £l3 to £l5 per
with • further tendency upwards. The subject of
Immigration is now under serious consideration, the
necessity being felt for taking prompt steps towards
ensuring the introduction of a awful class of people.
—Tassamaia, 31st January.—Commercial operations
during the month have been almost wholly suspended
in consequence of th• presence of the Duke of
Edinburgh.—New Zeolowd, January 26.—The recently
Issued returns of the inspector show that the number
of sheep in Wellington for the year ending May. 1868,
was 475,484, and to similar period in last yvar, 603,635,
an increase of 128,151 during the year. Ile docks are
now almost entirely free from diseue.—Cape of Good
Hope.—Trado bas not improved to the extent antici-
pated at Gape Town, and nothwitbstanding the fair
average harvest, complainta are numerous. Port
Elizabeth.—C,opious showers have fallen; cattle and
stock are in good condition. Price of wheat per maid
(3 bushels), Iss. to 215., or say?.. 6d. to 10s. 6d. per 100
1b.., an upward tendency is observed consequent upon
advice. from Australia. The Ailanthus silkworm is
spinning in the open air at Newlands estate. —Natal,
10th February. Trade quiet. Trial of Natal coal ham
turned out very satisfactory, the quality is reported
equal to that of England.
SPORT IN ABYNNINIA.—Mr. 8.. Bottsteed, surgeon,
Abyssiois Field Force, writes :—1 have just returned
from a day's shooting in the Sowers Mountains, about
thirteen miles east of Sumo, and I have made a splendid
bag. I went to try to bag • lion, whose pug I had
previously noticed in my ramble; and I tracked his
marks for about two miles, until I lost them in • rocky
, ravine, where not a true of the animal himself could
be found, so I gave tip the pursuit. On clambering
over the second range of bills I came across the fresh
spoor of elephants, and tracked them over some terribly
rough ground up the most precipitous and rugged
passes imaginable, and down the most steep and dan-
gerous dedles that it is possible to conosive. No one
who has not seen it would believe an elephant capable
of scrambling up the wonderful, almost perpendicular,
places they pass with apparent facility. Their tracks
over the edge of the rocks on the watershed of many of
the hills were positively not more than twenty-four
inches broad, with • sheer precipice falling eighty or •
hundred feet below. Onel place had an uninterrupted
fall of upwards of 500 feet into • dark, rocky, ugly
chum, where the sunshine never yet entered. I was
awompanied only by • Shohoe guide, a dboolywallab,
and my soldier-servant of my regiment. The latter
amid not stand the scrambling up and down bill at all,
aod knocked op in • moat unsoldier•like way. Nothing
would induce him to go on, so I armed him with my re-
volver, and told him to look out for himself until my
return, and I left him in the middle of the jangle, with
order, not to move away from the track, and promised
him that I would pick him up on my return. It was
about two o'clock p.m., and after crossing the fourth
large range, when I came in sight of the herd browning
on the prickly acacia and the mimosa on the edge of •
very high hill. I reconnoitred their position wall; they
were five in number—two with large tasks, one with
medium, and two without any perceptible. They were
huge brutes, and seemed steadily &wending the bill ; so
I decided to go to • spot where they would meet me within
• few yards. By signs and • smattering of Arabic I made
my Shohoe companion understand this, and be managed
his duty well' he brought me near the herd, and
I then stalked the largest tricker to within ten yards,
when he perceived me. He looked at me in &most threat-
ening way, with his enormous esti erste, and stamped
his foot in anger, when I seats bullet amaahing through
his head, and dropped him instantly. The rash of the
remainder of the herd waa something terrible as they
crashed through the jangle, levelling everything before
them. One of them pulsed very close to where I was,
and I gave him • right-and-left slick through the
shoulder, both ballet, well placed ; but he kept on until
• third bullet from my little Mortimer (Enfield bore)
brought him up, having smashed his shoulder all to atoms.
He now maw where I was, and charged straight as me,
but could not Rumen to get up the incline with his
fractured leg. My Sbohoe guide had in the meantime
crossed the ravine to look at the dead one, and had
taken • heavy rifle with him. In his delight at suing
the huge bead down, he commeneed a wild war-dance
around the body, calling all sorts of endearing epithets,
in the middle of which hit clivertisenvietti was soddenly
stopped by an old bull elephant charging at him from
above, through every obstacle, like • nodules. I
beard • loud scream for help, and saw the Sheba,
literally dying before the enraged brute, who was
coming at a torrid° pace, and gaining on him at every
stride. He came straight towards me for Kota:Mogi,
bringing the elephant down upon me also, and shrieking
" A Diet, abiet, mundelli l" (Lord, master, save me), be
bolted for hi. life up the narrow path on which I
waa standing, the elephant rushing after him full charge,
and positively roaring in his rags like • gigantic lion.
with his trunk elevated in the sir. Ile (the Shobee)
dashed past me, and in doing so hit roe a fearful blow
accidentally oaths head with the heavy mare ride which
he had with him,and nearly toppled me over the precipice
seaselesa The bl ow:q ite staggered motor the moment, and
I was within five yards of being crashed to pieces when
I planted an Enfield-sised bullet, also from my doable
Mortimer, slick through his brain, and dropped him
deed within three paces of where I was standing. He
fell over into the ravine below with an awful crash,
carrying away • tree which he struck in his
descent as if it had been a rotten read. No
sooner had this been done than another elephant saw
us, and came tearing down upon us from a different
direction, also carrying down everything before it, and
blowing and trumpeting hideoualy. I received him at
about twenty-five paces with a berry ball in the head,
very high. It had no effect ; I then gave him the left
barrel, which was • little too low; it staggered him and
stopped his charge, making him swerve • little. On
looking for my other rifle I found the dheolywallah and
Shohoe had had enough of this; they had scrambled up
some high rocks above me, and had taken the ride there.
They chucked it down, and I caught it in the air as it
fell, and gave the elephant a No. 12 through the
shoulder, which disabled him. He tried Wise tip LO
the path where I au standing, but tumbled back, and
In his rage commenced smashing to pieces everything in
his way, making fearful noises. It waa a rue sight to
witness his wonderful strength; he bore down tress of
considerable thickness by sheer strength and weight of
body, and smashed their branches into thousands of
atom.. Every bit of jungle was knocked to unitheseens
and trampled to pieces all around him; and his rain
endeavours to get at us, and hia terrible rage at being
foiled, were really most exciting to witness. He newly
suceeeded in getting up the incline to where I was, when
I gave him the last bullet I had. His legs gave way, he
etaggered book on his hockaand then rolled over heavily
with a terrible groan. I can usure you I was thankful
when It wee all over, and that I was out of the row ao
well. I cannot describe to you the exciting feelings
' which poseeued me, nor the grandeur of the whole
sport' vi was beyond anything I ever experienced in
shooting, although I have been in danger before. It was
&splendid sight to see three enormous elephants all down
to my own gun unaided. I had O. ammunition left to
follow up the wounded one, or I should have bagged it
also; and I had a dreadful headache from the sun and
blow combined, so I Set Off homewards, and arrived
thoroughly done up. The ground was something awful.
Everyone was astonished at my succor.; nobody had
beard of the existence of elephants in that part of the
country before. Young B. kindly went out next day
to bring in the ivory, and try for the wounded one that
airs:, or any other be should come across. He
ht in four of the tusks, and followed the wounded
one t three dings by Mood, over such difficult ground
that be woad go no farther. He begged a very large
vbek• "Irks( mthiopietu), with tusks oboei
ten inane in length. As soon se lem well ezt
as gob. to be* In the other tomb sod mom