The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-02-10 00:00:00

03RN/1 ABBAS.

FATAL ALVIDILVT. -+ An accident which resulted
fatally occurred on Saturday last to a man named
Andrew Parkington, a niason, in the employ of Mrs.
Biles, of Cerne. A chimney at Mr. Groves', Abbey.
street, warn thought to be unsafe, as the weather was
very rough at the time. The deceased procured some
ladders and ascended the roof to take down the
chimney pot, and was in the act of doing so, when a
round of the ladder, on which he was standing, broke,
and he was precipitated to the ground, and sustained
severe injuries, from which he died about quarter.past
four the following morning. The deceased, who has
been for some years chief ranger of the "Court Saint
Austin" lodge of Foresters, was a very useful inoffen-
sive man. He leaves a widow and one child to mourn
'Ls loss. An inquest will be held on Monday.:

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WEYMOUTH.
MRS. CORNWALLIS Ws:sr.—World rays _
hear that Mrs. Cornwallis West has been impiree
,ely ordered to the south by her medical advisers.
'Think you, medical advisers ! May she come to
leymouth.—En.)
WILDNOWL AT W=lloolll. —During the two recent
. of (rod and cold north-east winds we have had a
- of rare birds shot in Weymouth Bay and on
..areor. On January 19th the bay was visited by an
Amoroso flock of gannets, consisting of many hundreds
Of birds, the greater part of which being in white
olumage, must have been mature birds ; there were a
riv, however, in brown plumage. They were flying in
Ty extended order about half-a-mils from the shore;
it w • very pretty sight to seen themw ntinually
'lnto the water to catch fish, as they were
y following the course of a school of herrings or
, and working round the bay to the eastward,
after half-au-hour, they were quite out of right.
a flock of gannets WY never before seen in Way-
-oath Bay in the memory of that wonderful person
1" the oldest inhabitant" There are usually • very
'cow gannets here most winters. This remarkable flock
gannets was afterwards seen in Portland Roade, but
wild to be approached. Would they not be a ago of
a extreme cold and boisterous weather in the North
England? Amongst other rare birds, I have a very fine
men of the yellow-shanks, or yellow.legged sand-
-4 shot on Lodmoar. Also a mature specimen -
• female red -breasted merganser • and not long sines
beautiful long-eared owl and a shoit-eared owl. These
vrere at liadipole, near here. I believe the
low-legged sandpiper is a rare bird -at any rate.
the South of England. A very old female el/
'- in splendid plumage, was shot, as also a'
Acnis duck. Hooper., or wild swans, have been
,ntiful, but too wild to be approached by—As 01..b1
Snsnalisr (Weymouth), in Add,
STILLING CAW, &c.—At the Borough Police..
a Friday, before B. Hopkins, Esq. (Chairman),
. E, Robson' Req., John Hogue a boy of 14, we.
eel with stealing three 3-lb. cakes, the property,
r. S. Marder Burch, confectioner. also a brats
a puzzle and pieces of metal, the property of
P.B. Apeey proved appre-
.ag the prisoner. When charged with stealing
things he denied It' but after being locked up far
as time be admitted the offenc When searched at
station he found the brass rule on him. Ho said
sent a bey named Nicholls after the cakes.--P.C.
.riickland said on Thrusday afternoon be went to
ibises's. Leaning's, and asked for the basket and coat
• --Anse t prisoner, and in the former he found some
_ the cakes, and in the coot he found the brass
, and the pions of metal —Mr. E. L. Laming,
.nonger, of the firm of Lansing, Bros., said the boy
been employed by them as errand boy. lie 000 M
positively swear to the things as these was no mark
them, but he had every TOLIOU to believe they
-Aged to their firm.—Mrs. Burch said on Monday
I' • boy named Hoary Nicholla came into their
and said Mrs. Tregarthen had sent him for • 4-11).
Ake which she had ordered. She had resaons to doubt
the truth of it, but she sent three cakes vslued
rely 10(1., Bd., and -TV 6d. and told him to bring s two that were not kept. None of them were
nght back, and she won found out that the fraud
been committed.—llenry Nicholls said on Monday
, the prisoner asked him to go into Mr. Burch's
and ask for a 4-lb. cake which Urn Tregarthen
ordered. He went in and brought ouL three 11-Ib.
,as Mrs. Burch did not have • lb. one. Rigs,,
to prisoner. Witness did not have anything for
in.—Arthur Frederick Nicholls oorrobothis.
. Tregarthen said she had never authorised the
Aer to get the c•ke.—Mrs. Burch did not wL•h to
As the case.- -The prisoner Pleaded guilty to stealing
but the puzzle. —Sentenced to three weeks' imprison-,