The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-10-30 00:00:00

W RI BORN E.

TILE SIXTH DORSET RIFLE VOLUNTEER CORPS.—
The annual prize competition of this company took
plain on Tuesday last, at the range at Byelbury
Rings, and was so arranged that every fair score
would reward its owner with • prise. Mr. Gerard
Start, it P., with his usual liberality, gave £lO to
the prize fund, and Capt. Montague Guest gave a
ry handsome silver cupand £5 Lieut. Well Taylor
presented • short Enfield rifle, &mite Pope gave two
guineas, and Colonel Sir Edward H. reathed, LC.L.
Capt. Riddle, and other gentlemen, subscribed
towards tbe prize fund. The ranges were 200, 500,
and 600 yard., five rounds at each range, Wimbledon
targets and scoring. The weather was fine, but a
very baffling wind, with the light varying every
minute from brightness to cloud and shade, made all
the "cores below the average. At the end of the
competition the winners stood as follows :—First
prize, Captain Oneat's silver cup and the challenge
badge of the c .rps, win by Bugle-Major Mackenzie;
second prize, £5 from the prize fund, and the short
epfield rifle presented by Lieutenant Taylor, E.
!tibia ' • third prize, .f 4 10e., Kerridge •' fourth prise
£310.., Corporal Beet; fifth prise, £2 lOa, Leaning;
girth prize, £l, Corporal Garland; seventh prize,
£2, lance-Corporal Ford; eighth prize £2., Sergeant
A. .1. Badden ; ninth prize, £110.., Treloar ; tenth
prize SI, Lieutenant Taylor; eleventh prise, a pint
tankard, presented by Mr. R. P. Hopkins, Holland.
These were all prizes for aggregate scores, and there
was also two set apart especially for the country
members of the corps, the first £l. beiog won by
Dowden, and the second, 10a, by Hart. The prism
for single and dou'ile ranges were won by the follow-
ing competitors :—Prize for beat score at 200 yards,
.fl, EnsigolPope; ditto 500 yards, .el, Quarter-master
Sergeant Blount; ditto 600 yards, SI, W. H. Reeks;
ditto 200 and 500 yards, £l, Sergeant E. T. Badden;
ditto 200 and 600 yards, I. Lance-Corporal?. Gray;
ditto 500 and 600 yards, CI, Waterfall. The list
was wound up with two prizes, open only to recruits
who had joined the corps since December lat, 1865.
The first, fl, preprinted by the Sergeants of the corps,
was woo by Tisard, and the second, a stereoscope
and 12 views, presented by Bugle-Major Mackenzie,
was won by Barlow. C.ipt. Goma visited the ground
during the tiring, and was heartily cheered for his
handsome prizes. The pleasure and comfort of the
competitors were greatly enhanced by a good and
substantial luncheon, with beer, porter, wine, and
spirits, without stint, given by Capt. Guest. It is
understood that the prizes will be promoted to the
fortunate oonipetitors as on former occasions, by •
lady Interested in the welfare of the corps.
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GuruNrY Perry Ssiustose, Friday.—Present C.
J. Park, Esq. (chairman), Hey. C. J. Glyn, Sir E.
Greathed, K. C. B Lieut.-Colonel Paget, W. L Adye,
E41(1., and the Rev. J. H. Austen.— John Burt, of
/Clown, was summoned by P.C. Hart for drunk and
riotous conduct near the Shoulder of Mutton Inn.
The case having been twice adjourned, additional
evidenoe was produoed on both sides as to the de-
fendant being drunk.—The Bench said there may be
a doubt, and gave the benefit of it to the defendant,
and dismissed him with a caution. --John Burrs.
Thomas Adams, and Thomas Adams v. John Burr.
These were cross summonses, eliarging assaults on
each of them, which arose bettreen an apprentice( Burr)
and Adams who work toge•her at Mr. Urry's, imple-
ment maker, Wimborne. The dispute arose through
the defendant Adams missing a ride, which he
charged Barr with taking. Adams struck Burr, and
Burr struck Adams with Is iron rod—The Bench
fined Adams 61., and dismissed the summons against
Burr. --Stephen Loder and Eli Whitlock were sum-
moned sad convicted, Si, each including costs, for
stealing walnuts from • tree belonging to Mr.
John Friend, of Oussage All Saints. --Samuel
Saunders and Joseph Saunders, both of Longfieet,
were fined £1 each, for trespass in pursuit of game
on the manor of Sir Ivor Guest. —George Lambert,
of Pamphill, hawker, and John Gunl, of Wimborne,
groom, were summoned by George Bishop for tres-
passing on Kingston Laoey manor after comes. —Gard
was fined kl including costs. Information against
Lambert diamiseed.— William Way was summoned
by the police for allowing • donkey to stray at Holt.
Dismissed with a caution. —John Gill, far like
offence, was fined 6d. and costs.--Mary Ann Gill,
of Huh, was summoned for allowing a donkey to
stray. Dismissed with • caution.-- If ichard
Turner, of Roberta' Bridge, Sasser, and John Dean,
of Portsmouth, two tramps, were charged by Albert
Clarke, master of the Wimboroe workhouse, with
tearing up their own clothes. —Defendants pleaded
guilty, and said they were dirty with certain live
animal, shout them, from sleeping in dirty tramp
wards in different workhouses, and that was their
reason for tearing up their clothes. —The Bench
committed them for a month to the tread-wheel as
lazy idle fellows. Turner said Thank you, I
will have another month when I come out.',