The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-09-07 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.
REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE.
The position of the grain trade remains much the mune.
Az rultsrda wheat badness has not been brisk, hut hut
been rather steadier, althoigh prices to the awe of inferior
samples have ruled Irregular.
The top price of red is about forty eight. whit* fifty
two, Talavera fifty four altillinp per quarter. Farmer
deliveries have been smaller, but the imports from abroad
has been tolerably good.
Recently the importa have been much in excess of con-
sumption, and there has been in consequsore an ,Losunten-
talon of the stocks held, an augumentation which may
be expected to become still greeter.
Bearing in mind that the stock of old produce in first
hands are understood to be much larger than at this date
last year, it seems to us that there is nothing in the
immediate prospect to jestify the expectation that quota.
tend will rapid tv improve, whatever may be the state of
affairs later on.
Fine malt barley ham been in demand and has
mused fullcam:pr other kinds have been dull. Oats
have been rather easier on the week. Raise has been
drooping. Beans and peas have sold quietly. Flour
steady, not active.
MARK LANE.—Tius Dir.
Fine wheat closed steadily ; inferior drooping. Barley
Quiet Oats and Maize weak. Beans and peas unal tau&
Flour quiet and steady.
METROPOLITAN CATTLE.—Tais Day.
About 5,500 beasts, including about 3,300 foreign. Trade
dull, at 3a 10,1. to de. Id. About KNOW sheep. Trade
Inactive, at 5a 6.1. to Ge. 24. Calves sell at 4s. dd. to
se. 10d. Plys, 4a. &l. to ss. 61.
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TAR CORN AND C—AITLZ TRADE.
At the markets on Saturday the grain trade was variable
In some rates slackened., in others • slight advance was
secured.—M Dorchester new wheat was more freely
offered, at Is. per imperial quarter reduction on the prices
of last week; the quotations were from soe. to 22e. Old
wheat at late prices. Grinding barley a tendency up-
wards. New malting barley, 46..; oats from Ms. to Me.;
beans, 118 s. to 30s, per sack: flour, 39.. per sack. At Mr.
F.naor's fortnightly cattle sale there was a moderate supply
of stock, which wee disposed fat the annexed figures:—
Fat beef, 14. to 15s, per ecore ; barreners, £2l to £3O per
pair ; cows and calves, .Cl 2 to £lO each ; ewe mutton, Bd.
to 9d. per lb.; wether ditto, 15.1. to UM. lambs. 2811. to
40e. per head.—At Beading a short supply of grain. Trade
very firm. Holders were asking about the tame prices as
last week.—At Norwich wheat was in fair supply, and
the market opened quietly with rather a downward
tendency in prices.—At Bath a larger supply of new wheat,
and it wm generally in good condition. Sellers asked an
advance of Is. per quarter, which only needy buyers would
give. Red wheat, Mb. the bushel, Cis to 21s. ; white. 245.
to 275. per sack; new rea., Els per sack.—At Gloucester •
ruoae,sisrsepoy or gooisti wheat, and best samples of
new were middy taken at about het week's prices, while
Inferior were neglected; foreign held forbad week's rates.
but business limited. Barley unaltered. Maize and oats
6d. to Is. per quarter lower.—At Warminster a very short
supply and attendance, owing to harvest operations. The
wheat trade was very dull, but buyers had to give Is. per
qr more money. Mr. Wallis. of Chitterne, had a good lot
of new wheat, weighing 12 score 121 b. Barley, oats, dc., a
dull trade. Wheat, 4195. to his. per qr.: barley. Ms. to
475. • oats, 28e. 30s. ; beans, Ds. to 57..; peas, Ms. to
555.; flour, 31s. to 31s. per sack.—At Taunton there was
but a small attendance. Owing to the bad reports which
have been circulated respecting the wheat harvest.
farmers held back end only • few samples were on offer;
prices were constantly against buyers, and new wheat
must be quoted Is. higher. Malting barb!), a slow sale;
ClLi.nit 9.1. dearer. Maize Is cheaper on the week. New
6.. 3.1. to Es. dd. per bushel. Flour, 375. per sack.

THE FOREIGN WHEAT AND FLOUR TRADES.
A very regular demand for wheat continues to be
experienced at Antwerp. And prices have been very firmly
sustained. Aminem in flour has ruled quiet at Paris.
Offers of old wheat have not made default at Paris, and
they have been rather sluggishly responded to. New
wheat has been • little less offered at Paris, but it has not
found purchasers very readily, its quality rendering it
unsuitable for grinding by itself. Upon the whole, busi-
ness in wheat has proceeded with sollle difficulty at Faris:
sales cannot be freely effected, except on condition of
concessions being airmail to which sellers are not much
disposed to snake; taking • general view of matters, the
tendency of prices has been downwarils. At Hamburg,
disposable wheat and wheat for future delivery has ruled
quiet. The MAW,' wheat market has been a shade
weaker, but the Konigsberg wheat market bes been
firmer. At Perth wheat has remained without variation.
and the same may be said of the Odessa wheat trade.

DORCIIINTER--RIFEE—SHO4
The annual match between 41 officers and non-cons.
awl six private, dr the Dorchester Rifles, was shot this
day (Monday), and resulted in the privates winning by 2
points. The officers and non-cons. scored X 3, and the

MR WILLIAM COLLIE:
Mr. William Collie, charged with frauds on the London
and Weattninater Bank, waa remanded at the Guildhall
today (Monday) until October lath.

THE WRECK OF THE MIKTLETOE.
The 'woad on Toruer mate of the Mistletoe. was
resumed this (Monday) looming. Mr. Heywood stated
his opinion that the gravest responidbility attached to
Prince Leinengen. The hull of the Mistletoe was sold by
auction for .C 1.3

DRAM OF COLONEL WILSON, MT.
Colonel Vtlon, Ml'. for West Suffolk, for which con.
stituency he was only elected last June, died at four
o'clock on Satunlay afternoon at his residence. StowLang-
ton Hall, near Huy St. Minutia*. His death resulted
from an attack of brain fever. The decease', who wee
one of the most 'popular men in tho county, was colonel
of the West Suffolk Militia, Chairman of Quarter Sessions,
President of the West Suffolk Chamber f Agriculture,
and of the Stowmarket and Central Suffolk Farmers
Club.

DEATH OF MR. 11. M. FIELDEN, M.P.
OniSunday night alert Mr. H. U. nekton. M.P. for
Blackburn. He has reprewntod the constituency in the
Conservative intere.t since Paki. The Fie Men family has
been settled in Lancashire for upwards of four centuries,
and is • branch of the wthle house a Denbigh. The
deceased member was 57 years of age.

BARNET FAIR.
On Saturday the Barnet fair hells were thrown open
for the admission of cattle &nil fur public business. There
wam • large attendance o' farmers, graziers, and otherf•
but the aggregate supply of stock WR4 below the usual
average. The store beasts were healthy, and in remark-
ably good condition. and many of the herds were half fat,
and gave ample proof of the abundant state of the grass
lands. The dealer. demanded advanced prices for their
droves of cattle, and the farmers and graziers, influenced
by the high value of fat cattle and the prolific crops of
swede turnips !mil cattle food, to furnish their fatting
sheds, readily yielded to sellers' prices, and an active
business was transacted. There was • good Held of short-
horn breeds of cattle, and well grazed beasts fetched .£25 to
1:98 • bead ; and ditto. in full condition, co SX per
ditto ; middling Ntorr %teen, CIS to 123 ; and ditto,
heifers. £IS to ; Yorkshire lin:a bulls. LIS to L2l:
and stock heifers, 1:13 t ils. There were bents if Devons
from the western counties, and level lots (good bloods) of
store bullocks, warranted free of foot and mouth com-
plaint, sold at LlB to 1.21; awl secondary ditto, £l5 to £ll.
Herefords 111101. a fir .rt and were sold at from £l7 to
£ll & head : and tlmall ditto, £l5 to £l6 per ditto. The
Welsh cattle field was inislerstely represented. and despite
the high prices asked ft g... 1 sale Wad made. Carnarven-
shire and large broods of Welsh beast, Llfi to 1:19 : and
Runts, storo steer', £l2 to £l5; and ditto heifers, 4:10 to
LI4 each, and dairying ditto. £lO to £l5. The Scotch
cattle fair was held on the north side of Barnet oil town.
but the supply was inadequate to the demand. and &clear-
ance was rembly effected. Highland steers at gin to .Cl 7
and polled Scot., ?deem £l7 to £2l; and heifers. fifi to gig
a head. A large field of milch cows were on sale, and
buyers were plentiful. Shorthorn bred cows large and
square Owned, in full milk, and a calf at foot LIS to
.03 each: Alderney, polled Sutfolka and Ayrshire breeds
Ll to £2l; Dutch cows, 1.38 to £11; and cows and heifers
done calving, £l5 to £2l escl4 There was • large show of
miscellaneous clam, and good herds of Promising colts and
Urge droves of Welsh forest ponies sustained the prestige
tit'. fair has acquired for its annual supply of this Lilli-
putian horselleh. Riding horses of good class sold at 45
to 65 guineas, and ditto of good 14..1 70 to P 5 guineas
harness horses of superivr stamp, 40 to 70 guineas, and
secondary ditto, Mto guineas ; sound young horses for
Tan work, town purposes, We .35 to 55 guineas and hand-
some cart horses suitable for isindou brewers, Ac., 50 to 55
guineas and ditto for agricultural work, 20 to 30 guineas.
bish colts, promising well bred animals (unbroken),
selected from the drove, 20 to :12 guinea.; &nil seasoned
Irish horses 40 to 45 guinea.. Welsh ponies, small forest
colts, Bto 10 guinea.; and strong well-grown ditto, 13 to
15 guineas. The unsold stock will be on offer to-day, and
the horse fair will be resumed.

MISS PARKER'S SEVEN MILES SWIM IN
THE THAMES.
Miss Beckwith's feat of swimming front Lonion.bridge
to Greenwich was ou Saturday eclipsed by that of Miss
Lnlly Perker, whn swam from Loudon-bridge to Black-
well. a dbtance of nearly seven miles. In one hour M
minutes, thus winning • bet of f.. 50 to .00 laid against
her. Miss Perker is a sister of Harry Parker, the cele-
brated swimmer She le 14 years of age. The weather
was on Saturday all that could be desired. Taking the
water at tan minutes to nix on the first of a rather slow
ebb, the swimmer, amid the cheers of thousands of
persons on the bridge, and of the occupants of a large
number of row Isieta, as well as of thaw on board the
steamer which accompanied her, at once commenced a
steady chest stroke, which she maintained to the close.
The hosts, of which there were about 110, crowded round
her
_and in spite of the efforts of the Thames police, re-
mained so close to her during the whole of the journey_as
wt tames 0 t.o mesblemble inconvenience. The
Thames Tunnel wan passed at tilt, and the Margate boat
soon after. At 6.47 Limehouse Beach (about M miles/ WM
Weed ; Greenwich was reached at fibt. Thousands of
had there congregated in the evectation that the
rrscalurney would there terminate. At .10 Harry Parker
entered the water and swain with his sister to 'Beckwith
pier, which was reached at 7 In, or 1 hour :G minutes from
the start The swimmer im returning on board did not
seem at all exhausted, but repeatedly kissed her hand in
response to the hearty cheers with which she was greeted.
The en,. of itmet f the vessels passel during the journey
crowded the rieniing of their ships and cheered euthusiaett-
catty, salutes being tired from many, and one the
Gauntlet, which accompanied the swimmer the latter part
of the journey, burning I due light...

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Colonel O. Colley,of the 21.1 (Queen's Royal) Regiment,,
will moved Colonel Valentine Baker as Assistant gnmaster Oeneral at Aldershot,
When the Spanish doet were shelling the Carli.t port
bat week Admiral Polo was wounded on the head and
several officers on the hag ship struck.
mon. lists, of E.tling, haA been tined .1.5 by the Brentford
magistrates for having given a false written character to a
Woman, saying that she had lived with her as cook and
housekeeper, when such was not the case.
The Insurgents of the Herzegovinia are reported to have
boo guilty of moss cruelt O ies. ne land reported to have
net fire to urkish house: ,put the chit which it
contiejeed on mots," and roasted them alive; and then
to have slain their parents
A match between lin men of the Queen's Westminster
Rifts and an equal number of the lit Manta Administra-
use Battalion of Volunteers took place at Winchester on
uturctiy. The former won by 128 pointa, having made
the highest score on record in any match of anything like
Aqua prOPOrtiOns. The respective numbers of points
made were 2.981 and 2.865.
A and value herd of shorthorn cattle, which
to the late Mr. William Tory, ha. been sold by
suction at Aylesby Manor. near Grimsby. There were se
hyte-21 cows and heffect and 13 bulh—and these produced
• total of nearly £13,01A or an average of wore than JZIO
several of the anims fetching price's. high as from I,ood
to &MO
some rinneenLgo a shoemaker was fined by the Skipton
toe for refusing to have his child vaccinated.
=Wrath= pa the fine be went to priSon for 28days. On
bie „kwe from gaol he was met by several hundred anti-
onists, who greetel him very enthusiastically,
a procession of carriages with hauliers and a braes
hand, marched to it place were • meeting Wall held, and
wooed up by lemming the committing magistrate in effigy.
A Goon Ds. P.—lt appear* mus that the needing race
brotig It t to A perpetual termination. They
.7;711.0 to be held at the end of this %week, hut the
gaiveriptions to the racing fund were so paltry, and the
number of entries of horses *0 smith that the managing
ea,on'Mace deemed it better to give up all reepoano,ftiey in
the name, The subscriptions have been returned. and
the lease of the racing ground ham been disposed of to
moors Huntley and Palmer. of the ie Idemit factory. The
,I stand was erected and other preparationu were twine
grsn but all work is 'topped, and the races will Le • thing
made
of OS Poi-