The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-07-31 00:00:00

BRIDPORT.

&moot Tszar. —We understand it is intended to
hoid the annual school treat in connection with Bt.
May's schoo's on Thursday out.

111• Ire's Evselso &tams FUND. —0011•040111111
were made ism Sunday un behalf of the shove
ohjecd, the sermon in the morning being preached by
the Rev. E. F. Trototan, formerly a curate of this
parish, but now rector of Burrombe ; and in the
avowing by the Rev. Melville Lee. rectoi of Reid-
port. The oolleetimie were newly .£6.

Tog IPORTHOIMINO RIOATTA is now uppermost in
gm public mead here. and we have received several
letters of inquiry on the subject. We doubt not
that the orimmittre are makiug every exertion to get
Lb. project into etiip-ahape, and that when launched
upon the world, it will prove to be notasoood to any
milar undertaking of our neighbours. Bur, it must
be reoolleoted, this depends entirely On the fund.
placed at their disposal We trust these may be
ample, and then fear not the result
BRIDPORT GAD LCD COVII CO M —On Thurs-
day, the 1911, a second extraordinary meeting of
Lb. shareholden of the above company waa held, at
which the resolutions of the meetiog of the 301 iost.
were spin put and cooflreted ; viz., that 450 new
£lO shares should he lamed, and that a Hort call of
£1 per share might be made when the directors
thought lit; also, that the day of the annual general
meeting should be on the second instead of the first
Tuesday in July.

A Cuninerrt mon ran San. —On Toggiday
week • specimen of that curious creature—the sun kb-
-bleb had been captured off Briilport, eras exhibitee to
all she were milling to pay • penny for the might, at the
snood toll-gate on the Bradpolwroad WSen first area
by the crew of. host it was supposed to b• a Fir floating
on the water. On finding it • living thing the men
plangent their /none! into 1., and instantly found their
beat draerd *latest under wider - the fish diving to..
Immense depth and palling with tremendoes fnroe.
Ultimately they suceeeded in getting • rope round it and
drags/Mg It bdo the bow. ii... found to weigh two met.
Tim nun Ash (eriangeriants), belongs to • geese of cartila-
ginous fish remarkahle for I. peauliarity of form.
The body is compress d, braid, and itbruptly truacetet,
resembling, In facit, tbe bead of a tants fish W..
rated from the body. Its nearly circular form, and the
silvery whiteness of the sides, together with their
brilliant phosphors-oases daring the night, have
obtained for it generally the appellations Of NM Of
mnowfish. While swimming it turns round like e
wheel. It ha. also the power of flowing with its heed
and eyes above water, but not of iodating or &Mending
Itself with air. Is this state it moves along sideways,
very slowly, however, and app ars like a (hind or dying
Sub. It grows to ea immense siae, often attaining Use
di mieter of four feet, sometimm evert double thst sin,
and occasionally weighing from 300 to SOD pounds. It
is very fat, and yields a quantity of oil, but the flesh is
ill tadad and exhales • distreeable odour. It is found
In &linnet ell gest. from theoretic to the &Mantic elreie.
There are three or four ep nes, two of which, the short
sao fish (*PIA -poems onoie), and the oblong sun fish
(or lusgor(s-oblonpaa) are found in the British leas.