The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-05-17 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE Q.O.R.Y.C.

AU last week have the inhabitants of Weymonth been
in cheerful anticipation of the incursion of county visitors
who give such a pleasant change in the appearance of the
town after the quet of winter, and this year of an
unusually cool and dull spring. And we are rejoiced that
the wn,,ther which welcomed in the Q.O.R.Y.C. to their
s^a.ide outina, wai., although still a trifle breezy, yet with-
out • drop of min, the son ?Maier in a sky from which
many of the clouds which gaihria,,e in ' he morning bad
cleared away. The bay wes perhaps as blue, though not
quite as still, as in burning summer, a few white-winged
boats prettily dotting it, the Nothe looked brightly green,
f, r aba Militia camp wee hidden (ruin the Eiplanade. s
veil of ailed a,:co hid the more distant cliff, and rather
contracted the view. ji,u,; tha town was all a-ftutter witt
Sags, from Mr. Lundfee, Mr. Veleclefe, Mr. Vincent's,
Mr. Cole • and many other points, to the art Gallery in
St 0 It;rilts,it cart, the Melcombe raegis school in the Soya.
t .rrace, tha Borst Hotel. ant the Burton. The crowds
of people leg* to muter towards the middle of the
, afternoon, and the are' i•scitement was at the Harbour
Bridge, where Mr. Whettsm, Mr. likatheaon, and Mr.
, *organ bed their cons:retaliations no iffriar got the
Eddie cleared in time for the Portland Artillery
! Volutitc•rs to pass es intended. A !owner was claret
a' each and, and la. th,e C mincil has riven Me ~,Vh than
the ansvrerahiv he mist.t come, when he liked, the coo'
'eater egerchp4 his right hy achnittint or refitelne the
proms sw ha pleated. Sefivalt, hoWpver, were not very
she dilute or even, soil • wood meny tepee Ar. 0113,130 fated
?hue, before the twe of the Portlandere was 144.1 as
, they marebe 1 from hod ardi station S iveral Y• .I:leant*/
, had already b en seen in ihe a,.po, 114 d IN the poro .4 bqrs
Petered in honour of the Q.0.Y.C., we shell Fttl: greit
* vied* by importing the Bridge opening the pro-
°medians of "yeomanry Day.' The Port an a were
eassomanded by Major Eliot, with Captain Aniree-,e.
Captain McLeats. and I.‘eutenant Thompson. Sergeant ;
Hayward, instructor •. Battery Sergeant John Stone. '
Sergeants W. W. Hinde, E. J. Pearce. and W. ,1. '
NAM% and were accompanied by their band, led by
Bliodnuieter Miller, with Bugliellake Stone, and number.
ing 11. the force of the battery ant falf which Portland.,,
• up being on this occasion 106, and very fine, men
Erthq€7cr, their new and handsomely silver-tipped
RUM 'og trona, to their soldierly look. The lively
Awing of t e.band pia ttpt signal for • strong fathering
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inuthair roar. *1 111 orpiniary passengers Irmo Portland k
gone over the te4oriary
,1.:,,41f,:i; and when they
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neared the so barrier; • moat ot Ai,* crowd was
ready to flock in saw them. Down went the bea:: ia a
loanneot, and they rearabed * to the bridge, the ap-
proaches and width of whist,. see nowgrestay ',Proved._
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while the lowering of the middles Pa W Illi Mt ge
allowed the whole of the bridge to be rose. reWilling •
I very different and wearier kind of object to that fortiserV
' es* in this artery of the town. There was indeed a toll.
house in that rel-tile roofed building at the end; but this
yea at reeept Py dr with met who seemed to be drinkiog
*mem to dirldget Over marched the Portlanders,
followed cleweljr by A VAitaga fr um ll:strit. Deventelev,
loaded with beer. bv• Ur. IS eri,,rf Groves on horseback.
and • large arowd,
_Vr." EtaisCM.l, beitir the first Private
amyl** to cross. Marchand tip thp trust &said notes of
admiration the krtllkyry found lb ea Geer fellow voLsteers
of Weymouth bed slreedy mustered. rder Lingteraant
George. Sergeant Behrens and Drtil: ostrocitr Barron
losing there an dl rank and file. The ad, led by Band.
Sergeant W. B. Gee, Included 13 Sat*. the large ma three
Mel dines, loot *sir quoin at sirtial atria Drum-