The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-08-09 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

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Vocungratcc t ott ABROAD.-On Friday a draft of
139 ?tun from the West Yorkshire Regiment pm-relied
to Chatham to join the 53r41 Regiment, which is
brought no to it.: full strength for foreign nervie-.
ST. GEOFGett SUNDAY SCHOOL TZACHF H 8 had a
delightV I, X , 81,in on Friday. They went away in
Mr. ilo Ir., Pis break will a pair. to Preston, where
thy mit, ti e i drove to Osmington, and had tea,
afterear 11. s eine a chasinis g drive through the
c matey, aid reaching Pcrland shortly after eleven at
night.
eIIICKtT -PIRTLANDV. Ron twgx.-Laet Saturday,
a cricket match was laye.l be. wren teams of the above,
The llesscasvcie made 42 in their first innings, as d
For land wen) in CO I ma le s x Key the same nember.
In th sir secs' dinning. the Boseawene se :red 71, ad
P srten I went in and inn red 39 with three wickets
down, when time was call?d, and the match was
drawn.
Bine Cif RDITIAN s„-The annivereary of the Mailer.
Well Sunday Sch tole was celebrated on Sunday. the
sermons being preached in the morning by Mr. John
Flew, and in the evening by the Rev. J. Itr twn. On
Monday the chil teen hel th-ir treat, and gave recita-
tions. ite., in the chapel, eldse.res being delivered by
the Rev. W. IL Watn,h ant n. h.q. friends.
Wm) YORK4HIRR lITGIMENT. - The following
promotion.: have t ken place : -To be Lient..Cole.-
Lima:Col. T. P. Cosby frs..n half-pay, and Major and
brevet Li, et...C01. E. W. Samslora :To be Major'.-
Capt. A. S. Lemon, Maj rs F. W. Harrington and If.
M. 1.. Hutchinson ft., in half.: ay. C .pts. W. Heywood,
and R. W. Firm-in: Ti ht. instrnet r if musk. t•y-
:meet. C. if. e.sa risc li,:ent W. L. P. nno. worn, te. I.
Wierm.-Altlolch th • r• in on Bank II did .y was
euch a disappointment ti lii Ilv-lcePper., jet it wan
very tie, ely for the people of l'. rtland. gs
were beginning to fail. It is sn.sceetel that the I.oal
Board might really to make bet'er provi-ion f.)r tha
water merely, and rot allow inos`e!lre.Twirr, ti bs so
unpleasantly a) ssrt of the cleansing INA and even ro
daigerottely near a s'ought ; this .p is ws, pioerly
economised, woul I.!,,frotsi a lerse sup: ly.

OFPARTI7III OF WAISWRIGHT.—New that another
Weymouth woninn has been mnrdered, we have lot
Thomas Wainwright. lie left the Prison on Tuesday
m end was taken to London Timis r escort, to be
discharged in the Mt-oplitan Police distric% The
aopearance of Thomas Wainwright is lather different
from what it was when he came in; he was then el .se-
• h .ven in convict •tile but he Lowe sway with a ful
b oird. and even his whiskers have tunic I trey.
MrTHOMIIT SITIMAT eCRoOL. 011
Thursday I he chil 'r m of the Fortune's-Veil Primitive
Methodist Sunday sichnol hal their annual treat. By
p omission of de C.iptain of H.M.S. Boocawen, the
Naval Ground W. the teem, of the tea and mimeo,
prod. no to which the .li'dren perambulated Un
bill with fIaWP, ttc. th gmund, tables were spread
in a sheltered spot tinder the west w.. 11, and after the
children's Pa a militia tea was hold, when the selpiars
amused tbemaelves with sport., and everything passed
off most enj •yahly. Next day there was a picnic near
the lighthouse for tea& erg and friends.
THe ILinvorr.—Mr. Joseph Hodder, of the Crown
Farm, has fairly iggnn haryeq, having cut a consider-
able breadth of wheat and oat. . in fact had the wet
we ither ..f Mon Icy ahtleipitted, no donbt some
good wheat rick., w othi have been covered in. The
at aw is good, and there ix every appearance of a yield
quite up t averazeib'eey also remises well, potabms
Up t the nresent are fl-,t rile; but of course there Is
now a little anxiety lest the harvest time should not be
dry enongh. H over. r. we have been much pmapered
' iin to this present, " and an only hop, the blessing
of f .vonraide weather will he continued to the end.
TTIRN OF 13,NICAWFN Boy.—Benk Holiday was a
snore than nanallY .tirrhut day in Portland; 108 boys
of the Boscawen, who had been left behind at Ply.
month on account of the measles being in the Devon-
shire training ebb,. 11,4,1 at the station about half-
past five p.m:, were met be the band f f the ship. and
played to the water side. They came in charge of Mr.
Hicks. gunner, and two instill-tore, who had a lively
t:me of it, the lade bario.. been oii board for nine or
ten weeks, it was difficult to rtstrain their stint, ..n
again finding then:mires on shore. A few of the
boys have been seen walking through the town, BO that
the late restrictions are somewhat relaxed.