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

POOLE POLICE FORCE.

To the Editors.

Facts are stubborn things, and it is a great fact,
that he ratepayers of Poole are taxed to support an
unnecessary large police establishment £9OO and
odd i.e very large sum for a small town like Poole.
I hope • pressure will be put on the representatives
in the C..uncil, espy° ally at the forthcoming election.
of that body, to look to the work of retrenchment.
I should like to know the difference in the cost if
ths county police were introduced into the Borough.
I ens told it would be a sewing of some hundreds,
biddes having the co-operation of the county force
outside.

Respectfully yours,
26th October, 1866.

LONGFLEET.

3RD D. R. V. PRIZE SHOOTING.

The seventh annual prise meeting of the for.
cheoer oorps took place at the company's range at
Ala.dvo Castle on Wednesday, the 24th October.
Tee weather was finer than could have been antici•
pated at this period of the year, and about forty
loalified members of the corps competed. An attrac-
tive programme of prizes was issued, which &Borded
all an opportunity of winning something, and, thanks
t,. the jipliciouv arrangement. made, the contests
a ere completed before Ave o'clock. The following
Ire the results :

Tits °trines' PRIZE:S, flee rounds each at 200 grid
30'; yards. Entrance, one shilling. Tarenty.rone
P.mpeted First prize, the Captain's Cup. Corporal
rhirk, 26; second. the Lieutenant's Prise, Prigate
Hogg. 25; third. the Ensign's Prise, Corporal Greening.
22; fourth, the entrance fees (22,), Private Harris, 21.
Severs' of these prises fell into the hands of the nest
in order to the winning icompetitors. Private Hogg
derlinrd the Litutenentli Cap for the silver medal and
Tin' donor was nest in merit, with 21 point., and
I.e al.o refused to secent of It, and it ano-dingly fell
to the lot of Privet* Dart, who made • mom of 22
The Erika's Prise would have been the property of
Corpnral Greening, hat he pave it up for the gold
medal and rt, sad Private G. Case took third honours
swirl. 22. The overage of the mores was 1613.
Cot. Enna BTURT.B £lO, Mr. Bbsiridan's £lO, and
the told, and bronze medals. Five rounds each
sad GOO yards. Entrants, la. Twenty.
cl.illwirsorwted. Pinsk gold medal and t. 7. Corporal
("1"1". 42; monad, silver medal and CS, Private
li°R2i. 24; thiol, bronze medal and £4, Private Parsons,
1£1; fourth. 22. Private e Doris 22• Mb LI
Private J'ffr., ; the entrance fees' (El 'Rs'
) Priest,
Hgrdv, 27. Corporal Greening and Private Hon ob-
tained th- first aad second prises in this sompethion in
nowstoeocc of their relinq thoseuishing their claim to those of the Offleers' Priam ybr sip,"
21.76. s ',5.,.

Do. Bluer Rawatten Poise OF Till Som. Fee
rounds each at 500 and 600 yards, m. 0... in —is -
teen competed. First pd.,s, 08%
Gregory, 24: second, rs. Pneate H. Lteg, 24
onrp,r.,l Greening. 23; fourth, the eat 'O,O
4fees
144.), Sergeant Code, 90. Private Godwin was &worded
the third Prise, having mad. 20Vvints, C
Greening haring been sueonefal in costmeting f„,
as 14.43 w
officers' prises. The averagenumber of points
SI A JOR K I sfigeas.se's Pine or Tag Sore —Statics. 1:
only In those members, who in the elms sl,mt.
lag, 1866, having completed the course, hsd paws,' out
of the third claw, but had failed tweeter the find due,
Any winner of • first or second pines in any peermus
competition at this meeting not eligible to compete.
Fire rounds at 200 and 500 yards. 17 competed. First,
LA, Corporal Rohenon, 25; second. £3, Privets J. Dal,
21: third. LI 10a., Private .1. Greening. 22; fourth,
Cl 10,, Private Rolland. 20: fifth, the entrance fees,
(IN ). Private T. Duna. Theorem's of the mores made
won 13.54.

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