The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-09-09 00:00:00

WAREHAM:

STOIIOIOtIOR NATIONAL SCHOOL —The Rev. W. F.
Trwsartbe”, Her Majesty', loapeetor of ahoele, reports
of this school u fellows :—" it la • very du school.
The order is well kept, and the 'narration even In •
eacosaidal msoner.

BWANAGE.

Vnatots. —For tki; "Pas—L.—ll-re—or six wewks this de-
liktitfal waterlog plats. Itss bawl "fall."

LOCAL HOLM—The six 'members for time local NMl-
tar, board Wive been sleeted—via Mr. G. Burt, Mr.
G. Kent, Mr. C. Bort, Mr. W. Meiklo, Mr. J. His.
some. end Mr. G. Weeks, with Mr. K B. Harman, bon.
sem ra. U.

iiuiou kitsalOnoar SOctrre.—Ori Sunday morning
sermon was rreaobed in the parish church in old of
this society. by the Dean of Carlisle. 601330 was
collected. In the evening an address was delivered by
the Rev. W. Kelley, aunt., and farther collections
mule. On Monday (vetting then was a crowded
meeting at the Howie.., Intact.. Mr. J. H. Cal.
araft presided. The Rev. D. never., rector, opened
the meeting with prajer' and made introductory
remarks on the seadety, and whet had beets done far
the C 4024 in the parish. The deputation, lately home
from Itr'ia, gave • very inkneeting norratire of his
own experience and lab curs in that onntry, and the
Desn of Car sic rave an sloquent address on the con-
stitution, labour and principles of this society, with
sketches and extmple. of Its worklutt and enecomess in
north-east and north-wt at America, Africa, China, fse.,
adding weighty remarks of his own very long expe:ienoe
as to the real work and valeta of the Church Miseionry
Elordett. _ _

T DROWN-ED.—On Friday afternoon last, an
Inquest was hold at the eottage of Robert long, one of
the labourirs In the employ of Mr. Edisto ()rent,
tenant of Court Form, sow the property of Mrs. Bernell,
of Dunsfoid House, Linoton Idatravere, arid formerly
the property of the late Mr. Samuel Beaton, who per-
eliaged Court Farm from the trustees of the late Mr.
Edward Dampier, at • sale by suction held very many
years as, under • derwee of the Clean of Chanoery.
The subject of the rbxve-eamed logaset. whieh was
held before Mr. Freeland Filliter, of Wareham, and •
coroner's jury summoned from the nelghb turhood, wee
the nofortunate death by drowning of an Interesting
little bey, aged between des and six years, on the
preview,. evening, In synod b fore Court Farm Bonn,
which pond Is about four feet deep. The jury having
been sworn by the Coroner, Fits:eroded no view the
body, and afterwards the following evidence wee taken.
Robert Long, the father, who appeared much affected,
stated that i.e last saw hie little son shoot half-past
four o'clock on the previous evening at play before his
cottage aoor, who he told him to go away and play
with his slater Sally. The Sell he now of him was
about two-and a-half hours after when he was brought
In d-ad float the pond.—Edwin George Grant (son of
the tenant et Court). then stated that about had-put
seven he beeri that the child's cap was found on the
pont! aortae°. He 3mtoediatdv went to the pond, and,
with the help of ore 0-orge Harden, searched about in
the pond with emelt., an r after • time they found the
body which they at sues carried into the father's bins..
Thie witarss further said that he had often seen the
little fellow feeding the (looks swimming about in the
pond, by thee-tiring in plows of broad, an ' had oru'ioned
idet not to do so as he might fall th.—Jatoes Freeborn,
the Feller= -n there, stated Qin same, so that there
was to ri,nbt the ell must have been there amusing
himself when he fell In, ..11 DO one bad seen him after
his father bad told him at half-put four o'olook to go
away and play with his little sister. —Kr. George Cote'
Delamotte, surgeon, who was called In when the body
was rea,eared,uane evidence that the deceased appeared
to have hewn dead two or three bum, and that on
feeling the pulses vitally appeared to have SA ',yawl
human meats of restoratl in.—The jury returned a
verdict of " decidentdly drowned," and on the pro-
posal of Mr. Charles Burt, one of their number, all
their Leo were given to the father and mother of
dooeh‘oe. The witnesses di I the some, SO that nearly
enough was rucked to pay the thaeral expenees. This
is the third Import of this kind which has been held
hereabouts within the tut two or t#reis year,.