The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-03-03 00:00:00

_PORTLAND.

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Flan AT Init Gaulle SCHOOL.— On Wednesday
evening, Miss Honneybourpe, the governess, diaoovered
• fire at the si-dldrete• school, sad gave an alarm. The
Governor, Mr. G. Clifton, the Cleik of Works, the
En•theer, and Mr. Boait, the schoolmaster, were
immediately on the ap n, mid worked hard to remove
the flowing, and pour down water, and they were
waisted by several ollirere tu cuttin4 aw.Y the floor.
The fire appe.rs to have otuntneoeed talon, the fire.
place, and continued under the fl or to the opposite
side of the room. It was fortunate that Mir Honialy-
bourn* discovered It in
_time.

FOOTBALL AT TUB epirited match earns
off ou Tuesday afternoon last on the green (dose to the
parade ground, at the Veins. The teams were of the
Artillery and Infantry from Weymouth spinet the
400th Rides. The Bolles won the toes, and play com-
menced about three o'clock. The plus was Whir too
confined for the headlong rushes of the rival foresee, and
tumbles were frequent and heavy. A number of ladle'
were present, and watched the trials of strength with
'he Interest usually felt by ladies in the.. muscular
trials. One affair chused mull laughter; • gunner of
the Artillery abut 6h. high, found himrelf Is fall tilt
against a gentleman on the other side. Unable to pre-
vent • sharp collialon, he dropped on his knees, aid the
gentleman went flying over his Lead I Neither side
were ab!e to get a goal, although sides were four %Ulu
changed, until towards the close, when the goal of the
Weymouth side being left only pat tly defended, agailant
rush vu made, and the ltO. scored victory No. one.
FIRS AT TEO OBovit SOBOOLL—On Wednesday might
what might have been • very serious fieo took plea,' to
the infant'. department of the Grove echoed. The
mistress, Kiss Honeybourne, had notioed a smell of
burning on Tuesday, but oould not detest any cause
for it. On Wednesday the smell still eontlnutd, but
yet its cause could hot be hovered oath the evening,
when one of the teachers going into the room found
it fu'l of smoke, and Ranee leaping up through the
Moor quite • yard high. The neighbourhood was im-
mediately alarmed, and in • very short time the
Governor (Mr. G. Cliftou), the Rev. A. Hill, the
sehoolmoster, and a large number of officers were on
the spat. Water was immediately procured in abund-
ance, and poured on flu burning Mior, said as 41
worked with a will, by eight o'eloek the Atoms were
' got under and the fire stamped out, although not
blaze quite orusthird of the floor of the room had
been doetroyed. From the charred eAmiltion of the
j Asti which here taken out of the room, it Is evident
that the Ore had been smouldering for several days
before it broke out. Some red hot otspiers most have
got from the Ore into a ventilator which opens In the
Bruises and leads under the floor, and in this manner
the ft.= above must have been ignited. It was • for-
tunate ciroumstance the fire vu discovered before the
teachers left the school. Had It broken out in the
night, as there vu • high wind blowing, in all proba-
bility the whole of the echools would hare been bunt
to the ground.