The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-03-19 00:00:00

BOROUGH PETTY SESSIONS.

TeESDAT.—(l3efore H. Davis, Faq.)--Joha Greening,
alias George Gale, was brought up charged with
obtaining • dozen knives and forks from the shop
.4 Mr. John fielpin, under false pretences.—Mr.
George Crocker, assistant at Mr. Oalpin's, said
lie was in his master's ahop yesterday at 6 o'clock
in the eveninh, when the prisoner came in and said,
"I want • dozen knives and forks for Mr. H. Hine, of
Nettlecowbe." Witness asked him what sort of knives
he wanted. He said Mr. Hine did not tell him what
sort of knives_be wanted, but as he was • 'squire' he
supposed they must be good ones. Prisoner added that
Mr. Hine would be coming to Dorchester to-morrow,
alitr, he would call and pay for them. Ho further
stated that the reason why Mr. Hine wanted them so
particularly was that lie was going to have a
party. Witness asked him some questions respect-
ing Nettlecombe, and as he found he answered
them correctly, he gave him half-a-dozen large, and a
similar quantity of small white handled knives, value
&ms. He then milted for a bill, saying that he was to
be sure to carry it back. He then left the shop.
Mr. Dunn, landlord of the White Hart Inn, said the
prisoner came into his house the previous night about
10 o'clock. He said he was "hard up," and wanted
wane money, and showed some knives and forks,
and asked witneas to buy them, offering them for 25r.
Witness told him he did not want to buy any, as he
bad plenty of his own. Mr. Seward was in the bar,
ionl milted witness to untie them. He then took
the parcel and untied it, and as he saw that
the knives were new, he asked him where
lie came from. Prisoner said he came from Wey-
mouth. Finding that Mr. Cialpin's name was on
the knives and forks, witness said he thought there
must be something wrong, and as 110011 as he had said
so prisoner ran out of the house as hard as he could go,
leaving the bundle on the table. Mr. Seward ran after
him and brought him back, and on P.C. Cousins being
nit for be was taken into custody.—Mr. Crocker
identified the knives as the same which he gave to
the prisoner the day before.—The prisoner was re-
manded till Monday, in order to get the evidence of
Mr. Hine.

ETMOUTIL—The Choral Sociely.—Wo under-
stand that the Portland Choral Society will give
their second concert at Weymouth on the 27th inst.,
when, judging from the enthusiastic reception they
met with on their former visit, we have no doubt
they will be well supported.
( As AND GAS NI ITIMA—Much has been said
about the quality of gas, but we have not heard
the real cause of meters registering so many feet for
50 little light: it has generally been stated "that
the impurity of the gas camped the indicator to move
much faster for every foot than it would if the gas
wire better." Now this is quite an error, and one
which we wish to correct. It is the bad quality of
the gat that causes more feet to be consumed, in
order to get • certain amount of light, than would
be required if the 'as were parer. A foot of gas,
Whether of good or dtd quality will register a foot
only DE the metre.
A s uTII CR SA LVAGE CABs.—On Sunday morning
the Ketch Place, Davis, Master, of Teignmouth,
laden with potatoes, was fiillen in with 7 miles
S.E. of the Shambles, derelict, and brought into
Weymouth harbour by the Edith Maria, Ilarris,
from Shields to Totness. It seems that the Place
was ruu into during the darkness early on Sunday
morning, about 9 miles N.W. off Portland, by the
barque Wateroatli, Johnson, of Sunderland, which
did not stop to render any assistance. The captain
and crew of the Place, four in number, finding that
the bulwarks of their vessel were carried away, and
that in the collision a great portion of her deck
waii driven under water, supposed that she was
fait sinking, and naturally took to their boat without
w."liliing to save anything except what they stood
upright in. The sea was very rough at the time, and
they did not ace their vessel after they took to the
Lost• They landed at Swanage after a Lard pull of
about 5 hours.
_ltipi. Coi. SAND.—The high degree of Pm'
I.lileneY attained by the Weymouth Ride Corps
(1 in the incredibly short space of time of about
wi month. •
la truly remarkable, and proves
no only that Mr. Stagg, the leader,
hwi 'Znets instructor of music, but also that he
It is awl l_rtunate in obtaining very apt scholars.
good toasters make good servants, and
learner; 'Ts instance, the seeming aptness of the
teacher. last
iliseu from the tact and skill of the
band of which ie",„ things as they may, we have a
will bear benou town need be ashamed, and which
biro been in exiw ruparison with many that
beyond a doubt that ;Vara It is now proved
foreign aid for the am aYenouth need not seek
the summer months. All trin°t f th:eovide li
emrra
amnJ
refrorsunutoeof
to
liberalitysubecrienptiothnezt the ni—hnbilitnanin in
every enenntagmenti wad
"_ . The band deserve.
be liberally supportocl. e slanereiX trust it will