Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1876-11-24 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

CAPTURE OF ONE OF THE MURDERERS. The fourth &an, whose name is Charles Haker, was apprehended on Saturday by Mr. Superintendent Smith and :..‘ergeant HoMil, at West Coker, his home, and in the evening was brought up before Mr. G. Hartin, at the police-court, but on the application of the Chief Constable, Captain Gould, he was remanded until Tuesday. it appears that when the constables first met the gang, and threw their light on the cart, the deceased asked his companion if he knew who the f m.ll man we., and told him his name was Baker, and called attention to the waistccrat—a skin one—he was wearinz. P isoner, when apprehended, was not, however, wearing the waistcoat, but confessed that he formerly had one.  AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR DORSEr. (From Bell's Wade?' Messenger.) The month of fog —especially in this so-called " Comity of the .11ist"—has passed nal( of its coerse very nip-fee:lily. Its first few days of dry, line, warm weather, enabled the farmer to get forward with much necessary work before Ueristieas can he avleatuacely eujoyed—e.g., wheat sowing has, for the moot part. beau accomplished, and we think in better order than usual. The ploughs, too, have been in active work preparing fer the root crop in next year, aid nmeh mined hurniug and much hauling has so far been completed. With us, Ii nvever, one of the most important of fartn operations has been the in-gathering of the in in.t,e' erep. The diem:lit of stunincr crised nun-irons vacaneies in the rows, but for all that this crop i above the average with us, the roots are large, many having gone from our tape Wir!./ the jotting of "24, and :32 in. in eiraninterenee." The roots, too. are sounder than we expected after the attacks of the serface grub, whiee we are happy to say did lIIn do so much mischief with the ruangels as with time swedes mmiii. further, the rains in due season healed many defects in the root crop. Swedes, after all will be a fair average crop, and common turnips and rape have well mended up what threatened to be a deficient root crop. At the Caine time, we have to confess that perhaps our judgment is a little too much founded upon our home crop, as we have to lament that it was so good as to frighten away competition from entering for the following prize :—" For the best general crop of roots, £10." It seems hard that a better crop then usual should be ilenied a prize epen such tumuli], though we call understand that the prize sheuld he withheld if a crop was not considered worthy of it. The country is looking green; grass plentiful. Bet we fear the seed are not so thick as they ought to be, owing to the summer drought : and now that the cold has set in, and the hay-rick is being had recourse to all around, there seems but little chance of this provenler being cheaper for some time to come. Stock, as a whole, may be said to be looking tolerably well, though we hear sad complaints of the scarcity, of hotter. In the vile districts of the county cyder-making is in progress, ami, though below the average, the results •promise to be genii, and equal to the wants of the far.tp. after the two tolerably abundant seasons of 1876-fa. The labour market is well supplied, but there are great complaints all through the county that work is got through slowly and more listlessly year by year. Boys do net take to farm work as they used to they are all being educated out of the country ; this. however, will soon right itself, as boys are certainly getting better wages than they did, principally for the cause mentioned ; hut, perhaps, from the notion that a smart boy can do as much in many ways as a listles+ man, though we fully expect the time will when the wages for the latter will he lower, while that for active, intelligent, honest workmen, who, instead of trying how little they can get if with, will try how much they can do, awl how well they can do it, pay will assuredly increase. All aronnd we see that farming is in a sort of transition state, for while rent, taxes, tradesmen 'a bill', and labourers, wages are '25 per cent, higher, farm produce is fully 25 per cent. lower. How then to reconcile these conflicting views is becoming an iraportant problem which time alone can solve.  Donald Currie 's mail-steamer, Windsor Castle, wa4 wrecked near Table Bay, on October 19th. The crew, rassengers, and mails were saved.