The Poole Telegram. — 1882-09-15 (Poole, Dorset, England)

TREE PLANTING.—It may not be generally known that the Duke of Athol° is (1110 of the most extensive tree ,lanters in the world. Every year the Duke plants from i /0.000 to a million trees. During this season a plantation :overing 2,000 acres has been c ,inpleted. It may be membered that the Duke of Atliole's plantations were . . . . .  tbinned of 80,000 trees by the gale which destroyed the l'Ay Bridge. When the Planter Duke began operations a. a large scale, in 1774, the thirakeld hills were almost .re. During his life the Duke, who may he described as true benefactor to his country, planted 27,000,000 trees, :veriug 15,000 acres. ON Friday afternoon, a married woman, named Mary in Hill, who was visiting Leicester Races with some , lends from Longhbdrough, suddenly dropped down :die the Qnorn Plate was being run for. 'l'wo Sheffield steel workers named Ditton and Wooduse have been sentenced by the Sheffield magistrates to ..vo months' hard labour for having attacked and severely Aced two men belonging to the Toledo Steel Works, viio had not gone out on strike with the other men. LADY, named Miss Bilk, was shot on Thursday in a .v.rl at Galway while in the act of removing a revolver an the hands of a child. The revolver was loaded in font  , ire.  ‘mbers. The owner of the weapon cminot be traced, it is not known how the child came into possession of  AR. H. DRY, a surgeon' and his assistant named trofiel.l, were prosecuted at the Worship-street police. curt by the Medical Alliance Association for an infringe. ment of the Births and Deaths Registration Act. Upfield, who is not a qualified medical practitioner, gave a certificate of the death of a child, and Mr. Dry signed H without having attended the child. Each of the defenduts was fined £lO -the full penalty. A ORNTLEMAN residing at Balcombe, named Alfred In land, met with an accident of a most singular nature Brighton on Friday morning. He called at a large r well establishment in North-street, and, &frail •.... . . .  e,saaing hie business, was leaving the ;hop harriedly to .atch a train, when, believing that the open door wal b .re him, he crashed through an immense pane of plate r4`l in the shop-front. The force with which he wao I,llg carried him clear of the shop-front before the heavy _ _ . . _  !dece-s of glass fell, and a slight cut on the forehead was he only injury he sustained. ON SUNDAY evening, while fishing on the Bucks shore el tho Thames, in the vicinity of Black Potts, the river lii of Dr. Hornby, an angler was seized with a fit, and .311 ing into the stream was drowned a few minutes alto •ii. immersion.  .1. WEST, a private in the Royal Irish Rifles, was found  Dover on Saturday afternoon shot under somewhst mysterious circumstances, lying on the roadside adjoinieg meadow. The hack part of the head from the ear vise irely blown away, the brains and portions of the sloe lying about the road. Near the deceased was discovered Ism containing buillets, powder, and caps. The mars ks lei is married, is supposed to have committed suicide. NF.W material known as "mild steel" was introduced by rho Aduiiralty live years ago with results which the rest of experience now declares to he most satisfactory. This moteelsl 15 50 extremely strong and tough that it rrs Ii S enabled shipbuilders to save 'lO per cent. in the wri,glit of each shiii built, with a corresponding increase in its currying capacity. The iropurtaut riu.t since de. uniaistiated is that in the case of the side of • vessel covered with mild steel has been found to yield or bulge wars/ feet without showing any signs of rupture.