The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1885-10-16 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

BANDING OF A (IUA BOAT.  Her Majesty's gunboat Dwarf, while mating, for the inner harbour, Holyhead, at about Ira-past ten on Monday night, struck on the roeks near Government House. A strong wind was blowing at the time. Her Majesty's gunboat I )warf was got off the rocks shortly after midday on Tuesday, by tire Trinity steamer Stella and the Liverpool tug Great Ealperor, and she is now lying at her moorings in the harbour. It is stated that when she left Holyhead on Monday evening (.21,3 of her b‘rilers was in is leaky condition. The wind, wh;ch had been blowing from the northeast, continued to increase in violence, awl when off the Skerries it was found that the veisel steered badly, and as, in good weather, her average speed is only 5 knots, it was deemsi advisable to put about and run back to the harbour. By ten o'clock the wind had attained the pr.qs wtions of a gale, and the Dwarf made the harbour Itad,r the greatest difieulties. She reached the shelter of the breakwater at about half-past ten, and steamed towards her moorings, which are near the shore end of the sea-wall. Every endeavour was male to bring h r ii to her moorings but without avail. It W:tB fOr a short time feared that she would be dri%-ela against the corner of the quay adjoining the Inc tkwater. where there is a eln<kleral.l, depth of watee. This dawrer, however, wasOM...ape i and a few minutes latee she s.ra.:;: on the rweks clo:e to the residence of Admiral Mackenzie, the queen's Harbour-master.  Thomas Anderson, tho lad who was injured in the football match at Dahninr, near Glasgow, on Saturday, died on Monday from the effects of the ;v!.!idot. At 'Weobley, Herefordshire, on Monday, Ow two men, John Hill and Joie Williams, charged with this murder of Ann Dixon, on the 30th ult., were committed for trial. Part of the head of the decease ,I was reduced to a mere pulp. The prisoners maintained a stolid demeanour throughout the proceedings. The Great Eastern train from London, on arriving at Hardwick Bridge, King's Lynn, early on Monday morning, had a narrow escape. A flock of sheep had strayed on the line, and the train ran into them, killing between 40 and 30. The engine aud carriages, however, kept the rails. Mr. Herbert Pearce, assistant to Dr. Appleton, of Beverley, committed suicide on Monday by taking prussic acid. The deceased, who WAA under notice to leave the employ of Dr. Appleton, left a note stating what he had done. He was 32 years of age. Some idea of the extent anl. grivity of the agricultural depression may be gathered from the fact that the number of farms to it in Westmoreland and ' merland is unprecedentedly large. These counties are in the main pastoral, and have been the last to feel the full effects of the depression, but the farmers declare they cannot any longer face the present low prices. In many cases farmers have got only 4d. per lb. for well-fed stock, and lamb has been sold at Kendal at 6d. Storms of wind and rain have kept a lot of corn outstanding.  Several farmers in the Ferry-hill district f the county of Durham, dissatisfied with the prices received for sheep in the public cattle markets and from dealers. arc killing animals themselves, and retailing legs of mutton at d. p..e lb., and other joints at a less price.