The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1882-09-15 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

PLANTING. —lt may not be generally known that the Duke of Atkole ise me of the tno.t extensive tree planters in the world. Every year the Duke plants from 1'0,0,000 to • mill' trees. Darius this Season a plantation eovering 2,000 acres hag been c onpleted. It may be ,einembered that the Duke of Atimle'e plantations were thinned of 80,000 tree, by the gale which deetroyed the ray Bridge. When the Plainer Duke began operatiose on a large scale, in 1774. the Diinkeld hills wore sloth* Lire. During his life the Duke, who may be described as true benefactor to bin country, planted 27,000,000 trees, eovering 15,000 acres. ON Friday afternoon, a married woman, named Mary ten Hill, who wir vkiting Leicester RUCeI with some ,riends from Loughborough, sullenly dropped down while the Qeorn Plate was being run for.  Two Sheifold steel workers nWrne,l. Dylan and Wood.  home have been sentenced by the Sheffield magistrates to two months hull labour for haviou attacked and severely .i..ked two men belonging be the Toledo Steel Works, .% la, had not gone out no ptrike with the other men.  .t LADY, named Mice Silk, wee *hot on Thursday in a ,otel at Galway while iu the act of removing • revolver from the hands of Beheld. The revolver sem loaded in four -:..imbers. The owner of the weapon cannot be traced, o, title not known how the child came into poeseation ci it. \ln. IL DaT, • surgeon' and his assistant named Upheld, were prosecuted at the Worehlyestreet poiit* court by the Medical Alliance Association for an infringe. inent of the liirtha and Deaths itegistration Act. I.lpfield. who is not a qualified medical practitioner, gave a oar. tilicate of the death of • child, and Mr. Dry signed II without having attended the child. Each of the defend. ants wan fined £lO -the full penalty. A OVITLEMAN residing at Belem:abet, named Alfred Ireland, met with an accident of a most singular astute it Brighton on Friday morniii,. Ile celled at a laciff ovary establishment in Northoitreet, and, efts .raitaacting his buaineas, was leaving the shop hurriedly to eatch a train, when, helieving that the open dour wet b Lae him, he embed throegh an iinmense pane of plate ,SO in the chop-frost. Tb. force with which be We. :omit carried him clear of the altim•front before the heavy purees of slims fell, and a slight cut on the forehead we. the only injury he auatained. ON SosnAT evening, while fishing on the Bucks shore the Thames, in the ticinitv of Black Potts, the rivil ol Dr. Hornby, an angler was 'seised with • fit, isnd into the stream was drowned a few minutes aftea Ii- immersion.  .1. Win?, a private in the Royal Irish Rifles, was found it Dover on Saturday afternoon shot under somewhat invateriona circumstances, lying on ths roadside adjohlind meadow. The hark part •4 the head from the ear was entirely blown away, the brains and portions of 044 lying about the road. Near the decease,' was disco a box containing bullets, powder, and caps. The villa who is mulled, is supposed to have committed suicide. NEW material known am "mild steel" was introduced by the Admiralty five years ago with results which the teat .4 expel wane now deularea to be most aatisf nistrerlrl I. so extremely strong and tough that U.4.•1, ii otorthiod shiplooltlrts to save rW p 0( seal. ID wvi .11 L of eat leti it, with a own...non/ling increase ill .airylng capacity, hop •••••••• laud OM* dr mon.tratell is that in the cue ol colhoion the side ed, se,..el covered with tnild steed has boon found to *Mee bulie forma fat without showisy any signs of Mtge.  c t