The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1882-09-15 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

TREE PLANTING.—It may not be generally known that the Duke of Athole is one of the most extensive tree planters in the world. Every year the Duke plants from 430000 to a million trees. During this season a plantation covering 2,000 acres has been completed. It may he remembered that the Duke of Athole's plantations were thinned of 80,000 trees by the gale which destroyed the ray Bridge. When the Planter Duke began operations n a large scale, in 1774, the Dickeld bills were almost hare. During his life the Duke, who may be described is true benefactor to his country, planted 27,000,000 trees, overing 15,000 acres. ON Friday afternoon, a married woman, named Mary tan Hill, who was visiting Leicester Races with some riends from Loughborough, suddenly dropped down while the Quorn Plate was being run for.  Two Sheffield steel workers named Ditton and Woodhouse have been sentenced by the Sheffield magistrates to t,wo months' hard labour for having attacked and severely ..icked two men belonging to the Toledo Steel Works, who had not gone out on strike with the other men. A LADY, named Miss Silk, was shot on Thursday in a 'lntel at Galway while in the act of removing a revolver troin the hands of a child. The revolver was loaded in four liainbers. The owner of the weapon cannot be traced, ma it is not known how the child came into possession of it. MR. H. DRY, a surgeon, and his assistant names Oilfield, were prosecuted at the Worship-street police. court by the Medical Alliance Association for an infringement of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, trpfield,. who is not a qualified medical practitioner, gave a car. tificate of the death of a child, and Mr. Dry signed It without having attended the child. Each of the defendants was tined £lo—the full penalty.  . . A GUNTLEMAN residing at Balcombe, named Alfrea Ireland, met with an accident of a most singular nature kt Brighton on 'Friday morning. He called at a large Irapery establishment in North-street, and, after transacting his business, was leaving the shop hurriedly to catch a train, when, believing that the open door wail fore him, he crashed through an immense pane of plate .d.ois in the shop-front. The force with which he WS/ ()lug carried him clear of the shop-front before the heavy pieces of glass fell, and a slight cut on the forehead wee the only injury he sustained. Os SUNDAY evening, while fishing on the Bucks shore el the Thames, in the vicinity of Black Potts, the rive' villa of Dr. Hornby, an angler was seized with a fit, and la] ling into the stream was drowned a few minutes &I to his immersion.  .T. Wisl, a private in the Royal Irish Rifles, was foetid at Dover on 'Satanfay afternoon shot under somewhat mysterimus circumstances, lying on the roadside ecljointsi a meadow. The back part of the head from the ear vas entirely blown away, the brains and portions of the aka lying about the road. Near the deceased was dieoovered a box contsiiiiig bullets, powder, aud caps. The meth who is married, is supposed to have committed suicide, NEW material known as "mild steel" was introduced by the Admiralty five years ago with results which tbe test of experience now declares to be most satiefactorf. fhb, material is so extremely strong and tough that its use Its enabled shiphoilders to save per cent. in the eeLlit iach ship tuik, with a °orients/ending increase 12 its tarrying capacity. The impor.A,,t fact since ds• monstrated is that in the case of. coilatian Use side si• vessel covered with mild steel has been found to yisid bulge several feet without showing soy sigma of row,  he 1  en pi SU, km tot  lII< he 441 ag au  91, _ C  I  (I