For the 20th time the Dorset Battalion of Volunteers have just gone through the annual training under canvas. This year the site selected was near the county town, and the reception accorded the Regiment by Dorchester has been, for its heartiness and cordiality, never excelled b

The vicar of Bamborough, the Reverend A. 0 Mead, pleaded about two years ago for aid to enable him to restore the monument in Bambrough churchyard which had been erected by public subscription to the memory of Grace Darling, by the substitution of a new effigy of the heroine for

At the London Mansion House on Saturday, William Barton, otherwise Captain Barton, was charged before the Lord Mayor, under .an extradition warrant, with obtaining tickets from London to Bombay, and money, with intent to defraud. In April last the prisoner called upon Messrs. Co

A. SCOTCH M.P. ON DISESTABLISHMENT. 1 Mr. McLagan, M.P., has 'addressed :a long letter from the House of Commons to his constituents, through the convener of the Committee of Disestab. lishment, Linlithgow, in reply to a memorial from them as to his views on the question of Dise

AHD • 3SZENDELSSOI-1 ' tE3 "HYMN OF PRAISE ', F` 1:7 T.... X... 33 A. IST 7:.) A. IST D CI 0 V g 3 .. Soloists : MISS ANNIE MATTHEWS, SOPRANO I MR. W. TOWNSEND, TENOR Leader—Mr. L. E. LEVASON. Accompanist—Mas. EDWARDS. Conductor—Dlß. C. H. CURTIS. Morning Performance at 3; Eveni

Agent to the General Plate Glass Insurance Company a. VINCENT, CABINET LAKER AND GENERAL FIXER, WHITE-CLIFF-MILL STREET, BLAND ORD. Furniture of all kinds Neatly Rei aired, Venetian Blinds Painted and Re-fitted. Needlework Mounted, CARPETS PLANNED, CLEANED & RE-LAID Mr. JOSEPH A

-0--- POLICE Cocar.—Tuesclay : Before Colonel Paget.—Eli..l Budder& and Joseph Sudden, labourers, were charged on remand with stealing 601bs. of hay, value 3/-, the property of William Lumley, of Lytchett Matravers. Mr. Dickinson appeared for the defence. Evidence was given to t

7 _ Whether those young ladies who use very expensive perfumes are not wanting in common scents? Whether, although a cake may sometimes be tipsy, a glass of wine must always be drunk ? Whether, when one loses the last 'bus, it is a good plan to get into a train of ieflection ? W

A remarkable feat was executed a day or two ago in Birmingham by a tine collie dog. The scene of his exploit was a large grocery stores in Corporationstreet. The animal had accompanied bis master into the shop and been left behind. Observing his owner in the street he made • sho