The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-05-23 00:00:00

nrn STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

d at
BO'ARD OF GUARDI •Ns —Nfr. Haskew prf sme te i
the mreting of this Board yester:lay.—Admit
7 discharged 7, remaining 549 against 521.—Re-
lief, Kingswinford £l5 14s Od, Stourtnitige £29 17e
91, Helesowen .224 9s 2d, Non residents .21 19 Bd,

t ual £lO2 Os id a;ainpt £lOO Is Id.—After some
d ecussion Mr. Somers withdrew the notice ptanding
in his name deeldtng to divide the present Hales-
owen pariah.

MR. BROOKE ROBINSON AT BRIERLEY
HILL,

On Tuesday niAt a meeting of the supporters of
Mr. Brooke Robinson. the Conservative .eandid tte
for the borough of Dudley, was hell in the Town
Hall, Brit:lit-1? Hill. Mr. lesion llomfr•ly presAed,
lite candidate w,,s supported by Mr Ilaines, Mr.
Holbeit .n, Mr. W. S. Gorton, Mr. Bridgw
Mr. M. Smiih, Dr. Pearse, Mr.. Waldron, the Rev.
J. W. Wil.thaw, and the Rev. G. Hartley. The
hall was well filled.

liiopeniug toe meeting, the Chairman said the
b irough of Dudley was one of at? most important
in the kingdom, for by the sli.:ing,-up of the country j
into tt.e fifty thousand basis, Dudley bad been left
with some eighty thothiand population. Such a
botougli %;.,nted an iodependent gentlPm in who
could devote h.s whole time to the intei eats of it—
"(hear, hear), Mr. Robinson lived near, Wild a local
-man, and had time ut his disposal in o der to, push
the interests of the district—(applause). Therefore
M. Robinson was a fit and proper person to repre-
' ~ant them—(hear, hear). The Chairman then held
tout the Government hid lost a glorious opportun-
ity of extending trasle in South Africa and of pre-
venting a continuance of the slave trade. The
Liberal party asked for the disestablishment of the
Church, but there were no real grievances between
the Church and Noncomformity, ani the Liberal
party would ask ror a seeping change in the land
law, but whit-th -31 prop set w .uld not increase the
reduce of food. Au intelligent system of farming
would do more good th,-n a change in tho laws.
The Conservatives wontd brinA in an ecclesiastical
refo: in, and assist in obtaininz a better system of
farmipg so as to get better wages for tne labourer
in i the most out of the land.

Mr. Robinson was then rec.4vel with lour ap-
plause. He spke in support of the vie ,s of the
Chairman on the I.,nd qucst.on. He could congrit-
;,:ate the meeiing on the fact that ther.) was likely
t) be peace bet wen En.2.laad and Russia, bee ,tt3.
it wontd have been a lon:.; an i exhaust've wa-.
E iglan I could have won,
.not, by the strength of
it,3r area , bat because the w tole nation had deter-
(nine' that India sheuld aot be given up so long as
tte natt•in or its finance could noll together—;ap-
pi use). IL could a'so co.l4ra.ulato the meeting
on the :vithirawal frofn the S ad en, for it was a
hu.o blunder that t e flower of the English army
should hive heen sent to swelter on the plains of
A.frict, to kill and be killed—(hear, hea!). But the
..t a• questintio: the p ople of that countly, and
!lit ono %%41_1 came.netrest to their feelings, was
depl •rbble state of trade. It was partly du.) to
ov r-piodaction. partly to the distress of agricula
twists, nd patly to the :.ction of foreign countries
in closing their ports to English goods. He echo.
o tfll the formati,n of a Royal Commission on the
SIII jEz; at once. awl he could not i•ee why it was re,
insal. The inquiry might not do all t reliove
tbeto,:but it could do great good, as L.,rd Beacons-
field—(applause)—himself believed otte,ided Free
Trade had not been &nog so mug.th for them as had
bren statPd—(hear, hear) ; and the welfare of the
country was superior to the susceptibility of the
Cobden Club on the Free-traders. Ali% King Har.

rison—(applause and counter cheers)—had sa7d ha
the Fair-traders wAntAt to put ass duty on corn.
Fie could 143,t utile-eland h..)a, a mati could believe
:!. So far as he was concerned he would do no•
tid to put any duty on cut% I neither was it in
tit,: minds of the Conservative lea iers. Mr. Potter,
~f t he industrial soz,ieties, was as anxious to hav,

Royal inquiry as anyone. Mr. Harrison had slid
they wanted a local business man who knew the
ns-and-outs of ye district. Well he (Mr. Rob:n•
,on) was all those things— (laughter). Those who
thn ght any ctiuntry w,uld adopt Free Trade as
England had w re the most sanguine people he had
ever heard of, and the experience of the Just thirty
years had been wasted on them—(laognter aid
cheers). Mr Robinson said Germany had made
oetter terms with Sphin as to the 5..10 of iron thin
,:ngland had, and that was bec,iii 40 Prince his-
warck wo .1,1 not have S, anish wine if they did ,lot

nave German iron—(latignter). If they"lthought
the state of trade sAtisf,ctory and the policy of tit-
tiovernthent eilculated to benefit the country at
hnrne aud abroad, let th,ln con,inue to return Mr

Shelidan—(cheere and groans for soma minutes).
But if they believed the reverse, and that ~ome•
thing sh,,uld be done, they could vote for the other

ltuse and counter-applause).
Mr. ilayni-s moved a rzsoiution to the effect that,
Mr. Robibson was a fit and prorer person to re-
prese o t the borough, an.' that the meeting greed
to do all in its power to secure his retura—(appiituse
an :I groans).
Mr. J. S Williams see° ided this, and the Chair-
man declared it carried.
A. vote of thmlts to the C sairman, conoluled the
meeting.

of the serr!ce, adjourned to the town reside ice of
the bride's father in Grosvenor Square, where the
%edding breakfast was served. Later in the after-
uon the newly-married couple left town fcr Lady
Ashburton's country seat in the Now Forest, whet°
they intend spending a part of their honeymoon.