The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-26 00:00:00

EXCEPTIONS UNDER THE FACTORY

ACT.

An order has been issued by the Secretary of Stftte,
granting, under the Factory and WJrkshop Act, 1878,
in the case of non textile factories or workshops, " A
special exception that the period of employment for
young persons and women, if so fixed by the occupier and
specified in the notice, may, except on Saturday, begin
at nine a.m. and end at nine p.m., and in cuch ca=e the
period of employment for a child in a morning set is to
begin at nine a.m., and the period of employment for
a child in the afternoon set is to end at 8 p.m." The
Home Secretary, it is explained, has been satilfied
that the factories referred to require this special ex-
ception, but it shall only take effect " provided that
it shall be a condition of the employment of any child,
young Person, or woman under this extended excep•
flora that there shall be a cubic space of at least 4CO
feet for every young persin and woman so employed."
The order takes eff.ict from the 18th inst.

The Alidland Railway Company have recently been
trying several experiments in the lighting of railway
carriagt by electrioity, which have proved suckiesaful.
Shortly before noon on Tuesday, a pleasure boat
with a 1,43 y and gentleman on board was capsized in
Portam ti Harbour during one of the F guano, and
the boat immediately went down stern foremost; both
occup..nts were rescued by watermen.
Mr. John Fraser, a lumber merchant, of Vverpool.
who came to America in th. Arizona, has been found
dead in thi. streets of New York. It is supposed that
he slipped and fell, and, being stunned, was frozen to
death.

A despatch from Ottawa states that the m_rnbers of
Parliament for British Columbia ixprees their deter.
mination to force the Dominion Government, if Pos•
Bible, into bringing forward legislation thiF session
against Chinese immigration into that province.

The "Commercial" Hotel and a dozen shojis have
been burned down at Cornwall, Ontario. The loss is
estimated at 85,000 dollars. The St. Lawrence Sugar
Refinery at Montreal has also been almost entirely
destroyed by fire, the loss being placed at 150,000
dollare.
From April Ist to the 19th inst. the Exchequer
receipts amounted to £65,927,013, as cornrared with
£65,223,385 in the corresponding peril of the
previous financial year. The expenditure has been
5:69,498,457. On Saturday last the balance in the
Bank of England was £1,928,388, and in the Bank of
Ireland £890,840.
A Vienna despatch says that Dr. Rosenberg, who
killed Count Batthyany in a duel three months ago,
has been tried at Temesvar and sentenced to two
years' imprisonment. Dr. Rosenberg has appealed
against this sentence.
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London last week 2 721 births and 1,578 deaths
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were registered. Allowing for increase of population,
wiahstiethenhyadeabres. e
the births were 84, and the deaths 326, below toe
average numbers in the corresponding weeks of the
The annual epaetthlroao
ot e from mt h
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two
w o causes,
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pre-
ceding weeks, was 205.
"I cannot understand, said Mrs. Rarnabotham, "all •
this fuss about Harbours of Refuse. Why can't they
let the refuse float out to sea? What do they want to
harbour it for ? "—Punch,
Speaking at a Liberal meeting at Wellingborongh
on
Tuesday night, Mr. Lsbonobere, M.P., said he should
be sorry to say that M.. Bradlangh would take his
teat in the House during this session, but after being
re-elected next election no one could prevent him if
he went up to be sworn among the first 40 members,
before a quorum of the House was formed
At the Dorset As.sizes on Tuesday a man nsulei
Le,..ert was charged with the manslaughter of Thomas
James at Poole, on Novemb, r 24, it was shown
that the er and the d.noel were in a smirt,)
late at night w;th others, an :l th,t James sudd,m,y
fell to the ground. It was afterwards found th4t ho
jf id b—n sc*bbed to the heart and diet ir ,tly, The
evidence rested on one witness, and the jury, after
ong deliberation, acquitted the prisoner.

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