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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

NIAGARA FALLS.

The New York Legislature' which has already done
much for the preservation of the Adirondack Forests,
is considering measures for the preservation of Niagara
Falls. Tile subject was recently referred to the
Assembly Committee, who, without a dissenting
voice, reported favourably on a Bill authorizing the
Governor to appoint a Commission which shall
appraise the value of the lands in the vicinity of the
Falls necessary for park purposes, and report to a
future Legislature. The measure is opposed by the
owners of a pulp•mill, the presence of which is an eye-
sore ; but the a•ivocates of the project shows that the
manufacturing value ot the w4ter- power need not be
impaired by the removal of mills and other such
establishments in the immediate vicinity of the Falls.
It is hoped that the Legislature will adopt the
measure recommended, and that the Falls will be
preserved from the operations of builders and specu-
lators.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

THE LABOUR MARKET.

The cotton market is still stagnant, and in all classes
of heavy goods only a drooping business is reported,
mostly done at steady rates. In the woollen branches
a fairly healthy tone exists. The finer descriptions of
wool continue in good request at late rates. Not much
change can be reported in the general condition of the
lace trade, There is no improvement in the demand
for cotton millinery goods.
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The iron trade remains in a languid state, and rates
in some localities are weaker. The cost of pig iron
has materially advanced, especially within the last
month. Finished iron shows no improvement.

The sharp weather has had the effect of keeping the
coal trade pretty active, so that the pits have made
more time. Business with London, considering the
competition of seaborne coal, is very fair, but prices
do not materially improve. The transactions in
steam coal for shipment are few, but the demand
for locomotive and smelting is about an average
one.
The improvement noticed last week in the Sheffield
iron market has been well sustained, and consumers
are displaying increasing anxiety to place orders for
forward delivery. Prices are very firm. There is not
much to note this week in connection with the hard-
ware branches of the Midlands. Orders for home and
export are given out sparingly. The tube trade con-
tinues quiet in the iron, as well as in the brass and
copper branches. A little more movement is apparent
in the harness and saddlery branches. Steel pen
manufacturers are generally busy. Brass founders
are at no loss for employment.

At a recent fancy dress•ball at Sydney, Australia,
the wife of an editor appeared as the "Press." Her
dress was made of several copies of her husband's
paper, printed in coloured inks on white satin. The
fortunate editor's subscription list has perceptibly
I increased since this shrewd bit of advertising.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

vestry at Oldswia-
lay, the Rev. C. S.
iominated Mr. R.
nsuing year, and on
seconded by Mr. E.
ras elected people'
'erry, Parkes, Bill,
elected sidemen.
,r the meeting, but
and subscriptions
he improvement in
year was referred
of thanks to the
he proceedings.--At
. Sberrard nomin-
arden; and Mr. G.
warden, The ac-
ed an adverse bal-
13s. Id. last year.
srs. Bland, Broomip, fiopton, Kitson,
was passed thanking
gade for their sere
Olt at the church,
Wheeler and the
1 effectual aid ren-
ts catastrophe would
committee was ap-
!angements of the
ay to raise a fund
St. John's vestry,
y) nominated Mr.
a, and Mr. J.
rarden.
)te of thanks to the
s, the choir, .and

vestry meeting was -
school room. The
.ector) pl.esided, and
mdred parishioners
aunts showed that
.vg the year was
ure X 390 15s. 11d.,
3. 101. due to the
b was passed. The
proceeded with, the t
r. P. Hunt as his •7
re-elected parish
-
a appointed Messrs.
:ay as his sic esmen ; -
LS parish sidemen, '
suer, Groove, and
lrove, and the Rev. '
the Burial Board
n', John Hay and
aers. The Burial
dverse balance of
appointed auditors
lessrs. Somers and
3oard accounts A
'presiding closed

J.P. and Mr. C.
tor's and people'.

vestry meeting was
. R. Keatch (vicar)
ras appointed Ticar4
pie's warden. The
balance due to the

sual vestry meeting '
T, Ward) being in '
I
Ls appointed mir.•
uks par'sh warden.
a electd : —Messrs.
rn, _Richards, al4 --
lited an I passed. 3
isual Easter
_vest*? '
ar (the Rev. G. T. -;
wing appointments -

Mr. T-. Standish.
I (both re elected.)
also reappointed:
ling, Sidaway, Huta-
)arby, and Bridge'

meeting held on
Mr. Ashton, wers
1.-.213 churchwardens
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

THE MARRIAGE LAW.

The Bishop of Oxford, presiding at a meeting in
support of the existing marriage law, held at Banbury,
saicl it was with some reluctance that he determined to
take part in the proceedings ; for the marriage law,
in his judgment, was one of those questions which it
was better to take for granted than to discuss in
public. It was not well to make the principles of our
social and family life open questions. It had been
vointi,d out to thwe who attack the existing law that
their argument required quite a different Bill from
that which they proposed ; hut they took no note of
sva'4 said, al,d simply ••nswetc-ct that tip!), 6' ti.e•
cliLed to exprts., an opinion." They argued that a
s7iJe'srelations were not the relations of the husband,
and yet they prohibited him from marrying any ot
them brit one. They appealed to the exainple of other
nations, but they were not candid enough to admit
that there was no nation in Europe that had such a
law as they proposed to give them.
Earl Beauchamp propoied the following reaolution ;
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

LOCAL OPTION.

The following is the resolution whioh Sir W. Lawson
will move on Friday, April 27, with reference to
Local Option :
"That, in the opinion of this House, the best in.
tenets of the nation are seriously affected by the con•
tinned delay in giving effect to the resolution adopted
and re.affirmed by the House, declaring that a legal
power of restraining the issue or renewal of licences
for the sale of intoxicating liquors should be placed in
the hands of the persons most deeply interested and
affected—namely, the inhabitants themselves."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

THE LATE MR. JOHN BROWN.

The remains of the late Mr. John Brown were re-
moved from Windsor Castle on Tuesday afternoon
for interment in the cemetery at Orathie, near
•Balmoral.

In the course of the afternoon a service, in accord-
ance with the Presbyterian custom of Scotland, was
held in the apartments of the deoeased, at which her
Majesty the Queen, Princess Beatrice, and attendants
were present, The service was conducted by the Rev.
T. Orr, Minister of the Congregational body at Windsor.
After this service the coffin was removed to the visitors'
entrance, where a second service was conducted by the
Rev. Mr. Orr, in the presence of a large number of
the Castle servants and officials, who assembled in the
corridor.

Shortly before five o'clock, the coffin, which was
covered with wreaths and flowers, some of which had
been sent by the Queen and the Empress Eugenie,
was removed from the Castle and plactd in an open
funeral cur, throut, h the glass sides of which the coffin
and the floral offerings were visible. The three
brothers of the deceased followed the body on foot, and
there were also present—General Ponsonby, Sir John
Cowell, General Du Plat, Colonel Carrington, Colonel
Ewart, Mr. R. R. Holmes, and all the servants of the
household whose duties enabled them to be present.

The Queen and Princess Beatrioe watched the pro-
cession from the windows of the Oak Room. The
strEets were lined with spectators; nearly all the
shops had one or more shutters up, and some of them
bore a thistle leaf. After the procession left the
Castle it was joined by a number of Royal tradesmen,
to whom the deceased was personally known.

Tha body, with the mourners, was conveyed by the
5.35 p.m. train to Waterloo, where a special engine
was provided to take it on to Easton Station to meet
the down train to Scotland.

The outer coffin is of polished oak with brass fit-
tings, and bears the following inscription :—"John
Brown. Born December 8, 1826. Died March 27,
1883."

[From Punah.]
John
PERSONAL ATTENDANT TO HER MAJESTY
QUEEN VICTORIA.
BORN DECEMBER 8, 1826. DIED MARCH 27, 1883.

-" How well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world l"
As You Like It. Act 11. s. 3.

SERVICE of Kings not always in earth's story
Has been a badge of honour; gilded glory
Of silken favourite dulls down to dust;
Devotion self•respecting, sober, just,
Lifts lowliest tendance to ennobling state.
A good Queen's faithful follower I His the fate
To wear the honours of the antique school
Right Service, nobler than unrighteous rule.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

THE ERIIPHON OF ETNA.

The correspondent of The Times writing from
Naples on March 26, says :—" It will be no novelty to
report that Etna is in eruption, but some details will
be interesting, and these I will give.

At Reggio and Messina showers of sand and lapilli
fell, time giving at that distance notice of what was
happening further south. But so dense was the cloud
of smoke and fine ashes in which it was enveloped that
even at the foot of Etna, only occasionally, when there
was an opening in the cloud, a vast column of fire
could be seen ascending from the principal crater.
The obscurity, however, in which everything was in-
volved served to render thE scene more alarming.
The eruption commenoed on the night of the 20th of
March, and from three o'clock in the morning till six
o'clock on the following morning, 92 undulating shocks
of earthquake were felt. They continued after
that time, though with less violence, till, on the night
of the 22nd, two terrible shocks were felt at Nicolosi,
and another on the night of the 23rd. It would
appear that this great commotion was the prelude to a
yet greater eruption, and, indeed, - eleven new mouths
were opened above Nicolo.i, which vomittd forth
sand, ecorite, lapilli, and a dense smoke with fearful
roarings. The activity of these mouths is not very
great, which is regarded asslan indication of yet greater
dieasters. Many families have abandoned the points
most threatened, as Nicolosi and Belpasso • but those
who remain sleep in the open air, and the eroops who
have been sent are engaged in erecting tents, or
breaking down walls and houses that are in danger of
falling. Great exertions are made to keep the people
from the chum' es, which, on the occasion of such
awful events, are always sure to be crowded. A sense
of security is felt within these sacred buildings,
though there are no places where there is greater
insecurity.
Happily, no human victims are reported up to the
23rd, aud this may be explained by the fact that the
shocks of earthquake occurred principally by nay,
when people were on the alert ; but much damage has
teen done to eroperty. In some of the small villages
on the middle of the mountain houses have been
thrown down, and a little chapel at Macchia has fallen.
At Zeffarana six houses were ruined, and the facade
of the church, while the barracks of the Carbineers
were fissured Other churches and houses are re-
ported to have been damaged, but it would be an
endless task to note all, Wherever buildings are in a
dangerous state orders are given to demolish them
directly,

Further intelligence is anxiously expected, for
though there was a short cessation of the shocits, and
people in some places were resuming their usual occu-
pations, the mountain was discharginl/4, its contents
abundantly, and no one could say that the danger was
eiitirely removed."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

LORD WOLSELEY ON IRISH
SOLDIERS.

An address, together with an illuminated certificate
of the freedom of Drogheda. has been presented ta
Lord Wolseley at the War Office.
The presentation was made by Mr. B. Whitworth,
M.P., the representative of the borough in Parliament,
and Mr. Alderman Connolly, who brought for the in-
spection of Lord Wo'seley an old book containing a
list of the freemen of the Corporation of Drogheda,
commencing from the time of the Revolution in 1690.
The address, read by Alderman Connolly, stated that
the freedom of the city was voted to Lord Wolseley in
recognition of his services as an able commander and
illustrious Irish soldier. It is stated that one of Lord
Wolseley's family commanded the Inniskilleners at
the Battle of the Boyne.

Lord Wolseley, who signed his name in the Corpo-
ration roll-book, thanked Mr. Connolly for coming
such a long distance to present the address, and begged
him to express to the Mayor, Corporation, and citizens
of Drogheda his most sincere and grateful thanks,
He was proud to think that there were no soldiers
more worthy to wear her Majesty's uniform than the
Irish soldiers who took part in the Egyptian war.
From first to last they were foremost in the field, and
their discipline was all that could be desired.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

BOILER EXPLOSION IN FRANCE.

A disastrous accident occurred last Saturday in one
of the factories of the Compagnie des Forges de Cam.
pagne, at Marnaval, near St. Dizier. In giving some
particulars of the disaster the Paris correspondent of
the Standard says :
A vertical boiler exploded at a few minutes past
eight, when all the hands, having finished their first
breakfast, had returned to work. The force of she
explosion was terrific, the upper part of the boilt.r
being blown through the roof of the workshop, and
the bricks and masonry surrounding the boiler pro-
jected with such force against the walls that the
remaining portion of the roof fell in, killing or wound-
ing most of those who had been left unhurt by the
original explosion. The scene of consternation which
followed was heartrending. Women and children
rushed to the spot searohing for fathers, brothers, or
friends among the heap of ruins.

The director of the foundry, whose offices are at
St. Dizier, at once organised aistance, and with the
authorities, the firemen, and the p ,lice hastened to
the scene of the catastrophe. In a short tine the
foundry was surrounded by an immense crowd. The
firemen acted moat oourageously, and were indefatigable
in tilde sad work of extricating the dead and wounded
from beneath the ruins. The cries of the wounded,
some of whom are horribly mutilated, were terrible.
Twenty.five men were killed on the spot, and ef the
thirty-eight wounded, who were transported in the
waggons of a travelling circus to the Hospital of St.
Dizier, about twenty are so seriously injured that they
are not expected to survive.

The chief puddler, who was working at a furnace
close to the bailer, escaped miraculonaly with only a
few insignificant scratches on his hands, but curiously
enough he cannot say how he reached the banks of the
River Niarne, where he found himself a few seconds
after the explo4on. Two men working by his side
were killed, and his two sons, who were occupied in the
foundry, are ale° among the dead,
A anbaoription in aid of the victims has been
opened.

Later particulars say :—The list of killed and
wounded amounts to 96. Five more victims of the
explosion died on Sunday night. The catastrophe origi•
nated in the bursting of a enerator, which exploded
in all directions with prodigious force. The bricks in
which a boiler was set and the boiler itself was blwn
to a height of 150 mAres, and tore off the toof of
the forge. In coming down the weight crushed the
walis and chimneys. A number of workmen who
were blinded by the steam, unable to escape, were
killed by the falling beams and masonry. The boiler
weighed 1,500 kilos and was full of scalding water.
Every part of the factory has been shaken and in-
jured by the explosion. Some wonderful escapes are
reported.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

THE REVENUE RETURNS.

The revenue returns for the year ending 31st March
shows that the total receipts of the twelve months
amounted to £89,004,436, being £1,807,456 in excess of
the estimated amount, and £3,182,174 more than was
received in the twelve months ended March 31, 1882.
Of this excess £1 955,0'10, is due to the increase of the
income_ tax, £BOO,OOO to the Post-office, £BO,OOO to the
telegraph service, £157,482 to stamps, end £370,000
to Customs. There is a decrease of 010,000 on the
Excise.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

THE CONTAGIOUSNESS OF CON-
SUMPTION.

Important facts relating to the bacillus tuberculosis
and the contagiousness of consumption have just been
brought forward by Dr. W. T. Belfield, Profe3or of
Pathology in the Rush Medical College in Chicago,
in an address delivered before the New York College
of Physicians and Surgeons. The lecture was the
third of the Cartwright series on the relation of fungi
to disease.
Dr. Belfield combated the criticism which a number
of American physicians have passed upon Koch's
theory, that bacilli are capable of reproducing tuber-
culosis in man and other animals. He reviewed
the experiments of Koch, upon whose cerrectness of
experimentation he admitted that the demonstration
rested, and discussed the modifications suggested by
Pasteur and others. But while aware of the diffi-
culty of the demonstration, he contended that Koch
had certainly proved that tuberculosis could be
induced by inoculation with tuberculosis tissue,
and pulmonary tuberculosis by tin inhalation of
tuberculous sputum and that it could be conveyed
from man to animal's. In reply to the objection that
this being the case there could be no freedom from
tuberculosis, Dr. Beltield said that one.seventh of the
human race did contract tuberculosii, but the infection
was slow and insidious; and tuberculosis might be
conveyed to a sick but not to any healthy animal,
The lecturer exhibited a number of magnified photo-
graphs to prove that bacilli were not strings of fibrine
or fat crystals, by showing that they retained aniline
colour after the rest of the tissue had been decolour•
bed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

FATAL PANIC IN A CHURCH.

A terrible scene was witness,d on Tuesday morning
in the church of St: Jacques, at Nice. During a
funeral service for the parish priest, which had
attrßcteci &large congregation of Women and childreu,
a wax caiiiie set: fire tu :the diAvessr-of the' high
altar. A panic mimed, all rushing to the door,
and four women and two children were seriously
Injured.

There are 107 railway directors in the House of
Commons, In the House of Lord/ there are 51,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

DECREASE OF TRADERS IN THE
CITY OF LONDON.

The City Press says :—There is something like
tragedy to be found in such a volume as the "City of
London Directory," as many will. allow who have been
driven from the City by public improvements, or by
the esyiblishroent of co-operative stores or other causes,
within the past few years. As illustrations : In 1871
the directory showed that there were 80 grocers in the
City, which number had been reduced in 1883 to 48.
In the same period haberdashers had dwindled down
from 39 to 22; hosiers and glovers from 11,4 to 109;
land and estate agents from 113 to 92; and rag mer-
chants from 23 to 14. Possibly some of these busi-
nesses were old established ones which could not fall
in with the new order of things, and so had been
absorbed by newer ones or had been crushed out of
existence altogether. There are some professions and
trades, however, which have largely increased during
the last twelve years. For instance, in 1871 there
were the names of 1,556 barristers in the "City of
London Directory," which have increased till in the
present year there are no fewer than 2,429. Then
accountants: In 1871 there were 356, now there are
523. Furriers have just doubled in number—that is,
there are 82 now, against 41 eleven years ago. Fish-
factors have increased from 139 to 179.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

THE ENTHRONEMENT OF DR.
BENSON.

Canon Holland, in the course of a sermon at Canter-
bury cathedral on Sunday, alluded to the enthrone-
ment of Dr. Benson. He said "few sights were
more impressive than that of a vast gathering to-
gether of people for one and the same object. It made
the pulses beat more quickly, and the heart of the
multitude was bowed as that of one man." The Dean,
at the conclusion of his sermon in the afternoon, said
the Primate was called by Providence to an office of
great dignity, responsibility, and influence. He had
duties to perform which no one could adequately fulfil
without grain. He asked his hearers to continue
their prayers for the Archbishop, that he might labour
for religion and for all that was pure, chaste, lovely,
and of good report.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

THE II ALESOWEN RAILWAY COMPANY.

In th 3 Queen's Bench Divison on Wednesday
before Mr. Justice Denman mcl Mr. Justice Field,
the Attorney-General (with whom were Mr. Sebster,
Q.C., and Mr. R. S. Wright) moved for a rule on
behalf of the Great Wester 4 Railway Company to
show cause why a writ of prohibition should not
issue prohibiting any further proceedings being
taken on an order of the Railway Commissioners,
dated the 14th of February this year. 'this order
had been made by the Commissioners on an
application by the Halesowen Company to require
the Great Western Railway Company and the Mid-
land Railway Company to work the Halesowen line,
The Commissioners made the order as applied for,
but he (the Attorney-General) now contended on
behalf of the Great Western Company that they had
no power to entertain the application. That also
was the contention before the Commissioners them-
selves, so that the actual merits were not entered
into. The Halesowen Act was dated 1865, and by
, an agreement in that year, and before the construc-
tion of the line, the Halesowen Company agreed to
construct the line, which was only about five
miles in length, and to complete the stations, &c.
The other two companies agreed to work the line,
and in case of any difference arising it was to be
referred to arbitration. The Regulation of RlR-
ways Act, 1863, provided that "where any differ-
ence between railway companies is, under the pro-
visioas of any general or special Act, required or
authorised to be referred to arbitrat on, such differ-
ence shall, at the instance of any company party to
the difference be referred to the Commissioners for
their decision in lieu of bang referred to arbitra-
tion." But the Halesowen Act of 1865 contained
no provision authorising a reference to arbitration.
Arbitration was only provided for in the agreement,
not in the local Act. Therefore, the case did not
come within the Railways Regulation Act, and the
Railway Commissioners had gone beyond their
jurisdiction in acting as arbitrators. The Appeal
Court had emphatically decided this point in the
ease of the Great Western Railway Company v. the
Limerick and Waterford Railway Company, and on
the strength of that decision he asked for a'
prohibition.--Rule nisi accordingly,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

OLD HILL.

EXTENSIVE DAMAGE BY AN EYGINEMAN.— Rober'
Cox (24), engineman, Dudley Port, was summoned
by his employers, Messrs. Round Brothers, of the
Range Colliery, Tividale, for doing wilful Jamage.
It appeared that the defendant was in charge of
an engine for raising fuel to the top of a blast
furnace It was alleged that he had the signal to
draw up, and that instead of stopping the skip at
the proper place he hoisted it over the pulley. The
server was knlcked into an incline a distance of
25 yards, and th,.: machinery was so damaged that
the work had to be suspended. The real amount
of the damage caused was said to be about £2OO.—
The Bench ordered defendant to pay £lO and the
costs.

NEGLECT OF FAMILY.—Jocob Hill, labourer,
Cecil Street, Birmingham, for deserting his wifo
and family at Rowley, and leaving them charge_
able to the Dudley Board of Guardians, was
sentenced to twenty-eight days' hard labour.
STABBING BY A BOY.—Williarn Henry Tuskin
(15), Queen—street, Cradley Heath, was charged
with cutting and wounding another boy named
Enoch Pitchford, of the same place,—On the 2nd
of April complaint was pushed by s3me of his com-
panions on to the defendant, who was sitting on a
door step, and complain int alleged that defendant's
knife, which happened to be open at the time,
entered his leg. He turned to kick defendant, who
thereupon ran after him and struck him with the
knife on the shoulder. Defendant admitted this,
but pleaded that the blow in the leg was accidental.
The Bench dealt with the case as one of assault,
and fined defendant ss. and costs, also ordering him
to pay 103 , the amount of the surgeon's bill for
attending complainant.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

THE SUSPICIOUS DISCOVERY NEAR

DUDLEY.

On Thursday morning, the Deputy Borough
Coroner (E. P. Jobson, Esq.) held an inquest at the
Saracen's Head Hotel, Dudley, on the body of
a newly-born male child, which on the previous
morning was found in a garden at Woodside.—
Martha Williams, wife of George Williams, groom,
flail-street, Woodside, stated that between six and
seven o'clock on Wednes lay morning she discovered
a parcel lying underneath their garden wall, which
joined the road. Witness called her husband, and
then seeing a child's ear protruding from the news-
paper, she sent for Police-constable Staines. The
parcel was not in the garden on the night pr. vious.
—Police-constable Wm. Staines, stationed at Wood-
side, said when he went to the garden of Williams
he found underneath the wall, which was four feet
six inches inches high, the parcel referred to by the
last witness. It contained the dead body of a newly-
born male child, wrapped up in an old newspaper,
and tied around with thread. He conveyed it to
the police station at Dudley. The date of the news•
paper had been torn off. Witness had since made
inquiries in the neigbourhond and the surrounding
district, but had been unable to ascertain anything
respecting the birth of the Child.—Mr. F. S.
Goulder, surgeon, who made a p)st•mottem ex-
amination of the body on Wednesday afterneen
stated that he considered it to be the body of a
still-born child; in fact, he had no doubt that the
child was born dead, and it might have been ex-
posad for a few hours aftaw ads. The condition of
the body would not warrau Wiu in coming to a con-
clusion that violewe 1141 ben used to promo the
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

THE PITCAIRN ISLANDERS.

In a letter to The Times "D. B. 0." writes :--

On my v, yage home from San Francisco I sighted
Pitcairn Island on the 10th of last December, and
stayed for a couple of hours to communicate with the
interesting people who inhabit that iiland. Every
one knows their history as the descendants of the
mutineers of the Bounty, but I fancy of late years,
perhaps, they have been somewhat foi gotten. A few
facts will, perhaps, not be amiss.
Eight of them came off in the boat so kindly sent
them by the Board of Trade some years ago, and
brought me off some fruit and vegetables. They were
a tine lot of young fellows, five of them being great-
grandsons of Christian, who was, I think, a midship-
man in the Bounty. I learnt from them that the
sweet potato (on which they chiefly depend for their
food) would in all probability prove a complete
failure from the excessive drought they were suffering
from, and they expected to have a very hard time
of it, as they had no cattle on the island. When
they were taken to Norfolk Island a few families
were left on Pitcairn, who killed the cattle, leaving
none for stock; and on the return of those who went
to Norfolk Island, some fifteen years ago, they found
the island entirely destitute of anything of that sort,
and the consequence was they have been dependent
upon what they can raise by agriculture. They can-
not grow grain on account of the number of rats on
the island. The island, they told me, is well adapted
for breeding cattle, but for some fifteen years they
have been without any.
I asked them if 1 should give them money for what
they had brought, and they said money was of no
use to them; which struck me as being a very happy
state of things. I gave them a few things in exchange,
and then asked them if they wanted any Bi-les or
other books, but they said they had plenty of Bibles,
but eagerly and most anxiously asked me if I could
give them a Concordance, or, if not, some books
e,Fplaining the Bible. I could not supply them
exactly with these, but gave them what books I could
spare. They seemed a most religious set of people.
They had just been to church (it was Sunday), and
spoke with great pride and delight of the organ so
generously sent them by the Queen some time ago.
After getting into their boat, they said, "We will
sing you a hymn, captain, before we go," and there
they sat and sang "The Life Boat, and Pull for the
Shore," taking the different parts and singing in beauti-
ful harmony. Altogether they seemed very happy.
There are now 103 or 104 people on the island ; 60 are
females.

It struck me that if these facts were put before the
English people, the Pitcairn Islanders would not be
long without two or tbree head of cattle to start with.
It could so easily be done by sending them from San
Francisco or British Columbia. The island is
exactly in the route of ships bound home from either
of those places, and the passage is on an average from
30 to 35 days.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

THE FARMERS' CLUB,

At a meeting of the above Club held on Monday
evening, at the Inns of Court Hotel, Holborn, the
chairman for the year, Mr. Druce, presiding, Mr. W.
Stratton, of Kingston Deverill, Warminster, intro-
duced the subject fixed for discussion, namely, "The
management and application of manures."
Mr. Stratton, in commencing, said he thought the
subje7ct of the management and application of manures
peculiarly deserving of their attention at the present
time, when the proposal of securing to tenants equit-
able compensation for their improvements occupied
the attention cf Parliament, and was being discussed
by agricultural politi:ians all over the country. Under
the bead " Depasturing " he maintained that where
feasible, the most certain, and also the cheapest, way
to affect the obj,ct in view was by depasturing crops
on the land; such a system bei.,g, in his opinion, the
most natural and simple, and ths most scientific mode
of farming. The produce of the land was thus eaten
as it grew in its most palatable and nutritive condi-
tion; and the manurial elements of the food were at
once returned to the surface of the soil.

Mr. Stratton then entered into a variety of details
respecting the management of manure on corn farms,
and stated objections to the covered yard system. He
was of opinion that far too much hay is made in many
pasture districts. He contended that pasture land
once thoroughly manured and made to produce a great
crop would generally retain the fertility so acquired as
long as it was properly pastured, and if it were true,
he said, that pasture land once manured was manured
even for five or ten years, surely such manuring must
be a highly desirable investment of capital.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

THE BUILDING TRADES EXHIBITION.

The fourth annual Building Trades Exhibition was
opened in London on Monday at the Agricultural
Hall, Islington.
- - -

There are some 300 exhibitors, exclusive of a series
of designs and drawings of e2ecuted work which have
been lent by eminent architects. Specimens of every-
thing connected with the building and fitting up of
houses of all descriptiof find a place in the exhibi-
tion. Bricks in great variety, terra-cotta mouldings,
majolioa, and Dutch plaques; heating, lighting, and
ventilating apparatus, wall papers, and mantelpieces
are exhibited ; and there t.re also specimens of stained
glass, both for sacred and domestic purposes, and
metal-work of similar adaptation. Some of the stalls,
especially those fitted-up to represent sections of ready-
furnished rooms, are extremely elegant.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

ac samrs.

prop.med annual
ith the Halesowea
ook place at the
he presence of up-
of the value of .V 5
nt was a 120 yards
—lst, S. Girratt,
.in, Halesowen (0
Is).—For the eeo
rs under 15 years
They resulted as
I, T. C. Rose 2141-
was a 120 yards
vere 21 entries, ill
: Ist, (1. H. Jones'
r. Rollinge, Kidder-
Birchfield
event, which was a
,nipany Ist WOr-
, marching order,
n ers : Ist, Private
adge ; 3rd, Lance-
ful competitors in
;t, J. H. Wynn,
d, W M. Kinman,
[n a 440 yards race
)ed), the winners
; 2nd, C. Hodgkins
p, open, the pr:z
iirchfield Harriers
irehfi ld Harriei s
e C.C. (110 yards).
mme was a one
ther exciting race,
vinners : Ist, J..
; 2nd, W. H. Abet
ahed (90 yardi).--
Jeston Horn-
'eree, Mr. Alfred
7er ; handicapper,
are disturbuted by

itrictions and to
there was a very
iday last, which
.arket prices. As
xpires on the 31st
: will be admitte
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

THE DECLINE IN THE DRINK
DUTIES;

The Daily News (in - a leader) concludes from the
steadily constant decline in the drink duties that
temperance must have increased, The growth of
population averages about one per cent, yearly, and it
is not diftcult for any one willing to work to get em-
ployment. If then, there was the old propensity to
drink, the liquor duties would Le more productive
every year. As a matter of fact they are less. The
springing up of coffee-palaces all over the coun.
try and the spread of temperance associations
likewi4e point in the same direction. If this
tendency should go on, the result, social, political,
and economic, would be great and beneficial, while the
Chancellor of the Exchequer would have no cause for
anxiety. While the drink duties are becoming less
productive, the other sources of revenue are becoming
more so. It is obvious, indeed, that a more temperate
and more educated people must be more efficient
workers, more thrifty, and less liable to pauperism,
and must therefore be better able to contribute to the
support of the Government.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

BILLS BEFORE THE HOUSE OF
COMMONS.

The total number of public bills brought into the
House of Commons during the current Session is 126,
to which is to be added one meature. The Sale of
Liquors on Sunday (Ireland) Bill, brought from the
Lords. Of these 20 only have been initiated by the
Government, the remainder being credited to the
enterprise of private members. Of Bills belonging to
the latter four have been "dropped " (incloding Sir T.
Chamber's Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister
i 3111), four have been withdrawn, one (Mr. Parnell's
Land Bill) has been put off for six months, and only
two have received Royal assent. The remainder are
in various stages of progress. The only Government
measure of any importance that has been read a second
time is the Bankruptcy Bill, mod the only Bills that
have received the Royal assent were Consolidated
Fund Bills. The nuinbe! of Bills awaiting the crucial
stage of second reading is 102.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

THE GOVERNMENT AND AGRICUL-

TURAL LEGISLATION.

At a meeting of the Farmers' Alliance Committee,
held on Monday at the office, clethent's-inn-passage,
London, the following resolution was unanimously
agreed to, and the president was requested to sign it
previous to its being sent to the Premier :
. .
"That in view of the probability, should 4 the
Government decide to give precedence to the Metro-
politan Government Bid, that the Tenants' Compensa-
tion Bill will be endangered, the committee of the
Farmer' Alliance would urge upon the Government
that considering the serious position of farming inte-
rest, the patience with which the tenantry of England
and Scotland waited until the Royal Agricultural
Commission reported, and until Government had
dealt with the Irish land question, precedence should
In all fairness be given to the Tenants' Compensation
Bill, particularly as the prosperity of agriculture is a
matter of interest, not only to the Metropolis, but to
the whole country."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

ENCE.

!ge Observer.
CHURCH.

ad through your
Fire Brigade for
efforts to ex-
in St. Thomas's
3ning of the 24th
the merit of pre
-
n is due to the
simply an act of
Icknowledge this
to spread for a,
urch, we believe
the church from
Lich the brigade
admirable ap-
ntelligence they
le, and for our-
gation, we beg
of the brigaile

fire was extirl•
damacse to the

We also beg
ndent, and the
Issistance tify
?curing the pro-
ilthough for a
confusion and

in the church
rtiele has b eq

Dhurchwardens

t Hodge Hill
loveci wife of
Much re-

ty. Thousands
tags stamps for .
cuts and /it 9
n of ease, and
1880CIATION, 31

orn ;
Ily repeel'd
borne
r admitted by
for corns ever
t corn as if by
rn with ease.
roprietor. Mr-
-street, Street
rhiah place all
sicialeid•
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

EXPERIMENTS WITH EXPLOSIVES.

The War Office has issued instructions for an ex-
haustive and elaborate series of experiments to be at
once commenced at the School of Military Engineer.
ing, Chatham, for the purpose of preparing an analysis
of the various forms and component parts of all sub-
stances capable of beirg employed for explosive pur-
poses.

The preliminary experiments will be made with
known different combustible substances, such as
dynamite, chlorides and oxides of nitrogen, and lignine.
The scientific investigations will be conducted by
skilled operators of the corps of Royal Engineers,
under the supervision of the chiefs of the Royal
aboratory.
In addition, experiments will be made in order to
determine at what distance and under what condi-
tions given quantities of the explosives would have
the most disastrous effect. It is also stated that a
number of well-known Government and civil experts
will be invited to attend the operations.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-07

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