The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-08-23 00:00:00

THE FOREIGN IRON TRADE.

The Belgian iron maAet is unchanged, there
having been scarcely any alterations in prices for
the Let month. The statistics published of the iron
tvade oF Belgium for the i:alf-year testify to the
depressi oi. The Be]gian imperts of iron and steel
during the first six months of this year amounted
to £0,183 tons, aganst 101.579 tons and 104,068
tons ia correspsoding halt-years of 1883 and 1882.
The exports of the first half of this year were
196.749 tons, attainst 210 053 to. sand 180,781 tons
in the emresponding periods of 1883 and 1882. The
import, of coal clueing the first six months of 1884
were 574,143 tons, againsj, 583,633 tons in 1883, and
and 440,905 toes in 1882 ; the exports, i,185,599
.o. s in 1884, 2,007,230 tons in 1883, and 1,903,696
tens in 1882. The French iron m sket is stitl very
heavy, the orders recvivA bents small in bulk, and
prices depres;:ed The pig-icon maksts of the
-Me:utile-et-Moselle are firm in the:r qustations, and
ihsir attittC.e to some extent acts as a check against
downward cour-e of the rites of finished iron. At
Pails, plating see lens Pre ssld to cons :mess at ms
KI DD E RMINSTE R. fr., merchant bass at 160 fr., and ans,le iron at -165
BOARD or OnA.ant Ni.—.llr. .1, Brititm, M.P.. fr. LI the, Nord, bars .No. 2 are qnsted at from 130
presided at tlte fortnightly ineetmg of the Guardians fr. ,to 140 fr. statistits puelished in the last
on Toesday. The amount spent in outdoor re ist :oonthly is,..ne of the Bulletin of the Comte des
;using the past fortnight has been £l2O 13s. 4d.— k'srgSs France show tlis French isiporta of iron aril
Isis vaccination returns fettLe past ti;x months stsot d;:riag the tisst ti,-0 months of this yess to
se el ii isSore the Board From these it appeared have been 129,9-52 tons; against 193,965 tons, or
that the number of births in Number 1 disiriet in ov; r 33 per cent. Ths;,e was also a decrease in the
that period was 433. Of these 390 had been suesess- imports of iron ore for the same time of 77,572 tons,
fully vaccinated and 40 were dead or. unvoccinstted Os) figures for 1884 and 1883 being 555,067 and
leaving five unaccounted for. In Number 2 District 632,639 tens respectively. Whilst a few wsehs ha k
the number of births had been 193. Of t's_sie 161 L hopes were crsertamed that the German iron trade
, hen succ,.ssfslly vaccinated, 12 dead sr Insane- 5 would at last ,q-ss an itnprovement'ns soon as the
„.tsd leavins 16 unaccsnated for. A istter was .1 harse,t, became known, and notsithstandins* that
isssi from the Rev. T. L. Clan;hton, tSo vicar of this is tsatisactory, the tesdeeey in the (ierman
Kidderminster askinr the perinissisn of th-, tiottni tnn.ket has become worse. There ate la:ge stock
,r the Wurkhouss children to be allowckt to share of. pig iron in Westphalia, and, owing to the reserve
in the neat that woud be given to tse parish ot consumers, Prices have now gooe dowu below the
schools nvxt, Saturday.— Ihe I)ernaision WflB granted i quotations of 1879.. fhese is a fair hone demanl
The following are the estimated calls that will be I for inanufactursd Lon ; but as foreign buy,2rs keep
made non the different perishes during the half I out of the market, values also of finished iron are
year entlins-La,iy day 1885:_Kiddermin& rborough depreciated The G,q.maii steel trade is a little
.22,200 KiddertniSeer foreign, 1,060; Lower Mit- more active. The American iron market co •
ton, 360; Itibbesford, .240 ; Bewdley, £260; Wol- 11 without animation, Scotch pig-iron is de
sysrlsy, £500; Churchill, 52 ; Stone, £22'; Rushock lat New York. with prices nominally unel
.E 64 ; Chsddssiey Cossets, £420 ; Broom, £5O; American pig is very dull. The Eastern. A
Upper Arley, £190; Dowles, £3l ; totd .£5,420. The then object to the math's stsppase, No. 1
total calls for the eorrespon,fing ear art„Dmved 'c; ha 'e be,n soli at 50e. to 1 dot. lower. M.
to £4,856. The increase on the ensuing half-year tured iron is quiet. Rails have been sold tv.
uitied t oo!
£564 esioer.—The expenses of the late per ton.
Guardians, amounting to £53 is. 10d. wa
be paid. Iron.

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