The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15 00:00:00

BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The weekly meeting of this Board was held
yesterday; Mr. Grainger in the chair. There
were also present :—Messrs. Wood, Billingham,
Darby, Guest, Homes, Paskins, Plant, and
Rhodes. The minutes of the last meeting were
read and confirmed. Admitted into the house
during the week, 18; discharged, 17; dead, 1 ;
remaining, 403. Corresponding week last year,
423. Out-door relief, Kingswinford district, £42
Is Od ; Stourbridge district, £24 6s 10id ; Hales.
owen district, A:24 14s 7d; total, 1:91 8s 'did,
against £94 2$ tiid last year.

TRANSFERS.-At the Petty Sessions yesterday,
before Major Fletcher, C. P. Noel, and R. L.
Freer, Esgrs., the following transfers took place:
—The Vine Inn, Lye, from Joseph Perry to
John Taylor; the Peacock Inn, Lye, from Eliza.
beth Jordan to Thomas Richards; the Heart-in-
Hand, Upper Swinford, from John 11. Yardley
to Martha Yardley ; the Blue Ball, Cradley, from
William Bennett to William Adams ; the Barley
Mow, Wollaston, from James Preece to Thomas
Timmins; the Gate Hangs Well, Wollaston,
from William Nickless to James Cosnett. A
beerhuuse certificate was granted the Black
Horse, from Charles Aruott (deceased), to Eliza
Arnott.

MLETING OF OAS COMPANY SHAREHOLDERS.
—A meeting of shareholders of the above com-
pany was held at their offices, yesterday, for the
purpos,,, of taking into consideration the desir-
ability of authorising the Directors to extend
their mains to Pedmore and llaglev. Mr.
Thurstan occupied the chair. After some dis-
cussion, a resolution was passed authorising the
Directors to take what steps they thought ad-
visable. A vote of thanks to the chairman
closed the proceedings.
CONCERT.—Our readers will see from an ad
vertisement, in another column, that a concert
will be given in aid of the fund for the relief of
the widows and orphans of those who were lost
in the wreck of the I '411,ti1,, on Monday evening
next. The Hon. S. U. Lytteltou, Mr. James
Mathews, Mr. 1). M. Mathews, Mrs. Fennell,
and Miss Alice Phillips, are announced to take
part in the concert, and we have no doubt that
with such an array of talent there will be a
crowded house.

REVISION Couur.—At the Revision Court held
at Stourbridge, yesterday, before Mr. Barring-
ton, Revising Barrister, Mr. Ooldlnghani and
Mr. Collis appeared for the Conservatives, and
Mr. Ring for the Liberals. The Conservative
objections were 208, and the Liberal ditto, 01
On these 54 Liberals were struck off the Regis-
ter, and 30 Conservatives. Eighty-three of the
Liberal new claims were allowed, and 12 Conser-
vative new claims.

THEATRE ROYAL.— On Monday and Tuesday
evenings performances were given by the Stour.
bridge Dramatic Club, in the Theatre Royal. ii
aid of the funds for the relief of the sick and
wounded in the Franco-Prussian War. On
Monday night the house was crowded, many
being turned away on account of not having
sufficient room. The drama of the 'Eddystone
Elf, or the Fiend of the Lighthouse was per-
formed. The parts taken by Messrs. Bosworth,
SW. Davey, T. S. Brown, F. Besgood, C. Chad-
wick, C. F. Hoskins, and Miss Pauline Cross
were well sustained, more especially those of
Miss Pauline Cross as Lacy, and Mr. Chadwick
as Metrical Mot, in which ho sang " The Bay of
Biscay," in hid usual brilliant manner. He also
sang " The Holy Friar," which was very well
rendered. Miss Pauline Cross sang two songs,
and received a well-merited encore. The perfor-
mance was concluded with the laughable farce,
"The Ticket-of-Leave." The drama was re-
peated on Tuesday, followed by a farce entitled
'• A Kiss in the Dark." Allcock's band was en-
gaged, and each night performed a selection of
music. £6 was realised, and has been forwarded
to Colonel Lindsay for the aid of the sick and
wounded in war.

AFRICAN DIAMOND FIELD,.—We are indebted
to one of our Stourbridge friends for the follow-
ing extract from a letter dated Port Natal, Au-
gust 10th, 1870, and received per East mail
The diamond fields are now creating quit a re-
volution in the trade of our colony. There are
about 1500 persons in the diggings, and dia•
mends are found in large quantities to the value
of .£lO,OOO each diamond. A friend of ours
showed U 8 yesterday eight splendid ones he had
Just brought down from there. lie had travelled
Waal inifts in thirty-two days, which is quick
travelling in our part of the world. We shall
have a great rush there when the winter is over,
and the grass grows for the oxen." It is grati-
fying to know that these newly discovered dia-
mond fields are likely to prove highly successful
as the trade of the colony has been in a de-
pressed condition for the last five years, and
stood much in need of the stimulus which these-
discoveries have already given to its trade, in
the prosperity of which our own town will, in
some measure participate, as we understand our
enterprising townsmen, Messrs. Firmstone and
MeEwen, are at the present moment largely en•
gaged in the manufacture of implements of vari-
ous kinds suitable for the requirements of the
colony,