The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-06-17 00:00:00

i CiARKESI

WORLD FAMED

Trade Mark,—" Blood Mixture."
hit GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER & RESTORER
SKIN DISEASES, Eruptions, Blotches,
Ulcerated Sore Legs, Ohl Sores, Glandular
Swellings, Cancerous Ulcers, Spots, Pimples,
Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles, Ringwortns, Scald
Heads, Sore Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch, Scurfy,
Discoloration' of the Skin, Humours and
Diseases of the Skin of whatever name or
nature, are literally carried out of the system
in a short time by the use of this world-famed
Mediciae.
TZOUSANDS OF TESTIMONIALS FROM ALL PARTS.
TMPORTANT ADVICE TO ALL.—Cleause
the vitiated blood whenever you find its im-
purities bursting through the skin in pimples,
eruptions, or sores ; cleanse it when you find
It obstructed and sluggish in the veins ; cleanse
It when it is foul; and your feelings will tell
you when. Keep the blood pure, and the
health of the system will follow.
As this mixture is pleasant to the taste, and
warranted free from anything injurious to the
most delicate constitution of either sex, the
Proprietors solicits sufferers to give it a trial
to test its value.
OLARKE'S• WORLD -FAMED BLOOD
MIXTURE is Sold in Bottles 2s fid each, and in
Cases, containing six times the quantity, us each
--
sufficient to effect a permanent cure in the great
majority of long-standing cases, by all Chemists and
Patent Medicine Vendors thrvughout the United King-
dom and the world, or sent to any address on receipt
of 30 or 132 stamps, by the Proprietor,
, Y. J. CLARKE,Cazzeisr, Apothecaries' Hall,Lincoln.
Agent for Stoarbridge : Mr. J. H. Bland, High-street.
Wholesale: All Patent Medicine Houses.
LONDON DEPOT; 160 OXFORD STREET

PUBLIC NOTIOE.

THE EXPLOSIVES ACT, 1875.

rpHE Company of Proprietors Of the Stour-
". bridge Navigation HEREBY GIVE NOTICE
that under and in pursuance of the Explosives Act,
1875, they intend at the expiration of one calendar
month from the date hereof, to apply to the Board of
Trade, to sanction and confirm the byelaws hereafter
set forth—that is to say

BYELAW'S
Proposed to be made by the Company of Proprietors of
the Stourbridge Navigation in pursuance of the
Explosives Act, 1875, with the sanction of the Board of
Trade, for regulating the conveyance, loading, and un-
loading of explosives upon the Stourbridge Navigation or
any wharf connected therewith.

Section 3 of the Explosives Act, 1875, defines the term
" explosive " as follows:

(1.) Gunpowder, nitro-filycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton
blasting powders, fulminate of mercury, or of
other metals, coloured fires, aid every other sub-
stance, whether. similar to those above mentioned
or not, used or manufactured with a view to
produce a practical effect by explosion or a
pyrotechnic eyWt ; and also
(2.) Fog-signals, fireworks, fuzes, rockets, percusssion
caps, detonators, cartridges, ammunition of all
descriptions, and every adaptation or prepara-
tion qf an explosive as above defined.

1. No person shall send or convey, or cause to be sent
or conveyed on-to or upo'n the Navigation or any wharf
connected therewith, for discharge or conveyance as
merchandise, any gunpowder or other explosive without
having previously given to the principal agent or some
wharfinger or toll collector of the company a six hours'
written notice, stating the nature, quantity, and destina-
tion of such explosive, and the place where it is intended
to be brought on-to the Navigation, and having had an.
intimation from the Company that they are prepared to
receive the consignment,
2. The master of every ship or boat carrying any gun-
powder or other explosive shall immediately upon such
ship or boat entering upon the Navigation, or taking any
gunpowder or other explosive on board, give to the
agent or servant of the Company in charge of the
nearest collecting station, or office, a written notice
stating the nature, quantity, and destination of such
gunpowder or other explosive.
3. No person shall send or convey or cause to be sent
or conveyed on-to or upon the Navigation, or on-to any
wharf connected therewith for conveyance as merchandise
any gunpowder or other explosive which is not securely
packed in manner prescribed by the said Act, or by the
Eules relating to packing for the time being in force
thereunder, as the case may be, and which has not
legibly marked upon each outermost packet by label or
brand, in the case of percussion caps, or of fuzes for
blasting, the words "Percussion Caps," or " uzes for
Blasting; as the case may be, togeth .1r with the name
and address of the owner or sender; and in the case of
gunpowder, the word " Gunpowder ; " and in the case
of other explosives the name of the explosive and the
word " Explosive," together with the name of the
, owner or sender, and otherwise as directed, by the
Act, and by Rules made thereunder,iu force for the time
, being.
4. No person shall send or convey or cause to be sent
or conveyed on-to or upon the Navigation, any gun-
powder or other exklosive, except in the held of a ship
or boat, with a closed deck, closely fitting hatches,
securely fastened and covered with tarpaulin or raw
hides, and double bulk heads at each end of the stowage
space, lined with some non-combustible material. No
iron or steel shall be placed in the interior of the portion
of such ship or boat where the explosive is deposited,
unless the same be covered either permanently or
temporarily with leather, wood, cloth, wadmill-tilts, or
other suitable material; nor shall any tire-place, stove,
or stove-pipe in such ship or boat be nearer to the
stowage space than lb inches from the outside of the
bulk head, which shall be covered near such fire-place,
stove, or stove-pipe with lead. All packages containing
gunpowder or other explosive shall be laid in the hold
upon, and covered with tarpauliug, raw hides, wadruill-
tilts or other suitable material. In the stowing of
explosive in any ship or boat due precaution shall be
taken by means of a partition or otherwise, and by care.
ful stowing, to secure such explosive from being brought
into contact with or endangered by any other article or
substance conveyed in such ship or boat which is liable
to cause lire or explosion.
5. Any explosive of the sth (Fulminate) Class, or
any such explosive of the 6th (Ammunition) Class, as
contains its own means of ignition, or any explosive of
the 7th (Firework) Class, shall not be conveyed in the
same ship or boat with any explosive not of the class
and division to which it belongs, unless it be sufficiently
separated therefrom, to prevent any fire or explosion
which may take place in one such explosive being com-
municated to another, and any explosive exceeding 501bs.
shall not be conveyed in a ship or boat which is carrying
as merchandise any article liable to cause or com-
municate fire or explosion, such as charcoal, inciter-
matches, articles for striking a light, or petroleum, as
defined by the Petroleum Act, 1871, or any Act repealing
or amending the same.
6. The master of a ship or boat carrying any gun-
powder or other explosive shall not permit such ship or
boat to remain in any lock, dock, or basin, or be moored,
except in a berth specially directed by a dockmaster,
wharfinger, toll collector, or other authorised agent of
the Company, and shall not in any case permit such ship
or boat to remain or be moored within 200 yards of any
steam enginge or furnace.
7. The master of a ship or boat carrying any gun-
powder or other explosive shall not permit the same to
be loaded or Unloaded, except between sunrise and
8 aunt.

8. No ship or boat shall at any one time carry any
gunpowder or other explosive weighing in the aggregate
more than 50,0001b5.

9. No ship or boat carrying any gunpowder or other
explosive shall enter or remain on the N avigation with-
out a red flag or metal vane, painted red, two feet
square at the least, shown in a conspicuous place above
the deck; and there' shall also be kept burning in a
conspicuous place on every such ship or boa', between
sunret and sunrise, a lamp showing continuously, ahead
and astern, a red light, capable ot being distinctly seen
on a clear night at a distance of 200 yards.
10. Every ship or boat containing any gunpowder or
other explosive, shall stall times have at least one coin-
potent man on board and in charge of such ship or boat
and her cargo.
11. No ship or boat carrying any gunpowder or other
explosive shah be towed or propelled otherwise than by
animals or men. Nor shall any such ship or boat,
except for the purpose of passing, approach nearer to
any other ship or boat carrying gunpowder or other
explosive, than 200 yards.
12. Every ship or boat shall, so long as there is any
gunpowder or other explosive on board, proceed with all
convenient speed and without any avoidable delay to her
destination.

13. No ship or boat containing any gunpowder or
other explosive shall, whilst being loaded or unloaded,
be detained fur any longer time than would with all due
diligence be necessary.
14. While the loading,
unloading, or conveyance of
.
explosive is going on, all persons engaged in such load-
ing,
.unloading, or eonveyance, shall observe all due pre-
cautions for the prevention of accidents by fire or
explosion, and for preventing unauthorised persons
having access to the explosive so being
loaded, unloadad,
or conveyed, and shall abstain from any
act whatever
which tend. to cause the or explosion, and is not reason-
ably necessary for the purpose of the loading, unloading,
or conveyance of such explosive, or of any other article
carried therewith, and for preventing any ot— • her person
from committing any such act, and any
such other per-
son, who after being warned commits any such act
shall be deemed to commit a breach of this regulation
In. the case of a ship or boat conveying explosive ex-
cording due provision shall be made fur pftvent•
mg the introduction into such ship or boat, of lire, Lucifer
matches, or any substance or article like:y Lu eaase
explosion or fire, or the introduction of arty iron, steel,
or grit, so as to come into contact ivith such explosive;
aim 111 arty such ship or boat in which i the explosive
couu-
veyed is liable to be dangerously ailectea by water, utio
' precaution shall be taken to exclude water fro:a COW
into contact with such explosive. Ibis
miro regolatiou shalt nut
prevent the
• duction of an artitictai light of such
eunstruction, position, or character, or of safety thatclieS
of such character as not to cause any danger of fire or
explosion, and nothing in this Byelaw shall apply to any
• xplosive of the First Division of the 6th (Ammunition)
Class, provided the Rules specitisd in the Order of the
becretary of State, No. 3 h. m reference to Ammunition
of that Class shall have been complied with in regard
to such exglosive, and provided all due precautions arc
taken for the prevention of accidents. .
15. Any explosive which for the time being is neither
authorised (by license or continuing certificate) to be
manufactured for general sale, nor authorised. by license
to be imported for general sale, may be carried only in
such manner as shall be specially directed by the Coin
puny, provided that this Byelaw shall not extend to any
explosive ‘‘hich, under Section 4), sub-section 9 of the
Act, or under any Ord. r iu Council made in pursuance
of such St.clion, may lawfully be imported without any
license.

lt;. These Byelaws and all the provisions of the said
Act shall be obsetved.by ali the agelits and servants of
the said Company, and all per:ous using or engaged,
upon the Navigation- -er any wharf
.connected therewith.
17. Every person' cumulating any breacu of, or in any
way infringing any of the above Byelaws, shall be liab!o
to the following penalties, viz , pecuulary penalties for
each offence not exceeding 1:20, and £lO cacti day durwg
which such offence continues, and forfeiture of all the
gunpowder or other explosive, in respect of which, or
fellnd in the ship or boat in respect of which, such
breach or infringement shall take place. All penalties
may be recovered, enforced, sad applied according to the
govisions of the said Act.

18. Any vessel carrying gunpowder or other explosive
will be required to pay to the Company A MINIUM'
charga for any apacial aarvicea rendured.

ONE Box of CLARKE'S 13 41 Pills in
warranted to cure all discharges from the Urimar
Orgaus, in either sex, acquired or constitutional, Grave
and Pains in the Baok.—Sold in boxes, 4s 6d each, by
all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors; or sent to
Eny athirst:les for 60 Stamps by the Maker, F. J. CLARK'S
Consulting Chemist, High-street, Lincoln.—Wholesale
Agent:4, BARCLAY & BONO, London,lind allthe Wholesale
Housell•

ADVICT TO MOTHERS I—Are you b,roken in your
rest by a sick child suffering with the pain of cutting
teeth Go at once to a chemist and got ft bottle of
!las. SOOTIiIS6 STIWP. it will relieve
the poor sufferer immediately. It is perfectly harm•
ices and pleasant to taste, it produces nett:rid,
quiet sleep, by rcliuying the child from pain, and the
little cherub s:culets "as !night as a button." is
ioothes the child, it softcus the gums, allays ail
ri•At-vcA wind." m;nlates the bowels, and is the
remedy for dysentery and diarrlicea,
wlictl.er arising from teething or other causes. Mrt,
Winslow's Soothing Syrup is sold by Medicine dealors
everywhere at 1. iia per bottle.—Maziufaottitedil
tiew "York. wad at 48 Patoz4-litre9tl Leilbut