The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-05-29 00:00:00

FRAUDULENT WINDING OF WOOL.

The President of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce has
addressed the following circular to the various Chambers of
Agricultere in the country—
The Council of the Bradford Chamber of Coro.
merce have had for years past brought under their
notice cases of negligent or fraudulent winding of wool,
from which disputes of an unpleasant nature have
arisen. The Council have, therefore, decided (on the
recommendation of their Wool Supply Committer) to
issue this circular, calling the attention of all flock-mas.
tern to the injury caused to their own interests wherever
such practices exist. Wool is sometimes shorn in places
containing chopped straw or chaff, when particles of
the latter get mixed, and cannot afterwards be separated
from the wool, to the great deterioration of its value ; but
the Council refer more particularly to cases of a more
reprehensible character. Thus, loss arises from the sheep
not being properly docked or clagged before clipping;
from dockings and cots being sometimes wound opus the
fleeces; and from want of proper attention in cleaning
the fleeces when clipping, so as to keep them free from
tar, stones, sand, earth, clay, dung, straw, grass, and
other substances. This, which many years ago it was
found necessary to guard against by special Acts of
Parliament, frequently remains undiscovered for
months, until the wool goes into consumption, and a
notion has prevailed that by the Repeal of these Acts
of Parliament the buyer has been deprived of his legal
remedy. The Bradford Chamber of Commerce have,
however, in conjunction with the Worsted Committee
of Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Cheshire, taken the
opinion of an eminent counsel on this matter, and they
are assured that the purchaser of such wool has a
retnedy at common law quite as effective as he formerly
had by statute. Actions have been brought, and
damages recovered, both in the Assize and County
Courts. It is to be hoped that flockmasters will take
due precautions against the recurrence of these acts of
negligence ,sz the part of their servants, which tend to
destroy that confidence which should exist between
the growers and consumers of wool.

ENOUGH OF THEIR OWN!
A Corresrdident of The Times writes :
A few weeks ago an eloquent appeal was made to the
public through ), or columns, over the signature of Miss
Maria S. Rye, foe Cum& to enable her to emigrate female
children between the ages of five and ten years—designated
'gutter children "—to WeFtem Canada. Since that time she
has acknowledged the receipt of very large slims of money
to be devoted to the purpose. By late colonial papers I find
that the Canadians look with anything but approval on the
scheme, remarking with tenth that they have more than
enough' gutter children "01 their own.
I am Informed that the passenger laws of both the United
States and Canada would strictly prohibit the landing ot
these little miserable' on their shores, and as Miss Rye has
acknowledged the receipt of so large a sum of money to lie
devoted to tills purpose, it would not, perhaps, be too much
to ask her if the Canadian authorities desired the shipment,
and if they did not, for some explanation of her intended
mode of procedure for getting them into that country.

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GALLERY, No. IX.—At the Acaderny,the other
day, a visitor experienced a singular sensation, while
looking at one t,f Leighaues pictures (No. 70)—he was
Electra-tied l—Peach.