The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-05-23 00:00:00

ROWLEY.

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it was decided on tl)e moion of Mr, Lowe to pur-
chase four acres of Find, ,known as Pool Meadow,
Garratt's Lane, at a e.‘st of £4:50, as a site for the
prop,)sal n 94, small-pox hospital butllings.---rhe
Medical "Officer of the Lower District reported a
death-ra`a. (luring he Month of 22.5, and in the
Upper Distriot 219, againit 26 per thousand.list
month and 15 per thousand in the con esponding
month last year. No case of zyinotic disease, ex-
cept meas!es and one caae• of s:n‘111 pox, existed in
the distLiet.

DUDLEY AND MIDLAND GEOLOGICAL

SOCIETY AND FIELD CLUB.

.11 first field mestin4 of this society was held on
ia'-nrday last at the Wrekin. Upwards of thirty
membsts and ftiends were present, including Mr.
John Amphlett (President), Mr. R. W. Ralph
(President ef the Severn Valley Club), Rev. J.
Hodgson, Dr.. Fraser, Arevrs. C. Cochrane, G. K.
Ilan son, E. B, Marten, J. Brown, A. W. Worthing.
ten, C. Beale. and %V. Madeley kSecretary), ni
many ladies. Dr. Callavt ay (Wellington), who has
&voted gre,t attpntion to the stratigraphy and
structure of the Wrekin and other archman rocks,
both in England an i Sco:land, conducted the party.
—After luncheon the Presideht spoke of the great
loss the socie.y had experienced in the death of then
patron, the Earl of Dudley, to whom, during the
whole life of the society since its esta-ilistiment in
1862, thy were indebted f r many acts of gener.
osity and kindness ; in fact the society owed to L ird
Dutiley the exiptence of their splendid museum and
library.—A cordial vote of thanks was passed to
Dr. Callaway for the' instructive and lucid manner
in which he had explained the geology of a most
interesting group of rocks.

SPORTING NOTES.

iThfour Spor(inj Correspondent)

Manchester Whit Cup and EPSOM' Derby.—This
past week Luminary the second string of the Kings.
dare stable came ia for some rou in usage at tue
hands of the pencillor, owing to having been beaten
in his trial, However, his stable companion (my
long selected iu these columns\
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to be decided next week—tbJ Uaneliester Whit Cup
—Borneo and Pizarro continue to keep at the head
of alfan a and many astute judges ceel ire one of
them will be returned the winner. The race accord-
ing to my ideas is a very open one, some twenty
horstai naing quoted in the h4ting returns. Saudi.
way is having a sp,!eial pr p iration for this event,
as she'r_an second in last .D.,ne-!ster Et. Lerr, she
has class on her sidA to rec tin:n?ni her. Studley
is nicely treated and shod I hAd C in Tartar safe
on 1 sk, years Gt. Northern Handicap f, prin. Xema
ra v 15, torward in I at year's Cesarewitch and
w. oi,ly 6st 13kb to carry• niust mid dangerous.
Euca.iou bails froni the stable, that pro 'need the
winner last year, but I learn that the stahle have
not ,d,ot th. ir money rightly placed. Great things
ire expected of the American Eole, who has not yet
sported .ilk in England. Croca-a boo will take some
doi g with h.s light impost. Polemic and Kinsky
are a dangerous pair. Illue Grass, Corrun,i, and
giddlethorye sill beat more than beats them, and
to th -ow over the favourites, I shall stand by

XEMA AND BLUE GRASS -
fearing most from Pizarro. I am often requested to
recommend it Ph Ommiesion agent, and in 'wing

that Messrs. Valentine and Hardaway are reliable.
lam only reiterating what is said of them by
several contemporaries su,th as the Sportsman and
Sporting Life. Those of my readers who require
the lastest from the course during the Manchester
and Epsom Derby week can have the same sent
daily tor 12 stamps, by sending to Travelling Corres-
pondent, Sporting Tissue Office, Hull,