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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-04-19

OLD HILL.

ANNUAL DINNER. - On Easter Monday the
Miners' Independent Order of the Knights of the
Wood Lodge held their thirty-fifth anniversary at
the house of Mr. John Foley, the Duke William inn,
Old Hill. The members met at one o'clock and sat
down to an excellent dinner which was well served
up by the hostess. After the cloth was removed
Mr. W. Smith. P.S., occupied the chair, and Mr. R.
Buttery, V.S., the vice-chair. The evening was
pleasantly spent with YIP 3al. and hi rumental music.
The meeting was concluded at tea o'clock by singing
the doxology. We understand that this society
arnually subscribes two guineas to the Dudley Dis-
pensary. .

DRUNKENNESS. At the Police Court, on Wed-
nesday, before Messrs. R. L. Freer and W. Bassauo,
William Barnsley and Samuel Harris were charged
with being drunk and disorderly on the 12th inst.,
at Lawrence Lane, Old Hill. Police-constable
Parnell proved the case and defendants were each
fined 2s 6d and costs.—Edward Tinsley was charged
with a similar offence on the 12th inst., at Cradley
Heath. Poliee-constable Parker proved the offence
and defendant was fined 5s and costs; in default 14
days.
NEGLECT OF WORK. George Bagley was sum-
moned by 'Richard Sykes for non-payment of 7s 6d
due for neglect of work. Ordered to pay the amount
claimed and costs in 14 days.
GAMBLING.—Thomas Blunt, John Clarke, John
Northall, Eli Goodwin, and Noel Brain were charged
with gambling on the highway on the 14th inst.
Police-constable Wickstead proved the case. Blunt
and Clark having been previously convicted were
fined Is and costs, and the other defendants 6d and
costs.

ASSAULT OASES.— .Charlotte Eggington and Eliza
Houghton were charged with with assaulting
Hannah Taylor on the Ist inst. Mr. Addison de-
fended. Complainant said abont eleven o'clock on
1 the night of the let the two defendants burst open
'her door and assaulted her with their fists and said
they would kill her. They also tore her dress off.
Three witnesses corroborated complainant. De-
fendant's sister was called and said her sister never
touched complainant at all. She also swore that
complainant's son had a fender in his hand, whilst
the next witness, her mother, swore positively that
it was complainant's daughter that had the fender.
The Bench said there was a great discrepancy in
the evidence and some of the witnesses had told
great lies—they could not call it anything else. The
balance 'of the evidence was on the side of cont•
plainant and they should fine defendants 2s 6d and
costs.—Thomas Woodhall was charged with assault-
ing his wife. The case was dismissed on defendant
paying costs and promising to behave better in
future.

BLACK HEA.TH.
VOW liaTanswit. -. On Tuesday, the mutual

vestry meeting was held at St. Paul's Church, the
Rev. F. R Keatch (vicar) being in the chair. Mr.
Joseph Connop was electei vicar's warden, and Mr.
T. Cartwright was re-elected people's warden.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-04-19

DOMESTIC SERVANTS.

WANTED FOR NEW ZEALAND.
Such as Cooks, Housemaids, Gene'al Servants, Nurse
Daii.ymai44. Wages £2O to £4O per annum.
Applications will now be entertained for passages by
ships sailing during the summer and Autumn mouths.
The earliest applications will have priority.
PPi==
Free Ship's Outfit (BeddinT, and allowance for
Traveling Expehs s. For further particulars apply to—
TUE AG NT-GENERAL FOR NEW ZEALAND
7, Westminster Chambers,
3larch. 1879. Victoria Street, London, SW

FARM LABOURERS.

WANTED FOR NEW ZEALAND.
Applications will Low be entertained for
1-IEJEJ PAsSGS
By ships saidtigduriug:the.Sunimer,and,Autunin mouth,
The eariiest appocations will have priority.
For further particulars apply to—
THE AGENT-GNERAL FOR NEW ZEALAND,
7, 'Westminster Chamber',
Maro'a, 1373 VtJLt u)11)11,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-04-19

TO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED

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in the Back and Limbs, Timidity, Self-Distrust, Dizzi-
ness, Love of Solitude, Groundless Fears, and ms.ay
other ailments, which, if neglected ,bring the sufferers
to an early Death; together with Hints on Chroni
Rheumatism, Gout, Neuralgia, Epilepsy, Hysteria, and
all disea.s of the Nervous and alimentary system.
The Appendix to this valuable work contains many
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and the cure of minor disorders, with full instructions
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Contains also some friendly advice on Hygiene, or th
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Illustrated by numerous testimonials from grateful
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-04-19

W.C.

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to Woman.

DR • HENRY SMITH, 8 BURTON CRESCENT, LONDON
W.C.

NOTICE TO COUNTRY INVALIDS.
Consultation by Letter without Fee.

DR. HENRY SMITH, (By Diploma of tht
Royal University of Jena) who has devoted
THIRTY YEARS to the Special Treatment of Diseases
of the Nervous System, resulting from Exhaustion ol
Nerve Power, Local Weakness, &c., will for the benefit
of Country Invalids, on receiving a statement of case,
send his opinion, with Advice and Instructions, which,
f followed, insure a Cure ; a Personal Interview and
expensive Consultation-fees are thus avoided.
A " Confidential" form of Correspondence to assist
the Invalids in describing their case sent Post Free.
DR. HENRY SMITH,_B,__BURTON CRESCENT

LONDON. W.C.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-04-19

THE STOURBEIDG-E OBSERVER.

MATERIALS FO I PAPER-MAKING.

It was formerly one of the principal arguments
against the abolition of the paper duty, that the
foreigner imp.)sed export luties or rags, and that there
were more raga abroad tun in England (says the
Evening Standard). The srgument was strengthened
by the fact that when an Englishman had worn his
clothes as long as he conveiently could, he would sell
them to dealers in such srticles, who would send
them to Germany. In (Arrnany they would have
a new lease of life, and finally be sent back to
England as most indubitaile rags, with an export
duty upon them. Since that time the growth of
the paper-making trade has caused all sorts of
materials to be experimented upon for making a
satisfactory pulp. Straw and Esparto grass have
been fairly successful, though after the various pro-
cesses they give a paper which may be made
hard, but is seldom tough. Nettles have been
suggested ; and there is nc doubt but that the
nettle fibre is long and tough. But who grows
nettles? Go to a practical piper-maker with a sample
of nettle stalks, and, if he lhes the idea, he will say,
"Let me have five tons every alternate week for the
next three months." Where are they to come from?
If we cultivate the nettles, we must give up the land
to them, and so raise the price. This is only one
specimen out of many, of absurd projects for
utilising on a large scale things that can be
produced at a profit cn no reasonable scale at
all. Putting these on one side, it does seem that
in New Zealand native flax there is promise of a
good paper-making material. It is not exactly a
novelty, for some seven years ago four thousand tons
were sent to England and used in various ways, The
Phormium 7enax seems lo be a most accommodating
plant, growing in !ilmott any soil or any climate,
within reasonable limits, The only reason why the
Phormium Tenax should lot clothe the world, instead
of being an instrument ix its instruction, seems to be
that when the fibres havebeen once dry they are good
enough for paper but not tenacious enough for
weaving. Lovers' letters should be written on paper
made of this kind of Phornium Tenax.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-04-19

FOOD WASTED.

The Times has published the following letter on the above
subject :

Sir,—As all of us as well as the farmers are in-
terested in requiring less wheat and meat from
America if it can be done without reducing the food
of the people, may I suggest a plan which, from my
standpoint of thrift, would, I think, at least assist?
This is simply that we should not waste as we do.
The amount of bread that is wasted, even in the poor
parts of London, is very great. I see it constantly,
as my occupation here takes me regularly to all
districts. In well-to.do houses crumbs and small
pieces of bread are swept up after each meal, and but
too often thrown away and nlt even always given to
the birds. Children are often allowed to be thus
wasteful. One ounce is but a very little piece of
bread ; let each of your readers weigh it out. Yet an
ounce of bread wasted dally in each household in Eng-
land and Wales means about 25 million quartern
loaves, the produce of 30,000 acres of wheat, and
enough to feast annually 100,C00 people. The same
with small scraps of meat ; an ounce a week represent
some 300,000 sheep.
Saving this bread and meat from waste is the same
as producing the same amount more at home. It
would reduce the Americana' bill by exactly a corre-
sponding amount, and so tend to open their ports to
our goods and further assist materially in inculcating
habits of thrift among the people in all other things.—
Your obedient servant, GEORGE C. T. BARTLEY. The
National Penny Bank (Limited), 270, Oxford-street,
Loudon.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-04-19

Free by post, in Envelope, six stamps.

DiSEASES PECULIAR TO WOMAN,
Ehves the Cause, Symptoms and Cure. Th. 7
book is pubbshed for the opecial use of Females, and i
a Private Guide to the Treatment of a class of ailment.
peculiar to the Female Constitution.
DR. HENRY SMITH, 8 BURTON CRESCENT, LONDOr
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-04-19

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f Apau, 19, 1879.

EASTER AND THE VOLUNTEERS.

ONE of the strangest instances of the indirect
erects of legislation is that furnished by the
Bank Holidays A.ct, which has practically
abolished the Easter Monday Volunteer
Review. Before Sir John Lubbock's bili
became law the railway companies running
into London found it practicable on Easter
Monday to convey several thousands of our
citizen soldiers to some favourable spot away
from metropolitan smoke and bustle,. on
which they could disport in all the laborious
luxury of a. shana-fight with the inevitable
marca-past as "a di-usu." 13at the demands
upon the railway authorities are so great
upon Bank Holidays, and upon the first of
the year almost as great as upon either, that
they can no longer aiford to Lave a
swamped during the greater part of the
moyuing and evening by trains full of volun-
teers. The change is one which many of the
fon;e will regret, for it deprives them of a
pieasarable outing which may well be be-
haved to have been a source of instruction.
And even if military authorities, casting
the proiessional eye of pity upon amateur
attempts, hinted that the sham fights weru
so sham as to teach dangerous lessons and
not those of prudence and good generalship,
there were not wanting observers of skill
and experience who believed that the volun-
teers gained in morale by the rbview, allit
that, if nothing else, a better and more
hearty spirit was infused into them than
GVulti Pe by any otavr uratrua. but witttidtwor
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-04-19

LYE.

THE CEMETBEY.—The consecration of the above
cemetery was to have taken place yesterday, but in
consequence of some informality in the plan, the
Bishop did not attend, and the sonsecration was
adj out nad.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-04-19

DUDLEY.

VESTRY MEETINGS.—On Tuesday, at the parish
(St. Thomas), the Rev, T. Savage presided. A. letter
was read from the Rev. Dr. Cosens, vicar, who is in
Paris. In this it was stated that he appointed Mr.
Matthew Smith vicar's warden, illness, caused by
anxiety and overwork, had occasioned his absence for
so long a period. The vicar thanked Mr. Savage for
his attention, and hope the outgoing church wardens
had realised their intentions as to the church debt.
Mr. John Jordan was elected peoples warden. Thete
was a discussion as to why the clergy had ceased to
take the offertories from the collectors, one or two
holding that the change was distaAeful. The matter
was deferred until after the return of the vicar, which
is expected to take place on the 26th May. Mr.
Smith spoke in favour of settling any small differences
and Mr. Holt, one of the retiring wardens, announced
a reduction of the church debt.—St. John's: Mr. II
Caldicott, vicar's warden, and Mr. C. Lester, peoples
warden, were reappointed and respectively,—St.
James's: Mr, 0. Newey. vicar's warden; Mr. Isaac
Astley, peoples warden.—St. Edmund's : Mr. T. II
Fisher, vicar's warden ; Mr. M. A. Messiter, Peorde
warden.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-04-19

A PECULIAR AND INEXPLICABLE
DISEASE.

All admirers, gastronomical and ichthyological, of
the delicious little crustacean, tie river cray-fish, will
regret to hear that a peculiar and inexplicable disease
is creating fearful ravages among this tribe of Astaoi
in many continental rivers (says the Evening Standard).
From the Meuse, the Marne, the Moselle, the Rhine,
the Enn, and other rivers in the east of France, and
west and south-west of Germany, reports have come in
that they have been dying by thousands for some
months past, and that the mortality is still increasing,
and the same fatality is in progress in ponds and reser-
voirs where they are bred and preserved for the market.
At the fish-hatching establishment at Gaisbach, in the
Grand Duchy of Baden, there has been a great destruc-
tion of crays, and at another establishment at Munich
more than 2,0001 b. weight has been lost in the course
of five weeks, while a fish merchant of Mainz has lost
his whole stock, and the waters about Strasburg are
almost denuded of their little tenants. Scientific in-
vestigation of the matter has shown that the disease
consists partly in the presence of small maggot.
like worms just under the shells of the fish, and
in the fibrous parts of the body; but what
causes their presence has not yet been ascertained, and
it is a most extraordinary phenomenon that the
disease is prevalent in all the crayfish districts, which
cover a very wide area. The result is that the fish
have become very dear, and there is weeping and
lamentation among the gourmets of Paris, where large
numbers are consumed every day, and eipecially in
the autumn, which is the best season, and of many
continental cities. The variety of ways of treating
them for the table is infinite, but their chief
use is for the celebrated potage a la bisque. The
ancient Greeks knew their virtues, and Alexandrian
crays were esteemed by (hem as highly as our
"native "oysters were by the Romans. Among us,
however, the appreciation of the river cray is, strange
to say, very limited, and we hardly care to use them
except for "garnishing." It will be strange if thE
continental disease shows itself among our own crays,
which are mostly found in the sluggish streams of
Oxfordshire. By the way, barbel fishermen should
know that the tail of a small cray is a most enticing
bait for that wily and very capricious fish.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-04-19

SUMMER IN AUSTRALIA.

The Melbourne Argus of the 21at of February says :
The weather we have lied during the past month
has been something terrific. There are some few who
remember the celebrated ?lack Thursday, and, of
course, they say that the weather we have had lately
was nothing compared with that day. Other persons
who have some little kco wledge of temperature declare
that with a few more degrees of heat we should all
have been roasted alive. This appears very feasible
when we find the thermometer at the Observatory, on
the 29th of January, showing 106 deg. in the shade and
146 deg. in the sun. This is comparatively coal to what
it is said to have been at Yarrawenga, a small town-
ship on the River Murray, where it is said to have
been 126 deg. in the shade on the hottest day we have
had.

Among the bush fires reported is one at Colac, in
the western district, where a fire, which broke out
about eight miles south of the township, swept down
towards it with great rapidity. A settler named
Turnbull, with his wife and five children, was sud-
denly surrounded by the dames while upon land
belonging to Mr. Standley, who was with them. The
whole party made for the dam. Mr. Standley
carried one of the Turnbull children, leading
another. They had to gi) through the burn-
ing grass and among blazirg trees to get to the
water, and as they neared it a tree fell and killed
one of the 'children on the spet. Mr. Standley was
severely burnt, but is hoped he will recover. Mr.
Turnbull sustained a frightful scalp wound from the
tree that killed the child, a boy of twelve years, and
has since died. Mrs. Turnbull, the mother of the
family, was burnt to death and another of her children
with her. A third child was rescued alive, but died
soon afterwards, and A fourth is severely burnt. The
infant child was also found dead in the forest.

Owing to the intense heat of the weather, deaths by
sunstroke have occurred in various parts of the colony.