The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-05-09 00:00:00

THE IRON TRADE

Wolverhampton, Wednesday.
The market this afternoon was very quiet, only a
small amount of business being transacted. Corn
weaker
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terms
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cepted to secure orders. The marked-bar houses
were reported to be occupied at a rata equal to the
production which has prevailed since the com-
mencement of the quarter. In merchant bars some
specifications are reaching the works under orders
placed a few weeks ago and in most cases they are
for immediate delivery. Among those best engaged
are the makers of small rounds and squares. For
common sheets there le art irregular demand, at
recent prices, the galvanisers being the largest pur-
chasers. Cheap sheets for conversion into venous
descriptions of hardware goods are being disposed
of in tolerably good quantities, but buyers terms
ire such that they yield no profit in the majority
ef the eases to the manufacturer. Girder plates
have sold better, and some of the mills are more
regularly employed than they have been since the
beg:rifling of April, deliveries being pressed forward
to nte,,t consumers wants during the current month
rin-pl ttes are reported to be more required for the
oxpart trade; and for stamping sheets both for
local consumption and delivery in distant parts of
tbe country there is a moderately satisfactory de-
mand, with quotations as firm as they have been
at any
leo
time during
ring the present year. Boiler-plates
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wore than small parcels. The pig trade is in a
tation t
,ethargic state, and priees are easier. Foun try
iron, which has hitherto maintained a good poiition
Appears now to be as much affected as the tra ft
in forge iron. In the coal trade the only kind that
la moving is manafacturtug

For a entail:lug. conitor,ing, and nourishing beverag
drink Cadbury's Pure Cocoa, and do not be pereuaded
to magi a anbatitiata.

DUDLEY AND ISTIDLXND GEOLOGICAL
AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY AND FIELD
CLUB.

On Monday evening the annual meeting of the
members of this society was held in the Museum,
chair.
Dudley. Mr. John Amphlett (President), in the
;
The committee and other officers having been I
elected, Mr. W. Madely (the hon. secretary) read
the report, from which it appeared that the society
had lost six members by death during the past year
among whom were Mr. Charles Ketly, who had
been a men ber since 1862' and whose general col-
lection of Dudley silurian fossils holds an honour-
able place in the Geological Museum of the Mason
College, in Birmingham. The late Mr. A. Wyley
was another whose loss the society could not but
n ention with regret, as his extensive geological
knowledge was frequently in request on the excur-
sions, and his frank and genial temper made him
ale ays a welcome companion. The report enumer-
ated the field meetings held during the year :
the Wren's Nest and Dibdale, Bacldesley Clinton,
the meeting of the -Union of Natural History
Societies at Peterborough, when excursions were
made to Siibbiugton. Caister, and the Bedford Pur-
lieus, Croyland and Ti•orley Abbeys, and the wild
duck decoy; Kinver, Coiepton, and Hawk-
stone in Shropshire, and the Lickey. The report
expressed the obligation the society had been under
during the past year to Mr. B. Gibbson. the Rev.
P. B -Brodie, vi.ar of Rowington, and President of
the Warwickshire Naturalist-' Club, the Rev. John
Hodgson, vicar of Kinver, Professor Rupert Junes,
and Professor Lapworth, of the Mason College,
and Mr. Jerome Harison.
The report was unanimously appr‘ tad and
adopted.
The statement of accounts was also passed, which
on the whole was satisfactory ; but attention was
drawn to an item of £3O, subserii tions in anew s
which it was hoped members would see it their
duty to speedily diminish. After tea, a number of
interesting scientific onjects were exhibited.
Mr. E. B. Marten, C. E., of Stourbridge, ex-
hibited and explained the Synchronous Multiplex
Telegraph by which any number of me&,ages may
be transmitted upon one wire at the same time ;
mobbey chain, formerly used by children in coal-
pi sto pull the slippers containing the small coal.
To the chain was attached a be:t worn round the
vvaist, and as the children crawled along the shal-
low workings on 11nds and feet the slipper was
rawn after them. It was stated that by the con-
tinuous use of the belt,the skin of Ott) body became
as haid ard horny as the hands of the other werkers
Mr. Marten showed al-o a wedge tearer, used to
split !ea:kJ befere the use of gunpowder. and an in-
teresti g archmological map of the Midland
Counties showing all the Roman roads. Mr. E.
Terry exhibited a geological model of the Titon
District, showing the Silurian floor of the nail
measures and the various old and new pumping
statioas, A large co!lection of flint implements
was sown by Mr. C, Beal with geological speci-
mens of curious rocks by Mr. H. Pearce. Mr,
Hadley exhibited fossil teeth from the carboniferous
Limestone, and Stromotapora and specimens from
the Dudley limestone. Microscopes and other
m.eientific objects added to the interests of the
evening.