The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-08-19 00:00:00

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STOURBRIDG-E SCHOOL OF ART.

THE SCHOOL will RE-OPEN on :\IONDAY
1 EVENING, AUGUST 215t,1876, after the M t 1.0 timer
Holidays.
ART INSTRUCTION is given useful to the ARTIZ AN
and DECORATIVE ARTIST.

The GENERAL CLASSES meet on Monday, Wed-
nesday, and Friday Evenings, from Seven to Half-past
Nino o'clock. Fees : 6s per Quarter.
THE SPECIAL CLASSES on Tuesday and Thursday
Mornings, from Ten to-Twelve o'clocir., Vet:
per Quarter. • • , I ,##
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WILLIAM P. 130. WEN,
Ilead-Master.

August 7th, 1876.

STOURBRIDGE WATER WORKS COMPANY
(LIMITED).

MOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the
11 ORDINARY GINERAL MEETING of the
Shareholders of the Stourbridge Water. Works Company
(Limited), will be held at the Company's Offices, No. 1,
CHIIIICII STRUICT, in the Township of Sttinrbridge, in the
County of Worcester, on Monday, the aSth day of
AunusT mat, at Four o'clock in the afternoon, to receive
the Directors' Report, and to adopt the same or other-
wise ; to declare a Dividend ; and for the -burps() 'of
transacting the general business of the-Company. '
(By Order)

GEO. HOLLOWAY, Secretary.
Company's Offices, Stourbridge,
Aug. sth, 1876.

STOURBRIDGE IMPROVEMENT ACT,
1866.
AND THE ACTS INCORPORATED THEREWITH*

IMPROVEMENT RATE.

HIGAWAY RATE.

NOTICE is hereby Given, that at the next
Monthly MEETING of the Stourbridge Improve-
ment Commissioners, to be holden at the COMMiB-
- Itttpm, CORN EXCHANGE, STOURBIDGE,
on MOICDAY, the 28th DAT or AUGUST instant, WC three
o'clock in the Afternoon :—lt is intended to`make an
IMPROVEMENT RITE of Six-pence in the Pound,
pursuant to the 74th Section of the Stourbridge.lmprove:
ment Act, 186 G, also a HIGHWAY RATE of Eight-
pence in the Pound, pursuant to the 72nd Section of the
said Act.

And Notice is hereby further Given, that State:meats
of such proposed Itates are deposited for inspectio a by
the Rate-payers, at the Office of the Clerk t 3 the said
Commissioners, No. 56, High Street. Stourbridge.

Dastel this lith day of August, 1866.
JOEIN TAYLOR, Clerk.

JOWER GROUN DS, ASTON pARK

THESE BEAUTIFUL GROUNDS OPEN DAILY.

The Grandest DISPLAY of SUMMER BEDDING
and SUB-TROPICAL PLANTS in the district.

BOATING on the Lake, which has been very much
enlarged and filled with spring water fit for Bathing as
well as Boating.

SYNYER and GILMER'S splendid BAND .every
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and SATUBDAY, from 3
till S.

The NEW f3KkTING RINK Open Daily, for Three
Exercises—viz., 11 till 1; 2.30 till 5;, 7 till 0.20.

POUNTNEY'S BAND will Play on t4).0 Rink RORY
EVENLNG and on FRIDAY AFTERINS.
Admission. Rim-2, 04.3 lure OI SKSS.&+, vu.
Aduasston to Grounds, 3d. each.
G.H. QUILTER, PROPRIETC:I.

FREE EMIGRATION TO QUEENSLAND.

Free Passages are granted by the Government of
Queensland as under—
To General Servants, Cooks, Housemaids, Nurses, Dairy
Maids, &c.
Wages £25 to £5O a-year all found.
To Married and single Farm Labourers.
Wages £3O to £5O a-year with board and lodging.
Assisted Passages on payment of .E 4 to

Artizans (all kinds)
Blacksmiths
Carpenters and Joiners
Butchers
Bookbinders
Bakers
Bricklayers
Cabinet Makers
Gardners
Grooms

Saddlers
Plasterers:
Plumbers an.l Paiuters
Quarrymen
Rope Makers
Shoemakers
Shipwrights
Shepherds
Tailors and others

At Wages about double Englisb Rates.

Each Ship.carries an experienced Surgeon & Matron.
Families have separate sleeping compartment.
Work can be carried on in the openair all the year round
Beef and Mutton 3d a-lb. ; Tea 2s Gd a-lb ; Flour 15s
_

; Sugar 3d. a-lb

Apply personally or by letter to Agent-General for
Queensland, 32, Charing Cross, London, S.W.; or to
A. W. BEALE, Commercial Salo Rootns,
Kidderminster.

DOST OFFICE DIRECTORY OF
BIR-
MIGHAM, STAFFORDSHIRE, WARWICK-
SHIRE and WORCESTERSHIRE, with Maps
engraved for the Work. Price to Subscribers, 30s; Non-
Subscribers, 365. Messrs. KELLY are now engaged in
preparing a-New Edition of these Counties.
The Work will contain a topographical account of
each Parish, Village, hamlet and Township, with its
distance from London and other chief towns, its position
in the Division of the CoMity in which it is situate,
Hundred and Union, and County Court District, and
also the Diocese, Archdeaconry, and Rural Deanery; the
Population from the Census of 1871 ; Description of the
Churches, with the Value of the Living, the names of
the Patron and Incumbent; the chief Landowners;
the Acreage, notice of Snil and Crops, Local Charities;
and description of the Principal Seats. In the towns
are also given partictilars of the Local Government ;
an Architectural Description of the Churches and. other
Public Buildings, Chapels of Different Denominations,
Public Schools ; Agricult tral and Scientific Societies,
Theatres, &c. ; a full account of the Principal Manufac-
tures of which each town is the seat; the Mat kets,
Faits and Races; Objects of Natural Curipsity and
Antiquities ; Hospitals, Alinglionsg, and Charitie,; snit
a short historical account of the principal 107 es.
The Directory of eas-.11 town comprises Lists of the
Resident Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry, and aim), a List
of all engaged in Profes-d:inal and M Pursuits,
nrsutts,
in Alphabetical Order. liihrmation relating to Postal
toMgatettelfesr, Law‘ivthand e
e Churches
c Conveyance
navnedy
aCnheitepebl Chapels,
Railway, Water or Land Carriers, will also be included.
Also will be given an Alphabetical wArrangement of
particularsPu bPublic
ir.cees
Names of the Nobility, Gentry, and Clergy, and a
General Classification of Trades, which will exhibit all
the Persons engaged in any Trade throughout each
County.

The Proprietors respectfully request the faronr (if the
gentlemen ta their employ being personal/ y seen on th(ir
,ziTlying informatunt, and that th •.1-(tvit (qi tj
he
.Ar„nic„itc., nawbe, giz:en to them:

London: KFLIN and Co., 51, Great Queen Street,W.o

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