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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-10-01

ROWLEY.

REVISING BARRISTERS COIIRT.—On Monday, Mr.
Bosanquet, revising barrister, attended at the Ward
Arms Inn, Rowley, for the purpose of revising the
lists of voters for the Rowley Regis district of West
Staffordshire and the Reddall Hill district, which
is in the Parliamentary borough of Dudley, Mr. J.
Pugh, from the office of Mr. G. It. Thorne, Wolver-
hampton, appeared on behalf of the Liberals, and
Mr. E. Persia, of Stafford, represented the Con-
servatives. In the Rowley Regis division the
Liberals made 13 objections, of which they sus.
tamed 3, the others being amended. The Conser-
vatives in the same district raised 1 objection, and
sustained it. In the Reddall Hill polling district
for Dudley the Liberals objected to 11 persons, and
3 objections' were confirmed. The Conservatives
made and sustained 1 objection. The Overseers
objected to 12 persons . the Rowley Regis list
and 24 on the Reddall Hill list. For Rowley poll-
ing district there were 13 new claims, which were
all allowed. In the Reddall Hill district 25 new
claims were made, and allowed with one exception.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-10-01

HOP.

In the hop market there was nothing fresh of importance
to notice. A quiet business was doing, but fine samples were
steady. Kent (1880), a 10s. to t.. 6; Sussex, £3 to £5 Ios. ;
Farnham, £(s to £7 10s. ; ditto country, £6 to £7 ss. ; Ameri-
can, £3 15s. to £5 125.; Belgian, £1 15s. to £2 18s. ; English
(1879), £2 to ; foreign, 10s. to ES ; old, all kinds, 10f. to
Li los. per cv.t.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-10-01

KIDDERMINSTER.

MILITARY FUNERAL.—On Wednesday afternoon
the mortal remains of Mr. Edwin Dredge, of Com-
berton Hill, Kidderminster, were interred at the
Cemetery, with military honours. The deceased,
who was fifty years of age, had for years been a
member of the Rifle Volunteer Band, and had also
filled the posts of organist at the New Meeting
Church and secretary of Loyal Lord Hill lodge of
Oddfellows, meeting at the Clarendon Hotel. He
was much respected in the district, and large
numbers of people were present to witness the
funeral. The Volunteer band headed the procession
followed by members of the C Company of Rifle
Volunteers, the Oddfellows of the district, who
attended in considerable strength, together with
representatives of the Woolstaplers' Society, of
which the deceased was a member. The Rev. W.
Carey-Walters officiated, and at the conclusion of
the ceremony the Oddfellows' burial service was
read by the District Grand Master, and a firing
party fired three volleys over the grave.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-10-01

THE FORESTS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA,

Professor Dawson, of the Dcmini:on Geological
Survey, reports that the forests of British Columbia
are of vast importance. Many first-class mills have
been established on various parts of the country, and
ow Aotik,l araituil „I-y(4nd is stated to. be about
200,000,01'00 feet, of 25"milnon feet Is exported
to other countries, 25 million feet used at home, and
150 million feet sent to California. Professor Dawson
estimAtes that 110 million acres (or two-thirds of the
whole province) are covered with timber. The Douglas
fir or Oregon pine is the most valuable commercial
tree. It frequently exceeds eight feet in diameter,
and rises to a height of from 200 to 300 feet, forming
great and dark forests. The western hemlock and
the red cedar are the other important trees of the
province, both of which, the latter especially, grow
to a great size. When the great plains of Canada
become populous the mines and forests of British
Celumbia are likely to be of great importance.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-10-01

KIDDERMINSTER CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE.

At the meeting of tho Kidderminster Chamber of
Commerce on Thursday, Mr. J. Brinton, M.P., who
presided, in commenting upon a resolution recently
passvd by the Birmingham Chamber, said that
whilst one could only offer an opinion as to the
great importance of maintaining Free Trade, which
he believed to be the natural interest of this great
country, he was quite in favour of encouraging and
fostering to the greatest possible extent the friendly
feeling and mutual commercial relations which
should exist between this country and her Colonies
and dependencies. On the other hand he thought
we should not enter into such peculiar arrangements
with them as would discourage the importation of
articles of food and raw industries as those
countries which were said to impose hostile tariffs
on British manufactures were prepared to send to
us.—ln answer to Mr. Tomkinson, he said that the
carpets made in Indian prisons were not sold at
such ruinously low prices as to interfere materially
with the sale of those made under ordinary cir-
cumstances.—Mr. Tomkinson called attention to
the fact that cholera was raging at Mecca, and if
the goods imported thence to England at the pre-
sent time were not properly disinfected, great harm
might follow.—The Mayor (Mr. H. R. Willis)
referred to the Eastern " atrocities "in the shape
of vile carpets that were imported to England, and
said if the press of the country did its duty in
exposing such things the profitable business that
was non, done in them would soon be extinguished.