The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-07-23 00:00:00

THE FINANCIAL STATE OF DUDLEY.

The annual statement of the accounts of the
Borough of Dudley, together with a list ef the pro—
perty of the T twu Coun,il and cf to loans for the
Year ending 25th March. 1881, has jest Lem issued
by the Borough Accountant, Mr. J. Hipkias, The
b ok is complied in a very sys'ematie manner, and
th ineome and expenditure of the various funds
part be aacertai ,ed at a glance. It appears that the
to4l am net expended during the fbiano,al y. ar
we 451 18s. 9d, whilst the incoare w:ts
£50.40 is. 3d., showing a balance of £1,371 179.
61. due to the treasurer on the Borough Fund. The
total arroant of reats reeived by the Council te.,s
£l9B 15.,„ whilst the amount, of rents paid by them
was £l5O Ti., leaving on this special fund a balance
in favenr of th Council of £42 Bs. On the Sewer-
ag •,Strc...t Improvement, and Police Superanua,tion
Peal tir is a balance in hand of £8,514 [is. 60.
iha ~oroug Fund there is a balance aglinst,
the Council of £1,371 179.6 d. The General District
Ra c Ac.a.unt i.how s an excess of rec. ipts over pay
melts of .£0;.1 7s. 70, The Sewerage Fund was
debt to the seeonnt of £586 65., 100., but since
then a ben of £6,000 has been borrowed from the
P, blie Work.. Li .n Commissioners for the purpose
of sewerage and sewage disposal. From the state-
ment of !Loan+ contratted by the Town Council it
tat te.um of £15,837 was borrowed during the
year for the purpose of erecting public baths. for
sewerage purposes, and for the completien of public
baths; £7,000 (if the amount mentioned was
Ot,.ined from Mx. John Round Tilley, at 4I per
cent. per annum; £6,000 from the Public Works
Loan Commissioners, at 3} per cent. per annum ;
and £2,837 from Mr. James Fish, r at 41, per cent.
per annum, the interest on each amount being pay-
able half.yearlv. The public loan is repayable by
60 h ilf-yearly instalments, and the private loans
by 3) annual instalments. There is also a state-
Lie,.t showing the rates made alone the incorpor-
atkr: of the borough, from which it appears that'
the average for the last nine demands has been
abi ut 2s. 7d. At the conclusion of the accounts is
enditers' certificate, which adds that " We con-
eider they (the accoun.o) have been kept in a highly
satisfactor3 manner by the Borough Accountant."

AcCIDENT TO A WOMAN IN A BRICK-
WORKS.
To Dudley,Borough Coroner (R. J. Watts, Esq.)
on .1 hura lay morning, held an inquest at the Guest
Hospital, touching the death of Sarsh Jones (48),
the wife of Arthur Jones, Queen Street, Quarry
Bank. The ecf ased woman was admitted to the
Hospital on the 6th inst, suff ring from injuries
rec-ived in Messrs. King Brothers' brickworks, at
Netl.erend, Cradley, where she was employed, and
died on the 18th inst. Mr, W. 11. King attended
on behalf of King Brothers, Mr. Hartley King, his
manager, and sub-manager being also present. It
appeared that on the date first named, the deceased
went to a part of the works some distance hem the
spo: I -here she was emloyed, and approwled too
near a spindle -n connection with the riddle of the
c'ay in 11 whi h was in motion at the time. No one
saw the ecei-ent happen, but a workman named
Dani& Csrtwright, who was about 30 yards away,
netieieg that the band of the spindle had become
displa.;ed, went and found the deceased entanghd
ie Vie mac inery. She was removed to the hospital,
wh i was f .und that she had sustained a fraturo
of a lsrge bone fn her left leg, and another corn-
pond fr eiu.e below the knee joint. She told Mr.
Walfo,d, t',e house surgeon, that she had a fit and
NI into the machinery, and that her clothing was
iearly Oragg,ed off her. She progressed iii a
favourablc manner until the 18th instant, when she
was sezed wi-h an epilep ic fit and died within
half an hour. Mr. Walford said he should imagine
that -the fit caused her death; and he did not see
that there was any connection between that and
her death —Mr. W. H. King remarked that it
w-is a motter of vety great regret to Messrs. King
Bios, that the oecurence should have happened, as
for twenty years they had ca_ried on their works
Without an accident of any kind.—Deceased's
husband, in reply to a juryman, said during the
twi nty years he had been married to hi wife be
never knew her have anything like a fit except os
one occAsion, six years ago.—A verdict of" Natural
causes" was returned, the jury suegesting that ,
women should not be allowed to work in the mill;
that the firm should do their best to prevent it, end
more effsctually guard the spindle in question by a
box.—Me. King intimated that the suggestions
should be carried out,