The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-07-10 00:00:00

SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1886,:l

The "Republique Franc:else " has discovered a fresh
cause of offence on the part of the Germans. A firm
of flag manufacturers at Bonn, on the Rhine, has been
sending to French tradesmen a circular offering to
supply them with tricolour flags on the occasion of the
14th of July Fete at a cheaper rate than they can be
had in France. The " Republique " seems to think that
this mere matter of business conceals some intention
of offering a slight.
Edward Payson Weston, who first introduced the ge'
as-you-please competitions into this country and created
quite a furore even up to the period of his last race
England, has been appointed Director-General of the
Grand International Military test of Physical Endur'
ance at Glenwood, Glen Island, New York. Weston
will hang his 5000 mile shoes in the trees over the conr
petitors.
The Prince and Princess of Wales have signified
their intention of patronising Wilson Barrett on the
22nd, his last tight at the Princess's. Their Royal
Highnesses have desired that " Hamlet" shall form the
bill of the play, instead of the snecial programme'
announced.
Prince Albert Vic-tor of Wales has presented the
prizes and certificates gained by the students of the
Polytechnic Classes of the St. John Ambulance Aso.
ciation. A large company witnessed the pretentatione
which took place at the Yonne Men's Christian Insti•
tute in Regent-street.
It has been discovered that the great abuses result
ing from the truck system have largely contributed t°
the sufferings and strikes of the working classes io
many parts of Belgium. It was never suspected that
this system existed to such an extent as has now been
revealed.
The Municipal Debt of Berlin amounts at present to
157,500,000 marks, exclusive of a loan of 50,000,000'
marks which is now being negotiated
It is reported at New York that the rate of jinn+
gration has declined 20 per cent. this year in mese'
(pierce of the discouragementm created by the labour
troubles. Farm labourers are in brisk demand et
Castle-garden, but few skilled workmen are coming CU
to this country.
On Sunday evening, at a banquet of French journa'
lists connected with the Monarchical Provincial Press*.
given in Paris, M. Lambert de Sainte Croix, who had
just returned from a visit to the Comte de Paris, de'
livered a speech in which he declared that the party
had still the same chief and the same object. Ile
recommended an alliance of all Conservatives to work
for a revision of the Constitution.
The "New York Times gives particulars of au
expedition to Alaska which has just started under the
command of Lieutenant Icswatka, known for his dis-
covery of the fate of the Erebus and Terror. He pro.-
poses to explore the southern portion of the peninsula'
and to endeavour to ascend Mount St. Elias, the
highest snmmit in North America. Mr.
Libbey, of Princeton College, accompanies the party sel
a scientific member.

Proof was heard in the Aberdeen Sheriff's Court, on
Monday, in an action at the instance of a widow of 35+
against a widower, named Waldie, aged 72. for ,CsOu
damages for breach of promise and seduction. TO
parties used together for five years, and two children
were bon. The pursuer was recognised as the de'
fendant's wife, and she alleges that he undertook to
marry her, while he avers that she was only a house'
keeper, and he had to dismiss her owing to her in'
temperate habits.
At a special meeting of the Richmond Select Vestrg
on Monday evening it was resolved to make application
to the Corporation of London for a grant of one
towards the purchase of the Buccleuch Estate 003
Richmond-hill, having regard to the advisability of re'
serving open spaces for the advantage of the publin
generally. At the same meeting the seal of the Vestrg
was affixed to the draft contract with the Duke of
Duccicuch in connection with the purchase of the
estate.
Farm land is still at a considerable discount in York
shire, and a striking instance of the absence of spesn"
lation has occurred at a sale of the High Firs Estate, in
the parish of Aysgarth. The estate contains 371 acre
of good grass and tillage land, and the highest offer Wag
£4BOO, or a little under £l3 per acre. The farm waskA
at an annual rental of £3OO.
The June return of the Cleveland Ironmastero
Association shows the following as the month's ros,ke
of pig iron: 131p00 tons of Cleveland iron, and 71,1'"
tons of other kinds, a total of 202,000 tons, or 9000 lel'
than in May. There are 94 furnaces blowing, 65
which are making Cleveland pig iron. Stocks increase°
19,400 tons in June.
The Ist Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment will sail
from Egypt for England at the end of this month. ,
The Duke of Cambridge has granted permission re`
a party of officers to proceed from the School of Milirari
Engineering, Chatham, to the Continent for the
purpose of visiting the principal battle•fields of Europe.
The party of officers will be accompanied by Nal
Livesay, principal instructor in strategy at the Soho°
of Military Engineering.
The Rev. John Rogers, D.D., Professor of Sacred
Rhetoric and Catechetics in the Presbyterian Colleges
Belfast, has died at Portrush in his seventy.fifra
year.
Senor Moret, the Spanish Minister for Foreign'

Affairs, has made a speech in the Senate, in which 101
strongly supported the proposal to confirm the Treat,'"
of Commerce with Great Britain. He spoke in veq,
friendly terms of this country and its representative a
Madrid.
The Swiss on Monday celebrated the five hundrecitl;
anniversary of the Battle of Sembach, in which, Un
thcir leader, Arnold von Winckelried, who lost hie I':
in the fight, obtained a victory over the A.ustriaa,°:
The President of the Republic appealed to the penPw
to establish harmony among themselves upon reliSi°—
question s.
The first through train on the Canadian Pacific Will:
way reached Vancouver punctually on Monday 1110
ing, having left Montreal on the previous Monday. „
In the County Palatine Court of Lancaster, sittiett,
at Manchester on Monday, Mr. Emmett, proprietor a 0.
Sunday sporting paper, published in that city, sought
restrain Edward Williams, a prophet and tipster, Ire':
using the nom de plume of "Blue Bonnet." For WI;
time Williams had been in the service of the plaiuti
as a sporting correspondent, and he wrote under thl
name of "Blue Bonnet." The plaintiff's case was tho
the name was originally suggested by him as the siglit'
tore to Williams's letters to the plaintiff's psPe',:'
while the defeudant sought to show that he had.„;
perfect right to the same, and that it was used IT':
before the plaintiff's paper was established. The Voy.
Chancellor more than once during the hearing of the'
case protested against the time of the Court •
wasted by the reading of long affidavits which bad a;
relevancy to the matter at isrue. The Judge, aft,e,„
reviewing the evidence, gave judgment for the c""
fendant, with costs.
The steamship Lincoln, of Liverpool, from Cardiff Pit:
Plymouth, struck on the Rundle Stone of the Core
coast and foundered on Monday morning. The crew
were saved and landed at Penzance.
Some time ago two gentlemen, named Captain el:
Hoare and Mr. Effingham Laurence, obtained consider;
able sums of money from the Rev. C. W. Shukle 8,311;
other gentlemen, on the representation that a SPIL'"°
cate was being formed to bring out in this country' 1,
French loan of two hundred and forty millions ei;
francs. When it was found that these representation,'
were untrue Mr. Shukle and others brought an aetioa,
against Hoare and Laurence to recover the moven
they had paid. Mr. Justice Stephen and a jury decide`ci
in favour of the plaintiff; the Lord Chief Justice aed„
Mr. Justice Manisty reversed that decision; on We f
nesday the Court of Appeal, consisting of the blaster (_)A
the Rolls, the Lords Justice,' Bowen and Fry, decid7
that there bad been fraudulent misrepresentation, all
sustained the verdict of the jury.