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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-09-24

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER Ist, and on
MONDAY, OCTOBER 3rd, CHEAP FAST
EXCURSIONS for Llangollen, Dolgelly, Barmouth
Rhyl, Llandudno and Liverpool will run as under :
SATURDAY, OCTOBER Ist, from STOURBRIDGE
JUNCTION at 12.43 p.m. ; Brierley Hill 12.52 ;
Dudley 1,11 ; Tipton 1.16 ; Princes End 1.19 ; and
Bilston 1.25 p.m ; to return the following Monday
or Tuesday.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 3rd, from KIDDERMIN-
STER at 5.35 a.m., Stourbricige Junction 5 50 ; Brierley
Hill 6,0 ; Dudley 6.10 ; Tipton 6.15 ; Princes End 6.20 ;
and Bilston 6.25 a.m ; to return same day, or at
higher fares on following day.
BIRMINGHAM ONION FAIR.

f4I4XCURSION TRAINS will run to BIR-
MINGHAM, as under, returning same day.
THURSDAY, September 29th. From WORCE STER
(Shrub Hill) at 10.30 ; Droitwich 10.45 ; Hartlebury
10.55 ; Kidderminster 11.10 and Stourbridge Junction
at 11.25 a.m ; to return at 8.45 p.m.
S ATURDA.Y • OCTOBER Ist, from GREAT
MALVERN at 12.30 p.m, Malvern Link 12.35 ; Worcestrr
Foregate Street, 12.55 and Shrub Bill 1.35 ; Fearnal
Heath 140 ; Droitwich 1,50 ; Kidderminster 1.35 and
2.15 and Stourbridge Junction at 1.55 ; and 2.35 pm;
to return at 10.45 and 11.0 p.m.
For fares, ecc., see special bills.
J. GRIERSON, General Manager.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-09-24

SUPPLIED

1.4-11130 G-ATE HILL,

WEST-END ESTABLISHMENT-

25, OLD BOND STREET, LONDON.

ESTBL, £3 11 E 11) 174 9 .

DUDLEY A RIVI S HOTEL, DUDLEY.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-09-24

BRAVERY REWARDED.

The Royal Humane Society have awarded Mr.
Robert Jenkins, the well-known diver at Sheerness
Dockyard, a certificate and a bronze medal, in recog-
nition of the gallantry displayed by him in rescuing a
young man, named O'Warr, from drowning, at the risk
of his own life. O'Warr was bathing near Cheyney
Rock, Sheerness, and when some considerable distance
from the shore, was seized with cramp. Jenkins at
once plunged into the water. and after Rome diffimilty
succeeded in getting him on shore. Jenkins had pre-
viously been instrumental in rescuing more than one
person from a watery grave.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-09-24

S. Heming„ b Sweetman 2
A. Durbem, e Styles b Coe 1
C. Cooper, run out .............4
W. Vickers, b Sweetman 0
S. Hall, not out ... ... 3
Byes 3

Total 3l

STOURBRIDGE 2ND ELEVEN V. BROMSGROVE 2ND
ELEVEN.—This match was played at Ambleeote on
Saturday last. The home team won by 29 runs, F.
Webb making 48, not out, and C. Hicks 19. The
13romsgrove•team scored 60 runs, and were all out
just before time was called.

STOURBRIDGE.
C. Hicks, b Hatton ... 19
W. Green, b Hatton ... 5
C. Cooper, b Joues 1
F. Webb, not out 48
H. Mobberley, b Hatton ... 0
G. Hedges, b Hatton 0
J, Scriven, b Albutt 2
A. Roskell, c Hatton b Albutt 2
J. W. Parkes, b Hatton 0
A. Hart, st. J, Jones c Albutt 2
W. Carinna,il, c Albutt, b Jones 4
Extras ... ... 6

Total ... 89
BROMSGROVE.
Hatton, run out ... 0
H. Jones, b Hedges .., 13
J. Jones, not not... ... 24
Albutt, b Hedgcs 5
G. Jones, c Hart b Hedges 0
Gough, b J. W. Parkes 0
W. Davis, b Hedges ... ... 4
J. Wright, b Hedges 9
B. Juggins, b Hedges ... 1
S. Carter, b Hedges ... 0
H. Price' c Green, b Webb 0
Extras 4

Tot al ... ... ... ... 60
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-09-24

DECORATED FOR BRAVERY.

There has just died at Bordeaux, aged sixty-eight,
a woman who is not the first in France decorated with
the Cross of the Legion of Honour for sheer personal
bravery (says the Pall Mall Gazette). Anne Guirand,
cantiniere, in 1839 saved the life of a certain Capitaine
Legrange, in Algeria, rushing up to him and crying for
help just as he was about to be cut down by half-a-
dozen Arabs. So touched was the general in command
by this act of courage that he took off his own decora-
tion on the spot and placed it on the breast of the heroic
cantiniere. Another heroine, also a cantinire, was the
means not only of the advance of the Prussians in 1870,
but of saving French honour. The incident took place
in the Jura, where a column of Franc-Tireurs had
been despatched by the colonel in command to take
possession of a bridge of very great importance to
the Prussians. The little band advanced as bidden,
but so thickly came the balls of the Prussians
whizzing round their heads that they wavered, and
finally were about to retreat. Then the can-
tinibre rushed forward on to the bridge waving
her tricolor flag, and crying, "Do not the balls whiz
round me? Will you leave a woman alone to defend
the bridge?" This spirited conduct rallied the
courage of the rest; they pressed forward and drove
back the Prussians. There was but one decoration
to be awarded, and the choice lay between the can-
tiniere and a soldier who, having but one hand, yet
made a Prussian prisoner with the other. The officer
in command elected that the decision should depend
, with his men, who with one accord cried, "The
cantiniere ! the cantiniere!"
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-09-24

A CRUISE ROUND THE WORLD.

The enjoyable cruise round the world taken by Sir
Thomas Brassey and his family in the Sunbeam, has
suggested to a few gentlemen of position the
idea of associating themselves together with the
object of promoting a series of similar voyages, but on
a more extended scale, both as regards the size of the
vessel and the number of passengers. The character
of a private yachting party of friends, as distinguished
from a complement of ordinary passengers will, how-
ever, be strictly preserved, for the regulations by
which the expedition will be governed permit of a
certain amount of discretion being exercised in the
acceptance of passengers. The first point, of course,
was to secure a vessel suitable for the special purpose
of an extended yachting expedition, and this point
has been met by the purehase from the Peninsular
and Oriental Company of the fine screw steamer
Ceylon.

It is proposed to start the Ceylon on her cruise fro.n
Southampton on the 15th of October Rext, and the route
will involve calls at no fewer than 44 stations. Her first
port will be Bordeaux, and from thence she will proceed
to Lisbon, Gibralta, Malaga, Marseilles, Genoa,
Naples, Palermo, Constantinopls, Alexandria, Born-
bly, Calcutta, Singapore, Hongkong, Yokohama,
Valparaiso, Buenos Ayres, Teneriffe, Madeira, and
intermediate ports, returning to Southampton, which
it is expected will be reached in about nine months
from the time of starting. This comprehensive pro-
gramme will enable the principal places of interest
throughout the world to be visited with ease, at a
coat greatly inferior, and with a comfort greatly
superior, to those attending transit by the ordinary
mail and passenger steamers. Should any of the party
wish to hasten their return to England, they can do
so by landing at San Francisco, from which point they
will be franked home by the ordinary route, and will
reach this country in about six months from the time
of leaving it. Should the passengers be unanimous
in their wish to visit any place not included in the
programme, their wish will be acceded to, provided
the deviation does not prolong the voyage beyond the
estimated time. A party of gentlemen interested in
maritime affairs, and particularly in the proposed
oceanic yachting cruise, assembled on board the Ceylon
(which is now lying in the Victoria Dock) on Friday
in last week for the purpose of inspecting the vessel
and her general arrangements. Among the party
were Sir Edward Reed, Colonel Davies Cooke, Colonel
Gourley, M.P., Colonel Maddocks, Mr. Francis
Elgar, and several representatives of the Board of
Trade. After the inspection the visitors were enter-
tained in the spacious saloon at luncheon. Messrs.
Grindlay and Co., of Parliament-street, are the agents
for this novel expedition.—Monday's Times.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-09-24

FANCY TOBACCOS.

AT THE

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OLD ESTABLISE E D
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92, 111GLI ;STREET, STOUBBRIDGE.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-09-24

BRONKHURST SPRINT.

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The Times of Tuesday published the following letter

Sir,—Will you kindly publish the following in The
Times, as it will, perhaps gratify the friends and
relations of those who fell at Bronkhurst Spruit, on
the 20th of December last. A party of the 2nd Con-
naught Rangers, (late 94th Regiment) have been out
there, and headstones, have been erected on each
grave, solid walls to protect the graves have been
built, trees and flowers have been planted, and the
Bishop of Pretoria, kindly went out and consecrated
each grave.—l have, &c., F. CAMPBELL, Major, 2nd
Battalion Connaught Rangers, (late 94th.) Pretoria,
vaal, South Africa, Aug. 13.

The correspondent of 2'he Times, writing from Pretoria'
gives the following account of the consecration of the graves
referred to in the above letter :

A ceremony at once interesting and pathetic took
place on Friday last at Bronker's Spruit, the scene
of the dreadful slaughter of the 94th—viz., the conse-
cration of the graves of the gallant soldiers who fell
there in December last. I was one of a small
party who accompanied the Bishop of Pretoria
to the battle-field. After a long and tiresome
ride, through a rocky and treeless country, black-
ened by that scourge of South Africa, the
grass fires, we reached the stream from which the
battle takes its name and encamped on the banks.
On the following day the ceremony was enacted. His
lordship, arrayed in his full ecclesiastical robes, pro-
ceeded from grave to grave over the great extent of the
field. At each he read a psalm and blessed the spot.
The first visited was the officers' grave, in which lay
Colonel Anstruther, Captains M'Swiny, Nairne,
Lieutenant Harrison, and Commissary Carter. These
graves, as those of the men, have been beautifully
arranged by a party of men of the 94th from Pretoria,
and handsome stones placed at the head of each.
Having performed the service here, we next proceeded
to the main grave—one huge sepulchre, in which are 60
poor fellows, who died by the first volley poured in
upon them by the Boers. Further down the road are
three others containing several men each who had
fallen while defending the long line of wagons. I
confess I felt keenly the extraordinary scene which
was passing under my eyes. Over this wild, rocky
battlefield, blackened by the passage of a great fire,
our little party walked slowly from grave to grave
headed by the Bishop—a tall, strong, handsome man.
with a great, full voice. The sun had sunk behind
the rocky hills to the west before we Waned our
backs on this fatal spot.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-09-24

HALESOWEN.

WILFUL DAMAGE. - At the Police Court, on
Tuesday, before Messrs. E. B. Phillips and H. T
Hickman, two labourers, named Samuel Parkes and
George Smart, of Birmingham, were charged with
wilfully damaging growing grass belonging to Mr.
William Wright, farmer, of Carter's Green. The
offence having been proved by Police-constable
Barley, the Bench ordered each cf the defendants
to pay lOs 6d, or in default seven days' imprison-
ment.
ADJOURNED LICENSING SESSIONS. -At these
Sessions on Tuesday, the justices olan'ed an out-
door license to Joseph Cater, Beech'' Lane, Warley. V
There were no other applications.
HASBURY BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETY. TllO
general meeting of the members of this society was
held in the National Schools, under the presidency
of Mr. Thomas Williams. There was a large attend-
ance of members. Ni. James Grove was electel
president, Mr. Thomas Williams vice-president, and
Mr Robert Moore secretary, Th Chairman read
the statement of accounts, 'Which showed that the
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balonce at the bank was £744 15s 10d; contri-
butions, £2,988 5s 10d; incideetals, £l9 16s 3d;
total, £3,782 17s 10d. The payments advanced on
mortgage were £1,310; shares paid up £1,690 15s
10d; exoenses of management, £l5O 5s 7d; insur-
ance, £27 6s Id; balance at bank, £604 103 4d;
total, ..£3.782 17s 10d. The division of profit for
the year was,:ls 2d in the pound. The Chairman
ia moving the adoptiun of the report, said that. it
was very satisfactory to know that the society was
in a flourishing state, and that although trade was
.
in a depressed state the committee had been able
to declare a good diAidencl—(itear, hear). The
accounts were ordered t.) be printed. A vote of
thanks to the officers terminated the proceedings.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-09-24

KIN VER.

Mr. George Williams, late of the Crown Inn,
Kimver, has filed a petition for liquidation in the
Stourbridge County Court. His liabilities are
estimated at £350. Assets not yet ascertained.
Mr. C. Herbert Collis is the solicitor to the debtor.