The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-06-11 00:00:00

BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

Mr. P. Pargeter presided at the usual weekly
meeting of this Board yesterday, and there wele
also present Messrs. Rollinson, Hingley, Griffin,
Thompson, McMillan, Dawes, Bryce, Chambers,
J. Biltingham, Webb, Guy, Brooks, Rhodes, Green,
H Billingham, Sringer, Worthington, and Yard.
ley,
The Master's returns were as follows :—Admitted
19, Cischarged 14, remaining 531, against 503 for
the corresponding week ;ast year. The out-door
relief was Kingswitiford £44 13s 6d, Stourbridge
£35 8s 9d, Halesowen £3O 13s id, non resident
paupers £2 is se, total £ll2 16s 91, against £ll5
2s sd.
A circular was received from the Tynemouth,
Sunierland, Gateshead, South Shields, ant New—
castle-on-Tyne Ueions drawing attention to the
serieus results to other ratenayers than manufac.
turers which would follow if the Bill to Amend the
Law relating to the Rating of Machinery were
passed into law, with a view to requesting members
of Path i meat for the district to oppose the Bill.
The chief point in the citcular was that if the bill
passed into law while it would relieve from taxation
the occupiers of manufacturing works, it would
throw an additional burthon on other properties.
The machinery which it was proposed to exempt
from ratability had always been ratable, and large
gams o! money had been borrowed by the local
authorities on security of the rates leviable on such
m tchinery ; and if the bill was passed into law the
result would be that the rates in the £ would be
increased, and the considerable portion ot increased
rates in the £ would fallupon the occu. iera of land,
dwelling-houses, shops, railway docks, and coal and
other mmea
The Clerk was instructed to draw up a formal
peeition and ask the local members of Parliament
to present it te the House of Commons.
On the motion of the Chairman it was decided to
give the inmates a dinner on the 21st inst, in cele-
bra,ion of the Queen's Jubilee.
Mr. Pargeter intimated that he would defray the
cost of providing the chilli on with medals.
At a meeting of the S tnitary Committee the
death•rate of the Stafferds'aire po ton was reported
to be 24 per thousand, and the Worcest-trshire per
tion 20 per thousand.

VIOTORIA. HALL AND RINK.—On Saturday nieLt
Messrs. Or eawood and 1111 finiseed their short
enjagement at this popular place of recreation.
These gentleeten have right y earned the title of
"championg," and they are, without exception, the
cleverest fi skaters that have appeared at this
rink. The feature of the performance was the
grand leap over 20 chairs by Mr. Bill, assisted by
Greenwo d. and the splendid spinning by Mr.
Greenwood. We believe these gentlemen will ply
us another visit shortly,
MAGISTERIAL. —At the Police Court yesterday,
before Colonel Fletcher, Co:onel Cochrane, Messrs.
T. D. Thomas and A. Freer, &Amon Skelding,
Spring Street, Lye' was ordered to pay is for taking
a nest of young.' throstles. Thomas and Jacob
fimmins were both finel 5s for riding bicycles oa
the footpath.—Willi ..m Forrest and Jos-Ce Pear-
son were each fined 28 6,1 and costs for b9r.ilg an
iron ball on the highway at Two Gates.---Sep items
Ellis, ellainmaker, and H-nry Tayler, chain maker,
Cradley, were ordered to pay 12s 61 each for
breaches of the Factory Acts —Samuel Mayner, of
Themiugham letreet, was fined .21. and costs for
asiaultie, Join Gerbete George Walters was
fl led 2s 671 for cruelty :o a horse. Es Wake aim
was fined 25i; in defa,ilt one month, for oht dning
Is by false pretences from Myra Hart, at the L e,
on he 17th ins.—Mr, J. Hinds prosecubd.

St. Jacobs Oil, at two an,l sir, enee a b le, is
cheaper than meat. in isinach that many a man
we to it tlie physical pow: r to earn hi I daily
bread,

CONSUMPTIO N.—l have a plaitiv remedy for the
above disease ; by its use thou,an 14 of cases of the worst
kind of long standing have bri cured. Indeed so
strong is my faith la its elfic icy, tat I will send TWO
ROT ULES Fri 6E, togeth :r Wit TIRELY NE 1"
D VALUABLE THE al SE on •li Diseme to any
stiff rer Give Addre4s iii full. 1-).• T. A. SL )
5, Plum Trte Court, F4rr.ug ion Street, London.
that Complexion has lways been held to be the more
lovely n which the rise and lily cmitend for inaszery
in wl.;eh their beauty is blended. Great sacrifices are
made to produce au.ippea:ane correiponding with the
comblostion, but they never succeed. It cannot ap.
preach Nature. The only arrangement that can be made
to rerer can or woman independent of all expelients is
to raely use HAGAN'S MAGNOLIA BALM. It preserve:, the
skin Lorn prernance wrinkles a-.L.d furrows—renihra it
smooth and supple, and restores .he hue which mal have
id ed through illness, exposure to a noxious at moeplaare
the heat of summer or the frosts winter. To b
tamed all Chemists aud Perfumers throughouht
World Fri* Is. 4 uroptan Depot 114