The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-08-14 00:00:00

THE IRON TRADE.

WOLVERHAMPTON, Wednesday.

The tone of the market to-day was tolerably
firm, and the indications of the future prospects
of the trade were a little brighter. A number
of good inxuiries were made for bars, hoops, and
sheets, chiefly for foreign markets, and. some of
the galvanisers bought rather largely of the
latter. Gas tube strip was also much inquired
after, but buyers refused ro respond to the in-
creased quotations. Paddled bars were in better
demand, while unmarked bars went off at £6 15s,
and one or two lots fetched .V 7 but no transac-
tions were recorded in marked bars. The prices
of tin plates were firmer, owing to employers
consenting to give their workmen on strike the
old rate of wages. The pig market was in Fym-
pathy with the finished iron department, the
prices showing considerable firmness, particularly
in respect to metal for foundry purposes. Several
small lots of cold-blast were disposed of at £3
12s 6d, and part-wine realised £3, but makers of
binder pigs withheld tho iron from the market
as much as possible. Hematites were firm, at
from £3 15s to £.4 delivered. Cokes were in
more inquiry, and a little better trade was done
in furnace fuel, but domestic sorts ware scarcely
inquired for.

BIRMINGHAM, Thursday.

With the exception of the marked bar houses,
marufacturers awl smelters in Sout'l Striffuru- ,
and East WorcesterAire i)re better em-
ployed, and there is it continuous ierease in the
traffic from the district to _London, Liverpool,
and udarly all the leading ports. Manufacturers
of branded iron, however, urn very meagrely
supplied with orders, and the reductions decl:ired
by two of the lead-mg houses have produced a
somewhat uniu-nifed feeiing as to future prices.
It is a fact that, the newatid for the best brands
of Staffordshire iron on foreign and Colonial ac-
count is rapidly declining, and that second-class
iron, almost equally useful f.,r the pnrpses re-
quired, is being the difference in
price of ttOs to 30.3 a ton coining it to be pre-
erred. From the United States the inquires
alit of a very limited character, and principally
relate to small lots of hoops and strips. It is
almost i,npossible for South Staffordshire
finilied iron to meet with a demand in the
tel States owing to the tar ff,lcvhich, together
with the freight, raises the price of marked bars
in New York up to £l2 10s a ton, whereas
The most remarkable results ever effectef;
" "I American iron of almost cqual quality is offered
int Remedy are prodeced by Powstnt 's buna.:c _AI.:: ll. Thera was a moderate inquiry this
11.R.R. the Duke D'Anmale, the Righ licti irt•e
Earl of Clarendon, K G., the Hight Hot, yr„„„„ afternoon for common bars, nailrods, and sheets
Countess Waldegrave, the Bight Hon. the Connte6., of for galvanising purposes. Tin plates were in
R•o.twr, *to M3nY other eni;oent ~.tive reipirEt, and prices have again advaricod,
taatircionists as to the ( xtraurth,,ary rinoricv 21)s a it,•x being secured for best I. C. col;
_WU:CM tTIC IFFOUTC i hH vri;cli it v..,!.• 3 . • . -
the cure which it effects in all cases of rheucay.;:k; And I!.:tenzive Continental orders are new under
neuralgic . pains, gout, lumbago, and all sudden and .. execution in the district at this price, and tlie
painful attacks, aches, pains, and weakne4sea in any part manufacturers are busy. Pig iron met with a
of the body calling for an external application, are at steady sale this afternoon, tht advance in price
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Wit ai 21.111111411100 activity, but prices ars low.
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HIGHWAY OFFENCE.—Henry Peartnan, residing
at Cleat, was sumtnoneQ by Superintendent
; Wheeler for allowing 20 coWs to stray in the high-
way at Hagley, on the 9th inst. Police.constable
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THE NATIONAL ARTILLERY 3.DCIATION.
Wallace said there were between thirty and forty
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1 cows, heifers, and .huilock'g grazing on the highway.

The whole rf the detachments j of' the Second
Division of Artillery Volunteers encamped at Shoe.
buryness during the past week marel:ed out of
camp yesterday morning, and the military authori-
ties re-Entered into possession. All the baggage
was sent to Southend in advance at seven o'elcck.
The men breakfasted early, and marched off to catch
their trains in excellent spirits. The camp order
issued by Colonel Keate speaks in high terms of the
generd conduct and discipline of the men. A little
more practice in guard;mounting to recommended to
the corps at their own stations. The co minissiariat
arrangements, under the supervision of Captain
Lowrie, have been ample and conapletc, and the
sanitaty arrangements of the camp have been most
satisfactory. Takenas a whole, the meeting of 1880
has been decidedly successful, and will prove bene-
ficial to both officers and men of the Volunteer
Artillery Force.

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Derendant adMitted-that'l4 cows were on the high-
way, and •called 7: three -witnesses who proved the
case against him. lined 20s and costs.
TRESPASSING.—George Tombs was charged with
trespassing on land at-Pedrnore, on the 25th ult,
he property of C. E. Swindell, Esq., of the Quarry.
Police-constable Eaves said that he saw the defend-
ant in a field with two dogs, beating about, in corn-
pa,ny with another man who had been tried and '
convicted. Fined 5s and costs: in default 14 days.
DRUNKENNFSS.—James Cartwright was tined
2s 6d and costs, for being drunk at Wollaston, on
the 9th inst.
BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—Thc vivekly meeting
of this Board was held yesterday. Mr. Baybould
in the ichair. There were also present
Messrs. H. BUlinghatc, Haskew, Pargeter,
Hingle3, R. B. Guest, Wood, Lavender, Taylor
Kelly, J. Guest, Newnan), and Forrest. Ad-
mitted into the house during the week 17;
discharged 21 ; horn 0 ; dead 0 ; remaining in the
house 483.- Corresponding period last year 462.
Out-door relief, Kino•swinford clistrictl34l3s 10d;
Stonrbridge district £24 6s 7d; Halesowen dis
trict, £lB 18s. Ocl ; non-resident 4s. Total
£77 12s 5d against £B5 4s 0-1-d.

COLLIERY FATALITY AT CRADLEY HEATH
Mr. Topham (deputy district coroner) held an
inquest on Wednesday afternoon, at the Plough
and Harrow Inn, Corngreavcs-road, Cradley Heath
touching the death of William Richards (GO) sinker,
Surfit-hill, Cradley Heath, who was injured at the
Codsall Colliery there belonging to the New British
Iron Company on the 7th inst.. and died two days
later.—Mr. W. B. Keeen, the colliery manager,
attended.--It appeared from the evidence of John
Dimmack, another sinker, that on Saturday morn-
ing he and deceased were working in the engine pit
at the colliery named. They were going to repair
the buoy wire, and. for that purpose were erecting
a scaffold in the shaft at the point where the wira
had broken which was a distance of CG yards from
the top of the shaft. Dimmack placed a two-inch
plank. that was in the shaft ready for the purpose,
across the scaffold for deceased to stand upon.
Im mediately deceased stepped upon the plank it
snapped asunder, and he was precipitated on to an-
other scaffold, a distance of thirty-seven feet below.
Dimmack went up the shaft and procured a
and afterwards returned down the shaft and fetched
up the deceased, who remained unconscious until
Monday, when he died. The witness had since
examined the plank.• and he said it appeared to be
rotten. It was now produced and examined by the
jury, some of whom remarked that it was the duty
of the deceased, as foreman hinker, to have seen to
the state of the planks used for scaffolding ; and the
manager said there was plenty of timber on the
premises. As no blame was attached to anyone
the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."