The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-03-19 00:00:00

THE IRON TRADE.

' WOLVERHAMPTON, Wednesday.

There was a fair attendance on 'Change this
afternoon, but the market was quiet, only a few
sales taking place to supply immediate wants.
In one or two branches there were some better
inquiries, particularly with respect to galvanilers'
sheets, some heavy orders for roofing sheets
having arrived from Australia this week. The
priois offered, however, were so low that makers
only took a small portion of the specifications
that might have been obtained. Boiler plates
were also in more demand, and several fair
specifications were given out for girder plates
for consumption in the district in connection
with pier work. Hoops were not in request.
Puddle(' bars were cheaper by 24. 6d. per ton.
StampLig sheets realised late rates, and makers
were reported to be tolerably welt supplied with
orders. Very little business was done in pigs,
and prices had a downward tendency so far as
crimmon iron slas concerned. Part-mine metal
sold for 525. 61 and 558. par ton, and 375. 6d.
was offered for ender qualities, but none of the
makers would accept this sum, as they preferred
to stock their make of iron rather than take less
than £2. Ironstone was in more request, and
some of the thick coal firms sold a fair lot of fuel,
but prices were rather week.

BIRMINGHAM, Thursday.
The attendance on 'Change this afternoon was
limited, and an inactive tone prevailed. Prices
were weak for all classes of iron. Common bars
realised, in exceptional instances, as low as £5
10s., or about ss. a ton less than last week ;
good unmarked bars only fetched from ato
£6 55., an equal reduction ; and pig iron of all
descriptions was about eighteenpence to half a
crown a ton cheaper. Sheets were in tolerably
good request, principally for the galvanisers, the
railway wagon companies, and for export to Aus-
tralia. Tube strips were in better request, the
tubemakers in the Wednesbury and Wolverhamp-
ton districts being briskly occupied. Agricultural
and horticultural iron also was in slightly im-
proved demand, but in nail rods, nail sheets,
iron wire, and bar iron there was only a nominal
business. Fuel continued firm, and demand
was steady.

There WWI a young curate named Hickep,
Who had corns to the number of biz ;
But he read in the " Bock "
Of the famous Allcock,
And his plasters that cure in quicksticks
So a neighbouring cherniat he a ught,
Aid some Alcock's Corn Plasteis he bought:
In a very short time
lie was singing in rhyme
Of the wonderful cure they bad wrought.
A !.cock's Corn Plaster-I have no equal as a cure and a
reliever of 'Jens. They always give satisfaction.

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