The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-07-12 00:00:00

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do. It would seem prudent to buy at any rate
a part of the winter's store, since the prospect i The Ecclesiastical Commissioners' have de-
of continued high wages and a limited output do cided to grant £2OO per annum to the incimy
not point to a retura to the prices of 1871 or bency of St. Mark, Stembermill.
1872, when coala were sold at the pit-mouth at James Hinds of this town, and Arthur Mal-
-511 81 to 9e 31 a ton, and in Loudon at 19a 6.1 pass of Wollaston, have successfully passed the
to 24s 6.1. As the demand is still increasing, Society of Arts' Examination in April last, in
and as coal is now more difficult, and cense- arithmetic.
qemitly- more costly to get, it is not very prob. We have been requested to announce that
site that there will be any considerable fall in the Hon. anti Rev. A. Anson, vicar of Sedgley,
price for s-flue time to come, and the immedi; hiss accepted the office of Vice-President of the
ice future scarcely looks hopeful enough to National Association for Freedom of Worship
j :op .rdise the whole of the winter's store ; and (Central Office, Manchester).
th a K.IViCe we proffer wieh no greater gift for THE EDUC4TION ACT AMENDMENT RILL
prophory Blau tier neighbours possess, bet only A nieeting of the committee of the Stourbridge
hearing iii mind that; the output of 1870 was Nonconformist Association Was held, on Tuesday
113,000,000 tons, cud in 1871 117,000,000; and evening, for the purpose of considering the
whilst with the yearly increase the demand was above bill. The committee were unanimously
in II greater retie, it does not augur well for a of opinion that the proposal to transfer the pay-
cheap immediate future. meat of fees to Boards of Guardians was very
Tho better day may, however, yet he coining, undesirable, end that the omission of any pro-
which we gather front the Quattedy Journal of vision for the compulsory establishment of
"•icenee, a writer in which, in a very interestitig School Boards, and the rendering of compul-
article, iiiiii.ettes the United States as a chief shin imperative, was also a fatal defect. It was
s 'wee of our futuic supply. Tie writer puts resolved that a petition against the bill ehoilld
tag- my ter :4108: be sent to the Hon. C. G. Lyttelton, M. P, for
" l'he qiiesiion then resolves itself to this, presentation to the House of Commons,
toy source ~f seeply likely to intervene that THEATRE ROYAL—During the week this place
ell prevent tee value of coal from rising stun- of amusement has been well patronised by large
eieutly to cover the cost of working the coal audiences, to witness one of the best entertain-
seams of 4,000 feet cud greater depth P With- meets that has been given in this theatre for
out entering upon the question of peat and wood some time past. Adair, the athlete, delighted
fuel, both of which will for some uses undoubt- his audience by the very graceful and elegant
eilly cone into competition with British cot! as manner in which he went through his icart of
it rice in value, I believe that there are sound the programme. The Sisters Henderson, four
reaselie for concluding that our London fire- in ninnber, vocalists and dancers, by their high
places. and those of other towns situated on the class dancing, good singing, and admirable
sea coast and the banks of navigable rivers will costumes, well merited the rounds of applause
be supplied with transatlantic coal long before that was accorded them. Mr. and Mrs. John
we reach the Commieeioners' limit of 4,000 feet. Whittiiigham,the negro comedians and burlesque
The highest price of 110, winter, if arlistee, in their much provoking entertainment
uminteinen, 'rout i be e :Lielit to bring abuut 1 were fregneiely ereored. They are both first-
this hepartuut chauge. due Royal Commis- 1 class musicians arid good singers, Mr. Whitting-
'loners' estimate that the North American coal ham, the champion pedestal skate dancer, went