The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-06-08 00:00:00

gocil aio istrict Jets.

BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The weekly meeting of this Board was held
yesterday ; Mr. Granger in the chair. There
were also present:—Messrs. Rollinson, Darby,
B. Homer, Paskins, Fereday, Fiddian, Baker,
Billingham, Burr, Guest, Wright, Wood, Ray-
bould, and Walker. Admitted into the house
during the week, 9; discharged, 14; born, 0;
dead, 2; remaining, 369. Corresponding week
last year, 415. Out-door relief Kingswinford
district, £29 148 3cl; Stourbridge district, £2O
4s 14d; Halesowen district, £2O 7s 24; total,
£7O 5s 61d, against .1:87 17s 71d last year.
A letter was read by the Clerk from Mr.
Pearse, surgeon, in reference to the case of
Robert Hughes, stating that his reason for not
giving a certificate of death was through their
negligence; and that he should refuse in all
similar cases.

The Board did not consider this satisfactory,
and it was agreed to request Mr. Pearse to attend
the Board on the 21st iust.
A letter was also read from Mr. Barratt, re-
lieving officer, asking for an increase of salary.

'fbe- letter Was orcrered to lie on the table.

PROPERTY SALE. Messrs. Oates, Perrens,
and Wooldridge offered by auction at, the Talbot
Hotel, Stombridge' on Friday last, an estate in
the parish of Chacldesley Corbett, known as
Tanwood. The auctioneer, in opening the sale,
made the following remarks : The estate is
one of the most perfect I have ever offered. It
is a nice situation, with south west aspect. No-
thing requires to be done; not a pound ex-
pended. A great proportion is good turf. The
land is of excellent quality. Both turf and arable
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are well drained. All the land is in first rate
Though little business was done on 'Change state of cultivation, and in high condition. The
at Birmingham, on Thursday, and the attend- house is as good as could be desired, and the
ance, owing probably to the adverse weather, farm buildings are first-class. They would be
was below the average, the tendency of prices damaged by any attempt of mine to speak of
was again in an upward direction, and the mar- their merit. I should only undo the very good
ket was, in broker's parlance, "very wild." The and striking impression they must have made
further advance of crown sheets (singles) to £lB, upon the mind of every one who has looked at
which was notified at Wolverhampton on the them. The estate, with regard to its ornarnen-
previous day though not generally adopted by tal character, has some attraction. By grubbing
the trade, gave additional firmness to quotations up the fences dividing the turf land in front of
for sheets of every kind, and the probability of the house, a park might be made which many a
a further rise before long in coals, as a result of man might envy. The necessary ornrmental
the new agitation just begun among the colliers timber is already there. The cider and table
of this district, has induced makers of second. fruit produced is no small element in the rental
class iron who are not particularly flush of orders value. The scenery of the immediate neigh.
to put 5s or 10s per ton on their old prices. An bourhood is very good, and in the distance very
advance of is per ton in coals it is reckoned no. fine views are obtained. Malvern Hills are a
cessitates a rise of from lOs to 20s per ton in noble object ; the Clee Hills are grant ; and
iron, and even if this necessity could be averted between these stand in their majestic beauty the
there is no escape from the advance which must hills of Woodbury and Abberley ; even the yen-
result from the revision of the wages scale at erable city of Worcester, with its no less vener-
midsummer, in accordance with the new regu- able cathedral, is distinctly seen. To a gentle-
lation for fixing wages by the ascertained selling man fond of sporting the estate offers a sporting
price of iron during the previous six months, box convenient for fox hounds and harriers, and
A conference of the masters and men to settle it affords in itself shooting and fishing. Hid.
the preliminaries of this important business will derminster station is within a drive of 5 miles.
be held at Wolverhampton on Wednesday next, Broinsgrove is a like distance. Tithe is under
when the men will, no doubt, be prepared to £25 per annum, land tax £1 Os 55 per annum;
name the firms whose books shall serve as the wheat last year, 11 to 12 bags per acre. A ten.
standard of reference. It is stated that, owing ant would be readily obtained at a rental of 508
to the large amount of orders at old ptices under , per acre, and this to pay 3 per cent, is worth
execution during the first quarter of the year, £14,000, without adding £5O per annum for the
ti.e average of the halfi3 ear will be lower than house and sporting."—Only £lO,OOO was bid,
is generally expected. Still the advance upon and the estate was bought in at £14.500.
the price prevailing when wages were last ad- MEMORIAL STONE. —Yesterday, at the Wesley-
, justed must be considerable, and a rise, conse- ; an Chapel, Kidderminster-street, a beautiful
quently, of 10 or 15 per cent, in wages is not at marble tablet was erected in the chapel by Mr.