The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-06-12 00:00:00

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

ELECTION EXPENSES.

At Hackney Mr. Bartley's expenses amounted to
£4,134 6s. 10d., while the expenses of Mr. Fawcett
and Mr. Holms were £794 34. 4d. each.
At Gloucester Messrs. Robinson and Monk, Li-
berals, expended £1,764 19s. 9d., and Messrs. Wait
and Ackers, the defeated Conservative candidates,
£1,930 18s.
The expenses of Mr. James A-shbury and Captain
Field, R.N,, the unsuccessful candidates for Brighton,
together amount to £2,413 7s. 2d.; the expenses of
Mr. J. R. Hollond and Mr. W. T. Marriott, the elected
Liberal candidates, reach a total of £2,380 us. 3d.
The expenses of candidates at Bewdley have been
published: Mr. Charles Harrison, Liberal, the suc-
cessful candidate, £515 15s. lid.; Mr. R. E. Webster,
Q•C_, Conservative, £1,351 Bs. sd.
The election expenses for Mid-Lothian are thus re-
turned: Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, £2,704; Earl
of Dalkeith, £4,078.
The expenses of Mr. Anthony Hamond, the Liberal
candidate for West Norfolk, amounted to E 2,868 9s. lid.
The expenses of Mr. James Rankin, the Conserva-
tive member for Leominster, were £364 Bs. 7d. ;
Blake's expenses, £290 Bs.
The return of the expenses of the two successful
Liberal candidates at the recent Bedford election has
been issued, and are as follows :—Mr. Whitbread's,
£791 6s. 11d. ; Mr. Magniac'..s, £BO5 16s. 4d.
The account of election expenses for Borough of
Thirk have been issued, the total being about £1,400.
The sums spent on behalf of the three candidates
were : Colonel Dawnay (Conservative) £497 ; Major -
Stapylton (Liberal), £415; and Mr. Frankland (Con-
servative), 2134.

---At Cardiff Mr. Reed's expenses amounted to £1,440.
Mr. Guest's expenses amounted to £3.278.
• The expenses of .Mr.-E. Ashmead Bartlett, the new
Conservative M.P. for Eye, have been returned at
£640. The expenses of Mr. C. Easton, the unsuccessful
Liberal candidate, amounted to £399.
For Kincardineshire Sir G. Balfour, the successful
Liberal candidate, expended £1,169 3s. 5d., and Mr.
David Sinclair, the unsuccessful Conservative, £853
6s. 6d.

An abstract of the election expenses incurred by Mr.
William Nicholson, the successful Liberal candidate
for Petersfield, has been issued, and amounts to £673
Os. 6d.; and Mr. William Sydney Hylton Jolliffe,
who was unseated, expended i:479 lis. 10d.

At Liskeard Mr. BOuverie expended £550, and Mr.
Courtney. M.P., £360.
Northampton.—Mr. Labouchere, £472 us.; Mr.
Bradlaugh, £683 7s. ; Messrs. Phipps and Merewether,
£290 each.
Chester.—The Right Hon. J. G. Dodson, -M.P.,
£1;665; the Hon. Beilby Lawley, M.P., Liberal,
£1,667; the Right Hon. Henry Cecil Raikes, Conser-
vative, £1,528; Major Sandys, Conservative, £1,596.
Christchurch. Mr. H. Davey, the successful
Liberal candidate, £2,393 19s. ; Mr. J. E. Edwards.
Moss, Conservative, £2,656.
The expenses of Sir W. W. Burrell and Mr. R.
Loder, the Conservative members for New Shoreham,
amounted to £1,831 and £2,088 respectively, and those
of Mr. W. E. Hubbard, the unsuccessful Liberal can-
didate, to £1,612.
The expenses of Sir John William Ramsden and
Sir Andrew Fairbairn, the Liberal members for the
Eastern Division of the West Riding of Yorkshire,
amounted altogether to £7,703.
Southampton.—Mr. Alfred Giles and Sir John
Commerell, the Conservative candidates, £4,031 10s.
9d. ; Messrs Lee and Butt, the Liberal members,
£3,192 9s. 3d.
Oxford First Election, April I.—Liberal candidates,
Sir W. Harcourt and Mr. Chitty, £3,076; Conserva-
tive candidate, Mr. Hall, £2,558.
Leicester.—Messrs. Warner and Winterton, the
unsuccessful candidate for Leicester, £2,536; the
Liberal members, £1,987.
Bristol—Mr. Robinson, Independent Liberal, £3,052 ;
Messrs. Morley and Fry, successful Liberal candi-
dates (joint account), £3,321; Sir Ivor Guest, Con-
servative, £2,570.
Flint Boroughs—Mr. J. Roberts M.P., Liberal,
£3,244 17s. 6d.; Captain Pennant, Conservative,
£3,402.
Rochester—Mr. A. J. Otway, M.P. Liberal,
£1,026; Sir Julian Goldsmid, Liberal, £1,024 3s. 5d.;
Mr. Roger Leigh, M.P., Conservative, and Mr. W.
Seton-Karr, Conservative, jointly, £1,574 12s. 2d.
Yorkshire, West Riding, Eastern Division.—Mr.
C. B. Denison and Lord 'Lascelles, the unsuccessful
Conservative candidates, jointly £7,343 17s. 9d.
Mid-Kent.—Sir W. Hart Dyke, M.P., and Sir E.
Filmer, M.P., Conservatives, £4,852 ss. Bd, ; Mr. E.
Cazalet and Mr. H. W. Elphinstone, Liberals,
£4,556 19s. 2d.
West Kent.—Sir C. Mills, M.P., and Viscount
Lewisham, M.P., Conservatives, £10,646 13s. 10d. ;
Mr. Bompas, Liberal, £4,595 13s. 4d.; Mr. J. May,
tenant-farmer, £Bl9 17s. 6d.
The expenses of Mr. D. Davies, M.P. for Cardigan,
were £3Ol 14s. 3d.

West Aberdeenshire.—Dr. Farquharson, Liberal
(successful), £1,791. The expenses of Sir William
Forbes, the unsuccessful Conservative candidate were
us. Bd.

The expenses of the three candidates at Barnstaple
were--Sir R. W. Carden, M.P. (Conservative), £740
11s. 11d. ; Viscount Lymington, M.P. (Liberal), £548
Bs. 6d. ; Mr. H. R. Grenfell (Liberal), £575 19s. 6d.
The abstract of the return of expenses incurred at
Stockton have been issued, the total amount being
rather over £1,790. The expenditure incurred on be-
half of Mr. Dodds, the succassful Liberal candidate,
were £9GI 13s. 6d.; and that on behalf of Mr. T. R.
Digby Seymour, the defeated Oonservative candidate,
£829 11s. 7d.
The return of election expenses for Dewsbury have
been issued t Serjeant Simon, the successful Liberal,
spent £2,054 4s. ; Mr. William Hoyle' the unsuccess-
ful Liberal, £569 11s. ; and Mr. Alfred Austin,
Conservative unsuccessful, £1,123 18s.
_ _

City of London, for three Conservative members,
£8,435.
Greenwich, for two Conservative members, £7,166.
Northern Division of the West Riding of York-
shire, Lord F. C. Cavendish, M.P., and Sir M.
Wilson, M.P. (Liberals), £8,347 Vs. 7d. ; Messrs,
Vowell and Lister (Conservatives), £8,895.
Southwark, Mr. E. Clarke and Mr. Ca,ttley (Con-
servatives), £7,562 4s. Bd.
Lancashire (South-East), Mr. Leake and Mr.
Agnew, the Liberal members, £12,640, of which
£3,090 was for the conveyance of voters. The ex-
penses of their opponents, Mr. Egerton and Mr.
Ilardcastle have not L on declared.
Captain Price, the s t cossful Liberal candidate for
Tewkesbury, expended £572 7s. 5d., and Mr. John
Fowler (Conservative), £1,184 ss.
In East Derbyshire the expenses of Messrs.
Egertoo and Barnes, the successful Liberal candidates,
were £5,883 17s. lid., and those of Messrs Arkwright
and Turbutt, the Convervative candidates, £5,869 16s.
11d.

The expenses in connection with the return •of the
two Liberal members for Tivertan amounted to £683,
of which Sir John Amory's share was £319, and Mr.
Massey's £363. The expenses of Sir John Walrond,
the unsuccessful candidate, were £541.
The expenses of Mr. J. Dick Peddle, the successful
Liberal candidate for the Kilmarnock boroughs, have
been returned as amounting to £2,692 lie. 5d., while
those of the defeated candidates are—Mr. R. M.
.lerr,
Liberal, £1,622 14s. Bd., and Mr. J. N. Cuthbertson,
Conserva,tive, £l7 19s. INd.
In the borough of Cambridge the costs of Messrs.
W. Fowler and Hugh Shield, the Liberal members,
amounted to £2,526 is. 5d., whilst those of Messrs.
A. G. Marten and P. B. Smollett, the defeated Con-
servative candidates, amounted to £2,597 Ds. 4d.

THE MONEY ORDERS AND SAVINGS
BANKS BILLS.
The ten principal banks in Manchester have issued
to Members of Parliament a circular setting forth the
objection of bankers to the Money Orders and Savings
Banks Bills, which they hold to be opposed to sound
principle. The first bill, they say, seeks to correct the
ntstake of the Post Office in reducing to less than cost
the charge for orders of small amounts by empowering
the most unsuitable institution to issue small notes
which will form a part of the circulation of the country
without compelling the issuer to hold coin or bullion
to the like extent, which is the only basis of a sound
note circulation.

If the passing of the Bill through the second read-
ing cannot be prevented, it is urged that the power
to issue £1 notes, which will be the elms most used,
should be eliminated, or that the period allowed for
circulation without extra charge be shortened to one
month, at most. As to the Savings Banks Bill it is
held that as savings banks are professedly eleemosynary
institutions for the teaching of thrift and reducing
pauperism, these powers are already more than
sufficient.

THE WILL OF DOWAGER LADY
RASHLEIGH.

In the Probate Court the cause of "Gould v. Lakes" has
been heard before the Right Ron. the President and a
Special Jury.—We take the following report of the case
from The Times

The testatrix in this case, the late Dowager Lady
Rashleigh, who died at Exmouth, Devon, on the 9th
of June, 1879, at the advanced age of 03 years,
was the second wife and relict of the late Sir
Colman Bashleigh, of Prideaux, in the parish of
Luxulian, Cornwall, long since deceased. She was
a woman of strong will, and had such an insuper-
able objection to lawyers that she persistently de-
clined to employ a solicitor either to prepare or attest
the execution of any of the several wills by which
she disposed of her property, amounting in the whole to
some £30,000. On the Ist of August, 1812, she sent
for Mr. Henry H. Tremayne, an old friend of the
family, who was then manager of the Exeter branch
of the late West Of England Bank, and stated that
she wished him to witness the execution of her will,
pressing him at the same time to read it. Mr.
Tremayne did so, after some demur, and urged her
to have it re-drawn, or, at least, attested by a solicitor.
She, however, persistently declined all assistance in
the matter, and Mr. Tremayne having filled in the
attestation clause, all the rest of the paper being in
the handwriting of the testatrix, the document was
duly executed by Lady Rashleigh in his presence and
the presence of Mr. William Phillips Hart, a bank
clerk, who subscribed and attested it as witnesses.
On the death of the testatrix the will was found in an
envelope, which had been apparently thrice opened
and as often re-sealed, in her writing-desk. It was
contained in two sheets of old-fashioned note-paper,
stitched together bookwise with a worsted thread, and
presenting eight consecutive pages. There was no
writing on the second and seventh page, and it would
seem at first sight as if the will were contained in the
inside sheet alone, which was duly paged and which
began " The last will and testament of me," &c., and
ended with the signature of the testatrix, the attesta-
tion clause, and the signatures of the witnesses.

The whole paper ran :
" I appoint my two nephews, Robert John Gould and
Robert Gould Lakes, to be my joint executors to carry my
will into effect. I appoint my nephew, Robert John Gould,
to be my executor and sole residuary legatee.
"MARTHA RASHLEIGH.
And placed with my will the first day of August, 1872.
"Stanley-lodge, Exmouth."
The following page was a blank and the will con-
tinued on page 1 of till; inner sheet :

"The last will and testament of me, Martha Rashleigh,
widow of Sir John Colman Rashleigh, baronet, of Prideaux,
in the parish of Luxulian, Cornwall.

"I bequeath to my nephew, John Nutcombe Gould, and to
Catherine, his wife, the income for their lives of the sum of
£5,000; at their death the aforesaid £5,000 to be equally
divided and given to their children. I bequeath to each of
their children at my death the sum of £lOO, free of legacy
duty. I appoint Robert John Gould and Robert Gould Lakes
as trustees to the above legacy.—M. It.
"H. H. T.
"W. P. H.
(This clause was an interlineation, but was duly
signed and attested by initials.)

"I bequeath to my niece, Frances Gould, the suns of £lOO.
"I bequeath to my niece, Charlotte Elliott, widow, the
sum of £lOO.
"I bequeath to my niece, Hannah Nutcombe Gould, the
sum of £lOO. "MARTHA RASIILEIGH."

(Page 2.)
"I bequeath to my nephew, John Lakes, vicar of Liskeard,
Cornwall, the sum of £l,OOO, free of legacy duty.

"I bequeath to my nephew, Robert Gould Lakes, the sum
of £l,OOO, free of legacy duty.

"I bequeath to my great nephew, Robert George Oxen-
ham, the sum of £3OO.
"1 bequeaths to my great nephew, Frank Nutcombe Omen-
ham, the sum of £3OO.
"I bequeath to Theodore Vincent Webb, of Great
Gransden, Caxton, Cambridgeshire, the sum of £5O.

"MARTHA RASHLEIGH.