The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-10-29 00:00:00

BOARD OF Gulam ‘SS.

Mr. P. Pirer prei 1,-d at th-) me Ain.; of tl,is
Board yost:n. lay. Th o'h,r ar:inbers present wire
Messrs lt,itirisn, 11i ,gley. "rnompAun, McMiitati,
Bryce, Caltuben!, Web°, Guy, Ithird,,s, Green. 11,
tfisk3w, Stringer, Vat. Vey. an I
Adml-..ed mo the II in;.)-duing the wnek 9, (Us
charged 14, r •inaining 1,38, atain3r, 501 in t, e cor-
responding. week last ye a 0 it-door relief : Krn
swinford di4rict .C£ls Oa 81, Stourhri ige
1, Ilaksow-n .432 la 01, non resident paupe s
XI 18s 31, tital £ll3 s 3il, against £lO9 48 61
la-t year.
Six t, inira were received for supplying the
ins:rnmenti for a drum ad fife baud, and the
tender of Mr E. A. Stringer. Stourbridv, f r t:11
9; 8,1 aa; a.co2pte,t. T..e teniers ranged up to .e.,:r3
5s 01.
A prPceipt. wai roceil )1 from the County of
Staff ri imouitin; to £1.219 is 11, whin waiat
•reafp of .CS) 144 lod in the co:Tospandintt p)•ioil
!Alt y •ar. Siuc di4C,1840 i tlOk plaC•', end SIC. W.
Green m7ve(l "'Nat the Finvice C .minittee be
requested to t4lce into c,insiclorati )Ti the demands
wale by the counties on the Union with a vi 'A' to
see if any reductio could be made in the scale."
The motkn we carrie.'.

.Ir:li:di-inson said the amount of tne ea'ls w;Te
due to a great extont ou acc,unt voi i prop 'ity
in the shai:e of blast furnaces an t i only° •ks
Althowth there did not pay t.ne iiturlians anything
were yet actuady assessed by tbe county at mull
value (Same.) The resolution was carrel.
ROYAL A.OADEMY OF n...xt local ex-
amination in cinnection with the Royal Academy
of Music for th- Worcester centre will be held eatly
in the spring of 1888. '1 he sydabus and full parti-
culars may bn obutiii.3.l of Mr. C. Dux, A 0 0 ,
St. Jotin*s, Worcestr, the lo3al repreFrntative of
the Academv, and the nanit-s of all itit,:nding can
didates mast be recoived by him on or before
December 10. h, 1887.

Two shiTn anl sixpece is to standard price
of St. Jacobs Oil. Uortainly this s.andard ren2e,ty
is within retied of a i.

CLIADDE3I4EY CORBE r AND DI3TRIOT

FARMERS CLUB

The annual dinip.r of tEii &U) was 1191 d on Wed-
nesday night, at th Lyttelton Arin 4, Hagley, and
the eumpa.iy was over 10 iii nu Ether. Daring the
day a niuth.-T of coinpetitio,s h.t i beeil held on .the
farm of Mr. 11 Surth, 'it th- Treherns, an prize,'
were *War •od for the bet work in ploug inz, hedg-
ing, aud rickir,4-44. Mr. U. IC. Harrison presid.4 iv
t e dinner. The Rev. W 14'. lil.-ikutora (Stour), in
responding to the toast of "The Bishop aid eier,y,,,
boat in regard to agieult tial depres I tt. and ho
m Et heartily vympl..thised with the farmt-rs iu their
p 11 janndth')farsmame
said trio farincrs and the e,trer::
difficult position. He you d sympathise wi:h them
fr on thep int that his iue me had been largely
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down 25 to 27 per rent He had had uliso to reduce
till name of Mr. F.
his Halo bit of gl be 17t per cent. and s..ould have
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