The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-05-29 00:00:00

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The Times has published the following letter :
Sir,—So much unnecessary abuse was bestowed on
the Great Western Railway Company under the
excited state of public reeling when the disastrous
accident at Shipton was recent, that now, after the
inlets of excitement have had time to disperse and the
verdict of the juries-has-exonerated them from all cul-
pable negligence, it becomes no less than an act of
justice to call attention to the truly liberal and con,
Eiderate conduct which the directors and officials of
the company have displayed throughout this business.
Of the fund which has ministered to the wants of
the more necessitous sufferers, a large proportion has
been contributed by the private liberality of the
&rectors, and the company has since voted £250 to the
Ra icliffe Infirmary and £l5O for distribution among
the permanent staff of the institution.

Although I am not a shareholder in the company, I
may perhaps be allowed to express my gratitude to
the directors for the example they have set, which in
these days is somewhat rare, of prompt and open-
handed liberality with their own monezy, as well as
jticlicions and discriminating application of the fund
with the management of which they are entrusted for
others.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
JOHN SLATTER,
Treasurer of the Radcliffe Infirmary.
Oxford, May 20.

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jury, at the Sheriffs' ou 11 - Tahiti, brought news which explains the non-
e ects; th the cost of :le 6.. ,in which the value of property, in a'v 1 of the schooner Margaret Crocard, which was
handsomely provided for by Parliament, if the A lert one case al, _ years, and in the other at 149 years to low. overdue. he advices re from the cap .n of
and the Dlscorer ..y fail in the scientific purpose for: 9ome, was to be rtinolut,v aschoone - nill froinft‘maktY Gi_lian glAith
which they havr lie, en 041-fipwil wTs gat s4elfy &sin; t Vr. i3iNet 1-Ntintr, ick 4CI IPI who. ,arras Sin erNpn Hrer. ' Vram thitrit
~ thif Act of 1863, w en the property was taken at IpPears that the schooner left Papete on the 22nd
that it will be E`some time before another attempt '
ditch, the reversion expectant under a term of 280 lof February for this city, with a complement of eight
made to explore the mysteries of the ice-bound oceans years, which was created in 1724, and which would e•
in those northern latitudes. The recollections of those pire in 129 years; was -not aptitedablWa.s-nc
gootraniieriiivill iii pleasant reminders of the marketable, and he was satisfied that £7B 3s. was a
past, and of agreeable anticipations of the future, in full compensation, and from 1863, when th
was taken, the interest was agreed uppn
times When they will have to be content 1
with tinned
making-a total of £l2l Ios.
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meats month after month during their progress over Mr. Wood, surveyor, on the part of the company,
the dreary wastes which have hitherto shut out the said the sum fixed was more than its value, but it was
Pole from all traces of civilisation. "It can be done, most difficult in such a case to form an opinion. ,
and England means to do it!" is evidently the pre- The jury gave a verdict for £l2l 1.05., principal and
va ling sentiment with both officers and men; and it interest' '
In the second case, " Attenbury and Others y. the
is clear that whether in this peaceful mission or in a London and North-Western Railway Company," the
great naval conflict, every man intends to do his term was created for 300 years, and the claimants
. . . .. , duty. . would not come into possession till "149 years" to
come, or, as their learned counsel (Mr. Oswald) said,
"if they live so long." (A. laugh). The same sur-
THE SHIPTON ACCIDENT. veyors were called, and both agreed that £73 16s. was
a full value, under the difficulties to form an estimate.
There was no intsrest due.
The jury gave a verdict for £73 16s. ,for the value in
149 years to come. .
Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchell remarked that surveyors
very seldom agreed in the same value, and he congratu-
lated the jury on their unanimity. (A laugh.)

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