The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1874-08-15 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

RAILWAY COMPANIES.--. School Board are off for the holidays, and willnot ,' There are from time to time legal differeezes be. meet ,igain until the last day of September, ' tween the holders of season tickets and the re. and then or not long after it is expected that ! spective railway companies. Sometimes the holder they will be able to commence bolding their of the ticket is summoned for negle‘ting to proe eekly assemblies at their own offices on the ' duce his pass; on other occasions he is convicted of Thames embankment. But before the business of ' travelling in a class of carriage above that for the the Hoard ir renio,ed hence from their temporary , use of which he contracts with the company; and place in New Bridge street, Blackfriars, it is ex- ' lastly, and not unfrequently, old season ticket pected that there will be a great '. house-. arming ;" ' holders trust to the bad memories of the inspectors, and as the Lord Mayor of London has twice enter-1 and travel gratuitously and fraudulently. If some tained the School Board at the Mansion House, the School Board will probably ask a great body of I English companies would folkw the plan adopted Se 'on most of the Swiss railways, disputes and sum. civic dignitaries and other notabilities to break bread (with turtle sonp, with them in honour of ' mousse would not be of such common occurrence. , In Switzerlend, season tickets, in one sense of the the opening of the new Home of Parliament of the ~ word, are not used, but small books containing SC, School Board for London. At a recent board , 100, or more return ticketz, are served out to applimeeting it was resolved to appoint, immediately 'cants who frequently require to use the line. These after the remits, a principal clerk for the School tickets are reduced 25, 50, and even 73 per cent. on Management Department, at a salary beginning at the ordinary return fares, and are torn out as rea year, lind rising by an annual increment of „dm& The advantages of the system are obvious. £l3 to a maximum of ..€l3O. It is announced that 'I First, the traveller gives up his ticket in the candidates should be "well acquainted with the ordinary way, and doe. not merely show it ; secondly, Elementary Education Acts, with the New Code, the amount of tickets used corresponds exactly with with the regulations aid practice of the Education , the number of times on which the company's line I am informed, Department,' &c., and the result is, has been travelled on, whereas our season passes that no fewer than five other Majesty's civil servants are indefinite in this respect. The introduction of now employed in the office of the Education Depart. i ment in Whitehall are among the candidates.-- i i the Swiss system would be a great boon to many - who have occasion to use a line frequently,  -- GOILdUII Letter.  CUrtiZutihout say great rsgularity.—Observer.  The first pocket of hops of the fzrowth of 1R7.1 arrived at the hop maiket, London, last we k, and was sold at 22gs. per cwt.  The Uirkenhead magistrates last week ordered twenty tons of meat from S,uth Australia to be destroyed, being unfit for food.  A mail despatch from Buenos Ayres states t hat t.b, frontier dispute between Bra/il. Paraguay, and Chili is to be arranged by arbitration. A phaeton and ponies have been presented tothe Duchess of Hamilton as a wedding gift from the inhabitants of the burgh of Hamilton.  At the Aesi es at Monmouth, last week, the prisoner James Henry Gibbs, who murdered his wife, was sentenced to death, with no hope of a reprieve.  A