The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-01-05 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

WOLSTANTON AND BURSLEM BOARD  OF GUARDIANS.  A forthightly meeting of the Guardians of the Burslem and Wolotanton Union, was held in the Town Hall. Tunstall, on Tuesday, Mr. H. Clive presiding. There were also present Messrs. Hook, Edge, Whittingham, llhead, Hancock, Baker, and Wieley. The out•relief statistics showed the cost thereof £ns 6i. 91., in Buralent, for 1,120 rodpients ; in Wolstanton, 946 persons had been relieved at a cost of trdi Go. 6d.; the total being 2,066 persona relieved at a cost of £l2l 130. 3d. The number relieved was 291 more than in the corresponding period of blot year, and the cost of the relief wu £24 more. There. were 203 inmates at the house, being 19 more than at the corresponding period of last year. A communication was read from the Local Government Board with reference to a want of punctuality in the Burolem vaccination. If the present place was unsuitable, a fresh one should be obtained, as it was unreasonable to expect parents to attend punctually. if there was not punctuality on the part of the vaccinator. Mr. Wurrrisunur remarked that he had ob. served a growing inclination on the part of the ratepayers to know whit the rates were being paid for. He thought the demand note should specify approximately the amount due for county, educational, relief, and other purposes. He moved that in future this should be done.—Mr. CLARK sezonded the motion, cadet was carried.  . The Master ieported that Messrs. Clive and friends gave an entertainment at the Workhouse on the 26th ult.; also that the Chaplain and Messrs. Alcoa had made handsome presents of oranges to the inmates.—Mr. Edge moved a vote of thanks to Messrs. Clive and friends for their kindness, and to the donor., of the oranges. Tie thought. that it was a great set of kindness, as anything in the way of mu,-,:e must be a gre,,o- relief to the monotony of their existence.—Mr. JIHELD seconded the nal ion, and Mr. HOOK said the inmates seemed to enjoy the treat very much.—Mr. WHIITINOHAM supix,rted the resolution, which was earried.—The CHAIRMAN HppropriPtely acknowledged the vote on behalf of his brothers. The remainder of the business was of a routine character.  The Poet says that large Orden; have bt en gi% en out in Birmingham by the War Department fer Inoss tin.. As many as 30,000 have been ordered from a single house.  A coroner's jury at South Shields on Thursday returned a verdict of wilful murder against Crescolo Gaetano for shooting Francesco Ticich, an Austrian seaman, on New Year's morning. The prisoner was cemmitted for trial at the assizes.  The Scotsman of Wednesday (the day after the S‘mtch holiday of New Year's Day) reports a number of cases of drowning, resulting from over indulgence in think. in one instance, two men who were walling along the steamboat quay at Greenock arm-in-arm fell together into the water and were drowned.  At C:.ilverc Caton, mar Nuneaton, on Thursday, a little girl, nearly seven years of age, the daughter of an elastic manufacturer, named Andrew Bu 1, was burned to death. It seems that while the mother was absent from the kitchen, where she had left the chi& en for a few minutes, the fire-plate fell off and n the girl putting it up again the fire caught her night dress, and the 'nor child was burned so badly that death ensued.  On Thursday in the Sheriff's Cwt. at York, Nancy Brown, a weaver, of Krighley, sought to have damages assessed by a jury in an undefended act'on for l.reach of promi,e of mairiage against Jonathan llouldsworth Brown, Fpring Farm, Keighley. The part es bat cotter d for 14 years. The plain ill said defendant was a iarme-; but he said he was only a farm labourer. The july Lave plaintiff £5O darasgee.