The Potteries Examiner : — 1871-06-02 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

BURSLEM..  We have been requested to state that the Council of the National Free Church Society, whose object is sr:thistly t abolish pew rents iu Perish Churches, and to promote the adoption of the weekly Offertory, have pro..ecl to the Bursteto Free Library • serie, of volumes of the Ch%rch of the People, the Society'. Maganne and Monthly Record of the Progress or tAa Fret CA.. floosinent. Dlc.Tl:ccrllrbe SYNOD, —On Tue..' morning Moe. Heath, the wife of Hugh Heath, I radio.' of the Dog and Partridge Ins, Hotlanr, was found drowned in • cistern in the hack yen!. IL appears that Mr. and Mrs. Heath have lived trahappity for a long time throwh the intemperance of the latter ; and the husband had summoned hie wife to appear before the Burslem police court on Tuesday. On Monday it is mild that she burned the summons an I told her husband teat she should not appear on the 'luesday, the earl result showing that she then cootimplated commuting suicide. klueno OF GrARDIANS.—The fortnightly meeting of the guardians ot t. Wolatanton and Burslem Union was held en Tuesday afternoon, Mr. H Blackhumt presiding. There •ere alto present Minnow li. Tennant, J. Watkio, J. Edge, LI !Helper., stmiat. Wood, G. Rhead, W. Nield, Thomas Blackshaw and J. Hording.—The relief returns shoved that during the week out-door relief bad been administered to pv ...us, at a cost of £ll4 Ss. 31, as compared with a.. 17 13s. Md. expended in the elief of 1,1037 persoos doctor the mrrasponding w.k of lest leer. The number or persons in the vrorkbouse was DB, while at the end at the corr.. podding week last year the namber was 179. It was stated that the great increase in the outdoor relief was in come miener of sick..., dtc , lathe Color, —TOO clerk Bated that no clerk of the assessment committee be ha trrontrecl a wowmaturation from the Solicitor to the Geueral Poor Office, stating that the asserament on the telegraph wires mooing thcccogh Otis Onion was considered excess.e and unfair, it or enclmmg notice of appeal.—ale. H. Li,rodall, medical ult., reported that he ha I, aa requested by the board, noococ property at Cross !meth.. loond that there were a number ol of offensive maspools end defective privies, which he considered to be ...furious to health, aod—as scarlet fever of e malignant type is raging in the locality—ought id truce to he remedied. Melee I also onewloed the old disused canal at the back of the Cott. Factory. but did Oct consider it MOO°. to health, thoughit would he as well if persons were ts. al. trwed to drown anima. in it and Icier them to decranpme. The clerk said owners of property 011 which Clule4oosa were sahl to exist ha I here seen with reference to the motto, an I had promised to see that they were abated. The report not a lopted.—Thsre were eight tenders for certain repairs at the Chell workhouse. The guardians acceptea the one of Mr John tirosvenor, builder, of Tuustall. far £l9l Os. Oct. sl,sh Mc WA; BENEITI /3t ILDING SOCILiT—This prosperous society held it, sixth annual meeting at the Wedgwood Institute on Wednesday night. alr. s. Boore, occupied the chair. The .teadance of shareholders was not large. Printed copies of the financial statement wore distributed in the Moll, and SlLPowell, the secretary, rot I the directors' report. The receipti for Iro year amount to £3,701 17s. 13.; the advances on appreved inortclo,e security to 1.3,475 ltit. Thom were 913 stoma at the close of the year—an incr.. of Tr, e greater advance than °pun those of any probate year. The euphis prodc.o of the year amount to BIM/ —an incr.. of Ell upon the profits of the previous yeer making the Old surplus prodte of the society £1,433, nine-tenths of which is divisible amongst investing aud bor. rowi og teemherec and will make the interest payable to the fernier ever.fi per rent, and ...cure a retura to the borrowing members of over one per cent of the interest they have paid to the society. The report aleo stated that a more than usually carelld oicooloat•on of the aiscouula of the society had been made at the end of the year, showing that these were all correct, earl that shareholders nicer.' pose perfect confidence in the society and its manage- , moot. Sir. (Meat ref, red to some iejorions ruutoors , that bad been circulated about the society's solicitor, awl desired to know If there was any t uth in cloth eh far as the ' Star Mutual " was concerned, and whether the ...ty was likely to eustein any loss in c;conection with the matter. 0 Mr. Powell, the secretary, and the chairman, rod several ; other directors, with the auditors, testified to the perfect , accuracy of the statement in the report that the accounts were all right. The report was adopted unahimously. Mr. • Joseph Edge proposed a vote of thanks to the directors for their yeal and assnlaity, which was carried, and briefly acknowledged by the chairman. Tell of the retiring direc, tort were re-appointett, and Mr. A Blackhurst was elected to till the only vacancy on the Roar& Mr. S. Lealward ' was re-appointed one of the auditors ; the election of the Other being vested by rule with the rated; rs.