Oxford won the University Cricket Match with three wickets to spare. Some fine batting was exhibited on both sides. The builders, carpenters, and joiners of London are demanding an advance of 4d per hour on their wages, making 9d per hour. Upwards of 600 out of the 2,000 puddling furnaces in the Newcastle district are now idle. A short time ago every furnace was at full work. This fact gives some idea of the state of one branch of the iron trade. A large number of persons have been fined by the Sunderland magistrates for neglecting to send their children to school Among those who “ couldn't afford it ” was a Monkwearmouth Colliery pitman, who, with two of bis elder boys working with him in the pit, has been getting an income recently of 14 Is 3d on the average per week! The School Board officer stated that the parent? spent their money in druakeanesi.
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Evening Star, Issue 3314, 3 October 1873, Page 2
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154Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 Evening Star, Issue 3314, 3 October 1873, Page 2
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