... SANDBACH. Local Board.— The last monthly meeting of this Board was held on the 30th ult., at the Town Hall. Present, Mr. Stringer (chairman), Messrs. Makin, John Plant, Thomas Plant, Whittingham, Stubbs, Dickinson, Boston, Lycett, Carless, Eley, Harding ...

... SANDBACH On Saturday the meml)ers of the Sandbach Volunteer Corps competed at their range for prizes given by the tradesmen and gentry of the town and neighbourhood amounting in value to upwards of £35. The distances were 200 and 400 yards, five shots ...

... SANDBACH. Wednesday, the 2*th ultimo, the day set apart by the Bishop of Chester to be kept as a day of humiliation and prayer on account of the cattle plague, was duly observed, the shops being closed during the hours of divine service, and the Vicar ...

... SANDBACH. The bells of the parish church rang out merry peals on the occasion of the marriage of the vicar of the parish, the Rev. John Richard Armitstead, to Miss Hornby, of Poole Hall, Nautwich, daughter of Mr. Hornby, M.P. for Blackburn, which was ...

... SANDBACH. Brereton.—This rural village, which in the palmy'days of coaching on the London and Livcrpool-road, was well known to the traveller, on account of the ancient inn, the Bear’s Paw (being the crest of the family of the Breretons), was on Monday ...

... 1! and though he had been so far as te recever succumbed to the malady on Wednesday week. The v d other institutions at Sandbach bear am charitable an testimony to the indomitab! je energy with which he out any object cal to the welfare ish of which ...

... SANDBACH. Odd Fellowship.— Monday last the members of the Loyal Faithful Lodge, No. 90, M.U., who number 140, partook of an excellent dinner provided by Mr. and Mrs. Shaw, of the Old Hall lun, Sandbach. The N.G. of the lodge presided, and it was stated ...

... SANDBACH. The annual meeting of the Sandbach branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society was held on Monday last, in the Literary Institution, when the chair was occupied by the Rev. William Rhodes, who, with the Revds. J. Gregory, of Sandbach, and ...

... SANDBACH. Swine Fever.—At the Petty Sessions, Wednesday, Peter Venables, farmer, Breroton, was charged with failing to renort cases of swine fever his premises. The defendant had buried six pigs before he acquainted the police of the on one of them being ...

... SANDBACH. Foot Race.—The great foot race betwixt Patten and Darlington, both this place, came off here, Saturday last, for t's a-side, and the occasion not fewer than 3,000 people were computed present, amongst whom, on horseback, noted a good many of ...

... SANDBACH. Volunteer Rifle Corps.—On Friday, the 6th inst., the annual inspection of this corps took place at Well Bank, the residence of their respected Captain, Joseph St. John \ ates, Esq. The corps, numbering upwards of 70, were received Mrs. Yates ...

... SANDBACH. On the IPth inst. a tea party was held in the National Schools, Sandbach, for the purpose of presenting to Miss Guinane, the respected mistress, a very handsome tea service on the occasion of her marriage to Mr. Allen, who succeeds to the boys’ ...