EAST WARD UNION. The fortnightly meeting at Appleby was held on Saturday last. MR. JOHN ROBINSON presided, and the following guardians were also present: W. J?NESON, HENRY BURNE, JOHN IRVING, JOHN LANCASTER, WILLIAM SANDERSON, WILLIAM STEPHENSON, and ROBT. ATKINSON. WORKHOUSE SCHOOL. A letter was read from the Local Government Board forwarding the Certificate awarded to MISS BRAMLEY, the Workhouse school-mistress, after the recent examination of herself and her pupils by MR. MOZLEY, the Government Inspector, from which it appears that MISS BRAMLEY’s qualifications as a teacher, as shown by her examination papers, are of a high order, and that the school is in a very efficient state, entitling her to a certificate of efficiency (third division). The average number of scholars under her care during the year the certificate stated was 30, and the sum she would be entitled to out of the Parliamentary grant for the year ending Lady Day, 1873, would be at the rate of £39 per annum, being an increase, the Clerk remarked, as compared with last year of £7 9s. APPLEBY WATER SUPPLY. A letter was brought under the attention of the Sanitary Authority by MR. DIXON, Sanitary Inspector, which had been addressed to him by DR. PAGE, with reference to the supplies of water for domestic use at Appleby. – Samples from the Shambles, Low Cross, High Wiend and Low Weind passage pumps had been submitted to the chemical analysis by DR. PAGE, who reports the results as follows: “My examination of the water samples sent me proves them to be, without exception, highly charged with organic matter, and quite unfit for drinking purposes. Even the Low Cross Pump is bad, shewing evidence of previous contamination with animal matter; but the other three are among the worst waters I have examined for some time. – The Low Weind passage, and the High Wiend pumps are worse, but the Shambles pump is par excellence the worst – the water was even foul to the eye. I shall shortly take an opportunity to examine the other sources of water supply in Appleby, before reporting upon them at length. Meanwhile it would be advisable to warm people frequenting those in question as to their condition, and advise them to prefer the Low Cross as the least harmful for domestic use. It would be of interest if you could ascertain from those best qualified to tell you, if any, or all those pumps ever exhibit a variation in their appearance or quality of their supplies. DR. ARMSTRONG remarked, you will remember, upon the Shambles pump, and you might now inform him that chemical examination endorses and proves his statement; indeed, without some other known channel of pollution, the analysis goes to show that there is considerable percolation from the sewer above. All the waters were exceedingly hard to test, which I suppose will be a well known fact to those using them.” =============================================================== barb, ontario, canada.