Nov 23 1872 A serious poaching affray has taken place on the Wroxhall Abbey estate Warwickshire. The poachers were surprised by two keepers,whom they assultedand,being the better armed, had the mastery. The keepers were seriously injured.Alabourer, named John Brown of Saltwick, a village in the neighbourhood,was, on Saturday,identified before the magistrates and committed for trail Mr Henry Dickens the son of the late Mr. Charles Dickens who obtained a very creditable place in the last mathematical tripos examinationat Cambridge , has jioned the society of the Inner Temple August 31 1872 Strikes which have held work up all over England have been end. Carpenters and Joiners having agreed on Tuesday - The working hours 52 hours and a half all the year round for joiners in shops, and 52 and a half in the summer, and 48 hours per week in winter for outdoor work, leaving off at one o'clock on Saturday during winter weeks, The wages to be eight and half pence per hour all the year round, Outside,beyond the above hours, when worked at the request of the employer to be paid at.The first hour nine and half pence,and at the end of that hour till eight up. ten and half pence after eight o'clock 1 shilling and three quarter pence per hour. Extra time on Saturdays to be paid at time and a quarter up till 5 o'clock and after that time and a half