The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-05-26 00:00:00

BRIERLEY HILL

DnuNKENNEss.--.-A.'t the Town Hall, on Monday,
before H. Hall and H. Walker, Esqs , George
Brooks was charged with being drunk on the 17th
inst.—P.C. Birch proved the case, Withdrawn on
payment of costs.—John Blunt .was charged with
being drunk on the 16th inst. P.C. Adams ,
proved the case. Fined 2s. 6d. and costs; in
default 7 days.—George Hayes was charged with
being drunk on the 16th inst. P.C. Adams proved
the case. Fined 2s. 6d. and costs ; in default 7
days.—Daniel Beckley was charged with being
drunk on the 12th inst. P.C. Lafford proved the
case. Fined 2s. 6d. and costs; in default 7 days.—
Samuel Wharton was charged with being drunk
on the 14th inst. P.C. Lafford proved the case.
Fined 2s. 6d. and costs; in default 7 dayS.—Robert
Young and —Homer were both charged with being
drunk and disorderly on the 14th inst. P.S. Salt
proved the case. Fined ss. and costs ;in default
14 days.—Thomas Flatley was charged with being
drunk on the 14th inst. Fined ss. and costs ; in
default 7 days.
OBSCENE LANGUAGE.—Edward Hill was charged
with using obscene language on the 14th inst. P.C.
Hyman proved the ease. Fined 10s and costs.
REMOVING PIGS WITHOUT A LICENsE. Edwin
Nock, hay and straw dealer, _High Street, was sum-
moned for removing 15 pigs on the 17th inst, with-
out a license. Sergeant Salt said he was instructed
to go to defendant's house on the above date. He
there saw 15 pigs which had been removed from
Bell End to brierley Hill, without a license. He
asked defeniant almut them and he admitted the
offence. Fined 40s and costs.

WILFUL DAMAGE.—}tichard Jones (15), Edward
Jones (13), Josiah Hill (12), and Walter Evans (17)
were charged with wilfully damaging a quantity of
grazing grass, the property of John Clarke, by play.
ing at cricket on it. Defendants were fined 5a
each, including costs.
APPLICATION FOR LAYING ON WATER.—Mr.
Thomas Wall, Clerk to the Stourbridge Union,
applied on behalf of the Rural Sanitary Authority
to compel Mr. Wm. Beckley, butcher, of Brock
moor, to provide a supply of water to some pre-
mises belonging to him at Brockmoor.—Mr.
Wal-
thou defended.—Mr. Wall said he had to apply
for an order authori,ing the Rural Authority, or
their officials, to enter thQ premises of the defend-
ant for the purpose of providing a sufficient supply
of water to the occupiers of the property. Their
officer had been to lay on the water, but Mr.
Beckley refused to let them come on his premises.
The officer who gave the notice under the 102nd
section of the Public Health Act of his intention
to enter the premises, but Mr. Beckley refused so
that:they had no al'erna,ive but to apply for an
order to allow him to enter. Mr. Henry Duncan
Holloway produced the minute book of ths Union
containing the order for the water to be laid on.—
Mr. John Corser Giles, Inspector of Nuisances,

stated that he had inspected the premises for the
purpose of seeing about the water. He also at-
tended to lay on the water, but Mr. Beckley said
he should not allow them to do anything of the
sort and tried to turn him off the premises.—After
some contention between Mr. Waldron and Mr.
Wall the Bench cams to the decision that they
should refuse the application.
AN ASSORTMENT OF CHARGES.—John Clarke
was charged with refusing to quit the Fortune of
War Inn, on the 19th hist. He was further
charged with assaulting the landlord, and break-
ing a window on the same date. John Lloyd,
the landlord, proved the cses. Defendant was
fined 5s and costs ; in default 7 days' in each case
for the a-sault and refusing to quit, and for *he
damage 3s Gd and costs.
AssAuLr.—He,lry Robins was summoned for as—
saulting William Westwood on the 14th inst Mr.
Waldron defended.— It transpired that they were
both arguing about a pigsty() when it was alleged
the oltfLudant struck eotnplainant with a hammer,
The Bench dismissed the case.
NON-PAYMENT OF RATES.—William Brown was
summoned by the Quarry Bank Local Board for not
paying the Sheffield Street Improvement Rate.
The Bench made an order for payment s.t.once.

DUDLEY AND MIDLAND GEOLOGICAL
AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY AND FIELD
CLUB.

The annual meeting of this society was held on
Monday evening, in the Mechanics' Institution,
Dudley, under the presidency of Dr. Alfred Freer,
of Stourbridge.—The report and the statement of
accounts were read by the Secretary (Mr, MedeleY)
and un, nimously adopted,—Mr. Henry Johnson,
C,E., of Dudley, was unanimously elected president
for the ensuing year.—The vice-presidents were
re-elected.—Dr. Fraser, of Wolverhampton, was
re appointed treasurer ; and Mr. Madeley secretary.
—The committee continues the same as before,
with the exception of one or two new members
chosen to fill vacancies caused by death. The
society is in a flourishing condition, but it tran-
spired that some of the subscriptions are consider-
ably in arrear. That this was not owing altogether
to a want of interest in the society's proceedings
was evidenced by the circumstance that some of
those most indebted were members who had all
along taken part in the work end excursions of the
society.—After the business of the annual meeting
had been concluded, Pr,dessor Lupworth, F.G.S.,
of;Mason's College, delivered an address "On the
Pre-Silurian Rocks of the Midlands," illustrated
by several large coloured maps and sections. The
discovery of the existence of strata older than any
hitherto known in ti.is district is due entirely to
Professor Lupworth, whose attention his been
turned to the subject only since he was appointed
as geological tutor in the college. The places
chiefly referred to by him where these strata are to
be seen are in the cuttings at Rubery, Barnt Green
and Stockingford, near Nuneaton. The discovery
and position of these and similar rocks in South
Wales has given rise to a considerable amount of
discussion amongst gLolog- is:s, and is an important
question as tending to show the probability of coal
being found in places where it has never been be-
fore expected.-In proposing a vote of thanks to
Professor Lupworth, the President (Mr. Johnson)
said he had no doubt that the thick coal w, uld be
found at Nuneeon as a continuation from that of
the South Staffordshire district.