The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-10 00:00:00

DUDLEY.

.11,Art,wAy PgoSECUTION.—At the Police Court on
Monday, before the Mayor ./.k.klerinan flowat), Al-
derman Wilkinson, and Mr. As Jon, Albert Holroyi
(45), stonecarver, of Burnt Tree, was charged with
riding on Cue Great Western Railway without a
ticket, and also with assaultiee• Alfred Whittaker,
the station master at South Ern Station.—Fined 5s
and costs fr ridine• without a t.cket, and lOs and
costs for the assault.
CHARGE UNDID, THE FACTORY ACT. •—• Arthur
Ree I Shaw, tucket manufacturer, was charged with
causlng Alfred G:,ddiug (14), to work full time.
Proved by Mr. Hoare.—Fined 103 and costs.
THE TuNVN COUNCIL AND ITS COMMITTEES.—The
Estates Committee of the Council have agreed to
recommend a report Which shows market and fairs
receipts for nind weeks, £l6B 15s hi; with wages
account, £25 12s 6cl, Receipts for baths, £99 18s
8d; with wags account, £34. 41 61, and general
accounts, £34 14; 4d ; total, £6B 18s 101.—Dr.
Thninin's rcpoit to the Sanitary Committee shows
that the death We is 13.61 per 1,000, and the
deaths f:om zymotic diseases 18 in number, The
medical offia2er also points out many nuisances, and
the co niniVee will recommend proceedings in the
case cf di!apidated ashpits ; the seon connection of
private property with the main sewers ; polluted
wells ; adulteration of bread and milk, and houses
without proper supply of water,—The Strees and
Gas Committee recommended additional lamps in
outlying parts of the borough, but in view of the
high price andlow quality of the gas the Town
Clerk had been instructed to mite to the Dudley
Gaeliglv Company, and ask whether they are pre-
pared to sell the undertaking to the Corpo.:ation,
and on what terms,

MR. 11. GLADSTONE, M.P., AT
g[DD ERMINST.Eit.

Mr. lierlyrt Gladst ne, M.P, opened a new
Liberal club and premises in Kidderminster on
Tuesday. A crowded public meeting was after-
wards hold in the Town Hail, at which addresses
were delivered by Lord Lyttelton, Mr. Herbert
Gladsten§, and others. The former said he had
aome nils,,r;:vings as., a meinher of the House of
Lords in addressing a meeting of that character,
beeause he was one of those who thought that
members of the House if Lords actly wisely if they
restrainei themselves fro a running about the
country acldressirg poliTical meetings, and ab-
stained from taking a prominent interest in the
future po;ition of the other House of Parliament,
but the p•esent was a time when all who had de-
cided opeiions hoald announce them. H 3 deriled
the idea :lilt tiler,: was any disunion amongst the
Liberal p.iry. They rni...;ht have los; a few ad-
he? enis but the two minims of the newly-enfran-
Aised we rid more than replace them.
Mr. Herbert Gladstone said that Lord George
Hamilton had stated the Liberal party were living
in 3 fool's paradise, but he made a similar state-
ment bore the eleuGon of 1880. Lo:d Hamilton
dwelt in a fool's paradise at that time, and he was
surprised his experience then did not teach him who
were on tire present occasion likely to be there.
The Conservatives were relying uron the Primrose
Leagne, a league born of the dissatisfaction of Con--
servativ s with their leaders; but the election was
' not. They knew the liiitory of the Franchi3r Act,
and they knew who had borne the heat and burden
of the day in connection with the Franchise Act.
The Tons had deliberately obstructed legiolation.
He believed the newly enfranchised would supp rt
the Liberal party. Re.lorm of the procedure in the
House of Commons was abs3letcly essential if they
wisied :tray Liberal Government to do justice and
to fulfil the pledges they gave in regard to legrisla-
tion. Ani.,n;st the reforms that would have shertly
to be ta.k yi up would be local taxation, with which
was connected tire great question of Local Option.
Then then: was the reform of the House cf Loris.
Wi h ref.renee to Ireland, he Aas prepared to go
further than most of his friends, but lie could not
acquiesce in the Tory policy as regarded!that coun-
try. Lo:d Salisbury had not entered into a com—
p-.ct with Ar. Parnell, hut he had don o just what
Mr. Pairell wantel, with the resut that he ha-i
disgusted his own friends, the loyal Orangemen.
He urged it was necessary they should }rase a-
powerful Liberal Governmew, not only to carry
out nscesary domestic measures, hut o enable
tl-..em to administrate the laws in the three countries,
and settle the qaes,ion of Iris), Go;ernneut on a
firm and laAing basis.

OLD HILL.