The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-02-23 00:00:00

STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

parties, the wife to have the custody of the child-
ren, and defendant to pay 10s. per week tuwat ds his
wife's maintenance.
AFTER MANY DAYS.—Charles Rowe, a travelling
show man, was conmit.ed to hard labour for one
month for being drunk and disorderly at Wednes-
buty, on the 24th of August last. A number of
previous convictions were recorded against the de-
fmdant. _ _ .

SORIEE 1N THE TOWN HALL.—On Monday night,
a soriee, in connection with the "D" Company cf
the let Volunteer Battalion, South Staffordshi e
R3giment, was given in the above hall. There was
a good prozi ammo down and dancing was arranged
to commence at 8 o'clock. The band, whiAr came
from Wolverhampton, played some very nice dance
muiie. The attendance was very fair and fashion-
able and a very enjoyable evening was spent ; the
time of breaking being three o'clock. It was to
be regretted that volunteers of the company did
not patronise it as they should have done, only a
few being present. Everything passed off very
smoothly and everyoee seemed pleased with tEe
way in which the evening's .enj )yment was got up.
nothing being wanted on the part of the commit! ee
to make everything comfortable. The floor w; sin
excel nt order for dancing, but there might have
been a few more round dtnees than there were.
The refreshment rooms were well supplied and a
good glass of beer was to be had in Mr. Warren's
canteen.

documents connected with the Homer Hill Colliery,
according to an order made in the action. Mr.
Boner, Q.C., and Mr. Foster Cooke appeared for
the plaintiffs; and Mr. CrosAey, Q.C., and Mr. W
P. Beale for the GI( fendauts. The defendants have
already obtained an order for the inspection of the
colliery, and also for an inspection of all books and
documents; but they have been prevented from
making use of eithrr of the orders, The facts are
briefly these :—ln 1878 the Birmingham Syndicate
Company pu,chased from the plaintiff, for ..149,000,
the Homer Hill Colliery. The terms of the pur-
chase were to pay down £50,000 in cash, which was
done, and the rest by instalments, for security of
which a mortgage was given. One of the instal-
meets became in arrear, and the plaintiff entered
into possession of the colliery as mortgagees, and
they had remained there ex-er since. They had now
commenced an action for foreclosure on their mort-
glge, which meant a loss of £50,000 to the de-
fendants, who put in a defence to the claim, and
brought forward a number of breaches which they
alleged the plaintiffs had committed in working the
colliery.—After hearing the arguments of counsel,
his Lordship ordered ti a'; the defends ts be per.
mAted to :ns; ec`, all the Iwolking plans, section,
and drawings of the colli• r,r. The rest of the sutn-
mons related 10 the documents which had to be
produced. The defendon's said they wanted the
customers' names. The plaintiffs had made a mis-
take in not applying to seal up the portions of the
books containing the customers' names. In the
absence of such an ozder he should direct that the
plaintiffs must produce these portions of the books
for the defendants' inspection. Then there must be
a postponement of the trial by reason of the delay
which had occured. He would make an order post-
poning the action for three weeks, but he would
, not make any order as to costs.

RONVLEY REGIS.

LOCAL BOARD.—Mr. Walter Bassano, J.P.,
sided on Monday at the monthly meeting of this
Board.—The Medical Officer (Mr. Beasley) fo: No.
1 district reported that during the mouth there hail
been 58 deaths, the death-rate being 26 92
per 1,000. Twelve deaths had been caused by
zymotic diseases—viz., scarlet fever, six, typhoid
Lever five, and whcoping cough one. Eighteen
cases of scarlet fever and five of typhoid fever h .d
been reported to him. Six cases of measles and two
of whooping cough had been reported to him, but ,
he was glad to say that no case of small-pox had
occurred since the last meeting of the Board.—The
Assistant Medical Officer (Dr. de Donne) reported
thirty-eight deaths had taken place ia the Old
Hill and Cradley Heath districts, the cleath rate
being 32.9 per 1,000. He regretted that the death- ,
rate was so high, and said it was to be attributed
to increased mortality amongst children under one
year of age. The total number of scarlet fever
cases reported was twenty, six of which had ter-
minated fatally. There had also been two cases of
typhoid fever and two of whooping cough.—The
Chairman, in moving the adoption of the report,
said he was glad to know that there was a decrease
in the number of scarlet fever cases in the district.
He, however, regretted that the infantile mortality
was so great, and said in his opinion it was to be
a.tributed to the fact of young girls getting
married and not being able, from various causes. to
attend to their sickly children—(hear, hear). The
Board was not in any way responsible for the in-
creased mortality.—Mr. Lowe seconeed the motion,
and the reports were adopted.—The Surveyor re-
ported that the highway tad been damaged near
to the Bullfield railway bridge at Windmill End by
Messrs. Dunn's mining operations, and it was de-
cided to call upon the Messrs. Dunn to repair the
road as soon as possible.