The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-08-12 00:00:00

KIDDERMINSTER.

THE LICENSING ACT.—At the Guildhall, on Friday,
Edwin Heath, landlord of the Raven, Bromsgrove
Street, was charged with baying his house open at
illegal hours on the 27th ult.—Police-constable Ranks
proved the case, and defendant having been previously
convicted, was fined £3 and costs.—Richard Pickernell
and Richard Etheridge, cabdrivers, who had b::eu at the
house, were fined Is each and costs.

VEsTEY MEETING.—On Monday morning a vestry
meeting of the parishioners was held at the ehaatry,
at the requisition of the Burial Board, for sanction to
borrow £2BO, en addition to the sum already voted for
the ayiug out of tl e public cemetery.—llev. H. J. For-
tescue occupied the chair, and Mr. Harvey, a member of
the Burial Board, moved a resolution sanctioning the
borrowing of the money required, which was seconded.
—Mr. Tovey thought, seeing the small attendance pre-
sent, that it would be better to adjourn the meeting for
a week. He felt sure that the ratepayers could not be
aware of the holding of the meeting.—Some discuusion
ensued upon the propriety of adjourning the meeting,
and eventually Mr. Harvey withdrew his motion, and
the meeting was adjourned for one month. It was
thought that in the meantime the Burial Board would
devise some means which would dispense with the
necessity of the contemplated loan.
bixenAtiies' INSTITUTE ATHLETIC SPORTS.-011 Mon-
day under the auspices of the Mechanics' Institue,
some very successful athletic sports took place at the
Copse and Aggborough. The sports were held under
distinguished patronage, and the day being gloriously
tine a large and fashionable gathering assembled. A
capital programme was prepared by the committee, and
each event was satisfactorily gone through. One of the
most exciting events was the "tug of war" between the
members of the Mechanics' Institute and the same
number of the Tenbury Social Club, and the priza—a
large portrait of the late Lord Lyttelton, value £5 ss,
presented by Mr, Thomas Lea—was won by the Ten.
bury men, who certainly had physique on their side.
The African Blondin and Professor Fawke were pre-
sent, and entertained the audience with their wonderful
feats, and in the evening it was arranged for a fine
display of fireworks by Professor Wilder, of Bir-
mingham. The judges were Mr. P. Birch and Professor
Fawke, starter Mr. J. Elgood, and handicapper Mr. E.
Bennett.

CONCEALMENT OF. BIRTH.—On Thursday morning, a
newly-born male child was found lying in a hedge at
Cornsall, near Cookley, by some men working at the
forge, who were on their way to the works. They gave
information to Police-constable Mune. who visited the
spot. 11,earing that some gipsies had been staying near
there on the previous day he went in search of them.
He saw a man named Bryan Fury, one of the gipsies,
and asked him if he had any daughters. Receiving an
answer in the_atlirmative, he ascertained that one of the
girls, about seventeen years of age, had gone to Kin ver,
and he went after her. He met the girl on the road,
and interrogated her. From appearances his suspicious
were aroused, and he charged her with the qtlence which
she at once admitted, and he took her into custody.
The child was removed to the Kidderminster Workhouse
and is still alive. The girl will be brought before the
county magistrates.