The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-03-12 00:00:00

ocat istrcit :tletus.

THE STOURBRIDGE CRICKET CLUB.

The annual meeting of the above club was
held on Friday, the 41h inst. Mr. L. Firmstene
Wll4 OtPll to the chair.

Mr. .1. W. P,trkra. the Hot. Secretary, read
the followiog report :---

STotiBI;t:IDGE CUCKP:r CLUB REPORT. 1870.

The Cournittee app jate.l in March inst.. he/ to head
you it OW C11.111.4i,111 of their year of t4eir Ite,sort
sal S:AL, merit if Ace mots. The 'mother of to •nthera
at the present time is: Honorary, ; Ordinary, 73. In
the course of la•t s. anon oluseu matdies ivcre played. of
which six were lost, three won, and two drawn. On re-
ference to the annual statement it will be ii,eu that !our
Committee have to band over to their successors a bal-
ance of 12s 74, in addition to £l2 Is 61, amount of sot,-
scriptions outstanding. It will also be seen that the
payments have been somewhat large. The number of
matches played in a great measure accounts for this.
ANNUAL STATEMENT 1869-1870 —Dr.: To subscrip-
tions received. £54 194 9d. Cr.: By payments, £54 Is
2d ; balance, 12a ; Total, £54 19s 9J. Arreara of
subscriptions, £l2 Is 64; to balance in hand, 12s 74 ;
total, £l2 Ila Id.

The Chairman moved the adoption of the
Report, which was carried, nem:_con:

LLECTION OF OFFICERS. President: The
Earl of Stamford and Warrington; Vice-presi-
dent, W. G. Webb, Esq. ; Committee: Messrs.
Cr. Harward, W. H. Moore, W. Pearson, J.
Fisher, J. W. Parkes, J. J. King, and L. Firm-
stone.. Treasurer: F. Firmstone, Esq., Secre-
tary; C. W. Oates, Esq.
A vote of thanks to the retiring officers was
proposed and carried unanimously.
A resolution was passed to accept the Dudley
and Tividale challenges.
. . . - .

Mr. Roby was appointed to keep the ground
in order.

It WAS also proposed and carried unanimously
that the annual dinner be held at the Bell Hotel,
on the 22nd inst.

Several new members were elected. A vote of
thanks to the Chairman, closed the proceedings.

GOVERNMENT EDUCATION BILL.
A meeting of friends of Compulsory and Un-
sectarian Education to support the League's
amendments, on the Government measure, was
held in the Corn Exchange, on luesdny last;
Mr. J. Swindell in the chair.

lie was; supported on the platform by the
Revs. J. Richards, D. Jones, D. Cochrane, D.
Maginnis, Messrs. R. F. Martineau, F. Evers,
G Thorne, J. Allmp, Sn., H, Hingham, H.
Hughes and W. Packwood. Amongst the large
assembly in the body cf the room were Messrs.
Mc'Ewen, 'Turney, T. Wall, H. Newnam, W.
Platt, P. Brooks, Kedwards, T. Smith, J. An.
derson, C. Evers, J. Short, dec.
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The chairman, on rising, was received with
great cheering. He said the meeting was cal-
led by circulars distributed throughout the
neighbourhood, and he hoped all that were pre-
sent would support the resolutions passed that
evening in support of the League's amendments
On the Government measure, lie bad there-
fore every reason to expect that when the reso-
lutions were put to the meeting he should have
everyone in favour of the resolutions—(Hear,
hear). There were many bills brought into
Paoli:intent, session by session ; but he believed
no bill of such importance had been brought for
the consideration of the tiovernment as the
Education bill—icheers). This bill was not
like other bills, it would penetrate into the
houses of the lowest of the low. He felt sure
Mr. Forster's bill would not receive the sup-
port of the nonconformists and liberals in the
room that evening—(Cheers). He eontended