The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-05-04 00:00:00

KIDDERMINSTER.

Towx ConNctL.—The quarterly meeting of the
Council was held on Wednesday ; the Mayor (Mr. J. J.
Harvey) in the chair.—Alderman Coxon read the report
of the Baths Committee, which recommended a call of
£3O on tw..e borough fund. The receipts in the last
quarter had been £33'l9s from Turkish baths and £5O
9s 10t1 from the ordinary baths.—The report was
adopted.—The Mayor read the Finance Committee's
report. The s'atement of lialtilities and assets showed a
' deficiency of £255 6, 3,1, and this was raised by items
required for bathe, School Bost. 1 (£225), free library.
cleaning and renovating mu-ic hail (£300), and Town
Hall clock (£100) to a total of £1,025 6s 33. The com-
mittee recommended precepts tr.., be issued for £1,080.
Mr. Tovey read th.-9 rep.,rt of :the Free Library Conj.
mittee recommending the altr,rations before detailed to
be carried out at nce. The average number of visitors
was attrit 100 per day, and the readers of newspapers
and periodicals were about one-third of the total num-
ber —The report was adopted.—The Mayor read a re-
port from the committee appointed in January to draw
up standing ord(rs for the conduct of council and cwii-
mittee meetings. They recommended the adoption of
regulations framed on the model of those in force in
Birmingham and other boroughs. The Mayor moved
the reception of the report, which was carried, and gave
notice he would move its adoption at the next meeting,
so that the members of the Council might in the mean-
time havean opportunity of fully considering the pro-
posed standing orders—The next business was to elect
four representative Governors of the Grammar Scholl ;
and Mr. Boycott proposed the election of Messrs. C.
Crowther, G. Grosvenor, E. Shaw, and U. Toinkinson.
—Alderman Coxon seconded the motion.—Mr. Talbot
moved, and Mr. Greavea seconded, an amendment that
Mr. Stratton be elected one of the Governors.—After
some discussion the amendment was put and lost, and
the original motion was carried.—Mr. Herring called
attention to the delay in the adoption of the bye-laws,
and moved that the- Town Clerk and the Surveyor be
instructed to draft them and submit to the Council with-
out further delay.—Mr. Jefferies moved that a project-
ing clock be fixed to the tower of the new Town Hall,
instead of a flat-faced one, as agreed upon at the last
Council meeting. Mr. Jefferies said the determination
to pu in a flat faced clock had given groat dissatisfac-
tit -Herring said it would spoil the appearance
of the building to put in a projecting clock.—An amend-
ment was proposed and carried, Mr. Jefferies's resolu-
tion being lost —ln reply to Alderman Dixon, the
Mayor stated that there was a vacancy in the Council
hut t,,,ere had been no step taken to fill it np, beaanse,
no rcqu, at had been made to him to that effect. Any
Leo imrces,es cold call upon. him to fill up the
vac.ncv —The Town Clerk stated that the proceedings
in regard to the alleged illegal elections last year were
still going on.

BROMSGROVE.

SALE or' PROPERTT.—Mr. Colton conducted a sale by
auction on Tuesday night of freehold properties at
Wildrnoor, Madeley Heath, and Catshill. Lot 1, two
cottages at Wildmoor, with buildings and two and a
quarter acres of land. was sold to Mr. Stephen Wilkes
for £470. Mr. Wilkes also purchased a field of turf
land at Madeley Heath, called " Belsey Field," con-
taining 2a. 2r. 21p., for £230. A plot of land called
" Bonfire Hill," comprising about half an acre,
realised £55 ; Mr. James Skidmore was the purchaser.
Two cottages at Catshill were sold to Mr. John
Crockett, after a most spirited competition, for £268;
the biddings advanced £2 at a time for from £220. Mr.
Rowley, of Temple Row, Birmingham, was solicitor to
the vendormo