The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-02 00:00:00

BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The weekly meeting of this board was held
yesterday. Mr. Granger in the chair. There
were present :—Messrs. H. Billingham, Rhodes,
Guest, Hall, Kelly, Plant, Fiddian, Wood,
Brooks, and Cole. Admitted into the house
during the week 19 ; discharged 5; died 0;
born 0 ; remaining 363; corresponding week
last year 301. Out-door relief Kingswinford
district £22 6s Od; Stourbridge district £l3
19s 8111 ; Halesowen district £l4 13s. 8d; non-
resident paupers 9s 4d; total £5l Bs. 8-d; cor-
responding week last year, £54 3s lid.
A Worcestershire County Rate was paid
amounting to £469 2s 9d., being a decrease of
£46.

Harris and Metheringham Cnfectioners, 72 & 47
High Street, have been appointed agents in Stour-
br idge, by the Midland Tea Company, London, for
their splended tea 3s. per pound, in Air-tight Tins
only.
THE NEW SHIP " NAIRNSHIRE " took her final
departure from the Tail of the Bank, Greenock,
yesterday, bound for Brisbane, Queensland, having
on board the following number of emigrants, viz.,
62 married people, 72 single men, 51 single women,
53 children between the ages of 12 and 1, and 6
infants, making a total of 24J souls, equal to 2111
adults, the single women are under the care of
Miss Steele, Dr. Gregory, acting as Surgeon-
Superintendant.
STEALING FOWLS.—At the Poli,!e Court, on
Wednesday, before Mr. R. L. Freer, William
Henry Lichfield was charged with stealing four
fowls, belonging to Mr. John Doughty, of Hill
Street. Mr. Doughty's hen-roost was broken open
a few nights ago, and from information obtained
by Police-sergeant Jones he apprehended the
prisoner, and found that prisoner had sold the
fowls to a person in Oldswinford.—Prisoner, who
has been previously convicted for stealing fowls,
was committed for trial on the charge.
TRANSFERS.-- At the Police Court, yesterday,
before Colonel Fletcher (chairman), Lord Lyttel-
ton, J. Holcroft and J. B. Cochrane, Esqs., the
following transfers took place: A wine license
from William Henry Penney to John Fox; the
Nags Head Inn, New Street, from Robert Ostins
to James Henry Taylor; the Railway Inn, Church
Street, from John Evans to John Bristow; the
Swan with two Necks, Lye, from Margaret Heath-
cock to Caroline Heathcock.

CHARGE OF STEALING A WHIP. James Cog-
zell was charged with stealing a whip on the 25th
ult., the property of Francis Pearson.---Prosecutor
said about ten o'clock he missed his whip and
asked prisoner about it but he declared that he had
not seen it, Witness then put the case in the
hands of the police and prisoner aftei wards brought
the whip to him and said he was very sorry...-
Mary Ann Downes and a witness named Ketley
proved seeing prisoner take the whip from pro-
secutor's stall. Elizabeth Pearson said prisoner
denied having the whip, and she thought he had
done it for a "lark." She had known him from a
child but had never known anything against him.
---The Chairman said prisoner had given himself a
great deal of trouble and had rendered himself
liable. They thought, however, that it was a
practical joke and discharged him with a caution.
ASSAULT CABE.—WilliaM Ray was charged with
assaulting Hugh Bailey, on the 18th ult.—Mi.
Perry defended.—Complainant said he was at the
Swan Inn, when a conversation ensued respecting
a horse and defendant struck him and blackened
his eye because he asked defendant not to strike
a man named Fletcher.—Defendant admitted the
assault but said complainant aggravated him.—
Fined 20s and costs; in default one month.

CHARGE OF WILFUL DAMAGE.—Benjamin Hollo-
way was charged with wilfully damaging a shawl
by cutting it with a knife, on the 22nd nit, the
property of Hannah Lee.—Mr. Perry defended.—
Complainant said she lived at Oldswinford.
About a quarter-past four o'clock in the afternoon
she saw the defendant go where the shawl was
hanging on the line, pull out a knife and
deliberately cut her shawl. She asked him why
he had done it and defendant did not speak. She
did not have a quarrel with defendant. On cross-
examination witness said she had been fined for
committing a nuisance and damaging a shutter.—
The husband of last witness said he saw the de-
fendant cut the shawl with a knife and walked into
his workshop.—Mr. Perry, for the defence, said
that if his instructions were true he had not the
least hesitation in saying it was a conspiracy
against the defendant, and a complete fabrication,
Complainant had been summoned for damaging a
shutter. On returning home she then made a
threat that she would be level with the old
before long.—Defendant's two sons were called
and swore that their father did not go out of the
shop during the afternoon and that he did not cut
the shawl, and that they both went to tea together
with their father about five o'clook.—The Bench
dismissed the case.