The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-11-02 00:00:00

HAG LE Y.

ARRIVAL OF LORD AND LADY larrELTon.---Hagley
village was en fee on Tuesday afternoon lust to greet
Lord and Lady Lyttelton on their arrival at Bagley Hall
aftir a brief honsymoon at Clevedon, the seat of the
Duke of Westminster. The preparations were on a
most extensive scale. The railway station was decorated
with flowers and an illuminated motto oftering "Wel-
come," and long before the arrival of the train a crowd
assembled. There were ringing cheers as the bride aud
bridegroom stepped upon the platform, and louder ones
as they mounted the carriage placed in waiting and drove
away. The Stourbridge troop of Yeomanry, under the
command of Adjutant Lee, Captain Noel, and Lieu-
tenant Gibbons, accompanied the carriage to the village,
where the horses were unyoked and the shafts seivd
by willing hands. The children of the schools carrying
bannerets were also marshalled in the procession, and
the carriage was drawn to the hall to the strains of a
brass baud. At different points there were arches elabo-
rately decorated with flowers and evergreens, and bear-
ing inEcriptions, such as " Welcome to Haglay," 'May
God Bless ion," "Bagley Welcomes Lord and Lady
Lyttelton," and "Wanted at Hagley," this last being a
quotation from his lordship's speech at the wedding
breakfast, referring to Lady Lyttelton. Some of the
more elaborate decorations, notably one near Mr,
Cooper's residence and one at the Lyttelton Arms, were
most ornate and effective. The reception he met with
at the hall itself appeared to deeply affect his lordship.
After he had ascended the steps in front of the building,
amidst loud acclamation, Lord Lyttelton said : I cannot
allow this mcmeat to pass without saying just one word
of thanks to you for this most kind reception. (Cheers.)
I assure you I thank you most kindly for it; and Lady
Lyttelton joins, I know, inithanking you for this most
kind and touching reception: (Renewed cheers.) I
try in vain to think what I might have done in past
times to merit anything of the sort ; I can only say that
the recollection of it will, at all events, stimulate me
in time to come to do more within my limited means,
more and more to promote the happiness of all of you
and the welfare of this neighbourhood. (Cheers.) I
An not vain enough to think that ,it is meant for me
alone, or is meant, indeed, mainly for me. I know well
enough, and you probably agree with me, that at the
hall here there ought to be a lady, as there had been
in times past—(cheers) —ready to join and take the lead
in any act of neighbourliness and kindliness towards
this village and neighbourhood. (Hear, hear.) If you
are expecting as much as this from Lady Lyttelton, who
now stands by the side of me, I do not thiak you will be
disappointed, (Loud cheering.) In taking her away
from her own home, when I apologised for so doing, I
said that I knew I was taking away one who was most
useful and most beloved, but II pleaded in justification
that I was taking he: to a new neighbourhood where
she was equally as much wanted, and where she would
be at least equally beloved. (Cheers.) Again, I have
to say that 1 oth of us thank you most heartily, from
the bottom 01 oar hearts, for the kindness of this re-
ception. (Pido iged cheers) After rounds ot cheers
the crow k gu iy dispersed.

BROMSGROVE.

A „,13_11 WORCESTER SAUCE" SWINDLE —At the Broms-
grove o.iy Sessions, on Tuesday, before Mr. Smallwood
and Captain Trafford (magistrates), Francis Richards, a
respectably dressed man, was dharged with obtaining 9s
9d by false pretences from Frederick Holiday, of
Bromsgrove, fishmonger, on the 26th ult. Prosecutor
stated one day last week a man called at his house and
represented that he was a dealer in Mellor's Worcester-
shire sauce, a sample of which he produced for prosecu-
tor to taste; Prosecutor ordered three dozen bottles of
the same, and the man said his traveller would be round
with tffe van in a few days, and would complete the
order. On Saturday the prtsoner delivered the same
and prosecutor paid him 9s 9d for it. After he was
gone prosecutor opened a bottle and found the contents
a "lot of rubbish." The prisoner wben he delivered
the goods said he had occasion to take some of the same
sort of sauce to a grocer named Jefferies. Prosecutor
consulted with .the police, and the prisoner was appre-
hended at the LDragon Inn, near the railway station
when he at once offered to return Holiday his money
n answer to the Bench the prosecutor said he had no