The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-03-15 00:00:00

SATUTDA Y, MARCH 8, 1879

KIDDERMINSTER BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The foitnightly meeLing was held on Tuesday.
The amount expended in relief in the borough
during ih• past fortnight was £6O is sd, mid in the
foreign .C6l 2s 61d. Number of paupers in the
house, 279; 267 in the corresponding week of last
year.

A lei ter was read from the clerk of the Kidder-
minster School Board, calling the attention of the
Guardians to the case of two poor children of a
woman named Dyer, attending the Board school in
Coventry Street. The writer stated that they were
in such a filthy condition that the other children
would have nothing to do with them, and they
stood by themselves all day in a corner of the room,
wondering, apparently, why they came into the
world. He (the Clerk) was informed that the
mother neglected the children, and the members of
the School Board would be glad if anything could
be done to induce her to go into the house, with
the chilchen.

Mrs. Dyer appeared before the Board, and, in
answer to the chairman, said she "did not know
how it was." She always washed them.
The Chairman: Look at your own hands; they
are as black as ink. So much was said to you at
the last meeting that I feel it would be useless to
say anything more. The state of the children is a
disgrace to you as a mother. There is only one
order we can make in this case, and it is that you
and the children should go into the Workhouse.
Mrs. Dyer: You can have the children, but you
will never have me. •

The Chairman: Thou we will stop your pay.
Mrs. Dyer: You can if you please; but you uill
not get me into the house. You can have t-.e
children this week if you like.
She then left the room.

DUDLEY CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION. A
meeting of the St. James's Ward Associ Ltion was
held on *Tuesday evening at Mr. Henry Fullwood's
Eve 11, Dudley, Mr. Isaac Astley in the chair ;
Mr. F. Hancock vice .chairmau.—A subscriptioi.-
list of pence from working men for the tribute to
the Premier was opened for this ward, and it was
announced that a leaf in the golden wreath to be
presented to Lord Beaconsfield would be made up by
the working men of Dudley.—After the business of
the meeting, Mr. Hancock gave a long and able
address upon general topics. He congratulated the
meeting upon having nearly completed a year's
work in the ward, and upon the number of members
enrolled throughout the borough. He said the
Dudley Association would never have been formed
but for the necessity that had arisen for maintain-
ing individual and national rights. The Radical
element of this country had been manifesting senti-
ments of such a nature that the wisest men had
come to the conclusion that their policy could not
fail to be detrimental to the continuance of those
interests that had enabled England and her vast
Colonies to hold that position which the intelligence
of Englishmen desired. The speaker deprecated
the introduction of political among municipal ideas,
and the unfair spirit which was manifested in the
attempt of the local Libetals to monopolise the
government of the butough. Mr. Hancock then
elaborately detailed the present results to the
country of the free-trade policy, and spoke of
wars in Afghanistan and Zululand. As to the latter
he said the King had raised up a great military
organisation, which it was impossible could be re-
quired for the protection only of his own dominiors,
and if it were permitted to further develop the
whole of our colony in Natal would be swept away.
We should be brought out of these troubles as we
had been out of greater ones by the present British
Government.