The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-02-09 00:00:00

JUDDERMINSTER.

Tower Couercze.—The quarterly meeting was held on
Wedneaday ; the Mayor (Mr. J. J. Harvey) in the chair.
—The Finance Committee recommended a call of
£1,350 on the borough fund. Of this £5OO was for
steam fire-engine, and £3OO on account of decorating
and cleaning the music hall. The report was adopted.
—Mr. W. A Crowther moved that a memorial be pre-
sented to the Lord Chancellor for the appointment of
additional magistrates. If all the magistrates were men
of leisure aed robust health this might not appear
neceesary, but two of them had been laid aside for a
considerable time, and many of them had many calls
upon their time independent of magisterial business.
Mr. Crowther then referred to the qualifications of the
gentlemen he had in view, who were the Mayor, the ex-
Mayor (Mr. T. Radford), and Messrs. W. Boycott, W. ,
Cowen, and S. Tovey.—Mr. Herring seconded the reso-
I W. H. Green. without disparagement to
the gentlemen named, said he should have liked to have
seen a step taken as to the appointment of a stipeudiary.
—.Mr. Jeff. ries; Are they all stipendiaries in Amer cc?
—Mr. W. H. Green : You may learn a great deal from
America; but I should not like you to learn anything in
the magisterial way. (Laughter,)—Alderman Hollow ey
thought it would have been more discreet in Mr.
Crowther to hive given notice of such a resolution.
To appoint five maeistrates at once, and all from the
same party, was " going the whole hog and no mis-
take." if Mr. Crowther proposed every one of his party
as a magistrate it could be carried, as they (the Con-
servatives had a majority, but he thought it looked bad.
He moved as an amendment, " That the question be
deferred till ihe next meeting."—Mr. W. H. Green : If I
thought it would carry I would second it. (Laughter.)
—The resolution was carried, Alderman Holloway
voting against.—Alderman Coxon asked if the hire of
the Cern Exchange on Friday last (i.e., for the anti-war
vote meeting) had been paid ?—Mr. Gethin (curator of
hall) : No.—Alderman Holloway rose to speak, but was
stopped, and Mr. Herring said he believed Alderman
Holloway was the gentleman who hired the room, and
he moved that he be again asked to pay, and if he did
Lot he be pat in the court—Alderman Coxon seconded
the resolution.—Alderman Holloway said he was not the
person who went to engage the room, but if there was
respoesibility he did not shirk it. The gentlemen who
had moved and seconded the resolution were only sorry
they had not an opportunity of letting in the parties
engaged to upset what was intended to be a peaceable
meeting, and he believed if the meeting had been held
there would have been a disturbauce, and that the pre-
rnty of the Corporation would have been injured. It
would have given some of the gentlemen of the otter
arty en opportunity of showing their warlike pro-
p -nsities, but he hoped when they were placed on the
Bench of magistrst el they :would not allow the same
kind Of feeling. With regard 6) the motion, it was
piltry, mean, and despicable for an alderman ai4ll
councillor to aim such a motion at
.a brother &Merman,
and it there was a claim naiad hue, then was a pro!

per way of making it.—Ur. W. Green regretted the
motion as springing from party feeling, and told the
Conservatives that perhaps their majority in the Council
would not last very long. —Mr. Cooke resented • remark
of Mr. Green's, who spoke of him "a, a man like me."
His character was as good as Mr. Green's. The latter
had had the tables turned on him some time ago in a
way that should be a lesson to him for the future.
The discussion went on in a very animated stream for
son.• time, and ended at last by the motion being with-
drawn, and another ont)lbeing carried referring the &sh-
eet tat he I mprovement Committee.