The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-01-17 00:00:00

KIDDER AIN3TER.

rIIE ERECrioN OF CHURCH SCHOOL BUILDINGS.—
A soiree in connection with the parishieners of St.
John's Church was held in the Town Hall ou Mon.
day night. The object was to ruse money for the
Lu hliug for St. Johe's Schools. About 850 partook
ot tea, the trays for which were suuptied gratuitously
by members of the congregation. Prior to the
commencement of the entertainment which was
afterwards given, the Rev. J. F. Kershaw, vicar of
St. John's, addressed those pressnt, and said if they
might judge of the interest taken in the work of
providing additional school accommodation for the
parish by the numbers.present at the meeting there
was no doubt the. feeling of the parishoners was
grewing in enthustaem, Last year the manager of
the schools made an appeal, not indeed hopelessly,
but still knowing thet the matt,r they had in hand
was so very vast that the united efforts of all who
toOk an interest in the schoels would have to be
brought to bear in order that their plans should be
carried to a satisfactory issue. Since then the funds
subscribed and promised reached £l,6so—sufficient
to defray the expenses of the new Girls' School, and
also to give them sufficient grounds to feel certain
almost that they should be able to carry out their
full scheme for reputing and adding to the old
huildings He considered the very large sum that
hed been raised so quickly was a proof that there
a very widelfelt recognition of the necessity for
that for which tilt y had been stiiving, viz : that
the children should not only receive secular educa-
tion, but should also be instructed in the Christian
faith and in the truths of the Church of Christ. He
vested they might soon meet in the new Girl's
School. uh ch they saw so rapidily rising in Bro
Street and tint that school would prove to be a
centre of b easing to the pa:ish. An excellent
entertainment was afterwards given.
THE DISTRICT HIGHWAY BOARD —Mr. C. P. NO
presi 101 at the meeting held at Kidderminster on
Thursliy. Mr. Giles s ,i.l the fa mess were cora-
plaiuhie of the amount of wages paid by the die-
t, ict str, veyor, Mr. Garrat.t. to the men who worked
on th- roads. They were getting more money than
the fa.ni 'abour rs. and the latter were dissatisfied
in conseq ence.— Mr. Ga.rat replied that if the
rraitcr wtu leoked at properly, it would be found
that farm labouriTs were best off, because they re-
reived hi .411-r pay in the simmer.—Mr. Giles : You
viy the r,,a(1:11,.:n at he 51100 tote the year
reund Mr. Gerken t : Beulter rernmeted
t tl-er Lien jib ,11..ers g,.t a good deal more irt.ney
41, tin e th hary a'. —Mr. Garnatt H you direct
roe to give s,r al e. sums I aill give them —Mr.
Giles : That is a matter ia your hands entirely.
We must not dictate to you what yea give to the
me i —Mr. Boniter sai I the madmen oaght to get
tor mere tha • farm labourers beeline they get
no extra-.—Mr. 0 matt : 1;e1 in bad weather there
is a goed teal or time o t roilter : What do
you give the to n now ? AU. Ut r..t : Their wages
vary from 10s to 16s pct. k.— M. Bache : You
don't give 2s Gd a day ? Mr, Uarrat : Only to oto
man, who is a foreman.—The subj et die dtopped,
STEALING FOOTBA.LLS, &C.—At the Kiddermins e
Police Coart on thursday, Albert !Jolson (14) ant
James Allez (15) were convicted of stealing two
footballs, the property of tile Kidderminster Ex-
celsior Cricket and Fe tball Club, and a jersy, the
property of Mr, A. D. Chambers, a member of the
above club. Th, articles were taken from a pavilion
in a field near the IN orcester road. Dodson, who
has been previously convicted, was committed fi.v
three weeks' imprisenment, to be followed by three
yeara in u reformatory. Allez was fine,' 103, in ci -
tacit ss yen days' hard labour.--llenry Hartwell (17)
and Henry Edwards (15), who were charged nit
stealing a cricket ball and tape measure froa. the
same place, were dismissed with a caution, as the, e
was a doubt in the ease.