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

DUDLEY.

HOSPITAL SIINDAY.—The collections on Sunday last,
as ascertained up to Monday night, were as follows :
rhe Parish Church, £37 104 Od ; Uuitarian Chapel, al
lOs Od ; Wesleyan Chapel (King Street), £lO Os 01 ; St.
James's £6 Os 01; St. John,s, 1:5 13s Od; Wesleyan
(Dixon's Green), £4 10s. The Roman Catholic Church
(St. Luke's) and the Independent Chapel (King Street)
were postponed.
PROHIBITED Houns.—On Wednesday, at the Police
Court, before the Mayor (Mr. William North) and
Messrs. Bateman and Bagott, Uriah Taylor, pubiican,
Tinchbourne Street, was charged with having his house
open during prohibited hours. Mr. Stokes defended.—
Police-constable Cope said he and Maguire' another
constable, watched the house on Sunday, at 7.15 a.m.
They saw the defendant open the front door, and imme-
diately afterwards an unknown man entered the house,
and stayed two minutes. A. little later two men went in
ond the officers followed. Mrs. Taylor hid a bottle
under her apron, bat saw witness 3d on the table. One
of the men said he was Taylor's brother-in-law, and that
was true. The ',landlady denied that the men had had
anything, and at the time the defendant came up from
the cellar. He asked whether the men had been served,
and, upon being told they had not, he said the officers
might do their worst. Mr. Stokei called the men as
witnesses,iandithey:denied that drink had been sup. •.d.
They:were relatives,:and called to take Taylor a w:" •
The Bench dismissed the case.

KIDDERMINSTER.

A TRIPLE CEIARGE.—At the Police Court, on Monday,
before Messrs. W. Grzen, W. Boycott, and S. Tovey,
Richard Harris, a young man of 18, was brought up on
three charges of robbery. Mr. J. J. Corbet prosecuted.
The first case was one of stealing a silver watch and
metal chain, the property of William Rogers, black-
smith, Bridge Street. The prisoner was at prosecutor's
house on the 17th nit, and the watch was subsequently
missed. Joseph Charlton said that the prisoner brought
him the watch on the 17th nit, and asked him to take
care cf it for him. Prisoner said he had won the watch
at a raffle. Prisoner said he did not tell the witness
this, but told him he had stolen it. Witness denied
this assertion of the prisoner. Enquiries made by the
police led to the apprehension of the prisoner by Police-
constable Mason. The secend charge was one of steal-
ing a ham. belonging Mr. Scott, of the Roebuck Inn,
The ham in question was stolen from the Roebuck on a
day on which prisoner was in the house. Charlton, the
witness in the other case, said the prisoner came to his
house, and said he had won a ham. He asked him if he
could raffle it again for him, and he consented. Pri-
soner brought the ham the same night, and he said he
had changed his mind about raffling the ham, but wit-
ness could eat it, and give him something for it after-
wards. He had eaten the ham, and gave the prisoner
nothing for it. Prisoner said the witness went with him
to fetch the ham from a garden where he had concealed
it, Charlton, he said, had an umbrella, and he held it
down to screen the ham when anyone passed. The wit-
ness denied the statement. There was a 'third charge
against the prisoner of stealing an umbrella, but the
Bench thought it unnecessary to go into this charge.
The Bench asked Mr. Corbet if he was going to take
any action against the witness Charlton. Mr, Corbet
said it would be for the police ro consider this. Pri-
soner pleaded guilty to the two charges gene into, and
was sentenced to four months' hard latour. The
Bench said they thought Charlton's conduct anything
but creditable, and they declined to alloN him any
expenses. .

COLLECTIONS FOR THE INFIRMARY.—The annual col-
lections on behalf of the Infirmary were made on Sunday
last. The following is an appropriate list of the collec-
tions so far as they could ee obtained on Monday, but in
some instances these amounts are likely to be increased
by additional donations :—St. Mary's, £22 2s 10d; St.
Oeorge's £2B 12s 7d; St. John's, £26; St. James's, £1
10s 104; Old Meeting, £l6 17s Old ' • Baptist Church,
£9; Catholic Church, £5; Wesleyan Chapel, £6 is 4d;
Countess of Huntingdon, £4.
BURIAL BOARD.—i meeting of this Board was held
on Tuesday last, the Rev. G. D. Boyle in the chair.
Mr. Morton, pursuant to notice, brought forward a
motion for rescinding part of one of the rules, which
impose a fine upon clergymen and ministers who may
be late at funerals. He thought the rule was nothing
less than an insult, and that they could be trusted to
attend pun2tually, apart from any rule' Mr. Greaves
thought the whole of the clauee should be struck out,
so that neither funeral parties nor ministers officiating
should be subject to fine. Mr. Morton's motion was
not seconded; and Mr. James, finding notice was
necessary, gave notice that be would at the next meet-
ing move the rescinding of the whole clause. The
Clerk stated that the fees received since the opening
of the cemetery were £124 14s 84, and the expenses had
been £73 18s 84, leaving a balance of £5l 6s. It was
ordered that the share oi the fees due to the vicars of
the town should be paid, and some other payments were
also ordered.

r^,ENVAGE PCIMPING.—The new engines for pumping the
sewage of Kidd,rminster were formally inaugurated on
Wednesday afternooe last, in the presence ef the mem-
bers of the Corporation and other gentlemen. Hitherto
the sewage has been received in tanks, and pumped
thence about thaee miles to the sewage farm of the
Corporation near Stourport. For reasons which need
not be gone into here, the Town Council some time ago
nsolvel, on the recommendation of the borough sur-
veyor, Mr. Comber, to provide neff pumping machinery,
by which the sewage, instead of being collected in
tanks, should be pumped direct to the sewage farm, thus
secring for the land the whole of the fertilising consti-
tuents of the sewage, and obviating inconveniences con-
nected with the old system. Further than this, the new
system also makes special provision for dealing with the
storm water, which from time to time has caused great
damage in the low lying parts of the town. Toe old
engines will pump 4,000,000 gallons of sewage in twenty-
four hours, and the new ones 12,440,000 gallons in the
same time. The pair of engines for the main work of
pumping can send 3,800,000 gallons of sewage to the
Corporation farm daily, and there is a centrifugal pump-
ing engine to deal with the storm water, which will lift
8,640,000 gallons in the twenty-four hours. This will
no doubt be a great protection to the inhabitants who
have hitherto suffered from the inroads of the storm
water. The outlay upon the work is £4,000, but the
saving which will be effected under the new system in
coal and wages will more Veen pay the annual charges for
interest and repayment of principal. The engine house
itself is a good looking building, in agreeable contrast
with the mawkish erection at its side where the old
engines are housed, and Mr. Comber has borne in mind
the axiom that having buildig materials to deal with it,
it costs no more to arrange them tastefully than in ugly
wise. The main engines are by Messrs. Baldwin and
Co., of Brighouse; and the centrifugal ones by Messrs.
Lawrence and Pottel of Park Sireet, London. Mr. G.
Law was the contractor for the building. Tn Connciller
Boycott, chairman of ihe Drainage and Waterwoks Com-
mittee, naturally belonged the duty of inauguratihg the
engines, gut at his wish the Mayor performed the cere-
mony. 'rue centrifugal engine was first alerted by the
Mayor, and the visitors left the engine house, and had
ocular proof of the rapidity with which the sewage was
lifted by the storm pump. Afterwards the main engines
were started, and were found to work smoothly and well.
The noise of the engines was succeedee by the pops
from champagne bottles provided by the Mayor. His
Wo:ship proposed, " Success to the sewage works, and
the health of Mr. Boycott, chairman of the Drainage
and Waterworks Committee ; " and this was followed by
the health of Mr. Comber, the borough engineer; of
Mr. E. Pritchard, C.E., vice-president of the Association
of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers; and of the Mayor.
Mr. Pritchard and other speakers bore testimony to the
able manner in which Mr. Comber had carried out the
works.

WALSALL ESTATE rs LIQUIDATION.—At a meeting had the contents of either the bottles ana'ysel, but i
she creditors of Peter Cameron_, tailor and draper was certainly a " lot of rubbish, nal consisted, in his
. ark Street, Walsall, held at the Dudley Arms Hotel opininion, principally of tea and pepper." The prose
lt was agreed to wind up the estate in liquidation cutor did not seem willing to go to any further expense!
The liabilitfcs are £5,000, and the assets £l,OOO in the matter, and, therefore, the prisoner was dis
Messrs. J. Stokes and Harper were the solicitors for charged. Mr Smallwood observed that he could no'
the debtor, and Mr. David Howat was appointed imagine how the public could be taken in by such a pal
-
trustee. pable swindle. The following description may save
FALL DOWN A LIMESTONE SHAFT.—On Wednesday other parties swindled :—The bottles were covered with
morning last a bansksman, named Henry Rogers, of thin, dirty, white-looking paper, "Allen and Company,
King Edmund's Street, was at his usual work at the Drysalters, York Road, Battersea, London." A red
Castle Fields limestone pits, near the Cricket Field. , label, which had been tempered with in two or three
when by some means he fell down the shaft. Help was , was pasted on tke bottle, and c mtained the words
at once rendered, and the man taken to the Guest " Worcester Sauce," the word " Worcester" being
Hospital, which is near. Here it was discovered that pasted on an erasure, and in mach larger and different
both legs were broken, his hands and arms dreadfully type to the word Sauce." An inside label, on white
torn, and the head injured. The house surgeon was paper, as headed "Worcestershire Sauce," and the
unable to undress the man. and Roger's clothes had to bottles belonged to Lea and Perrins and other cele-
be cut from him in strips. In this pitiable state the brated sauce makers. The billnead upon which the
man lay at the time of despatch. There are no hopes of receipt for the money was given purported to come
his recovery.
Battersea, London, S.W." Mr. Superintendent Tyler
said he had ascertained that that address was a furnishea
lodging-house, and the prisoner was not known at the
address he gave in Birmingham Another shopkeeper
in Bromsgrove was swindled to the extent of two dozen
bottles.
LYE.

THE ADDITIONAL HOURS QUESTION IN THE COAT
TRADE.—A meeting of miners was held at the Lye, on
the 25th tilt, in reference to the proposal of the coal.
masters to give an advance of wages if the men would
work an additional hour per day. Mr. S. Taylor pre-
sided. Mr. Breakwell, district agent for the men, refsrn
the circular issued by the masters, and commented
upon it, and the subject was freely discussed by thd
men, They adopted a resolution expressing their deter°
mination not to accept the proposition of the coal-
masters for extending the hours of work, but to
resist it at any cost. It is mentioned that a hint has
been given that if the men do not fall in with the
oo position there may be a reduction of 2s per ton in
r a 1. and that under the existing agreement a reduction
of 6d per ton in the present wages, instead of an ad-
vance, will follow.