The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-09-30 00:00:00

HALES OWEN.

FACTORY ACTS PROSECUTIONS.—CD Tuesday. at the
Public Office, before Messrs. F. L. Smith, E. Gem, H.
Howard, and E. B. Phillips, twelve persons were charged
by !sir. W. 11. Brewer, sub-inspector of Factories, with
various infringements of the Workshops Act.—Joseph
Ingram, of Quarry Lane, was charged with neglecting to
send his child to school and with employing him after
eight o'clock.—Mr. Brewer stigmatised this case as a
brutal one, and said defendant had worked his lad till
one and two o'clock in the morning, and that several of
the inhabitants had constantly complained of defend-
ant's brutal treatment to the child. Moreover defend-
ant had been previously convicted on the 24th June,
1873.—He was fined .£1 in one case and 103 in the other,
with costs amounting to £2 13s ld.—Heber Rudge, of
Islington, was charged as occupier of a shop in which a
child named Caroline Hackett and a young person were
employed, the one after eight o'clock and the other
after nine o'clock, viz., both being at work at 9.50 p.m.
Job Hackett was charged as parent of the child employed.
—Audge was fined 5s in each case, and costs in all, £1
16s 7d.—Hackett had to pay costa, is 6d.—Alfred
Charlton was summoned for employing three young per-
sons at tat o'clock at night, and was fined.2s Gd and
costs in each case, amounting in the whole to 5s
William Law, Martin Goddard, Edward Hawkswood,
Thomas Hobbiss, Thomas Portman, Hannah Holloway,
Henry Hackett, and Peter Singley were according to
circumstances charged with being the parents of young
persons employed or as occupiers ot the shops in which
females were employed after nine o'cloe at night.
—Law, Goddard, Hobbiss, and Portman had to pay 73
6d each and costs; Holloway and Hackett, 2s Gd each
and costs, and Hingley was let off as he was a pauper,
ADJOURNED LICENSING SESSION.—The adjourned
licensing meeting for the division of Halesowen was held
on Tuesday, before Major Smith and Messrs. Gem,
Howard, and Phillips.—Mr. Holberton applied for the
renewal of the-license held by Moses Rose, of the Plume
of Feathers, Halesown, to which an objection was rais. d
at the licensing meeting, on the ground of the house
not then being used as a licensed house. Mr Hoiberion
now stated that during the past year the house had
been closed for restoration and repair, it being pre-
viously in a very dilapidated state, and Mr. Rose had
been at a considerable expense in repairing the premise‘ .
He had now atained the usual excise license, and car-
ried on the trade of a licensed victualler upon the prs-
mises. The application was granted.—Mr. Hayes
applied to the Bench to sanction certsiu alteratio.is
made by Edward Sherratt, at the Royal Oak, Spring
Hill. The matter was taken consideration at the
licensing meeting, but adjourned to enable the applicant
to make certain alterations suggested by the licentirg
justices, who had personally inspected the premises
Suparintendent Kemp now stated that these alterations
had been made in the manner suggested, and the pre-
mises were in a satisfactory condition. The Bench
granted the applica'ion.—The license of the Royal
Lodge, Furnace Hill, was transferred from Harriet Bate
to Thomas Williams; Lied the license of the Hare and
Hounds, Hasbury, was temporarily transferred to Henry
Such from Samuel Newey.