The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-10-19 00:00:00

COUNTY COURT.

BREACH OP CONTRACT.--PEARHAN V. TANDY.—
At the County Court, on Thursday, before Mr.
Rupert Kettle, judge. This was an action
brought by Henry Pearman, farmer, residing at
Clent, against Philip Tandy to recover the sum
of £lO 103 for breach of contract. Mr. Collis
appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Corbet defended.
Mr. Collis briefly opened the case and called
plaintiff, who said he met the defendant in
Bromsgrove market in June last. He offered to
sell him two heifers and he asked him .220 for
them. He told him he did not like the look of
one of them and defendant said he would warrant
it all right, and if not he would take it back and
give him the money. He afterwards sold it to
Mr. Cook and he had it returned. He saw the
defendant about it and he told him to fetch it back.
He saw him again in six or seven :weeks after
He took the heifer to Mr. Blakeway who examined
it. Ho afterwards instructed Mr. John Edwards
to sell it in the market. Thomas Rowley, drover,
said he was present when the plaintiff bought two
heifers from the defendant. Plaintiff said he did
not like the look of one of them. Defendant said
that he would warrant it all right and if not he
would make it right. Mr. F. Blakeway said he
examined a heifer brought by plaintiff and he
found it had disease of the bowels for several
weeks or it might have been months. Mr. J.
Cook, farmer, said he purchased two heifers from
plaintiff and he did not like the look of one of
them and he returned it. His Honour said. there
was no case. From the evidence defendant re-
fused to fetch the heifer back and he gave a ver-
dict for defendant.
Irrcu V. DAFFON.—This was an action brought
by the plaintiff who resides at Hagley, against the
defendant who lives at Bromsgrove to recover the
sum of £7 lOs for the maintenance of defendant's
wife. Mr. Waldron appeared for the plaintiff, and
Houseman, of Bromsgrove, for the defendant.
From the evidence it appears the parties were
married some time ago. Defendant got into
difficulties and defendant's father made a-com-
promise with some of the creditors and paid them
and others would not accept the composition.
The home was broken up and the defendant and
his wife went to live with the defendant's father.
Some disagreement ensued and defendant was
bound over to keep the peace but they lived to-
gether a short time after when the wife left the
father-in-law's house, she met with a broken leg
and went to lodge at the plaintiff's house. The
amount sued for was .27 108 for her maintenance
at ten shillings per week. Defendant's father was
put in the witness box and said that he offered her
a home and that his son had got his arm broken
and that he could not work and he was obliged to
himi His Honour remarked that the husband was
bound to keep his wife and he had no alternative
but to make an order for him to pay and he sug-
gested that the parties should come to some
mutual arrangement as in all probability the
same thing would occur again. His Honour then
made an order for the defendant to pay the full
amount and costa.

HOSPITAL SUNDAY.—It will be seen on referring
to our advertising columns, that collections will ,he
made in all the Churches and Chapels in Stour-
bridge, in aid of the Dispensary, Guest Hospital,
and the Birmingham General Hospital. The cause
being a good one, it is to be hoped that the General
Public will heartily respond to the call.
PRESENTATION.—A meeting was held on Wed-
nesday evening last, in the large school room of
the Baptist Chapel, for the putpose of expressing
their high appreciation of the services of William
Platt, Esq., of High Street, for the services he had
rendered during the past 12 years, as president of
the Hambrey Hill bible class. The presentation
took the form of an elaborately and elegantly
illuminated address (executed by Mr. Frank
Allsop), from the members of the above named
class, the meeting was well attended, and a general
feeling of gratitude to Mr. Platt, was shown for his
labours. The evening was interspersed with read-
ings and songs.
MEETING OF CRED ITORS.—A meeting of the
creditors of James Watkins, cabinet maker, was
held on Saturday last, at the offices of Mr. T.
Wall, solicitor. Mr. Prior from the firm of
Messrs. Gamble and Harvey, London, was in the
chair. The balance sheet showed liabilities £450,
and a question at issue between two sets of
creditors left it doubtful whether the assets should
be estimated at £5O or £l5O. Liquidation was
resolved on, and Mr. Rennie was appointed trustee
and Mr, Wall solicitor to the trustee,
STAFFORDSHIRE PIG-IRON CHART.—Mr. Walter
E. Wood, of Dennis, Stourbridge, the compiler of
several useful tabular statements relating to the
coal and iron traoles of this district, has just pub-
lished a chart of the average prices of common
melting pig during the last thirty-six years.
The table shows the average not only of each
year, but of each cycle of years, so as to illustrate
the law governing of pig-iron. From this com-
pilation it appears that though the market value
of pig-iron has fluctuated very widely from ..25 6s
3d in 1872 to .22 8s 9d last year, it ebbs and
flows with sufficient regularity to keep the
averane of each cycle within two shillings of the
same amount. The chart will be found very
useful both for makers and consamers of pig-
iron.
FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE BATTALION WO RCESTER-
SHIRE RIFLE VOLD NTEB lIS.—An interesting com-
petition took:place on Saturday last, for a valu-
able prize given by Major Walker. The twenty
mon who had attended the greatest number of
drills in each corps competed on their own ranges,
and the selected man from each corps fired, under
the superintendence of Captain Wolrige, the
adjutant, 10 shots each at 200, 10 at 500, and 10
at 600 yards, with the following results :—Cor-
poral Rudge, Halesowen, 119; Sergeant Baylis
20th Kidderminster, 111; Corporal Meredith
Wolverley, 109; Sergeant Dunn, Stourbridge,
107; Corporal Gillatn, Bewdley, 104; Private
Chell, Stourport, 104; Sergeant Findon, 4th Kid-
derminster, 103; Sergeant Shellis, Oldbury, 102;
Corporal Whitehouse, Dudley, 07; Sergeant Pope,
Tenbnry, 94; Corporal Woodward, 3rd Kidder-
minster, 86. Corporal Rudge, a very old volun-
teer, received the prize (a gold watch) from
Major Walker at the conclusion of the firing, and
a substanial repast was also provided by the same
officer for the whole of the competitors, markers,
and registrars. This prize has given a great
stimulus to attendance at drills.
THE LATE CHARGE OF STEALINO AN Axs.—At the
Staffordshire Sessions, on Monday, Benjamin Perry
was charged on a charge of stealing on the 17th
September, an axe, from the Stourbridge Cricket
ground, the property of Charles Parkes, of the
Rising Sun Inn, and was sentenced to nine months'
imprisonment.
TEMPERANCE HALL, LYE.—It will be seen from
our advertising columns that a grand concert anl
entertainment will be held in the above-named hal
on Monday next, for the benefit of the orphans of
the late Mr. Nobes, who was killed on the line iDe-
twaen the Stourbridge and Lye Railway Stations
on Tuesday, September, 24th, 1878, who by his
death leaves five orphan children, and we
hopo that the concert will meet with
that patronage and support which it so
richly deserves, as we are sure from the
array of talent (which we are proud to see that so
many of the Stourbridge gentlemen have
kindly come forward and given their services on
this occasion) that the concert cannot fail to give
satisfaction to all, and there will be nothing want.
lug ou tile Part of tha Manager to wake the even.