The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-03-03 00:00:00

SA,TURDAY? MARCH 3, 1588.

Iu reply to a communication from the Stamford and
District Licensed Victuallers' Association, asking the
Government to act fairly towards the licensing trade in
the event of the new law giving Local Boards power to
reduce the number of public-houses, Lord Salisbury has
written promising to give the matter his attentive con-

sideratiOn.
The Bolton Ratepayers' Association, which objected
to the payment of about £lO,OOO by the Finance Com-
mittee of the Corporation for the county police drafted
into the town during the recent strike arising out of
the ironworkers' dispute, have taken the opinion of Mr.
Crump, Q.C., who replied on Saturday morning, saYiug
that the payment is illegal if the case is as stated by tho
Ratepayers' Association.
Mr. Justice Wills, addressing the grand jury at
Anglesey Assizes, on Saturday, referred to the tithes
disturbances in Wales, and expressed regret that peol,lo
possessed of such good qualities as the Welsh should set
themselves against the law. If they wanted the law
altered they must agitate in a constitutional manner.
He hoped each side would try to meet in a kind',
conciliatory manner, and thus to endeavour to settle
their difficulties.
Application has been made at Worship-street Police-
court on behalf of the London School Board, that the
half of certain tines imposed at this court recently upon
a firm of coal merchants for short weight in coals dc-
liveted to the Board schools (the School Board authortieseing the prosecutors) should be handed over to
them (the School Board) as being the informers. In
the course of the discussion it was stated that the
solicitors for the Board had sent in a bill of over £4O
as cbsts of prosecuting. Mr. Bushby refused the appli-
cation, remarking that he had allowed £3 3s. costs at the
time, and commented upon some •of the items in till
solicitors' bill, such as "refresher to counsel, a 35.,'
and £6 6s. for "consultation fee."
The Cunard steamer Etruria brings intelligence of tho
" lois of the British schooner Arabella, with a crew of sir(
hands, on the 30th January, while on a voyage from New
York to Halifax.
Constable Michael I'Valshe, stationed at Jones
-
borough, near Newry, has sent in his resignation, CS 3
protest against the manner in which the Crimes
Act is being enforced. Walshe had served eight years
in the force.
Whilst playing football at Scarborough on Saturdal
afternoon in a match between Scarborough and Ebor,
George Harvey, a member of the former team, sus-
tained severe injury to the leg, and was carried off the
field by his friends.
The extensive flour mills of Messrs. James Black-
ledge and Sons, Bootle, Liverpool, were destroyed by
fire on Saturday. The fire was discovered about three
in the morning, and an alarm at once given. The
Bootle and Liverpool Fire Brigades were communicated
with, and several engines were soon at the mill; but
the flames had got a firm hold of the building, and all
efforts to subdue them were unavailing, the premises
being gutted, and the fire being prevented only with
the utmost difficulty from spreading to valuable ware-
house property in the vicinity. The damage is esti-
mated at from £30,000 to £50,000.
As a number of fishing boats were returning to
Arbroath Harbour on Saturday morning, one of them,
the Jane Smith, was struck by a squall and capsized.
A boat put off from the shore; but before she arrived
three of the five men who composed the crew were
drowned. Their names are Alexander Beattie, Thomas
Sivankie, and James Cargill, all married.
Sir Charles Bernard has, we are informed, been fir
pointed to the vacant Financial Secretaryship at the
India Office.
The following troops will concentrate on the Sikkim
frontier at Padong, so as to be able to move onwards to
Lingtu by the 15th March if the Tibetan outpost be
not withdrawn: two companies of the Derbyshire
Regiment, four guns of the Mountain Battery,
a wing of the 13th Bengal Infantry, and
a wing of the 32nd Pioneers. The other
wing of the last-named regiment is now engaged in
building a bridge over the Rilli River, seven miles
across the frontier. It is believed that this display of
force will cause the Tibetans to withdraw before the
15th March.
Daniel Hayes aud Daniel Moriarty, the two me"
charged with the murder of James Fit'
maurice, at Lixnaw, near Listovel, were arun
charged, on Friday of last week, before Captai"
Massey, resident magistrate, Nora Fitzmaurice,
the daughter of the murdered man, swore positively
that the accused were her father's assailants, and they
were both committed for trial at the Kerry Assizes.
The magistrates, in committing the prisoners for trial,
Commented in indignant language upon the fact that ,
Fitzmaurice had been held up by the local National
League as a mark for an assassin'i bullet.
The English colony assembled in full force at Vienno
the other night at a very successful promenade concert
in aid of the English Governesses' Home. Herr Eduard
Strauss conducted, and the whole programme consisted
of English music, of which some pieces, notably th°,
old English song "Once I 'Loved a Maiden Fair," auU
n"
The Wedding Bells," achieved a marked success with
the non-English part of the audience who heard them
for the first time. The hall was tastefully decorated
with the English colours. When Lady Paget arrived,
with Sir Augustus, she was presented with a bouquet
by the committee of the Home.
A Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of the steam-
ship Constance has been concluded at Bristol, after
occupying the attention of the Court for nearly 3
week. The vessel, on January 21, struck on the Shag
-
stone Rock, in Plymouth Sound, became a total wreck,
and 'three sailors were drowned. The Court found that
the vessel was undermanned, that a proper look-out was
not kept, and that proper steps were not taken to save
life. The certificates of the captain and chief mate
were suspended for six months, and the owners of the
Constance, the Bristol Steam Navigation CompanY,
ordered to pay £lOO towards the cost of the inquirY•
An inquest was held on Saturday as to the death of
Mr. E. S. Campbell, a Cambridge student. The evidence
showed that during the Lent boat, races the deceased
young gentleman was fatally struck by the nose of o
boat following his. The coroner said the incident
should suggest a modification in the present sharp-
pointed bows. The jury returned a verdict of "
dental death."
Six weeks ago Mr. John Dunlop, solicitor, 0!
' Greenock, mysteriously disappeared, and it was fearec)
,
he had met with foul play. The police made diligel!
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inquiries but without-result. An examination of
affairs, however, has revealed grave irregularities, anl
it is alleged that £14,000 has been misappropriated. ..41
warrailt has been issued for his arrest.
In the Queen's Bench Division on Saturday, BLIP/
Huddleston and a special jury tried the action o
Colonel H. F. Marryat to recover from Mrs. Ashburner
various sums of money, including £lOO, alleged to hi
been lent her. As to the .-ClOO, defendant alleged tll3
she had been repaid it by giving back to the colonel!
pair of diamond earrings which ho had given her, ``
considered worth £2OO. The trial resulted in a verdict
•for defendant, and £5O which she had lodged to
enabled to defend the action was ordered to be paid 0°