The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-29 00:00:00

BROMS-IROVE.

EXTENSION OF Estrum —At the Petti Se,sions en
Tu slay, the In -g:s rates (Messrs. ft Smallwoed
and T White) geernted .ar. extensi ,n of hours from
11 nen. to 6 a m., on Thursday next, to Messrs.
Cordel', of the GO:en Cross Hotel, on the occasion
of the annuli b 11.
CURIOUS CASE OF OWITRUCTION.—At the same
Court, Marcus Holland, a surveyor's (delft, Samuel
Woodhill, an auctieneer's cl.rle, and Frederilt
Townsend, furniture cicaler, were charged under
the 2Sql section f the Town P. lice Clauses Act
with obstructing, the tie rortgefere in High Street,
on the night of the 12th irst.—Mr. Halford (from
the office of Mes:es. Cerbett, Werceeter) appeared
for the clet.nce, and as a preliminary objection
pointed out that the defendants had been summoned
conjointly instead of reparet ly,.rie-.d he a-ked how
.the I;nch proposed to deal with them.—Mr. Scott
(the Magistrates Cle k) said NI-. Milford c uld •-lect
to take the cases seertrat.-Iy f he like'. Would he
do so?—Mr. Ha7for :I teke the objection that the
summons is not regular.—Mr. Scott: Will y u take
them separately or not? Mr. Raiford, That is my
objection, and I shall not state it any mere.—The
objection having. been overruled, Serge ,nt Enuns
gave evidence to the effect that on he night in
question the,
,defeeclatits obstructed the fobtpath
from five minutes past eleven o'clock until twenty-
o minutes pass. Thee/ were laughing and talk-
ing loudly He ordered them t move an ito make
less noise, but they ignored him. Owing to the
aseruction a vcral persons had to step off the foet-
path into the road. He denied that he had malice
against the defeadants, and slid that complaint had
been untie ab ut the'obettarcion preiiouQly.— •
Police-coristahle Wain writ gave corroborative
evidence —Mr. Ilalford submi ted that three per-
sens of them-zeives could tot cause an obAruction
within the running of the Act ; the case, he said,
was taken 'racer the wren! statute.—Mr. Small-
wood, reading from 'Stone," quoted a feotnete to
the effect that the mere act of persons standing in
the way w:-.en other persons wished to pass did not
amount to an offence "unless done. wilfully and
pertinaciously," and he added thd, in this case there
had been wilful and pertinacious obstruction.—Mr.
Halford, however, pointed out that the reference
was to a Scotch case, and if the Bench were against
Ii a he ebould ask for a case for a superior Con t,--
Tire magistrates hathrg consuPed with their Clerk,
Mr, Sai Tweed said the Bench were advised that
under the circumstances they c, nld not tonvict,
and there'bre distab•sed the summonses.
BOAIz2 OF GUARDIANS.—A meeting of this Boerd
was tell en Teeeday and r the presieency of Mr.
Wrieht. '1 he re were Ilse jrest nt the 'Rev. A. E.
Seymour, Mes-rs. I,lee elfin, Fetherseeie, Be ke,,
Altaak, Alln:t, Pt untney, Parry. Griffin, Harr s,
- Freeint.n, Birch, Lewis.—The It reving Officer
hiving called the att. re ion of the Board to the fact
that by the claming of soap kitchens in vations
parts of the &strict, act." especially et Bromsereve
and Redditch. a coasideraele burden had been
taken off the rates, the Board pas.;ed a I early vote
of Mulls to th, se who had sebserite:d to the funds.
—The Master (M... Wyatt) reported that Geoc . e
Parker, vtlto attempted to conmitt suicide under
circumstances tikes ly report d, had 11)..,cti re moved
to Poaick Asylum.—Sevtn tend-rs -tve re eeeived
for the t onstruetion of a see, en for the nit' h side
of the infirmary, and they varied from £l2 11, (Ur.
Bott, Bromsgove), to £26 15, 6 i (Ur, J. Griffiths,
Relit tch). Tee last-named was accep: ed.—A letter
was read rem llr. Edge, atchitect of Birmingham,
enclosing an amended statement of his account in
connecjon with the infirmary, and sh :wing a bal-
ance due to him of £149 The Fieance Commidee,
having had Mr. E lee's clei:n berme them, recorcee
men fed the Boatel not to entertain it, but ta reeelt
their previous offer of £1.3. rite I acorn Le tlatioa
of the corunittee was adop ed —The returns :howed
that the inmates of the house nu ebered 211, the
outdoor pot 1,030, and the vaeran:s reieved during.
the last week 165.
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Sour KaCiIEN.—By the go:it rosi!y of Mr. Wi Lam
Stableford, a soup kitchen Ava., oreu.,! on. Tu s(_Lty
at the "lluadrei. Stourrid.;€,, loa, aid
about sixty por pars bus of t'a2 ih•trict was relievel.
The roup Was male uule tao person.il super in Cal !-
once of Mr. liar is ,ey no tr, Mr. St Oleford's ag•;:rit.

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