The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02 00:00:00

DR. LIVINGSTONE'S FAMILY.

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clause contained In the bill would provide that party walls of
houses should be of an adequate thickness, and should have
no openings made in them, so that there should be greater
protection against the spread of files. Other provisions
limited the internal size of buildings, regulated the Lord Derby has received a deputation, who waited
storage of inflammable substances, and the character of the upon his lordship to lay before him the grounds which
buildiegs in which they were stored, gave greater con- exist for an official recognition of Dr. Livinghteue's .
trol to the Metropolitan Board of Works over dangerous arduous services in the cause of humanity and of science
structures ; increased the remonsMilities of dict sur- during his Mng net of office as one of her Majesty's
veyors : regulated lines of frontage and the width of lieW consuls, by a pension or of money to his family.
streets, which they said should not be less than Se feet ; gave . consuls, by - grant,
powers to enforce the numbering and watering of the streets, Among the deputation were Sir Bartle Frere, president
prevented the building of apartments below the leveled sewers, of the Royal Cteogranhical Society ; Sir James Watson,
provided that one magistrate should be suffident to hear and Lord Provost of Glasgow; Sir Edward Colebrooke,
decide the cases under the Act, and prevented the stencilling M.P. ; Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, M.P. ; fair
of advertisements on the pavement of the streets. As Harcourt Johnsts me, M.P. ; Mr. Joseph Whitwell
to advertisemeuts tin hoardings, when the clause re- i
biting to them cam PgiseM.P. Mr. '
e before the select committee the Board .` , ' Baillie Cochrane, 111. P. ; Hon. A.
would be prepared to withdraw all sections of it which Kinnaird, MP. ; Mr. George Leeman, M.P. ; Mr.
would have prevented bills being placed in certain places ; Archibald Orr Ewing M.P. ; Baillie Walls, of Glasgow ;
and the measure would not be sacrificed if it were thought Mr. W. F. Webb, of :11i.ewstead Abbey, and others. Mr.
that the custom of stencilling on pavements should be kept Leeman, M. r. ,in introducing the deputation, said the
up. The hill contained the experience of some years gained memorial they had to present was signed-by the Arch.
by the Metropolitan Board M Works, and he busted it would bisheips of Canterbury aud York, the Duke of Argybl,
be passed by the House.
Mr. Beresfoixl Hope expressed his satisfaction Dean Stanley, the Duke of Sutherland, and others, in-
the Royal Institution of British Architects at the statement eluding many from both sides of the House of Parlia-
made by Colonel Hogg. ment. Havingreadthatmemorial, Mr. Leeman said the
The discussion was contimied by several other hon. mem- I deputation had only to express a hope that Lord Derby
hers, alter which would advise the Government to make such a grant to
Mr. Cross, without going into the larger question 01 the family of Dr. Livingstone as would meet the en-
the Government of the metropolis, said they must keep thusiastic feeling of the country. Sir Bartle Frere
two considerations in view In dealing with a measure and other members of the deputation having spoken,
of this kind, namely, that effective powers be given to Lord Derby said there was no doubt that Dr. Living-
the Board of Works to control the erection of buildings, stone had rendered great public services, and he quite
,ual, on the other
in hanthe construct d. that traders shouthld
eir be protected agreed with them that something should be done in
as far as possible ion of property.
Ile must object to one provision, which would appoint addition to what had been done for the members of his
one police magistrate to try cases under the Act specially, family. More than that he could not now say, as his
because a magistrate doing one sort of work got into a wad not the department to decide the matter.
glance, and also because the ordinary existing tribunals
were sufficient for the purpose. He would not object to
the second reading of the bill, but proposed that it
should not be referred to a committee of the ordinary
character, but composed of six members of thla House—
three of them to represent the Boatel of Works. and three The Japan Herald reports a dreadful cimulruple
to represent the interests of the various trades affected— the
murder at Kobo, the scene of the crime being not
remaining five members of the committee to be apts•inted
by the Connuitte of Selection - snore than a couple of hundred yards of the
The hill was read a second time, and referred to a select Saibansho. The victims are Mr. Yamada, his wife,
committee, alter a few words from Colonel llogg. ' and two children, one aged two years, and the other
CAME LAWS (SCOTLAND) BILL, an infant, 21 days' old, who were all butchered in their
sleeping apartment,a room about 9 feet square. Mr.
' Mr. allagan moved the second reading of this bill, stating
that the subject had been considered by a Royal Commission Yamada was well-known and generally liked in Kobo
and by a committee sitting upstairs. It was, therefore, ripe he received a severe cut under the left ear, severing
fur I; gislation. the jugular vein, several slashes on his chest and
Mr Cross stated that the Government felt it incumbent to etontach, and his back was literally hacked to pieces,
oppose the measure, because it affected the whole of Great his spine being cut through in eight or nine places ;
Britain, and not Scotland alone, because it departed from from the appearance of his wounds it would seem he
the recommendation of the selunsettle ect committee, be it struggled with his assailant. and was set upon by
satisfi ed nobody, would everything, and settle
another from behind. His wife, with an infant 21 days
nothing, and because it would not secure a permanent settle- . .
meatof the question. If the bill became law the first por- old in her arms, hacl her right arm severed, and her
sons wlio would ask for its repeal were owners and occupiers, left wrist cut badly, a frightful gash from her forehead
and that became of the clauses it contained dealing with to her chin cutting out one eye and splitting her head
trespassers. in half, aud a slash that laid open her left shoulder
CM, mei Alexander moved the rejection of the bill, and Sir and fractured the spine. Her baby, apparently, was
V.. Ednionstone seconded the amendment. and the debate smothered by her falling upon it, as the only wound it
wits continued
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several other hon. members, and evensecondtually has is a small cut on one of its toes. The other child,
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raiding, 127 ; against, Mil : majority, 65. a little boy, had his head entirely severed from his
body, and his right hand cut through the middle, cut-
The bill was therefore rejected, and the House adjourned,
Ling ;ttf the thumb also ; the left hand had the two
first fingers cut off.
What the motives of the murderers were will pro-
bably never come to light, unless the miscreants are
caught and confess, as the clothes of the murdered
persons seemed to have been overhauled only. The
assault must have been sudden and the strife of short
duration, as the inmates of the houses adjoining on
either side appear not to have heard anything of an un-
salmi nature ; molly Europeans employed on the ra 1-
way also live within a stone's throw, and heard nothing
cf the affair until non, when returning to tiffin.