The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-10-15 00:00:00

fon( aab istvicttilells.

SCITOIL 801/2.D.—The monthly meeting of the
13 )ard was held on Monday eyeiiing ; the Rev. 11.
Sherrard in the chair,—The Clerk presented the
bklan,;s-sheet for the year ended 29th Septembnr.
The balance at the beirinning of the year wl4 £ro
2; 81 , and there had been received in grants £635
Oa Bd. ; payments by rating authority (53 8 in the
pound) £740.; school fees, £383 3; 7d., making
with a few small items of r,c-inte, .£2 056 23 101.
The expenditure had been .21,796 19s 41., of whi h
£319 19s was fu. loans. There was a balance in
favour of the Board at the end of the year of £269
3; 6d. The outstaniina arnourit of loans was
.A 5,970 17s 3'. The Clerk also presented an estim-
aste •f the requirements of the Board for the half
year ending March 25, 1888, and it was resolved to
make a call on the rating authority for £4OO. For
the corresponding period last year the amount was
£4lO.

Tns NEW TOWN HALL.—A meeting of the Improve-
ment C.untnissioners was held 011 Monday, ti fix the
-barges to be male for the new Town Hall arc.'
0-rn Exchang...—Mr. W. J. Turney presided, and
said there were ma 'y p-rs,ms anxious to know the
t-rms on which the nt-tv Town Hall would be lrt,
an Lit was desirable they -hould fix the tariff as
Ony as poa-ible The meeting, after a good deal
of di-cussion. d-cided that the tninimurn ch-tr:ze for
tile we of the Town Hall and anterooms should be
four guineas per night, including eas up to 10 30
p.m. ;53 per hour extra to 1?e charged for gas aftec
10.30. if the room is taken for consecutive nights,
the charge is to be thr-e guin-as per night att,r the
first two nights. In lieu of the scale of pric,s for
the use f the old Corn Exchange for meetings, &c.,
a tariff Nva fixed of one guinea per night, with
2s 6 per hour for gas. The charges for stalls at
the Corn Exchange on market days is to remain itS
at present.—The business of the Sar.urd y night
market was stated to be growing, and the Ch,ir-
man said if this went on they could enlarge the
trarkt.t by putting some glass over timithfield.—A
numf.er ef applica,tions for the Town Hall was
mentioned, aid it was decided to give those from
local sources the first consideration in letting the
hall.—lt was ueeided to apply to the magistrates
for a tr,:eaterical license for the Town Hall.

TILE SUICIDZ OF AN EX SOLDISE. On Monday
eveuiug. at the Guest Hospital Dudley, Mr. E.
Percy Jobson (coroner) held an inquest oa the body
of Thomas Noble (32), a fitter and ex-soldier, of
Wollaston, near Staurbridge, who was admitted to
th.: institution on Saturday suffering from a cut
throat. It was ailown that the man and his wife
lodged at Ridge T:p. and had beau there about a
zrouth. He was out of work, and had retuvied to
Wollaston from Newcastle-on-Tyne. He Wai in
receipt of a pension, and received it on the Friday
befoie he ear his throat. He drank too much beer
on that day, and at night borrowed a ra.z :r from
Mr. lunt, a neLlitiour, to ehtve his father-in-law
(31r. ii.nner) wjii W.IUU ho I dged. LAter on he
wa, discovered lying acr iss the bed with his throat
cut, and t.,e razor by the side of him. Mr. Smith,
surgei.n, a.ten lel ail I sewed up the wound. —Police •
constable Cart wright sal I the man was in great
poverty, and his wfe was near her coifinement.
tiwing to his inability to get work, the father-in-
hw
had thr a ,)aedito tura him oat, :ind taia drove
Noble ,o drihk. Just before lie died Noble, said the
drink had brought him to that state. The • jury
returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst temporarily
inane."

FOOTBALL. —Oa Satanlay list, a matsh was
pLI bvt4een 8:0 air it ,r3Uaitd v. Californii, at
Cautocuia, nd at.: a well-coate3ted game endcd
in a draw, each Aide scoring a goal