The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-08-07 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NORMADTBY LOCAL BOARD.  On Weduesday afternoon the monthly meeting of the Nbrmauby Looal Board was held. Mr Seymour occupied the ohair.—The committee appointed to examine the Clerk's bill for defending the actions brought by Mr Harkewitz recommended an offer of £l5O in setVement. The amount of the bill was els& lie s(l.—Tne Clerk said his bill was either correct or it was not correct,, and itthe Board disputed any of the items ho !Moak' prefer its being taxed.—Mr T. Hugh Bell did not wish an antagonistic feeling, to exist between the Board and their Clerk, and he F uggebted that the committee should, confer with the Clerk with a view to coming to an. arrangement.— This was agreed to.—rbe Chairman aid it ould be remembered that at the last meeting a memorial was received from the butchers in. the Market, who threatened to come outside owing to a butcher being allowed, to sell there. He thought the piece of hind on the north side should be secured, and the owner, Mr Harkewitz, hacloffered to lease it at a moderate rent, £5 or £6 n year.--,Mr Wood was in favour of the laud being &nuked temporarily, though it might be desirable to purchase it hereafter. —Mr Hanks moved that a cio mmittee, consisting of the Chairman. Ur Wood, and Mr Tetlow,. be appointed to try and get the land on a lease.—This motion was carried.—The Clerk reporte that he. had received another letter from hir Luke Tnompson abD it Mr J. Clark's claim for damages alleged to have been sustained by the Board not having fulfilled an agreement with Mr Clark to drain his rroperty I forthwith.—Mr Bell pointed out that no specific, claim. was made, and that the Board oould do nothing until particulars of it were furnished them.—Tlie Clerk was instructed to. see Mr Thorni son for the purpose of obtaining a statemeut of claims, though, at the same time, he was to deny any liability.— The Medical Officer's monthly report showed the death rate fo • the peat month as having been 11.40 per tnowiand, the same Its in the corresponding period of last year. There weir, cad a of seariet fever and measles, as also of diarrhora, c &need by eating unripe fruit or frut.in ths tiret etage of decomposition. But, cit toe whole, the health of the.. town was good.—There was no other bus' t. noes of public interest.  wr.a4  Captains the Wm. W. Lloyd Howard an). T. H. Garrett. of the Vito Lancers, were on Wednesday Sued at Fareharn, near Portemouth, il Ts for settiog two dogs to worry a cat. agNTElleall TO D SAUL —At the Stafford i 4ssizes on Wednesday Jamea Daniel Haywood, an unqualified practitioner, was sentenced to death for the murder of Sarah Goggera by performing an unlawful operation. The jury strongly recommeudsd the prisoner to mercy. In the House of Commor." on Wedaesday afternoon the names of porsons reported by the election Judged as guilty of bribery at the Chester election were laid upon the table. —Tho House again, went into Committee on the Employers' Liability Bill, resuming the consideration of Clause 1, which, after amendment, was ii4iesd t,. Toe next clause was , still under ttdoussion when progredd wad re: Porta-..-Some measures were edvenct4 § tVgige, awl Ow 110w,1104m4,