Widnes Examiner. — 1884-08-23 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

WARINGTON HIGHWAY BOARD.  A meeting of this body was held at the office in Sankey. street, on Wednesday afternoon, under the presidency of Mr Richard Houghton, J.P., the other members present being Messrs J Hartley, J.P , vice-chairman, J Bridge, W B Kerfont, J Staniar, E Marsh, J Turner W 'Lepton, H Woolff, J Houghton, and J Grounds.—The Surveyor's reports on the roads in the district of the Board were read and discussed, and the Surveyor was instructed to submit to the next meeting a statement of what materials and tools he is lin need of, and what further will be required until the end of the year, with a view of obtaining tenders for the supply thereof.—An application was made by the Lancashire and Cheshire Telephonic Exchange Company Limited, for permission to erect 51 poles from 'ran-house in Surtonwood to a stated point at Parr Flat. The necessary permission was given subject to an annual payment of Is per pole per annum. --.Mr Hartley made reference to the recent death of Mr Broadhurst, a former member of the Board, and the followlowing resolution was subsequently unanimously passed, viz. :—" That this Board desires to express its sincere condolence and sympathy with the widow of the late Mr Samuel Broadhurst, at the heavy loss they have recently sustained by his death. The Board also desires to record its sense of the services rendered by Mr Broadhuret during the fifteen years that he was a member of the Board, for three years of which he was chairmen, and four vice-chairmen."—A letter was received from Mr. Sadler, deputy-clerk of the peace, Preston, forwarding a copy of a reseln, ion pasted by the County Highway Committee disallowing certain items in the main road account sent in by the Warrington District Highway Board for the year ending 25th March. The resolution, being an extract from the minutes of a meeting of the County Highway Committee, held at the County Offices in June last, was as follows Resolved that the following sums be disallowed from the account sent in by this Authority, viz , £136 193 charged under the bead " Materials."'for old materials contributed by the late trustees, and £27 17s lid charged under the head of "Tradesmen's Bills," for costs of working steam rollers, making a total reduction of £164 103 11d, and that the said account be passed at the sum of £696 5s 31, as certified by the County Surveyor and County Auditor." After a discussion the Clerk was instructed to write to the Clerk of the Peace and point out that the whole of the materials thus disallowed, were not left by the trustees of the Turnpike trust, and that therefore the Board claimed lobe allowed the value. The chairman and vice-chairman were appointed a deputation to attend with the surveyor at the next meeting of the county authority, in the event of the claim not having been settled before that takes place.—This was all the business of in' terest.  Samuel Edwards, a labourer living at Trefoiien, was, on Wednesday, remanded at Odwestry on a charge of shooting D tvid Breeze with intent to murder him. The prisoner had been living with Breeze's wife, an,l uring a quarrel on Tuesday night he fired at the husband with a gun, inflicting a dangerous Wound in his left side.