Widnes Examiner. — 1887-01-08 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

NORMAN-ROAD AGAIN - UNDER. CONS'. eIEttAIION. The Parlitmentary read Legal Committee. presented the following minute a-'The Law Clerk bowing perused the ceereepondence and mimeses of the Poard rmatiug to the, making of Norman-road, advieed the Parlinmentary and Legal Committee that there is-nothing in such papers. and minutes ehewing that the road wan made in accordance with the regoirements of any Acts ca Parliament teen in force.?' Mr. Shaw moveri„and Yon Piitetard seconded„the coax- . motion of the minuees. 141 r. Lake contended thee the minute did not answer the questions put to the commitme,as to the present ownership. of the road, sad liability for its-maintenance. He pointed out that made might become. public- roads, independent of the various acts of Parliament, under the common law, and he thought that point; worthy the attention of the committee. Whether there was a moral agreement made between the owner of the-land ane the Board or not the fact that the -Board had partially mode, and had repaired the road hitherto, that of itself would almost vest the road in the inhabitants. He stoney urged that the qoestion should be Settled once for all, and let the Board know whether they were liable for the toed, Mr. Ohaw replied tkat the 14(kki section of the'Phblim Health Mt had not been- complied with, and it was now too late tods so. He thought the beet course would be to let the question remain where It Was, until the lapse Of time Out the Board into a position to nesintaimo The Board onght net to allow a contemplated owner purchase land along that read ander the impression that the town would do all that was required in the way of draining, sewering. flagging, and paying of that road, whilst the seller under  Thursday a statement which they assert redly represents , that impression realised an increased price for the land. the condition of things as to the number of weavers who are In reply to Mr. Lighburn Mr. Shaw said the road cost the out. They sly there are over 6,000 looms stopped in Ash- Board about £370 to make. ton-under-Lyne and not 600 at work at the whole of the six Mr. Lialatburn then proceeded to make a speech, hut was mills affected by the strike- Even at Hurst, where all interrupted several times by Mr. Shaw, who asked him to produce the tacit agreement Mr. Lightourn referred to. Mr. the weavers are reported to be working., there are 400 looms etopped.. Fully 7,000 out of 11,000 looms are ,Lightburn said he would not be babied out of his statement stopped. • , , , .by any person, and proceeded to point out that b KAY'S Comeotarn, a demulcent anodyne expectorant to the 146th section of the Public Health Act the Board could' Qoughs and Colds dold by all Chemists, 90., is. lid., Fa.BJ. pay a portion of the coat of making a road. No one would —Advt dispute that there was an agreement, perhaps not a legal MURDER OF A MOTHEn.—At Kirkcaldy Police Court, on a len , between the owners of the land and the Board, Tuesday, Thomas Beyerbridge, 23, was charged with a des- aTdetr i the landowners supplied the material and the Board the perste assault upon his mother, on Monday 'not, and labour for making the toad. From that time Norman-road be Inflicting injuries upon her from the effects of which she camp a public higla way. He argued that the Board. had. immediataly died. The woman's body was discovered by no better title te, Greenway-road or Station-road (upon the neighbours lying upon the staircase of her dwel- , which it WAS proposed to spend £3,000) than they had to ling. The prisoner made no statement in his defence, N ' er man-road, and ridiculed the idea that the Board would and he was remanded to the Sheriff's Court on a charge of have to pay for the flagging, channelling, drc. In Widnes, murder. 1 the owners wished for those improvements, the Local •