The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1886-07-24 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

People are saying that an interesting match will be played on the Birkenhead Park Bowling Green, next Monday evening. The competitors will be a team composed of members of the Town Council and a team representative of the Birkenhead Park Working Men's Bowling Club. The match will, no doubt, be witnessed by a large number of persons, the more especially as it is believed that the Town Council team is in for a drubbing. People are saying that a very painful case came before Mr. Preston at the Borough Police Court, on Wednesday, and one which ought to be taken in hand by the temperance workers in the borough. A very respectable man named John McGrath was summoned for having used threats to his wife. He is the best of husbands and a capital workman when sober, but when he gets on the spree his whole character changes. He illtreats his wife, and neglects his work, and the latter propensity has resulted in his being dim charged from a good situation. It is indeed painful to find such a respectable man sinking so low in the moral scale, and it ought to have the effect of cautioning those who cannot control their passion for drink to leave it alone altogether. People are saying that Joseph Dean, who took up the noble profession of begging the other day while under the influence of drink, caught a Tartar when he solicited alms from P.C. Farlan, who was on duty in plan clothes. If a larger number of plain clothes constables were put on duty there would soon be an appreciable diminution in the number of professional cadgers in the borough. People are saying that a very exciting scene was witnessed at the Woodside goods stage on Tuesday morning, when a married woman named Grace threw herself and her danghter, aged eleven, into the river. A flatman named Bibby, who witnessed the suicidal freak, promptly put off in a boat, and succeeded in holding the fast-drowning human beings above the surface of the water until assistance arrived. Great praise is due to Bibby for his promptitude, as it is certain that but for his endeavours the woman and girl would have been drowned.  People are saying that rather a peculiar case came before Mr. Preston at the Borough Police Court on Thursday, when a grocer's assistant named Inch was summoned for having assaulted a woman named Bridget McCartney by putting her out of the shop when she refused to leave. It was proved that the complainant was under the influence of drink, fortunately for the defendant, ar d the worthy magistrate expressed an opinion that no more violence was used in ejecting the prisoner than was neepmery. People are saying that a peculiar state of impecuniosity was shown to exist in the case of a young man charged with shopbreaking at the sessions. One of the witnesses stated that he had seen the prisoner with a sixpence on two successive Saturdays, and those were the only occasions upon which he had ever known him to possess such coin. What a chance for a socialist to sow good seed.  POOR CHILDREN'S M/SlllO/1.-Mr. C. Thompson writes to thank Mr. Rudd for the most acceptable gift of £1 12s. for Ms Poor Children's Mission. It is so exceedingly kind of Mr. Rudd, and not only has he shown his kindness to Mr. Thompson's Mission in this way, but in many ways beside. He also thanks Mr. Broster for the bread which he sent on Monday, when the children had a good supper of bread and cheese. The Mission Hall was very full last Sunday, when Mr. H. K. Aspinall and Mr. Marsh were the speakers. At eight o'clock, a very large meeting was held in the open air, on a piece of ground near Watson-street, Mr. Cook and Mr. J. Ward speaking. Miss Lizzie Waterhouse and Mrs. Blair accompanied on the harmonimn in the open air. Next Sunday, Mrs. Hughes will be one of the speakers. On Sunday, August Ist, a sacred concert and flower and fruit service will be held in the Theatre Royal, Argyle.street. Superintendent Clarke will speak in the afternoon and Mr. Lucas Stubbs in the evening. Charles Thompson's Choir will sing, and the band of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers will plyspecial pieces, afternoon and evening. ragg's Indian Vegetable Pills are sold by Cragg James, 80, Argyle-street, Birkenhead in Boxes, 91d., is. 11d.. and 2s. 9d. 

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