The General Purposes Committee of the Handsworth Load Board have drawn up and printed in pamphlet form for circulation among the ratepayers, an interesting report on the growth of the locality and the work of the Board since the constitution of the Local Government District by t

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At Batson Heath Court on Wednesday, before Moser'. 11. Hawkes, T. Gilbert, and G. H. Cortland, William Cooper, cab driver, 134, Brighton-road, Sparkbrook, was charged with treopaosing on the Midland Rail say at Brighton , road, on the 17th inst. The prisoner fount on Monday in t

The last mail from the East has brought informsties of the wreck of the German steamer Marianne in the China seas, and the timely rescue of the passengers and part of the rreW by the steamship j Lancelot, of Leith. The Marianne was on a voyage 1 from Hamburg and Odessa to Vladiv

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At tla Astor Police Court, before Alderman Johnson, Messrs. C. Wallis and W. Angell, and Dr. J. Harvey, Edwin Homer, engineer, 20, Church Street, Aston, was summoned for assaulting his wife, Elias, on the 16th ult. Mr. Philip Baker appeared in of the summons, and Mr. Vachell def

The annual parochial gathering in connection with the Haanloworth Parish Church was held on Wednesday, 20th inst.,in the Parish Schoolroom. The Renter (Prebendary Hodgson l in his annual address. said a debt of £4OO on the Mission Churoh of the Good Shepherd had been wiped off d

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