Birmingham Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 106, 25 February 1893, Page 2

Birmingham Notes

Ifuom our own cokbespondent. 1 Rough weather seems to have set in. Mr Birks was again prevented 'from giving his lecture on " John Bright" on Saturday evening, some colored minstrels having taken the Town Hall for a per. form ance, so that the lecture is still in store. We aro sadly in want of police protection. Some tramp or thief went to the house of one of the inhabitants on Sunday evening, made his way to the back entrance and knocked at the door. The inmate asked his business, but had the caution to keep the door locked., .Jj-jTg said " I want a ' billy' to boil some water in." As there did not happen to be one at home he was told he could get some water in a large pewter jug. Finding that he could notLget into the^ppf^fee^allg^ off with the jug, showing that he was a thief and did not want what. he asked for. Had the door been unlocked he most likely would have entered the, house, qsid as the remainder of the family '" were at church, no one can say what the npshot of this visit might have been. ] ■ The meetings at the Town Hall are greatly interrupted by a few roughs, and as the gatherings of the Literary Society are for members only (who pay their subec rip tions) the larrikins show their ani- V raosity to law, order, and civilisation by shouting, brick throwing, etc., and when spoken to blame the " whiskey."' Then there are the "galloping snobs," whose chief delight is to gallop down the street when the night is dark so that they cannot be recognised, and scatter any poor foot, passengers they can meet, and shout out some rude and foul remark. If a police* _ man was stationed : here or a mounted patrol, we should soon ccc a change in the district. . ' '' ■* The Rev Mr Watkins will preach here twice on Sunday. There will be a social at Apiti shortly, {; At the service of praise to be held here 2 on March 5 there will be plenty of good* singing.