378 • PERSHORE. Letters for .Wad borough, Caldewell, \The Hermitage, Ab bott's Wood, and some of the outlying districts in Holy Cross parish, are received through Kempsey, Worcester.

PUBLIC OFFICERS, ETC. AcTING MAGISTRATES FOR PERSHORE PETTY SES13ION.A.L DIVISION. (The justices meet in petty sessions at the Police court every alternate Tuesday at 11 a.m.) Lieut.-General Thomas Beckett Fielding Marriott, R.A., Avon Bank ; Rev. Martin Amphlett, M. A., Church Lench Rectory ; Henry Hudson, Esq.; Vandyke Court; Francis Dermot Holland; Esq., Crop­ thorne Court ;__Rev. James Cook, M.LL., Peopleton; George Whitaker­ Wilson, Esq., Caldewell (Kempsey, Worcester); Robert Martin, Esq., Overbury Court; William Hanford Flood, Esq., W oollas Hall ; William Robert Acton, Esq., W olverton Hall; Forrester Britten, Esq., Birling­ bam; William Laslett, Esq., Abberton Hall; Col. Henry Fanshawe Davies, Elmley Castle. Clerk to the Justices. Joseph Martin, Esq., High street. The following is a list of Parishes and Places comprised in the Petty Sessional JJivision: Abberton, Besford, Birlingbam, Bricklehamp­ ton1 Comberton (Great), Comberton.. (Little), Defford, Dormston, Ecking­ ton, Flyford Flavell, Grafton Flyford, Naunton Beauchamp, North Piddle, Pershore Holy Cross (with Broughton, Walcot, and Wadborough), Pershore St. Andrew (with Pensham), Pinvin, Pirton,Peopleton, Strensham, and Wick (in Upper Pershore Hundred); Bishampton, Bredon (with Hardwick, Mitton, Kinsham, and Westmancote), Charlton, Cropthorne, Conderton, Elmley Castle, Fladbury, Hill and Moor, Netherton, Norton­ juxta-Bredon, Overbury, Teddington, Tbrockmorton, and Wyre Fiddle (in Middle Oswaldslow Hundred); Abbot's Morton (in Lower Blaken­ hurst Hundred); Kington (in Upper Halfshire Hundred). FERSHORE UNION. (The Guardians meet . at the Board room every alternate Tuesday at II a.m.) Joseph Checketts, Esq., Besford, Chair­ man; Joseph Woodward, Esq., Birlingham, Vice-Chairman; Arthur William Pace, Esq., Olerk _; Martin Abell, Esq., Worcester City and • County 'Bank, T1·easurer; William Knott, Esq., Auditor; Rev. William Waiters, M.A, Chaplain,; Mr. William Sherlock, Master,; Mrs. Harriett Sherlock, Matron; Samuel Wagstaff Smith, Esq., M.D., Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator for Pershore JJistrict and to the} Union House,· J. B. Grewcock, Esq., M.R.C.S.,.for Eckington District; Martin Wood­ ward, Esq., M.R.C.S.,jorFladburyDistrict; James Golby Rusher, Esq., M.R. C. S., for Grafton Flyford and Upton Snodsbury JJistrict; Mr. John Wadley, Pershore, Relieving Officer for No. r District; Mr. Alfred White, Eckington, Relieving Officer for No. 3 JJistrict. The Union comprises the following Parishes: Abberton, Besford, Birlingham, Bishampton, Bredicot, Bricklehampton, Broughton Hackett, Charlton, Churchill, Comberton (Great), Comberton (Little), Cropthorne, Defford, Dormstone, Eckington, Elmley Castle, Fladbury, Flyford Flavell, Grafton Flyford, Hill and Moor, Holy Cross, Kington, N aunton Beau­ champ, Netherton, North Fiddle, Norton-juxta-Kempsey, Peopleton, Pinvin, Pirton, Spetchley, St. Andrew's, Stoulton, Strensham, Throck­ morton, Upton Snodsbury, White Ladies Aston, Whittington, Wick, and Wyre Fiddle.