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The Redditch Arrow

The Arrow was one of the first Newspapers serving Redditch, but it did not start to well. This
article shows The Redditch Arrow as an unregistered Newspaper

At the Redditch Petty Sessions, on
Wednesday, Howard J. Goldsmid was
charged that being the printer and
proprietor of The Redditch Arrow, he, on
the 31st July last neglected to register
the title of his newspaper and the names
of the proprietors as required by the Act.
Defendant pleaded guilty. Mr J. Walford,
solicitor, Birmingham, said that on
September 12th an issue of the Arrow
contained a most serious libel on his
client, Mr Harold C. Browning, solicitor,
of Redditch. An application was at once
made to the records at Somerset House
for the registered names of the
proprietors of the paper, and then it was
discovered that the paper had never been
registered, and the present action
became necessary in order to obtain the
necessary information for the pending
libel action. Mr Walford quoted the
section of the Act dealing with the case, which fixed the extreme penalty at £25. Mr
Goldsmid said the non-registration of the Arrow was quite inadvertent, and arose from
a wrong impression of the period of grace allowed by the authorities for the registration
of a paper after its first issue. He had now remedied the error. The Bench inflicted a
fine of £5. Mr Walford applied for the costs to be allowed, and the Bench allowed them.
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Berrow’s Worcester Journal – Saturday 28 September 1889

(The Arrow was first published July 18th 1889 and stopped being published as the Arrow, June
2nd 1892. Continued then as the Arrow News, June 9th 1892 but discontinued April 5th 1894.)

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