... handsome prizes For the best pockets of East Kent hops, prizes of £2l, £lO 10«., and £5 are offered, and two other classes, with prizes of the same amount, are offered for pockets of Mid Kent and W'eald Kent hops. The entries in the various classes close ...

... persons were conveyed on that day, and on Monday morning 300 mor arrived in the vicinity of Maidstone, which is the centre of the hop-growing districts of Kent. The railway company act in conjunction with the Hop-pickers* Employment Society, and convey ...

... by one application of St. Jacobs Oil, after all other remedies had failed.' Mrs. D. Coast, of Grove Cottage, Sandway, Maidstone, Kent, says: St. Jacobs Oil has cured me of neuralgia of two years standing. There is no bodily pain which cannot be removed ...

... inquiries, and found two men answering the description at the Golden Heart, and arrested them. They gave the names ol Thomas Wiltshire, saddler, of Devises, and Abraham Gore, of Ramsgate, Kent, but none of the properly was found them. Friday morning Su ...

... dowly, yet price* are supported. The accounts trom some parts of the plantations are unfavourable, but the prospects in Mid Kent are satisfactory. BOROUGH HOP MARKET, Monday— There is better demand for all descriptions of last year’s growth at firm rates ...

... were many plants in full bloom. Ripe wild straw. berries were also picked at Waldron, In the same con nty, and in the Weald of Kent. The severe boats of the last two or three days have, however, cut off the remaining fruit, and destroyed the prospect of any ...

... testis- faction, each party would be required to pay his own costs. BATH. THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.—Thim Society will give the Golden Legend at the Bath Theatre during the last week In April, when the composer, Sir Arthur Sullivan, will conduct the performance ...

... Police-court, London, last week, for representing himself to be a policeman to a person whom charged with stealing a pair of boots. Experiments have commenced at Woolwich on a new invention for steering torpedoes from the shore. Electricity is the agent ...

... worst characters during the time they have been in the army. Gater, one of the prisoners, was tried at the last assises at Maidstone on charge of having set fixe to wheatstack on the farm of Mr. Gilbert, Chatham-hill, but was acqmtted by the jury from i ...

... in moment or two, and then I saw him call Kate’s attention to me, to my singularly black brows and lashes and odd-looking golden hair. It was patent to me then that my disguise was good ; for she, my idol, my little sister, did not know me. I have omitted ...

... with her sisters-In-law, the Czarina and the Grand Duchess Vladimir. Lovers of music enjoyed a rich treat In hearing the Golden Legend' at the Albert Hall. given by the Royal Choral Society, and conducted with such ability by Sir Joseph Barnby. A well ...

... with inurmuroos rustling ware. In ami forest, and tho hedgerows burst Into the tender greenery Spring. Now shew the clumps of golden crocuses Thotr crowns above the freshly scented mould; And quavering bells snowdro|*s glimmer white, In roadside garden ; ...