... Maidstone. The Robbeet from Draper’s Shop. —At the Petty Sessions on Saturday week, Amelia Honey and Fanny Re If were charged on remand with stealing a pair of boots, value 12a. 9d., the property of Messrs. Paine and Dan-ant, High Street, on the 15th ...

... Maidstone. West Kent Qpauter Sessions. —Fhese sessions commence at Maidstone on Thursday next.—The ; prisoners committed for trial are :—James Andrews, 21, labourer, stealing a pair of boots Chatham ; Henry Baker, 32, marine store dealer, stealing cloth ...

... MAIDSTONE. As might have been expected the so-called new- Maidstone and Ashford liailway scheme has caused very great dissatisfaction in all the centres of population the direct road between Ashford and Maidstone. There is not, it objected, one the little ...

... MAIDSTONE. Inquest in the Gaol.— An inquest was held tho County Gaol on Monday afternoon week, before J. N. Dudlow, Esq., county coroner, on tho body of John Thomas, who was convicted stealing a pair of boots at the West Kent Quarter Sessions in March ...

... Maidstone. The Arrival ravesekd. —The first Kent (Maidstone) Rifle Volunteers loft Maidstone by an early train on Saturday morning and assisted in lining the route taken the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh at Gravesend ; a troop of the 7th Hussars, and ...

... committed for trial, but admitted to bail. Stealing Boots. —Frances Skinner, about 22 years, was charged at the same sitting with stealing a pair of boots, the property of Mr. Robert McVicar. The boots were hanging outside the shop of the prosecutor, High ...

... alone near the bridge, High-street, Maidstone, by a policeman apparently in an apouletio fit. She was removed at once to the West Kent General Hospital, where Mr. Wilson, house surgeon, discovered by the marks her boots and clothing, that she was an inmate ...

... Maidstone. • Driving into a Volunteer Corps. —At the Maidstone Petty Sessions, on Tuesday last, before the Mayor (J. H. Hills, Esq.), C. Arkcoll, C. Ellis, and J. Clifford. Esqre., Charles Richard Farley, horse-dealer, was summoned on two informations ...

... good; spring, bad. Peas, under average. Boot crops, very good. Hay, huge growth; well got. Harvest, now genenl. Mr. Bobert Matson, Wingham:—Wheat, over avenge. Barley, under average. Oats, good. Peas, good. Boot crops, mangel good and swedes partial. Hay ...

... MAIDSTONE. Tde Hop Pickers.— -The society for the employment and impro?ed lodging of hop-piokers had it§ annual meeting at the Star Hotel. Maidstone, on Thursday, the Earl of Romney in the chair. The improvement in the lodgings of hop-pickers, which the ...

... KENT WINTER ASSIZES. The Commission for this Assize was opened the Sessions House, Maidstone, Saturday by Lord Justice Cotton. His lordship arrived the train duo at 4.32 in the afternoon the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, and met the High Sheriff ...

... Maidstone. M.mdstonk Barracks. - Mr. Whatman, M.P., and Sir John Lubbock, M.P., have been in communication with the Secretary for War in reference to obtaining definite information to the intention of the deportment regarding the Maidstone barracks, and ...