... should like well to be a hop-farmer of Kentf. this year. The genial, prosperous-looking gentle- men I meet on thepavement of Maidstone, in front' of the Mitre, resemble Bonny Bessie Lee in having faces full of smiles, and can look in the face of their ...

... number of vagrants relieved on the last day of the week was 792. A boiler belonging to some saw mills in Swan- street, Old Kent-road, yesterday exploded with great violence. Two persons employed upon the premises were killed, many others were injured ...

... have gone hard with the w horses' tails. After the troops came the band, |t splendid in tnimc of cloth of gold, high jack boots, al and black jockey caps, the State dress of the musi- w cians to her Majesty's Life Guards. Next came se another procession ...

... enthusiastic oheering, the audience rising to their feetandwavingtheirlhats. StrSydneyWaterlow, thenewly. elected mnimber for Maidstone, proposed a vote of con. fidence in the three candidates, which was seconded by Sir B. Phillips and supported by Mr. S. Mor ...

... season. Mr. Gathorne Hardy, M.P., tk the chair at a banquet which wav held at Maidstone ok. .Sturday, to celebrate the return of Lord Holmes. W&e and Mr. Irfart Dyke for' Mid Kent. In pro. posing. the tost of the evening, Mr. Hardy sa that'the Conservative ...

... River are the only companies which have during the past twelve months is uniformly supplied efficiently filtered water. The Kent Company's water, from dcopwvells in the chalk, was bright, palatable, and wholesome. It is shown in the return of the Registrar- ...

... Police-court with giving false names and addresses in pledging worthless boots. The prisoners were known as boot translators, and their business cousists in purchasing old boots in Petticoat-lane and barn- ishing them up to be sold or pledged. A fine ...

... Ol-sret Weimslorld Wvard-Crst. Churc Schoolsoo, Dorese-street, 1iw dsarnd-road. i iiggirstor, Ward-rubihic Elementwr Bchool, Maidstone- Anton Warfl-I'iibhii Elementary School, Pownall-road, near oQuocn's-i'nl. VoR Tiil. PRISHn OF ST. alArrEW, DErEaeAL-ORSENS ...

... ini. the years 1876, 1S705, iiad 18.74 these figures -show a 'dearease of 3,187,12,722,' (Id 21,669 respectively., At the Maidstone Assizes yesterday, Charlotte 'Guy, 36 years of age, the widowv of 'the National' isohooluiaster in that'town,*pleaed' guilty ...

... merest chance 1 of the golden grain being lost from want of hands to gather it, they would joyfully join the farmer in such a request.-I am, Sir, your obedfent servant, ALFRfED SIMMONS, Hon. See. Kent and Sussex Labodjers' Unito, Maidstone, March 16. Ti PRINoE ...

... the KinLr and Queen of the Belgians. The event was celebrated by a general holiday, and Brussels was gaily' 'decorated. A golden crown withbrilliants, and' a veil of Belgian lace, iwexe presented to the Qu~en by. a deputation of Belgian women. Queen Christina ...

... and few men of [Kent trouble their heads with the question we havo propounded, They are paid fair wazes while they are employed in stripniug the hops frora the bino and talen much greater care of than of old. Publio opinion iu Kent, as tlsewhere, has ...