... MAIDSTONE, Tre AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS.—Mr. Simmons, of the Agricuitural Labourers’ Union, in his weekiy manifesto, contradicts the statement which has gained carrency that large numbers of the men have returned to work and the strike h.s come to an end ...

... THE EMIGRATION OF KENT AND SUSSEX LABOURERS. - On Friday (yestcrday) week the dispute between the Kentish furmers and their laboorers bore its fullapd frail fraits when the good ship Stad Haarlem received in P ymouth Sound as fine a body of emigrants ...

... once belonged, or of the ducal or o'ber aristocrstic families, who had given them asa:, as they did their old clothes and boots, a= perqui-iies to their servants ; or perbaps, if they were ver; frugsl, which they bad coneigned in part paym-at for ucw ...

... that complainant nearly throttied hm and struck him several times before he did so.—Fined 10s., costs 11s. MAIDSTONE QUARTER SESSIONS.—At the Maidstone Quarter Sessions on Saturday, Mr. S. Prentice, Q.C., the newly appointed Recorder, took bis seat for the ...

... Addison ratired. FreemasoNrY —The annual fgstival of the Ancient Free, and Aoccepted Mazons o‘; the Province of Kent will this year be held at Maidstone. Tre Queex's CoUrr AND Drawing-rooM.—The Queen held a Court and drawing-room at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday ...

... of the abolition of flogging in the service. Horse AND SHEEP STEALING.—Jobhn Harris, 24, labourer, was indicted a$ the East Kent Quarter Sessions last week for stealing a mare, value £47, the property of Thomas Wood, at Ashford, on the 15th July, 1878 ...

... the provision of a st'pend for an assistint garate to serve the proposed new district. MurRDER AT MAIDSTONE.—A terrible murder was committed in Maidstone, at half past nine o’clock on Tuesday night, when s glazier, named Weston, who is a member of the ...