... IAN EX-MAYOR'S BETTING TR4NSACTIONSI I At the Kidderminster Town Hall, yesterday-before a Air. Registrar Talboti-Leonard Arthur Gabb, Bnrish wine s manufacturer, Bewdley, and till recently mayor of that lborough, came up for his public examination. The gross -liabilities were £5,811. 2s. 9d., and the debtor's statement showed a surplus of £79. 11s. Id., but in the Official River's report there ...

... THE SEIZURE OF TINNED SALMON AT KIDDERIMINSTER. At the Iidderminster Borough Polies Court, yesterday -before Messrs. 31. Tomrinson (the Mayor), T. Tempest Padford, S. Stretton, AV. C:. Green, and J. J. Harvey- Messrs. John Taylor and Co., provision dealers, Kidder- minster, were charged with exposing for sale a quantity of tinned salmon unfit for human food. Mr. t H Amphlstt (instructed by the ...

... YESTRDAY.-Before Mer. A. Hill and Major Ash. Tonr Jcry LTn's.-The magistrates heard objections to the new jnry lists for the parishes of Birmingham, Eigdbaston, and Aston. There was only one objection, that of Mr. John Smith, of 16, Wyndham load, Edgbas- ton, whose name having been eliminated in consequence of old age, the lists were signed. VIOLENT AsSAULTS ON POLIMcEqso.-Fdward Keggan and ...

... YESTERDAY. Magistrates present-Col. Scobell and Mr H, E. E~ippisley. JURY LISTS, The lists of persons liable to serve on juries for the various parishes within the division were presented by the overseers and approved by the magistrates, LICENSING BUSINESS. The license of the Westtown inn, Nempnett, was granted to Stephen Gunter. That of the Somerset Arms at Paulton was granted to Thomas Di. ...

... i ~ - 1 - I THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS. A plasterer or bricklayer's labourer, giving e the name of John Fitzfgerald, is in custody at 8 Leman Street Polica Station, having made a a statemnent that he bid committed the Hanbary a Street murder. Little reliance is placed on the e avowal by the police, Wh6 are, however, making a inquiries. Fitzgerald's descriptioni does niot I tally Vith that given ...

... EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR AT NINGSLAND. James Johnson, a pale-looking mail of 35, with a decided American accent, desorilling himself us a waiter, of Birdburst-road, St. John's-bill, Yauds- worth, was chargedi before Mr. It. W. Bros, at tho Dalston Police-court yesterday, with assaulting Eliza- both Hudson, by throwing her down on the-pavonemet and threatening to stab her with a ?? prose- cutrix ...

... THE POLICE UOURTS MANSION ?? Di A0 Cnnnovo. w -.Heny PYitmatn, 67 described as an ' American W clergyman, and as I'Vavinig no fixed rQsidenoe, wa5 T charged on remand befolre the Lord Mayor, with a bh robbuty from the Uivil Senieo Stores in Queen Viatorla- a ?? day last *eek an assistant in the umbrella , ,dopartueut at the stores saw the prisonor take a utm- 1 brella from a stand, put It ...

... '1LJ'IBEGISTRwYON1 COURTS. LFEEDS CENTRAL DIVIION LIRA1 GAIN. The following are -the results of the revision in the 3 Central Division of Leeds ?? PA auMT , AVD l MW MT IPA.La a Liberal claims sustained ?? ?? 214 tl laberal objections ?? ?? Withdawn or not slsaidandadiens 220 - -298 Tory objections ?? 5. ?? ;* !.^603 e WitdrawnT or uot sti ?? . . 28 e Total . * ?? , 380 t i L s iberdl ?? a ?? ...

... Police-constable Charles Barnes, 139 E, appeared to a summons charging him with assaulting Mr. Beaumont Kent, a reporter, at the Bow-street police-station on Saturday last. Mr. Poland, instructed by the Treasury Solicitor's Department, appeared for the defendant. The summons arose out of * a dispute occurring between the prisoner and the defendant, who the former alleged was treating a drunken ...

... THE MURDER IN HANBURY-STREETWHITECIIAPEL REMARKABLE STATEMENT BY THE CORONER. Ga The inquest concerning the death of the woman named Annie Chapman, wi who was so foully murdered in Hanbury-street, Whitcchapel, on the 8th of in September, was concluded yesterday, when the coroner delivered an fur elaborate summing-up of all the evidence, and the jury returned a simple Th verdict of Wilful ...

... EXTRAORDINARY PROwNS CAS IN Bj1EMEHAM a A MOTHER SEVERELY CENSIhRED. ,Fr. Hawkes (coroner) held an encuiry at his court, yes- terday afternoon, touching the death of Anne Cotterim seven weeks old, whose parents live at 1 Court bawley Street.-Elizabeth Cotterill said that she was a widow, bhu at present lived with a man named George Nye The deceased was 3a illegitimate child. On Sadtr ai afr- ...

... BIRIMJNGRAJc POLICE COURT. YESTRnDAY.-Before Aeso Cssvere (Slip.), A. (ears.- oaesl>, White, ~Rytand, and Brame. ANs AMICABLE SS TTLhSEyT.-Thomas Chapman, the elderj*was summoned for driving an omnibus along the tram lines in such a manner as to obstruct a tram engme and car. lr. Lowe (froem the office Oflessrs Johnson, Bar- lay Rogers, and Co.) appeared for the company, and mY. IPeet ...