... A CRUEL HOAX UNEMPLOYED LABOURERS. In Friday'* newspapers an advertisement appeared as follows— *' Labourers Wanted : sober, steady men; v»ages. 22s a week. Apply one o'clock sharp, this day, at O'Hara's, 24 Fleet street. City. On Saturday, before the hour mentioned, about 1500 labourers turned up at Fleet street, the premise?: used for billiard rooms. Serjeant (7 came on the scene, and ...

... ACTION I'HO.MISK ♦— ■ - AGAINST A JEWELLER. A SETTLEMENT. Yesterday the Nisi Court, before the Lord Chief ron and a county special jury, the case Braugan v Anderson, which, judging the crowded coisr', has excited a orent. deal of 1 interest, came for hearing. The plaintiff. Mis-. Elizabeth Carton. VI ,vnooth, sued Mr. Michael Anderson, jeweller. Parliament , .street to recovei •£,»,000 ...

... doubtless through pressure upon your curtailed, deoirous of removing any misapprehension may arise t.iie mines c rtiin your who ware not present tne meeting refeired to, and at the same • make my position in regard above matter perfect y clear. moving the umendment to Mr Brown's resolution 1 endorse! the opinion that piivate consumers were being charged too much for the electric light, but ...

... TOE STOKES WILL SUIT. In the Probate division, on Tuesday, Sir Francis Jeune bad before him the case of Stokes v. Stokes (by Guardian) -Stokes and others' cited. The plain- tiff, Mr. Mean Brooke Stokes, was one of the executors appointed under the last will 6f ChariesHenry Stokes, late of East Central Africa, a trader, deceased, who died on Jan. 15. 1895. The will bore date Sept. 18, 1894. ...

... |}fw '~EAR $RISTOI# A marlret gardener -named Xames Biokett6, of Wick, 'a hamlet five Riles from Bristol, Was murdered on Monday eveaning on the highroad, near his home. :hehad given.a.young .man a lift in hi. cart, and people at a distance saw the men apparently quarrelling. The body was subsequently fou qd in a ditch writ four stabbing wounds in the region of the heart. The assailant eacaped ...

... OLD: BAILEY TRIALS. BIGAXT COMPLICATION& - George Escourt CressoeU, a public-house mana- get, who pleaded Guilty last sessions to biga1y, was- placed in the dock for sentence.-Mr. E. J.. Drake, for the do- fondant, reminded the court that this was the case in which the accuseds wite left him shortly after their marriage in 1886, maed went away with two other men. Six or seven years later ...

... YESTERDAY'S LAW AND P OLICE. - RECEIVING ORDERS. Yesterday, at the London Court of gankruptcy, petitions were heard be. fore Ir. Registrar Hope. In the matter of E. R. Savigny a receiving order was made under a petition presented against tbe debtor, trading as the MorEe BIauufacturing company and the London and South-eastern bank, and described as a watch manufacturer and banker, lately ...

... A DO32STIV TRAGJEDY. Dr. T. Jackson held an inquest at Croydon ou Wed- nesday concerning thedeath of Annie i3horthouses, aged thirty-eight years, the wife of Dr. Nerille ShortiLoise, formerly a well-known practitioner in Croydon, who is at present in custody on a charge of complicity in cer. trin illegal practices. Dr. Shorthouse wee at une time a inrusber of the Croydon Town Council. At the ...

... GROSVENOR HOTEL AFFAIR& ALLEGATIONS AGAINST DIRECTORS. A libel action arising out of the Board of Trade investigation of the affairs of the Grosvenor and West- end Railway Terminus Hotel Company came before the Lord Chief Justice and a special jury in the Queen's Eench Division. The plaintiff, Mr. Edward James Newitt, is one of thle directors of the hotel, acid is also a director of the ...

... j I fESUMCED INVESTIGATION. Yesterday Captain Welch, R.M.; LM. R. Ferris, J.P.; and Mr. R Rankin, J.P., resumed the ma/gisterial inquiry into the case of fatal shooting at BalJywindland, near Coleraine. The Town Hall was again crowded all day. of The first wiiness called bh Distriot.-.Tspertor 1t Tottenhasm was Dr. J. T. Creery, who repeated the d evidence given by thim at the inquest. ...

... ARITAGIc.-The above weekly court was held yesterday before MIessrs. Hemny Hiluclk, 1P. (in the chair) ; F. J. Best, J.P. ; George A. EIdwards, ?? - and Dr. Gra-y J.P. Jamrnes Forsythe wes sumnuned by Inspector I'Court for cruelty to al animal under the Cruelty to Animals Act. The iinspector stated that he met defendant in Dobbin Strcet, who told him he had come from near Gale- don. The ...

... ILME A LLEi.{Ef) THEFTS AT| i LUN D Y. At the DWeoutiusdrtcrhessioniOiL Wve aosrkiY -before Mr. W. }f, litiv andl GoloDet' Lucas-James Biding, di~iver, (r!Y QAzir piadea r0to grailty to chaprg au Z 2slg betwvean the l1t Augnst-and 25th 'Sbptember, 1897, 14l71bs of cl-pper stnamll, piping. value- £16, f'rou the n recuied liop SlidadO,' at hitndy I sland .MMl [lawke (inistructPd byv MI r. ...