... 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. ...

... SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST THE LANDLORD. At the Ereter Police Court this morning- before Ur R R M Daw, Mr T Liascotb. M1r A Bowden, and Mr J W Petherick-William Evaans, of 6, Silver-place, Blactkboy-reai, was summoned for being drunk on the licensed premises knovw as the Snn Inn, Sur-street, on Wednesday last,to which, ho pleaded guilty, and was fined 5s inclusive. Roger Squire, vendor, of ...

... BREACHI OF PROMIS1E. tS BE STILL, 8AD HEA.RT. . s' In tho Queen's i3nch Division on Wednesdly - before Mr. AlustiePlilloy- Miss Kate Sinclair aseied Mr John lHacklett, a veterinary seurgeon, l(o reeover damages for breach of promise of r marriage. The defendlant origrinally denied tiho proumie, bht the main defence was that irhe promiso was of a conditional nature with redwild to an event ...

... 'Yhe general Qarter -Sessions of the Peace for thie County of Devon was };ield at the Castle of Exeter an Tuesday, before his H our Judge Edge, wole, v was accompanied 0 J It Bench by the following justices s - Lord Coleridge, Colonel Ivalcott, Colonel Lake, Makjor Gardener, Major Dunning, the bev NV D Pitian, Dr Ash. Alessrs Airatson F D Fulford, IHiggs, It Moraboad, Inshrt-Tei-ry, C A HI A ...

... I BREACII OF PROMISE SEQUELI NORTH DEVON LOCAL PREACHEU'S BANKRUPTCY. John Henry Sleeman, late farmer at Halwill t} a bttnkrupt, was on Trnesday at Barsstaple ,j, further examined by Mr. A. F. Seldon, repre. senting Miss Densham, who obtained a Tl verdict by consent of £300 for oreach of C promise at a recent Asseiz. At the previous gr examination debtor a initted he lra c oompro- gr mised ...

... SINGULAR DIVORCE SUIT'. I In the Divorce Division on Tuesday, before Sir Francis Jeune, Mr. George Blake, auctioneer, Llanelly, sued for a divorce from his wife, Mrs. Annie Lamberb Blake, because of her alleced adaltery with Ur. George Waddell, colliery proprietor, and M r. Frederick Nelson Powell, solicitor, brother-in-law of the petitioner.-Mr. Blake was married on Sep- tember I5th, 1885, ...

... THE ZOIA. TAIAL. SENTENCE )OF IMPRISONMIEITT. O VERSAIlLLS, Monday. n. The sorld trial of 1I' A. Zola and Perr ens ge publisher of the Aurore, began bere to-day. All streets leading to the Place St. Pierre, in which the Assiae Court is situited, wert guarded by the police, and although tno at public were not pormitted to approach the Court House a large crowd gathored ?? Xh time before tbe ...

... EXETERt ENGINEER CHARGED -AT EXHlOUTH. -Ernest.John Thomas alias Wirde Thomas, electrical engineer, of Laira, Plynmouth, and late of Exeter and Heavitree, was charged at the Police Court on Wednesday-before Mr it Ley (in the chair) and Mr G Ellett-with unlawfully obtaining by false pretences goods from the Gaudy Bell Manufaataring Cln panyi Limited Seacombe, Cheshire; George Craddock- and ...

... is is Is I e Df '1V Id Id )r ?? Id if ?? 10 My laC le sh I. 1. ts i THIE ID\'QUEST ADJOURNEi). THIRTY-TWO YEA J1S' DInUNKENNESS. Mr, S. Hacker (Count ! Coroner) held an inquest at St. Marychurch Town Hall on Wed- nesday into the circumstances attending the dteath of T iirza Mingo, 52, wife of a marine store dealer, who was found 'ead, as pro- vionsly reporte> in the ' Evening Post, Mr. ...

... IIRISH MIYSTERY. of I e SUPPOSED BRUTAL MURDER. i of News reaclhed Belfast on Thursday from' ,d Gweedore, co. Donegal, that some police I d constables, on entering a house that morning e at Weencerryrasloe, founl the dead body of a nman named Connell Boyle with such marks of s, violence on his head and body as to afford 1. strong presumptive evicence that a brutal ;o murderhad been committed. ...

... SHOCKING CASE AT AXIMINSTER. On Tnesl.v st the Axmninster Police ?? Mr. J. Scarborough and a fall Bench-Francis Williams, a shepherd, liring I at Hawkchoilch, near Axminster, an his e stepdaughter, Beatrice Marv lUckle, a bright 1 good-looking girl of about 21 years of ale, ewere summoned at the inttanoe of the I National Society for the Proveoetion. of Cruelty to Children for craoUT to four ...

... - BOY COSTERMONG ER. HIS ADYENTURED WITH A Bus:! The London General Omnibus Company . were the defendants in an action on Wednes- 1 day in fhoreditch County Ccurt brought by a boy named Robert Kent, who sued, through his next friend, a Mr. Turaer, for '£5 5s, damage done to his donkey, cart, and wares by a collision with one eof the Company's omnibuses. Mr. Smith I appeared for plaintiff, and ...