... DURHAMI QUARTER ESIONS. I I.The business of the Ep~iphany G-ene- ape .e, Tl Quarter Sessions for the county Of Mr B Ce Durham commenced at the Assize and a . Courts, Durham, yesterday morning. were ir The Right Hon. John Lloyd Wharton,~OI M.P. (chairmau), presided, and among Mrs I other magistrates present were Mr Ed. assist4 iiin Richirdeon, Capt. Randolph_, And cheers Mr P. Brown. Mr a' The ...

... I|ELEBRATED CHARGERS requt well awar that it is 'considered' a bald trite aphorisms W savouring of cve§y-botoks and 'moral. Bt iDpocket-ankerelhers, to affirm that the i horse is the nobplest of animalls. it 05 ton, evident that everyone is aware -of this War interesting and important fact from the the part that 'the horse plays' in. ,our Shell bert modern, eivilisation. See how great ...

... AUCKLAN.D C TIM ATS Thle retu'tlI for the vl The raetorus for thle year ea n he 31st, 1899, show that Lir ~Idic ?? ty twelve months 3,853 Ieq the- tat ay charged with various offn ?? vn the magistrntes of the ces ?? -se Sessional Divisiol), as c, and Petty ng 3,614 in the prn.vious Jii m- ber of persons ?? i henntO. 'al ?? was 1,440) of 1t bor ad were discharged. Inl the 1eo 1)02LI *l he 1 ...

... gN 1 ! i ' l A 1U X X \ I7 U1-'CY COURT lip N: ?? I. M. Turner held a su * ! okton ?? Clo ! d O lere were pre- tio 'i M 1tl, tile oiitial receiver, tw In, :t; 1 on. thle as st ant official leo ea, bi~tnnkrlipts signed the ] i :i, p 'l 1 nlei plub lic exam- en 0 h-o~o t QV i , XSann, hail- I a;,ll tultretla inaker. 6 on OflA-lows. Selkton; Arthar Jolly, hil frniters carryinng Onl lmlilinasq at ...

... NOR'1H RIDING QUARTER SESSIONS. .. .. A . -. -. j. .. I VU At the Court House, Northiallerton, She w-a ,b. the general Quarter Sessions for the and ha North Riding- of Yorkshire were held at Devi tq0 ye=teda before Mr E. R. Turton, pumpir chaimawere it 'rhe Chairman extended to the meam- Secadle at here of the Bar a happy and prospe- vessels mlj rous year, to which Mr R. Luck re- into de ...

... NORTHERN gCHO. AONDAY1 JAAUARY 8, 1900. ?? n- -nr t-WM tn - n ANC TN- THE GROWlNG DEM IND FOR AN IN- cat quiry into the war in South Africa, imi not in its present aspects, but with WE the view of fixing the responsibility La for the lack of calculation and mili- act tary precaution which characterised for it at the first, is natural. A very large are number of people in this country, ma' m ...

... DARLINGTON 1 -yACE STATISTICS ni-. In the areia of the Darlington County mul Division (borough and county magis- is trates) for the year ended December 31, is 1899, the number of crimes (indictable boa in- offences) reported (these included bur- row . glary, slhop brsaking, wounding, etc.) and were 101. For thsae 76 personas were. will ion proceeded against, 5(} were convicted, imi 8 ?? for ...

... BISHOP AUCKLAND) COYUNTY CO URT. I ?? a Yesterday-before Ilia Hotinorude ?a Meynell-.Junies AG~uinness, 'late of Loum g. Spennymoor, dIraper, suied an. A. carg Le Short, of Blyers Green, and Win. Short lotib his rather,for the recovery of £217 3il ar a. d under bills of exchauge. Mir F. Il, ~.Badcock was for thre plaintiff, and Mr: Kub It Dodd for the ?? sail, t.case was that the younger ...

... D)UR HAMr BANKIRUPTCY COURT, At the Dutrham Bankruptcy Court l Yest erday-before M1r Retgistrar E. ' Alarshallthe furtfler examinatioll took t place of r. Wv. h'oot. builder and con- I tractor. of Shildon and Bishop Auck- I lanid. T'le debtor was examined at. copsq1idat8lie le Asgth s to his tralsac- tioils with a Mr Wilkinson, especially t iii relatipa to a gilwititv of timber t which fthe ...

... O 'T CROOK. in Yesterday, 'Mr Depntr-Coroller Bad- I sa ii ?? beld ~an ]iiciliUTy touching the Id death of thomas Bell (44), who met his zy death whilst working in WhiteLea Pit gof Mes;srs Pease and( Partners at Crook, ol1 on M1onday last. Mir W. Plu1m1er, 1 th lie Government iu.spector of ines; ry fT. Pratt, mnalnage.r; .lames A don- ry thwaite. muen's repre'entative; and J. Ls Gownan(lad ...

... Yesterday, at Auckland, Jos, Crad- dock, miner, coundon was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for hav- ing failed to contribute to the main- tenance of his wife in accordance with a magisterial order uade against him a short time ago. The amount of the arrears was £2 Sc Gd. Climax to Continual Anabyance. Jackson Suddes youth, of Etherley Moor, represented by Mr W. Wilkin- son, summoned two ...

... !8 I. 5 OPENING OF THE INQUEST. t A Coroner's inquiry was held, yes- t x terdan before Mr George Buchannan, l at Whitby, on the bodies of Annie 3 Robinson (44), wife of Robert Robinson, I fisherman; Dinah Turvey, about 26, 3 wife of George Turvey, fisherman; and' c '9 Sarah Ann Turvey, infant daughter, 3 of the above, who met with their death; v e the previous morning on the Crag by I r two ...