... DIVORCE C ?OURTZ. , !~ ?? - , A HONG KONG. ROMANCE. IN the Divorce Division, Mr. Jittids BlE- rnes had before him -the petition:, of s5.ilias: MaxwIell Cooper-King foatreittionOfon- jugal rights., The resapobdent;' ?? Cooper-King, vws stated to' be ais oicer of the army. There was no defence. - Mr. .Le Bas, who appeared.for the peti- tioller, said that the marriage toh plate 'n Ndvember 9, ...

... -THE 'WANDSWORTTH- T-RAGEDY. COBONEWS VERDICT. A:1u W sndpsworth, Mr. Draxton Hicks held an inquiry into the circumistances- attending the deaths of 'A'lbert Walteri Clhalfant, aged twenty-five;,- his wife,d Mry shat; and their child.Eva, aged'eleven monihs, of Bas singham Road, Earisfield, who died under pecuiarly dis g circumstace, which have be descrbed in oor cbluins, on ,Satirday' 'week.- ...

... Z7a :Damages AgaInst a False Friend. Tnrs was a petition presented by;: the. hus- band, Hebe William OAkeley, prxyiag for the ?? of his Dageon the round of the alleged mixconoact of Thei' e, Cssy Lillian Qakeley, with the co responydnt, Henry Rudolp~h -Lmber TerA a.n defence, but there was a claim for c damage on the part of the petitioner. Mx. B. Deane, Q.C., MIf.; Murphy, and Mr. Pritchard ...

... . ~~ ~ : WHAT IS_ :BEDDING t 1N the Queen's tench Division, before Nr. Justioe chaunnell and Mr., Justice Backnill, the case of .IDavis v. Harris was argued. Thi was: an ,ppeal-from'a decision of Mr. Haden corser, -the- etropolitan Police .7gistrate, sitting at Worship Street, raising a long discussed question under the Law of DistreassiAmiendment, Act. Mr. Edgar,-Foa, appeared for the ...

... CLERKENWELL. A Dmqasnous Wouwx.-Maud Ring, nine- teen, of Hawley Street, Chalk Farm, was charged with maliciously attempting to wound Charlotte Thompson with a butcher's knife at Harrison Street, Gray's Inn Road. The complainant, a married woman, said the previous morning the prisoner, who had been carrying on with her husband, rushed at her, and holding a large knife above her head said, ...

... IA SMART BOY- WHO WATHD THE' BURGLARS IN HIS ROOM. GoOuaN ArLFR3D CoMPTON, twenty, a gaS' fitter, of Woodland Street, Dalston, and Frederick Hulbert, eighteen, labourer, of Carolina Cottages, Mattbiai Road, Isliug- ton, were charged, on remand, at North London Police Court, as suspected persons found loitering in Abbo Strt ng lad, supposed for the purpose of coz ting a felony. PO00coistb Joe h ...

... DR. WYNN WESTCOTT,: coroner, held an inquest at Shoreditch on the body on v Mary Ann Quinn, aged sixty-five jears, the widow of a bootmaker, lately residing at 27, Evelyn Bail,dings, Gray's Inn Road. James Quinn, of 1, Great 'Bland Street, Borouzgh, stated that the deceased was his mother, who had been a widow for many years. She was in receipt of 2s. Ed. a week from the parish, and the ...

... PATRIOTIC OUTBURST AT THE OLD BAILEY. Tnm was a war incident at the Old Bailey on Monday, and, for the nonce, the severe decorum of a court of justice was relaxed, unrebukmd, in the presence of a patriotic deinonstration. A case came before the Common Serjeant (Sir Forrst Futhon, ?? in which a pri- soner was found Guilty of attempting to steal a watch and chain. The facts of the case were ...

... : Btroni Mr. Alderman QtIosby, M.b., Mt the Guildhall, Charles Benjamin, ?? years. of age, described as a :hewssendor, living at 31, Ironmonger Row, St. Luke's, was placed in the ddsck charged with at- tempting to muraer Richard Hughes. * The prisoner, a poorly-clad, spare man, stood with his arms on the front of the dock and listened while the evidence was given, but asked no questions of any ...

... A PECKHAM PALMIST FINED FOR I I TELLING FORTUNES. AT Lambeth Police Court, Edward Henry Mond, thirty-three, a fair-haired man, with a fair moustache, described as a palmist,. was charged before Mr. 1opkins on a war- .rant, with unlawfully obtaining the sum of 2s. from Eleanor Lee, by pretending o6 pro- fessing to tell fortunes by palmistry. Detebtive-1nspector Fox stated that on the previous ...

... II ?? P Id II * , . IL:LUIST. A d SATUND-AY, -Vi3lRuAty, 3, 1900. land.L ?? eakbetale 6f advetu ress 'WVas ?? es Bil' Badthirt -ihb iesmker, ' who twas i'monficte id, ' that.ing farrns au three Baridgta roa Wasd theebeg ad otringe bfatles,~oth £2lfomn th s hous Steet, iinster iohn. I~r custome ~t - a.newsaets. shopi.Bee hsdpohed t~d. kc sunqlwoa idi as rity,- lhe 'se lced hn bfs Itr aerd alsom ...

... AUDACIOUS CONDUCTOF BOY TRIEV S.. AT Marylebone Iolice Court, two very small decently dressed boys, named John: Heath, agjd twelvei,'sd -John W. Francis, aged eleven, living -in 'Brodrick RPoad, ' Kentish 'Twn, ieri, Cboe- Jr.. Ctis-Bennett,' .charged with pteallng a gold watch, worth £S,' cb~eloging -t'Mis L; Remington, of 31,. Rona Road, I Harstead.- The -boys knocke4da-ttb.afiont'door of ...