deal leniently with Mitchell, who was sixty-two years of age, and who offered no resistance to the gamekeeper.  Four months.

Dundee Sheriff Court.  Before Hon. Sheriff-Substitute R. C. Walker.  John Murray, Donald Craig, and James Parkes, charged with poaching.  Craig and Parkes fined 1 pound each or fourteen days; Murray, 5 pounds or one month.

Reading Borough Police Court.  Before Messrs. W. B. Monck, F. B. Parfitt, H. M. Wallis, and G. Gillagan.  Alfred Masters, aged sixteen, charged with sleeping out on a waste piece of ground and having no visible means of subsistence.  Seven days.

   Salisbury City Petty Sessions.  Before the Mayor, Messrs. C. Hoskins,
   G. Fullford, E. Alexander, and W. Marlow.  James Moore, charged with
   stealing a pair of boots from outside a shop.  Twenty-one days.

Horncastle Police Court.  Before the Rev. W. F. Massingberd, the Rev. J. Graham, and Mr. N. Lucas Calcraft.  George Brackenbury, a young labourer, convicted of what the magistrates characterised as an altogether unprovoked and brutal assault upon James Sargeant Foster, a man over seventy years of age.  Fined 1 pound and 5s. 6d. costs.

Worksop Petty Sessions.  Before Messrs. F. J. S. Foljambe, R. Eddison, and S. Smith.  John Priestley, charged with assaulting the Rev. Leslie Graham.  Defendant, who was drunk, was wheeling a perambulator and pushed it in front of a lorry, with the result that the perambulator was overturned and the baby in it thrown out.  The lorry passed over the perambulator, but the baby was uninjured.  Defendant then attacked the driver of the lorry, and afterwards assaulted the complainant, who remonstrated with him upon his conduct.  In consequence of the injuries defendant inflicted, complainant had to consult a doctor.  Fined 40s. and costs.

   Rotherham West Riding Police Court.  Before Messrs. C. Wright and G.
   Pugh and Colonel Stoddart.  Benjamin Storey, Thomas Brammer, and
   Samuel Wilcock, charged with poaching.  One month each.

   Southampton County Police Court.  Before Admiral J. C. Rowley, Mr. H.
   H. Culme-Seymour, and other magistrates.  Henry Thorrington, charged
   with sleeping out.  Seven days.

   Eckington Police Court.  Before Major L. B. Bowden, Messrs. R. Eyre,
   and H. A. Fowler, and Dr. Court.  Joseph Watts, charged with stealing
   nine ferns from a garden.  One month.

Ripley Petty Sessions.  Before Messrs. J. B. Wheeler, W. D. Bembridge, and M. Hooper.  Vincent Allen and George Hall, charged under the Poaching Prevention Act with being found in possession of a number of rabbits, and John Sparham, charged with aiding and abetting them.  Hall and Sparham fined 1 pound, 17s. 4d., and Allen 2 pounds, 17s. 4d., including costs; the former committed for fourteen days and the latter for one month in default of