some of them at least - bore testimony to the "critter" being a gallant "triennial" deserving of a better fate. The brush was carried off by Miss Deudney, of Gensing Lodge. After the death of poor pussy, the dogs were led away to Monkham Wood, where a second fox was started, but after a short hunt, was given up as lost.
Weekly Ante Business.
The example set by the St Leonards tradesmen in the previous year of summer half-holidays, was again adopted by the drapers and some of the tailors. Handbills were issued, setting forth that Messrs. Andrews, Philpot and Baldwin would close their shops on Wednesdays at 5 pm from June 1st to August 31st, and that Messrs. Bickle and Stoneman would close theirs at 2 o’clock from the 29th of June till the 31st of August. It was afterwards understood the 2 o’clock closing would be adopted by all. The Wednesday half-holiday arrangement became for more general than was at thought first likely to be observed. Besides the fifty, and odd drapers, clothiers and upholsterers of both towns who had agreed to close their establishments on Wednesday afternoons, there were twenty or more of other trades (chiefly booksellers) who joined in the movement.
The Health of the Borough.
In the returns of the Registrar General for the quarter ending June 30th, it was shewn- so far as figures without a proper accompaniment of facts could show that the mortality of Hastings was at the rate of 24 to the thousand. This estimate was so wide of the mark as deduced from correct analysis and by those who were acquainted with the locality that it was very satisfatory that our worthy and intelligent mayor wrote to the Times newspaper in explanation of the matter. Had the Registrar General known that our visiting population during the period named was larger by three or four thousand than that of any previous spring and that a proportionate number of death-expecting invalids was included in that population, he would not have asked "Why is the mortality of Hastings 24 in the thousand?" But that figure has never been reached since; for, although there have been naturally variations in the returns, the mortality upon the whole has continued to decrease, until the time of writing (Sept. 30th 1900) it is as low as 10.32 per thousand.
Coroner's Inquests
The uncertain tenour of human life was instanced in a somewhat unusual manner on the manner(sic) of March 3rd, in the sudden demise of a gentleman while taking his ticket at the St. Leonards railway station for London. This gentleman was John Cramer Roberts, Esq., -
