From the Kentish Gazette, 23 July 1844.

GEORGE ROALFE, at present and for twelve months 9 past residing at BISHOPSBOURNE. in the Parish of Bishopsbourne and County of Kent, and being a Retailer of Beer and Carpenter, do hereby give Notice, that I intend to present a Petition to the Court of Bankruptcy, praying to be examined touching my Debts, Estate, and Effects, and to be protected from all process upon making a full disclosure and surrender of such Estate and Effects, for payment of my just and lawful Debts. And I hereby further give Notice, that the time when the matter of the said Petition shall be heard, is to be advertised in the London Gazette and in the Kentish Gazette newspaper, one month at the least after the date hereof, as witness my hand this twenty-second day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.

Witness — G. C. Thatcher, GEO. ROALFE.

Solicitor, Canterbury.

Kentish Gazette, 10 January 1854.

Wingham. Petty Sessions.

(Before G. Gipps, M. Bell, end N. H. D’Aeth, Esqrs.)

Caution to Beer-shop Keepers.

Edmund Hogben, of Bishopsbourne, licensed lo sell beer not to be drink on the premises, was on Thursday convicted by the justices of the Wingham division in the mitigated penalty of £10, for selling beer and allowing it to be drunk on the premises without license.