From the Kentish Chronicle, 25 August, 1860.

WHITSTABLE.

At the St, Augustine’s Petty Sessions, on Saturday, before the officiating magistrates, a man named George Hammond, a dredgerman, of this parish, was summoned for assaulting Simon Friend on the 11th instant.

It appeared that the parties were at the "Prince of Orange," beer-house, Whitstable, on the day in question, when high words ensued about something the complainant alleged the defendant had said about his wife. The defendant denied having blackened the fair fame of the complainants better half, but Hammond would not be pacified and revenged the imaginary insult by a resort to physical force.

The assault, however, was not of a very aggravated character, and the Bench fined the defendant in the very moderate penalty of 1s. and expenses.