From the Kentish Gazette, 7 August 1810.

ANNUAL DINNER, AT the "HORSE SHOES," HARDRES.

SARAH WHITE informs her Friends, the Gentlemen of Canterbury, and of the Country, that the ANNUAL TRAP-BALL MEETING, at her house will be on Friday next, the 10th August instant, when she respectfully solicits the favour of their company.

N.B. Dinner on table at two o’clock.

From the Kentish Gazette, 12 July 1842.

THE ANNUAL HOP BETTING DINNER, will take place at the "Three Horse Shoes," LOWER HARDRES, on THURSDAY, the 14th inst., when the company of any Gentleman will be esteemed a favour by J. Oldfield.

Dinner at Two o’clock precisely.

Kentish Gazette, 9 July 1844.

Trap Match.

We understand the annual trap match will take place at the "Three Horse Shoes," Lower Hardres, on Thursday next.

Kentish Gazette, 12 October 1852.

George Booth, known by the name of "Viper George." of Canterbury, was engaged by Mr. Chandler, of Lower Hardres, to pick hops, but being unable to fulfil his agreement, in consequence of being poisoned by a viper, he sent another man in his place. On Wednesday, the hopping being finished, the people adjourned to the "Three Horse Shoes" public-house, Lower Hardres, where George Booth made his appearance, and drank with the party; this caused some dissatisfaction, as he had no right there; some altercation ensued, and he was pushed out of the house into the road, and fell on his back, his head coming in contact with the stones. The landlord, some time after, finding the man laying on the ground, supposed he was drunk, and carried him to the stable. A few hours afterwards he was taken out of the stable by some men who had been in the habit of sleeping there, and laid on some fagots, where he was observed by an old woman, and in consequence of her representation to the landlord, he was taken into the stable again, and sent home the next day about twelve o'clock; he was in a state of insensibility the whole of the time. A medical man wan then called in, but the deceased lingered till Friday afternoon, when he died. The same evening an inquest was opened on the body, but adjourned for the purpose of a post mortem examination being made. The deceased has left a wife and two children. The jury assembled again yesterday (Monday), and after hearing the evidence of a medical man, they returned a verdict of ''Accidental death" from a fall.

From the Kentish Gazette, 16 June 1857.

ST. AUGUSTINE’S PETTY SESSIONS. Saturday.

Assaulting a Female.

[Before E. Foss, W. Hyder, and W. Delmar, Esqrs., and Captain Slarke.]

John Wilson, the "navvy," stated in a late impression to have committed a gross offence on a married woman in the neighbourhood of Elham, was brought up to answer the charge. It appeared that he was found sleeping in an outhouse at Hawkhurst, and when taken into custody his description was found to answer that given of the offender in the above mentioned case. Accordingly he was handed over to Superintendent Walker, and Mary Kemp, the woman in question, identified him as her assailant, on the afternoon of the 4th instant, when, as she stated, she was proceeding from Renville to Lower Hardres where her daughter lived, and after having seen the prisoner ten minutes in advance, found him suddenly spring upon her when she was passing through Whitchill Wood. She related his actions as proof that he had accomplished his diabolical purpose; and that she resisted in some degree, though she did not halloo for assistance till she got out of the wood, and then she informed parties of what had occurred. She described the prisoner to be altered in dress and also by having shaven off his whiskers. She was a woman of about 56, and the wife of a labourer.

John Rye, labourer, merely deposed to hearing the voice of a female calling out, about the time indicated.

Mr. Bartlett, of the "Three Horse Shoes," Lower Hardres, spoke of the apparently distressed condition of complainant when she arrived at his house between two and three on the afternoon in question. She told him that she had been ill-used and described her assailant.

Susannah Stirling, wife of a laborer, and daughter of complainant, spoke of the distressed condition of her mother when she arrived at her house the same afternoon, and that she went into strong fits, during which she frequently ejaculated "Take him away."

Superintendent Walker detailed the circumstances of the prisoner’s arrest as already given, and that be had admitted to him that she was a consenting party.

The prisoner took up this line of defence now, and stated that she had previously deposited her two bundles, and that they chatted some time on the bank.

All this she positively denied, or that she received any money of him as he alleged.

He was committed for trial.

Out of the six parties examined as above mentioned only two could write their names!