Kentish Gazette, 4 May 1847.

ELIGIBLE INVESTMENT.

Ramsgate and St. Lawrence, Thanet. Valuable freehold HOUSES AND BUILDING LAND, TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. HENRY WARMAN,

At the "Albion Hotel," Ramsgate, on WEDNESDAY, the 19th day of May, 1847, at Tow for Three o'clock precisely in the afternoon, by order of the Trustees for Sale under the Will of the late Captain John Wilson, in Eleven Lots.

LOT 4:- A MESSUAGE or PUBLIC HOUSE, known by the sign of the "Elephant and Castle," situate in the Parish of Saint Lawrence, Thanet, on the north-west side of the Hereson Road; comprising 15 rooms, with a yard, bakehouse, and oven in rear; let to Mr. William Parker, for a term which will expire on the 11th October, 1851, at £30 yearly rent.

The buildings comprised in this Lot are extensive, and might, at a small expense, be converted into three distinct dwelling houses.

Kentish Gazette, 20 June 1854.

Coroner's Inquest.

An inquest was held at the Town Hall on Monday Inst, before R. J. Emmerson, Esq., coroner for the Cinque Ports, on the body of Jane Wells, aged 18 years, who was found drowned in the basin of the Royal Harbour, on Sunday night, at about 11 o'clock.

George Young deposed:— I am a fruiterer, and live in King Street; deceased was my niece; she has been living with me as servant for 2 years and 6 months. She left home on Sunday afternoon, at a quarter before 3 o'clock, to go to church. I have not seen her since till this morning about 9 o'clock. I was informed by a person that came to my house that a female was picked up in the basin drowned, and was lying in one of the pier storehouses. I went there immediately, and identified the body as that of my niece; her time to be home is 9 o'clock, but she often made it half-past nine. She has been keeping company with a young man named Robert Edney. I went at a quarter-past 10 o'clock on Sunday evening to Mr. Packer's, the "Elephant and Castle," and asked one of Mr. Packer's daughters if Edney was there; she said he was; I told her to ask him where he left my niece. She brought word back that he left her at a quarter before 10 o'clock against Mr. Ratcliffs fence, close to where she lived. I went down the town, but could not tee anything of her; she has never staid from home all night before.

Alfred John Ayers said:— I am a surgeon, and live in Queen-street, at about 10 minutes to 12 o'clock on Sunday night, I was called to go to the Pier storehouse to see a drowned woman. I went immediately, and found deceased quite dead, my opinion is she had been dead some time, from her body being found floating. I have since examined the body; there are no marks of violence on her, only merely a slight discolouring on the spine of the back; she was not in the family way, and there were no other symptoms of her death but from drowning. Other evidence was given, and the jury returned an open verdict of "found drowned."