DIREC'XORY•] . AND MILTON. 585 There is a Baptist chapel, built in 1866, with 750 sit­ Buffs (East Kent Regiment), have their headquarters in tings, a Congregational, erected in 1841, seating 500, also the towu. Primitive Methodist, Bible Christian and Wesleyan A corn market is held weekly on fridays, from 3 to chapels. 5 o'olock, at the Town Hall, and cattle sales, conducted by The Cemetery of 6 acres contains two mortuary Mr. F. A. Bensted, are held every alternate monday chapeils and is under tlhe control of a Burial Board of 9 in the Bull hotel meadow. members. The trade here is derived chiefly from the manu­ The Town Hall, erected in 1859, and originally the facture and transit of bricks and cement (nearly 6,000 Corn Exchange, was purchased in 1878 by the old hands being employed in these two industries), the Local Board, enlarged, and a board room and offices market, the supply of the neighbouring district, the provided: the hall will hold 600 persons, and has an shipping of corn, and import of coals. There are also illuminated clock. corn mills: the ~tensive paper mills of Edward Lloyd The Masonic Hall, in .A.lbany Toad, built in 1889, is Limited are partly in this and partly in Milton parish. a plain structure of brick, containing a meeting hall The poor have £4 10S. yearly, arising from land, and and club room. five seames (10 bushels) of boiling peas, in value about Foresters' Hall, East street, erected in 1892, is an edifice £ 12, are given yearly by the churchwardens to the poor of brick, with stone dressings, it is licensed for theatrical on Christmas day. performances, dancing, concerts and will hold 700 persons. A public recreation ground of 10 acres was laid out in The Public Free Library in Crescent street, was 1880 by the late Local Board. established in 1888, under the "Public Libraries' Act, The area of Sittingbourne is 995 acres of land, 3 of 1885" (18 &; 19 Vict. c. 70): the library consists of water, 3 of tidal water and 19 of foreshore; rateable 5.000 volumes, presented by the now extinct Sittingbourne value, £30,801; the population in 1871 was 6,148. in and Milton Book Society. 1881 7,856, in 1891 8,502, and in 1901 was 8,943. The Public Baths and Gymnasium in The Butts, were The population of the ecclesiastical parishes in 1900 built in 18g6 by public subscription, at a cost of £1,5°0. was: St. Michael (parish church), 4,932 and Holy The "Bull" is the principal hotel. Trinity, 4,011. The !. Squadron of the Royal East Kent (Duke of Pllrish Clerk, St. Michael, James Hulburd; E. Tidy Connaught's Own) Imperial Yeomanry (Mounted Rifles), (deputy), High street and the E Oompany of the 1St Volunteer Battalion, The Parish Clerk, Holy Trinity, J. G. Grensted, Park road.

OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS. LOCAL INSTITUTIONS &;c. Post, M. O. &; T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., Express Delivery, Retire in April, 1903. Parcel Post & Annuity & Insurance Office, High st.­ Robert Chapman I J. MacCartney John Fill Bing, postmaster G. Goble IF. G. Marsh Letters are dispatched to London at 7-45, 10. ID & ID.45

a.m. 12,40, 2,40, 4.40, 8 &; 9.30 p.m Retire in April, 1904. • Hours for issuing &; paying money orders .lJ:, for Savings Frederic Cleaver 1 Rd. Albert Hadaway Bank business 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; saturdays, from 8 a.m. D. A. Easton 1 Henry Payne to 8 p.m Telegraph Office open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. week Retire in April, 1905. days; 8 a.m. to la a.m. sundays J. W. Andrews Wm. Jas. Cremer Town deliverie$ commence at 7 &; 10.10 a.m. &; 3.30 &; R. M. Boodle F. G. Gibso:l 6.10 p.m I Town Sub-Post &; M. O. 0., S. B. &; Annuity &; Insur­ Officials. aillce Office, East street.-E. F. Handcock, sub-post­ Olerk, Charles Benjamin Barris, 76 High street master. Dispatches at 6.20, 9.50 &; ID.5, a.m. &; 12. IS, Treasurer, Richard Biddulph ~artin, 60 High street 1,40, 4.10, 7·35 &; 9.20 p.m Medical Officer of Health. Henry Grant Sutton M.D.. Town Sub-Post &; M. O. 0., S. B. &; Annuity &; Insur­ 73 & 75 High street ance Office, High street west. J. E. French, sub­ Surveyor &; Sanitary Inspector. William Leonard Grant. postmaster. Dispatches at 6,40 &; 9.35 a.m. 12.10, SI Bigh street 1·55, 4. 2 5, 7.30, 8 &; 9.50 p.m Collector, Arthur John Le-e, Crescent street & Park road COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR SITTINGBOURNE PUBLIC EST:AIlLISHMENTS. PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION. Burial Board; office, 76 High street; William Jame& Tylden Richard James esg. manor, Sitting­ Harris, clerk; cemetery, Bell road, Geo. , supt. bourne, chairman Corn market, held every friday from 3 to 5 p.m. at tho Lord D.L. lodge, Sittingbourne Town hall Leigh-Pemberton Sir Edward K.O.B. 5 Warwick square, Oounty Constabulary, Police station, Park road, Sitting­ London SW bourne Division, Supt. A. E. Rhodes, inspector, 5 ser­ Brightman Edward Willson esq. Exeter house, - geants &; 3'2 c