British Food Problems. Press Indignation. Gaol for Profiteers. London
The newspapers are clamoring that Lord Rhondda (Food Controller) shall stop profiteering in the meat output. The New Zealand lamb, according to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1917
936 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 22 of 47
Drake Cattle Stealing Charge. Revived in Murwillumbah
Clarence Ford was apprehended at Murwillumbah on Saturday morning last on a warrant charging him with stealing 22 head of cattle from A. S. A…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grafton Police Court. Wednesday, June 27
Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, P.M. Lionel Robert Smith was fined 5- or 24 hours for drunkenness in Victoria-street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russian Deserters. Break Gaol to Fight Again. London
Router's Moscow correspondent: Six hundred deserters imprisoned at Butiry overpowered their warders, and demanded to be sent, back to the front…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grafton Police Court. Tuesday, June 26. Before Messrs. J. L. Shropshire, P.M. and F. Vaughan, J.P.
James Lynn and Walter Lynn were charged with not having a number plate properly affixed to a motor car. Mr. Pollack defended, Sergt. Swan…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Neptune's Court. a Humorous Proclamation
In the letter (published in last issue) from Pte. Frank Puddicombe, in which he described his trip from Capetown to Plymouth, he gave a full…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Grafton Police Court. Tuesday, June 26. Before Messrs. J. L. Shropshire, P.M., and Vaughan, J.P. Indecent Language
Edward Albert W. Mouldt pleaded guilty to a charge of having used indecent language at South Grafton. Sergt. Caiman said that defendant was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Industrial Court. Swearing in of Judge Curlewis. Sydney
The Industrial Court was crowded when Judge Curlewis, who succeeds the late Judge Pickburn, was sworn in. The Attorney-General remarked that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Small Debts Court. Tuesday, June 26. (Before Messrs. J. L. Shropshire, P.M., and Vaughan, J.P.)
James Scott v. Fred Cowling, claim for £5, being due on a suit supplied. Mr. Pollack for plaintiff, who was awarded a verdict for tho amount, with 106…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Small Debts Court. Tuesday, June 26. Before Messrs. J. L. Shropshire, P.M. and F. Vaughan, J.P.
E. J. Scott v. Fred. Cowling, claim for £5, cost of suit of clothes. Mr. Pollock for plaintiff. Mr. D. Lobban represented defendant, but, as the latter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Air Reprisals. Lord Derby's Pronouncement. Britain Will Not Murder Women and Children. London
In the House of Lords, Lord Derby, dealing with the question of reprisals, emphasised that our aircraft were daily bombing the enemy's rear, and declared…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grafton Police Court. Thursday, June 28
Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, P.M. John Jones pleaded guilty to drunkenness in Skinner-st., South Grafton, and, having previous convictions, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Prices. Operators Charged with Conspiracy. New York, Thursday Night
Coal operators are being charged with a conspiracy to fix prices. A letter was produced in an effort to prove a "gentlemen's agreement" to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News of the World. Treachery in Denmark Several Arrests by Police. London
Reuter's Copenhagen correspondent:-- As a result of the investigation of local espionage case, the head of a Copenhagen office, two women assistants and three…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grafton Police Court. Saturday June 30. Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, P.M.
Walter Edward Ellem, who did not appear, had his bail of 5- estreated for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grafton Police Court
Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, P.M., yesterday, Frederick Howard, for drunkenness, was fined £1 or seven days bard labor in Grafton Gaol. There were two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bankruptcy Court
In the Bankruptcy Court, at Grafton yesterday, before Mr. J. L. 'Shropshire, P.M., the single meeting and bankruptcy examination of Joseph Clarence Austin,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War Earlier Messages Murder at Sea
The Elder-Dempster liner Addah, tons, was torpedoed without warning on June 15, in the following: circumstances:--…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motorists' Surprise. Police Hold-up in Sydney. Sydney
Many motorists in the city got a great surprise this morning, being stopped by policemen, who demanded their names and addresses and compelled them to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Industrial. Strike Cases Before the Court. Sydney
When the cases in which 130 employees of the bottle works were charged with having taken part in a strike came before the Industrial Court to-day it…
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