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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1842

25 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 2

Police. East Maitland, Tuesday May Before E. D. Day. Esq. P M.

The Hunter River Gazette; and Journal of Agriculture, Commerce, Politics, and News · Saturday 7 May 1842 · page 3

James Thomson was charged on the information of the chief constable with being drun[?] and while in that state riding furiously in the streets of Maitland, endangering not Only his own life…

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Police. East Maitland, Tuesday May 10. Before E. D. Day, Esq. P. M.

The Hunter River Gazette; and Journal of Agriculture, Commerce, Politics, and News · Saturday 14 May 1842 · page 3

Andrew Long and Thomas Shaw appeared on the information of the chief constable, charged with drunkenness. Fined 10s. each. Henry Smith and John Daley, holders of tickets…

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The District Police and Public Works Bill

The Hunter River Gazette; and Journal of Agriculture, Commerce, Politics, and News · Saturday 28 May 1842 · page 3

TUESDAY next has been fixed for the second reading of this bill, when the reception it will meet with from the members of Council, and probably also Its fate, will…

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Police. East Maitland, Tuesday, June 7. Before Lieutenant Shcberras

The Hunter River Gazette; and Journal of Agriculture, Commerce, Politics, and News · Saturday 11 June 1842 · page 3

David Mullan was brought up, (remanded from a former day) on a charge of stealing a quantity of Maize in cob, from a paddock belonging to a person named Trucklebank, who seized him in the…

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Police and Works Bill

The Hunter River Gazette; and Journal of Agriculture, Commerce, Politics, and News · Saturday 25 June 1842 · page 2

FROM several expressions made use of by His Excellency during the debates in the Legislative Council on the Corporation bill, it appears that he anticipates the fate…

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