Maitland Gaol
The works at the gaol in East Maitland are for the present suspended, in consequence of the removal of the stockade to Newcastle. The gang departed on Friday last, but the…
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Courts & crime, 1846
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Local News. Wool Stealing
A case of wool stealing, which has been before the Maitland bench since the 14th December, 1845, came to a termination on Wednesday last. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Mercury. Saturday January 24, 1846. the Powers of Legislation and Taxation Possessed by the Judges of the Supreme Court
NOTWITHSTANDING the vigilance of our lawyer legislators, the powers of taxation and legislation possessed by the Judges of the Supreme Court…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Gazette. Friday, January 23, 1846. Court of Requests
His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified, that the Court of Requests established at the Macdonald River by the proclamation dated 1st May, 1843, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Extracts. Expeditions of Discovery in Australia. (From the Atlas, Sept. 6.) Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia, and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1. By Edward John Eyre, Resident Magistrate, Murray River. Boone. London, 1845
The great object which the projectors of the arduous expeditions detailed in these volumes had in view was the establishment, if possible, of a line of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Supreme Court. (From the Sydney Morning Herald.) ALLEN V. EALES
This case came on for hearing at the Supreme Court, Sydney, before Mr. Justice Dickinson and a jury of four, on Friday and Saturday last. It was an action of trespass,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Select Poetry. Jaques in Capel Court. (From PUNCH.)
All the world are stags! Yea, all the men and women merely jobbers! They have their brokers and their share accounts, And One man in his time tries many lines,…
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The bench was occupied nearly the whole ef Thursday and yesterday in further examination of the case of William Shea, who was reported in our last as having a…
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The following is the calendar of prisoners warned for trial up to the 4th instant, at the ensuing Circuit Court, to be held on Wednesday, the 11th instant:…
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This Court was opened on Wednesday last, before his Honor Mr. Justice Therry. Previous to the opening of the court, which took place at eleven o'clock, his Honor attended…
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The Court was opened at ten o'clock this morning. HORSE STEALING. William Butler was indicted for having, at…
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The Court was opened at nine o'clock this morning. MURDER. William Shea was placed at the bar,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Circuit Court. Civil Business. Friday, March 20, 1846. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice Therry and a special jury of four.) CARTER V. EALES
This was an action for £58, for work and labour done by the plaintiff for defendant at his stations at Liverpool Plains, Moreton Bay, and Wide Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Central Criminal Court. (Abridged from the Sydney Herald.) Monday, April 13, 1846
Patrick Flannigan and Patrick Gately were convicted of uttering a forged order for £12 10s., with intent to defraud Robert Beatson, and were remanded for sentence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder on the High Seas. (From the Atlas, Dec. 6.) Second Examination of Capt. Johnstone
On Tuesday, after the disposal of the night charges, Captain George Johnstone, the master of the ship Tory, from Hong Kong, who preferred an unfounded charge…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney News. Supreme Court. (From the Herald, May 2.) Friday, May 1
WINDEYER V. RIDDELL AND ANOTHER.— This was an action against the Colonial Treasurer and the Collector of Quit-rents for the county of Gloucester, by which the plaintiff…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Government Gazette. Friday, May 1, 1846. Revision of Electoral Lists for the Police District of Newcastle
At a meeting of magistrates in Petty Sessions assembled, this day, at the Courthouse, Newcastle, it was resolved that Tuesday, the 12th day of May next, be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local News. Electoral List.—court of Revision
On Wednesday last a court of petty sessions was held in the Court-house, East Maitland, for the purpose of revising the electoral lists for the police district of Maitland, namely,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Council Papers. Border Police
Part Return to Address:—Mr. Cowper, 2nd June, 1846.—Laid upon the Council Table, and ordered by the Council to be printed, 12th June, 1846…
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The following persons have been warned for trial at the ensuing Court of Quarter Sessions, in Maitland, to commence on Monday next, the 6th instant:…
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