Insolvency Proceedings. Supreme Court—insolvency Jurisdiction. Wednesday, July 1. (Before their Honors the three Judges.) CERTIFICATE
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 July 1846 · page 2
The certificate of discharge of James Chapman, insolvent, was confirmed. PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION. In the estate of Owen and Co., insolvents,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scraps of a Wanderer in New Zealand. the Midnight Assault
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 25 July 1846 · page 1
Hist! said the chieftain's daughter; father, hist! I hear the rumbling sound of foemen's feet: Pierce with your eagle eye that floating mist-A hundred moving forms my vision meet!…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Supreme Court.—banco Sittings. (From the Sydney Herald, July 22.) Tuesday, July 21. (Before their Honors the three Judges.) the Attorney-general V. BROWN
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 25 July 1846 · page 2
This case, the arguments upon which were commenced last term, was an information for intrusion, whereby the defendant James Brown was charged by the Attorney-General…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Gazette. Friday, July 24, 1846. Gaol Regulations
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 29 July 1846 · page 4
His Excellency the Governor directs the publication for general information of the following alterations in the General Rules for Gaols, dated 27th September, 1841, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Supreme Court-insolvency Jurisdiction. Wednesday, August 19. CERTIFICATES
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 22 August 1846 · page 2
The certificates of discharge granted by the Chief Commissioner to William Bryant, Peter Grogan, John Ferrier, Alexander Newton, and William Malcolm, were…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 9 September 1846 · page 2
This court will be opened this day week (the 16th instant), before his Honor the Chief Justice. The list is not a very heavy one. The names of those who have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Circuit Court. (Before his Honor the Chief Justice.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1846 · page 4
This Court Mas opened on Wednesday last, before his Honor the Chief Justice, at half-past twelve. The members of the upper bar present were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Circuit Court. Thursday, September 17, 1846. (Before his Honor the Chief Justice.) FORGERY
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1846 · page 2
William Partridge, of Scone, was indicted for that he, on the 1st January, 1846, at St. Aubin's, did knowingly utter a forged order for £3 14s. 9d., purporting to be drawn by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Circuit Court. Saturday, September 19, 1846. (Before his Honor the Chief Justice.) MANSLAUGHTER
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 23 September 1846 · page 4
Andrew Glennon, of New England, was indicted for the manslaughter of Jame[?] Martin, on the 1st December, 1845, at Wolka, by stabbing him with a knife, thereby…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Circuit Court. (Before his Honor the Chief Justice.) Tuesday, September 22, 1846. Cattle Stealing
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1846 · page 4
In our last we gave the evidence for the prosecution in the case of Thomas Ford and Catherine Daly, for stealing a calf, the property of Mr. William Caswell. We now give the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cattle Stealing. To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 30 September 1846 · page 4
MR. EDITOR—The fearful extent to which CATTLE STEALING prevails in this colony surely calls for increased vigilance on the part of the authorities generally, but more…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Insolvency Proceedings. (Supreme Court.—Insolvency Jurisdiction.) Wednesday, Sept. 30. Release of a Trustee
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 7 October 1846 · page 2
James Solomon was, upon the motion of the Chief Commissioner, released from his trusteeship in the estates of John Hawks Valentine Turner, John James Martyr,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Quarter Sessions. Wednesday, October 14, 1846. (Before the Chairman, and A. Lang, Esq.) STEALING
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 17 October 1846 · page 4
Edward Griffin was indicted for stealing a martingale of a plough, and a bridle and bit, the property of John Geohegan, of Falbrook, on the 12th May last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Body Found.—suspected Murder
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 21 October 1846 · page 2
On Saturday morning last, the inhabitants of East Maitland were thrown into a considerable state of excitement, by the report that the body of a man had been found in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Moreton Bay. Dreadful Murder Committed by the Blacks. (Abridged from the Sydney Morning Herald, Oct. 26.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 28 October 1846 · page 3
The blacks have added another foul massacre to their many treacherous acts of cruelty to the isolated portion of our squatting community. Mr. Andrew Gregor, a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland Mercury, Saturday, November 28, 1846. the Census.—progress of Police Districts
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 28 November 1846 · page 2
THE following comparison of the population of the police districts in 1841 and in 1846, will enable our readers to see at a glance the localities within the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Mercury. Wednesday, December 9, 1846. the Transportation Report.—police and Gaol Expenditure. "7th.—That two-thirds of the expense of police, gaols, and the criminal administration of justice, be paid by the home government; but that on the relinquishment of the land fund, and all other revenues or droits of the crown, to the appropriation of the Governor and Legislative Council, the whol[?] of this branch of convict expenditure be assumed by the colony, with a view to aid the British government in defraying the cost of the free immigration stipulated for in the second and third conditions. "The stipulation contained in the seventh condition, that two-thirds of the expenditure of police and gaols, and the criminal administration of justice, shall be paid by the British treasury, is merely an adoption of the principle which it is understood the British government has concurred in, as a just apportionment of this expenditure in Van Diemen's Land. This, too, is the principle of apportionment insisted upon in the General Grievance Report of the session of 1844, and upon which, since the breach of the compact under which the colony assumed this expenditure as an equivalent for the surrender to it of the land fund, a debt has accrued to the colony, amounting in that year, in round numbers, to seven hundred and ninety-three thousand and thirty-four pounds, and since considerably augmented by the convict expenditure, which we have unjustly been compelled to bear, notwithstanding our repeated protestations against it. No question can exist that, up to the present time, two-thirds at least of this most onerous charge, which has, since the report of that committee, accumulated in the whole to about nine hundred and fifty thousand pounds, is occasioned by the convict and freed population; and no proposition can be more reasonable or just than that this amount, which is in fact a convict charge solely, should be paid by the British treasury, until it cease to exist by the gradual disappearance from our population of the class that occasions it. In the event of the proposed renewal of transportation, your committee presume that the assumption of this charge would be a condition readily conceded, even though it were not an article in this new compact; and they draw attention to its present amount, which however will rapidly augment on the renewal of transportation, to shew how much they are willing, in this shape, to contribute to the free immigration which is to be a simultaneous measure."—TRANSPORTATION Committee's Report, 1846
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 9 December 1846 · page 2
IN 1835, when the British government transferred the charge for police and gaols from the imperial to the colonial treasury, the annual expenditure…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scene in the Supreme Court. (From the Sydney Morning Herald, Dec. 23.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 26 December 1846 · page 2
A most disgraceful scene took place yesterday in the Supreme Court, between two members of the Sydney bar. The lie was given, and was followed by a blow, which…
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