Sydney News. Bathurst Circuit Court. (Abridged from the Bathurst Free Press.) Tuesday, Aug. 24, and Wednesday, Aug. 25. (Before Mr. Justice Therry.) MURDER
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 September 1852 · page 4
Timothy Sullivan was indicted for the wilful murder of Daniel Harrington, at King's Plains, on the 4th June, 1852. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Foster and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Circuit Court. Friday, September 3, 1852. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice Dickinson.) Goal Delivery
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 September 1852 · page 2
Thomas Marshall, committed for trial on a charge of abduction, was discharged on his own recognizance in £100 to appear when called on. Matilda Lucy Howson, committed for trial on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Circuit Court. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice Dickinson.) Wednesday, September. 1, 1852. Uttering a Forged Cheque
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 September 1852 · page 4
Joseph Mandles was indicted for uttering a forged cheque for £2 7s. 6d., on the Commercial Bank, Sydney, in favor of Patrick O'Brien, purporting to be signed by George Ro[?]se, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Circuit Court. Civil Side. Friday, September 3, 1852. (Before Mr. Justice Dickinson and a special jury of f[?]ur.) M'DONALD V. Elliott and Another
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 8 September 1852 · page 1
This was an action for trespass, the plaintiff b ing an infant, Augus M'Donald, and the defendants Gilbert Elliott and John Kingsmill, the plaintiff appearing by his next of kin, Angus…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Supreme Court. Wednesday, September 22, 1852. (Abridged from the Herald.) Nisi Prius Sittings. (Before Mr. Justice Dickinson and a jury of four.) NOWLAND V. ALCORN
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 29 September 1852 · page 4
This was an action of debt. Plaintiff claimed £150 14s. for forage supplied to defendant's horses, and refreshments furnished to the coachman. Defendant paid into Court a sum of £40,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Supreme Court. Monday, September 27, 1852. (From the S. M. Herald.) Nisi Prius Sittings. Before Mr. Justice Therry, and a jury of f[?]ur. MUNSIE V. BUSBY
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 2 October 1852 · page 3
This was an action of debt, brought to recover a sum ot £335 9s, for rent, board and lodging and work performed for defendant pleas, the general issue and payment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland Quarter Sessions. Wednesday, October 6, 1852. (Before the Chairman, Major Crummer, J.P., C. M. Doyle, Esq, J. P. Major Macpherson, J.P., P. Green, Esq., J.P., B. Russell, Esq., J.p.) Stealing in a Dwelling House
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 9 October 1852 · page 4
Mary Ann Skains and William Haywood were indicted for stealing five £5 notes, eleven £1 notes, and 40s in silver coin, in the dwelling house of Thomas Smith, at Maitland, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Government Gazette. Friday, October 22, 1852. POLICE
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 27 October 1852 · page 1
His Excellency the Governor General has been pleased to appoint Mr. James Dwyer to be chief constable at Tamworth, and inspector of slaughter houses and of cattle intended to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Supreme Court.—thursday, Nov. 11. (From the Herald, Nov. 13.) Nisi Prius Sittings. (Before Mr. Justice Therry and a jury of four.) Buyers and Another V. WHYTE
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 17 November 1852 · page 4
This was an action upon a warranty of ten tons of hay, sold by defendant as sound, wholesome, and marketable, but being, it was said, bad in all these respects; defendant traversed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Supreme Court. Wednesday, November 17Th, 1852. (From the S. M. Herald, Nov. 20.) Before the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Therry. EALES V. Norton and Another
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 24 November 1852 · page 4
This was a rule nisi under the Law Simplifying Act. Eales was the original mortgagee of certain property at Maitland (the Albion Hotel), originally held by Wicks Norton, to secure the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council Paper. Police Regulation Bill. The Select Committee of the Legislative Council, appointed on the 8th of September last, for whose consideration and report the above bill was referred, have agreed to the following report—
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 1 December 1852 · page 4
Your committee, having in their progress report disposed of the points referred to them for more immediate consideration, directed their attention to the bill before the Council "for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Mercury. Saturday, December 4, 1852. the Police Bill
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1852 · page 2
THE committee to which the Police Bill was referred have recommended, substantially, the abandonment of the existing system in the country districts,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Papers. Native Police. Copy of a Lettter from the Commandant of the Native Police, to the Colonial Secretary. Callandoon, 4th October, 1852
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1852 · page 4
SIR—I have the honor to report, for the information of his Excellency the Governor General, the proceedings of the Native Police Force from the 1st March to the 30th September, 1852…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brisbane Circuit Court. Monday, November 15, 1852. (Abridged from the S. M. Herald.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1852 · page 2
John Young was found guilty of stealing, at Drayton, on the 19th August, a saddle, the property of John Lord, and was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment in Darlinghurst Gaol,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brisbane Circuit Court. (Abridged from the Moreton Bay Courier.) (Before Mr. Justice Dickinson.) Tuesday, November 16, 1852
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 8 December 1852 · page 4
Bumbarrowa, an aboriginal native, was indicted for cutting and wounding James Tredennick, at Brisbane, on the 8th October, with intent to some bodily harm. Prisoner was drunk…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Supreme Court.—wednesday, Dec. 15. Sittings in Banco. (Before the full Court.) EALES V. Douglass and Another
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 December 1852 · page 4
The arguments in this case, which related to the right of a mortgagee to the benefit of a covenant by the purchaser of an equity of redemption to pay the principal and interest…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Legislative Council. Thursday, Dec. 16, 1852. [In the Mercury of Saturday we gave the commencement of Thursday's proceedings, from our correspondent's letter. We now resume the report, by abridgment from the Herald] Water Police
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 December 1852 · page 4
Mr. HOLROYD moved that the report of the select committee on the Water Police department be adopted. Mr. DONALDSON having ascertained from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Government Gazette. Tuesday, December 21, 1852. Court of Claims
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 25 December 1852 · page 3
Notice is hereby given, that the following claim for a deed of grant of town allotment will be ready for the examination of the Commissioners appointed for that purpose, under the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Supreme Court. Thursday, December 23, 1852. (From the S. M. Herald.) Banco Sittings. (Before the Chief Justice, and Mr. Justice Dickinson. the Attorney-general V. WENTWORTH
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 29 December 1852 · page 2
This was a special case for fhe opinion of the Court, under the 5th Victoria No. 9. The question arose under an information for intrusion against Mr. W. C. Wentworth in reference to…
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