District Court
His Honor then opened this Court. The first case that was brought on was [?] GILES v. JONES.—In this case plaintiff sought to recover £161 11s., for wages and breach of agreement…
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Courts & crime, 1859
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The Court, and Miscellaneous
The official records of the Court at Balmoral are but little va[?]ied from week to week[?] The Queen drives out to Abergeldie and Ballock Bu[?] and the Prince Consort and the [?]rince of Wales shoot, or strive to shoot, deer…
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On Saturday night a murder was committed on the line of the Great Northern Railway extension, within a short distance of West Maitland, nnder circumstances of revolting brutality seldom equalled. The perpetrator…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Supreme Court.—thursday. (From the S. M. Herald.) (Sittings in Banco.—Before the full Court.) Wilson, Assignee of [?]Oman, T. Co[?]roft Amd Another
The arguments in this case were resumed and concluded. It was a motion for new trial in an action of trover, wherein the plaintiff had obtained a verdict, with £1456…
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It was stated in our issue of Saturday that the man, James Martin, who was assaulted by one James Thompson with an axe at Canterbury, on Tuesday, 13th instant, had died from the effects of the injuries in the Infjrmary,…
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On Tuesday, John Jones and John Ashworth were again brought before the bench, at East Maitland, the former under the charge of murderiug Rebecca [?]ailey, the latter as an accessory…
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On Thursday, the prisoners John Jones'and John 'Ashworth werp again brought before'the police magistrate, at the Court-house, Wit Maitland. Jane Moore deposed: I am the wife of George Moore, who…
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WALSH V. SHAW.—This was a case in which the plaintiff sought to recover from the defendant £30, being pecuniary loss sustained by him owing to the non-fulfilment of an agreement on the part of the defendant. It appeared from the evidence,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District News. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singleton. Singleton Police Court, Tuesday, Dec. 27. Before J. C. S. M'Donall, James Rigney, George Thomas Loder, and J. Larnach, Esqs
DRUNKENNESS.—Michael Tulland, for being drunk on Sunday last, wad admonished and discharged. HORSE STEALING.—John Kearns was charged with stealing a che[?] horse, the property of John Warn Tuck…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An Act to Ament "An Act for the Regulation of the Police Force." (Assented to 22Nd December, 1859.) Preamble
Whereas it is expedient to amend so much of the Act of Council passed in the sixteenth year of her Majesty's reign numbered thirty-three as virtually excludes from the police force of…
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