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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
247 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 13
This court opened at twelve o'clock on Saturday. The only business on hand waa the settlement of the above-named case. At the last sittings of the court the plaintiff obtained a verdict of £10 damages against defendant, for detention of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE second reading of the Police Regulation Bill, although vigorously opposed, was carried on Wednesday by a majority of 38 to 15. Although it is possible some considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHILE we must confess that we have always had a strong prejudice against the centralised system of police, there is much in Mr. Cowpor's speech on Wednesday, explaining and urging…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The abovenamed insolvent having been refused his certificate by Chief Commissioner Puref[?]y. [?] moved, upon notice, and with the concarrence of a majority or the [?], that the certificate be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Denis Tobin, a young [?]ad of fifteen or sixteen years of age, pleaded gui[?]y to a charge of stealing an order for the payment of £20 17s, 1d, the property of George H[?]t, on the 14th November, 1861; and was sentenced…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SUSPICION OF SLY GROG-SELLING AT THE DENISON DIGGINGS—Felix Smith appeared to lay claim to a portion ot grog winch had been seized [?] Chief Constable M'Grath, on Saturday last, 23rd inst., in a tent occupied…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Robert Eager Adams was indicted for that he, being master of the British barque Shah Jehan, and being then on the high seas, did on the 24th October, 1861, feloniously kill and murder a Lasoar seaman Janeen Allah…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DRUNKEN[?]ESS.—John M'Carthy was charged with being drunk on the 1st instant, and was fined £l.— Theodore M'Dougall, for a similar offence, committed on he 28th ult, was also fined £1…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hugh Wardlaw, a prisoner found guilty at the previous sit-tings of the Court, of obtained money under false prefences, but had been remanded, was brought up for sentence. His Honor had ascertained that he was a runaway couvict fro[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—Fdwd. Boon and John Sauerkraut, charged with being drunk on the 9th instant were both admonished and discharged.—Martin M'Crow was fined 5s., or 24 hours in the cells, for a similar offence committed on the same day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In INSOLVENCY.—Before Mr. Justice Milford (Primary Judge). BE ANDREWS. This was an appeal by the official assignee, Mr. Sempill,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Should the progress of civilisation lead to the settlement of the interior, we fear many a bygone tragedy will be revealed, many a terrible history disclosed. We have been acoustomed to hear the interior spoken of as a place…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Martin moved for a rule nisi for new trial in this cause upon three grounds. 1. That the verdict was against evidence and the weight of evidence. 2. That there was no evidience to warrant the verdict on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This was an application for a prohibition to stay all further proceedings under a conviction of the applicant before the justices at Murrurundi (and a fine of twenty shillings), for having sold liquor to a person who was in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SITTINGS IN BANCO.—Before the Chief Juatice and Mr Justice Wise.—Criminal Cases on Points Reserved.—The Queen v. Hornary and Others. This was a special case from the Quarter Sessions at Maitland. Mr. Windeyer, prisoner's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNKENNESS.—Michael Ryan waa fined 5s. for being drunk on the 13th Instant. John Dorrington was fined 5s. for being fuebriated on the 14th instant. MASTERS AND SERVANTS ACT.— Francis Miller sued Conrad…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was a special adjourned sitting of the District Court, appointed by the Judge previous to the termination of the last sittings of the West Maitland Court. The court opened at half-past ten…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. WILSON drew attention to the vote of £25,000 for gaols, &c., and desired to know in what manner it was proposed to expend this money. Most of the money voted last year had been spent in the erection of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly, appointed on the 25th October last "to inquire into and report upon the allegations contained in the petition of the inhabitants of Maitland and its vicinity, presented…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →This case was heard in chambers. It was a complaint brought by William Cooper against T. L. Jones, bailiff of the West Maitland District Court, that he, in September last, had…
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