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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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DRUNKENNESS.—George Reity and Thomas Crotty, charged with having been drank on the 10th instant, were fined £1 each. Jonathan Jordan was fined 5s. for hnving been drunk on the same day; and Joseph M'Nulty was fined £1 for a similar…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Judgment was delivered in this case by the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Milford. Sir Alfred Stephen was of opinion that the verdict must stand The allegation in the fifth clause in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →(Before the P.M., J. R. Dalyell, Esq., and H. K.Harpur, Esq.) John Honnory, sen., John Conlan, and Edward Conlan, or Connelly, were brought up before their worships charged with cattle stealing, upon the informat on of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MASTERS AND SERVANTS ACT.—Patrick Drumgold was charged with a breach of the above Act, by John King, of Dartbrook, and, being found guilty, was ordered to pay a fine of £2, or seven days' imprisonment.—(Before Messrs. Little,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNKENNESS.—William Scholes and Thomas Barton, for having been drunk on the 6th instant, were each admonished and discharged. POLICE BUSINESS.—Owing to the absence of a second…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Their Honora gave judgment in this case, refusing the application for a new trial The action was one for trespa[?]. The trespass (chiefly) complained of was the burning of plaintiff's hut. The defendents averred, as a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On the 17th June last one John M'Guiness was sentenced by Mr. Day, the Police Magistrate at Maitland, to six calendar months' imprisonment with hard labour in Maitland goal, for that "he (the said M'Guiness) did…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following case, heard before the Castlemaine Police Court, it reported in the Castlemaine Advertiser Of Friday last:- John Callaghan was charged with the murder of Hugh…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir Alfred Stephen, C.J., delivered the judgment of the Court in this case as follows:- This is one of the numerous class of actions for trespasses to land in the interior by sheep or cattle, called…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following letter was received on Wednesday evening, at half-past five, by the Chief Constable, Mr. Henry Garvin:- Hall's Creek, 16th July, 1861…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—Mathew Lynch, charged with being drunk on the 14th instant, was fined 10s., in default twenty-four hours' imprisonment. ASSAULT.—Benjamin Thompson was charged by James…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Three of the ringleaders of the late riots were arrested to-day. Great excitement prevails at the present time, and a "roll-up" is now coming from Tipperary G[?]lly to release the prisoners…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →STEALING.—Henry Pascoe appeared upon warrant to answer a charge, preferred by William Sherry, of Scone, of stealing 1 blanket, 1 saw, and 2 claw hammers, the property of prosecutor, on the 9th instant, The prisoner had been apprehended at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For some few months past the residents in the district of Cowra have been living in continual apprehension as to the sa[?]ety of their lives and property by reason of a gang of bushrangers having established themselves in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →(Before J. Rigney, J. Larnach,, and J. C. S. M'Donall, Esqrs.) DRUNKENNESS.—One drunkard was fined 10s., another 5s., and two were admonished and discharged. INSULTING LANGUAGE.—Mary Mason was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir—Would you kindly permit me, through your columns, to communicate the very distressing intellgence received by me to-day, of the barbarous double murder, by the natives of Erromanga, of the Rev. G. N…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tenders will be received at this office until twelve o'clock on Tuesday, the 20th August next, from persons willing to contract for the erection of a court and watch house at Uralla. Tenders to be endorsed, "Tender for Court and Watch House…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Criminal Sessions on Wednesday, July 17. Leonard Mason was informed against for the wilful murder of Alexander Forsyth Wheatley Campbell M'Dougall, on the Stb of April in tho present year, at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CHARGE OF MISCONDUCT AGAINST A CONSTABLE.—A man named Rogerson, a constable, and camp servant to Edward Sharp, Esq., J. P., Commissioner of Crown Lands, was charged by Mr. Sharp with gross neglect of duty, drunkenness, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Judges being divided in opinion in this case, judgment was delivered by each separately, as follows:-Sir Alfred Stephen, C. J.: This is an action against the Colonial Treasurer, in his official capacity, brought,…
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