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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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MASTERS AND SERVANTS ACT.—Stephen Challis, of Jamp-up-Creek, was summoned by James Crowley for refusing to pay £8 wages due to him. Complainant deposed that on the 30th March last be entered into a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Clifford, allas Barney, John English, Thomas Brown, George Thurstan, and William Lee, were indicted for assaulting and wounding Michael Wallace, at Darlinghurst, on the 29th May, with intent to murder him. Under a second count…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Honory, John Honory, junr., Edward Conien, and John Conlen were indicted for feloniously stealing one bull, one cow, one ox, oue heifer, and one calf, the goods and chattels of Joseph Meirick, at Howe's Valley, on the 22nd June…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BREACHES OF THE TOWNS POLICE ACT.—Francis Hunt, John W W. Campbell, John Hawke, and John Welsh, were each fined 5s. and costs, for allowing pigs to stray in the streets of the town of Singleton…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ou Thursday, the 1st instant, Dr. King, the corner, held an inquest at Cox's Flat, in the district of Mudgee, on the body of a man of the name of Frederick Schofield lying dead there. Corporal Ewing doposed from information be received he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Writing on the 3rd instant from Merriws, a correspo[?] says:- "I am sorry to inform you that the blackfellow, Harry, who murdered Mrs. Mills, of Little Creek, between Hell's Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This Court opened this morning, at ten o'clock. The undefended cases were disposed of first, but contained no points of general interest. In the case of M'Douall v. Hall, Mr. Chambers applied…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action upon an agreement made by defendants, Mackenzie and Walmsley, in August, 1858, for the purchase of Wiseman's Ferry. By this agreement the price was fixed at £2135, of which £1325 was to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The trial of this case, which was commenced on Monday, and had occupied the whole of that and the two following days, was resumed and concluded. It was an action for slander and libel. The first count was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The plaintiff in this case sued defendant for £16—£12 being on account of an agreement between them, the terms of which it is alleged defendant had not complied with, and £4 for damages sustained in consequence…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an action of ejectment brought to recover the estate of Belmont, on Black Creek, in the county of Northumberland. Mr. Stephen appeared for the plaintiffs; Mr. Martin, Q.C., and Mr. Sheppard, for the defendants. The property in question…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This Court was opened yesterday at eleven o'clock, in the hall of the School of Arts. The Court and the members of the legal profession occupied the platform, and a considerable body of the public attended in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNK[?]NNESS.—William Bea[?]on, charged with having been drunk on the 17th instant, was admonished and discharged. ASSAULT.—Wilson was charged by Sarah Neale…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →With regard to the motion for a new trial in the case of Kelly v. Gorrick, which was argued on Monday by the counsel for the parties, his Honor said that after considering the matter he had decided to refuse the motion…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →(Before the District Court Judge, W. A. Purefoy. Esq. This Court was opened this morning at ten o'clock. but, owing to the absence of counsel for the cases which it had been arranged should be brought on first, tim business was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The court opened at ten o'clock. HUGHES V. HUGHES. In the motion for a new trial in this case, which was argued on Thursday last, by the counsel for the partie,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The trial of this case, which had lasted the entire week, was now concluded. It was an action against the above named company, upon a policy of insurance of the stock in-trade of the plaintiff…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following is the list of prisoners awaiting trial at the ensuing Circuit, to be held on the 9th September, as far as can at present be reported:- Michael Breen, rape; Murrurundi bench…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IMPOUNDING ACT.—John Lethbridge, Esq., of Bridgman, was charged with a breach of the 12th saction of this Act by Michael Downs, by impounding ten head of cattle in his stockyard. Mr. Payne appeared for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE experiment made during the present sittings of the West Maitland District Court, of holding them in the fine hall of the School of Arts,— the committee of that institution having let the…
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