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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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We are enabled to place before our readers some details of the most atrocious case of piracy, murder, and burning of a ship that has occurred for many years past, at least in European…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Court opened at half-past nine. O'BRIEN V. LITTLE—Concluded. The jury in this case had been looked up until half-past eight o'olook the previous evening, in consequence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action against a dormant partner for a debt, alleged to be due to plaintiff by the firm to which defendant belonged Plaintiff sued upon a promissory-note for £100 dated in November last, and a bill of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The court opened at half-past nine a.m. HICKEY V. KING.—(Concluded.) His Honor proceeded to sum up the evidence in this case, which had occupied the court nearly two days before, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tenders will be received at this office until 12 o'clock on Tuesday, the 2nd December next, from persons willing to contract for the erection of police stables, Ac, at the Coart-honse, Morpeth…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Court opened at 10 a.m. BOGGS V. HICKEY. An action in trover to ncover £60 the nominal value of a bay horse, branded JU on near shouldir, lost by William Hoggs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OBSCNE LANGUAGE.—Francis M'Cosker was charged by Sergeant Thorpe, with making use of obscene language on the 11th instant in a public place Defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined in the sum of £2, in default, fourteen days…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tenders will be received at this office until 12 o'olook on Tuesday, the 25th instant, from persons willing to contract for the supply of furniture to the Court-house, Mudgee…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Contrary to general expectation, the charge of forgery against Mr. William Roupell, late member for Lambeth, came before the Court. On Mr. Justice Byles taking his seat on the bench…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action by John M'Givney against Susannah Warland, widow and executrix of William Henry Warland, deceased, to receive back certain moneys (with interest) said to have been paid by plaintiff to Warland in his lifetime on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Court opened at half-past 9 a.m. JACOBS V. GOULSTON. An action to recover £12, balance of money lent. Joseph Jacobs, plaintiff, sued Joseph Goulston, of "The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A petition for leave to appeal had been flled by Mr. W. P. Moffatt in reference to the late decision of their Honors removing him from the roll of attorneys, on the complaint of Mr. G. K. Holden, president of the Australian Law Institute. Ten…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRING ILLEGAILY ON THE PREMISESâArthur Gore, in custody, was charged with this offence. [?]ergeant Phorpe deposed: At eight o'clock, on the 24th November, Mr. Ballard, of Singleton, informed me that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This Court was opened before his Honor Judge Purefoy, on Tuesday morning, at ten o'clock, but owing to the absence of the Acting Crown Prosecutor, the Court adjourned until half-past eleven o'clock, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →UTTERING STOLEN CHEQUES—Peter Hindmarsh and John Armstrong, on remand for uttering stolen obeques. In this case, further evidence having been taken, the bench decided that the prisoners be forwarded to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MUSIC AND DANCING.âPermission wes granted for one month to M[?]ssrs Henry S[?]ll and Henry Hewitt to have music and dancing in their licensed public-houses, under the provisions of the Publicans' Act…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Martin Kelly was indicted for having, on the 1st October, at Sydney, assaulted one J. S. Cockerell, with intent to commit an unnatural offence. Mr. Windeyer appeared for the Crown. The prisoner was undefended…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Buchanan was indicted for having, on the 30th June last at Rocky River, forged an acquittance for £20 A second count charged him with fraudulently uttering the same. Plea, not guilty.—For the Crown, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action for slander and libel by a minister of religion against a member of the Legislative Assembly, to which the latter had pleaded not guilty aud justification—ie., that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thomas Boyd Watt, arraigned on the 3rd instant, was placed at the bar to st[?]nd his trial for perjury—The Attorney-General and Mr. Meymott, for the Crown; Mr. Dalley, instructed by Mr. W. [?]. Curtis (of the firm of…
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