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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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For plaintiff, Mr Ellis; for defendant, Mr. Paul. His Honor postponed this case until eleven a.m. to-morrow, on account of the sudden indisposition of Mr. Paul…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →VAGRANCY.—Anne Beadon, on romand, was charged with vagrancy by Sergent Thorpe. The case had been postponed at the request of the prisoner, to allow her to get a person to give her a character, but nobody…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FX PARTE KENNT.—APPLICATION AGAINST B[?]NAN. The Chief Justice delivered judgment in this case at great length. This was an application against his late solicitor by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action brought by plaintiff, Jacob Steele, against James Vine for trespass. Damages were laid at £200; to this defendant pat in three pleas—1st: Not quilty; 2nd: That the plaintiff was not possessed of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was a motion for new trial of an issue from the Supreme Court, which had been tried by Mr. District Justice Francis. Mr. Stephen appeared in support of the rule, and Mr. Isaacs showed cause against it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fresh tenders will be received at this office, until 12 o'clock on Tuesday, the 6th January next, from persons willing to contract for the supply of materials for fencing at the Grafton gaol. Tenders to be endorsed "Tender for Materials, Gaol,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This Case which has been several times before the Court in various shapes, was again brought under consideration in the shape of an application on the part of the defiudant fora review of the taxation of costs. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →VAGRANT ACT —Napoleon Kettle was charge with [?] breach of this Act by Sergeant Thorpe, who deposed. A boat ten o'clock yesterday morning 1 received information that a man was rambling about the town…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The argument in this case—a motion for new trial— was resumed and concluded. Mr. Martin Q.C., Mr. Broadhurst, Q.C., and Mr. Sheppard appeared in support of the motion, and Sir Wi[?]iam…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →VAGRANCY.âJames Jones in custody, was brought before the bench on this charge Sergeant Thorpe deposed: On Wednesday last the 17th instant, the prisoner was handed over to me by Sergeant Kerrigan, on the other side of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Wise gave judgment on the motion for change of venue herein, argued before them on Friday. Their Honora held that, upon the whole, sufficient grounds for a change of venue from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Holroyd moved for a prohibition to stay all further proceedings against John Kinchela, at present under imprisonment in Tenterfield gaol, by the sentence of Measra. Robert R. C. Robertson and Thomas Cowper, two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—In the columns of your contemporary I observed a letter signed "Minos," complaining that our present court-house does not afford suflicient acoommodation for the pable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Alphonse B[?]d[?] Gerard, who had served the necessary period of clerkship in this colony, and had passed the requisite examination, was admitted as attorney, solicitor, and proctor of the Supreme Court, upon the motion…
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