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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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Before his Honor Mr. Justice Cheeke and a jury of four. ELLIOTT V. HIGGINS. This was an action of ejectment to recover possession of a public-house and fifty-four acres of land, at a place…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNRSS.âRobert Foss, Yarry (an aboriginal), and Robert Cave, charged with being drunk, were admonished and discharged. INDECENT EXPOSURE.â Hugh Hughes, charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On remand, Peter M'Crimmon v. James Sherwood, refusing to pay balance of wages due (£2 4s); dismissed. Henry Oxford, furious riding pleaded guilty; admonished and discharged. William thomas, furious riding pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mary Carr was broght up, charged with drunkenness. The bench discharged her. The same defendant was then charged with a breach of the Railway Act, 22 Vic., No. 19, sec. 22, interfering…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE QUEEN ON THE PROSECUTION OF MILLER V. NORTH. His Honor gave judgment in this case. It was a question as to costs on a proceeding by quo warranto, under the Municipalities Act of 1858, which had been argued on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action for slander. The plaintiff, Agnes Janet M'Intosh, had been stewardess of the A. S. N Company's steamer Samson, trading between Sydney and the Manning liver, fhe defendant, Jean Benaud, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →VAGRANCY.âFunny Smith was charged with being an idle and disorderly character. Upon a promise to mend her ways she was discharged with a caution. DRUNKENNESS.âJane Holland, for being drunk, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By way of Newcastle we (S M. Herald) have Auckland papers to the 7th instant. The New Zealand Herald of that date supplies the following information from Tsuranga:â…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The hearing of this case lasted three days, and was concluded late on Thursday evening. The last day was occupied principally by the address of counsel, and the summing up of his Honor Judge Cheeke, before whom…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We gave an account in our last issue of the proceedings of a band of four bushrangers who had stuck up the Gineroi station on the Gwydir or Big River, where they obtained some firearms, when they immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have received from a correspondent the following account of the murder of Mr. John Dowling, briefly mentioned in our last. The communication is undated, and the postmark (Bourke) is in this respect illegible:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday David Young, the convicted murderer of Margaret Graham, was hanged at Castlemaine, and was hanged without confession of the deed for which he suffered. Throughout the district an impression of Young's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Plunkett, Q.C., informed the Court that he had been appointed Attorney-General of the colony, and handed in his commission as such Attorney-General, under the hand of the Governor-in-Chief and the great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →VAGRANCY.—Elizabeth Wilson, Mary Bird, and Caroline Everett, for being idle and disorderly characters, received each a sentence of three months' imprisonment in Singleton gaol with hard labour…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This was an application (by rule nisi) to stay, by prohibition, all proceedings under an order by Judge Purefoy, in the District Court at West Maitland. Mr Faucett, instructed by Mr. J. R Brenan, appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS —Jane Holland was charged with being drunk on the 3rd instant. This being the third time she had been before the bench within the last twelve months, she was sentenced to three months'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE opinion formally given the other day by the Mayor of "West Maitland deserves the attention of the magistrates, the police, and the public generally, not only in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →(Before their Honors the Chief Justice, Mr.Justice Hargrave, and Mr Justice Cheeks.) NEW TRIAL MOTION.—LANG V. FAIRFAX AND ANOTHER. This was a motion for new trial in an action by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Martin, Q. C., moved, on behalf of the defendant, that he might be at liberty to take all such proceed ings as might be necessary to carry into efect the award which had been made by the arbitrators appointed to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FURIOUS RIDING.—Thomas Barlow, on remand, was charged with this offence. Constable Beattie deposed: On the 21st August last I saw the defendant riding furiously in John-street, Singleton, thereby endangering…
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