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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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BILLIARD LICENSE.âThe application of J. W. Tuck for a billiard license for premises situate in Albert-street was adjourned for a week to allow of the building being completed…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The preliminary hearing of a charge against a miner named Hornig, of having murdered a mate at the Kimberley goldfield, was commenced here at the end of last month. The evidence was entirely…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →This was a special case stated by the Minister for Lands for the opinion of this Court, and it now came on for re-argument, no decision having been given on the first argument, which took place last…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A circular has been addressed to those having control of the daily press suggesting the desirability of some combined action by which they may mimimise, if they cannot wholly suppress, the details of divorce…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CRUELTY TO DUMB ANIMALS.—Albert Tanks was convicted, at the instance of Constable Weir, of having cruelly ill-[?]reated two horses by working them with sore shoulders, and was fined £2. in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AUCKLAND, Monday.—[?] and [?] the Great Barrier Island murderers, were executed in Mount Eden Gaol this morning. Both men appeard calm and resigned to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN one case the parties concerned did not appear, and in another it was reported the action had been Bottled. James Moore and Co. v. Jas. Bowe,—goods…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ABSENT FROM SERVICE.—William Downing, apprehended on a charge of absenting himself from the service of Thomas Brooder, was admonished and ordered to return to his master…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Melbourne Daily Telegraph reports that the South Melbourne Police Court was crowded on Saturday, when the charge of assault preferred by a man…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Duggan v. Carroll.—Malicious injury to property. —In this case the defendant, Thomas Carroll, was charged under Sec. 225 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act with maliciously breaking down a certain…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A CASE UNDER THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS ACT.— Rebecca Moore, a child aged seven years, was charged with having been found wandering about the streets at West Maitland with reputed thieves…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A charge of assault, preferred by George Temblett and William Smith against a youngman named Thomas Mogridge, occupied the Prahran bench for a considerable time on Thursday, says the Argus of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the City Police Court on Wednesday morning a fitness named John Wilson Frazer, who described himself as a stevedore, was called. He said he objected to kiss the Bible which was upon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LUNACY.—Matthias B. Thomson, who had been arrested in circumstances denoting derangement of mind, was remanded for eight days for medical treatment…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Rogers, instructed by Mr. Ferguson, agent for Messrs. Mullen and Baker, of Newcastle, for the appellants; Mr. Heydon, instructed by Messrs. Ellis and Makinson, agents for Mr. H. J. Brown,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William Pike, for drunkenness, was fined 5s, or 48 hours, it being his second offence. James Bullpit, for drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d, or 24 hours; and for obscene language…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr Gordon, Police Magistrate at Gundagai, has been promoted to Albury in the place of the late Mr Keighley…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Melbourne Age states that a curious scene was witnessed at the City Police Court last week during the hearing of a case of larceny as a bailes,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE silence that fell upon the water police court on Wednesday was impressive, as in all the youthful bloom of power and pigments, a young lady named Annie collistar…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Hawthorn Police court on Tuesday (says the Melbourne Telegraph) a peculiar case of assault, arising out of difference in religious matters, was dealt with. A well-dressed woman, named…
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