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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1856

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Court of Petty Sessions. Tuesday, Dec. 8. (Before Messrs. Irving, Ellis, Hopkins and Gordon.)

Illawarra Mercury · Monday 15 December 1856 · page 2

MASTERS' AND SERVANTS' ACT.—Mary Maloney v. Dr. Hosking. This was an adjourned case as recorded in our last issue. Mr. Ellis, the presiding Magistrate on the previous Monday, had declined going on with the case as…

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Local. Court of Petty Sessions. Monday, Dec. 18 (Before Messrs. Ellis and Davison.)

Illawarra Mercury · Monday 22 December 1856 · page 2

William Power was brought out of the watch house, having been arrested on a warrant grunted by the Maitland Bench, wherein he was charged with deserting his wife and children and leaving them without the means…

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Our Country Police

Illawarra Mercury · Monday 29 December 1856 · page 2

THE enormously excessive sum put on the estimates for the Police Establishment of this colony may well awaken the surprise of all thinking people. We adverted to this subject…

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Court of Petty Sessions. Monday, Dec. 22. (Before Messrs. Smith, M'Cabe, and Ellis.)

Illawarra Mercury · Monday 29 December 1856 · page 2

MASTERS' AND SERVANTS' ACT.—John Clarke-appeared to answer the information of Mr. G. W. Brown, of Dapto, for having absented himself from bis work without permission on the 11th instant. The charge was admitted…

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