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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1858

228 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 12 of 12

Shoalhaven. Court of Petty Sessions. Dec. 14, 1858

Illawarra Mercury · Monday 20 December 1858 · page 2

Hemstead v McCarthy, for assault. Mrs McCarthy having failed to appear to a summons, a warrant had now enforced her attendance. The evidence was confined to the parties, and the Bench fined defendant 5s and…

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Kiama. Court of Petty Sessions. Tuesday, 14th December. (Before Mr J. M. Gray and Mr Kendall.) Hawrers and Pedlars Licensing Meeting

Illawarra Mercury · Monday 20 December 1858 · page 2

Applications were filed by Messrs F. Hall, J. Poulton, and Abraham Gooley, and licenses were granted to the two former. Gooley did not appear, and his application therefore lapsed. A man named Beatus from Wollongong…

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Police Protection at Shoalhaven. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 23 December 1858 · page 3

SIR—My purpose in writing these few lines is to call the attention, of those concerned in the matter mentioned therein. I have been a resident for some considerable time in this district, during which time very…

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The City. Insolvent Court

Illawarra Mercury · Monday 27 December 1858 · page 3

Before the Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates. In the estate of Adolphus Hukins, a third meeting. The official assignee read his report, from which it appeared that 96l, had been realised…

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Court of Petty Sessions. December 23, 1858. (Before Messrs Davison and Fairs.)

Illawarra Mercury · Monday 27 December 1858 · page 2

John Flanagan, W. S. Makin, Thomas Galvin, and John Macdonnell, were fined 5s and 3s 6d costs each, for allowing cattle to stray in the streets of Wollongong. Jeremiah Rooney, the hired servant of John Ryan, of…

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Court of Petty Sessions. 21st December. (Before Dr Mackenzie, Messrs Biddulph, Elyard, and de Mestre)

Illawarra Mercury · Monday 27 December 1858 · page 2

Wheatley, v. Hughes. Hugh Hollies was charged with stealing potatoes. John Wheatley, jun., deposed that, on the day stated in the information, a violent thunderstorm was passing over, in which his father was…

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District News. Kiama. Court of Petty Sessions. Thursday, 23rd December. (Before Messrs. Perrott, Chapman, and Waugh.)

Illawarra Mercury · Monday 27 December 1858 · page 2

John Clark was charged by District Constable Hines with drunkenness. It appeared from this poor fellow's statement, that he had part of a broken needle in his head, and very "little affected him," in fact it was not…

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Court of Petty Sessions. December 28, 1858. (Before Messrs Simth and Wilshire.) RJECTMENT

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 30 December 1858 · page 2

An application was made by Sir Owen, on behalf of the Hon. M. G. Smith, for a writ of ejectment, under the Tenements' Recovery Act, of Edward Johnson, from the promises in Harbor-street, Wollongong, known us the…

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