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Mid North Coast · Courts & crime
21 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 2
Par.—Is there an consolation or comfort the Government can afford you ? “Are you fond of literature ? I wish you had read a small volume of lyrics of which I am tho…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEARLY all the cases were matters of debt about which there was no dispute. The whole of the business was speedily disposed of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OUR own correspondent writes as followers : —On last Saturday, about one o’clock, a fire occurred at the gaol, which was only saved from total destruction by the untiring…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN the small village of G, about three leagues from the town of ., lived a certain Mrs. D. and her husband with one child about IS months old, and a servant but recently entered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →JOHN MUICAHY alias Burke, was brought up in custody, charged with stealing two bags of wheat from the born of Mr. Joseph Bates Sen. of Rosemount, Cundle Plains…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS was an potion wherein the plaintiff, Joshua Cochrane, sued the defendant, Wm. Marshall, as a carrier by water of goods, for hire, from Wingham to Sydney.; the said…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following is an extract from a judgment delivered by the Supreme Court, last week:— The evidence adduced before me during the many days this cause has been under the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT was ordained in the good old times, before the coming of WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR that “for the better keeping of the peace, and suppression of thieves and robbers,” all free-born men…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. Justice Hargrove then addressed the Rev. Dr. Steel as follows :— Dr. Steel,—It is ray most painful duty to inform you that the administration of justice…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following are the particulars as gleaned from the Bathurst papers, of a determined' and systematic attempt that was. made on Friday last, by some of the prisoners confined in Bathurst…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ANDREW NICHOL and Michael Harrington severally pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk and disorderly. They were fined 10s. and costs. Thomas Prniville, Robert Brown, and George…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Administration of Justice in out-of-the-way places like this, seems to be a very tame [?] of an affair when contrasted with the ceremonious displays which used to precede the sittings of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A claim of 7s. for one day’s work with a boat. The parties made diametrically opposite statements about the transaction out of which this [?]ase arose. Powell said he was engaged to go to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two legal gentlemen were in attendance, (Messrs. Murray and T[?]urLow) but their services were required in only two or three cases. DEAN V. WITCHARD…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TWO cases were settled out of Court; in a third, Judgment was confessed; and in a fourth (an action of debt) judgment was given for the plaintiff. There were only two cases which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON a hot August morning, in acquaint old Flemish city, the sun shone brightly into the courtyard of an Inn. Early in the morning the sun had vainly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Court commenced on Monday, September 6th. Joseph Chambers, Esq., appeared as Crown Prosecutor; Mr. A. J. Perrott, Clerk of the Peace, and Messrs. Murray, and Thurlow, were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FOUR days passed away. On the evening of the fifth day Clemence stood once more under the grey archway of the Ours d’Or. There was on her earnest face a chastened look. In…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Is that quaint old Flemish city in one of the aide-chapels of small church is a beautiful picture of the Crucifixion. At midday a woman came into the little chapel and knelt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three parties were charged with the use of obscene language—two of whom have figured far too frequently in such cases of late, and therefore deserve to have their names…
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