The Story Teller. An Adventure with the French Police
The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 August 1870 · page 4
IT was not long before the outbreak of the revolution of 48, and when were heard the first mutterings of disaffection against the Orleans dynasty, and the Ministers whose…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Traits of American Humor. My First and Last Speech in the General Court
The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 August 1870 · page 1
PEOPLE may sit at home in their chimney-corners and imagine it is an easy thing to be a representative, but this is a very great mistake. For three weeks I felt like a toad under a har…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Traits of American Humor. My First and Last Speech in the General Court
The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 3 September 1870 · page 1
“LOOK abroad, Mr. Speaker, over tho wide expanse of nature’s universe—beyond tho blazing billows of tho Atlantic. “Behold Bonaparte going about like a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Murder and Cannibalism at Fiji. (From the Sydney Morning Herald.)
The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 10 September 1870 · page 4
TERRIBLE news comes from Levuka. Mr. Norman, well known in Sandhurst, Victoria, was murdered, and his body cooked while war has broken out on the North-west Coast, where a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Child Murder at Sandridge. (From Daily Telegraph, September 7.)
The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 17 September 1870 · page 2
SANDRIDGE yesterday was in a state of confusion. The sole topic of conversation was the fearful murder of the previous day. The business at the police court, however, was merely formal,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Central Criminal Court. Thursday, November 10. (Before his Honor Judge Faucett.)
The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 19 November 1870 · page 3
IN the case of James Place, indicted for A criminal assault upon his step-daughter, a girl of twelve years, the jury brought in a verdict of guilty, but recommended the prisoner to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flogging in the Melbourne Gaol. (From the Melbourne Argus.)
The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 17 December 1870 · page 1
The man John Robert Morrison, convicted at the last Beechworth Criminal Court of a serious offence, and sentenced to 10 years’ hard labor, and to he thri[?]e flogged, received his first…
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