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Mid North Coast · Courts & crime
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This Court was held for the purpOse of hearing appeals against the Municipal Assessment in Port Macquarie for the year 1894, and the hearing began at 10.30 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Joseph Byrnes and John McGann, charged with drunkenness, were admonished and discharged. CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED SHOOTING…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mrs. Anderson, who shot John Fraser in the Southern Cross Hotel, and then attempted to commit suicide, is now convalescent. She will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE trial of John Cummins and Alec Lee, alias Joseph Anderson. on he charge of having murdered Mr. W. C. Mackay, at Barraba, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →W. C. Bradley, Curtis Lee, Augustus Jones and Jas. Baker who had been arrested on warrants and released on bail appeared in answer to charges of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Fisher, of Long Reach, was charged with stealing 8lbs. of tobacco. From the evidence it appeared that a man named Bloomer had ordered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →J. C. Elton and Co. v. E. May, of Macksville. Claim for £1 3s. Defendant put in a plea of "infancy." The case was struck out, the P.M…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The trial of William Fisher indicted with having stolen 81bs. of tobacco, the property of John Bloomer, was adjourned on the application of Mr. Browning to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Castlemaine Brewery Co. v. David Hanrahan. Claim £87 2s goods sold and delivered. No appearance of defendant. Mr. Gilfillan for plaintiff company…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →E. A. Coleman v. C. H. Wright -- This was a claim for value of horses sold by defendant as bailiff under a warrant of the court. A verdict was given for defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In consequence of alleged carelessness in keeping the police court accounts at Newcastle it has been found necessary to temporarily…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Win. Jas. Lancaster summoned Jane Christian for assault. The case was dismissed. Wm. J. Lancaster prosecuted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The negro Jordan, for the murder of Minnie Hicks at Port Melbourne, will be hanged on the 20th inst…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →David A. Ramsay v. C. L. Cheeks.— Claim £5 lis 6s. Goods sold and delivered. Mr. Gilfillan appeared for the plaintiff. There was no appearance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Chinese cook on the steamer Effie shot a young man named Ernest Boult on Saturday morning. Boult died in a few minutes. The Chinaman…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A sensational tragedy was enacted at the Glebe yesterday. About 1 o'clock in the afternoon, a young man named Willam Wilson, residing in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the plaint of Theophilus Flarrety, Michael Mainey, of Willi Willi, was charged with having illegally used three bullocks, the property of Flarrety…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Louisa Newman, 16 years of age, discovered the dead body of her mother in a water butt at the back of their house in Leichhardt on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BUMP, rattle, crash; crash, rattle, bump -- over ditch and waterway, and stump and broken-down tree, rolled the coach carrying Her Majesty's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →John Maloney, a well-known character about the town, indulged in a bit of a spree on Saturday last. No one had any objection to John enjoying himself, but…
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