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Mid North Coast · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1908

187 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 7 of 10

Special Local Option Court

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 17 September 1908 · page 3

THE special Licensing Court to carry into effect the local option vote taken at the last election was opened at West Kempsey on Friday, His Honor…

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Sentenced as Deserter. Echo of the Bournemouth Tragedy

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 19 September 1908 · page 7

In the present of the whole of the 2nd Life Guards Regiment at Windsor, John Francis McGuire was sentenced to 84 days in the military prison…

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Special Licensing Court

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 23 September 1908 · page 3

The Special Licensing Court in connection with the new Liquor Bill was Continued at the Kempsey Court House on the 12th insi. The members…

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Police Raid. Sydney

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 24 September 1908 · page 4

The police raided a fan tan shop in Pitt Street last night and thirteen Chinese were arrested…

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Local Option Court

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 24 September 1908 · page 4

THE Special Local Option Court was continued at Port Macquarie on Wednesday and Thursday last. His Honor, Judge Docker, presided, and…

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Burglary at Barrington

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 26 September 1908 · page 5

A great deal of excitement was created in the quiet little township of Barrington on Sunday last when the report got round that a burglary had…

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Wauchope Police Court. Saturday, September 19

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 September 1908 · page 7

Before Hon. E. A. Pery, P.M., and Messrs. F. Hayward and J. Summerville, J's.P. W. Richardson was charged with using obscene language…

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Small Debts Court

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 September 1908 · page 7

J. Whittaker v. J. Wholohan Claim £4 18s for wages due. Verdict for plaintiff Norman Npekes v. William Suters. Claim £8 10s balance for purchase of maire. This…

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Special Court. Thursday, Sept. 18. Before His Honor Judge Docker, &c. [Continued from last issue.] Royal Hotel. Kew

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 September 1908 · page 2

Mrs. Cahill, sworn stated—I am the wife of the licensee of the Royal Hotel, Kew, who is at present ill in the Taree hospital. We pay £4 10s a week, and have a lease of 5½ years from the 21st…

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Local Option Court. Thursday, September, [?]. Before His Honor Judge Docker, & C. Royal Hotel Kew

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 30 September 1908 · page 3

Mrs. O[?], sworn, stated:-- I am the wife of the licenses of the Royal Hotel, Kew, who is at present ill in the Taree Hospital. We pay £4 10s…

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Charged for His "Cheek."

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 1 October 1908 · page 2

Once in Canada Mr. Rudyard Kipling had a little disagreement with the landlord of the hotel at which he was staying…

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District Court Action

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 1 October 1908 · page 3

THE political emancipation of women has put her more on an equality with man than is shown in the mere giving of the voting…

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Local Option Court

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 3 October 1908 · page 7

The Local Option Court for Gloucester Electorate sat at Taree on Wednesday. The members of the Court were His Honor Judge Fitzhardinge,…

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Police Court. Wingham Monday Oct. 5. (Before Mr. H. Gordon J.P.)

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 7 October 1908 · page 2

Andrew Peter Gillogly, of Cedar Party was brought np in custody on an alleged charge of assult with latent, and was remanded for eight days…

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Local Option Court

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 7 October 1908 · page 3

The Local Option Court resumed its sittings at Taree on Friday at 9.30 a.m. Hie Honor Judge. Fitzbardinge and Messrs. A. Gates and Walterus Brown, P.M.'s,…

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Two Chinese Sentenced

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 8 October 1908 · page 4

Two Chinese have been sentenced to six and three months gaol respectively for alleged illicit traffic in gold at Bendigo, and several others were…

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Police Raid on Chinese

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 8 October 1908 · page 8

GREAT excitement was caused in Retreat-street, Alexandria, about 10 o'clock on Saturday night, when a large body of police under…

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Gloucester Licensing Court

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 8 October 1908 · page 4

The Gloucester Licensing Court ordered seven hotels to be closed in the district…

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Alleged Murderous Assault. Victim Succumbs

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 10 October 1908 · page 7

An assault, which subsequently terminated fatally, was committed on a miner, Thomas Mannix, near East Greta on Saturday afternoon…

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Licensing Court

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 10 October 1908 · page 7

At the quarterly licensing court held here on Monday last, before Messrs. F. Hayward and J. E. Flynn, L.M's., the following renewals of hotel licenses were granted…

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