Insolvency Court.—thursday. Surrenders
Joseph Roberts, of Bega, labourer. Liabilities £46 10s.; assets, £15. Mr. E. M. Stephen, official assignee. (Before the Chief Commissioner.)…
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Courts & crime, 1883
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Yet Another Burglary
BETWEEN 7 and 8 p.m. on Sunday last another cool burglary was effected in the outskirts. Whilst Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burns, residents of the Hamilton…
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Mr. MAIR, P.M., and Mr. David Ludlow, J.P., disposed of the Police Court business yesterday, and disposed of a batch of about a dozen drunkards. Edward Woodgate,…
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AT the above Court on Monday, applications for the transfer of hotel licenses were granted in the following cases:âG. G. H. Collins, Castlemaine Hotel, to Joan…
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MR. MAIR, P.M., and Mr. George Donald, J.P., presided at the police court yesterday. John Lamb, tailor, for having travelled from Sydney by the steamer Kembla…
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AT the Police Court yesterday, an unusually large batch of prisoners were dealt with: the majority for drunkenness. Murdo McAuley, a deserter from the barque Manhegan, was sentenced to a month's hard…
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MR. MAIR, P.M. Mr. W. K. Lochhead, J.P., and Mr. J. Creer, J.P., presided at the Police Court yesterday. The sheets on either side—summons and police—were rather light. Catherine Thomas, for having made…
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THE special district meeting of the ministers of the Wesleyan Church, Sydney district, called to consider certain charges against the Rev. John Osborne, was opened in the…
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LONDON, July 18.—Fifteen persons have been arrested at Westmeath, Ireland, for complicity in a plot to murder five landlords…
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AT the Police Court, yesterday, Catherine Fanning, widow, in custody for protection, suffering from the effects of incessant dram-drinking, was discharged…
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ON Thursday (before Mr. Perrott. P.M., and Mr. J. Birrell, J.P.), J. Y. Neilson, manager of the Wallsend Colliery, was charged that he did, between the 15th March and 19th July, 1883, cause to be erected…
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LONDON, July 25.—Fifteen persons have been committed for trial for being implicated in the brutal murder of Mrs. Smythe, of West Meath…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—There has been a shocking murder, followed by, the suicide of the murderer, in Nelson gaol, New Zealand. Davidson, who on the 23rd June last was tried in the Supreme Court for the…
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LONDON, August 1.—Further particulars from South Africa show that James Carey, the informer, was shot dead in the presence of his family. O'Donnell admitted that he was ordered by the secret…
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NEW YORK, August 1.—Reports are current in this city that the witness Mottley, who gave evidence against Timothy Kelly in the recent Phoenix Par murder trails, has been murdered in Philadelphia,…
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YESTERDAY before the local powers that be a batch of drunkards were first of all disposed of James Lightburn, deserter from the ship British Yeoman, went up to Maitland gaol for five week's hard labour…
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LONDON, August 6.—It transpires that the British Government were aware of the plot in Dublin to murder all the Irish informers…
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A TELEGRAM from Melbourne dated Monday says that Michael Miney was charged at the City police court with having token away a girl named Peters, under 16 year of age, without the consent of her…
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AT the Police Court, yesterday, before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs.W. K. Lochhead and J. Creer, J.'sP., a trio of drunkards was dealt with in the customary manner. Augustus Joseph, charged with…
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AT the Police Court, yesterday, James Crombie Gray was fined £1, with 9s 6d costs, in default a month, for being the possessor of a savage dog which attacked and bit a lad named. George Green. Augustus…
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