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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 30 of 60
YESTERDAY evening a meeting for the purpose of expressing sympathy with the sufferers by the recent sad disaster was held in the Newcastle Court-house. The chair was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DAVID LEWIS WILLIAMS , formerly clerk in holy orders, was brought up in custody at Cardigan Borough Police Court recently, charged with stealing a Bible from the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →GEORGE M'KENZIE, for being drunk in Hunter-street on the previous evening, was fined the usual 5s, or twenty-four hours' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MR. J. BEDFORD, Inspector of nuisances appeared to prosecute several ratepayers for allowing their horses and cows to stray on the public streets, resulting in the following…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE plans and specifications of the new Court-house to be erected at Newcastle, as amended by the Minister of Justice, Mr. Gould, have been forwarded to the Public…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE only business at the Court was a case of wife desertion, which was, fortunately for all parties, settled out of Court. SETTLED…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JAMES COLLINS was fined 5s, and Ellen Morgan 10s, for drunkenness. Riotous Behaviour. Andrew M'Lachlan was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT a meeting of the Cabinet to-day, it was decided to lay before Parliament, for submission to the Public Works Committee, the proposed breakwater at Byron Bay, in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHN MILLs and John O'Leary were fined the usual 5s, or 24 hours' imprisonment, for being drunk. Catherine Jones, for being drunk in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AN Italian fishmonger named Frank Millisli, carrying on business in Hunter-street, was arrested yesterday afternoon by Sergeant M'Vane for stealing a ham out of Ireland's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TO-MORROW the Hon. Edward Barton, Q.C., M.L.C., Will take his sent as Miners' Referee for the first time. The case to come before him is the dispute between the Wallsend…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE adjourned case of keeping pigs within a hundred yards of the street, brought up by J. Bedford, inspector of nuisances, against James Simpson, was heard…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THOMAS CROWLEY and Pierce Power were fined the usual 5s, or 24 hours' imprisonment, for being drunk in Market and Scott streets on the previous evening…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AN application was made for the transfer of the publican's license of the Commercial Hotel, Lambton, from William Brown to John Sample…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Thursday Night.—Another terrible Tragedy has been added to the list of startling crimes in this city. At a late hour last night a man named Hunter murdered one of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →UNDER the agreement recently entered into between the coal miners of this district and the representatives of their employers provision was made…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PATRICK STEVENSON, Richard Sayers, Alfred Forbes were fined 5s, or 24 hours, being drunk on the previous evening. The Ham Stealing Case…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE following renewals were granted, the police having no objections:âEdward Lorey, Imperial Hotel, Scott and Telford streets, Newcastle; Richard Richards, General…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Thursday.—An order has been granted for the extradition from Winnipeg of Martin Burke, who was arrested on a charge of being concerned in the murder of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JAMES ROEBOTTOM and Richard Baxendall, two boys, were charged with damaging a fence at Jesmond on the 3rd inst., the property of Mrs. Bell, of Newcastle. Both…
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