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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 60
ONE offender was fined for having taken a "wee drop" too much. VIOLENT ASSAULT. Lawrence Percival, a coloured man, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ALEXANDER KIRKALDY made application for the transfer of the license of the Clarendon Hotel, Blane-street, from himself to Joseph Blacker…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT times the Newcastle Police Count furnishes unpleasant illustrations of the free, and-easy fashion in which the law canâif those entrusted with its administration feel so…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Te Kooti was on Friday brought before the resident magistrate at Opotiki, and charged with unlawfully assembling, and with conduct calculated to provoke a breach of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FIVE individuals were fined in various amounts for the above offence. DIDN'T PAY HIS FARE. George Clifford pleaded guilty to having…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NINE wanderers from the path of sobriety were brought before Court, and were each fined the usual amount…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →(Before His Honor Judge Wilkinson.) THE March sittings of the Newcastle District Court were commenced yesterday morning, at 10 o'clock, before His…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FOUR places were fined for this defence INDECENT LANGUAGE Elizabeth Gallagher, in addition two fine for drunkenness, was fined £3, or two months'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE District Court business was resumed at 10 a.m. Present — Messrs. Blacket, Shand, and Gardner, barristers; and Messrs. Windeyer,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MR. WILLIAM O'BRIEN reached Clonmel Gaol at 3 a.m. on January 30th. In the morning, after breakfast, the prison doctor wished after breakfast, the prison doctor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The case of the condemned man Harrison, sentenced to death in connection with the famous Elmore murder, was not considered at the meeting of the Executive on Tuesday;…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BUCHANAN V. SMITH.— In this case the plaintiff claimed £1 in payment for goods supplied. Mr. T. F. Low appeared for the plaintiff…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MRS. BAKER was charged with being drunk in Nelson-street, on Tuesday evening, about 11 o'clock. Constable Clark deposed to the arrest, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JAMES JACKSON, a youth, was charged with bathing within view of persons passing, in a waterhole in Bridge street, Waratah, near the English Church, on Sunday, the 24th…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ONE person was fined for inebriety. INDECENT LANGUAGE. Victor Mattson, seaman, was fined £3, or three months' imprisonment, for using…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE District Court business was resumed at 10 a.m. ALLEGED INJURIES. In the case of Clara Smith v. Matilda Rae,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE annual report of the Inspector-General of Police was laid upon the table of the House on Tuesday afternoon by Mr. Dibbs. The document is confined to the customary…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two persons were fined for drunkenness. NO LIGHTS. Captain Oudney, of the ship Cochin, was summoned by the police for a breach of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE District Court sittings were continued at the Newcastle court-house yesterday, at 10 a.m. The barristers present were—Messrs. W. Edmunds, M.L.A., and W. Blacket; and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Robert Scott applied for the transfer of the license of the Sportsman's Arms Hotel, Hamilton, to Edward Russell, formerly of Sydney…
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