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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,139 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 48 of 57
THE case of S. Dawson and his wife against a man named Berry and his wife, claiming £10 for damage by trespass upon a paddock, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two seamen named Hugh Jacobson and August Wolfe were each fined 5s with an option of 24 hours' lockup for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN March last the Mayor of Newcastle wrote to the Minister for Justice regarding the necessity that existed for, the erection of a police-station in Hunter-street West, and pointed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MARY COX sued F. P. Ruttley, claiming £2 as the value of a Leghorn fowl killed by defendant when driving it out of his yard…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WILLIAM LOWE, age 35, a brickmaker, was fined the usual 5s, or in default 48 hours' imprisonment, for having been drunk in Hunter-street, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Naylon a 'busdriver, pleaded guilty to having refused to leave the Scott-street stand when ordered by the time-keeper. He said that he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mrs. Wilmott v. Mrs. Page.—Mr. Thos. Cronin, solicitor, appeared on behalf of the complainant, and Mr. Windeyer, solicitor, on behalf of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN elderly African named Alick Hassin was charged with stealing a brass star, valued at 10s, from the B.R. ship Honolulu…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →STRIKE matters have been very tame to-day. The Catholic portion of the strikers are highly incensed at Findlay having called Bishop Dunne a fool. All sorts of rumours…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. SPARKE appeared for the bankrupt. The only proved creditor was Morgan Jones, the amount being £68 12s…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE discovery of the seven infants' bodies in a yard at the rear of 25 Burren-street Macdonaldtown, has created a sensation in Sydney which has not been equalled by any…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →OWING to a recent alteration in the jurisdiction of the Small Debts Court throughout colony by the admission of claims in that court between £10 (the old limit) and £30,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THOMAS PARTON, F.G.S., and Robert F. Talbot having been recently appointed to the commission of the peace, were duly sworn in by MT. Gordon, who…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE R.M.S. Ruapehu brings news from Capetown of a double murder and suicide in mid-ocean on board the American barque William Hales. It appears that the barque left…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The license of the Reserve Hotel, Bolton-street, recently in the name of Rebecca Speirs, was transferred to Samuel M'Intyre, on the application of Edward Milner Stephen, the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ALBERT SWANSON, age 29, seaman, was called upon to pay 58, or suffer 24 hours in the lock-up, for having been drunk in Hunter-street on the previous evening…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Saturday.—A sensational action for slander (very similar in many respects to the great pearl case of some months ago, when the wife of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALFRED QUINLAN, a labourer, was fined 10s, or 48 hours, for imbibing too freely on the previous day. James Black, labourer, and Daniel…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WILLIAM LEZZARD, age 41, labourer, was ordered to pay 10s, or go to gaol for 48 hours, for having been drunk and disorderly in Scott-street on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JOHN WEYLAN, an old identity, was charged with being drunk in Mary-street, and fined 10s, or one week's imprisonment. John went to gaol…
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