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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
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THE Land Appeal Court delivered judgment this morning on the point raised by Mr. Canaway, as counsel for the Minister for Lands, in the appeal of the English, Scottish,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHN JONES and James Rutledge, seamen, were each fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JOHN SCANLON, a young man, was charged with throwing stones in Cowper-street, Wallsend, to the danger of persons passing, and damaging…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A POLITICAL assassination, which may cause great complications in Eastern Asia, has taken place at Shanghai. The murdered man is none other than…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →THE shearing difficulty in the Narrabri district is regarded of so much importance by the Police Department that several officers have been drawn from various stations in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two children named Samuel and Polly Liddle, aged 11 and 13 years respectively, were charged with stealing four bottles of ginger ale and a glass, valued at 1s 6d, the property…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE trial of Cecile Anderson for the murder of John Fraser in a hotel in Bourke-street, was concluded last evening. A large number of witnesses were examined, and the jury…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ANNIE CLARK was fined 20s, with an option of seven days' gaol, for having been drunk and disorderly. Indecency…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. J. N. Brooke, P.M., and Messrs. H. Crothers and G. Buxton, Js.P., constituted the Bench at the Police Court yesterday, and their labours were comparatively light. A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A MINING trio were brought up for being drunk on Saturday, and having each obtained a night's lodging free, were admonished and discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AT the Newtown Police Court to-day Edward O'Callaghan was charged, upon summons, with assaulting a boy named William Huggard, aged 9. The information was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following were adjudged guilty of having unduly exercised their bacchanalian proclivities on Saturday, and were called upon to augment the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A MAN named William Wilson, residing at 24 Christie-street, Globe, heard the report of two revolver shots to-day about 1 o'clock. He went into the house next door, No. 22,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THOMAS WILLIAMS, aged 51 years, seaman, admitted having imbibed "not wisely but too well," and was fined 5s, with 24 hours in the lockup as the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEW YORK, Tuesday.—The police at Chicago have discovered two chests full of anarchist literature and infernal machines. It is believed that it was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRUSSELS, Wednesday.—The authorities have received information that a terrible anarchist tragedy was enacted yesterday morning at Serrang,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →JAMES FLAGHAN, 28 years old, labourer, and John M'Curdie, 29, seaman, having decided to visit Newcastle, left Sydney by steamer for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AN application was made by the police to have the three children of Ellen M'Gee, named respectively Lena, Owen Eugene, and Catherine removed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE applications for rules absolute in the cases of the Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board against the A.A. Co., the Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Co., Messrs. J. and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE business at the West Maitland Police Court was exceptionally heavy yesterday, and occupied almost the whole day. The courtroom was crowded with persons, who…
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