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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,123 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 57
JUDGE WINDEYER, sitting in Vice-Admiralty Jurisdiction to-day, had before him a claim by a licensed fisherman, Joseph Conlon, against Jones Brothers to recover £600 for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The police at Morpeth have recently displayed very commendable vigilance with regard to the observance of the law under the Licensing Act. At the local Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AT the Central Police Court yesterday, three young men, William Fenton, Percy Ayton, and Henry Fenton, were remanded until Thursday upon a charge of assaulting John…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ROBERT METER was not by any means true to his paternal nomenclature on Friday night, for he dropped across Constable Scott in such a condition…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MR. H. GORDON, M.P., and Messrs. H. Crothers and J. Rourke, Js.P., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. MAINTENANCE…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →GEORGE MITCHELL and Ernest Reckenberg were charged with having behaved in a disorderly manner at the Royal Hotel on Saturday evening, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WILLIAM M'DONALD, labourer, and William Lawson, miner, were each fined 5s, in default 24 hours in the lookup, for having been found drunk…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT the Newcastle Police court yesterday (before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Christie and Gibb, Js. P.), Charles Nesbit, baker, Joseph…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →POOR old Tom Cleary has gone for four weeks to the top of the hill at East Maitland, so as to be out of flood reach. Drunkenness and using…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A SPECIAL meeting of the Stockton Council was held on Monday night for the purpose of revising the municipal list in the annual revision court…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JAMES GOODWIN, John Allandale, and William Byrnes were remanded at the Water Police Court to-day on a charge of having unlawfully won from Axel Henry…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WM. M'DONALD, a long, angular old gentleman, who always seems to lose his hat in certain circumstances, constituted a case for Constable Lawis,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →CONSTABLE LEWIS judged that William Smith, carter, had diverged too far from the beaten track pursued by sober persons, and took him indoors…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A special meeting of the Carrington Council was held last evening to revise the municipal list. Alderman Butts (the Mayor) presided, and there were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ANN TUCKER, licensee of the Glanmorgan Hotel, Georgetown, Waratah, pleaded guilty to keeping the premises open for the sale of liquor on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The license of the Northumberland Hotel, Hunter-street, was transferred from William M'Donald to John Dyer, lately of Carrington…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. H. Crothers, J.P, occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. William Hill, an individual who had previously been introduced to the police, was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →C. LEONARD replenished exhausted nature so plentifully, after his heavy exertions in trying to minimise the effects of the flood waters along the Hamilton-road, that Constable…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN accordance with the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1883, it is proclaimed that an additional Court of Petty Sessions will be established at Jerry's Plains, to exercise civil…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THIS was an appeal from the judgment of Mr. Justice Bruce at the trial of the action with a special jury. The claim was to recover the price of 1000 tons of coal supplied…
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