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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
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The High Court gave judgment to-day on the special case to decide the validity of the Wheat Acquisition Act of New South Wales, also whether the Interstate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →N. Burns, Abraham Gills, and Thomas Cooper, senior, were each fined 2s 6d, costs 6s for drunkenness at Dudley. Thomas Cooper, senior, for being found on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Albert Davies pleaded guilty to a charge of cruelly ill-treating a horse at Waratah. Constable Rootes stated that at 10 o'clock on the night of the 6th he saw…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. J. Hann, town clerk, and Mr. A. Asher, valuer, represented the Waratah Council. There were fifty-five appeals in all from thirty appellants, the majority of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Haihu Mard (27); seaman, pleaded guilty to a charge of Improper behaviour in Young-street, Carrington, and was ordered to pay a fine of 5s, or undergo 21…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Press Bureau states that five of the Singapore rioters have been court-martialled and shot; while eight have been imprisoned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Hughes, the Federal Attorney-General, said to-night that the two decisions of the High Court, that the Interstate Commission was not a Court, and that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →George Smith, described as a land agent, who was charged with making a false entry in a marriage register, was to-day charged with the murder of three women…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the West Maitland Police Court yesterday, before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., Mark Mason, on re[?]and from Newcastle, was charged with having stolen a silver watch,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d, with alternative of five minutes' detention…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Booth licenses were granted to Alexander Frew, of the Rhondda Hotel, Rhondda, for the Wallsend races. Music permits were granted to George W. Goffett,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Verdicts, with costs of court, were awarded the plaintiffs in the following cases:—Metropolitan Dining-rooms v. L. Cri[?]land, 6s 6d, balance for meal…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In re Ernest Morris Read, carpenter and joiner, of the Junction, Newcastle. At the single meeting of creditors and the public examination of the bankrupt, Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of five minutes' detention. Donald Forbes (28), labourer, and Edward…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—I desire to draw public attention to what I consider very great abuse in connection with Police Court fines and costs. I will give one instance. I…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Charles James Prescott appeared on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →George Washington Salenger, manager of the Burlington, Care, George-street, was charged at the Central Police Court to-day with having aided and abetted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Joseph Walter Smiles, Hans Herman Slott, Ellen Love, Margaret Cox, Arthur Calderbank, Ethel May Froome, and George B. White were each fined 2s 6d,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Calty (28), labourer, for whom Mr. C. W. Readett appeared, was adjudged guilty on a charge of using improper language in a tram in Hunter-street on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The following article by a professor of Louvain, now a refugee in England, appeared in the "Hibbert Journal" for January:—…
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