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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1879

12 stories in Northern Rivers's papers

Lisutore Police Court. Monday, 17Th March, 1879. Before the Police Magistrate

Northern Star · Saturday 22 March 1879 · page 2

George Williams (remanded from Saturday last), was again brought up, charged with stealing a berse from George Litchtield, at Lismore, on the 10th instant…

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Tuesday, 18Th March. Before the Police Magistrate

Northern Star · Saturday 22 March 1879 · page 2

David Counell, charged with being drunkusing obscene langnage, and damaging Government property, was fined £2, or 14 days' imprisonment. Fine paid…

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The Queensland Native Police

Northern Star · Saturday 29 March 1879 · page 4

[?] CORRESPONDENT of the 'South' Australian Advertiser,' who has travelled in Queensland, supplies the following infformation respecting the native police of that colony, a detachment…

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Supreme Court, Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 5 April 1879 · page 3

THE following case was heard as a late Sitting of the above.— ATKINSON V. SATLING. This was an action for damages for…

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Police Cattle

Northern Star · Saturday 12 April 1879 · page 3

As Australian is shortly to have polled or hornless cattle added to the stock better known in the country, we are likely to hear considerably more of this breed than has…

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Science. Baleful Planets. Four of Them to Make Joint Assault on Human Life—great News for the Doctors

Northern Star · Saturday 26 April 1879 · page 2

If there is anything in "astrological criology," we are approaching one of the most pestilential periods of the earth's history. Since the commencement of the Christian era…

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Grafton Circuit Court, TUESDAY, 22nd APRIL, 1879. Civil Sittings

Northern Star · Saturday 3 May 1879 · page 2

His Honor Acting Judge (Simpson took his [?] on the Bench at 10 o'clock. LlBEL—MOLENNAN V. WOTHERSPOON. The following Jury were empaneled—[?]…

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Supreme Court, Sydney. in Equity, May 7. BEFORE Sir William Manning, Primary Judge. in Re the Thcsts of the Will of Duncan Balck

Northern Star · Saturday 24 May 1879 · page 3

THIS was a petition of Alexander Cameron praying that Thomas Bawdsn might be ordered to pay £750 is 6d, and other sains of money in his bands belenging to the…

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Miscellany. the Murder of Captain Cook

Northern Star · Saturday 23 August 1879 · page 2

AT a meeting of the French Geographical Society, to celebrate she centenary of Captain Cook's death, M. Huber briefly adverted to the native account of the tragedy, as…

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A Skeleton in the Coloset. Chapter Lvii. How the Murder Was Discovered

Northern Star · Saturday 13 December 1879 · page 1

All murders past do stand exused in this— And this so sole and so unmatchable Shall prove a deadly bloodshed but a jest, Exampled by this hemous speciacle…

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Woodburn Police Court Friday, 19Th December, 1879

Northern Star · Saturday 27 December 1879 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate, and W. Gollan, Esq., J.P. MITCHELL v. MARSHALL. James Mitchell sued James Marshall for…

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Small Debts Court. Cook V. Norman, Senr

Northern Star · Saturday 27 December 1879 · page 2

The plaintiff claimed £1 10s. for a pig and 12s 6d for a bide. The plaintiff contended that he sold tho property to defendant and wore delivered to him at his request. The…

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