Shire Will Improve Entrance to Gundagai Court House
The Gundagai Shire Council will shortly undertake the work of improving and beautifying the entrance to the local…
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Show Society Goes Into Debt to Honor Court Case Costs
Showing boundless confidence in the Show Society's ability to take a punch below the belt and come back fighting, seven members at the annual meeting on Saturday night guaranteed a bank overdraft of £700 so that the Society can pay costs incurred in a recent Supreme Court claim for damages…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gundagai Services Club Now Licensed Special Sitting of Licensing Court
The Gundagai District Services Club is now licensed under the Liquor Act. At a special sitting of the Licensing Court held last Tuesday, a certificate of registration was granted by the presiding Magistrate, Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Commission Cited by Journalist Contempt of High Court Claimed by Counsel for Rupert Lockwood
MELBOURNE, Thursday —Mr. E. Hill, counsel for Sydney journalist, Rupert Lockwood, at the Royal Commission oh Espionage, submitted at the Commission this morning that comment which prejudiced a trial or law suit was contempt of court…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seventeen Allegations of Stealing Involving Nearly £200 of the Junee Cycle Club's Funds
SEVENTEEN SEPARATE CHARGES OF STEALING, INVOLVING NEARLY £209, WERE LAID IN THE JUNES COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS YESTERDAY AGAINST ONE MAN, THE FORMER…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Four Snowy Men Face Serious Charges at Cooma Court
Four men faced separate charges in vol ring nearly £1,000 at last week's drifting of Cooma Court ol Petty Sessions. Mr. A. O. Chick,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pretended They Were Drunk Two Men in Court For Offensive Behaviour
"There is no honour to act being drunk," said Mr. A. S. McDonald, Stipendiary Magistrate. in the Junee Court of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Traffic Cases in Junee Court. Haulier Had No Money to Pay Road Tax
There were two traffic cases heard in the Junee Court of Petty Sessious yesterday and Ch[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bit lawyer's nose, say police
BRISBANE, Friday: A man who police allege bit a piece out of a solicitor's nose was committed for trial today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Won Court Case Mit Cannot Get £720 Legal Costs Show Society Members Come Back Fighting
Showing boundless confidence in the Show Society's ability to take a punch below the belt and come back fight…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday—The Minister for Health, Mr. O'Sullivan, refused to comment yesterday on allegations that a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court Refuses Injunction to Lockwood Against Royal Comm. on Espionage
MELBOURNE, Monday: The High Court today refused to prevent the Royal Commission on Espionage from questioning Sydney journalist Rupert Lockwood in any way. Mr. Justice Fullagar dis-…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Man on Beer Theft Charge
A Sydney man pleaded not guilty at yesterday's Wagga Court of Petty Sessions to a charge of having stolen a doxen bottles of beer from the counter of a hotel last January. Police allege that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga Court Items
A young English migrant was placed on a two-year good behavior bond at yesterday's Wagga Court of Petty Sessions for forging two cheques with intent to defroud…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mrs. Petrov at Court
MRS. PETROV arrives at the High Court to continue her evidence before the Royal Commission on Espionage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court tributes to lute S.M.
Tributes were paid at yesterday's Wagga Court of Petty Sessions to the late Mr. A. V. Quiggin, S.M., who died at Sydney last week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court order after Wagga dog race
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Reference to a greyhoond's "chance of form" at Wagga last month was mads in the Equity Court today. Myles Walter Hyam, a greyhound owner, of Roslyn…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police to Prose Public Vehicle Driver's Ability System Tightened By Department
Drivers of public vehicles, such as taxis, must in future, go through a thorough police inquiry and hold an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Chinaman Charged with Intent to Murder
SYDNEY, Thursday—Small, slight 29-year-old Chinese seaman appeared in Central Court this morning on two charges of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Theft of Beer Case Adjourned to August 4
Evidence in a charge against a young Sydney man accused of stealing a dozen bottles of beer from a Wagga Hotel last January was still incomplete at the close of yesterday's Petty Sessions, and will continue on August 4…
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