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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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Ten drunkards were lined in sums varying from 5s. to 20s. Richard Taylor, charged with having assaulted constable Sproule, pleaded guilty, but in extenuation alleged that as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ellen Maloney was brought up, under warrant, for disobeying a summons for using indecent language in Union-lane, and was fined 5s, with 5s 6d costs of court, or four days' gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Kate Proctor was brought before the court, charged with haring a hat in her possession, supposed to be stolen. She was discharged. On the Summons shoot were three cases…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Five persons were fined for drunkenness, or for disorderly conduct while drunk. Mansfield Powell, 13, was convicted of having stolen some pieces of iron of the value of 1s., the property of John…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Michell was brought up charged with committing an aggravated assault upon his wife. The injured woman is at present in the Infirmary, suffering from the wounds inflicted. Prisoner was remanded for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Eight persons were fined for drunkenness. Jane Downs was fined 40s. on conviction of having assaulted one Sheik Ali. It appeared that Ali went to prisoner's house for accommodation; that a difference of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Spence, Powell, Merriman, Murphy, and J. W. Smart.) Margaret Pritchard and Ann Davis, idle and disorderly characters, were Bent to gaol for one month…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE quarterly meeting of the Municipal Council of Sydney was held at the temporary Town Hall yesterday morning. There were present his Worship the Mayor (in the chair), and Aldermen Moore, Raphael, Murphy, Palmer, Oatley,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE usual quarterly meeting of the City Municipal Council was held yesterday at the Council Chambers. Present—His Worship the Mayor (Michael Chapman, Esq.,) and Aldermen Day, Green, Kippax, Linsley…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Twenty-three persons were fined, some 5s., and others 10s. for drunkenness or for disorderly conduct, or for obscene language. Some of them were charged a second time, namely, Thomas Ash, for assaulting the constable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE usual quarterly meeting of the City Municipal Council was held on Monday at the Council Chambers. Present-His, Worship the Mayor (Michael Chapman, Esq.) and Aldermen Day, Green, Kippax, Linsley,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Elizabeth M'Dermott was fined 20s, or seven days, for disobeying a summons for using obscene language. Stephen M'Keana was brought before the court, under warrant, charged with disobeying a summons, for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Elizabeth M'Dermott was fined 20s, or seven days, for disobeying a summous for using obsceno Ianguage. Stephen M'Kenna. was brought before the court, under warrant, charged with disobeying a summons, for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir.—I noticed in your article of the 2nd instant, on the subject of nominations to the Legislative Council, the after quoting from two past Secretaries of State for the Colonies, the Duke of Newcastle and Lord Granville, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the summons sheet there were eight cases. James Lovelock for having an incorrect weighing machine halt-an-ounce against the customer was fined|20s. Eliza Miller for having four light weights in her possession…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thirteen persons were fined in the usual penalties for drunkenness, riotous behaviour, &c. Walter Williams was fined 20s., or, in default of payment, to be imprisoned seven days, on conviction of having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the summons shoot there were eight cases. James Lovelock for having an incorrect weighing machine halt an ounce against the customer was fined 120s. Eliza Miller for having four light weighs in her possession,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three persons were fined for drunkenness. Mary Haddocks, an old offender, was convicted of being an habitual drunkard, and was sentenced to be imprisoned three months…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The quarterly meeting of the City Council was held on Monday last. The quarterly reports of the City Health Officer and the Mechanical Engineer at Botany were…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A MEETING of the Municipal Council of Sydney will be held at the Town Hall, York-street, on Tuesday, the 17th September, at 11 o'clock forenoon, for considering the following notices of motion:—…
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