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Courts & crime, 1848

922 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 47

DOMESTIC INTELLIGElNCE. Insolvent Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 June 1848 · page 2

BEFORE W. A. PUREFOY, Esq., Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates. In the estate of H. Scott, a first meeting was held, but no claims were proved…

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Domestic Intelligence. Insolvent Court. Tursday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 June 1848 · page 2

BEFORE W. A. PUR[?]FOY, Esq., Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates. In the estate of James Tracey, a special meeting was held for proof of claims, when the…

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Gosford, Brisbane Water. Police Office, June 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 June 1848 · page 3

BEFORE JOHN MOORE, Esq., J.P., and BOYD HORSBURGH, Esq., J.P. The Rev. Arthur Douglas, clergyman of the Church of England for the district of Brisbane…

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Law Intelligence. Bathurst Court of Quarter Sessions. Froday, June 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 June 1848 · page 2

BEFORE the Chairman, assisted during the any by C. H. Green, T. J. Hawkins, K. Miller, J. T. Morisset, E. Park, and J. B. Richards, Esquires: the first case called was—…

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Domestic Intelligence. Insolvent Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 June 1848 · page 2

BEFORE W. A. PUREFOY, Esq., Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates. In the estate of Windeyer and Eldershaw, a second meeting was held, but no business was…

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Domestic Intelligence. Insolvent Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 June 1848 · page 3

BEFORE W. A. PUREFOY, Esq., Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates. IS the estate of William Jonathan Johnson, a first meeting was hold. The following claims…

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Police Sketches

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 24 June 1848 · page 2

"THE JOYS OF IMMIGRATION."—A stout fresh-coloured lad, who gave his name as Thomas White, but whose mug presented every variety of hue, being a shapeless mass of contusions…

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Domestic Intelligence. Insolvent Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 June 1848 · page 2

BEFORE W. A. PUREFOY. Esq., Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates. In the estate of Robert and Helenus Scott, a second meeting was hold, but no business…

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The Adelaide Turf. Important Trial. Supreme Court—civil Side. Thursday, 1st June. SHAYLE V. MALCOLM

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 24 June 1848 · page 3

The following gentlemen were sworn in a special jury:— Henry Seymour Henry Giles John Peter John Bentham Neales…

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Domestic Intelligence. Insolvent Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 June 1848 · page 2

BEFORE W. A. PUREFOY, Esq., Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates. In the estate of Woolff Lewis Pyke, a single meeting was held, at which the following claims…

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Domestic Intelligence. Insolvent Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 June 1848 · page 2

BEFORE W. A. PUREFOY, Esq., Chief Commissioncr of Insolvent Estates. In the estate of William Jonathan Johnson, a second meeting was held, but at which no…

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Domestic Intelligence. Insolvent Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 June 1848 · page 2

BEFORE W. A. PUREFOY, Esq., Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates. In the estate of William Pondray, son., a special meeting was held, when a witness was…

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Domestic Intelligence. Insolvent Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 June 1848 · page 2

BEFORE W. A. PUREFOY, Esq., Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates. In the estate of Samuel Holmes, a single meeting was held. A claim having been…

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The Murder in St. James's Park

The Sydney Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 June 1848 · page 2

At the Old Bailey Sessions on Friday, Annette Meyers, the female who fired a pistol at Henry Ducker, a private in the Coldstream Guards, was placed at the bar,…

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Domestic Intelligence. Insolvent Court. Thursday. Before W. at Prusvoy, Esq., Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 June 1848 · page 2

In the estate of Edward James Campbell North, an adjourned second meeting ivas held. The following claims were proved:—James M'Evoy, £17, 1[?]s.; Wm. Pichett, [?]…

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Police Catechism

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 1 July 1848 · page 1

Inspector.—You are not so respectable in appearance as most of my men. The rest have a silver watch—how is it you have none? Policeman B 34.—If you please, sir, it is not…

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Police Sketches

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 1 July 1848 · page 3

THE CHILD'S FIRST PRIMER—Time and liquor, had done their work; the figure head of Mrs. Donnely, bearing ample testimony to the fact. The poor creature having a weekly looking…

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Police Office

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 1 July 1848 · page 3

Before Messrs. Bowman, Fitzgerald, and Scarvall. A PERFECT SULTAN.—Tom Smith, alias Black Tom, a pure and unadulterated sample of…

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The Alleged Murder at Rotumah

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 1 July 1848 · page 2

OUR readers are aware that an enquiry has been pending for some time past, before Captains Innes and Brown, the Water-Police Magistrates, as to the death of a Native Chief of the Island…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 1 July 1848 · page 10

The second term commences on Monday next, the 23rd instant. Mondays and Thursdays during the term are appointed for the hearing of motions in general; Tuesdays for new trial motions; Wednesdays, equity and insolvency jurisdiction; and Fridays for…

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