Central Police Court
BEFORE the POLICE MAGISTRATE. The names of 20 drunkards (male and female in equal proportion) filled the sheet. They were all convicted, and received sentence of from 20s. to 40s…
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BEFORE Mr. J. Campbell and Captain Wright. James Taylor, a seaman belonging to the William Miskin, who had been confined for protection while labouring under delirium tremens, was ordered to find…
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MARCH.âThursday, 30.âAt Moreton Bay. Thomas Brett, an adjourned second meeting, at 11. APRIL.âThursday, 6.âJohn Stevens, an adjourned single meeting, at 11…
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BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE. Margaret Clarke, late of Braidwood, in the Colony of New South Wales, was indicted for the wilful murder (at Exeter Farm, in the Colony of New South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Law. Supreme Court.—saturday. Nisi Prius Sittings
BEFORE Mr. Justice THERRY and a Jury of four. JURORS FINED. Mr. James Simmons and Mr. W. R. Scott were each fined £3 for non-attendance as Jurors…
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BEFORE Mr. J. Campbell, Mr. R. Ronald, and Captain Wingate. William Bassington, an apprentice belonging to the Blackfriar, who has been remanded from week to…
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BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with Mr. Lloyd, Major Lockyer, Mr. Ross, Mr, Egan, and Mr. Rae. The week opened with a list of no fewer than 52 drunkards, 5 of whom paid 40s. each for liberation…
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LETITIA Shearman, and Catherine Lawrence, both o Yass, in the colony of New South Wales, were indicted for feloniously stealing, at Yass, aforesaid, on the first of March last, the sum of £30, of the goods…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Law. Supreme Court.—monday. Nisi Prius Sittings
BEFORE Mr. Justice DICKINSON and a Jury of four. JURORS FINED. Messrs. T. W. Smith, Robert Towns, and Frederick Tooth were each fined £3 for not attending the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lake Bathurst Mining Company. (From the Morning Chronicle, December 17.) Court of Common Pleas. Nisi Prius Sittings at Guildhall
BEFORE Lord Chief Justice JERVIS. HARVEY v. IRON. This was an action for not depositing 3000 shares in the Lake Bathurst Australasian Gold Mining…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—saturday. Sitting for Trial of Causes. (Before Mr. Justice Therry, and a Jury fo Four.) Jurore Fined
Mr. James Simmons and Mr. W.R. Scott were each fined £ for non-attendance as jurors. DOE DEM PEACOCK AND OTHERS, v. KING. This was an action of ejectment for the…
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BEFORE Mr. R. Ronald. William Dryborough, a seaman belonging to the Akbar, was charged with desertion, but as the vessel had sailed and there was no prosecutor, he was…
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BEFORE the POLICE MAGISTRATE, with Dr. DOUGLASS, Mr. HILL, and Mr. T. W. CAMPBELL. There were eighteen persons on the list of drunkards; of whom three had paid 40s. each for liberation on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Police Court.—monday. (Before the Police Magestrate, Major Lockyer, George, A. Lloyd, and R. S. Ross, E[?]quires.)
DRUNKENNESS.—The Drunkards' List this morning presented a formidable appearance. Of fifty-two persons charged, only two were acquitted, and those soley from an insufficiency of evidence. The other offenders were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bathurst Circuit Court. Tuesday, March 6th
JOHN LACY was indicted for breaking into the dwelling house of James Read at the Village of Peel, on the 18th of February. Plea—Not guilty. VerdictGuilty. Sentence—Five years' hard labour on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Law. Supreme Court.—tuesday. Nisi Prius Sittings
BEFORE Mr. Justice DICKINSON and a Jury of four. DOE DEM. HALL v. ALLEY. This case (the trial of which commenced on Monday afternoon) was an action of ejectment to recover…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Goulburn Circuit Court. Civil Side. Saturday, 18Th March. Walsh v. M'DONAGH
(Before His HONOR SIR ALFRED STEPHEN, C. J., and a jury of four.) This was an action for a malicious prosecution, the declaration stated that the defendant, heretofore,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—tueday. (Before Mr. Justice Dickinson and a Jury of Four.) Don Dem Hall v. ALLRY
Mr. Broadhurst and Mr. Stephen appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Darvall for the defance. This was an action of ejectment to recover possession or a farm which the plaintiff had let to the defendant,…
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BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with the Superintendent of Police, Dr. Douglass, Mr. Hill, Mr. Darley, and Mr. Peck. Of twelve drunkards, one was sent to gaol for a…
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BEFORE MR. Rowand Ronaid and Mr. Alexander Campbell. Chin, the Chinese man, who was brought before the Court on the previous day for protection, was proved…
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