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SIR—The Bathurst Free Press of Saturday, April 1st, contains a letter signed a Bathurstonian detailing the circumstances of a barefaced attempt at highway robbery, which occurred on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BEFORE the full Court. RETURNS. The Returns of the Sheriff and the Prothonotary were presented to the Court, and ordered to be filed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DRUNKENNESS.—The drunkards' list contained the names of twenty-three offenders, who were dealt with in the usual manner. One forfeited the sum of 40s. lodged at the watch house as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Mr. Deloitte. There were twenty-three drunkards on the list this morning. One had deposited £2 rather than appear before the Bench, one very old offender (Susan…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate and Captain Wingate. Two men of colour belonging to the General Urbistonolo, Spanish vessel, were charged with riotous and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BEFORE the full Court. SMITH v. MAYHEW. This was a motion to have a verdict entered up for plaintiff with £19 18s. damages; or (in the alternative)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was a motion for a new trial, in a case heard by Mr. Justice Dickinson, at Ma[?]land, in which a verdict went for the defendant. Mr. MEYMOTT appeared in support of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE DRUNKARDS' LIST.-Twenty persons were convicted of drunkenness this morning. One of the number forfei[?]ed the sum of 40s. lodged in the hands of the wathhouse-keeper as security…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with Mr. Egan, Mr. Hill, and Mr. Peek. There were twenty persons charged with drunkenness: Two deposited 40s. on becoming sober at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate. Philip Lingo, a seaman belonging to the Dutch ship Doctrina et Amicitia, was convicted of desertion, and sentenced, under the 17th section of the new…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BEFORE the full Court. THE QUEEN v. ROBERTS. This prisoner having, during the last criminal sittings, been tried for murder and acquitted, an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated that application had been made fur bail in this case, and as he was unwilling to take hisattorney by surprise, he would state publicly that in the execution of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MAN named Benjamin M'Donald, a private of the 50th regiment, now at Plymouth, has voluntarily confessed to the chief warder of the Devonport Military Prison, that he a short time…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We publish below the judgment of the Supreme Court in the case of Wood v. Cowell and others. To render the underwriter liable, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN the relation which exists in any community between the duly appointed protectors of public order, and of personal and private property, there is a mutuality, which if abandoned or…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DRUNKARDS.—The Drunkards[?] List, this morning, contained the numes of seventeen offenders, of whom three were discharged; one forfeited the sum of [?]. lodged with the watchhouse-keeper as security for his appearance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEFORE the POLICE MAGISTRATE and the SUPERINTENDENT of POLICE. Seventeen drunkards were disposed of in the usual way—one having paid 40s., and the rest sentenced in 20s. penalties, or 24…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Henry Gordon, Esq, of [?]warra, took the o[?]ths and was admitted as a Magistrate. IN THE APPLICATION OF MR. WILKINSON GRANTHAM TO BE ADMITTED AS AN ATTORNEY…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEFORE the full Court. NEW MAGISTRATE. Henry Gordon, Esq., of Illawarra, was sworn in as a Magistrate in the usual form…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Your leader of this day was headed " The Police and the Public," in which you pass strictures on the public for obstructing the police in their duty. As my present object is to point out the manner in which the police annoy the public, I shall not offer…
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