Water Police Court
BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate. David Dunean and Robert Burt. seamen belonging to the Calliope, who were arrested on suspicion of being deserters, were sent on board…
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Central Police Court
BEFORE the Police Magistrate. The drunkard list contained the names of sixteen offenders. Four had paid 40s. each, in lieu of bail, on becoming sober, at the lock-up, which said sums were severally declared forfeit, on their…
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SIR—I take the liberty, as a citizen of Sydney, to lay before you the following facts. On Friday afternoon while standing at my shop door, I saw three constables taking a woman to the watch-house. One constable had…
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In the estate of Thomas May, an adjouned single meeting at noon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Circuit Court. (Abridged from the Maitland Mercury.) Civil Business. Wednesday August 23, 1851. CLIFF [?]. ALLEN. (Before Mr. Justice THEORY and a special jury of four.)
This was an action of damages for the nonperformance of an agreement to complete the transfer of the stations of Gullineilly and Weary Creek, Liverpool Plains, to the plaintiff; for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Police Court.—tuesday. (Before the Police Magistrate and J. M'Lerie, Esq.)
DRUNK AND DISORDEBLY.—James Denney, Elizabeth Lowers, Mary Anne Parker, and Thomas Wilson, were severally found quality of being drunk and disorderly in the public streets, and sentenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Criminal Side.—monday. Murder
Christopher Walsh, late of Lydney Park, Hunter River, in the colony of New South Wales, was indicted for the wilful murder of his wife, Mary Walsh, at Lydney Park aforesaid, on the 24th day of March last…
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IN the estate of Thomas May, an adjourned single meeting, noon. MEETING TO-MORROW. In the estate of Richard Henry Wright, an adjourned certificate…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland Circuit Court. Friday, August 25. Sullivan V. Townsend
THIS was a criminal information filed by the plaintiff, for writing and publishing (on the 21st of February, 1853) a malicious and defamatory libel, of an concerning the plaintiff in his magisterial capacity, accusing the plaintiff of accepting a bride for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Police Court.—wednesday. (Before the Police Magistrate, D. Egan, and J. Alexander, Esqrs.)
The cases presented on the Police shoots this morning for adjudication, were of an unimportant diameter; drunkenness and its concomitant disorder furnishing the principal business for the…
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BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate. Carl Grieb, a German, who was brought up yesterday charged with wilful neglect of duty, but who pleaded ill health, having been examined by a medical gentleman, who pronounced him able…
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BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with Mr. Thronton, Mr. Weekes, and Mr. Egan. Twenty-three drunkards were brought forward, and with the exception of one, a feeble old woman, who was forwarded to the…
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BEFORE the Chief Commissioner. In the estate of Thomas May, an adjourned single meeting was held. Insolvent was examined at same length, and the meeting adjourned until Monday next…
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THE Court opened on Wednesday, before Alfred Cheeke, Esq., chairman, assisted by Messrs. Forbes, Fearon, Simpson, G. Forbes, and Byrnes, Esqrs., J. P.s. Mr. J. B. Watson, of Liverpool, was sworn in as a justice of the peace…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland Circuit Court. Civil Side. Tuesday, August 29
BEFORE His Honor Mr. Justice THERRY and a jury of four. POSTER V. PENFOLD AND OTHERS. This was an action for damages for deception in the description of a steam flour mill, engine and machinery, sold by defendants to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Domestic Intelligence. Insolvent Court. (Before S. F. Milford, Esq. Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates.)
In the estate of Thomas May, an adjourned single meeting was held; the insolvent was examined, and the meeting adjourned till Monday next, at 1 p.m. MEETING TO-DAY…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney Police Court.—thursday. (Before the Water Police Magistrate.)
DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.— Mary Harris and William Abernethy were found guilty of being drunk and making use of obscene language in the public streets, and sentenced, the former to…
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BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate. William Wilson, Eric Herman, and John Beak, belonging to the Racer, were arraigned on suspicion of being runaway sailors. Sent on board…
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OUR readers will be well aware that such a court is in existence as the Water Police Court from having seen its reports in our paper, but perhaps many may not be aware of its whereabouts. Proceeding down George-street until you arrive at that portion of the…
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BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with Mr. Egan, and Mr. West. Fifteen drunkards came before the Court. Jane Lyons was convicted for the fourth time since the 4th August, and received sentence of six months' imprisonment; Samuel Exley, his fifth…
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