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Charles Hunt and John Gibson, seamen, belonging to the Mooltan, and the Winifred, were convicted of desertion, and sent to gaol for a period of 6 weeks, and ordered, whilst there, to be kept to hard labour…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Charles Hunt, convicted of deserting from the ship the Winifred, was sent to gaol for six weeks. John Gibson, a seaman belonging to the Mooltan, was convicted of deatrtion, and sent to gaol for six…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Patrick Ryan was brought up for careless driving in Goulburn-street, whereby he bad run over a child about two years old, of the name of Sullivan. A certificate from Dr. McKay was read, to the effect that the child…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nine drunkards were dealt with: two of these had by the frequency of their convictions, brought themselves under the operation of the Vagrant Act, and were sent to gaol for one month; the rest were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was a motion upon rule nisi amended by order of the Court for an account in a partnership transaction. Mr. Isaacs appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Windeyer for the defendant; and Mr. W. Cary for the official…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was a motion, upon rule nisi, for a partnership account as to a building speculation, wherein these parties had been engaged, but which had turned ont unsatisfactorily. There was no discussion except as to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IF we must judge from the correspondence in our columns, Sydney and the neighbourhood are not much the better for its expensive Police. It is not long ago that a strong…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[?]In the estate of James Armstrong, a second meeting. Insolvent amended his schedule, and debts amounting to £205 6s. 6½d. were proved. A creditor made a statement to the Court, in consequence whereof…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the estate of James Armstrong, a second meeting was held. Insolvent attended and was sworn; he amended his schedule by inseriting some debts not before mentioned in it, amounting to about £25, and also added certain assets in the estate, consisting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →William Suttor, William Covey, James McDonald, and Cuarles Martin were severally sentenced to 12 weeks imprisonment, with hard labour, as being guilty of desertion from their respective ships…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John D. Jeffrey, a seaman belonging to the Oneida, was convicted of absence without leave, and sent to gaol for four weeks. Charles Martin and William Sutter, two seamen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Elevan drunkards were sentenced to pay the usual penalty and in default were doomed to durance vile for forty-eight hours. Charlotte Shepherd was sentonood to two months'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eleven persons convicted of drunkenness, were severally sentenced to pay 20s, or to be imprisoned for twenty-four hours. Mary Bevan, found gailty of having wilfully and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was a motion for a now trial. The Solicitor-General and Mr. Wise appeared in support of the motion. Mr. Isaacs and Mr. Meymott in support of the verdict…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was a motion for new trial of an action of trover to determine a liability as to freight, wherein the defendant (the shipmaster) had succeeded. The argument had not terminated when the Court rose…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the estate of Samuel Russell, a third meeting. Debts amounting to £30 13s. 11d. were proved, and the official assignee read his report. The official assignee was directed to pay the value (£149) placed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the estate of Samuel Russell, a third meeting was held. Two dobts, amounting to £30 11s. 3d., were proved, and the official assignee, Mr. M'Konzie, read his report. It was then moved by Mr. Fearnley, a creditor in the estate, that the official…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alfred Ch[?]ney, a seaman belonging to the Connecticut, [?] convicted of desertion, and sent to gaol for ten weeks. Ten seamen belonging to the American ship Grey Feather wers brought up on the charge of disobeying the orders of the captain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →(Before the Water Police Magistrate and Mr. J. M'Lean.) John Skinner was found guilty of harbouring a seaman and deserter named George Edwin Welch, and sentenced to pay a fine of £2, together with 2 guineas…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mary Jones was charged with drunkenness: the constable stated she had been convicted of drunkennes three times since the 1st of April, and thirteen times during the last eleven months: she was sentenced to…
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