Insolvent Court.—thursday, January 16. New Insolvents
Empire · Saturday 16 January 1858 · page 4
John Keane, of George-street, Sydney, draper. Liabilities, £2149 3s, 5d, Assots: personal proporty moneys, £[?]7s, 4d.; outstanding debts, £51 18s, 10d.; total, £1536 7s. 4d. Amout of deficiency, £9[?] 17s. 9d. official Assignee, Mr. Perry…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Central Police Court.—saturday, January 9. (Before the Police Magistrate.)
Empire · Monday 18 January 1858 · page 4
DRUNKENNESS.—Six persons (one male and five females), were convicted of being drank about the Streets. They were severally ordered to pay a fine of 10s, or in default, to be imprisoned for four-and-twenty…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Central Police Court. Saturday. Before Mr. Forbes
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1858 · page 5
Six drunkards were severally fined 10s., or in default of payment to be imprisoned twenty-four hours; another, who is also a notorious vagrant, was sentenced to a month's incarceration with hard labour…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mutiny and Murder on Board the American Whaler Junior
The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Monday 18 January 1858 · page 11
BY the Lochiel, from London, we have received the following particulars relative to a frightful tragedy perpetrated on board the Junior. Captain Haddon, of the Lochiel, state that, on the 7th instant, when off Cape Howe, he sighted a ship in shore with…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Land Sales. On FRIDAY, 20th JANUARY, at eleven o'clock. at the Police Office, Albury
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1858 · page 8
HUME (Town Lots).—Parish of Howlong. Town of Howlong: Lots 1 to 40, 2 roods each. Upset price, £8 per acre. AT THE POLICE OFFICE, BRAIDWOOD. ST. VINCENT (Country Lots.)—Parish unnamed. Adjoining the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Melbourne Insolvent Court. (From the Argus.) WEDNESDAY, 6th January. BEFORE his Honor the Chief Commissioner. in Re Nicholas Riordan
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1858 · page 3
The Court was engaged during the whole day and until a late hour in the evening in carrying out a preliminary investigation into the affairs of this insolvent, at the request of the official assignee. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Central Police Court. Monday. Before Mr. Forbes, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Hill, Captain Scott, Mr. J. B. Ebsworth, and Captain M'Lean
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1858 · page 4
Seventeen drunkards were sentenced to pay 10s. each or to be imprisoned twenty-four hours. Five old women, who for years past have passed the greater portion of their time in gaol, having been found either wandering…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Police. to the Editor of the Empire
Empire · Tuesday 19 January 1858 · page 5
SIR—I must seriously express my surprise that you should have judged it consistent with the respectability of your journal to publish such a letter as appeared in the EMPIRE of the 15th instant, under the signature of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Supreme Court, Moreton Bay. (Abridged from the Moreton Bay Courier.) Criminal Jurisdiction. Before his Honor Mr. Justice Milford. Monday, January 11
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1858 · page 4
The Court sat this morning at 10 o'clock for the trial of cases within its criminal jurisdiction. The calendar contained the names of twelve prisoners, viz.—Murder, 2; forgery, 1; cutting with intent. 1; sheep-stealing, 1; larcenies and robberies, 6; and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Water Police Court.—tuesday, January 19. (Before the Water Police Magistrate.)
Empire · Wednesday 20 January 1858 · page 5
Peter Randle and James Hayes, charged with desertion from the Walter Hood, were ordered to be put on board. Peter Seymour, James Murray, and Charles Harrison, for desertion from thw ships Columbine and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Water Police Court
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1858 · page 4
Peter Seymour, James Murray, and Charles Harmer, deserters from the ship Duncan Dunbar, Columbine, and Junior, were sent to gaol for twelve weeks. Daniel Simple, a prisoner of the Crown, illegally at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Central Police Court.—tuesday, January 19. (Before the Police Magistrate and D. C. E. Scott, Esq., J.P.)
Empire · Wednesday 20 January 1858 · page 5
DRUNKENNESS.—Ten persons were brought before the Bench on the charge of drunkenness. Being severally convicted of the offence, they were ordered to pay the usual fine of 10s., or in default to be imprisoned for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Central Police Court. Tuesday. Before Mr. Forbes, Mr. Jones, Mr. Nott, Mr. Shoobert, Mr. Eliott, and Mr. G. Hill
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1858 · page 3
Ten drunkards were severally fined 10s., or in default of payment to be imprisoned twenty-four hours; four others, being also idle and disorderly persons, without fixed abode or lawful means of subsistence,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Police. to the Editor of the Empire. Let the gailed jade winee, my withers are unwrung
Empire · Wednesday 20 January 1858 · page 2
SIR—I have, of course, read the lengthy letter of Inspector Singleton's, published in your issue of this day; but as I do not see he has in any way contradicted the cause of my complaints, I am willing, as he is, to let the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court of Requests.—£30 Jurisdiction. Tuesday. Before the Commissioner and two Assessors. GROGAN V. DEVINE
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1858 · page 4
This was an action arising out of the great New-town ejectment case. The plaintiff was employed by the defendant to go to Gipps' Land and Victoria to look for witnesses…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Central Police Court—wednesday, January 20. (Before the Police Magistrate.)
Empire · Thursday 21 January 1858 · page 4
DRUNKARDS,—Seven drunkards were dealt with in the usual manner. VAGRANTS.—Three persons convicted ot vagrancy were each sent to gaol for throe months…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Water Police Court. Wednesday. Before the Water Police Magistrate and Mr. J. Campbell
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 January 1858 · page 4
The following parties were fined or imprisoned for drunkenness and disorderly conduct:—Johanna M'Gregor (an old offender), 40s., or forty-eight hours; Margaret Farrell, 20s., or twenty-four hours; Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Central Police Court. Wednesday. Before Mr. Forbes, Mr. G. Hill, Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Arkins
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 January 1858 · page 4
Seven persons convicted of drunkenness, were severally sentenced to pay 10s., or to be imprisoned twenty-four hours. Mary Williams, Ellen Hands, and Thomas Larkins,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court of Requests.—£30 Jurisdiction. Wednesday. Before the Commissioner and two assessors
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 January 1858 · page 4
PARKER v. HENDERSON.—This was an action to recover £25, the balance of a claim arising out of the sale of a horse for £55. It appeared that, in September last, the defendant wanting a horse applied to plaintiff,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Insolvent Court.—wednesday, January 20. (Before the Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates.) New Insolvents
Empire · Thursday 21 January 1858 · page 4
Edwin Smithers, of West Maitland, brickmaker. Liabilities, £735 10s. 4d.; assets-personal property, moneys, £105; amount of deficiency, £535 10s. 4d. Official assignce, Mr. F. W. Perry…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →