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The Sedalls Mo.) Press gives an account of a horrid murder near Otterville, Missouri. It says two young men named Wilson and Harper had been paying their addresses to Miss Brown of Syracuse,* with a view to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →His HONOR the Chief Commissioner delivered judgment as follows:— RE EDWARD ROW. Upon the adjourned consideration of the ratification,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Patrick Madden, for committing an aggravated assault on John Meehan, was committed to take his trial at the next Quarter Sessions. Charlette Panbury, for indecent language in a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate, with Mr. J. Pemell, Mr. G. R. Elliett, Mr. J. B. Smithers, and Mr. M. Metcalfe. John Cæsar, a man of colour, late a coal trimmer of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEFORE their Worships the Police Magistrate, Messrs. Levey, Smithers, Birrell, Hunt, and Bossley. Of eleven prisoners brought before the Court, one was discharged and two were remanded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mary Mooney, for being drunk and disorderly, was fined 10s., or forty-eight hours in gaol. Mary O'Neill and Michael Purtell, for a similaroffence, were each fined 10s., or forty-eight hours in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Early on Saturday morning last information was [?]ought into Bathurst that a brutal murder had been committed near Ranken's Bridge. The police were despatched to the locality, and from information gained…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SURRENDER.— Leopold Rawack, of Sydney, merchant, trading under the firm of L. Rawack and Co., on petition and affidavit. Mr. Sempill, official assignee. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Leopold Rawack, merchant, Sydney, trading under the name of L. Rawack and Co. Liabilities, about £14,000. Assets, between £10,000 and £11,000. Mr. R. H. Sempill, official assignee…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →James Dwyer and Catherine Steel, for being drunk and disorderly, were each fined 10s., or forty-eight hours in gaol. Ann Burns, for throwing stones in Goulburn-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →James Jones, summoned by Henry Whitall, John Donoven, and Thomas Hannan, for wages, £2 8s. each, was ordered to pay each their wages, and costs of court 5s. 10d. in each case, or forty-eight hours' gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charles Hayward, alias Sterling, was charged with having fraudulently converted to his own use a horse, saddle, and bridle, of which he was bailee. Herbert S. Gibson, of Pitt-street, livery stable keeper, deposed that on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →John Casar, a man of colour, late a coal trimmer of the Royel Mail steamship Kaikoura, was charged with assaulting Edward Samuel Matthews, chief engineer of that vessel. It appeared that prisoner went to Matthews to complain…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Joshua Batty was charged with having stolen a piece of tweed cloth, a piece of cashmere cloth, and other cloths, the property of James Steenson. Prosecutor deposed that prisoner is a tailor, and on the 17th December was in his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A NOVEL and audacious project of escape from Darlinghurst Gaol, concocted by some of the confinees with confederates outside, has just been detected, and proves to be of such a nature as, if carried out, was likely to have…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE following estates were surrendered:- Charles Ford, of York-street, Sydney, publican, out of business. Liabilities, £77 15s. 6d. Assets, £28 16s. Mr. Humphery, official assignee…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AMONGST the many paragraphs of local intelligence which appear in the newspapers from day to day, those recording the transactions of the Coroner's Court are by no means the least important or interesting to the public; in many…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →John Page, Campbelltown, late of South Creek. Liabilities, £263 9s. Assets. £10. Deficiency, £253 9s. Mr. F. T. Humphery, official assignee. Alexander Griffin, master mariner, late of Singapore…
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