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In the matter of the petition of Franklin Jackes, of Armidale, storekeeper, a rule nisi was granted by the chief commissioner, calling upon Charles Henry Brashier, builder, of Armidale, to show cause on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BFFORE Mr. District Court Judge DOWLING. Mr. W. J. Foster prosecuted for the Crown. SENTENCES. Michael Hickey, tried and found guilty of stealing, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A number of drunkards were punished. Faugai, a man of colour from the South Seas, was brought up for protection, supposed to be of [?] mind…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEFFORE the Water Police Magistrate, Messrs. Oatley and Tait. Seven perrons were fined for being drunk in the streets. Richard Williams, for being drunk and using obscene…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BEFORE the Mayor, with Messrs. Love, Thompson, Smithers, and Penfold. Nine persons were fined in sums varying from 2s. 6d. to 10s. for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seven inebriates were punished. Ellen Brown, Lousia Lewis, Jane Davis, and M[?] Miller[?] described as women of the town, were fined 10s each, in default three days' gaol, for riotous behaviour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEFORE the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. The application in re Creville was postponed until the 27th April. Plans of distribution were confirmed in the estates of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PATRICK GEARY, alias John Geary, and his, wife, Margaret Geary, were brought before the Colac police court on Wednesday, charged with the murder of Thomas Brookhouse, at Colac, seventeen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The city coroner held an inquest at Forster's Hotel, Macquarie and Goulburn streets, this morning, to inquire into the circumstances attendant upon the death of James Harvey, a child of one William Harvey, who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alfred Osmund Jackson, of Sp[?]cer-street, Woollahra, collector. Cause of ins[?]lvency: Losses while in business in Melbourne, sickness in family and pressure of creditors. Liabilities, L135 17s 4d. Assets, L10…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEFORE Mr. District Court Judge SIMPSON. BAKENWELL V. DOYLE. This was an action to recover £10, balance of account upon a contract for the erection of a school at Burwood…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A MOST shocking murder was committed at Gaffney a Creek on the night of Friday, the 24th ultimo, or on the morning of Saturday, the 25th. It appears that two old men, neither less than sixty-five…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eight persons were fined for being drunk and incapable in the public streets. Sarah Kelly was fined 10s, to be levied by distress, in default four days' gaol, for behaving in a riotous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Joseph Richardson was found guilty of deserting from the Loch Urr, and was ordered to gaol for one month. "William Purvis, alias Richard Newman, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BEFORE Messrs. Pinhey, Levey, Oatley, G. Hill, Caraher, Evans, E. Campbell, and Meares. Five persons were fined 5s. each and two were fined 10s. each for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Peter Anderson was fined 20s., in default seven days, incarceration, for making use of indecent language in Essex-street. Frederick Morris was charged with stealing a bottle of…
Continued on Trove, page 203 →George Clarke, who on Friday last was apprehended by sergeant Sutton on suspicion of having stolen from a dwelling a watch and a chain, the property of Joseph Wilkinson. Committed for trial at Quarter Sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 203 →Margaret Creed was brought up charged with stealing a pair of bo[?]ts of the value of 3s 6d, the property of Henry Newton. She was sent to gaol for one month…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thomas Barry, convicted on the 5th instant, of assault with intent to rob, was sentenced to be kept to hard labour in Darlinghurst gaol (on both counts for which he was convicted) for twelve calendar months. Sentences to be…
Continued on Trove, page 203 →JEMMY Johnson, a Chinese interpreter, was murdered on the 29th ultimo, by another interpreter named Kum Tow, at the Chinese Camp. It appears from the evidence published in the Manaro Mercury that Ah Mye, who was…
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