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Francis Smee, of Bathurst, Painter. Cause of sequestraion:—Sheriff's batliff in possession of insolvent's goods under an execution at the suit or Friend and Co. Liabilities, £[?] 17s 6d; assets, £84; deficiency, £77 17s 6d…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BEFORE their Honors the CHIEF JUSTICE, Mr. Justice HARGRAVE, and Mr. Justice FAUCETT. LAING AND OTHERS V. BAIN AND OTHERS. This was a motion to make absolute a rule nisi for a new…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BEFORE Messrs, Jolly, Reading, and Holborow. Eleven persons were brought before the Court for drunkenness. One of those was further charged with having, after arrest, made use of obscone language, for which she…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate and Messrs. Lester, Goodridge, Smart, Charlton, MacMahon, and Hunt. Four persons were fined for drunkenness. James Carroll was fined 20s., or seven days' gaol, for having…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →John Quinn, 32, in addition to being punished for drunkenness, was ordered to pay a fine of 40s, with the alternative of a month's incarceration, for an offence against decency…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT 10 o'clock yesterday morning, William Hastings, who was tried and convicted at the last Criminal Sessions of the murder of his wife at Frankston, on or about the 1st December last, underwent the extreme…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The full court, on Friday morning, confirmed the convictions in the eases, The Queen v. Lewis, and The Queen v. Taggart. The prisoner, Mary Ann Lewis, was convicted at the last Sydney Quarter Sessions of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Abrahaam Jacobs, of Malboarue Club Hotel, traveller, late o Auckland, New Zealand. Cause of sequestration: Heavy losses by the wreck of insolvent's vessel, the Boyd. Liabilities, £1076 12s 10d; assets, £8; deficiency…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →BEFORE the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. In the matter of C. Yung, a third meeting. Dobt proved: Biddell, Brothers, £23 12s. 8d. No directions were given, and the meeting terminated…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The great Taris murder, known as "the woman cut in two which has been the talk of the town for so many weeks past, has at last been thoroughly cleared up. Billoir, the man arrested…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →A CORRESPONDENT of the Mudgee Independent writes:— The town and district have been thrown into a state of extraordinary excitement and intense gloom by the occurrence of an atrocious crime. Some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →BEFORE their Honors the CHIEF JUSTICE, Mr. Justice HARGRAVE, and Mr. Justice FAUCETT. The CHIEF JUSTICE announced to the Bar that the Court had just heard of the death of Archbishop Polding; in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The hearing of this remarkable will case commenced on Friday week, at the Darlinghurst Court house, and was adjourned until March 5th, when it was resumed in the Banco Court, King-street…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →BEFORE Messrs. Smart and Cunninghame. Seven persons were fined for drunkenness. John Quinn, found guilty of offending against public decency, was sentenced to pay a penalty of 40s., or to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BEFORE Messrs. Hunt, Taylor, and Greville. Several persons were fined for drunkenness. Catherine M'Crea was fined 20s., or seven days' gaol, for having been drunk and disorderly in Cumberland-street;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A man named Charles Allen, a selector, at-tempted to murder his children and wife early this morning. After striking two children with a tomahawk, he tried to strike his wife. She met…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEFORE their Honors the CHIEF JUSTICE, Mr. Justice HARGRAVE, and Mr. Justice FAUCETT. LAING AND OTHERS V. BAIN AND OTHERS. This was an action of ejectment to obtain possession of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The cases before this court this morning were of an unimportant nature. John Dooley, charged with being on the procession of James Thornton for an unlawful purpose, was remanded for one week. Catherine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BEFORE Messrs. Hunt, M'Lean, Spence, Alexander, Bull, and Smart. Forty-nine persons were charged with drunkenness; fifteen of these were taken into custody after 6 a.m. of…
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