Metropolitan District Court
BEFORE Mr. District Court Judge WILKINSON. RILEY AND ANOTHER V. RICE. This was an application for a [?] [?]…
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Law. Supreme Court.—thursday, June 21. in Banco.—second Term
BEFORE their Honors the CHIEF JUSTICE, Mr. Justice HARGRAVE, and Mr. Justice FAUCETT. BRAY V. TAYLER. As the notes of Mr. District Court Judge Dowling had…
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BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate and Messrs. Smart, Charlton, Goodridge, and Manning. Three persons were fined for drunkenness. Mary Ann Price, for stealing an antimacassar valued at…
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BEFORE Messrs. Jolly, Reading, Holborow, Moore, and Hughes. Twelve persons were fined for drunkenness. Margaret Cleary and Catherine Troy, charged with…
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AT the Cooktown Circuit Court, on June 6, Samuel Lover was arraigned for the murder of one Mary Ann Smith, at M'Leod's Creek, on the 21st of May, 1876. The evidence led to the conclusion that the…
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THE following term business has been adjudicated during the past week by the full court. In re Lloyd v. Broughton, Mr. Bennett sought fora writ of prohibition to be directed to Mr. District Court…
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THE City Coroner has held three incfcrests during the week. Last Saturday he held an inquiry concerning the death of a man named James Wilson, who disembowelled himself. The deceased was uged 75 years, and a native of London. He…
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George Hutchinson, of Forbes, saddler. Cause of sequestration: Dulness of trade, and seizure of goods under a bill of sale. Liabilities. £1056 2s 5d; assets; £1167 2s 4d; surplus, £110 19s 11d: Assignee, R. H. Sempill…
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BEFORE the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. Sir George Innes, instructed by Mr. Way on behalf [?] Thomas Macgregor and Charles Grant Macgregor, moved to make absolute a rule nisi for the compulsory sequestration…
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BEFORE Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson. ROBINSON V. CROKER. In this case, heard late on Thursday afternoon, plaint[?] and another, as executors of the late Harriet Elias, claimed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The "Mermaid" Case at the Central Police Court. Prosecution for Keeping a Disorderly House. Rush v. BURDETT
This case, which has given rise to a large amount of agitation in certain circles for some period, and caused much interest for a few weeks at the Police Court, was an information laid against Alice Burdett by…
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The City Coroner, this morning, held an inquest at Hodge's Royal Arcade Hotel, at the corner of Pitt and Market streets, concerning the death of a man named David Rogerson, who was found dead in his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Letters to the Editor. Interest Charged by Building Societies. (To the Editor of the Freeman's Journal.)
SIR,—In to-day's issue of the Herald there is an extract from the "Civil Service Gazette" (England), showing the large rate of interest charged and the extraordinary fines claimed by…
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BEFORE their Honors the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Hargrave, and Mr. Justice FAUCETT. IN RE BURNE V. KAVANAGH. This application, for an attachment and writ of [?] fa.,…
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BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate and Messrs. Hunt, Taylor, and Edwards. Seven persons were fined for drunkenness. John Morrissey was fined 10s., or four days' gaol, for…
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BEFORE Messrs. Smart and Cunninghame. Fourteen of the twenty persons apprehended ended for drunkenness were fined in [?] varying from 5s. to 20s. One of the number, Edward Downes, was also convicted of…
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Sarah Maria Watlington, wife of Mr. Walter Wallington, of Bourke-street, Surry Hills, was making purchases in the Belmore Markets, about ten o'clock on Saturday night, when she bought from the stand of…
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Monday, June 25, at 11 a.m.—Before the Chief Commissioner: Macgregor v. Stevens, for judgment on order nisi for compulsory sequestration; John James Byrne, adjourned third; Montague Levien Salamon, adjourned third; James…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Law. Supreme Court.—friday, June 22. in Banco. Exparte Burne. in Re Burne V. Kavangh
THE following were substantially the judgments delivered:- The CHIEF JUSTICE said that it was a motion to make absolute a rule nisi for a writ of [?] to enforce the…
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