Law. Central Police Court
BEFORE Messrs, Smart, Cunninghame, Hughes, and W. C. Browne (of Patrick's Plaina). Six persons were fined for drunkenness. Kate Spallen, charged with having wilfully broken the…
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Insolvency Court. This Day. Surrenders
John Greenwood, senior, of Kiama. Causes of sequestration: Pressure of judgment creditors. Liabilities £430s 2d; assets, £11. Assignee. Mr. A. Saudemon. Thomas Yates, of Queanbeyan. Causes of…
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The City Coroner this morning held an inquest at Charles Barton's Civil Service Hotel, Elizabeth-street, respecting the death of Rothwell Hopkinson Senior, aged 23 years, a chemist, residing with his father,…
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BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Hunt, Davies, Palmer, Spence, and Harris. Fifty-six persons were fined for drunkenness. One of these, George Broughton, was also fined 10s. for assaulting…
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BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate and Mr. M'Mahon Twenty persons were fined for drunkenness. James Kelly aged 63, brought up for protection, was recommended by the Beneh for admission to the Benevolent…
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Two inquests were held yesterday afternoon at the Sydney Infirmary, respecting the death of Mrs. Margaret Bradford, who died in the Infirmary last Saturday from the effects of a fall out of a furniture van…
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Frederick Greeting Ward, of Newtown, commercial traveller. Cause of sequestration: sickness in 1876, having been thrown from his horse and had his ribs broken. Liabilities, £145 15s: assets, £5. Assignee, Mr. F. T…
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John Greenwood, of Kiama, tanner. Cause of insolvency; Pressure of creditors. Liabilities, £450 4s. 2d. Assets, £11. Mr. A. Sandeman, official assignee. Thomas Gates, of Queanbeyan, labourer. Causes of…
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BEFORE Mr. District Court Judge WILKINSON. Mr. F. E. Rogers prosecuted for the Crown. MALICIOUSLY WOUNDING. Andrew Jasper, a coloured man, was charged with having,…
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BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate, and Messrs. Reading, [?], Edwards, Neale, Ridge, and Purves. Five persons were fined for drunkenness. Peter Marker, aged 70, brought up for protection, was…
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BEFORE Messrs. Helsham, Paling, Bailey, and Mills. Twenty-nine persons were fined for drunkenness. Mary Benson was fined 10s., and Mary White and Mary Ann Stephens were fined 20s. each, for using obscene…
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S[?]ROUD, Monday 6 p.m.—A fearful tragedy has come to light. Mr. M'Askill the wharfinger at Booral, seven miles from Stroud, was found in a gully brutally murdered; likewise his house was…
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Michael Clune, of Wellington-street, near Sydney, labourer. Causes of insolvency: Sickness in family, want of employment, and pressure of creditor. Liabilities, £60 14s. 8d. Assets, £1. Mr. S. Lyons, official assignee…
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BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate and Messrs. Palmer, Ewards M'Mahon, and W. Brown. Two person were fined for drunkenness. Edward Norman, for an offenee against decency on the…
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BEFORE Messrs. Guy and Gorus. Twenty-two persons were fined for drunkenness. Mary M'Mahon, 50; Margarel Rice, 60 and Selina Curtis, 56, severally charged with being ldle and disorderly…
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At the Central Police Court, this morning, Michael Callaghan was charged with assaulting James Hartzman and Charles Manning. One day last week the defendant want to the Railway Station, where the…
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At the Water Police Court, yesterday, Alice Hassan, an Arab, was charged with having stolen four sovereigns and a pocket handkerchief from a coloured man named Antonio Lucas. The men had been…
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YASS, Thursday.âStuart Mackenzie, who had been committed for trial from the Coroner's Court on the [?] January for ill treating his wife and thus causing her death, was brought before the…
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The Court was crowded yesterday, to witness what was expected to to the closing scene in this extraordinary case. Counsel for the prosecution, called rebutting evidence, and the matter…
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Daniel Gallagher, of Darwell-street, Balmain, near Sydney, letter-Carrier. Causes of insolvency: Sickness in family and pressure of creditors. Liabilities £694 4s. 6½d. Assets, £620. Mr. F. T. Humphery, official assignee…
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