Insolvency Court
BEFORE the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. In the matter of William Levesey Higgins, an adjourned third meeting. Debt proved: Armstrong and Co., £8517s. No directions were given, and the meeting terminated…
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Metropolitan District Court
BEFORE Mr. District Court Judge DOWLING. Seven ca. sa. motions, two interplenders, one new trial motion, and one motion for a rehearing, were heard and disposed of…
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BEFORE his Honor Sir WILLIAM MANNING and a Jury of four. ELLIS V. MEYERFELD. This trial lasted throughout the day without being…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Law. Central Criminal Court. Before his Honor the Chief Justice Sir James Martin
The Attorney-General (Mr. W. J. Foster) prosecuted for the Crown. MANSLAUGHTER. George Purdue was charged with the manslaughter of…
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BEFORE Meessrs. Smart and Cunninghame. Seventeen persons were fined for drunkenness. Mary Ann Carter, Margaret O'Toole, Charley Chow (a Chinese), and Ann Cook, severally charged with having…
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BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate, with Messrs.Hunt, Taylor, and Grevile. A few persons were fined for drunkenness. Edward Fogarty was fined 5s., or two days in gaol, for…
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As will be seen from an advertisement in another column, we have now in our midst one, if not more, midnight marauders, whose notions of "mounteum" are, to say the least of it, rather lax. A bold, and, so…
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To-day, in the Jury Court, the [?] were disposed of, before his Honor Mr. Justice [?] and [?] of Four. The action brought by [?] and against Howard Smith, of…
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John Noonan, Glen Innes. Cause of sequestration. Insolvent states that his partner Charles Egan, has refused to join with him in sequestrating the estate of the firm. The [?] of hotelkeepers carried on by insolvent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →POSTSCRIPT. Late Telegrams. A Murder near Mudgee
MUDGEE, Monday.—Intelligence was brought into town yesterday evening that an old man named William Hatton was murdered on the Meroo, near Windeyer, on Saturday night or…
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[?]MILY Edith Cooper, of William-street; Sydney, widow Liabilities,£62 5s.5d.Assets,£41.Mr. Humphery, official assignee. john Noonen, of the firm of Noonen and Egan, of Glen…
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BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Lester and Goodridge. Twenty inebriates were each fined 5s., with the usual alternatives…
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BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Pearce, Hunt, Spence, and Harris. Sixty-eight persons were fined for drunkenness: several of whom, William Elliott, Peter Connor, Edgar Porter,…
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MUDGEE, Tuesday 12.30 p.m.—The inquiry regarding the Upper Meroo tragedy is just over The corondr's jury have returned a verdict of wilful murder against the victions mate Abel…
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BEFORE the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. In the matter of William Levesey Higgins. This was a motion by way of an appeal from the decision of the District Commissioner at Albury, admitting a debt of £952 on…
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BEFORE Mr. District Court Judge DOWLING. INTERPLEADER. In the case of Farleigh and another v. Wight (Robins claimant), judgment was given for the claimant, for whom…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Law. Supreme Court—monday, February 25. Sittings for Causes. Banco Court
BEFORE his Honor Sir WILLIAM MANNING and a jury of four. ELLIS V. MEYERFELD. This trial was not concluded; when the Court rose, the…
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AT the Tamworth Court of Quarter Sessions, before, Mr.Judge Meymott, Robert David Gordon was charged with stealing at Merriwa, on the 1st December. sic head of calves, the property of John Dight…
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BEFORE Messrs. Helsham, Bailey, Perdrian, Mills, and Alexander. Seventeen persons were fined for drunkenness. Joseph Payne was further found guilty on his own confession of…
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BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate, and Messrs. Reading, Paxton, Hunt, Neale, and Ridge. Six persons were fined for drunkenness. Mark Flood was fined 20s., or seven days' gaol, for having…
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