Insolvency Court. SURRENDERS
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 January 1878 · page 12
John Bede Evans, of Brown Mountain, cattle drover. Cause of sequestration; Losses in business, and sickness of insolvent and his wife. Liabilities, £619 5s 7d; assets, £27. Assignee, Mr. S. Lyons…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Police Court. Monday, December [?]. (Before Messrs McRae, Baling, and Stewart, J'o.P) Entering Enclosed Lands
The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 5 January 1878 · page 5
William Dates, and Thomas Bates, were charged with entering the enclosed lands of George Bowman. Mr Bowden for complainant…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Protection Needed at Double Bay
Evening News · Saturday 5 January 1878 · page 5
A correspondent writes:—"Sir,—As no one appears to have informed you of the disgraceful proceedings that occurred at Double Bay on the last night of the year, allow me to beg you to use your influence in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Law. Court of Quarter Sessions. Before Mr. District Court Judge WILKINSON
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 January 1878 · page 8
Mr. F. E. Rogers prosecuted for the Crown. Patrick Devlin and Ann Vaughan were charged with having, on the 4th December, feloniously wounded Thomas Paget. Both were sentenced to be imprisoned, with hard…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coroner's Court. This Day. Determined Suicide
Evening News · Saturday 5 January 1878 · page 5
The City Corner this rooming held an inquest at the Union Hotel, Lane Cove-road, respecting the dentil of a man named George Spurrett, who committed suicide. It appeared that the deceased, an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Small Debts’ Court. Wednesday, January 2. (Before Messrs H. Byrnes, and Rowling, J’s.P.)
The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 5 January 1878 · page 5
[?] Cloughton v. J. R. Rundell.—A claim for £9 for doctoring a horse. The objection was raised that defendant resided at Burwood and therefore must be summoned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Central Police Court
Evening News · Monday 7 January 1878 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald
The charge sheets at the Central Police Court, this morning, contained a large number of cases, and the prisoners' dock had its usual Monday morning appearance, being crowded with men and women of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Water Police Court
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1878 · page 6
BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate with Messrs. Edwards, Greville, Taylor, Hunt, and MacMahon. Three inebriates were each fined 5s., or two days. Henry Francis, cabman, for offending against decency in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charge of Murder on the High Seas
Evening News · Monday 7 January 1878 · page 2
A man named Peter Duncan, chief mate of the barque Lorna Doone, was placed in the dock at the Hobart Town Police Court on Dec. 28, and remanded till January 4, on a charge of murdering a man named…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?]Solvency Court. Meetings of Creditors
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1878 · page 6
January 7.—Before the District Commissioner: At [?]ge—Edward Brook, special, for proof of debts; at Bega— Stephen[?] Kiss, first and only. Wednesday, January 9.—Before the District Commissioner: At…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alleged Murder at Sea. the Captain of a New York Ship Thrown Overboard in Mid-ocean—the Second Mate in Custody
Evening News · Monday 7 January 1878 · page 2
St. Thomas, W. L., October 16,1877.—Considerable excitement was occasioned here during the past few days, in consequence of the alleged murder on the high seas. There is a mystery connected with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Central Police Court
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1878 · page 7
BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Hunt, Alexander. Spence, Davis, and Palmer. Fifty-six persons were fined for drunkenness: and Thomas Carr, convicted of being an habitual drunkard, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Water Police Court
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1878 · page 7
BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Goodridge, Gray, Marks, and others. Eleven inebriates were each fined 5s., with the usual alternatives of imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Outrage at Taree-Murder, or Manslaughter
Evening News · Tuesday 8 January 1878 · page 2
TAREE, Tuesday 10 a.m.—A fatal affray has occurred near the Lansdowne Ferry, not far from this place, between two men named William Morris and Henry Sullivan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Insolvency Court. Meetings of Creditors
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1878 · page 7
Wednesday, January 9.—Before the District Commissioner: At Deniliquin—John Phillips, second. Monday, January 14.—Before the District Commissioner: At Orange—John Giles, first and only…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Insolvency Court. This Day. Compulsory Seqestration Order Nis[?]
Evening News · Tuesday 8 January 1878 · page 3
In the petition of Henry Hughes, of Wellington, Innkeeper, preying that the estate of George Fullerton, of Dubbo, Barrister-at-law may be sequestrated for the benefit of creditors. His Honor the Chief…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Water Police Court
Evening News · Wednesday 9 January 1878 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald
Before the Water Police point this day, len individuals were made subject to the usual penalties for offending against sobriety. John M[?]ruy, for having in his p[?]sion a bat supposed to be stolen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Central Police Court. Tuesday. Before Messrs [?] and [?]
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1878 · page 3
Twenty-one persons were fined for drunkenness. John Brown and Thomas M'Nulty were fined 5s. each, Patrick Barry 10s., and Bridget Galvin 20s. for using obscene language…
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