Attempted Murder by a Chinaman. (Western Independent.)
ON Wednesday, shortly after. 1 p.m., a quarrel took place among some Chinamen residing in a Chinese lodging-house in Ranken-street, near Mrs Ley’s…
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Police Court. Monday, January 14. (Before Messrs McRae, Bowling, and Stewart, J’s. P.) Drunkenness
Three offenders, brought up for the first time for drunkenness, were discharged. PROTECTION. Abraham was brought before the…
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Thomas Beattie, of Bango Creek, near Yass, labou[?] Cause of insolveney: Costs incurred in a law suit. Liabilities, £13 Assets, £5 Mr. Samuel Lyons, official assignee…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →78,108. Department of Prisons, Comptroller General's Office, Sydney, 11th January, 1[?] Removal of Refuse, Parranatti Gaol
TENDERS will be received at this office up to [?] on FRIDAY, 25th instant, from persons willing to [?] tract for the privilege of removing refuse, &c., from [?] above gaol during the twelvemonths ending 31st January…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Telegrams This Day. [A portion of the following appeared in our second edition of yesterday.] Murder & Pillage at the Friendly Group. Hostile Bearing of the Natives. Naval Protection Sought
WELLINGTON, N. Z., Friday.—"News has been brought here by a sailing vessel, from the Friendly Group, showing that the natives have become very dangerous. They have been insulting all the…
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BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Greville, Taylor, and Edwards. Three inebriates were each fined 5s., with the customary alternatives of imprisonment…
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BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Hunt, Harris, Alexander, Palmer, and spence. Fifty-two persons were fined for drunkenness. One of these Fanny Wright, was further sentenced to pay a…
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BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate and Messrs. Manning and Goodridge. Eighteen persons were fined for drunkenness. Sarah J. Birmingham, fined 5s., or two days' gaol, for…
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Thomas Walker Kavanagh, or 72, Harrington-street, boatman. Cause of sequestration ; Losses in trade and want of employment. Liabilities, £117 7s ; assets, £11. Assignee, Mr. R. H. Sempill…
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Thursday, January 21, at 11 a.m.—Before the District Commissioner: At Newcastle, Henry Caddy, first and only; John Landeryou, same. Friday, January 25.—Before the District Commissioner: At…
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BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate and Messrs. Reading and Edwards. Ten persons were fined for drunkenness. Thomas Gray in addition to being fined 10s. or four…
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BFFORE Messrs. Holsham, Paling and Bailey. Nineteen persons were fined for drunkenness. George Clarke, charged with using obsceno language, was fined 10s., or in default of payment to be imprisoned…
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Thursday, January 24, at 11 a.m.—Before the District Commissioner: At Newcastle, Henry Caddy, first and only; John Landeryou, same. Friday, January 25.—Before the District Commissioner: At…
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In the petition of William Jasper Donaldson Fletcher, of Sydney, land agent, praying that the estate of Charles M'Leod Marsh, of Salisbury Station, near Uralla, station, superintendent may be…
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An absence August named George Clarke was fined 10s, or four days' imprisonment, for wilfully damaging a door, the property of William Adams. Margaret Barkett was fined 5s, or two days' gaol…
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BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate with Messrs. V. Brown, Palmer, Edwards, Josephson, senior, and Smart. Six inebriates were each fined 5s., with the customary alternatives…
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It has been officially stated that Shafet Pasha is to be tried by court-martial, at the instance of Osman Pasha, for repeated acts of cowardice when the numbers of his troops and the positions he…
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John Cunningham, of Warn, Briadwood labourer. Cause of sequestration: Loss subs[?]ined by floods in 1871, which destroyed insolvent's farm produce and furniture valued at upwards of £300, liabilities, £66 18[?], assets…
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Thomas Walter Kavanagh, of 72, Hurrington-street, Sydney, waterman. Causes of insolvency: Losses in trade and want of employment. Liabilities, £117 7s. Assets, £11. Mr. R. H. Sempill, official assignee…
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