Suspected Murder
St. GEORGE (Q.), Tuesday.—A woman named Mrs.James Higgins has been found dead in a cellar 15ft deep. The police suspect fool play, and have arrested her husband…
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Police
Mr. G. O'Malley Clarke, S. M., presided at the CENTRAL POLICE COURT yesterday. Thomas Michael Horan, was charged with having used threatening language towards his wife Eliza. The two had been…
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BRISBANE, Monday.--James Higgins, gardener, St. George, reported to the police that hie wife was round dead in a wine-cellar beneath his house. An examination of the…
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A young woman named Ellen Green was arraigned upon an indictment at the Quarter Sessions yesterday charging her with having forced and uttered a cheque for £2 5s with intent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bank Burglary. the E.,s., and A.C. AGAIN
Between 10 p.m. on the 5th instant and 9 on the 6th, the E.,S., and A.C. Bank, Darling and Weston streets, Balmain, was burglariously entered by smashing the padlock off the front…
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The Land Court opened at Darlinghurst yesterday before Messrs. Regers, Q.C. (president), Brandis, and Freeman. The appeal of A. J. and J. Cunningham against…
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George Wells brought an action in No.2 District trict COurt to-day against. H. H. Brown and another for the recovery of £21 9s 8d for goods sold and delivered. The defendants did not…
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In No.2 District Court to-day, before Acting-Judge Gibson, the Intercoloaial Investment Co. sued W. P. Courtney for the recovery of £29 18s lOd, balance of a loan of £316 advanced to…
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THE sittings of the land Court were continued to-day before Messrs. F. E. Rogers, Q.C., (president), Freeman and Brandis. The appeal of Thomas J. Stewart, of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bankruptcy Court. Voluntary Sequestrations
Henry Gardiner Baker, of 58 Albionstreet, Annandale, clerk. Mr. A. Morris, official assigned Victor Erland Berg, of 201…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coroner's Court for Newcastle
A DEPUTATION waited upon the Minister for Justice this afternoon from the borough council of Newcastle to ask that special provision should made for the purpose of…
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Four children--Florence May Barnett, 10 years old; John Craven, 14 ; Margaret M'Gee, 9; and William M'Gee, 4 years and 11 months --were brought before Mr. Clarke, S.M., at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Licensing Court. Lillie Bridge Booth License
A FULL Sitting of the licensing bench, consisting of Messrs. O'Malley Clarke (in the chair), B. Lee, J. Giles, Whittingdale Johnson, and Grahame, was held at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ferocious Litigants. a Riot in the Police Yard
ONE day last week we recorded certain facts in connection with an action in which one Herbert Smerdon sought to recover possession of a trotting mare which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder of a Miner. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Emmaville
A murder has been perpetrated on thE tableland. A man named Samuel MontGomerY, mining for tin at a place called Tucker Gully, about 3 miles from the Nine Mile, had not been seen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Treasury Funds. [?] Labertouche Before the Court
AN important incident in connection with the recent painful Treasury disclosures took place yesterday afternoon, when George E. Labortouche, lately clerk in charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Metropolitan District Court. Monday. (Before his Honor Judge WILKINSON.)
Cases of under £10 were dealt with. (Before his Honor Acting Judge GIBSON.) HOUGHTON V. GANNON. In this case Victor Thomas Sherbrooke Houghton,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Shearing Difficulty. Trouble at Rockhampton. Police Protection Needed. BRISBANE
At Rockhampton there is great excitement over the shearing difficulty. The Derwent, from Melbourne, with 200 nonunion shearers,has been lying at the mouth…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Shearing Difficulty. Serious Trouble Expected in Queensland. Despatch Op Police-threats of Unionists
BARCALDINE, Monday.--Inspector Ahearn has arrived and left by train this, morning with six constables for Emerald. More police are expected from Rockhampton and Brisbane…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Law. District Court. (Before Judge, Wilkinson.) Monday, February 9. the "Men of Mark" Cases
A great number of cases were on the list in which the proprietors of the "Australian Men of Mark" sued to recover upon contracts to subscribe repudiated by the subscribers. After…
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