Water Police Court
Peter Hawkins, 36, traveller, for cruelly ill-treating a horse by working it whilst suffering from sore shoulders, was fined 106, with, an alternative of forty-eight hours…
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Central Police Court. To-day's Cases
Mr. C. Delohery, S.M., presided. James Robert Southern, 29, was charged with stealing twenty-four electroplated spoons and the same number of forks, value 2s 8d, the property…
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Mr. M. S. Love, D.S.M., presided in the charge division. Qui Feen, 59, seaman, was charged with deserting from the steamer Australian on the…
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At the Water Police Court yesterday. before Mr. M. S. Love, D.S.M., Alfred Anderson (51), seaman, was charged with stealing two coats, two pairs of trousers, and a quantity of other articles of…
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William J. Corrigan, 40, was charged with stealing a pint measure value 17s 6d, the property of H. B. Butler, licensee of the Premier Coffee Palace HoteL He was arrested last night by Constable…
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Upon arraignment at the Central Criminal Court this morning Arthur James Speer, the late city treasurer, pleaded guilty to the charge recently…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday,-- A young man named Charles Hall, aged 25, has been arrested at Eaglehawk on a charge of having wilfully murdered his wife, Minnie Hall, at their…
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William Willis, alias Dunkley, 65, appeared before Mr. M. S. Love, D.S.M., at the Water Police Court to-day charged with stealing three pieces of…
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In the Bankruptcy Court yesterday, before the Registrar, Mr. A. Henry, Walter Smith, of Singleton, applied for a certificate of discharge from, bankruptcy. The official assignee…
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At the usual weekly meeting of the Licensing Court, held at the Water Police Court to-day, Mr. Isaacs, S.M., presided, and Mr. M. S. Love, D.S.M.,…
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The hearing of the charge of larceny preferred against Joseph Horacio Amora was concluded yesterday morning in the Central Criminal Court, before Mr.-Justice Simpson. It was alleged against the accused that he…
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The weekly meeting of the Water Licensing Court was held at the Water police Court yesterday. Messrs. [?]. S. Isaacs, S.M. (in the chair), M. S. Love, D.S.M., and F. P[?]nny, L.M., occupied the Bench…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Courts. Fraudulently Removing Furniture
At the Newtown Court yesterday, Augustus Conrade was charged, at the instance of Matilda Copp (agent for James Ellison), with having, on the 19th inst., removed a quantity of furniture from a house in Park-avenue,…
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In the Summons Division of the Water Police Court, before Mr. F. S. Isaacs, S.M., Cahrles Stranger Leather was charged with falsely pretending to Joseph Bo[?]ker that certain property…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Steward in Trouble. Alleged Theft of Cutlery. From the Steamer Namoi
James Robert Southern, chief steward of the steamship Namoi, of the Newcastle and Hunter River Co., was at the Central Police Court to-day charged with stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District Court.—wednesday. (Before Judge BACKHOUSE.)
His Honor sat yesterday morning for the purpose of hearing appeals against the municipal assessments. The only matter brought forward was as appeal by Mr. A. T. Fleay against the assessment…
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His Honor Mr. Justice Cohen sat in Divorce jurisdiction yesterday, and disposed of several preliminary applications…
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TEMORA, Wednesday.--There is considerable indignation at the parsimony shown in the conduct of the Federal Convention elections. Hitherto the practice has been to employ a poll clerk…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Transvaal. the Volksraad and the High Court. a Deadlock
LONDON, February 24.—News from Pretoria states that a deadlock has occurred between the Transvaal Volksraad (the Parliament) and the High Court of Justice…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Transvaal. Deadlock Between the Volksraad and the High Court. London, Feb. 24
News from Pretoria states that a deadlock has occurred between the Volks[?]d and the High Court of Justice in the Transvaal…
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