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At the Water Police Court yesterday Robert Oliver, 40. carter, was charged with stealing a metal vice, valued at 16s, the property of Dalgety and Co., from Smith's Wharf, on December 24, and was fined £8, or…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In connection with the disturbance at Bundaberg Inspector Driscoll's report states that four kanakas have been fined 40s or three months' each on a charge of disorderly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On a charge of uttering a forged cheque for £4, purporting to be drawn by Thomas Frith, of Hamilton, on the Wickham branch of the A.J.S. Bank, Limited, Frederick Roberts (28), a dealer,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the Redfern Police Court, Arthur Robinson was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for stealing, in company, on the 15th inst., a box containing 2s 6d, the property of James Howe, at Botany…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Senior-sergeant John Tait, of the superintendent's office, metropolitan police, has been promoted to acting-sub-inspector. Sub-inspector Talt is the chief of the staff of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Water Police Court yesterday, Arthur Short (26), laborer, was committed for trial on a charge of stealing a sovereign and a shirt, valued at 25s, the properly of John Lee, on December 27…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The retirement of Mr. Fosbery from the high office of Inspector-General of Police is quite an historical incident and its importance was pleasantly marked yesterday, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Considerable sensation was caused in Redcliffe to-day when it became known that an attempted criminal assault had taken place in broad daylight late the previous afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Commissioner of Police has received a report on the recent kanaka disturbance at Bundaberg The report states that a very bad feeling exists amongst a certain class of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Blackpool has recently been the scene of a terrible tragedy. A woman was stubbed to death, it is alleged, by her husband, who is stated to have been under the influence…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Places of worship through various -circumstances sometimes make strange metamorphoses. It 'may be doubted whether the country has an example of a stranger one than that indicated…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →An extraordinary story was told at a London police court, when a young man named .William Lewis Ward was charged with falsely representing himself as a detective officer, and also as a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Wilson, 50, laborer, and John Curran, 27, saddler, were each lined 5s or the rising of the court, for this offence in Darling street…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The heavy rush of holiday excursionists to Manly yesterday of course meant good business for the newly established Steyne Court and during the day hundreds of people went through the thrilling experience of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A young attorney from an up-country district in the State of New York, was arguing his first appeal in the Supreme Court. He had been in many legal scrimmages in the justices'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →George Gray (alias Charles Henry) pleaded guilty to being drunk in Georgestreet on the 28th, to using indecent language, and assaulting Constable…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →At the Balmain Police Court yesterday, a boy named James Bain was Committed for trial On a charge of larceny by finding. From the evidence it was elicited that Bain, with other boys, found a bundle of letters…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Prothonotary's Office.--(Before the Chief Clerk.) At 10.80: A. J. S. Bank v. Gainford. At 10.45: Bank of New South Wales v. Kron. At 11: Abramovitch v. Block…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →We have had a short, sharp spell of frost, and very enjoyable it was while it lasted. To-day we are plunged into gloom and drizzle, the typical aspect of a November day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney Matthews, summoned for having on the 14th December, in Parkes street, Ryde, made use of indecent language, pleaded not guilty…
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