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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1917

5,120 stories in Sydney's papers · page 68 of 250

Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 April 1917 · page 5

Cause List.—In Banco Court, St. James's-road.—At 10 a.m.—Cleland v Jones. In No. 1 Jury Court, King street.—At 10 a.m.—Smith v Closer Settlements, Ltd. In No. 2 Jury Court, King-street.—At 10…

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Marine Court Inquiry

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 2 April 1917 · page 2

The following is the report of the Court of Inquiry, held at Wanganui, into the loss of the s.s. So, official number 31760, registered tonnage…

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Court of Industrial Arbitration

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 April 1917 · page 5

No. 1 Court.—Before Mr. Justice Heydon.—At 10 a.m.: Re Food Supply and Distribution (No. 1) Group, No. 6 (Confectioners, State) Board: Application by New South. Wales Manufacturing Confectioners'…

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Court of Marine Inquiry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 April 1917 · page 5

Before his Honor Judge Backhouse with Assessors, in No. 1 District Court.—At 10.15 a.m.: Re the master of the Wollongbar…

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Gas Employees. Arbitration Court Judgment

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 April 1917 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--An important arbitration judgment, dealing with the gas employees' dispute, was delivered by Mr. Justice Higgins at a special silting of the…

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Doctors Charged Infamous Conduct Alleged Constable Who Was Iii Advising Clients by Letter

The Sun · Monday 2 April 1917 · page 5

Four legally qualified medical practitioners were charged before the New South Wales Medical Boa. to-day with "infamous conduct in a professional respect." The…

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Law Notices. Monday, April 2. High Court of Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 April 1917 · page 5

Before the Full Court.—Martin and another v Hogan, Sands and M'Dougall Proprietary, Ltd., v Robinson, Siwertz v Donohue, Baltic Separator Co. v Donohue, Harding v Commissioner of Taxation, Fisher v Fisher…

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Thomas Conroy's Will Probate Revoked Decision of the Court

The Sun · Monday 2 April 1917 · page 6

Judgment was given to-day by Mr. Justice Street in the Probate Court in respect of the disputed will of the late Thomas Conroy, farmer, of Keepit, near Tamworth. The judge…

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The Heavy Overcoat. Gilgandra Barbar Charged With Theft

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 3 April 1917 · page 4

A man named George Cosgrove was charged at the Central Police court, Sydney, on Thursday last with stealing, on November 7th, 1910, twenty yards of silk,…

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Attempted Burglary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 April 1917 · page 7

Shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday morning a night-watchman discovered two men standing on a verandah at the residence of Mr. J. Russell French, in Fairfax-road, Bellevue Hill…

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Industrial Magistrate's Court. Claim for Subscriptions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 April 1917 · page 4

In the Industrial Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. G. C. Addison, Edward Clegg, on behalf of the Australian Journalists' Association, proceeded against Lionel Lambert…

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A Chinaman's Death. a Mins-owner Charged with Murder

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 3 April 1917 · page 4

At the Criminal Sessions fit Darwin (Northern Territory) last week, Charles Albert Brown of Wolfram Camp, mine-owner, was charged with the murder of a Chinaman, Ah Quee, at Wolfram, Camp,…

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Criminal. Charge of Murder

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 April 1917 · page 7

Before Mr., Justice Sly and jury, at the Central Criminal Court, Darlinghurst, adolph Herman Zink, a young man, pleaded not guilty to a charge of having murdered Hilton…

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Doctors Charged. Inquiry by Medical Board

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 April 1917 · page 6

The New South Wales Medical Board met yesterday to hear applications that four qualified medical practitioners should be romoved from the register on the ground that they had…

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A Murderous Assault. . in a Kitoomba Boarginghouse

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 3 April 1917 · page 4

A visitor to Katoomba (N.S.W.), Mr. George Henry King, who was staying at the "California" boarding house, was the victim of a murderous assault on Sunday…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 April 1917 · page 4

Before his Honor Judge Backhouse.—At 10 a.m.: The Ultimo Ironworks, Ltd. (in Liquidation), v Bramston; Renton v A.M.C., Limited; Myers v Jeans; Conduit and others v Kearns and another. Note.—The list…

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Marine Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 April 1917 · page 4

(Before Judge Backhouse and Captains H. Chudleigh and J. B. Carpenter, assessors.) The Marine Court sat to inquire into the circumstances of a collision between the…

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Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 April 1917 · page 4

Cause List.—In Banco Court, St. James's-road.—At 10 a.m.: Cleland v Jones(part heard). At 12 o'clock noon: Neale v Thatcher. Notice to Jurors.—The jurors engaged in the above part heard case are…

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