REMISSION OF PRISONERS' SENTENCES.—We believe that an alteration is about to be made in the present system of prison management, with a view to encourage good behaviour in the well-disposed class of prisoners. ...
Article : 1,929 wordsA report reached Hobart Town on Tuesday afternoon that a murder of a most revolting and brutal character had been committed at Glenorchy. The victims being a boy and a girl, the children of a man named Michael ...
Article : 573 wordsTHE ASSAULT CASE.— We alloded last week to what was called a fight, out of which it was stated that legal proceedings were likely to arise. The affair turns out to have been much more serious than the first rumours ...
Article : 244 wordsTHE WEATHER.—Yesterday we were visited with some refreshing showers, which was much needed, the ground owing to the long drought being unfit to receive the crops, whilst vegetation of all kinds was bucut up, and the whole ...
Article : 518 wordsAt the Burrowa Police Court on 20th instant, James Gorham was called to answer the charge of cattle stealing. Constable Cornett deposed. By virtue of a warrant ...
Article : 766 wordsThe steamer Grafton arrived this morning, at nine o'clock, with a staff of gaol officials for the Port Macquarie gaol, and twenty-eight conviets; this being the first draft. ...
Article : 208 wordsSIR.—In your issue of the 19th instant, the following question is asked by a correspondent at Murrurundi:— "Can a constable, or anyone else, take a horse out of a grazing paddock, for the purpose of seizing it, on ...
Article : 910 wordsLARCENY.—Anne Breedon, charged with stealing a shawl, the property of Mrs. Turner, was convicted, and sentenced to two months' imprisonment in Maitland gaol, with hard labour. ...
Article : 455 wordsStill no rain, and the weather getting hot. Travelling is almost at a standstill. From the Culgoa ninety miles without water; from Bourke northwards, one fifty-five mile stage, and another sixty. What we are to do, ...
Article : 207 wordsMr. John E. Kelly, of Bourke, writes us at some length, complaining that our usual Bourke correspondent has done unnecessary mischief by exaggerating the present dry and sterile state of the country on and beyond the ...
Article : 652 wordsPRESBYTERIAN ASSOCIATION.—On Tuesday evening a meeting of the members of this association was held in the High School. There was a fair attendance. Mr. A. Armstrong presided. A question whether the ...
Article : 3,078 wordsA case of considerable importance to sheep owners was heard here on Friday and Saturday last. It appears that about the end of July last Mr. Bruce, the chief inspector of sheep, discovered that scab had recently existed on the ...
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