Monday, July 25, at 3 p.m.— At the office of Robert Hamilton Sempill, official assignee: E[?]och William Rudder, special meeting to decide upon accepting or rejecting an offer of composition. ...
Article : 324 wordsACCIDENT.—On Friday morning an accident occured in Parmmatta of the following nature:—A sociable and pair belonging to Mr. Walter Lamb, of Greystanes, Prospect, were standing in a farmer's yard, near Lennox Bridge, ...
Article : 526 wordsAgain, the Commission is remarkable for the absence therefrom of one of the most qualified men in the colony, viz., Mr. Justice Hargrave, a man of rare intellectual power. In England it has been a matter ...
Article : 129 wordsWe have already referred to the omision of Mr. Justice Hargrave from the Law Reform Commission. The following observations, by a well-known jurist, in relation to this matter, are peculiarly relevant: ...
Article : 407 wordsSIR,—Some few years back a movement was originated in London called the "Six-Day Cab Movement." it arose from a strong desire on the part of many of these hardworking men to have the Sunday to themselves ...
Article : 240 wordsI should have thought that the nomination of several intelligent merchants as members of the Commission would have been most desirable. As we are informed by Mr. S. Morley, M.P., in reference to the ...
Article : 211 wordsBEFORE their Worships the Police Magistrate and Mr. C[?]nninghame. Three persons were fined 5s. each for drunkenness; and James. M'Neill, wato[?]man at thr Royal Hotel, found ...
Article : 283 wordsSIR,—I, like (no doubt) many of your readers, have often felt anxious to know the real effects is America of this much a vaunted law. I have somtimes feared lest our excellent friends—the teetotallers—the excess of their zeal, ...
Article : 966 wordsThe commissioners would, have been spared much time and labour it their attention had not been directed to a general inquiry. They would even have been spared some time and labour if the report of the ...
Article : 150 wordsPOLICE OFFICE SATURDAY.—Before Messrs. M'Quado and Richards, Justices of the Peace. George Drayton, into a volunteer in the Richmond corps, appeared in answer to a summons at the instance of William H. Holborrow, ...
Article : 598 wordsLet it not be supposed that in England there is the same paucity of professional men who aelvocate Law Reform as it is said to be the case in this colony. When the Lord Chancellor brought forward the great ...
Article : 266 wordsBEFORE his Worship the Water Police Magistrate and Messrs. Day and King. John Smith was charged with stealing a case of kerosene oil, valued at 24s., the property of Captain Rouse. ...
Article : 303 wordsIt is pretty apparent, that with the Chief Justice at the head of the Commission, the above Act has little chance of being tenderly dealt with, if dealt with at all. No doubt, it contains some bold propositions. ...
Article : 70 wordsIt now appears that there were on the Great Judicature Commission among the Judges, Vice-Chancellors, and law officers, both in office and out of office, distinguished men, who were for recommending ...
Article : 194 wordsI have said so much at difierent times on this subject that I shall be content with leaving the question in the hands of the new Law Reform Commission. I am satisfied that the measure must pass some time or ...
Article : 454 wordsTHE question as to the propriety of re-erecting; the Wallis Creek flood-gates is one which, naturally, enough, has excited much concern amonght the ratepayers in the Agricultural Areas annexed to the boroughs of East and West ...
Article : 2,230 wordsThose who are opposed to the fusion of Law and Equity, and there are many legal gentlemen who express opinions to that effect, are, I believe, labouring under the erroneous impression that the measure ...
Article : 256 wordsHE first half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in the Gou burn Meat-preserving Company was held at noon on Thursday, at the Mechanics' Institute, the chairman, Mr. A. Gibson, in the chair. The hon. treasurer, Mr. William ...
Article : 1,032 wordsSIR,—I was much surprised to find, from Mr. Krefft's letter to the Banner, published in your issue of the 20th instant, that his valuable work on "The Snakes of Australia," had not been appreciated in this colony; and that ...
Article : 436 wordsThe two great subjects to which the public mind has been so often directed by my writing—and, us it Would appear, successfully—are now admitted not only by the public but by the Government of the ...
Article : 100 wordsAs observed by on eminent jurist:- "In the first place, it is very satisfactory to find that the Judicature Commissioners, the Lord Chancellor, and the Lord Chief Justice, and, we may add, ...
Article : 144 wordsI have done for the present with the two leading subjects—Uniform procedure at Law and in Equity, and amalgamation of the-profession. The public mind I believe to be saturated with these subjects, and we ...
Article : 441 wordsThe Government,—represented, it is understood, by Sir W. M. Manning, who is known to be a law reformer—have boldly, manfully, and frankly countermanded what was at first announced as the subject ...
Article : 78 wordsSir A. E. Cockburn, the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, agrees in the general principle of attempting to attain that object by a fusion of the administration of Law and Equity—that is by giving ...
Article : 65 wordsSIR,—Will you, kindly permit me, through the medium of your columns, to ask "G K."—the writer of a letter on the above heading in copy of 19th instant—the reasons on which he, grounds his [?] cathedra dictum that certain ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Times, in a powerful article of the 30th April last, refers to what passed when the Lord Chancellor proposed to go into Committee on the bill, and the observations apply with equal force to my Law Re ...
Article : 441 wordsFor such an extensive investigation it would seem that the member of the Commission have not sufficient time at their command. I know from experience what time mid what research will be required. In ...
Article : 385 wordsSIR,—As the Liverpool dam was built by prisoners, under charge of my worthy friend Major Christ[?]e, it occurred to me to ask him how long it was before the water became sweet after the dam had stopped the saltwater tide ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 25 Jul 1870, Page 2
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