The trial of this case was continued until mid-day, when the plaintiff's prima facie case (proof of heirship and that his ancestor died seized of the locus in quo,) having been closed, the jury went out to view the ...
Article : 93 wordsWINDSOR, AUGUST 24TH.—The waters fell about three feet last night, about six feet altogether. They have continued falling during the day, but very slowly. They are now within a foot of the flooring of the Fitz ...
Article : 152 wordsIT is not surprising that Lord Palmerston listened with earnest attention, as we are told he did, to the gentlemen connected with the West India interest who waited on him last week with their suggestions ...
Article : 1,771 wordsThis was an action for money lent by one Thomas Byford to the defendant. The defendant pleaded payment, never indebted, and an equitable plea that the plaintiff promised to ...
Article : 292 wordsPENRITH.—This district has again been visited with a fearful flood, causing the greatest alarm to exist in the minds of all as to its awful result. Numbers of the resident farmers were driven from their homes in ...
Article : 458 wordsCRICKET.—The return match between eleven of the Pennant Hills and eleven of the Ryde clubs came off here on Monday, the 24th instant. The score was as follows: — Pennant Hills—1st innings, runs 52, ...
Article : 227 wordsMr. Justice THEBRY said that the application for a receiver not having been objected to, he thought it a reasonable one, and therefore would grant it. As to the other part of the application, that the plaintiff ...
Article : 829 wordsSix persons were found guilty of drunkenness, one of whom (on the occasion of her twelfth conviction within as many months, and her fourth since June) was sent to gaol for one month, and the rest were severally ...
Article : 1,115 wordsTHE falling in of the bridge over the river in this township (which has long been looked for) has at length taken place. The flood on the night of Friday, the 21st instant, having caused the river to rise, carried ...
Article : 294 wordsAUGUST 24th.—Once more we have been visited with a very severe flood, quite as high as the one on July 31st. The rain commenced on Thursday morning, and continued, with a tremendous high wind, till late on ...
Article : 437 wordsSATURDAY.—The Hunter River District has again been visited by a most disastrous and fearful inundation. The present flood may be regarded as the flood of the season, both on account of its magnitude, and of the ...
Article : 925 wordsOUR COAL MINES.—The Australian Agricultural Company have just commenced the application of locomotive power to the purposes of traction on the tramways leading from their coal mines to their shoots, and ...
Article : 790 wordsHIGHER floods have, within the last two days, been experienced in Goulburn than has been the case since the year succeeding the great flood at Gundagai. On Wednesday last the sky bore portent of a coming ...
Article : 1,285 wordsIn the estate of Kenrick Hampson, a first meeting. Debts amounting to £251 were proved. In the estate of David L. Levy, an adjourned single meeting, and a special meeting under a Judge's order ...
Article : 174 wordsHANSLOW V. ROBERTS.—Hanslow, in the month of January last, bet Baly £20, and Cook £10, that 28 horses would not draw a certain boiler from half-way Between Sydney and Botany to a certain part of the ...
Article : 596 wordsJohn Owen, a seaman of the Manitou, convicted of desertion, was sentenced to eight weeks imprisonment. Robert French, for desertion from the some ship, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 26 Aug 1857, Page 2
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