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Newcastle Chronicle
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Daniel Johnstone, captain, charged on the information of the Ballast master with discharging ballast from lighter No. 2 into the navigable waters of the harbour. Witnesses Henry Bohle, ballast-masster; George Harrison, assistant to the ballast-master; Henry Miller, defendant s mate on the lighter; Frederick Johnstone, no relation to defendant but on board the lighter; Martin Olsen, coal trimmer. Defendant convicted and fined 20 pounds
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Elected to represent the parish of St. Johns, Darby street at the forthcoming Anglican Synod