Creswick & Clunes Advertiser, Newspaper Index, 1859-1865
This online index enabled me to look up the original newpaper items on microfilm at the Ballarat Library and to locate the entries in the Creswick Petty Session Court Registers [VPRS 1387] at the Ballarat Public Record Office.

Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers Friday 17 Feb 1860
John GRAHAM v John SPARK
Claiming £2-0-0 for work and labor done
Decision: Defendant to await result of County Court action.

Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers Tuesday 21 Feb 1860
John GRAHAM v John SPARK
Summons issued 17 Feb
Claiming £2-0-0 for work and labor done. Postponed - to await result of County Court action. GA AMOS JP

Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers Fri 24 Feb 1860
Henry WILKINSON v John SPARK
Riding furiously on the public street in Creswick on 15th Instant. Fined £1 also 2/6 costs in default 48 hours imprisonment. GA Amos JP

Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers Fri 24 Feb 1860
John GRAHAM v John SPARK
Summons issued 17 Feb
Claiming £2-0-0 for work and labor done. Postponed for production of Defendant's books on Tuesday next.

Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers Tues 28 Feb 1860
John GRAHAM v John SPARK
Claiming £2-0-0 for work and labor done. Struck out.

Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers 10 Apr 1860
George YOUNG v John SPARK (Summons issued)
Claiming £17-16-8 for work and labor done. £13-10-0 also 2/6 - in default, warrant of distress, in default, 26 days imprisonment. GA Amos JP

Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers 11 Apr 1860
George SPARK v William SPARK (Summons issued)
Taking and using a certain horse of Complainant without the consent of the owner. No appearance. Warrant to issue. GA Amos JP

Ballarat Star, 26 Apr 1860 [p4 col 7] CRESWICK - Impounded at Creswick 31st March, by Mr John Sparks - Trepass 6s each - Iron gray or roan mare, black points, bang tail, off hind foot shod, DC near shoulder; bay horse, black points, bang tail, a few gray hairs on forehead, saddle and girth marked, shod all round, like __ over and DS under MK, blotched near shoulder.

Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers 30 Apr 1860
John GRAHAM v John SPARK
Claiming £2-0-0 for work and labor done.
Descision: Order for amount also 2/6 costs, in default of payment, warrant of distress to issue, in default of sufficient distress, four days imprisonment.

Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers 8 May 1860
John GRAHAM v John SPARK
Date of Summons 30th April 1860
Claiming £2-0-0 for work and labor done. Order for amount also 2/6 costs, in default of payment warrant of distress to issue in default of sufficient distress four days imprisonment. Three JPs S Larns, McCallum, JD Moore

Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers Fri 25 May 1860
Thomas YATES v John SPARK
Date of Summons 23 May 1860
Claiming £5-0-0 for work and labor done. Order for amount also 2/6 costs in default warrant of distress to issue in default of insufficient distress - 10 days imprisonment. GA Amos JP

Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers 29 May 1860
John SPARK v Thomas YATES
Date of Summons 25th May 1860
Claiming £4-10/- for the hire of two horses and a dray. Order for £3.0.0, in default warrant of distress in default 5 days imprisonment.

Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers 29 May 1860
John SPARK v John HOLLAND
Date of Summons 25th May 1860
Illegal detention of £2-15/- the property of Complainant. Order for £2-15-0 also 2/6 costs in default warrant of distress in default 5 days imprisonment. GA Amos JP

Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers 22 June 1860
John McNAMARA v John SPARK
Summons issued 20 Jun 1860
Claiming £43-8-9 for wages due. Order for £33-7-0 also 2/6 costs, to be paid within 14 days. Constant dissolvent. GA Amos JP

Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers 26 Jun 1860
Anne MANGIN v William SPARK
Summons issued 22 Jun 1860
Claiming damages for assault on 21st Instant. Dismissed. GA Amos JP

Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers 26 Jun 1860
William SPARK v Anne MANGIN
Summons issued 22 Jun 1860
Claiming damages for assault committed on Bridget Spark wife of Complainant on 21st Instant. Decision: Dismissed. GA Amos JP

Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers : Licensing Meeting 26 Jun 1860
Name of Applicant, Description of License, Site and Sign of House, Decision.
Frederick Tris-den CROFT, District Publican's License, Wheatsheaf Hotel, Ascot
John SPARK, District Publican's License, Moorakile Hotel, Smeaton, No appearance

Creswick & Clunes Advertiser Friday 29 Jun 1860 p2
Creswick Police Court Fri 22 Jun 1860
John McNAMARA v John SPARK.
Claim £43.8s.9d for wages due. Mr West appeared for the defendant. This charge was partly for reaping, carting, ploughing and general labor. There was a set off of £2.12s. Order for £33.7s.6d, to be paid within fourteen days. Contract dissolved.

Creswick & Clunes Advertiser Friday 29 Jun 1860 p2
Creswick Police Court Friday 22 Jun 1860
Annie MANGIN v Wm. SPARKS, and Wm. SPARKS v Annie MANGIN.
These were two cross charges, in which a mother appeared against her son, and a son appeared against his mother ...

Creswick & Clunes Advertiser Friday 29 Jun 1860 p2
Creswick Police Court Tuesday 26 Jun 1860
(Before G.A. Amos, Esq., P.M.)
John SPARK, Smeaton, Moorookyle Hotel. - Granted

Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers : Licensing Meeting 18 Jul 1860
Frederick Thisden CROFT, District Publican's License, Wheatsheaf Hotel, Ascot. Granted
(no SPARK listed. John SPARK was licensee of the Wheatsheaf Hotel, Ascot, 1878)

Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers 24 Aug 1860
John SPARK v George WILSON
Summons issued 22 Aug 1860
Illegal detention of a certain paper hanging and calico fabric £20 the property of Complainant. Dismissed. GA Amos JP

Creswick Petty Sessions Court Registers 21 Sep 1860
(Constable) John CORBETT v Anne MANGIN and James SPARK
Summons issued 19th Sep 1860
Slaughtering cattle without a license on 14th Instant at Ascot. Fined £5 also 2/6 costs - in default of payment - distress warrant to issue - in default one month's imprisonment. GA Amos JP