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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1870

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The Borough Council

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 21 May 1870 · page 4

MET on Wednesday. Present—the Mayor, and Aldermen Butler, Gale, Hawkins, Taylor, White, and Clegg. The Mayor read a letter from Mr. Martyr…

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The Borough Council

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 4

MET on Thursday. Present—Aldermen Butler, Collins, Gale, Hawkins and Taylor. In the absence of the mayor, Alderman Butler was called to the chair…

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The Borough Council

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 11 June 1870 · page 4

MET on Thursday. Present—Aldermen Gale (in the chair), Butler, Clark, Collins, White, Hawkins, Taylor, and Clegg. The eating town-clerk read the following letters,…

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The Mormon Women in Council

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 11 June 1870 · page 2

The women of Salt Lake City have held a mass meeting in the Mormon tabernacle to protest against the bill for giving efficacy to the…

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The Borough Council

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 15 June 1870 · page 2

AN adjourned meeting of the council was held yesterday. Present, the mayor, and Aldermen Butler, Gale, White, Taylor, and Hawkins. The Mayor addressing the newly appointed…

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Report of the Council of Education

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 25 June 1870 · page 8

Two reports of the council of education, submitting to his Excellency the Governor a statement relating to the condition of the public and denominational schools for 1869…

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Borough Council

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 2 July 1870 · page 4

A SPECIAL meeting was held on Thursday. Present—the Mayor. Aldermen Butler, Collins, Gale, Hawkins, Clegg, Taylor, and Clarke. The Town-clerk read a letter from Mr. D…

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The Borough Council

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 9 July 1870 · page 4

MET on Thursday. Present—the Mayor and Aldermen Butler, Gale, Clarke, Hawkins, White, Taylor, and Clegg. The town-clerk read the report of the finance…

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"A Statement of Facts Respecting the Projected Municipality for Yass and District." to the People of Yass. Per favour of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 19 July 1870 · page 3

DURING the past few days a document bearing the above heading has been printed and circulated amongst you. This alleged "statement of facts." from beginning to end, bristles with false…

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Municipal Appeal Court

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 20 July 1870 · page 2

A THIRD court of appeal against the rates of assessment imposed on certain properties in Goulburn was held on Monday before the police-magistrate and Messrs. W. Evans Dignam and A. Levy, J.P.'s…

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The Borough Council

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 July 1870 · page 5

MET on Wednesday last. Present—the mayor and Aldermen Butler, Clarke, Clegg, Gale, Taylor, and White. The Town-Clerk read the following letter:—…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, August 11

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 16 August 1870 · page 3

NEW MEMBERS.—Mr. W. B. Dalley and Mr. J. E. Salomons took the oaths and their seats. Resignation.—The President announced tho resignation of Dr. Macfarlane…

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Municipal Institutions in Victoria

The Yass Courier · Friday 19 August 1870 · page 4

WHETHER by accident or design, there was an appropriateness in the opening of the now Melbourne Town Hall on the same day that the animal municipal elections took place…

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The Borough Council

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 20 August 1870 · page 4

MET on Thursday. Present—the Mayor and Aldermen Butler, Gale, Clarke, White, Taylor, and Hawkins. The Town-Clerk read two letters—one from the…

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Parliament. Legislative Council. Wednesday, August 17

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 23 August 1870 · page 3

The busines before the House possessed little interest. A petition was presented from the Goulburn Meat Preserving Company, praying that the procedure with their bill might be…

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Local and General. Extension of Municipal Institutions

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 23 August 1870 · page 2

WE are informed that the counter-petition in course of signature has received some dozen more names than that gazetted in June last praying for the incorporation of Yass. If the…

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Borough Council. Bussiness for next Thursday

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 31 August 1870 · page 2

BUSINESS for next Thursday:— Alderman Butler to move— That the mayor convene a public meeting on a day not later than 12th September with the view of taking the…

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The Borough Council

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 3 September 1870 · page 4

MET on [?] Present—Aldermen Butler (in the chair), Gale, Hawkins, Taylor, and White. The town-clerk read a letter from the department of lands asking if the municipal council were willing…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, September 1

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 6 September 1870 · page 3

THE LOAN FUND.--Mr. Alexander Campbell moved the resolution standing in his name with reference to the Loan Fund, and addressed the House an length on the expediency of separating…

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The Borough Council

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 10 September 1870 · page 4

MET on Thursday last. Present-the Mayor, and Alderman Gale, White, Clarke, Taylor, and Collins. A letter was read from the department of public…

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