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

Council & local affairs, 1887

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Queanbeyan. Borough Council.—thursday, Dec. 30Th

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 January 1887 · page 4

BOROUGH COUNCIL.—THURSDAY, DEC. 30TH. PRESENT—The Mayor (J. J. Wright, Esq., J.P.), and Aldermen Gale, Land, Lazarus, Mo Namara, Maloney, and Wilson…

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Mount Rennie Outrage. Decision of Executive Council Not to 'Be Interfered With

The Yass Courier · Friday 7 January 1887 · page 2

A DEPUTATION, consisting of the Right Hon. W. B. Dalley,; Sir Henry Parkes, the Primate, Cardinal Moran; arid the Rev Dr. O'Haran, waited on his Excellency the Governor at Govt. House…

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Borough Council

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 January 1887 · page 2

THE following motions are on the business sheet for the consideration of the Council this evening:—By Alderman Richardson: That tenders be called for lamps, lamp-posts, and…

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Borough Council

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 January 1887 · page 5

THE Borough Council hold their usual meeting on Thursday evening last. There were present—the Mayor, Aldermen J. Clifford, Hawkins, Ball, Richardson, Gannon, and Tait…

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The Borouge Council

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 15 January 1887 · page 4

[?] on Thursday evening, [?] the Mayer and Alderman J. Clifford, Hawkins, [?] Hail Gan[?] pain. The Mayor welcomed [?] in a [?]…

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Queanbeyan. Borough Council

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 January 1887 · page 4

THE Mayor presided over the usual fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council on Thursday evening last, there being present also Aldermen Bull, Gale, Land, Lazarus, McNamara, and…

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The Case of the Late Alderman Lansdown

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 20 January 1887 · page 2

WE have much pleasure in complying with a request to publish the annexed correspondence:— Goulburn, January 15, 1887. MR. W. J. LANSDOWN,…

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Yass Municipal Council

The Yass Courier · Friday 21 January 1887 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting of the Municipal Council was held on Tuesday, to consider the gas question and receive the reports of the Council Surveyor and inspector of nuisances on the…

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Legislative Council

The Yass Courier · Friday 21 January 1887 · page 4

The President took the chair at noon. Twenty-five members were present. After the proclamation further proroguing Parliament from January 4 to January 10 had been read…

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Parliamentary. Legislative Council. Wednesday, January 19

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 25 January 1887 · page 4

Mr. Mackellar laid upon the table the following among of other documents, viz:-- Third report of the Royal C[?] on Collieries, on the condition of collieries adjacent to Ferndale: report of…

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Yass Municipal Council

The Yass Courier · Friday 28 January 1887 · page 2

THE fortnightly meeting of the Yass Municipal Council was held on Tuesday, evening. Present -- The Mayor, and Aldermen Barber, Walters, Zoellner, and Nichols…

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Borough Council

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 January 1887 · page 6

THE usual meeting of the Borough Council was held on Thursday evening. There were present—Aldermen J. Clifford, Hawkins, Ball, Gillespie, D. Clifford,…

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The Borough Council

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 29 January 1887 · page 4

MET on Thursday evening: present, Alderman J. Clifford (in the chair), Hawkins, Gillespie, Ball, Gannon, Richardson, and D. Clifford. Minutes were confirmed, and reports and…

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Municipal

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 February 1887 · page 2

THE public nomination of candidates for positions in the Borough Council was held at noon to-day at the Municipal Chambers. Alderman Z. Hawkins, returning officer, read the…

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Municipal Matters, Past and Future

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 February 1887 · page 4

AFTER the conclusion of the formal business in connection with the aldermanic nominations and re-elections on Tuesday, Alderman Clifford said that as he was the first…

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The Municipal Sale Yards. (To the Editor.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 February 1887 · page 3

SIR—I see by a report in one of the issues of your paper that Mr. Badgery nod other stock owners have had a meeting and petitioned the Council to reduce the municipal charges for…

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Yass Municipal Election

The Yass Courier · Friday 4 February 1887 · page 2

THE annual election of Aldermen for Hume, Hardy and O'Brien Wards, in the place of the three retiring Aldermen-- Messrs Thomas Colls, A. W. Thomson, and E. H. Barber,…

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Election of Mayor

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 February 1887 · page 3
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THE election of Mayor took place yesterday at the Council Chambers at noon. About forty persons were present. All the Aldermen were in attendance, and the…

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Borough Council

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 5 February 1887 · page 2

THE fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council was held in the Chamber on Thursday evening. Those present were—the Mayor (Alderman Bogan, in the chair), and Aldermen Sharp, Forsythe,…

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