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

Council & local affairs, 1894

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Borough Council

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 August 1894 · page 6

THE usual meeting of the Council was held on Thursday night. Present—the Mayor and Aldermen Howard, Hawkins, Lansdowne, Line, P. McShane, C. J. McShane, McAlister, Richardson,…

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The Council and the Electric Light. a Plebiscite to Be Taken

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 August 1894 · page 4

AT the Council meeting on Thursday night the question of lighting the borough by means of the electric light was revived. There was a full Council. It will be remembered that in 1889 the matter…

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Applications Against Municipalities

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 August 1894 · page 4

ON Friday an order was granted by the Full Court with the consent of the parties, in the Commercial Bank of Australia v. Municipal District of Lambton, that the motion to…

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Municipal Retrenchment

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 August 1894 · page 4

THE Cooma Borough Council is in debt £200 to the Bank of New South Wales and there are £600 of outstanding rates. A lengthy meeting of the Council was held on…

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Municipal Council

The Burrowa News · Friday 31 August 1894 · page 2

THE usual fortnightly meeting of the Burrows Municipal Council was held in the Council Chambers on Tuesday evening. Present: The Mayor (Alderman…

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A Council Clerk's Salary

Goulburn Herald · Friday 31 August 1894 · page 4

AT Tuesday night's meeting of the Camperdown council an attempt was made to reduce the council clerk's s8alary from 200 to 150 per annum…

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Borough Council

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 1 September 1894 · page 2

THE postponed fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council was held on Tuesday evening. Present : The Mayor (Mr. W. J. Hills) Aldermen Rogan, Taylor, Mackenzie, Millard, Hourn, Forsythe,…

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The Proposed Appointments to the Council

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 1 September 1894 · page 4

MB. DAVIES has given notice of his intention to ask the representative of the Government in the Legislative Council next sitting day whether there is any objection to laying on the table copies of all…

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Borough Council

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 8 September 1894 · page 3

THE ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council was held on Thursday night. Alderman Armstrong, ex-Mayor was, in the absence of the Mayor (Mr. W. J. Hills) voted to…

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A Bathurst Tragedy. an Ex-mayor Blows Out His Brains

Goulburn Herald · Monday 10 September 1894 · page 2

ALDERMAN JAMES CROPPS, a former Mayor of Bathurst, was found dead near the hospital in that city on Saturday. The body was discovered about 7 a.m. by a young man named…

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Suicide of Alderman Cripps

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 September 1894 · page 4

AN inquest was held at Bathurst on Saturday on the body of Alderman Cripps, and a verdict was returned that the deceased died from the effects of gunshot wound, self-inflicted. Much sympathy is…

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The Municipal Sale-yards. to the Editor

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 12 September 1894 · page 2

SIR,—I see by your last issue Messrs. Finlay and Co. have called a meeting of stock-agents for next Thursday to consider the rates charged. Now there is another matter the…

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Borough Council

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 September 1894 · page 2

THE following motions have been tabled for to-night's meeting:—Alderman Line to move,—"That specifications be prepared and tenders called for stone and concrete gutter on the north side of…

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An Interesting Municipal Case

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 September 1894 · page 3

ON the 26th July last the Full Court had before it a special case arising out of the action Municipal District of Gundagai v. Norton, in which plaintiff claimed £8, said…

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The Borough Council Regular Meeting

Goulburn Herald · Friday 14 September 1894 · page 3

THE borough council mot last evening; present the Mayor and Aldermen Hawkins, Richardson, Roberts, Howard, P. McShane, Read, Line, and C. J. McShane. Apologies…

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A Defunct Municipality

The Burrowa News · Friday 14 September 1894 · page 2

THE reserved judgment was delivered at a special sitting of the Full Court on Monday in the case of the Gundagai Municipal Council v. Michael Norton. The action…

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Borough Council

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 September 1894 · page 6

THE ordinary meeting of the Council was held on Thursday night. Present—the Mayor, Aldermen Howard, Hawkins, Line, C.McShane, Richardson, P. McShane, Roberts, and Read…

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Municipal Corruption in New York. London, Sept. 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 September 1894 · page 4

Father Ducety writes to the New York newspapers that he is watching, on behalf of the Vatican the inquiry which is being held by Congress into the corruption among municipal bodies. He adds…

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Municipal Endowments

Goulburn Herald · Friday 21 September 1894 · page 2

A very large deputation, representing twenty-seven suburban municipalities, waited on the colonial-secretary to-day. They represented that the municipalities had last…

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Borough Council

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 22 September 1894 · page 2

THE usual fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council was held on Thursday evening. There were present—The Mayor (Mr. W. J. Hills), Aldermen Rogan, Mackenzie. Millard, C. T. Hourn,…

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