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Hunter Valley · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1862

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New South Wales Parliament. (From the Herald.) Thursday, January 2. Legislative Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1862 · page 2

There was not a quorum of the Council present, in all probability because there was no business on the paper. Tho next meeting is for Wednesday, 8th January…

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New South Wales Parliament. (From the Herald.) Wednesday, January 8. Legislative Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1862 · page 2

The Council sat to receive messages from the Assembly; but the reception did not [?]py more than five minutes, and the buniness of the house was done at twe[?]ty minutes to five p m…

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Friday, January 10. Legislative Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1862 · page 2

The Council sat not quite a quarter of an hour. The ATTORNEY GENERAL gave notice of motion for making Tuesday a sitting day—Government business to have precedence…

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New South Wales Parliament. (From the S. M. Herald.) Thursday, January 9, 1862. Legislative Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1862 · page 2

The Council met at the usual time. The Criminal Law and Practice Amendment Bill, which was set down for a second reading, was postponed until the next sitting day, on the motion (by way of…

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New South Wales Parliament. (From the S. M. Herald.) Monday, January l8, 1862. Legislative Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 16 January 1862 · page 2

The Legislative Council met at twenty-five minutes past four o'clock. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL BILL. Mr. MEREWETHER, on behalf of the President, brought…

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New South Wales Parliament. (From the Herald.) Tuesday, January 14. Legislative Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1862 · page 6

The Police Regulation Bill was read a second time, after a brief debate, Mr. CAMPBELL and Mr. B. RUSSELL being the only opponents of the measure…

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New South Wales Parliament. (From the S. M. Herald.) Wednesday, January 15, 1862. Legislative Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1862 · page 2

In the Legislative Council Mr. MEREWETHER, in pursuance of notice, asked information as to the intention of the Government with respect to new Parliamentary buildings. From the reply of the ATTORNEY GENEERL,…

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Friday, January 17, 1862. Legislative Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 January 1862 · page 2

The Legislative Council sat from half-past four until half-past eleven p.m. Some discussion took place on the motion of the ATTOBNET GENERAL for the suspension of the Standing…

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New South Wales Parliament. (From the Herald.) Thursday, January 16. Legislative Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 January 1862 · page 2

The Legislative Council met at the usual hour. LOAN BILL. The Loan Bill was brought up from the Assembly, and read a first time…

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Legislative Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 23 January 1862 · page 2

The President took his seat at ten minutes past three p.m. The hon. members present were—The Attorney-General, the Chairman of Committees, Mr. Fitzgerald,…

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Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, January 28, 1862. the Elective Legislative Council Bill

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 January 1862 · page 2

THE committee of the Legislative Council, to whom was referred the Elective Legislative Council Bill, have not yet done much towards concluding their labours. The committee was…

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Maitland Mercury. Thursday, February 13, 1862. the Municipalities Judgment

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 13 February 1862 · page 2

MR. BERRY has taken an ample revenge on his troublesome neighbours at Shoalhaven. By a clever manojuvre, the exact merits of which we Could never discern between the contradictory…

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Maitland Mercury. Saturday, February 15, 1862. the Municipality Movement

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1862 · page 2

THE main argument urged by the speakers at the Municipality meeting on Wednesday exactly illustrates the position we have throughout taken on the question. A Municipal…

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Anti-municipal Meeting

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 20 February 1862 · page 2

A meeting of electors opposed to the incorporation of West Maitland was held on Tuesday evening, at the Commercial Hotel, for the purpose of organising an opposition thereto. The meeting was held in the yard…

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Proposed Municipality for West Maitland

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 15 March 1862 · page 2

We understand that the commitee appointed at the late public meeting to obtain the signatures of the householders for that purpose, obtained 410 signatures; since which they have been in communicasion with the…

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Municipality of East Maitland. (From a Supplement to the Government Gazette, March 12.) PROCLAMATION

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 March 1862 · page 3

Whereas by an [?]ct of the Parliament of New South Wales passed in the twenty-second year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituted, "An Act for establishing Municipal Institutions, and commonly styled and cited…

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Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, April 15, 1862. the East Maitland Municipality

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 April 1862 · page 2

IT will perhaps be thought scarcely fitting in us, after a lengthened and persevering endeavour to persuade our fellow-townsmen, and others, not to take advantage of the provisions of the…

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Municipality of East Maitland. Nomination of Aldermen

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 19 April 1862 · page 2

A meeting of electors of the Municipality of East Maitland was held on Thursday at the Court-house, East Maitland, for the nomination and election of nine aldermen and two auditors for the said municipality. About…

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Municipality of East Maitland. (From the Government Gazette of Tuesday.) PRO0LAMATION

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 19 April 1862 · page 2

Whereas by a certain proclamation dated the 10th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and duly made and published under the provisions contained in the Municipalities Act of 1858, in a supplement to…

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The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, February 2,4. (Present—The Right Hon. Lord Kingsdown, the Master of the Rolls, and Sir J. T. Coleridge.) LANG V. Curves and Others

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 April 1862 · page 2

The arguments in this appeal from Australia were resumed to-day, but not concluded when their Lordships adjourned. Mr. Anderson, Q.C, and Mr. Dickinson, are for the…

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