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Hunter Valley · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1868

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Morpeth Borough Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 26 March 1868 · page 4

A meeting of this Council was held at the Chambers, Morpeth School of Arts, on Tuesday evening. Present: The Mayor, Aldermen Jones, J. Keating, Wingrave, Dickson, and Ling. The Mayor referred to certain strictures…

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East Maitland Borough Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 26 March 1868 · page 4

The fortnightly meeting of this body was held in the Chambers, Mechanics' Institute, East Maitland, on Monday evening. Present: Aldermen Scholey, M'Loughlin, Dubber, Cains, Murphy, and M'Gregor. Alderman…

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Catholic Lord Mayor of Dublin

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 28 March 1868 · page 2

Dr. Carroll, being the first Roman Catholic Lord Mayor elected since the repeal of the statute forbidding the display of the insignia of civic state in a Roman Catholic place of…

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Wednesday, March 25. Legislative Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 28 March 1868 · page 2

There was a full attendance of members, but there was no business on the paper except the Claims against Government Bill—which has already been postponed for six months, and only…

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Singleton Borough Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 31 March 1868 · page 3

Our Singleton correspondent Binds us his usual report of the meeting of this Council, beld on Wednesday evening. We are oom polled to abridge it, in the pressure of news…

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West Maitland Borough Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 31 March 1868 · page 3

The usual weekly meeting of this Council was held on Friday evening in the Chambers, Devonshire-street. Present: The Mayor, Aldermen Wolstenholme, Rourke, Mitchell, Creer, Olliffe, Smith. The minutes of the…

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Friday, March 27, 1868. Legislative Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 31 March 1868 · page 2

There was no business to dispose of, and the House adjourned until Tuesday next…

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Morpeth Borough Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 2 April 1868 · page 3

A meeting of this Council was held on Tuesday evening. Present: The Mayor, Aldermen J. Keating, W. Keating, Jones, Ingall, Wingrave, and Ling. SYMPATHY WITH PRINCE ALFRED—Before the business…

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East Maitland Borough Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 2 April 1868 · page 3

A special meeting of this Council was held in the Mechanics' Institute, on Monday evening. Present: The Mayor, Aldermen Chambers, Cains, M'Loughlin, M'Gregor, Murphy, O'Meagher, and Scholey. The…

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Wednesday, April 1, 1868. Legislative Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 April 1868 · page 2

There was nothing on the paper. The Council cordially agreed with the President's acceptance of an invitation to visit H.M.S. Galates to-day, and heard a statement from the President in relation to the vacant office,…

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West Maitland Borough Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 April 1868 · page 2

A meeting of the above Council was held at the Council Chambers, on Friday evening. Present—the Mayor, Aldermen Wolstenholme, Rourke, Gorrick, Mitchell, Greer, Olliffe, Eckford, Smith, and Mullen. The…

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Singleton Borough Council. (From our correspondent.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 April 1868 · page 2

A meeting of this Council was held in the Town Hall on Wednesday evening. Present: Alderman Kingston (in the chair), Aldermen Williams, Moore, Lesley, Bowman, Cullen, Hewitt, and Jarman. The minutes of las[?]…

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Morpeth Borough Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 9 April 1868 · page 4

A meeting of this Council was held on Tuesday evening in the Council Chambers. Present: The Mayor, Aldermen J. Keating, Meiklejohn, Diokson, Ingall, Wingrave, Jones, and Ling. The minnies of the previous…

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West Maitland Borough Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 11 April 1868 · page 2

The usual weekly meeting of the Council was held at four o'clock on Thursday afternoon. The Mayor prosided.—The correspondence read was unimportant.—A plan of the High-street embankment was laid upon the…

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New South Wales Parliament. (From the S. M. Herald.) Wednesday, April 8, 1868. Legislative Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 11 April 1868 · page 2

PRIVILEGE.—A question of privilege, as to whether officers and members of that house could be subp[?]naed to give evidence in law courts, was referred to the Standing Orders Committee…

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New South Wales Parliament. (From the S. M. Herald.) Tuesday, April 7, 1868. Legislative Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 11 April 1868 · page 3

In the Legislative Council there were present the President, Mr. Docker, Mr. Allen, Mr. Blaxland, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Hay, Mr. Lord, Mr. B. Russell, and Mr. E. [?] Thomson—not enough to form a quorum, and the…

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Annual Report of the Council of Education

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1868 · page 2

The S. M. Herald of Friday re-publishes a parliamentary paper, being the report of the Council of Education upon the condition of the public schools for 1867. The report states that the organisation of the system…

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The Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, April 14, 1868. Extension of the Municipal Principle

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1868 · page 2

MR. FORSTER is one of those who look upon the extension of the municipal principle as one of the chief means by which the expenditure of the Government may best be brought within…

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Maitland District Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 16 April 1868 · page 2

A meeting of this Council was held at the Mechanics' Institute, East Maitland, on Tuesday afternoon. Present: The Warden, Councillors Bowden, O'Brien, Noble, and M'Mahon…

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Morpeth Borough Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 16 April 1868 · page 3

A meeting of this Council was held in the Council Chambers, Morpeth Sohool of Arts, on Tuesday evening. Present: The Mayor, Aldermen Dickson, J. Keating, Wingraves, and Meiklejohn. Alderman J. Keating…

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