Municipal Institutions
Pursuant to notice, the police meeting was held at the Victoria Hotel, to consider and decide upon the propriety of forming a district council. Mr. Graham was moved to the chair, which on taking,…
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Council & local affairs, 1859
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The Late Municipal Meeting at Shoalhaven. (To Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")
SIR—I find your Shoulhaven correspondent has not given a faithful account of the meeting held at the Royal Victoria Hotel, a few days since, "to consider the desirability of establishing a Municipality for this district."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Coolangatta" on Municipal Councils. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")
SIR—in your last paper, appears a letter singed "Coolangatta," written for the purpose of persuading the people of Kiama from taking upon themselves the powers and duties conferred by the new Municipalities…
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The greater portion of the sittings was occupied by the Council in debute on the second reading of Mr Johnson's bill to amend the law of evidence in prosecutions for bigamy. Mr. Johnson proposes to admit the evidence…
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WEDNESDAY 12.—The Council, after disposing of some preliminary business yesterday, was occupied about an hour and a half with the Bill to Amend the Law of Evidence in…
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After disposing of some preliminary business yesterday, the House was occupied about an hour and a half with the Bill to Amend the Law of evidence in prosecutions for Bigamy. After a sharp contest, the bill was re-committed…
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SIR—In your issue of the 30th nit., there appeal's an article from your Kiama correspondent, handed to him, and which he says may be not inaptly called "Kiama Municipality—the other side of it." With all deference…
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A public meeting of the inhabitants of Ulladalla was held at the Travellers' Home Inn, on the 8th inst., to consider the necessity of being incorporated as a rural district under the new Municipal Act…
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THIS question is very naturally suggested by the very opposite courses pursued by the people of different localities in regard to the subject. It seems astonishing at first sight that a thing…
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WEDNESDAY. 19.—The Legislative Council sat yesterday, from four until eight o'clock, but very little business was got through. Mr. Bayley (the Attorney-General designate)…
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Mr Bayley (the Attorney-General designate) took the oaths and his seat as a member of the House. Mr Wise gave of a question in reference to the employment of Mr Dowling, one of the District Court Judges, as Crown…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parish Road Trusts Act v. Municipal Institutions Act. (To the Editor of the " Illawarra Mercury.")
SIR—The superiority of the latter over the former useless Act, bits been so often before the public and determined, since the advent of the new Act, that it would be useless to go into the general question. But, our own…
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Considerable time was occupied by the Council with Mr. Johnson's Bill, in reference to the Law of Evidence in Persecutions for Bigamy. The amendment proposed by Mr Want, requiring corroberation of the…
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The Attorney-General, in reply to Mr Wise, excused the non-production of copies of the commissions of District Court Judges and Crown Prosecutors, on the ground that there was too much other work to be done, in the Crown…
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Mr Wise brought forward the question of privilege arising out of the Attorney-General's "language" on Thursday evening last. The Attorney-General, however, put an end to all…
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Mr Hood, Moreton Bay, resumed his seat on his return from Europe. Several motions on the paper were postponed, on account of the absence of the members who bad given…
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The intimation of the President, that he had received from the Private Secretary to the Governor-General a note informing him that Mr Lutwyc[?]e had resigned his seat in this House, gave Mr Bayley opportunity to state…
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IN a supplement to the Government Gazette, published on Wednesday last, it is proclaimed that the town and suburbs of Wollongong, as described in the petition, is to be a Municipality,…
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The motion of Mr E Deas Thompson relative to the necessity of a Cabinet Minister representing the Government in that House, was not pressed because the Attorney-General not only admitted for himself, but stated that he was…
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THERE is extreme difficulty is applying the principles of a thoroughly constitutional Government to a country at once too young and too old for their free play. Were a State, from its…
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