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Illawarra · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1860

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Wollongong Municipal Council. Friday, June 15

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 19 June 1860 · page 2

Present, The Mayor, Alderman Waring, Hetherington, Osborne, and Robson. The minutes of the previous meeting having been road and confirmed, Alderman Robson moved and Alderman…

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Legislative Council

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 19 June 1860 · page 4

The Colonial Secretary proposed and the Attorney-General seconded the second rending of the Appropriation Bill. Mr Eagar moved the adjournment of the motion…

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Parliamentary Paper. Shoalhaven Municipality Petition

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 19 June 1860 · page 4

THE Select Committee of the Legislative Council, appointed on 19th April, 1860, "to inquire into and report upon the allegations contained in the petition of Alexander Berry,…

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Legislative Council

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 22 June 1860 · page 2

Mr Docker moved the adoption of the report of the select committee on the petition of Mr Berry in reference, to the Shoalhaven Municipality. The Colonial Secretary replied to Mr Docker, and…

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Court of Putty Sessions. June 20. (Before tho Worshipful the Mayor.)

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 22 June 1860 · page 2

Thomas Bvrnes was charged with stealing a keg of butter. From the evidedee it appeared that the prisoner was prowling about the wharf oh the evening of the robbery, and sometime afterwards took a keg…

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Central Illawarra Municipality. Friday June [?] 1860

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 22 June 1860 · page 2

Present—The Chairman; Councillors Brown, Evans, Gerard, Irving, Linday and Ritchie. The minutes of the former meeting having been read and confirmed the Chairman read the following…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, June 22, 1860

Examiner · Saturday 23 June 1860 · page 2

In the Council, the president took the chair oat twenty-five minutes past four. In answer to questions, the Attorney-General said, that he had received the Coroner's report of the…

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Parliamentary Intelligence. Legislative Council. Tuesday, 19Th June

Examiner · Saturday 23 June 1860 · page 2

IN the Council the President took the chair at twenty-five innings past four. Mr. Cowper laid on the table returns in reference to cases of lunancy moved for some time…

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Shoalhaven Municipality

Examiner · Saturday 23 June 1860 · page 2

THE report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on the Shoalhaven Municipality Petition, which we give on our back page, is rather a lengthy document, but its interest to…

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Wollongong Municipal Council. Friday, June 22

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 26 June 1860 · page 2

The Council met on Friday last. Present—The Mayor, and Alderman Waring. Hetherington, Robson, Osborne, and Beatson. The minutes of the previous meeting having been…

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Court of Petty Sessions. June 20, 1860. (Before the Mayor, and J. Garrett, Esq., J.P.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 26 June 1860 · page 2

Masters and Servants Act. W. F. Lloyd appeared on the summons of Mary Gallagher for a claim of lls. She had been brought from Sydney five weeks ago at 11s per week, and she alleged that she gave a…

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Kiama Municipal Council. Quarterly Meeting. Wednesday, June 22

Examiner · Wednesday 27 June 1860 · page 2

The following were received:—From the Department of the Minister for Lands, stating the grounds upon which tha[?] Minister declined to assurance the management of main south real, as urged upon the…

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Wednesday, June 27, 1860. Shoalhaven Municipality

Examiner · Wednesday 27 June 1860 · page 2

IN our last issue we made some remarks upon the Report of the Committee of the Legislative Council appointed to inquire into the matter of the establishment of a Municipal Council at…

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Legislative Council

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 29 June 1860 · page 2

In the Legislative Council Mr. Henry John Tudor shadforth was sworn in as Usher of the Black Rod. Mr. Johnson denied having said that if the members of the Assembly were so insensate as to refuse…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, June 27Th

Examiner · Saturday 30 June 1860 · page 2

IN the Council, Mr. Henry John Tudor Shadforth was sworn in as Usher of the Black Rod. Mr. Johnson called attention to certain words contained in a newspaper report of his speech, and…

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Legislative Council

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 3 July 1860 · page 2

The Colonial, Secretary laid upon the table of the House—(1.) Copies of the bye-laws of St. John's College; (2.) correspondent relative to the Red Sea Postal Line…

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Wollongong Court of Requests. Tuesday, July 2. (Before the Mayor, C. Smith J. Thompson, and J. Stewart.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 3 July 1860 · page 2

This Court opened at a quarter-past ten, and upon the two first cases being called, and no one appearing, they were struck out; their worships intimating that they would uniformly pursuit this course if the…

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Shoalhaven Municipality

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 3 July 1860 · page 4

It was to be expected that the enemies of the Cowper Ministry, and of the reform which that Ministry was instrumental in effecting, would exult; in the Press and otherwise, over the…

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Shoalhaven Municipal Council. Tuesday, June 26

Examiner · Wednesday 4 July 1860 · page 2

THE Council met pursuant to adjournment at 2 o'clock p.m Present—The Worship the Mayor in the chair Alderman M'Grath, Bico, and Moss…

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Parliamentary Intelligence. Legislative Council. Thursday, 28Th June

Examiner · Wednesday 4 July 1860 · page 4

THE Council met this afternoon at twenty-eight minutes past four o'clock The Council Secretary laid upon the table The Colonial Secretary laid upon. the, table…

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