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Murray · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1868

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Parliamentary Summary. Legislative Council. April 21

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 2 May 1868 · page 2

The Sydney Common Improvement Bill was read a second time. The motion by Mr. Weekes for the second reading of the Leasehold Bights of Free Selectors’ Bill gave…

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Re Municipality. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 May 1868 · page 3

SIR,—If I have any weakness at all, it is in turning out written documents from my office in a neat manner; and, at all events, clean enough for presentation to our worthy Police Magistrate,…

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Deniliquin Proposed Municipality

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 May 1868 · page 2

The public meeting in favour of this measure of local government took place, pursuant to an advertisement which appeared last Saturday, in the Pastoral Times, requesting the Police…

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Albury Municipal Council. Wednesday, MAT 13

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 16 May 1868 · page 2

Present—His Worship the Mayor and Aldermen Day, Rau, Jones, Barnett, and Thomson. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed,…

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Albury Municipal Council. Wednesday, May 27. Present His Worship tho Mayor and Aldermen Pay, Jones, H using, and Solomon

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 30 May 1868 · page 2

The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, The Council resolved itself into committee for the consideration of certain interpretation clauses on the…

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Albury Municipal Council. Wednesday, June 10

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 13 June 1868 · page 2

Present—His Worship the Mayor and Aldermen Day, Jones, Solomon, Barnett, North, Ran, and Thomson. The minutes of the last meeting having been read…

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Albury Municipal Council Wednesday, June 17

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 20 June 1868 · page 2

Present. His Worship the Mayor and [?] Day [?]…

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Borough Council Irregularities

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 27 June 1868 · page 2

WHEN the township of Albury was endowed with a Municipal Council and complete machinery for local self-government under the elaborate Municipalities’ Act, it might…

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Municipal Jobbing. [To the Editor of the “Banner.”]

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 27 June 1868 · page 3

SIR,—I was thoroughly astonished on reading your paper last weak to find that Aldermen Jones, Solomon, Thomson, Barnett, and Mott had voted nearly the whole of the funds derivable from the rates of the…

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Albury Municipal Council. Monday, June 29. Present—His Worship the Mayor and Aldermen Day, Jones, Solomon, North, Husing, Rau, and Thomson

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 4 July 1868 · page 3

A discussion took place as to the nature of the vote given by the Mayor on the occasion of the rejection of Alderman North’s resolution for rescinding the tender for footpaths in Townsend Street…

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Borough Council Irregularities

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 4 July 1868 · page 2

THE Border Post of last Wednesday contains an article with reference to one which had appeared in this paper ; and our contemporary, at the same time, furnishes a reply to a…

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Albury Municipal Council. Wednesday, July 8. Present—The Mayor, Aldermen Jones, Day, Barnett, Solomon, and Thomson

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 11 July 1868 · page 2

The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, The TOWN-CLERK read a letter from Mr Moore, of the Gaol, intimating that he could repair the road in…

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Albury Municipal Council. Wednesday, July 22. Present—The Mayor, Aldermen Jones, Day, Burnett, Solomon, Husing, and Thomson

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 25 July 1868 · page 2

The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. A letter was read from Simon Knowles, requesting that a hut which he had built within the Municipal…

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Albury Municipal Council

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 22 August 1868 · page 2

A special meeting was held on the 15th instant to consider the progress of the works in Townsend and Olive Streets. A report was [?] from the Surveyor, and a resolution was passed, disapproving of the…

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Albury Municipal Council. Wednesday, September 16. Present— The Major, Aldermen Barnott, Husing day, [?], and Jones

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 19 September 1868 · page 2

The minutes of the last meeting having teen read and confirmed, the following correspondence was dealt with:— I. From the Town Surveyor, stating that he had…

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MUNICIPALITY. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 September 1868 · page 3

SIR,—I think after the 30th inst. the Governor [?] be in a position co proclaim Deniliquin a Munici[?] It is time, therefore, that some steps should be [?] for selecting the most eligible gentlemen as…

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Albury Municipal Council. Wednesday, September 29. Present—The Mayor Aldermen Housing, Day. [?] Jones and Solomon

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 3 October 1868 · page 2

The minutes of the last meeting were reed and confirmed. A letter was read from J. Black Esq., Mayor of Kiama, giving information 10 the Council respecting…

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Albury Municipal Council. Wednesday, October 14. Present—The Mayor, Aldermen Husing, Day, Ran, Jones, Solomon, North, and Thomson

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 17 October 1868 · page 2

The principal subject before the Council was the proposed construction of footpaths in Dean and Kiewa Streets, and part of Townsend [?] as advocated by Alderman [?] considerable…

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The Municipal Council. [To the Editor of the [?]

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 17 October 1868 · page 2

SIR,—The last Council meeting certainly exhibited such a combination of repudiation, indifference, und stupidity, as to be, I believe, unequalled in the annals of Municipal proceedings. Repudiation by Messrs…

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