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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Council & local affairs
116 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 6
In reply to Mr. Weekes's question as to the survey of the valley of the Hawkesbury, in reference to floods, Mr. Owen stated that, although anxious to deal with the matter, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The election of an alderman in the room of Ald. Liddell, resigned, took place on Monday last. The candidates were Mr. John Bowden and Mr. Joseph Creer. There were four…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The above body met at the Council Chambers, Devonshire-street, on Friday evening last. There were presentâAlderman Olliffe, Rourke, Smith, Wade, Wolstenholine, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Several bills were road a third time and passed. UNAUTHORISED EXPENDITURE. Mr. Hay resumed the debate on Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sydney Boundaries Amendment Bill was read a second time, and the committal made an order of the day for the next sitting day. A bill for the Prevention of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Saturday evening last, a meeting of persons occupying or owning property in the Onebygambah Ward, of the proposed Municipality of Waratah, was held in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Owen moved the second reading of the Small-pox Prevention Bill. A lengthened discussion ensued, not so much on the second reading as with respect…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR— The above Council, famous for many mouths past, as being the place where the ratepayers could become familiarized with scenes of the most disgraceful and revolting description,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Owen gave notice, for the next sitting day, of a fresh motion for the suspension of the Standing Ordera, to get through the Compulsory Vaccination Bill through all its stages in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of the above body was held in the Court-house yesterday afternoon. Present- Aldermen Parnell, Chapman, Shaw, Bolton, Sparke, Rodgers, and Winship. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE meeting of the Borough Council held yesterday evening, and reported at length elsewhere, was, in many respects, a more than ordinarily important one, and without entering…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A special meeting of the above body took place yesterday afternoon. The meeting was called principally to take into consideration the damage done to the retaining wall in King…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MEETING of persons signing the petition for the incorporation of Waratah was held last night, at Dawson's Assembly Rooms, for the purpose of talking into consideration the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The above Council met yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock. Present—the Mayor, Aldermen Bolton, Sparke, Chapman, Parnell, Rodgers, Stokes, Shaw, and Winship. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A meeting of persons signing the petition for the incorporation of Waratah, was held at Mr. Dawsion's, Assembly Rooms, Waratah, on the evening of the evening of Friday last. Owing doubtless,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An adjourned meeting of the above Council was hold in the Court-house, on Thursday evening. Present— the Mayor, Aldermen Bolton, Sparke, Rodgers, Stokes, Chapman, Shaw, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHEN a dealer wants to ship a pig, the plan generally adopted, we believe, is something like the following :—The animal's snout is got directly facing the plank or gangway up…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action to recover compensation for damage sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of work done by the defendants. The declaration alleged the performance of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In this action, which was for damags sustained oy the plaintifi, a widow, in consequence of the loss of her husband, owing to the unprotected state of a municipal work, erected…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The members of the Borough Council are entitled to Homo kind of respect for their cleverness. During the past week—since the petition calling on the Council to resign has been…
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