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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1884

362 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 19

Lambton Municipal Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 April 1884 · page 2

THE above Council met in their Chamber on Tuesday evening. Present-Alderman Grierson, in the chair, and Aldermen Elliott, Thornton, Payne, Wheatley, and…

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Plattsburg Borough Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 April 1884 · page 2

A MEETING of the Plattsburg Council was held on Wednesday evening, Present: The Mayor, Aldermen Harris, Reid, House, Thurling, M'Craee, Wilkinson, Simpson, and…

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Municipality of Wickham. Business Paper. Wednesday, April 16, 1884

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1884 · page 2

To confirm Minutes of previous Meeting, Correspondence, including Petitions, Reports, and orders thereon. Consideration of the Finance, Drainage,…

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Waratah Municipal Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 April 1884 · page 3

THE above Council held a special meeting in their chambers on Tuesday evening. Present—The Mayor, Aldermen Watson, Williams, Upfold, Cropley, Scholey, Cross,…

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Wickham Borough Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 April 1884 · page 3

THE fortnightly meeting of the Wickham Council was held on Wednesday evening. Present—The Mayor, Aldermen Frewin, Bennett, Broom, Shedden, Nield, and…

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Wallsend Borough Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 April 1884 · page 3

A MEETING of the Wallsend Borough Council was held on Tuesday evening. Present— The Mayor, Aldermen Hutchinson, Tyler, Gilmour, Morris, and Jarvie. The minutes…

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Wallsend Police Court. Important Municipal Cases. (Before R. J. Perrott, Esq., P.m.) April 17, 1884

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 April 1884 · page 2

ANDREW SNEDDEN, of Brookstown, was charged with being the occupier of a certain coal mine within the municipality of Wallsend, and refusing to answer a…

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Threatening the Mayor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 April 1884 · page 2

AT the Police Court, yesterday afternoon, before the P.M., and Mr. W. H. Shaw, J.P., Edward Perry, a well-known old identity of Newcastle, was charged on…

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Newcastle Borough Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 April 1884 · page 2

THE Borough Council met last night. Present: The Mayor, Aldermen Christie, Chapman, Thorn, Dart, Creer, Laing, Moore, Brooks, Webb, Lewis…

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Hamilton Municipal Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 April 1884 · page 3

THE usual meeting of the above Council was held at the Council Chambers on Wednesday evening. Present: The Mayor, Alderman Keddie, Don, Cook, Williams,…

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Lambton Municipal Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 April 1884 · page 2

THE above Council met in their Chambers on Tuesday evening, Present: The Mayor, and Aldermen Kerr, Grierson, Dent, Thornton, and Wheatley…

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Waratah Municipal Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 April 1884 · page 2

THE above Council met in their Chambers on Monday evening. Present: The Mayor and Aldermen Whiteman, Williams, Upfold, Goodhew, Scholey, Watson, and…

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Parliament of N.S. Wales. Legislative Council. Wednesday, April 23. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 April 1884 · page 2

THE Legislative Council had only a short sitting to-day, and adjourned out of respect to the late Mr. Alderson…

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Municipal Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 April 1884 · page 2

ON Wednesday, the 23rd instant, the annual re-union of the Borough Councils of Wellsend and Plattsburg took place, and this year the aldermen very wisely decided that…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, April 24. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 April 1884 · page 4

The Council sat a short time and passed the Temporary Supply Bill, but rejected the Legal Practitioners Amalgamation Bill by 20 to 6…

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Original Correspondence. Municipal Rating. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 April 1884 · page 2

SIR,—The several Borough Councils in the district need not have any trouble in regard to property let to tenants under special agreements by the A. A. Company,…

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Plattsburg Borough Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1884 · page 3

A MEETING of the Plattsburg Borough Council was held on Thursday evening. Present—the Mayor, Aldermen Reid, Simpson, Charlton, Harris, McCrae, and House. The minutes of the last meeting were…

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Municipality of Wickham. Business Paper. Wednesday, April 30Th, 1884

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 April 1884 · page 3

To confirm Minutes of previous Meeting, Correspondence, including Petitions, Reports, and orders thereon. Consideration of the Finance,…

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Wallsend Borough Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 May 1884 · page 2

A MEETING of the Wallsend Borough Council was held on Tuesday evening. Present: the Mayor, Aldermen Morris, Shaw, Gilmour, Hutchinson, Jarvie, and Tyler. The…

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Wickham Municipal Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 May 1884 · page 3

THE regular meeting of the above Council took place on Wednesday evening last. Present—the Mayor, Aldermen Frewin, Bennett, Nield, Shedden, and Davidson…

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