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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1888

441 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 23

Correspondence Merewether Council. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 March 1888 · page 7

SIR,—In your issue of 8th instant, you report a meeting of the Merewether Council, wherein your reporter has misinterpreted the contents of a letter…

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Municipality of Wickham. Business Paper. Wednesday, March 14Th, 1888

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 March 1888 · page 5

To confirm minutes of previous meeting, correspondence, including petitions, reports, and orders thereon Consideration of the Finance and…

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Correspondence Merewether Council. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 March 1888 · page 5

SIR,—I wish to say a low words anent Mr. Jenkin Williams' letter, published in your issue of the 13th inst., pretending to be an explanation or correction of a report of…

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District News. Wallsend. Municipal Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1888 · page 6

THE usual fortnightly meeting of the above Council was held on Tuesday evening. Present: The Mayor, and Aldermen Abell, Drummond,…

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Carrington Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1888 · page 8

THE fortnightly meeting of the Carrington Council was held last night. Present: The Mayor (Alderman Rodgers), Aldermen Taylor, Morison, M'Cann, Butts, Mathieson,…

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Wickham Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1888 · page 8

THE fortnightly meeting of the above Council took place last night. Present: The Mayor (Alderman Shedden), Aldermen Croft, Frewin, Shedden, jun., Upfold, Lindus,…

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Adamstown Municipal Council. Business Paper. Thursday, March 15Th, 1888

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1888 · page 5

READING and confirming minutes, petitions, correspondence, reports and orders, thereon, balance sheet, and tenders for valuers. Consideration of By-law Committee's…

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Complimentary Banquet to the Mayor of Waratah

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 March 1888 · page 5

THE aldermen of Waratah last night tendered a banquet to their Mayor (Alderman J. Scholey, J.P.), in honour of his having been elected to fill the position for a third…

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Adamstown. Council Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 March 1888 · page 5

The usual fortnightly mooting of the above Council was held last night in the Council chambers. Present: The Mayor, and Aldermen Edden, Evans, Loyden, Watt,…

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Latest District News. Wallsend. Municipal Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 March 1888 · page 8

A SPECIAL meeting of the above Council was held last evening. Present: The Mayor, and Aldermen Abell, Drummond, Craig, Calderbank, Summers,…

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Correspondence Merewether Council. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 March 1888 · page 8

SIR,—In your issue of the 13th inst. appears a letter from Jenkin Williams, requesting you to publish a letter in its entirety, which he says he sent to the Mayor. Now,…

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Correspondence Wallsend Council and Wages. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 March 1888 · page 7

SIR,—I am a contractor, and was present at the above Council meeting last Tuesday night, and I think it is a pity the report did not furnish the remarks made by Alderman…

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The Mayor and the N.j.c. Secretary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 March 1888 · page 4

HIS WORSHIP THE MAYOR is already beginning to experience the truth of the adage, "uneasy lies the head that wears the crown." The Jockey Club will be called upon…

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Waratah Municipal Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 March 1888 · page 5

THE above Council met on Monday evening. Present: The Mayor, and Alderman Williams, Watson, Turton, Miller, Clapin, Cross, Sparke, and Ritchie…

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Merewether. Municipal Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 March 1888 · page 7

The above Council held its usual fortnightly meeting, on Tuesday evening, in the Merewether Mechanics Institute. Present: The Mayor,…

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District News. Lambton. Municipal Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 March 1888 · page 7

THE above Council met on Tuesday evening. Present: The Mayor, and Aldermen Screen, Dent, Palmer, Robinson, Hawkins, Grierson, and…

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The Mayor and the Secretary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 March 1888 · page 5

MATTERS in connection with the "unhappy difference" between Mayor of Newcastle and the secretary of the Jockey Club, have advanced a stage. It came before the…

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Latest District News. Hamilton. Municipal Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 March 1888 · page 8

THE usual fortnightly meeting was held last night. There were present: The Mayor and Aldermen Keddie. Donn, Lloyd, Williams, Aitchison, Melville, and Arkins…

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Adamstown Council Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 March 1888 · page 5

THE above Council held a special meeting last night. Present: The Mayor, and Alderman Watt, Weir, Edden, Frith, Thwaites, Loyden, and Evans…

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Plattsburg. Municipal Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 March 1888 · page 2

The usual fortnightly meeting of above Council was held on Thursday evening. Present: The Mayor (Alderman Thos. M'Crae), and Aldermen…

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