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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Council & local affairs
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To confirm minutes of previous meeting, correspondence, including petitions, reports, questions, and orders thereon. Consideration of the Finance, Drainage, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The fortnightly meeting of the above Council was held on Wednesday night. Present: The Mayor (Alderman Shedden), Aldermen Bennett, Croft, Frewin, Shedden,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The above Council met last night. Present: The Mayor, and Aldermen Thwaites, Weir, Evans, Edden, Atkinson, Loyden, and Wetherburn…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A SPECIAL meeting of the City Council was held last night to consider the Hunter-street Extension Bill. The Mayor (Alderman Buchanan)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Wednesday.—Mr. Gladstone contributes an article to the Nineteenth Century on the Irish question. Referring to Daniel O'Connell, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Friday.—A meeting of the Executive Council was hold at Government House to-day, and the death sentence of Louisa Collins was further considered. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At the Council meeting on Thursday night, the Mayor moved, "That William, Union, and Thomas streets, interesting victoria-street, be kerbed and guttered." A very wise…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The forthcoming municipal election is causing a deal of interest. Several of the younger residents are preparing for the event, which promises to be one of the most exciting…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE usual fortnightly meeting of the above Council was held on Tuesday evening. Present: The Mayor (Alderman A. L. Payne), Aldermen Grierson, Robinson, Hawkins,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE usual fortnightly meeting of the above Council was held on Monday evening. Present: The Mayor (Alderman Scholey), Aldermen Watson, Cross, Miller, Ritchie, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The above Council held its fortnightly meeting in the Mechanics' Institute, Globeland, on Tuesday evening. Present. The Mayor (Alderman Curry), and Aldermen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The usual fortnightly meeting of the Hamilton Municipal Council was held last evening. There were present: The Mayor, and Aldermen Keddic, Reay, Melville, Lloyd,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN the Legislative Council the Newcastle Pasturage Reserves Bill was read a first time, and its second reading fixed for the next day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WERE Dickens' famous character, Mr. Turveydrop, a reality, and could he have seen Alderman Colin Christie last night, he would have been astounded to perceive his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WHILST in Melbourne, on Monday last, Sir Henry Parkes had, by appointed, a rather long interview with the Chief Secretary of Victoria (Mr. Deakin), at which, during part…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Wednesday.—A strange spectacle was beheld in Clonmel, Tipperary, to-day. Mr. T. J. Condon, M.P. for Tipperary East, and who had been elected Mayor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the fortnightly meeting of the Trades and Labour Council on Thursday night, at the Sydney Trades hall, some important business was transacted. Mr. J. R. Talbot, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE usual fortnightly meeting of the above Council was held on Thursday evening. Present. The Mayor, and Aldermen Reed, Mitcheil, Anderson, Cook, and Thurling…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The season is now in full swing when every nine-penny Jack able to sign his name by "his mark" enters the arena and informs the electors, in a lingo peculiarly his own, that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE above Council hold their usual fortnightly meeting on Friday night last, when there were present Alderman Rodgers (Mayor) and Aldermen Mathieson, Morison, M'Cann,…
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