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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1898

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The Newcastle to Minmi Road. Municipal Conference at Lambton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 January 1898 · page 5

THE adjourned conference of the district municipalties re the main roads question was held last night in the Council Chambers, Lambton. Alderman Gray (Mayor of New…

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Plattsburg Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 January 1898 · page 7

THE fortnightly meeting of this council was held on Thursday evening. There were present:—Aldermen Broadfoot, Steel, Brown, Hill, Fletcher, and Renfrew…

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Maitland District. West Maitland Borough Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 January 1898 · page 8

THE fortnightly meeting of the West Maitland Borough Council was held last evening. The Mayor (Alderman Crothers), and Aldermen Wilkioson, Ross, Leopold, Taylor,…

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Matters Municipal and Philander Smiff, M.u.f.f. to His Fellow-candidates

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 January 1898 · page 3

Gentlemen,—Having followed municipal matters in our district for many years, I think that the time has now come for some of us to assert ourselves. Something must…

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Wallsend Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1898 · page 6

THE fortnightly meeting of the Wallsend council was held lest evening. There were present: The Mayor (Alderman W. Bower), and Aldermen Abell, Wills Sanders,…

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Newcastle Borough Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1898 · page 5

AT the fortnightly meeting of the City Council last evening there were present:— The Mayor (Alderman D.Miller), Aldermen Moroney, Asher, smith, Look, Timbury,…

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New Lambton Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1898 · page 3

THE fortnightly meeting of this council was hold last night. There were present—The Mayor (Alderman M. Gray), and Alderman Williams, Lay, Cartwright, Dagwell,…

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Stockton. the Municipal Balance-sheet

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1898 · page 3

In another column there appears the half-yearly statement of the revenue and expenditure of the borough council for the half-year which terminated last night. This shows…

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The Municipal Elections. Nominations to Be Declared To-day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1898 · page 4

THE nominations received yesterday week for the vacancies occurring in the different municipal councils of the district will be publicly declared by the returning of officers at…

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Municipal Nominations. Newcastle Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 February 1898 · page 6

IN connection with the Newcastle Borough Council, Alderman Alfred Asher, the returning officer, announced that Messrs. T. Smith and J. M. Hyde were the only candidates…

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Stockton Municipal Nominations

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 February 1898 · page 8

AT noon yesterday, at the council chambers, Alderman Goodman (Mayor) as returning officer, announced the nominations received to fill the three seats vacated through…

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Maitland District. Municipal Nominations

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 February 1898 · page 8

NOMINATIONS of candidates for the vacancies in the West Maitland Borough Council caused by the retirement of Aldermen Gillies, Ross, Ribee, and Bowden were announced by…

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Wickham Municipal Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 February 1898 · page 5

THE fortnightly meeting of the Wickham Council was held last evening. Present: Alderman Gilbert, Bond, Jenner, Kidd, Welford, Mason, Davis, Robson, and Fountain…

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Stockton Municipal Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 February 1898 · page 5

THE fortnightly meeting of this council was held last night, instead of on the usual Tuesday night, when the candidates for the forthcoming election had been addressing the…

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The Newcastle Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 February 1898 · page 7

Sir,—The present is a fitting time to remind aldermen and aspiring aldermen that the salaried expenditure of the Newcastle Council is a…

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Wickham. Municipal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 February 1898 · page 8

Mr. J. H. Holt, one of the candidates for the Islington Ward, addressed a large body of ratepayers last evening from the balcony of the Criterion Hotel; Mr. J. Brooks in the…

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Morpeth. Municipal Election

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 February 1898 · page 8

At the nomination meeting the returning officer, Alderman Burg, after the formal opening, remarked that on account of the complications in some of the nomination…

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Adamstown. Municipal Election

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 February 1898 · page 7

The election for civic honours is not causing any excitement, in fact there is very little interest taken in the contest. The retiring alderman for the East Ward, Mr…

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Municipal Races. the Honeysuckle Handicap

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 February 1898 · page 5

THE annual re-union of the Municipal Turf Club, takes place to-day at the Point, and Judging from present indications the chief event a likely to produce an excellent…

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The Municipal Elections. Arrangements for the Poll

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 February 1898 · page 5

THE poll for the election of an alderman to fill the ordinary vacancy in the Honeysuckle Ward of the Newcastle Borough Council will be taken between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5…

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