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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1886

51 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 3

Where the Municipal Revenue Goes

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 July 1886 · page 2

THUS the Echo on a recent municipal matter at. Queanbeyan :- " A gentleman named Dutton, who is a ratepayer, for Queanbeyan, seems either to have singular…

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Queanbeyan Borough Council

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 17 July 1886 · page 2

THE Council met on Thursday night at the Council chamber, a bare quorum being present, viz., Aldermen Wilson (in the chair) Gale, Land, Maloney, and…

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Sites for School of Arts and Council Chambers

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 July 1886 · page 2

Ma. E. W. O'SULLIVAN, M.P., has received a letter from the Minister for Lands notifying that in, response to his application permanent dedications of Land have…

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Privy Council Appeal Case. London, July 26

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 29 July 1886 · page 2

The Privy Council has given its decision in the appeal case Wentworth v. Humphrey, in favour of the appellant, with costs…

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Alleged Breaches of the Municipalities Act

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 29 July 1886 · page 2

Informations were filed on Monday against Alderman Davies and Alderman Lansdown for breaches of the 38th section of the Municipalities Act, which provides…

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Local Intelligence. Borough Council Meeting

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 2

ALDERMAN BULL (in the absence of the mayor) presided at the ordinary council meeting on Thursday, the other aldermen present being Aldermen Gale, Land,…

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Alleged Breaches of the Municipalities Act

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 August 1886 · page 2

The charges against Alderman Davies and Alderman Lansdown for alleged breaches of the 38th section of the Municipalities Act by knowingly becoming…

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Prosecution of Aldermen

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 5 August 1886 · page 2

We understand that Mr. S. Moyer has filed two fresh informations against Alderman W. J. Lansdown, for alleged breaches of the Municipalities Act, in order to…

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Queanbeyan Borough Council

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 August 1886 · page 2

THE Borough Council met at the usual hour on Thursday night. Alderman Gale occupied the chair. The other Aldermen present were,—Aldermen Land, Lazarus,…

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The Goulburn Municipal Cases

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 19 August 1886 · page 2

It will be remembered that the case brought against Alderman W. J. Lansdown at the Goulbrun police court on Friday, the 30th July last, on the…

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The Age Thursday, August 19Th, 1886. Aldermanic Business Transactions with Municipal Councils

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 19 August 1886 · page 2

ALTHOUGH, the cases being still sub judice, the press is not liberty to offer comment on the Goulburn cases of prosecution of aldermen for…

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A Jubilee Municipal Meeting

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 August 1886 · page 2

The Mayor of Sydney has issued invitations to the respective mayors, aldermen, and town clerks of the following cities and municipalities to visit Sydney…

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Local Intelligence. Borough Council Meeting

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 28 August 1886 · page 2

THE Borough Council met, in regular sitting, on Thursday, in the Council Chambers. There were present—Aldermen Bull, Gale, Land, Lazarus,…

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Ex-Aldermen Lansdown's Case

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 August 1886 · page 3

We (Daily Argus) learn that in the case of ex-Aldermnan Landown, who was recently fined £50 by the Goulburn bench, the application to stay proceedings and…

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Local Intelligence. Borough Council Meeting

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 11 September 1886 · page 2

THE business of the regular meeting of the Borough Council on Thursday was dispensed with, as a mark of sympathy with the Mayor in his recent bereavement…

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Borough Council—No Quorum

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 25 September 1886 · page 2

THERE has been on sitting of the Queanbeyan Borough Council for a month and unless a special meeting is convened on business will be transacted for a period…

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The Alleged Frauds on the City Council

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 25 September 1886 · page 2

The men Walton and Bradford were broght up on Wednesday morning in the Central Police Court charged with having attempted to defraud the Municipal…

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The Borough Council

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 9 October 1886 · page 2

MET at 8 p.m. on Thursday. In the absence of the Mayor, Alderman Land was voted to the chair, and with the exception of Alderman Bull all the other members…

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Municipal Disabilities. Casino

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 9 October 1886 · page 2

At the council meeting last night Alderman Page resigned his seat in consequence of the opinion given by the Municipal Association that a newspaper…

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The Age Tuesday, October 19, 1886. An Effete Municipality

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 October 1886 · page 2

THE Borough Council of Queanbeyan has been in existence now nearly two years, and the bylaws to regulate its proceedings…

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