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Council & local affairs, 1870

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Proclamation of the Municipality of Wagga Wagga

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 19 March 1870 · page 2

THE following proclamation appears in the last Gazette:—"Whereas the Municipalities Act of 1867 provides for the constitution of a Municipality on receipt of a petition…

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The Oecumenical Council

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 23 March 1870 · page 4

FROM Rome we have chiefly rumours. The bishops assembled in council are solemnly bound to secresy, and althoughcertain information is supplied, so…

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The Municipality. Election of Returning Officer

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 26 March 1870 · page 2

ACCORDING to advertisement, a public meeting was held at the Court-house on Thursday evening to nominate a Returning Officer for the forthcoming municipal election, and to…

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The [?]Cumenical Council

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 2 April 1870 · page 4

"MAY I taje this opportunity, " asks the "Special" of the Times, "fop a few words of mild protest to the genfclomen who think it extreme impertinence for…

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Municipal Meetings. South Ward

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting of the ratepayers of the South Ward was held on Monday evening at Mr. Markey's Criterion Hotel for the purpose of nominating candidates for the office of…

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Municipal Meetings. East Ward

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 1 June 1870 · page 2

A public meeting of the ratepayers of the East Ward was held yesterday evening at the Exchange Hotel. There was a very large attendance, the upper room and balcony of…

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Municipal Meetings. South Ward

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 2

A MEETING of the friends and supporters of Mr. John Perrin was held on Wednesday night at the Australian Hotel. The room was densely crowded and insufferably hot…

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The Municipality. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 8 June 1870 · page 3

DEAR SIR,—Kindly allow me a short space in your free columns to call the attention of the ratepayers, and the whole body corporate (to be) to the present position of…

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Municipal Meeting. South Ward

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 8 June 1870 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting was held on Monday evening at tha Criterion Hotel, to hear Mr. Markey, one of the candidates for the South Ward, explain his views to the electors…

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The Municipality. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 11 June 1870 · page 2

SIR,—As it is now on the eve of our municipal election, anything in the press just now is read with avidity, and may have more than its wonted influence for good or…

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The Municipal Election. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 15 June 1870 · page 3

SIR,—I am sorry to find that our mode of voting by ballot is not generally understood; and there is, 1 am still more sorry to know, reason to believe that interested, unprincipled…

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Municipal Meeting. North Ward

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 15 June 1870 · page 2

A MEETING of the ratepayers of the North Ward was called for 3 p.m. af the Ferry Hotel on Monday last, to hear Mr. Charles Wall address the electors. There was a very…

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Municipal Election. the Nomination

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 15 June 1870 · page 2

ON Saturday last, according to advertised notice, a public meeting of the inhabitants of Wagga Wagga was held at the Court House, for the purpose of hearing the official…

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Municipal Election. the Polling

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 18 June 1870 · page 2

THURSDAY, the 16th June, the day big with the fate of Wagga and its cliques, has come and gone. Considering the extensive preparations that had been made for that great…

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The Municipal, Council. Election of the Mayor

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 22 June 1870 · page 2

A MEETING of the newly-olected Municipal Council was held at noon on Monday at the Court-house. for the purpose of electing a Mayor. The Returning Officer, George…

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Tumultuous Scene at The. Cecumenical Council. (From the European Mail.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 22 June 1870 · page 4

WE are informed"by way of Augsburg, under date March 26, that on Dr. Strosstuayer declaring at a sitting of the CEcumenical Council that a new…

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The Municipal Council. Friday, June 24Th

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 25 June 1870 · page 2

THE Mayor, with Aldermen Holloway. Nixon, Wall, Mumford, Hodson, Callaghan, and Moxham, took their seats at 12 o'clock, for the purpose of filling certain offices…

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Municipal Council

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 2 July 1870 · page 2

THE Council assembled on Thursday at 2 p.m., Present: The Mayor, Aldermen Bradley, Callaghan, Holloway, Hodson, Mumford, Moxham, Nixon, and Wall…

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Municipal Council. Special Meeting. Monday, 4Th July, 1860

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 6 July 1870 · page 2

PRESENT—The Mayor and Aldermen Bradley, Callaghan, Holloway, Hodson, Moxham, Mumford, and Wall. After soma pro forma matters had been got…

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Municipal Council. Thursday, July 7Th

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 9 July 1870 · page 2

PRESENT—The Mayor, Aldermen Bradley, Callaghan, Hodson, Hulloway, Moxham, Nixon, and Wall. The Minutas of former meeting were read…

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