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Southern Highlands · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1885

8 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

The Proposed Colonial Council in London

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 4 February 1885 · page 1

THE Right Hon. W. E. Forster, M.P., has contributed an article to the Nineteenth Century, in which he discusses the proposal of Earl Grey to refer important questions…

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The Crisis in Khartoum. Cabinet Council Meeting. New South Wales Volunteers Ordered to be GEt Ready. (Thursday's Evening News.)

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 14 February 1885 · page 3

AN extraordinary cabinet council meeting was held at noon to-day in the colonial secretary's office. The most important business related to a telegram which has…

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Model Municipal Meeting

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 4 July 1885 · page 3

SKYLARKTON.—The Council held their usual meeting last evening. The members present were the Mayor (in the chair), Aldermen E. Conomy, O'Blatherskite, Logroller,…

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The Proposed Municipal District of Bowral

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 3

IN a supplement to last Friday's Government Gazette is published the petition for the incorporation of Bowral. The petition is signed by 139 persons liable to be rated. The petitioners state "that the population of…

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Municipal District of Bowral. Nomination Day. Tuesday, January 5, 1886

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 7 November 1885 · page 2

THERE was a tremendous bubble of excitement at the nominations on Tuesday, Jan. 5. Precisely at twelve o'clock, noon, the Returning Officer, [?]. Oxtail, Esq., mounted the [?] at the school of arts, and with…

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Executive Council

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 14 November 1885 · page 2

A MEETING of the Executive Council, presided over by his Excellency the Acting Governor, Sir Alfred Stephen, was held on Thursday. Another meeting of the Council…

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Municipal District of Bowral. Result of Elections

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 28 November 1885 · page 2

POLLING day for the election of the first Municipal team for Bowral was a red-letter day in the history of the district. It had been proclaimed a general holiday: men donned their Sunday clothes, women…

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Municipal Notes

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 5 December 1885 · page 2

In order to make those of our readers who may wish for it acquainted with various matters which it will be well to remember in connection with the movement for the incorporation…

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