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Southern Highlands · Council & local affairs
35 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 1 of 2
Yesterday afternoon a gentleman in town received a letter from Mr. J. Kidd, M.L.A., stating that the first election of aldermen for the Municipal District of Bowral would…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TRAINING is in full swing for this event, and it is looked forward to with much interest. Good work is being done on the track, and the majority of the horses are fast getting into form. A number were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[WHILE there does not appear to be much doubt on the question of the first Mayor of Bowral, there exists naturally a good deal of speculation regarding the personnel of the first municipal teem…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Thursday last, twenty six candidates were nominated for honors in the first municipal council of Bowral. Punctually at twelve o'clock the Returning Officer caused the proclamation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TUESDAY last was polling day for the election of nine aldermen to serve in the first municipal council of Bowral. Polling was conducted in one of the small rooms at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →YOUR Worship,—" Some men are born great; some achieve greatness; and some have greatness thrust upon them." While addressing you with exalted respect, I hope to be acquitted of any charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE first meeting of the Bowral municipal council was held in the school of arts on Wednesday evening, there being present the Mayor, and Aldermen Rice, Loseby,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE second meeting of the Bowral Municipal Council was held in the School of Arts on Wednesday afternoon. Eight Aldermen were present, Mr. J. G. Morris…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DEAR Sir,—I take the liberty of addressing you more particularly as the defeated candidate for the civic chair. To me it appears that you are in a more or less peculiar…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PRESENT: The Mayor, and Aldermen Charker, Funston, J. J. Campbell, Morris, and Rice. The clerk road the minutes of last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is noticeable that there has not yet been a full meeting of the local municipal council. At last meeting six aldermen were present, and when seated they had the appearance of having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WITH the exception of Ald. Bridge, who was absent, there was a full meeting of the council. Minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE aldermen, on Friday night last, skipped through the business of the council with an alacrity quite commendable. In fact, they made the pace so lively that when the business…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WITH the exception of the absence of Alderman Loseby there was a fall meeting of the council. The business odtside the consideration of the by-laws was of not much…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE by-laws were again to the fore at last meeting of the council, and their consideration occupied the greater part of the evening. The arduous task of considering them seriatum quite…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THERE was a full meeting of the council. Minutes were read and confirmed. CORRESPONDENCE. Inwards: (1) From the Moss Vale…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A FULL meeting of the council. Minutes were read and confirmed, after a few irrelevant remarks by Ald Loseby. CORRESPONDENCE…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE survey and level of the streets of the Borough of Bathurst are now complete, and the plans which are of a most elaborate description, are in the hands of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →INFORMATIONS were filed a few days ago against Alderman Davies and Alderman Lansdown, of Goulburn, for breaches of the 38 section of the Municipalities Act,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PRESENT, a fall meeting of the council with the exe[?] of A[?]man Bridge. Mi[?]s of previous meeting were read and con[?]…
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