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Council & local affairs, 1844

1,052 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 53

Legislative Council. Thursday, August 15

The Colonial Observer · Thursday 22 August 1844 · page 1

MR. COWPER postponed Mr. Forster's petition from the District of the Macdonald River to Wednesday next. THE EXPENDITURE AND GOVERNMENT…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, Aug. 21

The Australian · Thursday 22 August 1844 · page 2

The SPEAKER took tho Chair at tho usual hour. DISTRESSED MECHANICS. Dr. BLAND presented a petition from certain…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, 21St August

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 August 1844 · page 2

THE Speaker took the chair at the usual hour DISTRESSED LABOURERS. Dr. BLAND presented a petition, signed by one thousand one hundred and seventy-one…

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Legislative Council.—the Approaching Session. (From the Southern Australian, July 30.)

The Australian · Thursday 22 August 1844 · page 4

The Legislative Council has been appointed to meet upon Monday next, the 5th day of August, for the dispatch of business…

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Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 August 1844 · page 2

THE fancy dress ball of the Right Worshipful the Mayor to the citizens of Sydney, took-place in the Victoria Theatre on Wednesday evening, the 21st instant. It was a gorgeous spectacle,…

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The Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball

The Australian · Friday 23 August 1844 · page 3

This anxiously looked-for, and, to Australians, novel entertainment, took place on Wednesday evening last, and, contrary to the almost universal predictions, went off…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, August 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 August 1844 · page 2

THE Speaker took the chair precisely at half-past three, and, there being only eleven members present, adjourned the House to 3 P. M. this day…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, Aug. 22

The Australian · Friday 23 August 1844 · page 3

The Speaker took the Chair at twenty-five minutes before four o'clock; and, their being only ten members present, adjourned the Council till to-morrow, (this day), at three o'clock…

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The Mayor's Ball

The Dispatch · Saturday 24 August 1844 · page 1

An account of the Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball, by Titus Ticklem, Esq., the author of "The Browns," will appear in next week's Dispatch…

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The Mayor's Grand Fancy Dress Ball

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 24 August 1844 · page 2

THE fancy dress ball of the Right Worshipful the Mayor of Sydney, took place at the Victoria Theatre, on Wednesday evening last. To furnish space for which…

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Local Intelligence. The Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 24 August 1844 · page 1

THIS ball took place on Wednesday evening last, and never has Sydney witnessed a more splendid spectacle than the Victoria Theatre exhibited on that occasion, the pit had been boarded over, and thus formed an…

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Sydney News. The Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1844 · page 3

THIS ball took place on Wednesday evening last, and never has Sydney witnessed a more splendid spectacle than the Victoria Theatre exhibited on that occasion, the pit had been boarded over, and thus formed an…

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Legislative Council

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 24 August 1844 · page 94

The following Message was received from His Excellency the Governor in reply to an address requesting him to place upon the Estimates of Expenditure for the year 1845,…

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Sydney District Council

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 24 August 1844 · page 98

THE subjoined Report by the Assessors, on the assessment of the third division of the district of Sydney was brought up, and read as follows :--…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, August 15

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 24 August 1844 · page 1
Also in Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser

Mr. Bradley presented a petition from the District Council of Goulburn, praying that the Council would be pleased to appropriate a sum for the salary of a Police Magistrate at Goulburn…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, August 20

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1844 · page 3
Also in Morning Chronicle

Dr. Nicholson presented a petition from Port Phillip, praying for an entire separation from the remainder of the colony of New South Wales. Mr. Windeyer, presented a petition from Raymond…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, August 21

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 24 August 1844 · page 2

We have such a press of matter set up, that we are reluct[?]tly obliged to postpone the proceedings of the Legislative Council of Wednesday, till our next publication…

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Legislative Council. Friday, August 23

The Australian · Saturday 24 August 1844 · page 3

The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour, ASSENT TO BILLS. The SPEAKER announced that his Excellency had been pleased to assent on behalf of her…

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