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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1844

1,052 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 53

Legislative Council. Thursday, October 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 October 1844 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. EDUCATION. Mr. ROBINSON presented a petition from…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, October 2

The Australian · Friday 4 October 1844 · page 2

The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. EDUCATION. Mr. COWPER presented a Petition from the…

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City Council

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 5 October 1844 · page 1
Also in The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature

Captain Deloitte was appointed Assessor for Cook Ward, during the absence of G. R. Griffiths, Esq. Alderman Flood brought up a Report from the Board of Works…

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The District Council

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 5 October 1844 · page 2

ON Tuesday last our District Council met pursuant to adjournment. There were present the Warden, Messrs. Bettington, Houison, Pye, and N. Lawson. The minutes of the last meeting were read, and it was then…

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Legislative Council

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 5 October 1844 · page 173

Mr. Windeyer presented petitions from Muswellbrook, Butterwick, Raymond Terrace, and Paterson, against the adoption of the system of general education…

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Sydney News. City Council

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 5 October 1844 · page 4

Captain Deloitte was appointed Assessor for Cook Ward, during the absence of G. R. Griffiths, Esq.' Alderman Flood brought up a Report from the Board of Works…

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City Council. Monday, September 30

The Guardian · Saturday 5 October 1844 · page 234

PRESENT: The Mayor; Aldermen Allen, Macdermott, Flood, Broughton, and Hill; Councillors Driver, Jenkins. Ryan, Agars, Holden, Cowlishaw, Coyle, Neale, Smidmore, Jones, and Little…

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Legislative Council. Friday, September 27

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 5 October 1844 · page 1
Also in Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser

A message from his Excellency the Governor, announcing his willingness to reduce the rate of postage when the state of the public finances would admit, was received…

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Legislative Council. Friday, October 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 October 1844 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. EDUCATION. Mr. COWPER presented a petition from the…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, October 1

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 5 October 1844 · page 3

The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. Several notices of motion were then disposed of. THE ADJOURNED DEBATE. INSECURITY OF LIFE AND PROPERTY…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, October 2

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 5 October 1844 · page 3

Ten petitions against and three in favor of Lord Stanley's system of education were presented. Dr. Nicholson moved for certain papers connected with a charge of bribery against W. Pendergrast, a…

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The Council and the Labouring Classes

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 5 October 1844 · page 2
Also in The Star and Working Man's Guardian

WE see by the Report of last Tuesday's proceedings in the Legislative Council, that the whole of the resolutions, founded on the Report of the Select Committee on the Insecurity of Life and Property, were adopted,…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, October 1, 1844

The Guardian · Saturday 5 October 1844 · page 235

The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. EDUCALION. Mr. WINDEYER presented a petition from the Rev. Mr. Gore, of Muswellbrook, and a number of…

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Legislative Council. the Debate on National Education

The Australian · Saturday 5 October 1844 · page 2

This important question was brought fair, ward, last night, by Mr. Robinson, who moved the series of Resolutions which stood in his name on the paper. Mr. Young…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, October 2. (Continued from, yesterday's Australian.) City Police

The Australian · Saturday 5 October 1844 · page 3

The first order of the day having been read, that Connsel should bo heard in support of the City Council's Petition on, the City Police; Mr. Lowe and Mr. Fisher appeared, at the Bar…

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Legislative Council. Education. (Debate of Friday, 4Th October.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 October 1844 · page 2

MR. ROBINSON (member for Melbourne) opened the debute by proposing the resolutions which had been for some time past on the paper, in his name, which were as follow:—…

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Legislative Council. Friday, October 4. (Continued from Saturday's Australian.)

The Australian · Monday 7 October 1844 · page 3

Mr. ROBINSON lamented that in consequence of the resignation of Mr. Lowe, the task fell upon him to call the attention of the Council to so important a measure as the education of the…

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