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Petitions in favour of the, General System of Education were presented from Phillip Ward, Cook Ward, the Synod of Australia, and the Hawkesbury; and against it, from Castlereagh and Campbelltown…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The debate on this subject was resumed by Mr. COWPER, who observed, that the main question before the Council was, whether the Report of the Select Committee should be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. YOUNG seconded the resolution; he considered the question to be, whether the council should afford to the rising generation a useful education or not. The present system gave instruction…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT a time when a perverse antipathy to the most useful of institutions has frustrated the! beneficent intentions of the imperial legislature ; on the eve of our annual city election ;…
Continued on Trove, page 181 →MR. WENTWORTH presented a petition from certain inhabitants of Sydney, praying the House to pass the Hill to enable the Bank of Australia to dispose of its property by lot. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MEETING of the City Council will be holden, this day, at three o'clock in the afternoon. ORDERS OF THE DAY. 1. To receive Reports from the Chairmen of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS body met on Saturday last, pursuant to adjournment, in the Lecture Room of the Australian College, Jamison-street. Present—Mr. T. Barker, Warden; and Councillors Allen,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. WINDEYER'S motion for the adjournment of the Legislative Council has taken the country by surprise. The reasons which induced the honorable member to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. BANK OF AUSTRALIA SHARES BILL. Mr. WENTWORTH presented a Petition from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. WINDEYER, in pursuance of notice, moved "that the House, at its rising, do adjourn to Wednesday, 27th November." The reasons which induced him to bring forward…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PRESENT: The Mayor, Aldermen Flood, Macdermott, Broughton, Allen, and Hill, Councillors, Agars, Little, Coyle, Driver, Jenkins, Browne, Neale, Smidmore, Holden, Ryan and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gentlemen,—Under the eighteenth clause of the 5th and 6th Victoria, c. 76, I have to refer to the decision of tho Council, the following question, namely:—Whether the seat in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →His Excellency the Governor stated to the Council that a w[?] had been issued by him for the election of a member to serve in the Legislative Council, for the Electoral District…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →From the tone and tenor of the proceedings of the City Council on Monday, last, we perceive certain indications of the resentment with which they regard the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The members to whose names p. is prefixed, were present at the opening of the Council; a denotes those members who took their seats after the business had commenced; A…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The debate on this :subject was resumed by Mr. COWTER, who observed, that the maid question before the council was, whether the report of the select committee should be adopted or not. It had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Present: The Mayor, Aldermen Flood, Mac-dermott, Broughton, Allen, and Hill; Councillors, Agars, Little, Coyle, Driver, Jenkins, Browne, Neale, Smidmore, Holden, Ryan,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In our last Monday's paper we noticed the fact of the Sydney District Council being declared ab agendo, by the deliberate opinion of the legal counsel to whom the question…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Speaker took the chair at the usual hour. The Governor's Private Secretary handed to the Speaker a message from, his Excellency,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PRESENT: The Warden (G. Elliott, Esq.), Dr. Anderson, and Messrs. Pye, and Houison. After the minutes of the last meeting had been read, the Secretary road the following…
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