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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1844

1,052 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 53

The Legislative Council

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 6 April 1844 · page 516

THE Legislative Council, it is finally determined, will meet on Tuesday, the 28th of May. The great measure of the session, it is understood, will be a Bill to regulate the…

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Sydney News. City Council

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1844 · page 3

THE Council met on Monday. On the motion of Alderman Broughton the further consideration of the By-laws relative to the Market Regulations were proceeded with, and the whole of the clauses severally…

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City Council Monday, April 1

The Dispatch · Saturday 6 April 1844 · page 2

Present:-- The Mayor, Aldermen Allen, Burdek[?], Broughton, Flood and Macdermott and eighteen Councillors. The Council went into committee on the bye…

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The City Council and the Governor

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 6 April 1844 · page 515

WE observe with regret some indications of an approaching rupture between the Executive and the City Council. The dissatisfaction has arisen out of the Governor's reply…

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Domestic Intelligence Legislative Council. (From Yesterday's Government Gazette.) PROCLAMATION

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 April 1844 · page 2

WHEREAS the Legislative Council of this colony now stands prorogued to Tuesday, the sixteenth day of April instant, and it is expedient further to prorogue the same,—Now,…

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City Council. MONDAY. The Right Worshipful the ayor in the chair. the George-street Market

The Guardian · Saturday 6 April 1844 · page 27

On the motion of Alderman BROUGHTON, the council resolved itself into committee to consider the bylaws [?]elating to the George-street market. The by laws were adopted with some few alterations and…

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Legislative Council. Proclamation

The Australian · Monday 8 April 1844 · page 4

By His Excellency Sir George Gipps, Knight, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Territory of New South Wales and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the…

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City, Council

The Australian · Saturday 13 April 1844 · page 3

The following are the Orders of the Day for the Meeting on Monday,at three o'clock p.m: 1. To receive such Memorials and Petitions as may be presented…

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District Council

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1844 · page 3

THE Council met on Wednesday last. All the Members present. On our entering the Council Chamber, a little before 12 o'clock, we ascertained there had been two Committee meetings previous, the Finance…

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District Council

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1844 · page 1

WE understand that gentlemen interested in the prosperity of this town and neighbourhood, are taking active measures to secure the return of able and well qualified persons as members of the Parramatta District Council…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 April 1844 · page 2

PRESENT:—The Mayor; Aldermen Allen, Broughton, and Macdermott; Councillors Driver, Cowlishaw, Little, Chapman, Jenkins, Agars, Brown, Thurlow, Taylor, Smidmore,…

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City Council. Monday, April 15

The Australian · Tuesday 16 April 1844 · page 3

The members to whose names P. is prefixed, were present at the opening of the Council; a star denotes those members who took their seats after the business had commenced…

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News From the Interior. (From our various Correspondents.) Illawarra the District Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 April 1844 · page 2

APRIL 12—Pursuant to notice, and in compliance with a requisition most respectably signed by the magistrates and other landed propertors of the district interested in the…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 April 1844 · page 2

A MEETING of the City Council will be holden at the Town Hall on Monday next, at three o'clock in the afternoon. ORDERS OF THE DAY…

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District Council

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 20 April 1844 · page 1
Also in Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser

As a great deal of ignorance on the subject of District Councils prevails in Sydney and the neighbourhood we feel it a duty which we owe to those of our readers who may not possess a copy of the Imperial Act, and…

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City Council

The Dispatch · Saturday 20 April 1844 · page 2
Also in The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature

On Monday the City Council met at their Chambers, when there were present, the Mayor, Aldermen Allen, Broughton and Macdermott, and 15 Councillors…

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Local Intelligence. City Council.--MONDAY

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 20 April 1844 · page 1

THE Clerk having read the minutes of proceedings of the last meeting-- Alderman Allen read a letter which he had received, from Mrs. Chisholm, requesting that the Corporation…

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Sydney News. City Council.--MONDAY

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 20 April 1844 · page 3

The Clerk having read the minutes of proceedings of the last meeting-- Alderman Allen read a letter which he had received from Mrs. Chisholm, requesting that the Corporation…

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