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A report was received from the Finance Committee recommending the acceptance of the Gas Company, for lighting the City, (saving the nights the moon shines, see correspondence with the Gas Company),…
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A report was received from the Finance Committee recommending the acceptance of the Gas Company, for lighting the City, (saving the nights the moon shines, see correspondence with the Gas Company),…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Warden stated, that in reference to the letter which he had addressed to his Excellency, at the request of the Council, soliciting the opinion of the Crown Law Officers,…
Continued on Trove, page 291 →"Those who are unacquainted with municipal institutions are the only persons who pass censure on them."--De Tocqueville. WE are sorry to see the Sydney District…
Continued on Trove, page 289 →THIS is a question easier to propound than to solve. They will, of course, be asked to vote the Estimates and pass the Appropriation Act, but, instead of doing this, we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A report was received from the Finance Committee, recommending the acceptance of the offer of the Gas Company, for lighting the City, (saving the nights the moon shines, see correspondence with the Gas Company),…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The drunkards' list contained eleven names.--Three paid the fine of 11s.; three were discharged, it being their first appearance; two were sent to the treadmill for twelve hours; and one sentenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT will soon be asked in terms not to be mistaken, What are the faults of the District Council system?--a laborious system of evil.--Who reaps them? What single…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE hardly know what to term the "gathering" at the Victoria Theatre on Friday night. In the programme of the proceedings it was termed "the Right Worshipful the Mayor's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PRESENT: The Mayor, Aldermen Macdermott, Flood, and Broughton; Councillors Driver, Henderson, Fawley, Cowlishaw, Iredale, Neale, Fisher, Wilkie, Jenkins, Ryan, Brown,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN our number of the 10th Instant, we published the proceedings of the Quarterly Meeting of the District Council of Camden, with which, therefore, we shall presume our…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There were four drunkards on the list this day, there of whom were punished under the Police Act, and one was discharged. John Porsel, a Malay, was committed to take…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Mayor's Grand Tea Party was held in the Victoria theatre, on Friday evening last, when upwards of two thousand persons were present, amongst whom were his Excellency the Governor,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THAT remarkably twaddling print, the Southern Queen, has thought proper to allude, in terms of animadversion, to the party which was got up under the auspices…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The drunkard's list this day contained rather a goodly array of fifteen names. Three paid the fine of eleven shillings, three were sentenced to twelve hours recreation on the treadmill, one was sentenced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.--I think it will be admitted by every one, who is at all regardful of passing events, that we live in an age, not less wonderful for its vast discoveries in the arts and sciences, than it is prolific of inconsistencies in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Present, the Right worshipful the Mayor; Aldermen Wilshire, Macdermott, Flood, and Broughton; Councillo a Driver, Henderson, Pawley, Cowlishaw, Iredale, Neale, Fisher, Wilkie, Jenkins, Ryan,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Sydney District Council has found a mare's nest, and the newly elected members are quite delighted at the opportunity of making their maiden speeches, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There were nine drunkards on the list, two of whom were discharged, it being their first offence, one paid the fine, three were sent to the mill, and three to the cells…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MEETING of the City Council will be holden the Town Hall, on Monday next, at three clock in the forenoon. ORDERS OF THE DAY…
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