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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1846

499 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 25

City Council

The Australian · Saturday 5 September 1846 · page 3

On Thursday, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the City of Sydney, accompanied by the Town Clerk, waited on His Excellency at Government House, for the purpose of…

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The Legislative Council

The Citizen · Saturday 5 September 1846 · page 1

ON Tuesday next, Sir CHARLES FITZ ROY meets the Legislative Council for the first time. His Excellency's opening speech is looked forward to with a considerable degree of interest,…

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The City Council's Address to the Governor

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 5 September 1846 · page 2

On Thursday last the Mayor, Aldermen, City Councillors, and Town Clerk assembled at 2 o'clock in the Town Hall, York-street, in their official costume, for the purpose of proceeding to Government…

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Addresses to the Governor. From the City Council

The Spectator · Saturday 5 September 1846 · page 387

THE Address to the Governor, agreed upon at a meeting of the City Council on the 29th ultimo, was presented to his Excellency on the afternoon of Thursday last. The Mayor, Aldermen, and all the Councillors,…

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News From the Interior. (From our Correspondent.) Parramatta District Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 September 1846 · page 3

THIS body met on Saturday. The members present were—the Warden (Dr. Hill), and Dr. Anderson, J.P., Messrs, J. Byrnes, Oakes, Howison, Payten, and J Pye, Councillors…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Tuesday 8 September 1846 · page 2

THE Legislative Council will be opened to-day, at twelve o'clock, by His Excellency tho Governor, who will deliver his maiden speech from the Vice-Regal chair to our…

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Parramatta District Council

The Australian · Tuesday 8 September 1846 · page 3

A meeting of the Warden and Councillors of this District took place on Saturday last, at which a great deal of noisy and vehement discussion arose, relative to the payment by the…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, Sept. 8

Sydney Chronicle · Wednesday 9 September 1846 · page 2

This being the day appointed for the re-assembling of the Legislative Council, his Excellency Sir Charles Augustus Fitz Roy. Governor. &c., opened it in person. The Council Chambers presented an…

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The Opening of the Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 September 1846 · page 2

PURSUANT to proclamation made in the Government Gazette, the Legislative Council of New South Wales assembled yesterday, at twelve o'clock. The Council was opened by Sir…

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Van Diemen's Land. Legislative Council.—van Diemen's Land. Tuesday, August 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 September 1846 · page 3

THE Colonial Secretary laid upon the table returns of the imports and exports from the 1st January to the end of June, 1846. The Bridgewater Bridge Bill was read a…

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The Sydney Chronicle. Wednesday, Sept. 9, 1846. the Opening of the Council. His Excellency's Speech

Sydney Chronicle · Wednesday 9 September 1846 · page 2

THOSE whose curiosity stood on-tip-toe for the first exhibition of His Excellency's official supremacy, must have found abundant gratification in the vice-regal and…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Thursday 10 September 1846 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

YESTERDAY, on the Speaker taking the chair, be reported that His Excellency had on the 13th June last given the Royal assent to the Lunatics' Act Amendment Bill, passed by the Council on…

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Council Papers. Despatches

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 September 1846 · page 2

From the Right Honourable W. E. Gladstone, Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, to the Governor of New South Wales, Laid before the Legislative Council Wednesday,…

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Opening of the Legislative Council

The Australian · Thursday 10 September 1846 · page 4
Also in The Sentinel

SOON alter eleven this morning, Macquarie street began to assume a lively appearance, and in a few minutes a vast concourse of persons verb assembled in front, and in the…

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The Opening of the Council

The Australian · Thursday 10 September 1846 · page 2

After the Governor had delivered the vice-regal speech, and retired, Mr. Went-worth, as the leader of the opposite Benches, (we cannot yet call it "the opposition,")…

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Local Intelligence. Legislative Council. Tuesday. The Speaker took the Chair at half-past three. the Address

The Sentinel · Thursday 10 September 1846 · page 2

Mr. Macarthur, in relation to the speech of His Excellency the Governor, moved, that a Committee be appointed to prepare an Address in reply to the Speech delivered to the Council by His Excellency the…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, September 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 September 1846 · page 2

THE Council met at two o'clock, and the Speaker took the Chair at a quarter past. ADDRESS. Mr. MACARTHUR moved, that in…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Saturday 12 September 1846 · page 2

THE Council met on Thursday at two o'clock, and subsequently proceeded to Government House to present to his Excellency the Governor the Address which had been agreed to on a…

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