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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1848

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday, June 28, 1848. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." the Late Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 June 1848 · page 2

IN October last, assuming that the Legislative Council, then prorogued, had probably sat for the last time, we in some measure anticipated the task which did…

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Domestic Intelligence. City Council

The Sentinel · Thursday 29 June 1848 · page 2

Present:--The Right Worshipful the Mayor in the chair: Aldermen Broughton, Little, "Wilshire, Allen, and Fisher; Councillors Driver, Neale. Henderson, Hyndes, Moore, Board,…

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Local Intelligence. City Council

The Australian · Friday 30 June 1848 · page 2

A meeting of the Council of the City of Sydney was held on Monday last, at which Alderman Little presented a petition from the owners of certain hollies in Market-street…

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Abstract of the Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee of the Legislative Council (Session 1848), on Steam Communication with England. (Continued.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 June 1848 · page 2

THE next witness we proceed with, [?] Captain Owen Stanley, who is at present employed in survoying Torres Straits, and had turned his attention much to the subject of Steam…

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Council Papers. Accounts of Receipts and Expenditure. Copy of a despatch from the Right Honorable the Earl GREY, to Governor Sir Charles A. Fitz Roy. Downing-street, September 27, 1847

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 June 1848 · page 4

SIR,—In pursuance of the recommendation of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, which was appointed in 1845, to examine into the accounts of colonial receipt, and…

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Domestic Intelligence. City Council. Monday, June 26, 1848

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 1 July 1848 · page 1

Present:—The Mayor; Aldermen Broughton, Little, Wilshire, Allen, Thurlow, and Fisher; Councillors Driver, Neale, Henerson, Hyndes, Moore, Board, Ryan, May, Wilkie, Moir, Jenkins, Brown, Thornton, and Egan…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 July 1848 · page 2

PRESENT: The Right Worshipful the Mayor, in the chair; Aldermen Allen, Broughton, Fisher, Little, Thurlow, and Wilshire; Councillors Driver, Neale, Jenkins, Hyndes, Board,…

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News of the Day. City Council Monday, July 3

The Sydney Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 July 1848 · page 2

Present: the Mayor, Alderman Allen. Broughton, Little Wilshire, Thurlow, Fisher; Councillors Hyndes, Driver, Neale, Moore, Paton, Jenkins, Hill. Moir…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 July 1848 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting was held at the Town Hall, yesterday, conv[?]ned by the Mayor, in consequence of a requisition signed by eight members, for the purpose of taking into…

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Domestic Intelligence. City Council

The Sentinel · Thursday 6 July 1848 · page 2

PRESENT.-- The Right Worshipful the Mayor in the chair; Aldermen Allen, Broughton, Fisher, Little, Thurlow, and Wilshire ; Councillors Driver. Neale. Jenkins, Hyndes, Board, Moore, Paton, Hill…

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Parramatta. the District Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 July 1848 · page 4

P[?]NT: The Warden, (Dr. Hill); Councillors, Messrs. Oakes, Howison, Shepherd, Edrop, J. Byrnes, J. Pye, and G. R. Nichols. THE TOLLS ON THE SYDNEY ROAD…

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City Council. Monday, July 3, 1848

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 8 July 1848 · page 1

PRESENT: The Right Worshipful the Mayor, in the chair; Aldermen Allen, Broughton, Fisher, Little, Thurlow, and Wilshire; Councillors Driver, Neale, Jenkins, Hyndes, Board, Moore, Paton, Hill, Moir, Henderson, May, Ryan, Titterton, Egan, Sillitoe, and…

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Abstract of the Evidence of the Select Committee of the Legislative Council of 1848, on the Subject of Railways

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 July 1848 · page 2

THIS was the first committee of the Council appointed on this subject, which having been taken up considerably out of doors, a good deal of the evidence taken had been elicited in…

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Domestic Intelligence. City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 July 1848 · page 2

PERSENT: The Right Worshipful the Mayor, in the chair; Aldermen Allen, Broughton, Fisher, Thurlow, and Wilshire; Councillors Neale, Henderson, Driver, Hyndes, Board,…

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Abstract of the Evidence of the Select Committee of the Legislative Council of 1848, on the Subject of Railways. (Continued.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 July 1848 · page 2

THE only scientific evidence given on tins enquiry was tint of Mr Shields, the Sur veyor to the Corporation of the city of Sydney, and who had some knowledge of railway…

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City Council

The Sydney Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 July 1848 · page 2

Present:--The Mayor; Aldermen Thurlow, Allen, Broughton, Wilshire, and Fisher; Councillors Egan, Titterton, Henderson, Hyades, Brown, Moore, Board, Driver, Wilkie, Moir, Ryan, Thornton, and Neale…

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City Council

The Australian · Thursday 13 July 1848 · page 3

An adjourned meeting of the Council of the City of Sydney was hold on Monday, at the usual time and place. In answer to a question from Councillor Brown…

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Domestic Intelligence. City Council

The Sentinel · Thursday 13 July 1848 · page 2

The Right Worshipful the Mayor in the chair; Alderman Allen, Broughton, Fisher, Thurlow, and Wilshire ; Councillors Neale Henderson, Drive, [?]des Board, Moore, Brown, Moir, Titterton, Ryan…

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Domestic Intelligence. City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 July 1848 · page 2

PRESENT: The Right Worshipful the Mayor, in the chair; Aldermen Allen, Broughton, Little, Thurlow, and Fisher; Councillors Moore, Driver, Neale, Henderson, Smidmore, Moore,…

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City Council. Monday, July 10

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 15 July 1848 · page 1

Present:—The Mayor; Aldermen Broughton, Fisher, Allen, and Thurlow; Councillors Brown, Moore, Hyndes, Henderson, Neale, Driver, Board, Moir, Titterton, Ryan, Hill, and Wilkie. MARKET DUES…

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