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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1849

364 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 19

City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1849 · page 2

PRESENT—The Right Worshipful the Mayor in the chair; Aldermen Allen, Broughton, Thurlow, Egan, and Fisher; Councillors Moore, Driver, Moir, May, Ryan, Hill,…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1849 · page 2

PRESENT: The Right Worshipful the Mayor, in the chair; Aldermen Thurlow, Broughton, Brown, Fisher, Egan, and Allen; Councillors Ryan, Paton, M'Donald, Moore, Board, Driver,…

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Parramatta District Council. Wednesday. [?]: The Warden (Dr. Hill), and Coun[?] Messrs. Pye, Howison, and Oakes, Point of Order

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1849 · page 3

[?] the Clerk had commenced reading the [?] of the last sitting. [?] O[?] rose and said he had an objection [?] At the meeting of which the minutes…

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Domestic Intelligence. City Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 27 January 1849 · page 2

A special meeting was held pursuant to notice. His Worship the Mayor took the chair, and the following members their seats, at the hour appointed: Aldermen Allen, Broughton, Brown, Egan, Fisher and Thurlow; Councillors Board, Little, Smidmore,…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, January 27, 1849. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am [?]." Governor Grey's First Provincial Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 January 1849 · page 2

GOVERNOR GREY'S Provincial Council Bill is in operation in Wellington. The settlers of Port Nicholson have had this hasty and unpopular measure forced…

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Domestic Intelligence. City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 January 1849 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting of the City Council was held yesterday, in pursuance of a requisition to the Mayor signed by eight members, for the purpose of considering the propriety of…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 January 1849 · page 2

THE Council met pursuant to Adjournment, to resume the debate on Alderman Fisher's motion to rescind the resolution of the 5th December…

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Original Correspondence. City Council. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 February 1849 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—In your publication of this day's Herald, a report appears of yesterday's proceedings of the City Council, wherein it is stated that Mr. Jenkins said, "That of all the…

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City Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 3 February 1849 · page 4

A SPECIAL meeting of the City Council was held on Monday, in pursuance of a requisition to the Mayor signed by eight members, for the purpose of considering the propriety of rescinding the following resolution, passed on the 5th ultimo, namely--"That all the…

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Bell's Life in Sydney. Sydney, February 8. 1849. the City Council

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 3 February 1849 · page 2

IT has unfortunately too often been our unpleasant task to refer in terms of condemnation to the proceedings of the City Council. We had hoped that the…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 February 1849 · page 2

A QUARTERLY Meeting of the City Council will be holden at the Town Hall, on Friday next, at 12 o'clock noon. ORDERS OF THE DAY…

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City Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 10 February 1849 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

YESTERDAY, the Quarterly Meeting of the City Council was held in the Town Hall. The members present were the Right Worshipful the Mayor; Aldermen Allen, Thurlow, Broughton, Egan, Brown, and Fisher : Councillors. Macdonald. Ryan. Thornton,…

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The Mechanics' School of Arts and the Mayor of Sydney

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 10 February 1849 · page 6

THE unpretty singularities of Botany Bay are not confined to its flying-foxes, its wrong-ended, unedible pears, &c.; it has a Mechanics' Institute (?) which grows from the social tree narrow end first, and is as…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1849 · page 2

BEFORE of the Improvement Committee on the subject of certain-metters referred to them on the 25th ultime, for their consideration ard report…

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Domestic Intelligence. City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 February 1849 · page 2

THE Council met pursuant to adjournment. Tho Right Worshipful the Mayor took the chair at the usual hour. The following members were present—Alderman Allen,…

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The District Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 February 1849 · page 3

THERE was a meeting called of this bod[?] to-day, but in consequence of the Warden being unavoidably absent, no business could be transacted. The meeting consequently lapsed,…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 February 1849 · page 2

PRESENT.—The Eight Worshipful the Mayor, in the chair; Aldermen Thurlow, Allen, Egan, Broughton, Fisher, and Brown; Councillors Moore, Driver, Neale, Lingard, Jenkins,…

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City Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 17 February 1849 · page 2

Present --The Right Worshipful the Mayor; Aldermen Allen, Broughton, Thurlow, Egan, Brown, and Fisher, Councillors Moir, Driver, Smidmore, M. Donald, May, Hill, Neale, Moore, Board, Jenkins, Josephson, Wilshire, Lingard, Paton, Little, Titterton,…

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City Council. Adjourned Special Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 February 1849 · page 2

PRESENT—The Right Worshipful the Mayor, in the chair; Aldermen Allen, Fisher, Broughton, Thurlow, Broun, and Egan; Councillors, Hill, Driver, Neale, Moore,…

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