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A petition against the revival of transportation was presented by Mr. Allen, from the Sunday School Union. Mr. Nichols presented a petition from Stephen Spencer, of Comleroy, praying compensation for a line of road being carried through his land; from R…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After the presentation of a variety of petitions pro. and con., Mr. Suttor moved the suspension of the first Standing Order, 45th clause. He did this, on account of McMartin's having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter-past three. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT. A message, No. 39, was presented from His…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH,—That your petitioners have read with much hilarity and amusement a motion placed on the Council Paper by Mr. James Martin, proposing to exclude your…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. MOOR presented a petition from Melbourne against the resumption of transportation This petition had been prepared m duplicate, and a copy, with twelve hundred…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE COLONIAL SECRETARY laid upon the table a return moved for by Mr. Nichols respecting pounds. The following messages from His Excellency…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS. Mr. DONALDSON presented a petition from Edward Crook, a squatter, in the Gipps…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Present:—The Right Worshipful the Mayor; Aldermen Broughton, Brown, Egan, and Thurlow; Councillors Josephson, Williams, Driver, Moffitt, Smidmore, Roberts, Moore,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN.—It strikes me as the most remarkable feature in the Transportation controversy, that by far the greater number of those who advocate (what they and their party call)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following petitions were presented by Mr. Lamb against the resumption of transportation: from Kiama, signed by 310 persons; from the district of Hartley, signed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Present:—The Right Worshipful the Mayor; Alderman Broughton, Brown, Egan, and Thurlow; Councillors Josephson. Williams, Driver, Moffitt, Smidmore, Roberts, Moore, Board, Paton, Peden,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mr. LAMB: In rising to move the resolution, which stood upon the paper in his name, regretted that the task had not devolved upon some one who was more competent to fulfil it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. LAMB rose to move that the abstract of the petition which had been presented to the House on the transportation question, both for and against, be printed. He and many other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. MURRAY: It was related by Plutarch that, after the battle of Salamis, Themistocles told an Athenian he had a proposal to make, which, if assented to, would consolidate their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Present: -- The Right worshipful the Mayor: Aldermen Broughton, Brown, Egan, and Thurlow; Councillors Josephson, Williams, Driver, Moffit, Smidmore, Roberts, Moore, Board, Paton, Peden, Macdonald, Jenkins, Little, May, Ryan, Thornton, Thomas, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →His Excellency proceeded in state on Wednesday to the Council Chamber, for the purpose of proroguing the House. The usual ceremonies took place upon the occasion; the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The order of the day for the resumption of the debate on Transportation having been called -- Mr. Wentworth felt that the hon. member in moving this resolution had given an opportunity of reply to any arguments, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ms. ALLEN did not intend to detain the House with many observations. From the moment transportation coased, he had never entertained but one wish respecting it, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WHEN the hew Constitution Bill arrives in this colony what an extraordinary incongruity will be presented by the city of Sydney! -- We shall then see in this city a Legislative Council, exercising for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A MEETING of the City Council, will be held at the Town Hall, York-street, on Monday next, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. NOTICES OF MOTION…
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