Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Council & local affairs, all years

Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1850

301 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 16

The Approaching Municipal Election

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 17 October 1850 · page 6

AFTER an existence of nearly eight years, during which it has been presided over by eight different gentlemen, who, whatever might be the standard of their ability, have…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

The City Council Election

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 19 October 1850 · page 8

THE time for the annual election of City Councillors is fast drawing near, one short week more and the day of election will be here. We again therefore exhort our fellow citizens to be no longer…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

City Council. 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, By Councillor JOSPEHSON—

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 October 1850 · page 6

1. That it having been reported by the Town Clerk to this Council, that certain papers and documents have been at various times abstracted from his office, and particularly the…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 October 1850 · page 2

PRESENT: the Mayor, Aldermen Thurlow, Broughton, and Egan; Councillors Peden, Thomas, Moore, Paton, Lingard, Driver, Josephson, Ryan, Thornton, Smidraore, Neale,…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

City Council

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 24 October 1850 · page 10

Present: the Mayor, Aldermen Thurlow, Broughton, and Egan; Councillors Peden, Thomas, Moore, Paton, Lingard, Driver, Josephson, Ryan, Thornton, Smidmore, Neale, Macdonald, Moffitt, Roberts,…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

The Town Hall and the Mayor's Salary. (To the Editors of the Freeman's Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 24 October 1850 · page 9

GENTLEMEN,—Within the past week a plan for the erection of a Town Hall has been propounded and canvassed to some extent,—several intelligent citizens considering it practical and desirable have…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →

The New Municipal Acts

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 24 October 1850 · page 6

WE regret that we are unable entirely to fulfil the promise we made in our last issue, to examine in our present number the provisions of the two Municipal Acts passed…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

City Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 26 October 1850 · page 6

PRESENT -- The Mayor; Aldermen Thurlow, Broughton, and Egan; Councillors Peden, Thomas, Moore, Paton, Lingard, Driver, Josephson, Ryan, Thornton, Smidmore, Neale, M'Donald, Moffitt, Roberts, Board, Little, May, and Wilkie…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

The City Council Election

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 26 October 1850 · page 8

AT length we think we may fairly conclude that the Citizens have awakened to a sense of their duty with respect to the election of City Councillors. During the past week several public meetings of…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Legislative Council. (From a Supplement to the Government Gazette.) PROCLAMATION

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 October 1850 · page 2

By His Excellency Sir Charles Augustus Fitz Roy, Knight Companion of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Territory of New…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Legislative Council. (From a Supplement to the Government Gazette.) Proclamation

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 2 November 1850 · page 3

By His Excellency Sir Charles Augustus Fitz Roy, Knight Companion of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Territory of New South Wales and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The Municipal Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 November 1850 · page 4

YESTERDAY being the day appointed under the now Act for the nomination of city councillors, at noon the Mayor presided at a meeting held in the front of the Town Hall, to carry out the…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Municipal Election

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 2 November 1850 · page 2

The first nomination of candidates to fill the places of the retiring members of the City Council, came off yesterday at the Town Hall. A large number of persona assembled on the occasion, and the whole proceedings were conducted in the most or[?]erly manner. At twelve o'clock, the Mayor said that this was…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

THE Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday, November 5, 1850. "Sworn to no Matter, of no Seat am I." Domestic Intelligence. Municipal Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 November 1850 · page 2

THE Municipal Election yesterday passed off very quietly. With so many candidates it is difficult at present to estimate the number of persons who actually voted, but it appears probable…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Municipal Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 November 1850 · page 2

THE declaration of the result of the poll for the Municipal Election, was made yesterday, at the Town Hall, in York-street, by the Mayor…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

City Council. a Quarterly Meeting of the City Council will be holden at the Town Hall, To-morrow, at twelve o'olock noon. Notices of Motion. By Alderman EGAN—

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 November 1850 · page 2

1. That the Report of the Special Committee appointed by the Council on 27th March last, received by the Council on the 21st October, to enquire into and report to the Council for…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Who Is to Be the Mayor?

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 9 November 1850 · page 2

WHEREVER we go this appears to be the universal question, but we have as yet met with nothing like a satisfactory answer to it. We do not pretend to say that we can answer it, but at all events it is a…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The City Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 9 November 1850 · page 8

WE cannot at all agree with our daily contemporary in his remarks of Wednesday, that the first election under the new Municipal Act has been "productive of little or no practical improvements;" and we…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Municipal Election

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 9 November 1850 · page 4

On Monday last, the first election trader the new Act, for the office of City Councillors, came off in the different Wards of the City. Of the retiring candidates only one ventured to appeal to the citizens for their support, and the return shows his confidence…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

City Council. Saturday.—(quarterly Meeting.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 November 1850 · page 2

PRESENT: The Mayor; Aldermen Broughton, Egan, Thurlow, Brown, and Allen; Councillors Moore, Williams, Flood, Macdonald, Thornton, Jenkins, Lingard, Driver, Weekes,…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →