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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1851

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City Council. Tuesday, December 31

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1851 · page 2

PRESENT:—The Mayor, Aldermen Allen, Thurlow, Egan, Broughton, Brown, and Fisher; Councillors Ryan, Macdonald, Peden, Board, Flood, Tierney, Little, Peek, Moore,…

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Ireland. the People in Council

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 2 January 1851 · page 3

Irish agitation has glorified itself so often that it has left no words to describe the events we have witnessed for the last week. That communication which the angry soul…

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City Council, — Financial

Empire · Saturday 4 January 1851 · page 2

THE Report of the Finance Committee on the Corporation affairs, affords grounds both for congratulation and regret. It is a source of satisfaction to know that…

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Address of the Council of Thurles

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1851 · page 5

AT a late hour this evening this much-coveted document was laid before an expectant public, not, however, through the columns of the Tablet or Freeman, but in the form of a…

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City Council. Friday, December 27, 1850

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 4 January 1851 · page 6

The Council met pursuant to adjournment, but as there were not a sufficient number of members present to constitute a Council, the Mayor, at seventeen minutes past three, declared there was no Council, and left the chair, but Councillor Peden arriving a…

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Address of the Council of Thurles. [The following article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald of last Saturday.]

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 January 1851 · page 2

At a late hour this evening this much-coveted document was laid before an expectant public, not, however, through the columns of the Tablet or Freeman, but in the form of a pamphlet under the…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Thursday, January 9, 1851. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Domestic Intelligence. City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 January 1851 · page 2

PRESENT: The Mayor; Aldermen Broughton, Allen, Egan, Fisher, Brown; Councillors Josephson, Williams, Driver, Hill, Ryan, Peden, Board, Tierney, Peek, Wilkie, Flood,…

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Original Correspondence. to Mr. Alderman Thurlow, Technical Mayor of Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1851 · page 2

SIR,—In your address to the Electors of the City of Sydney, published in this day's Morning Herald, you appear to have fallen into a singular error, out of which I (being…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Friday, January 10, 1851. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." the Governor and the Mayor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1851 · page 2

WE presume that the letters contained in Mr. THURLOW'S Address to the Citizens, advertised in our columns of yesterday, form the correspondence…

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City Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 11 January 1851 · page 4

Present: The Mayor; Aldermen Broughton, Allen, Egan, Fisher, Brown; Councillors Josephson, Williams, Driver, Hill, Ryan, Peden, Board, Tierney, Peek, Wilkie, Flood, Weekes, Moore, Thomas, Moffitt…

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Domestic News. City Council

Empire · Saturday 11 January 1851 · page 3

THE Mayor (Mr. Thurlow) took his seat at three o'clock. There was a full attendance of members and a considerable number of visitors, attracted to the meeting by the singular position of the…

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The Liberal Parts' in the Council

Empire · Saturday 11 January 1851 · page 2

WE often hear of the " Liberal Party in the Legislative Council." Some measure will be brought forward, or a certain movement out of doors is countenanced…

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An Hour with the City Council. Wednesday, January 8, 1851

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 11 January 1851 · page 2

PRESENT: The Mayor: Alderman Broughton, Allen, Egan, Fisher, Brown; Councillors Josephson, Williams, Driver, Hill, Ryan, Peden, Board. Tierney, Peek. Wilhie, Flood, Weekes,…

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Ecclesiastical Intelligence. the Synodical Address of the Fathers of the National Council of Thurles to Their Beloved Flock, the Catholics Oe Ireland

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 16 January 1851 · page 2

"Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying : Thus saith the Lord : I have remembered thee pitying thy youth, and the love of thy espousals, when thou followedst me in the desert, in a land…

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City Council. a Meeting of the City Council will be holden at the Town Hall, on Monday next. Notices of Motion

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1851 · page 2

By Alderman BROUGHTON: That this Council do now proceed to open and determine on the tenders for the following works: Clea[?] ing the streets of the City for the years 1851;…

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The Gorham Controversy. Report of the Judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the case of Gorham versus the Bishop of Exeter, March 8, 1850, (Continued from our last,)

Empire · Saturday 18 January 1851 · page 4

Such considerations, even if not strictly applicable to the case in question, yet tend to indicate the inconsistency of reproaching the recent Judgment, or the Church of England, for the very…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1851 · page 2

PRESENT:—The Mayor, Aldermen Broughton, Fisher, Allen, Egan, and Brown; Councillors Peden, Paton, Simmons, Weekes, Moore, Flood, Peek, Thomas, Josephson, Williams,…

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City Council. Monday, 20th January

Empire · Tuesday 21 January 1851 · page 3

AFTER the reading of the Minutes of the last meeting, previous to the Mayor signing it, Mr. Josephson protested against the signing, on the ground that there was no…

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Domestic Intelligence. City Council

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 23 January 1851 · page 9

PRESENT:—The Mayor, Aldermen Broughton, Fisher, Allen, Egan, and Brown; Councillors Peden, Paton, Simmons, Weekes, Moore, Flood, Peek, Thomas, Josephson, Williams, Ryan, Board,…

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[?]tical Intelligence the Synodical Address of the Fathers of the National Council of Thurles to Their Beloved Flock, the Catholics of Ireland. (Continued from our last) Catholic University

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 23 January 1851 · page 2

It is then, in our conviction, quite unnecessary to assure you that everything which concerns your welfare, all that regards the advancement of your interests, whether temporal or eternal, is bound up…

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