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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1851

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City Council

Empire · Monday 6 October 1851 · page 4

A meeting of the City Council will be held at the Town Hall This Day, at three o'clock in the afternoon. NOTICES OF MOTION…

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Victoria. the Melbourne League Council. (From the Argus, September 25.)

Empire · Monday 6 October 1851 · page 4

A meeting of this body was held yesterday, at which there were present Dr. Thomson, Mayor of Geelong (chairman), the Right Worshipful the Mayor, Messrs. Annand, Bell, Hood,…

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The Election of the City Council

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 October 1851 · page 8

Scarcely had the din of arms, ceased on the General Electioneering battle-field, than the bugle sounded to fall in for another and a closer conflict on the City ramparts. The…

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The Revocation of the Order in Council

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 October 1851 · page 9

We publish Sir Charles Fitz Roy's despatch, accompanyinying the Message of the Legieiative Council on the subject of Transportation, and also Lord Grey's promise that the Order in Council…

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"In Necessariis Unitas, in Dubiis Libertas, in Omnibus Charitas." the Order in Council and the Governor's Despatch

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 October 1851 · page 7

Thanks to the united and determined stand made by the people of Now South Wales, headed by the Anti-Transportation Association, the last semblance of a "pretext…

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Police Office.—thursday. (Before the Police Magistrate and Alderman Egan.)

Empire · Friday 10 October 1851 · page 2

HER MAJESTY'S HAT AND COAT.—Shawneen O'Rafferty was charged by Constable Doyle, of the Maitland Police, with wilfully and maliciously cutting and destroying a uniform hat and coat,…

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The New Legislative Council

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 11 October 1851 · page 3

On Tuesday next his Excellency the GovernorGeneral, in person, will open the first Council under the New Constitution, after which the members will proceed to eleet their Speaker,…

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Legislative Council (From Yesteray's Government Gazette.) Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, loth October, 1851

Empire · Saturday 11 October 1851 · page 3

His Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified, for general information, that Writs nave been returned to his Excellency, certifying the Return of the undermentioned…

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Police Office—saturday. (Before the Police Magistrate and Alderman Allen.)

Empire · Monday 13 October 1851 · page 3

MATRIMONIAL SQUAIUILES.—William Simmons, a diminutive tailor, rosiding in York-street, was summoned by his bigger, if not botter-half, Ann, for threatening and putting her in bodily fear of…

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English Extracts. Great Fire Near London-bridge. Destruction of Alderman Humphrey's Warehouses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 October 1851 · page 3

THE scene of the conflagration on Monday was on the north side of Montague-close, the thoroughfare running in a line with Tooleystreet, and passing under London-bridge. The…

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City Council

Empire · Tuesday 14 October 1851 · page 2

The Council met yeaterday at the Town Hall, at three o'clock, the Right Worshipful the Mayor in the chair, The minutes of the previous meeting having…

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City Council.—monday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 October 1851 · page 2

PRESENT;—The Mayor, Aldermen Allen, Broughton, Fisher and Egan; Councillors Ryan, Peden, Josephson, Tierney, Lenehan, Driver, Peek, Thornton, Williams, Weekes,…

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The Legislative Council

Empire · Tuesday 14 October 1851 · page 2

HIS Excellency tho Governor—General will open the new Legislative Council in the chamber, in Macquarie-street, this day, at 12 o'clock. A list of tho non-elective…

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Police Office—monday. (Before his Worship the Mayor, and the Police Magistrate.)

Empire · Tuesday 14 October 1851 · page 3

BREACH OF THE PEACE.—John Newsham, of Five Dock, was ordered to enter into recogmozances for six months, for threatening to shoot Charles Aberombie, on the 30th of last month,…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 October 1851 · page 2

I, Sir Charles Augustus Fitz Roy, the Governor- General and Commander-in-Chief aforesaid, do hereby proclaim that, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested,…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday, October 14, 1851. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." the Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 October 1851 · page 2

THE new Legislative Council assembles to-day. After the members are sworn in, which will be done by commission, the House…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 October 1851 · page 2

REPORT of the Board of Health, appointed by the Council on the 8th of January, 1851, for the purpose of carrying into effect the sanitary clauses of the Corporation Act, 14…

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Legislative Council

Empire · Wednesday 15 October 1851 · page 2

Yesterday being the day appointed by the proclamation of his Excellency the GovernorGeneral for the meeting of the Legislative Council, a large number of the members assembled in…

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Police Office.—tuesday. (Before the Police Magistrate and Alderman Egan.)

Empire · Wednesday 15 October 1851 · page 2

ASSAULTING THE POLICE.—George Evans was charged by Constable M'Clusky, with assaulting him in the excaution of his duty. The constable deposed that he was on duty in Clarence-street,…

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Victoria. Legislative Council of Victoria

Empire · Wednesday 15 October 1851 · page 3

The following are the representative members elected to the first Legislative Council of the now colony of Victoria. It will be seen that only one (Mr. Westgarth) of the old members of the…

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