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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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A special meeting of the City Council was held on Monday in the Town Hall, York-street, to receive the Report of the Special Water Committee. The chair was taken at 3 o'clock by the Right Worshipful the Mayor. Present -- Alderman Thurlow:…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir Charles Nicholson, Knight, the Honorable the Speaker of the Legislative Council, directs it to be notified for general information, that, it being established to his satisfaction that one of the seats in the said Council for the Electoral District of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Whereas the Legislative Council of New South Wales now stands prorogued to Tuesday, the 22nd day of March instant, now I, Sir Charles Augustus Fitz Roy, Knight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified, that the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies has intimated in his despatch under date the 5th September…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →VAGRANT CHILDREN.—On Monday, some little girls about twelve years of ago, were brought up by the Police for street-walking. By the kind interference of Mr. M'Lerie, they were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ASSAULT.—Mary Hamilton, of Market-lane, spinster, charge John Jamison, of the same place, shoemaker, with assaulting her by slapping her face and kicking her on the 26th of last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR, -- We, the undersigned, Electors of the City of Sydney, respectfully request that you will allow yourself to be put in nomination to represent us in the Legislative Council, in place on John Lamb. Esq., resigned; and in the event of your consenting to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →By His Excellency Sir Charles Augustus Fitz Roy, Knight Companion of the Royal Hanoverian Guelpbic Order, Governor-General of all Her Australian Possessions, and Captain General and Goveraor-in-Chief of the territory of New South Wales and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE meeting of Council stands further prorogued to the tenth of May, when the members are warned to attend "for despatch of business." Only two months,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CHARGE OF THEFT.—A lad named Samuel Bonen, who was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment at the last Court of Quarter Sessions for stealing money from Dr. Silver, was placed at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Alderman to the feast is gone; Near a loin of veal you'll find him; A napkin ho has girded on, And a waiter stands behind him…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Return to an Address from the Legislative Council of New South Wales, dated the 14th December, 1852, praying that His Excellency the Governor-General will be pleased to cause to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ROBBERY. — A. swellish-looking individual, dressed in a tweed coat, moustnehos, and a broad brimmed black hat, named Townsend Thomas, was brought before the bench by Sergeant Mason…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE DRUNKARDS' LIST.âThere wero no less than thirty-eight persons brought before the Mayor for drunkenness yesterday, besides several incorrigible old women who were placed upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DISCHARGE.—Brown and Farrell, the men who have been remanded from day to day, on the charge of stealing £2 18s. 6d. and a watchguard, from one Mary Ann Robinson, in a cab,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday, the 17th instant, being "St. Patrick's Day in the morning," the business of the Court was gone through in the flash of a shillelagh. The disciples and votaries of Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. J. B. BETTINGTON has resigned his seat as representative of the pastoral district of Wellington and Bligh. Mr. ICELY has resigned his seat as one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →INSANITY.—Jeremiah Hogan was charged by his aged mother with being dangerously insane. Dr. Rutter said that be had conversed with the defendant for half an hour on the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. SPEAKER and Gentlemen of the Legislative Council),—I have called you together at this unusual period of the year for the sole purpose of bringing under your consideration…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The sum of £5000, recently obtained by the Corporation upon debentures, has been borrowed we understand, in order to guarantee a constant supply of water from the…
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