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Sydney · Council & local affairs
547 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 28
DRUNKARDS.—The drunkards' list contained the names of eleven offenders. With the exception of one incorrigible, who was fined 40[?] the whole were let [?] with a penalty of 5s. each…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THIS all-grasping party raised a cry sometime back in the Council, that all public situations of trust or emolument should be conferred exclusively on the resident or…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE 46th section of the New Constitution Bill enacts that, "the foregoing provisions of this Act shall have no force or effect until" certain Acts of Parliament, which…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →WHEREAS the Legislative Council or New South Wales now stands prorogued to Tuesday, the seventh day of February next, and it is expedient further to prorogue the same: Now, therefore, I, Sir Charles Augustus…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FULFILLING out promise of last week, we come now to the consideration of the "Order in Council" made in pursuance of the 9th find 10th Vic. c. 104…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →BEARING in mind, as we showed in a former article, that by the New Constitution Bili it is intended that all the "privileges and vested and other rights" of the lessees and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →WEDNESDAY, November 9th, was Lord Mayor's day. The usual show was observed, followed by the dinner, at which the Ministers who were in town were present After the customary loyal toasts,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Lord Mayor seems determined to close the period of his official dignity with due eclat. It is an eventful year, for it his witnessed in its course the appointment of a commission to isquire into that transcendent[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Select Committee of the Legislative Council, appointed 10th June, 1853, "to inquire into the Quarantine Laws of the colony, with a view to ascertain whether they can be modified or limited without…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This body met on Monday at their rooms, pursuant to adjournment. Present—the Warden, Messrs. Kingsmill, Wilkinson, Long, Doyle, Cathrow, and Evans…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Catholics are occasionally twitted by their Protestant fellow citizens with what they are pleased to call "works of supererogation," such as fasting, abstinence and the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →IT is an interesting sign of the times, that amidst much of political excitement public attention, during the last few years, has been steadily directed towards questions of social…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN the Times of the 10th of November, there appears the following article on the "vulgar pomp and ceremony" of my Lord Mayor's show. We also copy from the same journal the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday's pageant was distinguished by several attractive features, not the least of which, perhaps, was an exceedingly beautiful day. For once at least it can be stated that on Lord Mayor's day there was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN another part of the paper we have merely referred to the discussion which took place in the Council at Auckland respecting the plurality of offices held by Colonel Wynyard. The matter is so important that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →From the Rev. W. B. Clarke, to the Honorable the Colonial Secretary, on the subject of correspondence between Sir Roderick I. Murchison and the Colonial Minister, relative to anticipations of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Cui bono." is the thought that will press itself upon the attention of any disinterested observer who brings himself to the consideration of the London…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Report of the Committee on the Claims to Original Discovery of the Gold Fields of Victoria. THE Committee appointed to consider the propriety of requesting his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Report on the Geology and Mineralogy of Mount Alexander and the adjacent country lying between the rivers London and Campaspe. The whole of the above district is occupied by four…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE fully agree with one of our correspondents of yesterday, that it is of the utmostimportance that we lose no time here in preparing ourselves for the emergency which may arrive at any moment, and…
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