The Dissolution of the Legislative Council
No question can be of such vital and paramount importance to this great colony as the adoption of a good Constitution. And nothing can contribute so much to the future…
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Council & local affairs, 1855
644 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 33
Dissolution of the Legislative Council. -- Public Meeting
On Tuesday last, pursuant to advertisement, a public meeting of the citizens was held in the Victoria Theatre, for the purpose of adopting an address to His Excellency the Governor-General, praying him to dissolve the present Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Writs of Election. Legislative Council Office, Sydney, 3rd February, 1855
Sir Charles Nicholson, Knight, the Honorable the Speaker of the Legislative Council, directs it to he notified, for general information, that, it being established to his satisfaction that the seat in the said Council for the Electoral District of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Writ of Election. (From Yesterday's Government Gazette.) Legislative Council Office, Sydney, 6th February, 1855
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 the seat…
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Yesterday, according to appointment, the deputation from the Public Meeting of last Tuesday waited upon his Excellency the Governor-General, with the address in favour of adissolution of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Legislative Council of Victoria. Wednesday, February 7. the Estimates for 1855
The Colonial Secretary, in accordance with a promise made on a previous day, begged to lay on the table of the House a copy of the estimates of revenue and expenditure, and ways and means…
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The Legislative Council stands further prorogued to the 17th day of April. EXHIBITION OF THE PICTURE OF ADAM AND EVE AT THE ROYAL HOTEL.—Some writers on…
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On Monday last, according to appointment, the deputation from the Public Meeting of Tuesday week, waited upon his Excellency the Governor-General, with the address in favour of a…
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And if he will, he will, you may depend on't, And if he wont, he wont, and there's an end on't. BY no means, facetious scribe of the Sydney Morning Herald: instead of "there being…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Meeting of Parliament. We undestand that the following letter has been addressed to those members of the House of Commons who usually support the Government:— "Council Office, November 28. 1854
"SIR,âThe meeting of Parliam at having been fixed for Tuesday, the 12th of December, on account of urgent public business, I earnestly request your attendance on that day. "I have the honour to be your faithful servant,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victoria. From the Argus of the 23rd we quote the summary of proceedings in the Legislative Council. Also, the first day's sitting of the Supreme Court, in the matter of the State Trials:—
FRIDAY.—Petitions were yesterday presented by Mr. Greeves against the Yarra Pollution Bill, and against the Medical Practitioners Bill. A return of customs seizures, and a return of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victoria. by the Hellespont and Yarra Tarra, we have news from Melbourne down to Saturday last. Underneath we give the usual summary of proceedings in the Legislative Council, with the most [?]portant [?] of miscellaneous news:—
WEDNESDAY, 28TH FED.—The Collector of Customs la'd on the table of the House, certstn returns fur the year 1854. The Surreyor-General, Mr. Wills, Dr. Murphy, and Mr. Snodgrass, brought forward some matters of merely local interest. The Houso…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Municipal Government for Parra Matta—public Meeting
A public meeting was held in the Court House, Parramatta, a Wednesday evening last, for the purpose of receiving the report of a committee appointed on the 3rd January last, at a public…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Municipal Affairs of Auckland, &c. (From the New Zealander, 24th March.)
If the untimely dissolution of the Municipal Corporation, established in 1851 by Governor Grey, were to be taken as a criterion, it might, perhaps, be reasonably inferred that the colonists of Auckland are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Election of a Representative in the Legislative Council for New England
THREE candidates are in the field to fill the seat in the Legislative Council vacated by that profound and luminous legislator, Mr. Marsh. If the choice is to be determined…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Seamen and Soldier's Letters. (Act of Council, 15 Victoria, No. 12.)
Letters sent to or by Seamen and Soldier's employed in Her Majesty's Service come under the following Regulations. 1.—The letters must be superscribed with the name of the writer, his description or class in the vessel or regiment, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Legislative Council. Proclamation
Tuesday's GOVERNMENT GAZETTE contains a proclamation to the following effect:--" Whereas the Legislative Council of New South Wales now stands prorogued to Tuesday, the 17th day of April, instant:…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lyttelton and Its Municipal Affairs —Emigration to the Province
ON the subject of starting a corporation at Lyttelton, the Times of 28th March observes: The Municipal Corporation Bill, which has appeared in our columns, has alarmed many of the Inhabitants of Lyttelton by…
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