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Sydney · Council & local affairs
237 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 12
The PRESIDENT took the chair at ten minutes past four o'clock. Letters patent, appointing Joseph Docker Esq. to be a member of the Council having been read: he went…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I have read some of the papers contributed by your correspondent Philalethes with pleasure; but he would act more entirely up to the spirit of his assumed name, if he would more strictly investigate facts…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. TOWNS to move, 1. That a select committee be appointed to inquire into and report upon the number of shipwrecks and other disasters to shipping, which have taken place in the immediate vicinity of Moreton Bay and Newcastle, respectively,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The PRESIDENT took the chair at a quarter-past four o'clock. NEW MEMBER.. Letters patent having' been produced appointing JOHN…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE PRESIDENT took the chair at four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. JOHN MACNAMARA having been introduced as a new member, took the oaths and his seat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BELIEVING, that if I were to refer to May's Parliamentary Practice, I should then only quote an authority of no greater weight (with some) than the obsolete advantages of the fictitious…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WEDNESDAY.--In answer to a question from Mr. Johnson whether Captain Mayne was connected with the present Ministry or acted as a member of the government in the Upper House, that gentleman replied in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Excelleney the GovernorGeneral directs it to be notified, that William Colburn Mayne, Esq., has resigned his seat in the Legislative Council of New South Wales.—Yesterday's Gazette…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →His Excellency the Governor-General, with the advice of the Executive Council, has appointed Edward Gostwyck Cory, Esq., to be Warden of the district Council of Paterson…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It having [?] certified that the vacancies in the District Council of Brisbane Water were not filled up by election, on the first Tuesday in May, in accordance with the terms of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. TOWNS to move, 1. That a select committee be appointed to inquire into and report upon the number of shipwrecks and other disasters to shipping, which have taken place in the immediate vicinity of Moreton Bay and Newcastle, respectively,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. TOWNS to move—1. That a select committee be appointed to inquire into and report upon the number of shipwrecks, and other disasters to shipping, which have taken place in the immediate vicinity of Moreton Bay and Newcastle, respectively…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The PRESIDENT took tho chair at a quarter-past four o'clock. RESIGNATION. The PRESIDENT announced to the house that he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE President took the chair at a quarter past 4 o'clock, when he announced to the House that he had received a communication from his Excellency the Governor-General, to the effect that William Colburn…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WEDNESDAY.--The President announced the resignation of William Colburn Mayne, Esq. This gentleman's tenure of office was more than usually brief. One could scarcely think that so gallant a man would have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the present state of the Australian colonies, no subjects (education excepted) are deserving of more immediate and more earnest attention, than those which, having reference to the various matters connected with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR WILLIAM THOMAS DENISON, Knight, Governor-General in and over all her Majesty's Colonies of New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, and Western…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →His Excellency the Governor-General has, with the advice of the Executive Council, in Her Majesty's name, summoned the following Gentlemen to the first Legislative Council of New South…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It was gravely proposed by somebody in Germany, that an assembly should be convened of Jews and Christiana, to see whether they could not compose their religious differences. The idea was startling;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. TOWNS to move:—1. That a select committee be appointed to enquire into and report upon the number of shipwreeks and other disasters to shipping, which have taken place in the immediate vicinity of Moreton May and Newcastle,…
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