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Council & local affairs, 1858

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Parliament of New South Wales. Legislative Council. Wednesday, June 30

Empire · Thursday 1 July 1858 · page 4
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The PRESIDENT took the chair at half-past four o'clock. MEMBER SWORN. The honorable William Pitt Faithfull took the oaths…

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Legislative Council. Business Proceedings This Day. Government Business—notices of Motion

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 July 1858 · page 5

The SOLICITON GENERAL to move for leave to bring in —1. A bill for regulation common lodging houses. 2. A bill for amending the law relative to larceny by carriers and other bailees. GOVERNMENT BUSINESS—ORDERS OF THE DAY…

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Parliament of New South Wales. Legislative Council. Thursday, July 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 July 1858 · page 2
Also in Empire

THE PRESIDENT took the chair at fifteen minutes past four o'clock. COMMON LODGING-HOUSES. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved for leave to…

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Parliament of New South Wales. Legislative Council. Wednesday, June 30th

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 July 1858 · page 2

The President announced that the Royal assent had been Riven tn the Hard Labour Bill and the Titles to Land Bill. Mr. Lutwyche gave notice of his intention to move…

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Parliament of New South Wales. Legislative Council. Fiday, July 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 July 1858 · page 4

THE PRESIDENT took the chair at twenty minutes past four o'clock. PAPERS The SOLICITOR-GENERAL laid on the table the…

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Abliament of New South Wales. Legislative Council. Fridauy July 2

Empire · Saturday 3 July 1858 · page 2

The PRESIDENT took the chair at twenty minutes past four o'clock PAPER. Mr LUTWYCHE laid upon the table, by command…

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Municipal Council

Empire · Monday 5 July 1858 · page 4
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

A meeting of the Municipal Council will be held this afternoon at the Town Hall, at 3 o'clock. The following is the business paper:- By Alderman THORNTON—That the report of the…

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Municipal Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 July 1858 · page 5

THE City Council met yesterday, at 3 p.m. Present—the Right Worshipful the Mayor, and eleven Aldermen. MINUTES. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read,…

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Municipal Council. Monday, June 5Th, 1858

Empire · Tuesday 6 July 1858 · page 5

A meeting of the Municipal Council was held yesterday, at the Town Hall, King-street, at 3 p.m. There were present the Mayor and 11 Aldermen. The minutes of the last meeting were read and…

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Parliament of New South Wales. Legislative Council. Friday. July 2nd

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 7 July 1858 · page 2

The consideration of the Articles of Food Inspection Bill was proceeded with in a Committee of the whole House. After considerable discussion as to the articles of food which should properly…

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The Constitution. Iii.— the Legislative Council. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 July 1858 · page 5

SIR,—In my letter inserted in your loyal journal of March 11th, 1858, I ventured to assert that no purely democratic constitution has ever yet endured throughout the full period of a century. When Solon propounded…

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Parliament of New South Wales. Legislative Council. Wednesday, July 7

Empire · Thursday 8 July 1858 · page 4
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The PRESIDENT took the chair at fifteen minutes past four o'clock. DEATH OF THE VENERABLE DR. COWPER. Mr. LUTWYCHE said: I rise, Mr. President, for the…

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State of the Streets. Melancholy Fate of an Alderman. [From Our Special Reporter.] South Head Road, Thursday, 2.30 p.m

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 July 1858 · page 5

SOME indistinet, rumours having reached me shortly after sending you my last report, to the effect that the Mayor and several of the aldermen had been smothered in one of the yawning gulfs with which the South…

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Parliament of New South Wales. Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 July 1858 · page 8

On Wednesday, 16th June, the motion, of which Mr. DEAS THOMSON had given notice, for the adoption of the report of the select committee, ia reference to petitions against Judges and other officers of the…

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Grand Masonic Banquet to the Mayor of Melbourne. (Melbourne Argus, July 7.)

Empire · Tuesday 13 July 1858 · page 5

Last evening the free and accepted Masons of Melbourne, entertained John Thomas Smith, Esq., M.[?]A., the Right Worshipful Mayor of Melbourne, and the Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master for Victoria,…

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Legislative Council. Business Proceedings This Day. Government Business.—notice of Motion

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 July 1858 · page 5

THE SOLITITOR-GENERAL to move, That the order of the day for the further consideration in committee of the Fraudulent Trustees' [?]nd Bankers' Better Punishment Bill be discharged from the paper…

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