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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1858

489 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 25

Municipal Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 February 1858 · page 5

A MEETING of the City Council took place yesterday, at 3 o'clock p.m. Present: The Mayor, and ten aldermen. MINUTES AND REPORTS…

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Municipal Council. Monday, February 1, 1858 Report of Finance Committee

Empire · Tuesday 2 February 1858 · page 3

Alderman THOROTON moved—"That the report of the Finance Committee, received this day, recommending the payment of sundyy accounts, be adopted." Alderman THURLOW seconded the motion, which was…

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Aquatics Yacht Race for the Mayor's Cup

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 6 February 1858 · page 2

This event came off on Saturday last, and created much interest. In addition to the handsome silver cup presented by the Right Worshipful the Mayor a Sweepstakes of £5 5s was added, and the following six first class…

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Central Police Court. Thursday. Before the Right Worshipful the Mayor, Mr. Allen, Captain Scott, Mr. Wilson, and Mr. M'Arthur

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 February 1858 · page 5

Fifteen drunkards were fined 10s. each, with the usual alternative; another was fined 20s. or to be imprisoned for forty-eight hours; and three, who also indulged in obscene language, were severally sentenced…

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Municipal Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 February 1858 · page 5

THE City Council met at 3 p.m. yesterday. Present, the Right Worshipful tho Mayor and ten aldermen. MINUTES AND REPORTS. The minutes of tho previous meeting were read and confirmed,…

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Municipal Council. Monday, February 15, 1858

Empire · Tuesday 16 February 1858 · page 6

The Connell met pursuant to adjournment at three o'clock p.m. MINUTES. The minutes of the last meeting were read and…

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Legislative Council and Assembly. (From Yesterday's Supplementary Gazette.) PROCLAMATION

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 February 1858 · page 5

BY his Excellency Sir William Thomas Denison, Knight Commander of the most honorable Order of the Bath, Governor-General in and over all her Majesty's colonies of New South Wales,…

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The Legislative Council

Empire · Friday 26 February 1858 · page 4

Various rumours have been current for some days past as to intended appointments to the Legislative Council; and from inquiries we have made we believe the Government have it in contemplation to fill several…

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Central Police Court. Thursday. Before the Mayor, Mr. Forbes, and Mr. M[?]Arthur

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1858 · page 4

Fifteen persons were convicted of having been found drunk in the street: one, on the occasion of the fifth conviction within a month, was sent to Darlinghurst for three months; and the rest were fined in the usual…

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Central Police Court.—thursday, Feb. 25. (Before the Mayor, the Police Magistrate, and A. Macarthur, Esq.)

Empire · Friday 26 February 1858 · page 6

DRUNKENNESS.—Fifteen individuals were brought up this morning on the charge of drunkenness. Being severally, convicted of the offence, they were ordered to pay the usual fine, or, in default, to be imprisoned for…

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Municipal Council

Empire · Monday 1 March 1858 · page 4
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

A Meeting of the Municipal Council will be held this afternoon, at 3 o'clock, at the Town Hall. The following is the business paper:- NOTICES OF MOTION…

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Municipal Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 March 1858 · page 4

THE City Council met yesterday, at three o'clock p.m. Present—the Mayor and thirteen Aldermen. MINUTES AND REPORT. The minutes of the previous meeting, having been…

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Municipal Council. Monday, March 1, 1858

Empire · Tuesday 2 March 1858 · page 5

A meeting of the Municipal Council took place yesterday, at the Town-hall. The Mayor took the chair at 3 o'olook. MINUTES, REPORTS, &c…

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The New Additions to the Legislative Council. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Tuesday 2 March 1858 · page 2

SIR—In an article of malignant invective which appears in the loading columns in last Saturday's issue of your contemporary the Herald, he says, that he also (that is, as well as the EMPIRE) has heard rumours respecting…

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Quarterly Report on Lodging-houses. Office of Health Department, Town Hall, Sydney, February 10, 1858. to the Right Worshipful the Mayor:—

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 March 1858 · page 2

Sir,—In my first Quarterly Report presented to the Municipal Council, on the 9th September, 1857, I adverted to the necessity, in a sanitary point of view, of some measure for the regulation of common…

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The Defence of Lucknow. (From the Overland Bombay Times, December 29.) General Order by the Right Honorable the Governor-general, of India in Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 March 1858 · page 5

FORT WILLIAM, December 12.—The Right Honorable the Governor-General in Council having received last evening the list of casualties in the affair at Chinhut on the 30th of June,…

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Municipal Council

Empire · Tuesday 9 March 1858 · page 4
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The quarterly meering of the Municipal Council will be held to-day, at the Town Hall, at 12 o'clock. The following is the business paper:- NOTICES OF MOTION…

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The Late Appointments of Aldermen Justices

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 March 1858 · page 4

THE following is the correspondence which has transpired between the Mayor and the Premier, relative to the appointment of one-fourth of the aldermanic body to the functions of the magistracy. It will be observed…

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