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Sydney · Council & local affairs
489 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 25
Question:- Mr. [?] to ask the Honorable the Attorney-General,—The nature and amount of the business at Moreton Bay which has caused tho departure of Mr. Justice Milford from Sydney, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Tuesday night a public meeting was convened by advertisement, at St. John's Tavern, O'Connelltown, with a view to the adoption of some steps conducive to the incorporation of the hamlets of Newtown,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE PRESIDENT took his seat at eighteen minutes past four o'clock. SUPREME COURT. Mr. BLAKE gave notice of his intention to move,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. BLAKE to move, That an address be presented to the Gover. nor-General, praying that his Excellency will be pleased to ca[?] to be laid upon the table of this House, copies of all correspondence, if any, which may have taken place since the month of August…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I beg to say, in reply to an advertisement in this day's Herald, signed "Beta," that as I never heard of the petition from the Strathean Corner, my letter could not cast any reflections on the meritorious…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Leave of absence was granted to Mr. Deas Thomson, C.B., for the remainder of the session. The Attorney-General announced that the office of Solicitor-General had been conferred on Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE PRESIDENT took his seat at twenty minutes past four SIR ALFRED STEPHEN. The PRESIDENT communicated to the House that he had received from the Private Secretary to the Governor-General, an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A FEW mornings ago a slight paragraph from the Court Newsman, amongat the items of court and official intelligence, informed the public of London that the Mayor of Melbourne had had an interview the day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE great fact in the history of the month, as it will hereafter become one of the most memorable facts in the history of the world, is the decease of the East India Company. It is impossible to regard the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A PUBLIC MEETING of the inhabitants of Windsor, called by advertisement, took place within the Courthouse, on Thursday evening last, the 18th instant, for the purpose of taking into consideration the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE City Council met at three p.m. yesterday. Present—the Right Worshipful the Mayor aad twelve aldermen. The minutes of the last meeting were read and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Municipalities Act which has just come into operation seems to have produced no little excitement in the suburbs; every one of them seems just now to be enjoying its own little hurricane in a teapot…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The "President announced the resignation of his sent in the House hy Sir Alfred Stephen. Mr Blake, in pursuance of notice, moved for an address to the Governor-General, praying for copies…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—There is a great difference between ancient and modern municipalities. Ancient municipalities were virt[?]ally independent tributary republics. In London, the Lord Mayor was the elected sovereign for the year,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Chairman of Committees took the President's Chair at half-past four o'clock. THE PRESIDENT LEAVE OF ABSENCE. The CHAIRMAN intimated to the House that he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE PRESIDENT took his seat at twenty-three minutes past four o'clock. SWEARING-IN OF MEMBERS. The PRESIDENT administered the oaths to Robert…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A PUBLIC meeting of the in habitants of the hamlets of Redfern, Chippendale, the water[?] Estate, and other [?] convened by advertisement, was held on Wednesday evening, at Mr. Callaghan's Foresters' Hall Hotel, Turner-street, Redforn, at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—R[?]ent noisy and [?] meeting at Windsor and elsewhere, on the question of adoping municipal institutions, indicate the necessity of committees of enquiry being formed in those places for the purpose…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This brilliant affair name off in the Prince of Wales Theatre on Tuesday evening with Immense [?]. The theatre was most gorgeously and appropriately decorated; the music of the first class;.and the attendance fashionablu…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE PRESIDENT entered the Council Chamber a few minute, before 12 o'clock. At ten minutes past 12 o'clock the approach of his Excellency was announced by the Usher of the Black…
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