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Mr. Want to ask the Officer representing the Governmentâ What steps have been taken for the removal of [?]laughter houses from the city, and whether any measures are in contemplation for the prevention of driving cattle through Sydney? Why the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE election of nine councillors and two auditors for the recently erected municipality of the Glebe took place on Monday, and the official declaration of the state of the poll was made from the hustings, at noon,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PRECISELY at 12 o'clock, the Returning Officer, J. Pemell, Esq., M.P., drove up to the hustings, which were erected opposite the University Hotel, at the head of Parramatta-street. After a delay of a few minutes, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the usual weekly meeting of this Council on Tuesday evening, 80th instant, present; the Chairm[?]n and all the Councillors, the following business was transacted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Council met pursuant to adjournment, at 2 o'clock. Dr. DICKSON movedâThat the Council, proceed to Government House; there to present to the Governor General their Address in reply to his Excellency's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE PRESIDENT took the chair, purmant to adjournment, at eleven minutes to 2 p.m. Considerable delay took place, in consequence of the fact that there was not a quorum in attendance. Honorublo…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Questions:- Mr. Want to ask the Officer representing the Government— 1 What steps have been taken for the removal of [?]laughter houses from the city, and whether any measures are in contemplation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A MEETING of the Council was held at the Court-house last evening. Minutes of lest meeting read and confirmed. The MAYOR handed in the report of the Committee of the whole…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →DEAR SIRS—The chivalric spirit that ever prompts you to enter the lists, and break a lance in the cause of beauty. induces me to solicit permission to enquire through your invaluable columns (none but yours are open for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At a quarter to twelve, the Hon. the President, Sir W. W. Burton, took hip seat, and there was a full attendance of members. At about a quarter-past twelve, the discharge of artillery and the sound…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE nomination of Councillors and Auditors for this municipality took place yesterday, at a hustings erected for the purpose on the ground between the Waterloo Estate and Redfern. About three hundred…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE nomination of candidates for the office of Councillors and Auditors for the Redfern Municipality, took place yesterday, on a green adjoining the Waterloo Estate. Mr. E. J. Hawksley officiated as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An adjourned public meeting of the inhabitants of this district to consider the application of the Municipal Act was held yesterday evening in Mr. Birch's Hotel. The room was inconveniently crowded, and from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE PRESIDENT took the chair at 30 minutes past 4 o'clock. MINISTERIAL. Dr. DICKSON said: I rise to move that this House…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE PRESIDENT took his seat at half-past seven o'clock. SWEARING IN MEMBERS. Mr. BOURN RUSSELL, and, at a later period, Mr. R. FITZGERALD, took the oaths and their seats as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the usual weekly meeting of this Council, on Tuesday, 6th instant, present, the Chairman and all the Councillors, the following business was transacted:- The minutes of the preceding meeting having been road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MEETING of the Municipal Council will be held at the Town Hall, on Monday (this day), at three p.m., for considering the following notices of motion:— By Alderman THURGLOW: That the Report of the Finance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE usual fortnightly meeting of the City Council was held in the Town Hall, King-street, yesterday afternoon. Present; the Mayor, and Aldermen Sutherland, Broughton, Speer, Williams, Neale, Oatley, Northwood, Murphy, Spence, Button, Thurlow,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →YESTERDAY, a meeting of the City Connell was held in the Town Hall, the Mayor in the chair, The business was chiefly of a routine character. A petition relative to a culvert in the neighbourhood…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →To his Excellency Sir William Thomas Denison, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor-General in and over all her Majesty's colonies of New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, and Western…
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