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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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Gentlemen,—As a measure will shortly be submitted to Parliament, with a view to relieve the Muncipal Council of this city from its present financial embarrassment. I take the liberty of laying before you, as briefly as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The COLONIAL SECRETARY aid on the table copies of correspondence on the steam postal service. Ordered to be printed. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL BILL OF 1860…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—In the Herald of the 24th instant, under the above heading, Mr. Forster is made to say (in his address in the Legislative Assembly) that the encroachment he referred to was an admitted encroachment, but he did not favour the House with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE PRESIDENT took the chair at twenty-five minutes past four, Mr. EAGAR gave notice of a continent motion for an amendment in committee, of one of the clause of the Church of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE PRESIDENT took his seat at a quarter-past four o'clock. CHURCH OF ENGLAND SYNOD BILL Mr. EAGAR gave notice of a contingent motion for an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—Four men and six women pleaded guilty to the charge of drunkenness in the streets, and were ordered to pay 10s., or be imprisoned twenty-four hours. Mary Leary, and Mary Roberts, for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THAT in lieu of the duties of Customs now chargeable on sugars and molasses imported into this colony the following duties shall be charged, that is to say— Upon every cwt. of sugars and molasses from and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Colonial Secretary moved the second reading of the Legislative Council Bill of 1860. The main principle of the Bill was, he held, that the Legislative Council should be an elective body; and this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A MEETING of the B[?]lmain Municipal Council was held on Tuesday evening, 23rd instant. Present:—The Chairman, and Messrs. Beattie, Burt, Cameron, Elliott, Evans, Reynolds, and Rountree…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A MEETING of the Municipal Council is to be held at the Town Hail this afternoon (Monday), at three o'clock, for considering the following notices of motion:By Alderman SPEER: That the report of the Finance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE have already urged on our readers the importance of solving correctly that great problem to the study of which we now again invite them. It involves in our opinion little…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE usual fortnightly meeting of the City Council was held in the Town Hall, Wynyard-square, at three o'clock yesterday ofternoon. Present—His Worship the Mayor, and Aldermen Sutton, Caldwell, Caraher, Northwood, Williams, Watson,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT the fortnightly meeting, held on Friday, 26th October, present, the Chairman and a fall Council; the following business was transected— The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE COLONIAL SECRETARY to move for leave to bring in a bill for taking an account of the population in 1861. ORDERS OF THE DAY. Legislative Council Bill of 1860; Resumption of the adjourned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The PRESIDENT took the chair at twenty minutes past four. INTERNAL COMMUNICATION. The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid on the table…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE PRESIDENT took his seat at twenty minutes past four o'clock. PAPERS. The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid upon the table…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Eagar to more the following amendment (in committee of the whole on the Church of England Synods Bill.) Clause 5, line 24. After "Orders" omit remainder of clause. Mr. Want to move,—That there be laid upon the table of this…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A MEETING of the Municipal Council or Balmain was held on Monday evening, the 29th ult. Present—the Chairman, and Messrs. Beattie, Burt, Elliott, Evans, Reynolds, and Rountree. Minutes of previous meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The PRESIDENT took the chair at eleven minutes past 4 o'clock. MINISTERIAL EXPLANATION. Mr. COWPER said he understood it was the…
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