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SIR,—In reply to the writer in your paper of to-day, I beg to eay that the sum of £270 10s, charged to South Ward for its proportion of General Expenses, in the printed paper to which he refers, is a typographical error. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MEETING of the Municipal Council of Balmain was held on Monday evening, the 4th inatant. Present:- The Chairman and Messrs. Beattie, Burt, Elliott, Evans, Palmer, and Reynold?. Minutes of previous meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A message was received from the Administrator of Government, intimating that measures had been taken by the Government in reference to the representation of tho colony in the Great Exhibition of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Mo[?] to move the following additional clauses:— 1. If the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly shall each in the some session pass resolution requesting the Governor to appoint say person to be a life member of the Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE PRESIDENT took the chair at twenty minutes past 4 o'clock. MEMBER SWORN. The Honorable Robert Fitzgerald presented himself…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?] PRESIDENT [?] [?] [?] at twenty minutes past four o'clock. MEMBER SWORN. Mr. Robert Fitsgerald was sworn, and rusumed his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE PRESIDENT took [?]s meet at twenty minutes past four o'clock. MEMBER SWORN. Mr. Robert Fitsgerald was awore, and resumed his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WATERLOO.—Tuesday last being the day appointed by the Municipalities Act for the annual election of concillors and [?] in the different municipalities, the poll was opened in the [?] muniipality at nine o'clock in the morning, before Mr. R. J…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—In your issue of this day's Herald, appears a report of a meeting advertised in the early part of last month, calling on the detectors of Redfern to nominate and elect two councillors, &c. The meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →TO THE EDITOR OF THE EMPIRE. SIR,—I hope you will allow space in your columns for a few remarks, on a report that appeared in your journal of the 8th instant, on the re-election of councillors for this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE PRESIDENT took the chair at ten minutes past 7 o'clock. PETITIONS. Mr. DEAS THOMSON moved—"That the petition…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE PRESIDENT took his seat at ten minntes past seven o'clock. PETITIONS AGAINST THE PROPOSED TARIFF. Mr. DEAS THOMSON, in pursuance of notice, moved…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—These are the matters to be settled by our present Legislative Assembly, and seeing that the people have really retnrned the popular men, they should be settled to the people's satisfaction. The tariff, as proposed by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?] usual meeting was held yesterday in the Council[?] Wynyard-squard. Present the Mayor, [?] Willaim, Sution, O[?]ley, Smithers, Spence, [?] Caraher, Steel McKeown, Woods, Duffin,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Wednesday, 23rd January, a message was received from the Administrator of the Government, intimating that he had assumed the Government on the departure of Sir William Denison.—A difficulty arose on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The ATTORNEY-GENERAL to move (upon the second reading of the Duties of Customs Bill of 1861), That so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as will admit of the passing of the Duties of Customs Bill of 1861 through all its remaining stages, in one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT the usual fortnightly meeting held Friday, 15 h February; present, Mr. S. H. Pearce, Mr. S. Hebblewhite, Mr. John Dawson, Mr. George Hooper, Mr. James Pearce, and Mr. C. Kidman, the following business was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT a meeting of the Council held on the 15th instant, present, Messrs. Allen, Blackett, Thornley, Elphinstone, Garrett, and Brown. Mr. G. W. Allen, as Returning-officer at the late…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE PRESIDENT took the chair at twenty-five minutes past 4 o'clock. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. Mr. HARGRAVE laid upon the table of the House a…
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