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Sydney · Council & local affairs
483 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 25
On Tuesday last the ancient and time-honored ceremony of electing a thorough bred Mayor for this great city, came off at the Mansion House, with the usual pomp and circumstances. Owing to the splendid…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE PRESIDENT took the chair at half past four o'clock p.m. PAPERS. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL laid on the table of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Frederick Britten and George Willison were committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court, on charge of having on the 5th November, stopped and robbed the Western mail, as well as some of the passengers by that conveyance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The President reported that a Message had been received from the Governor-in-chief, stating that his Excellency had given the Royal assent to the following bills:—Lien on Crops Legalising Bill…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE PRESIDENT took the chair at twenty-nine minutes past four. RETURNS. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL laid, upon the table a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By His Excelleney the Right Honorable Sir John Young, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael, and St…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Six drunkards were discharged. Two persons were fined 10s. each, and another 20s., on conviction of having, while drunk, in public places, conducted themselves in a riotous manner…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIRS.—Having heard for a considerable time past of the "doings" of this famous bench of magistrates and their "fantastic tricks before high heaven, I took the opportunity of straying into this famous sancium of justics on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →James Russell and James Edwards were found guilty of having last evening conducted themselves in a riotous [?] ner on the Glebe Rood, and, the police having represented to the Bench that the residente in that vicinity are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE PRESIDENT took the che[?] at twenty-eight minutes past four. REPORT. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL laid upon the table the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Attorney-General laid on the table [?] return relating to the lighthouse on the coast of Australia.—The House went into committee for the consideration of the Coal Fields' Regulation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The ATTORNEY-GENERAL brought up the report of the Select Committee on the Insolvency Law, with the evidence. The document was ordered to be printed, and the second…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The charges to-day (with perhaps, one exception, which, being a family quarrel, was settled between the parties), consisted of breaches of good conduct, arising out of too great devotion to the bottle. A seaman named Abbott, was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE [?] took the chair at twent-six minutes past four o'clock, RETURN. The ATTORNEY. GENERAL laid upon the table a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The ATTORNEY GENERAL laid on the table a return of the lighthouses on the Eastern and Southern coasts of Australia. The document was ordered to be printed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Five persons (four of the five being women) were convicted of having in public places made use of indecent language, and were fined, some 10s., and others 20s, the alternative being imprisonment for terms varying from two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE PRESIDENT took the chair it twenty-seven minutes past four o'clock. QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE. Mr. MITCHELL, as a matter of privilege. alluded to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. MITCHELL desired to bring forward a matter of privilege, arising out of what had occurred in the House on the previous evening, when the Assurance Encouragement Bill was under discussion. He had declared that he had no…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Tuesday 25th November, the ATTORNEY-GENERAL postponed, in deference to the feeling he believed to be entertained by the Council, the consideration of the State-Aid Abolition Hill for another…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Attorney-General brought up the report of the Select Committee on the Insolvency Law. The document was ordered to be printed.—The Coal fields Refutation Bill was read a third time…
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