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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1870

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Borough Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 May 1870 · page 5

CAMPERDOWN.—A meeting of the Council was held on Tuesday, the 12th day of April. Present—the Mayor (Mr. R. Fowler), and Aldermen Hinds, Barker, Vickers, Culbert, Blakeney, Bennett, Cruikshank, Davison, Larkin, and…

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The Council of the Vatican.—its Preliminaries, and Its Constitution. (Abridged from the Revue des Deux Mondes, March 1, 1870.) Contributed by Edmond or Pressense. (Translated for the Sydney Morning Herald.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 May 1870 · page 3

No. 1.—The General Council and Religious Peace, by M. H. J. C. Maret; Paris, 1869. No. 2, Infallibility and the General Council, by M. de Champs; Paris, 1869. No. 3, Letter of the Bishop of…

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Borough Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 May 1870 · page 3

NEWTOWN.—A meeting of the Council was held on 17th instant. Present—the Mayor (Mr. J. Kingsbury), and Aldermen Bedford, Hobbs, Baily, Cozens, Muara, Curtis, and Conley. The minutes of teh pervious meeting were…

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Bathurst.—railway Terminus, Municipal Council, and Press. (From the Bathurst Free Press, and Mining Journal.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 May 1870 · page 2

ALDERMAN BOYD said the motion standing in his name was one about which there had been some rough talk; but he had still thought it necessary to bring it forward. He considered that the Press had insulted the Council,…

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Borough Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 June 1870 · page 5

GLEBE.—An adjourned meeting of the Council was held in the Council Chamber, at 4.30 p.m., on Monday, 30th ultimo. Present—The Mayor, Aldermen Simpson, Chapman, Thornley, and Reilly. The Council went again into…

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Voting in Municipal Councils

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 June 1870 · page 5

IN yesterday's issue of the Herald there appeared a letter from a correspondent, inquiring whether a mayor could "compel an alderman to vote on every question, whether such alderman were willing or…

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The Council

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 1

The discussion of the Little Catechism was closed in the twenty-ninth General Congregation, and the schema sent back to the Commission appointed to consider the…

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The Roman Council. the Council of the Vatican.—its Preliminaries, and Its Constitution. (Translated from the Revue des Deux Mondes, for the Sydney Morning Herald.)

Sydney Mail · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 8

No 1.—The General Council and Religious Peace, by M. H. J. C. Maret; Paris, 1869. No. 2, Infallibility and the General Council, by M. de Champs; Paris, 1869. No. 3, Letter of the Bishop of…

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Voting in Municipal Councils. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 5

SIR,—I am a member of a Municipal Council, and anxious to discharge my duties as the law directs. My attention was called to an article in the Herald of this morning on the subject of voting, and although I have carefully read it…

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Municipal. Voting in Councils

Sydney Mail · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 2

IN Wednesday's issue of the Herald there appeared a letter from a correspondent, inquiring whether a mayor could "compel an alderman to vote on every question, whether such alderman were willing or…

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Sydney Municipal Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 June 1870 · page 2

A MEETING of the Municipal Council of Sydney will be held at the Town-hall, York-street, this day, the 6th instant, at 3 o'clock, afternoon, for considering the following notices of motion:—…

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Borough Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 June 1870 · page 3

WATERLOO.—A meeting of the Council, convened by order of the Mayor, was held on Wednesday, 26th May, at 7 o'clock p.m. Present—The Mayor (Mr. William Moon), Aldermen Evans, Faulkes, Goldfinch, Peck, Steward,…

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Voting in Municipal Councils. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 June 1870 · page 3

SIR,—I notice in your issue of to-day, under the above heading, an article which proposes to deduce from certain sections of the Municipalities Act of 1867, amongst other things the much-discussed proposition that all aldermen…

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Municipal Council

Empire · Tuesday 7 June 1870 · page 3
Also in Evening News

THE City Council met at the Town Hall, Yorkstreet, yesterday. Present: His worship the mayor in the chair, aldermen Steel, Merriman, Bown, Macintosh, Hordern, Kippax, Day, Murphy, Green,…

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Sydney Municipal Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 June 1870 · page 2

THE usual fortnightly meeting of the Sydney Municipal Council was held yesterday afternoon, at the Town Hall, Wynyard-square. There were present his Worship the Mayor (in the chair), and Aldermen Hordern, Steel,…

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Borough Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 June 1870 · page 3

WOOLLAHRA,—A meeting of the Council was held on the 25th May. Present: the Mayor, and Aldermen Trickett, Nott, Ireland, and Oatley. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and continued; the statement of accounts…

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The Œcumenical Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 June 1870 · page 5

We have little to record touching the [?]cumenical Council, save that it continues to sit, and has been somewhat less fiery of late, antagonists even deigning to compliment each other in able speeches. Something has been…

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Tumultuous Scene at the Ecumenical Council

Evening News · Thursday 9 June 1870 · page 3

WE are informed by way of Augsburg, under date March 26, that an Dr. Strossmayer declaring at a sitting of the Ecumenical Council that a new dogma of faith should not be established without a…

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Proposed Municipality of East Botany—public Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 June 1870 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting of the residents in the vicinity of A[?]ff, Muddy Creek, Rocky Point, and Kogerrah Roads, was held on Tuesday evening, at the Tempe Family Hotel, Cook's River, to consider the…

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