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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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In the Assembly, on going into Committee on the Harbour Trust Bill, Mr. Berry moved that progress be reported; he maintained that the Railway Construction Bill should be at once introduced. The Opposition talked…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →CAMPEEDOWN.—A meet of Council was held at the Council Chambers on Tuesday, the 17th day of October, 1876, at 7.30 p.m. Present—The Mayor and Aldermen Larkin. M'Grain, Culbert, Thomson, and Maloney. The minutes of the previous meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE regular meeting of the Municipal Council was held in the Council Chambers on Friday, the 10th instant at half-past 7 o’clock p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. G L Garter, one of the candidates for municipal honours in Phillip Ward, has addressed well attended meetings of the electors during the present week, as follows:-On Monday, at Schroders Hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following is explanatory of on item in our Melbourne telegram of Saturday:-On Wednesday evening at Majorca, Mr. John Darby went to Mr. Cox, chemist, for some gout medicine, from which disease he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Of fifty-five persons cha[?]ged with having been found drunk, thirty-six were apprehended during the twenty-four hours ending at 6 o'clock on Sunday morning. Thirty-six were fined, and fifteen were admonished…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Alderman Rowe addressed a well-attended meeting of ratepayers of Bourke Ward last evening, at the Currency Lass Hotel, and had a favourable reception. Mr Samuel E. Lees, who was in the chair, spoke…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PHILLIP WARD.—A public meeting of electors favourable to the return of Mr. Daniel O'Connor for the representation of Phillip Ward, in the City Council, was last evening held at Mr. Larkins's, the Prince of Wales Hotel, Gipps-street…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mayor and Aldermen of the Sydney Municipal Council have got the municipality into a serious difficulty in connection with the Blackwattle Swamp sewer. About twelve months ago, Messrs. Allen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PHILLIP WARD.-Great interest is being taken by the ratepayers in this ward, meetings are being held in all directions every evening. The contest is likely to be a severe and close one. On Monday evening Mr. G. L…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On this matter being mentioned this morning, Mr. Davis, for the defendants, declined to consent to any portion of the order made yesterday (Wednesday). His Honor thereupon dismissed the defendants' application for an extension of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following gentlemen have been appointed by the Primary Judge in Equity as Commissioners to take possession of the real and personal estate of the Municipal Council of Sydney:-John H. Want, Esq…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. YOUNG FOR BOURKS WARD.—A crowded meeting of electors favourable to the return of Mr. John Young to respect Bourke Ward in the City Council, was held last evening, at Mr. Camb's Commercial Hotel,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE regular fortnightly meeting of the Municipal Council of the Borough of Parramatta was held in the Council Chamber, Church-street, on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A SPECIAL meeting of the Liverpool Council was held on Tuesday, November 21st, Present. The Mayor, and the full…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following notice appears in a supplement to to the Government Gazette of Saturday:-"An extraordinary vacancy in the office of Alderman for Phillip Ward haying been occasioned by the death of Stephen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PHILLIP WARD.—On Saturday evening, Mr. Richard M'Coy, one of the candidates for the representa tion of Phillip Ward in the Municipal Council, addressed a meeting of the ratepayers, from a scaffolding in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fifty-one persons were charged with drunkenness— thirty-one having been apprehended before 6 a.m. on Sunday, and twenty in the following twenty-four hours. Thirty-two were fined, and nineteen were admonished…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →PHILLIP WARD.-MR. D. O'CONNOR'S MEETING.-Mr. O'Connor, pursuant to advertisement, addressed the electors of this ward from Mr. Corbet's Hotel, Parramatta-street, last evening. The Mayor of Redfern, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A largely-attended meeting was held at Adrain's Pavilion, Ivanhoe Park, on Monday evening, for the purpose of selecting a fit and proper person to be recommended to the Government, as returning-officer…
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