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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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SIR,—In commenting on the above in your issue of Saturday last, your correspondent has not, I think, put the matter fairly. He states that "the rate-payore, have again, by their…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →At a meeting of the Municipal Council of Sydney held this forenoon at the Town Hall—present the right worshipful the Mayor of Sydney (James Merriman, Esq., J.P.) in the chair, Aldermen Young…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?] usual fortnightly meeting of the Sydney Municipal [?]ouncil took place yesterday morning at the Town Hall, [?]hen there were present the Mayor (Mr. James M[?]riman), [?] the chair, and the following Aldermen: Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The fancy dress ball given on Tuesday evening by the Mayor of Melbourne was a brilliant success. By a quarter to 9 (says the AGE) there could not have been less then from 800 to 1980 guests in the large…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have pleasure in giving in this issue to our Presbyterian readers the first part of the report of the proceedings of one of the most interesting of all the religious…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The long-looked for day arrived (July 3rd) when the Representatives of the great and widespread family of Presbyterianism met in the historic Church of St. Giles, Edinburgh, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE fancy dress ball given on Tuesday eveuing by the Mayor of Melbourne was a brilliant success. By a quarter to 9 (says the AGE) there could not have been less than from 800 to 1000 guests in the large…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →[We continue our report of the proceedings of the Presbyterian Council held at Edinburgh, July 3rd, 1877.] (The paper of Professor Kraft, of Bonn, read…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE usual quarterly meeting of the Municipal Council took place at the Towm Hall, yesterday morning, when the Mayor (Mr. Morriman) occupied the chair. The following aldermen were present:—Messrs. Towler, Oatley, Kippax,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR.—There is nothing so injurious to health as decomposing vegetable and animal matter, and yet our Borough Council have went a certain of the money [?] to them in conveying to their homes the seeds of disease and death…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A QUARTERLY meeting of the Municipal Council of Sydney was holden at the Townhall at noon on Monday. Present— The Right Worshipful the Mayor (James Merriman, Esq., J.P.). Aldermen Kippax, Playfair, Macintosh. Young…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last eight the Legislative Council struck out the direct railway line to Oakleigh, and submitted a line from Oakleigh to Hawthorn, with running powers over the Hobson's Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The height of impudence has been daringly sealed by the Civic representatives of Inverell. The TIMES says: " We regret to say the Council have had the impudence to dispose of the people's piano. For…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The usual weekly committee meeting of the City Council was held in the Town Hall yesterday afternoon, when there were present— The Mayor, and Aldermen Chapman, Oatley, Macintoeh, Moore…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The motion of Mr. Taylor Innes, advocate, mentioned and given in our issue before last, was seconded by Principal Tulloch, St. Andrews. "This question; he said, was so grave, and of so…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE quarterly meeting of the Sydney Municipal Council was held last Monday, after which the aldermen and the civic officials were entertained at a dinner given by the…
Continued on Trove, page 336 →On the 10th July the first Pan-Presbyterian Council concluded its proceedings, and was dissolved. This Council met on the 3rd July, when service was held in St. Giles's Church, Edinburgh, and a sermon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Charles Campbell to move.—1. That in the opinion of this House, the oninion given by the Attorney-General on the meaning of the 31st clause of the Lands Acts Amendment Act 1875 [?]as set forth in the papers on that subject laid before the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Will you kindly give a place in your paper to the accompanying letters. The one is from the Hon. J. Frazer, M.L.C., of this city; and the other is from the Rev. A. N. Mackray M. A., late of Ashfield, New South Wales, now…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Perhaps at no Place more than at Manly are the advantages of municipal government to be seen, and the wonder is that a number of persons in these times of enlightenment can be found to resist such an…
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