City Council Committee Meeting
Evening News · Friday 18 July 1879 · page 2
At a committee meeting of the council, held yesterday afternoon, there were present the mayor and aldermen Harris, Withers, Merriman, Green, Palmer, Chapman, Maze, M'Elhone, Kippax, Young, and…
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The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 July 1879 · page 3
The PRESIDENT took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. ISLANDERS' SHIPPING ENGAGEMENT BILL. The PRESIDENT read a message from the Governor,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New South Wales Parliament. Legislative Council. Thursday, July 17
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 July 1879 · page 2
The PRESIDENT took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. MESSAGE. The PRESIDENT announced that he had received a message from the Lieutenaut-Governor intimating that he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Breaches of the Municipal By-Laws
Evening News · Friday 18 July 1879 · page 2
As is customary on Friday, Inspector Seymour, at the Water Police Court to-day, proceeded against a number of ratepayers for not strictly complying with the provisions of the corporation sanitary and other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Municipal Council
The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 19 July 1879 · page 4
Wednesday last was the ordinary meeting of the Municipal Council, but there being only four aldermen present, the meeting lapsed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Richmond. Municipal Council
The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 19 July 1879 · page 4
THE usual mooting of tho above body was held on Wednesday last, 9th instant, in the temporary Chamber of the Council, West Market-street. Present: The Mayor, and Aldermen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Liverpool. Municipal Council. July 13
The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 19 July 1879 · page 4
PRESENT : The Mayor, Aldermen Whiteford, Pearce, Ashcroft, Wilson, Marsden, and Bull. Minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Parramatta Borough Council
The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 19 July 1879 · page 8
THE regular fortnightly meeting of the Parramatta Borough Council Was hold in the Council Chambers on Monday afternoon. Present: The Mayor, Aldermen Smith, Young, Cox,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Parliamentary Summary. Council
The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 19 July 1879 · page 3
THURSDAY, JULY 10.—The W[?] Council Chambers Resumption Bill and the Duty on Gold Abolition Bill passed their [?] singes, and were returned to the Assembly without…
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Sydney Punch · Saturday 19 July 1879 · page 5
SIR HENRY PARKES (entering the Council Chambers with a company of "painted soldiers"): "GENTLEMEN ER, OF EE, THE HUPPEE 'OUSE, YOUR 'IRRESPONSIBLE HOSTILITY' 'AS BEEN TOO MUCH. YOU ARE DISOLYED!"…
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Sydney Punch · Saturday 19 July 1879 · page 3
So, because the members of the Upper House have proved themselves the real friends of the people, Sir Henry Parkes raises the cry of " down with the Council." In a fit of bad temper, and irritated that his pet Gagging Bill and the Land Bill have most wisely been…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 July 1879 · page 13
THE usual fortnightly meeting of the Trades and Labour Council was held on Thursday, July 10, at the Hyde Park Hotel, Bathurst and Castlereagh streets. The president of the council (Mr. W. J…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Great Trade done in Poultry and Eggs in France. the Opinions of Alderman Mechi
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 July 1879 · page 94
France is pre-eminently the country for the production of poultry and eggs, her trade in this branch of farming alone amounting to the enormous sum of £15,000,000 annually. Farmers both great and small engage in it…
Continued on Trove, page 94 →Down with the Council. [Vide CARTOON.)
Sydney Punch · Saturday 19 July 1879 · page 1
RUSSIA has Gortchakoff, Germany Bissy, Victoria has Berry, And England has Dizzy;…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Report of the Council of Education
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 July 1879 · page 13
PRESSURE of other leading and impotant matter prevented an earlier notice of this very remarkable document. The Report of the Council of Education for…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sir Henry Parke's Motion and the Legislative Council
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 July 1879 · page 18
IN hte Legislative Council, last Wednesday. Mr. Docker moved a series of resolutions as follows:—1. That this Council having observed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Wednesday, July 16. the Premier's Indictment Against the Council
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 July 1879 · page 11
Sir HENRY TARKES rose, and moved the resolutions, of which he had givou notice, against the Legislative Council, as follows:—" 1, That this House, as representing the people of this country, deeply…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mew South Wales Parliament. Legislative Council, Tuesday, July 15
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 July 1879 · page 10
ON Tuesday, when the [?]ouse assembled, the PRESIDENT roported that the Licutcnant-Governor bad assented to the Warat[?] Council Chambers Resumption Bill, and to the abolition of the duty on Gold Bill. In answer to Mr. Holt,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Sydney Mail. Saturday, July 19, 1879. Sir Henry Parkes and the Council
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 July 1879 · page 104
Sir HENRY PARKES has throughout his public career been an opponent of nominecism in the second Chamber, Consistency is not always honest, but honest consistency is to be…
Continued on Trove, page 104 →Resignation Burwood Borough Council. To the Editor
Evening News · Monday 21 July 1879 · page 4
SIR,-As I have gathered from casual conversations that very great misapprehension exists as to the motives which induced the majority of the Borough Council of Burwood to take the very extreme step…
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