Parramatta Municipal Council
PARRAMATTA, Tuesday.—Mr. Charles Joseph Byrnes woe elected mayor to-day for the fifth time, He was proposed by Alderman Hugh Taylor, and seconded by Alderman John Trott. There was a…
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Council & local affairs, 1879
1,096 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 55
The Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball
A visit made this morning to the Exhibition Building, in which the mayor is, to-night, going to entertain Sir Hercules and Lady Robinson and the citizens of Sydney, enables us to say that there are promises…
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AT a meeting of the city council yesterday, a motion was brought forward by Alderman Young, "That a special audit be made by a first-class professional accountant of the whole of the city accounts, also to see it they are kept in the best…
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For the convenience of the Suburban Residents attending the MAYOR'S BALL, on the 19th instant, a Special Train will leave Redfern Station at 2.30 a.m. on the morning of the 20th instant, for PARRAMATTA, calling at all intermediate stations…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Parliamentary Notices. Legislative Council.—wednesday, Feb. 19
Sir Alfred Stephen to ask the Vice-President of the Executive Council,—1. When the Government will reply to the letters addressed to the Minister for Lands and Minister for Works respectively, by the Hyde Park Trustees, or their chairman of…
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Vanitas vanstatun[?]. No doubt; but then there are vanities and vanities, and a Fancy Drees Ball such as that which was given by his Worship the Mayor of Sydney (Mr. C. J. Roberts) last night, was such a magnificent and…
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ON Wednesday the PRESIDENT entered the chamber at half-past 4 o'clock, and reported that the Assembly had agreed to the amendments made by the Council in the Primitive Methodist Church Temporalities Bill. In answer to Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deputations. Financial Embarrassment of the City Council
The Mayor of Sydney and several of the city aldermen, with some of the Council's Officers, waited on the Colonial Secretary this morning on a mission of considerable moment to tho city. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →English & Foreign Extracts. Council of Irish Home Rule League
London, January 7.—A council of the men Home Rule League has called a general meeting for the 4th of February, to consider the resolutions of the active section on the policy of the Irish…
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The PRESIDENT took the chair at thirty minutes past 4 o'clock. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Sir JOHN ROBERTSON, in reply to Sir Alfred Stephen,…
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A correspondent sends the following particulars of a scene in Leichhardt on the 18th February. A Frenchman, named Adolphus Bruno, employed by a brickmaker residing in Allen-Street, was a deserter…
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Such a crowding of vehicles never was seen, The Transit Commissioners, filled with chagrin, Rush about with their subs, in the midst of the chaos, Reviling the drivers of many a shay 'oss…
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A special meeting, convened by the Mayor was held on February 17th. Present; The Mayor, and Alderman J. T. [?] Simon, W. Gosper,…
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A MEETING of Council was held on the 18th. Present: The Mayor, and Aldermen Dempsey, Fulton, Beatson, and J. Eva[?]s. Aldermen Long, C. Evans, and T. Smith…
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This, the event of not merely the week, but the year, time off on Wednesday night, and was an unparralleled success. The Herald reports that nothing like it in magnificence has ever been got…
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Yesterday evening about thirty or forty of the gentlemen who had attended the Mayor's fancy dre[?]s ball, met at the Royal Hotel for the purpose of initiating a movement to give his Worship a return…
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The event of the week among the lovers of pleasure has been the Fancy Dress Ball given by the Mayor and Mayoress of Sydney at the Exhibition building on Wednesday evening last. Preparations for the event…
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Sir John Robertson: A Good Templar. Dan O'Connor: Nero. The Mayor: Bacchus. The Mayoress: Ariadne…
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