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MANLY.—The fortnightly meeting of the Council took place at the Municipal Chamber on 1st April. Present—The Mayor (Mr. A. Hilder), Messrs. Aldermen Barker, Hayes, Austin, and Rowe. Minutes of special meeting on the 22nd March read and canfirmed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The usual weekly meeting of the Finance Committee of the City Council was held in the Town Hall, yesterday afternoon; his Worship the Mayor (Mr. R. Fowler) occupied the chair, and Aldermen Merriman, Green, Hardie,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The President took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. PRIVILEGE. Mr. A. CAMPBELL moved the adjournment of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The PRESIDENT took the chair at twenty-eight minutes past 4 o'clock. PRINTING REPORT. Mr. DOCKER brought up the fifteenth report of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALEXANDRIA, (May 19).--Present : The mayor (Alderman Henderson) in the chair, and Aldermen Hiles, Jesson, M'Namee, Osborne, and Madden. Correspondence : From Thomas Bucklaud, asking that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE PRESIDENT took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. Sir JOHN. ROBERTSON laid on the table some documents relative to the distribution of the church and school lands, and explained a variety of circumstances…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Manly.--The regular meeting of Thursday, April 29, lapsed for want of a quorum, owing to the absence of two aldermen from town, and the indisposition of another, and of the Mayor. A…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A deputation, accompanied by Sir George Wigram Allen, Mr. S. C. Brewn, Dr. Bowker, Mr. Terry, and Mr. Hezlett, M.L.A. s, and consisting of a large number of gentlemen representing the various…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,--My particular friend Mr. Penfold is no doubt right in his suggestion that we should recognise the efforts of our present Government in the passing of the New Schools Act by a public demonstration…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The polling for the election of a representative for South Kingston Ward, in the borough of Petersham, to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr. Alderman Kirkpatrick, took place on Saturday last,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →REDFERN (May 21).--Present: The Mayor (Alderman Hudson), in the chair; and Aldermen Young, Wright, O'Connell, Williamson Farr,M'Lachian, and Stanley. The finance committee's report,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Saturday Review states that the Sydney Ministry are wrong in provoking the Legislative Council in a matter in which the Council are clearly right, and that the attempt of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following is the business paper of the Legislative Council for to-day (Tuesday):—Government Business—Orders of the Day: Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Bill; third reading. Church and School Lands Dedication Bill; to be further considered in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MANLY.—The regular meeting of Thursday, 29th April, lapsed, for want of a quorum. A special meeting and call of the Council was held at the Municipal-chamber, Manly, on Tuesday, 14th May. Present—The Mayor (Mr. A. Hilder, Messrs. Aldermen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An important document was laid on the table in the Legislative Council yesterday, by Sir John Robertson, in which the Council of Education on the eve of its dissolution, through the operation of the Public Instruction Act,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The PRESIDENT took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock and reported that the Governor had [?] to the Sydney Corporation Act Am[?]dment Bill of 1879, the Lande Act Amendment Bill, the Me[?] Pressbytery Land Sale…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The President took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. SYDNEY CORPORATION ACT AMENDMENT BILL. The PRESIDENT reported that the Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The PRESIDENT took the chair at twenty-nine minutes past 4 o'clock. MESSAGES FROM THE GOVERNOR. The PRESIDENT read messages from the Governor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BALMAIN (May 25).--Present: The Mayor (Alderman Elkington), in the chair; and Aldermen M'Donald, Schultz, Stew art. Gow, Punch. Looke, Hancock. .Smith and Garrard. The following letters…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—In the Borough Council, lost evening (Wednesday), Alderman Brooks, J.P., resigned hie seat. He had tabled a motion that no more day be employed at…
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