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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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It is announced that a Cabinet Council has been summoned for Wednesday next. This early meeting, so soon after the close of the Parliamentary session, has excited some surprise,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—Arrangements are being made, as you are perhaps aware, to hold a general Municipal Conference, with a view of devising a more equitable adjustment of municipal taxation than at present exists. It is intended that any scheme…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A final meeting of the committee of gentlemen who carried out the arrangements in connection with the recent return ball to the Mayor of Sydney was held at the Royal Hotel yesterday afternoon, Mr. G. N…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A MEETING of the City Council was held this morning, the mayor presiding. Alderman MEEKS presented a petition for the continuance of Clarence-street south…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BALMAIN.—The usual fortnightly meeting of this council was held on the 27th ultimo. There were present—his Worship the Mayor. Aldermen Hancock, M'Donald, Smith, Elkington Stewart, Garrard, Punch, Gow, Clubb. and Cameron. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →We have received the following alterations and additions which his Honor Sir William Mannlug desires to be made in his "reasons" in the above case, published in our issue of Monday, 3rd October:—…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A fortnightly meeting of the Sydney Municipal Council was held at the Town Hall yesterday morning, when the Mayor occupied the chair, and eighteen of the aldermen were present…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →MACDONALDTOWN.—Meeting held on 3rd October, Present— The Mayor (Mr. Horsfall), Aldermen Bryan, Knight, Eve, Wright, and Fawcett. Minites of previous meeting read and confirmed, Correspondence: Letter from Registrar-General, requesting to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The business paper of the Legislative Council for to-day commences with a question by Mr. Stewart, as to whether the Government would lay before Parliament this session plan and sections of any railway lines for which loans have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The PRESIDENT took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. Sir JOHN ROBERTSON, in reply to Mr. Stewart, stated that plans and sections of authorised lines of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The PRESIDENT took the chair at 4.30 p.m. PLANS AND SECTIONS OF RAILWAYS. Sir JOHN ROBERTSON, in reply to Mr Stewart, said that no doubt there would be plans and sections of railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—The proposal to amend municipal taxation by making the owners of land without horses pay as much as the owners of land with houses may be very satisfactory to the latter, but the former will heardly see the justice of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Trades and Labour Council held a meeting last night at their Rooms, at the Royal Hyde Park Hotel. At 8 o'clock, a quorum having been formed, Mr. Jones, the president, took the chair. The following societies were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The PRESIDENT took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. He reported that the Assembly had granted leave to Mr. Farnell, M.L.A., to attend and be examined before a select committee of the Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The President took tho chair at half-past 4 o'clock. post office and telegraph departments. Sir JOHN ROBERTSON, in reply to Mr. Suttor,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The PRESIDENT took the chair at 4.30 p.m. PRINTING COMMITTEE'S REPORT. Mr. DOCKER brought up a report from the Printing Committee…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The "Melbourne Herald," writing of the newly-elected Mayor of Melbourne, remarks:—Mr. Ham is elected aa our mayor Car 1881-2. A son of one of the oldest Melbourne residents, he…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A New York telegram, received in London on August 22, says that the Irish "dynamite" council have issued a proclamation which, after pointing out the extent to which British…
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