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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1883

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Prospect and Sherwood Municipal Council

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 3

THE regular monthly meeting of the Prospect and Sherwood municipal Council was held on Tuesday last. Present: His Worship the Mayor (Ald. John [?]ooth), Alderman Joseph…

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Borough Council Meetings

Evening News · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 6

DARLINGTON.—An ordinary meeting of this council was held on the 5th instant. Present—the Mayor (Alderman Hawken), with Aldermen Elvey, Warren, Bepper, Hargraves, and Dowling. A number of waggonette proprietors…

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Trades and Labour Council

Evening News · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 7

The usual fortnightly meeting in connection with the Trades and Labour Council of New South Wales was held at the Royal Hyde Park Hotel on Thursday night. There was a good…

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The Gas Company and the Borough Council. to the Editor of the Mercury

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 3

SIR,—Allow me to correct an inaccuracy that appears in your report of Borough Council’s Proceedings in last issue of MERCURY. NOT one word is said in either the Mayor’s…

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Municipal Readjustment

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 8

A NUMBER of ratepayers of the Municipal District of Prospect and Sherwood recently presented a petition to the Council of that district…

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A Shire Council Indicted As a Public Nuisance. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 July 1883 · page 3

A novel application was made to-day to Judge Higinbotham in chambers. His Honor was asked to order the Sheriff of the Southern Bailiwick to summon the grand jury in order to indiot the shire…

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Borough Council Meeting

Evening News · Monday 9 July 1883 · page 4

WATERLOO.—The usual fortnightly meeting of this council was held on the 6th instant. Present: The mayor (Alderman M.F. Smith), with a full council. Messrs. Alderson and Sons referred to the dangerous state of…

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Municipal Meetings

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 July 1883 · page 3

WATERLOO.--A meeting of this council was held on the 6th instant. Present-the mayor (Alderman M. F. Smith) with a full council. Messrs Alderson and Sons complained of a nuisance in Dowlihg-street…

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Borough Council Meetings

Evening News · Wednesday 11 July 1883 · page 3

ASHFIELD.—Meeting held 3rd instant. Present: The Mayor (Mark J. Hammond), and Aldermen Ireland, Holborow, Mortley, Nicholson Pope. Shilling, and Watkin. Minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. The…

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Waterloo Council. To the Editor

Evening News · Wednesday 11 July 1883 · page 6

SIR,—Will you kindly permit me through the medium of your columns to correct a misrepresentation of your correspondent, who stated in your issue of the 23rd instant as follows:—"At the meeting of…

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Prospect Council. to the Editor of the Mercury

The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 11 July 1883 · page 2

SIR,—In your issue of last Saturday appears a paragraph headed headed “ Municipal Amenities,” which states that “Alderman Whitaker had a question on the business paper, and when the…

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Sydney Municipal Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 July 1883 · page 5
Also in The Sydney Daily Telegraph

A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Sydney[?] Municipal Council was held at the Town Hall yesterday. The Mayor occupied the chair, and there was a fair attendance of aldermen. Alderman Taylor presented a petition…

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City Council

Evening News · Thursday 12 July 1883 · page 3

The usual weekly meeting of the finance committee of the City Council was held, yesterday afternoon, at the Town Hall. Present: Aldermen Beare, Meeks, Poole, J. D. Young, Playfair, Kippax, Palmar, Dean,…

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Recognition of the Mayor's Hospitality

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 July 1883 · page 2

An adjourned meeting was held at Hodge's Commercial Hotel yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of considering the beat mode of recognising the generous hospitalities of the Mayor and…

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Trades and Labour Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 July 1883 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Daily Telegraph

A special meeting of the Trades and Labour Council was held last evening at the Royal Hyde Park Hotel, for the purpose of considering the proposal of the victorian Shopa Commission for the…

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Important Municipal Case

Evening News · Friday 13 July 1883 · page 3

Mr. Godfrey, solicitor, applied to his Honor Sir George Innes, in chambers, this morning, on behalf of Mr. John M'Innes, of Rosebrook, Cook's River, for and obtained an order nisi. calling upon the…

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Amalgamation of Small Municipalites

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 July 1883 · page 4

On Wednesday evening, July 11, a conference meeting of the borough councils of Newtown, Camperdown, and Macdonaldtown was held at the town ball, Newtown, for the purpose of…

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Penrith Municipal Council

Nepean Times · Saturday 14 July 1883 · page 3

THE usual fortnightly meeting of the above Council was held on Thursday last. Present,—The Mayor, Aldermen Price, Long, Smeaton and Cross…

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