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Council & local affairs, 1885

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Trades and labor Council

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 June 1885 · page 17

The usual fortnightly, meeting of the Trades and Labor Council was held at the Swan with Two Necks Hotel on Thursday evening. The president (Mr. Thomas Caddy) occupied the chair. There…

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Balmain Borough Council. Tuesday, June 16. 1885

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 20 June 1885 · page 2

Present,—The Mayor (Mr. J. Garrard, M.L.A), Aldermen Looke, Punch, Briggs, Clubb, Cameron, Buchanan, McDonald, Burns, and Kenniff…

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Latest Intelligence. [By Electri[?] Telegraph.] Our Special Telegram. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Colonial Council of Advice. London, June 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 June 1885 · page 14

Sir W. C. F. Robinson, Governor of South Australia, has published an article in the Pall Mall Gazette, in which he opposes Earl Grey's scheme for the formation of a Colonial…

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Municipal Matters

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 June 1885 · page 10

Any traveller to New-own must be struck with the disgraceful state of the roadway from the junction of the Newtown-road and George-Street West to Bligh-street, up to which point from the…

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Municipal Matters. to the Editor of the Mercury

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 20 June 1885 · page 1

SIR,—Is it not possible to rouse the Mayor and aldermen up to compel them to carry out the duties for which they were elected, for is it not a farce to see the way in which the…

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More Municipal Eccentricities. to the Editor of the Mercury

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 20 June 1885 · page 1

SIR, —Mr. Fuller, in replying to my last letter under this heading, has floundered still deeper in the mire of muddle he himself got together…

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The Mayor of Melbourne Writes

Evening News · Monday 22 June 1885 · page 6

The Colonial Secretary received on Saturday a letter from Mr. Godfrey Downs Carter, Mayor of Melbourne, to the effect that, on the departure of the New South Wales Contingent for the Souden he…

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Paddington Municipality

Evening News · Monday 22 June 1885 · page 5

On Saturday Mr. P. Harper, of Oxford-street, was elected an alderman of Paddington by a, mejority of nineteen votes over Sir. A. Walker. The official declaration of the poll took place to-day, when Mr. Harper…

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West Botany Municipal Extension

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 June 1885 · page 4

A public meeting was held in the Wesleyan Schoolroom, Rockdale, on Saturday afternoon, for the purpose of taking into consideration the advisability of annexing to West Botany that portion of land lying between the present…

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Granville. Municipal Council

The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 24 June 1885 · page 3

THE following is tho business paper for today’s meeting of the Municipal Council:— Finance Committee meets at 7.16 p.m. sharp. BUSINESS…

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Correspondence. Prospect and Sherwood Municipality. to the Editor of the Mercury

The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 24 June 1885 · page 2

SIR,—A few weeks since there appeared in your journal a paragraph stating that I said in the Council the property in the municipality had hitherto been grossly undervalued. I…

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More Municipal Eccentricites. to the Editor of the Mercury

The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 24 June 1885 · page 2

SIR,—Finally I have very little to say in reply to “ Ratepayer’s ” last. I am quite content to be thought to be in a muddle in waging war with such foemen as he. Plainly I have…

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Sydney Municipal Council ALDERMAN J. D. Young on the War Path

Evening News · Thursday 25 June 1885 · page 6

A meeting of the finance committee of the Sydney Municipal Council was held this afternoon in the Town Hall. There were present the Mayor, Alderman Meeks, Parker, J.D. Young, Hart, Dean…

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Bathurst Municipal Council. BATHURST

Evening News · Thursday 25 June 1885 · page 6

The Bathurst Municipal Council, last night, decided not to allow public baths to be erected in Market-square or on the Town Hall Reserve. The attempt to make the Bathurst Orphanage…

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Sydney Municipal Council. ALDERMAN J. D. Young on the War Path

Evening News · Friday 26 June 1885 · page 6

A meeting of the finance committee of the Sydney Municipal Council was held on Thursday in the Town Hall. There were present the Mayor, Alderman Meeks, Parker, J. D. Young, Hart, Dean…

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Sydney Municipal Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 June 1885 · page 6

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…

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Bathurst Municipal Council. BATHURST

Evening News · Friday 26 June 1885 · page 6

The Bathurst Municipal Council, last night, decided not to allow public baths to be erected in Market-square or on the Town Hall Reserve. The attempt to make Che Bathurst Orphanage…

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Alexandria Council

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 June 1885 · page 5

At the meeting of the Alexandria Council bold on Wednesday evening there were present -- The Mayor (Alderman Jesson), with Aldermen Foske[?], Watson, Evans, Setchell, Hannan, and Turner,…

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City Council

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 June 1885 · page 6

The ordinary meeting of the committees was held yesterday, there being present: -- The Mayor, Aldermen Beare, Hart, Kippax MacMahon, Burdekin, Hardie. Dean, Poole, J. D. Young, Meeks,…

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The Petersham Borough Council and the " CORNERS." To the Editor

Evening News · Friday 26 June 1885 · page 3

Sir,—I hope that none of your readers will for one moment suppose that I have been trying my hand at "pointing" in the matter of the "corners" mentioned in your report of the proceedings of the…

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