Trade Meetings. Trades and Labour Council
The usual fortnightly meeting of the N.S.W. Trades and Labour Council was held at the Swan-with-Two-Necks Hotel last evening, Mr. Wiley, president, in the…
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Council & local affairs, 1886
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The Water Supply. Special Meeting of the City Council
A special committee meeting of the City Council was held yesterday, when there were present:--The Mayor (Ald. John Young), Aldermen Kippax, Chapman, Beare, Dean, J. D…
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The PRESIDENT took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. PETITION. Mr. JACOB presented a petition in favour of the Balmain Tramway Bill…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parliament. Legislative Council. Thursday, May 20. The PRESIDENT took the Chair at 4.30 p.m. the Spalding Airey Inquiry
Dr. MACKELLAR produced the evidence taken in the investigation of the charges preferred against Captain Airey by Colonel Spalding. He said he would not move that it should…
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WATERLOO.—A meeting of this council was held on Thursday night, when there were present the Mayor (Mr. G. Anderson), and Aldermen Evans, S Dicer, Howe, White, and Torning. Mr. Thomas Leeder…
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A meeting of the finance and other committees of the Sydney Municipal Council was held at the Town Hall yesterday. The chair was occupied by the Mayor, and there was a fair attendance of aldermen. Accounts for…
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Appeals against the assessments of the borough of Ashfield were dealt with at the Newtown Police Court yesterday. There were about 40 appeals, and only a few minor reductions were…
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To consider the offer made by Messrs. Huntley and Barnard, to supply Penrith with water and gas. Motions by Ald. Smeaton:—1st.—"That the Works Committee be instructed…
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The ordinary meeting of the above was hold on Tuesday, when there were present the Mayor (Capt. J. G. Punch) Aids. McDonald, Burns, Kenniff, Easton, Clubb, Briggs, Cameron…
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Popery is in fact, scarcely better than modified paganism. For Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, and the gods and goddesses of ancient history, are substituted the…
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The Legislative Council dealt with a considerable quantity of business. Mr. Darley moved for leave to introduce a bill to amend the Married Women's Property Act The motion was agreed to and the bill was…
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Teo Employers' Liability, Bill and several private billa passed by the Assembly last, Friday were received this afternoon and read a first time. Mr. Darley also obtained leave to introduce a bill to…
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The following is a translation of the reply forwarded by his Holiness Pope Leo XIII. in response to the address of greeting transmitted to him from the Plenary Council of the Roman Catholic Church, which sat in St. Mary's…
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The SAn Fancisco papers contain accounts of the arrest, under [?] circumstances, of Alderman Henry W. [?], Vic-president of the New York Common Council, on a [?] of accepting a bribe of 20,000 dollars…
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The regular meeting of this council was held on Tuesday evening. The Mayor, Mr. J. G. Punch, occupied the chair, and there were also present Aldermen MacDonald, Buchanan, Burns, Cameron, Kenniff, Easton, Clubb,…
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Alderman Henry W. Jaehne, vice-president of the New York Common Council, who was lately convicted of having accepted a bribe of 20,000 dollars for voting for the franchise…
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Tenders were opened to-day for the loan of £40,000 placed on the London market by the City Council of Collingwood, Victoria. The total amount subscribed was £139,000. The…
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Yesterday, Mr. Dibbs received a deputation from Leichhardt, asking that the usual Government endowment given to municipalities that had expended rates on public improvements…
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LONDON, May 17.—Alderman Henry W. Jaehne, vice-presidont of the New York Common Council, has been convicted of liaviug accepted a bribe of 20,000dol. for having voted for the franchise of…
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The fortnightly meeting of this council was held on Monday,the 17th instant. There were present—the Mayor (Mr. Howard Fleming), and Aldermen Forsyth, Palmer, Simpson, and Welch. The following communications…
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