The Courts. Nisi Prius. (Before Mr. Justice Innes and juries of four.) SLOCOMDE T. the Municipal Council of Sydney
The Australian Star · Tuesday 22 May 1888 · page 6
This wm an action brought by Messrs, Thomas and John Slocombe, wholesale grocers, corner of Goorge-street west and Darling-street, to recover damages from…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 May 1888 · page 8
The Macdonaldtown Council have levied a special sheet watering rate of 3d. in the £, on all rateable property within the borough boundarice on Cook's River-road, and have decided to enforce the rates on the local Roman Catholic…
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The Australian Star · Wednesday 23 May 1888 · page 6
A SPECIAL meeting of the finance committee of the City Council was held to-day at the Town Hall, the Mayor (Alderman J. Harris) presiding. The object of the…
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The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 23 May 1888 · page 2
A SPECIAL meeting of the Borough Council was held on Monday evening. Present : The Mayor (Mr. C. J. Byrnes), and Aldermen Taylor, Beemas, Brodie, Ferris, Tiernan,…
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The Australian Star · Wednesday 23 May 1888 · page 4
MELBOURNE, This Day.--The result of the polling for the Melbourne Province in the Legislative Council, which took place yesterday, was that James Service sceured…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 23 May 1888 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- The election of a member to the Legislative Council, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. Hearn, resulted to-day in Mr. James Service being…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 May 1888 · page 13
A meeting of the finance committee of the City Council was held yesterday for the purpose of considering the best course to pursue in connection with the resumption of land for forming the alignment of Campbell-street, and the…
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The Australian Star · Wednesday 23 May 1888 · page 4
NEWCASTLE, This Day.--The Municipal Council of Carrington last night instructed the Council Clerk to write to the Minister of Works relative to lighters discharging…
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The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 23 May 1888 · page 3
“That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 May 1888 · page 7
Mr. Henniker Heaton, M.P. for Canterbury, has received a cablegram from Sir Henry Parkes stating that nine-tenths of the population of New South Wales support the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 23 May 1888 · page 5
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Dibbs made another hostile move in relation to the action of the Government on the Chinese question. Scarcely bad the Speaker taken his seat in the Assembly,…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 May 1888 · page 5
The Chinese Restriction Bill, which stood upon the Government orders for the day in the Legislative Council yesterday, did not come on for discussion, as that Chamber rose after the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 May 1888 · page 3
The PRESIDENT took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. PERMANENT TRUSTEE COMPANY BILL. On the motion of Mr. KNOX, the Permanent Trustee Company of New South Wales Bill was read the third…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 May 1888 · page 11
The City Council intend shortly to formulate a scheme for carrying out certain city improvements, such as relate to the removal of obstructions and the extension or widening of streets. The Mayor has…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 May 1888 · page 7
This council held a special meeting on May 22, when there were present the Mayor (Alderman S. Smith, M.P.), with Aldermen Hearn, Moore, Davison, M'Credie, Sadler, Winkle, Cooke, Wragge, Walsh, Neal, and Rodwell. The…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 May 1888 · page 7
The Kogarah Council have received letters according cooperation in reference to obtaining a piece of land for a cemetery for the district of St. George from the Hurstville and West Botany Councils, Revs. W. H. Saunders, P…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 May 1888 · page 2
Alderman See, M.P., has tendered his resignation as alderman for Randwick. The council have accorded him a hearty vote of thanks for his past services…
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Nepean Times · Saturday 26 May 1888 · page 4
A meeting of the Penrith Municipal Council was held on Monday evening. Present—The full Council. Before commencing the ordinary business the…
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The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 26 May 1888 · page 2
THE fortnightly meeting of the Granville Borough Council was held in the School of Arts, Good-street, on Wednesday evening. Present : The Mayor, Aldermen Unwin, Ross, Grimwood,…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 May 1888 · page 29
The action of Mr. Hewitt, Mayor of New York, in refusing to allow the green flag of Ould Ireland to be hoisted on the City Hall on St. Patrick's Day is considered as a sign that the Democratic…
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