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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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Sir,—What is the meaning of the frequent pettioning of the Legislative Council latterly? Is it that the people have no confidence in what is morally the highest authority in the land, namely, the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Wellington Trades and Labour Council has drawn up a manifesto to the various trades unions in reference to the action of the council elaiming the right to be consulted in regard to appointments…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The annual election to fill the vacancies caused by the retirement in rotation of Ald. Judges, North Word; Ald. Reid, South Ward; Ald. Stuart, Castlereagh Ward;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The council met on "Wednesday evening. Presents The Mayor (Alderman W. Marr), and Aldermen Horne, Turner, Hannan, Ralph. Swain,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BOURKE.—A meeting of the council was held on Thursday night for the purpose of electing a Mayor for the ensuing year. The late Mayor, Mr. Alderman Gray, was unanimously re-elected for the current…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A meeting of this council was held on Tuesday. It was announced by the borough treasurer that over £500 had been banked since the last meeting. There was now a debtor balance of £2121 17s ld on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An application was received by the Randwick Council at its last meeting from the secretary of the Rosehill Racecourse Company, asking that 20 chains of road be formed and ballasted to provide a road of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE burden of the song of a good many people has for the past few weeks been the Preponderance of the exceedingly limited amount of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE official nomination of candidates for the positions of aldermen and auditors for the first Borough Council of Rookwood took place at the Albert…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MR Returning-Officer Gee had no occasion to lament a lack of candidates for the first council in the recently incorporated boundaries of Rookwood…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, February 13.—The appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the cases of the National Bank of Australasia versus Morris and the Pacific…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the appeal case Pacific Mail Steamship Co. v. C. J. Roberts, late Postmaster-General of New South Wales, as nominal defendant for the Government, the Privy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.--The Privy Council has confirmed the decision of the Full Court at Sydney in the appeal case Pacific Mail Steamship Company v. Roberts, late…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—In his letter in your this day's issue Mr. Samuel Brooks states, "To our mind the meaning of the frequent petitioning of the Legislative Council latterly 13 that the people have no confidence in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lord Carrington, who is a candidate for the representation of the electoral division of West St. Paneras on the London County Council, advocates that the council should…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The appeal to the Privy Council in the case of the National Bank of Australasia versus Morris has been dismissed with costs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CAMDEN.—Alderman Charles T. Whiteman was unanimously elected Mayor last night for the current year. A vote of thanks, carried by acclamation, was unanimously accorded to the ex-Mayor,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the first meeting of the Redfern Council for the present municipal year Alderman G. W. Howe, who has been elected as Mayor, occupied the chair, there being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In a cable which appeared on Saturday containing remarks of the Financial News, the strictures of the paper were made to refer to the debentures of the Oamarn (N.Z.)…
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