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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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The moving Mayor of Cairns is one of those energetic, pushing, wide-awake "youths" of which Australia is so proud. He flew up like a comet, and stopped there. Whenever you meet him, the whole…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Mr. Bird, M.P. and ex-Colonial Treasurer of Tasmania, has arrived in Sydney on private business, principally connected with the fruit industry. Mr. Bird has been…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The council met on Thursday evening. Present— The Major (Alderman H. Willis), and Aldermen Latham, M'Burneym, Stimson, Simpson, and Asimus. The Mayor reported that the finance committee had…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Meeting held January 5. Present: Aldermen Spronic (in the chair), Patrick, Smithson, Griffin, Thompson, Middleton, and Peake. Correspondence : Mr.. C. Fripp…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The following two letters, addressed to the Borough Council of Parramatta, and received at last Tuesday’s meeting, will be read with interest; the former [?] foreshadowing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At a meeting of the Newtown Labor League on Friday evening, Mr. Hindle, M.P., referred to the proposal of Sir Henry Parkes to move for the substitution of an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—In a late issue of your paper a correspondent, signing himself "Hurstville," calls the attention of aldermen of the various boroughs to the fact that Liverpool and Randwick have voted sums of money…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The usual meeting of the Waterloo Council was held on Thursday evening. Present: The Mayor (Alderman Lamond) and Aldermen Walsh, Anderson, Greenwood,: Smith, Williams, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Meeting held on January 5. Present: The Mayor (Alderman Spring) Aldermen Hawken, Maze, Graham, England, Crispin and Beale. Correspondence was received…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Still another meeting of the Glebe Borough Council has lapsed for want of a quorum. A special meeting was called for Monday evening, the ordinary monthly meeting. on the 3rd…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It will will be remembered that on the evening December 15 a very heavy storm of hail and wind passed over some of the eastern suburbs, and that much damage was done to roads…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At Hendy's Excelsior Hotel last evening a meeting of ratepayers was held to promote the candidature of Mr. W. A. Hatchinson for Inner Ward. Mr. W. H. D. Mitchell presided. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The council met on Thursday. Present: The Mayor (Alderman H. Willis), Aldermen Latham, Stimson, Simpson, M'Burney, and Asimus. The Mayor reported that the finance committee and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Last evening a meeting of delegates, representing the Municipal Councils in the electorate of Canterbury, was held at the Ashfield Town Hall, for the purpose of conferring with the members for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A preliminary meeting of ratepayers of the Inner Word, Globe, was held last evening, at Hendy's Excelsior Hotel, Lyndhuret-street, to promote the candidature of Mr. W. A. Hutchinson, who is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN ordinary meeting of the Paddington Council was held last night, there being present: Aldermen White (Mayor), Walker, Tate, Robinson, George, Usher,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A conference of delegates from the various municipalities within the electorate of Canterbury was commenced last evening in the Town-hall, Ashfield. The conference was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In bringing forward his long and tangled string of abstract resolutions about reform of the Legislative Council last night, Sir HENRY PARKES offered for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The borough treasurer of Newtown having reported a bank debit balance of £5718 10s 5d, Alderman Bellemey on Tuesday evening at the council meeting drew special attention to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following aldermen retire in February, through offluxion of time:— NEWTOWN.—Alderman Salmon, O'Connell Ward; Alderman Swinbourne, Kingston Ward; Aldernan…
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