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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1893

3,185 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 160

Cabramatta and Canley Vale. Municipal Council . Ordinary Meeting

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 2

THE regular meeting of the Cabramatta and Canley Vale Municipal Council was held in the Association Hall on Thursday evening, I6th February, when there were present: The…

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Parramatta Borough Council

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 3

A special meeting of the above Council was held on Friday evening. Present: The Mayor (Alderman C. J. Byrnes), Aldermen Taylor, Moxham, Withers, Cox, Watters, Thorpe…

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The Federal Council

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 15

A GAZETTE extraordinary has been issued, in which the Administrator of the Government (Sir Lambert Dobson) prorogues the Federal Council, which closed its sittings for the Bession in Hobart…

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Auburn Borough Council

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 3

A SPECIAL meeting of the Auburn Borough Council was held on Monday evening for the purpose of appointing committees. The Mayor (Mr. George Wright) presided and there were…

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Granville Borough Council

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 7

THE regular meeting of the Granville Borough Council was held on Wednesday evening. Present: The Mayor (Mr. J. R. Palmer), Aldermen Marsh, Macadam, Mahony…

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Privy Council Appeal

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 28

A cablegram dated London, February 15, stated that the appeal to the Privy Council in the case of Summerfield v. the Shire Council of Colac (V.), had been beard, and judgment reserved…

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What Mayor Cox Has Done. to the Editor

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 6

SIR,—In returning thanks for his election to the position of Mayor by the Dundas Council, I see by the report that Mr. F. C. Cox takes to himself the credit of keeping all public houses…

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The Northern Suburbs Progress Council

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 8

A MEETING of the general progress council of the northern suburbs was held at Eastwood House, Eastwood, on the 13th inst. There were present…

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Parramatta Borough Council. Special Meeting

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 7

A SPECIAL MEETING of the Parramatta Borough was held on Friday evening, there being present the Mayor (Ald. Byrnes) in the chair, and a full Council, save Ald. Saunders…

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PARLIAMENT. Legislative Council. Thursday, February 16

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 394

Mr. Simpson resumed the debate on the second reading of the Imprisonment for Debt Abolition Bill. If this bill were passed, he pointed out, the law would be harder than ever, and the bill would defeat its…

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Newtown Council. (Changing the Name of the Borough.)

The Bird O' Freedom · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 5

The alderman sat with their thinking caps on, Alderman Whately wanted a change In the name that the borough had born so…

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New South Wales Parliament. Points of Proceedings. Legislative Council

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 12

On Wednesday, 15th instant, the only business of any note in the Legislative Council was the further consideration in committee of the Electoral Bill, with which good progress was made,…

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Municipal Matters. Redfern. Stuffing the Rolls

The Australian Star · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 3

This council met on Thursday evening, the Mayor(Alderman Gorton) presiding. CORRESPONDENCE. Mr. A. Lumen, of Pitt-street, wrote…

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Municipal. Rockdale

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 12

Meeting held February 23. Present: Aldermen Taylor (Mayor), Clayton, Judd, Godfrey. T. A. Price, A. E. Green, Hegerty, and A. G. Carruthers. Regarding the…

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Municipal Association

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 17

The monthly meeting of the committee of the New South Wales Municipal Association was held at the Town Hall, Sydney, on February 15, those present being: Messrs. J. Graham (in the chair)…

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A Gang of Swindlers at Work in Sydney. Wholesale Frauds on Business People. They Hail Prom Melbourne. an Old Way to Shire New Debts. "Cash on Delivery." Big and Little Houses Victimised. Detectives Employed

Evening News · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 4

A number of business people in Sydney have lately been victimised by a gang of swindlers from Melbourne in a barefaced way, and with an amount of audacity almost unparalleled. The…

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Alderman Keys and His Committee. Harbor Excursion

The Australian Star · Monday 27 February 1893 · page 8

Mr. Alderman E. Keys, who was returned for Lawson Ward in the Borough of Waverley at the last election, after a very close contest, gave a harbor trip and lunch…

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Burwood Council. Refuses a Departmental Request

Evening News · Monday 27 February 1893 · page 5

At the meeting of the Burwood Council an application was received from the Principal Under-Secretary (Mr. Critchett Walker, C.B.), for a list of the approximate values of unimproved…

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A Privy Council Appeal. Commercial Bank V. Wilson

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 27 February 1893 · page 4

LONDON, Saturday Night.--The Privy Council has allowed the appeal of the Commercial Bank of Australia against the decision of the Full Court at Sydney in…

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Municipal. Smithfield and Fairfield

Evening News · Monday 27 February 1893 · page 7

The regular meeting of this council was held on Wednesday evening. Present: The Mayor (Alderman Downey), with Aldermen Vallance, Spring, Paine, Stimson, Jacob, and Boger…

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