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Sir, -- Your correspondent in yesterday's issue is correct when he says that the emoluments attached to the position of a municipal auditor are meagre. Some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Meeting held January 11. Present: The Mayor (Alderman R. Slee), and Aldermen Corbett, Jones, Groves, Jay, Garthwaite, Gormley, and Conroy. The following…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →BROKEN-HILL Friday.--Last night the corporation decided to refund to Mayor Topperwein a supplementary mayoral allowance of £240 for expenses incurred in sending…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. T. Sergeant of Goughtown has [?] to contest the election aldermen foe Pro[?] and Sherwood. He is a man who takes a deep interest in the municipality and who has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,-Will you kindly permit me to correct some of the statements in your issue of to-day relating to municipal matter. The Municipalities Act of 1867 states that the day of public nomination…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The regular monthly meeting of the Bankstown Progress Association was held in M'Quillan's Hotel, Lower Bankstown. on Wednesday evening, there being present: The president (Mr. Gilliver)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Council met on the 12th instant. Present— The Mayor (Alderman Willis), and Aldermen Simpson, Stimson, Asimus, Latham, and M'Burney. The finance committee's report, received and deferred for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Meeting held Friday, 13th. Present: The Mayor (Alderman Downey), with Aldermen Boger, Vallance, Hollier, Dale, Paine, Stimson, and Jacob, Alderman Lackey being the only…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. W. T. Tate, late borough auditor for the Glebe, will seek re-election at the coming municipal contest. Mr. C. P. Austin is a candidate for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Monday.--At the meeting of the Executive to-day, the Premier (Mr. Shiels) and Mr. Dully, the Minister without a portfolio, were appointed to represent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Executive to-day decided that the Premier, Mr. Shiels, and Mr. J. G. Duffy, a Minister without a portfollo, should represent the colony at the Federal Council…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The leasing of the wharves, which for some time past has been the burning question in the municipal life of Hunter's Hill, formed the subject of another meeting of the ratepayers last night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Special meeting of this council was held on Friday last, the Mayor, Alderman M'Bride, presiding. Also present, Aldermen Jeanneret and Foxall. There not being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Meeting held on January 13. Previous to the regular meeting there was to have been a special meeting of the council to deal with a series of resolutions to be moved by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. G. J. Waterhouse is a candidate for re-election as alderman for Waverley Ward. Mr. W. Moyes is a candidate for the position of alderman in the Marrickville…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the meeting of the North Sydney Council last evening Alderman Anderson, with impressive seriousness, rose to direct the attention of the council to what he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There was little other than ferry business talked at the Balmain Council meeting last night. Indeed, such was the plethora of letters and motions touching every phase of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Legislative Council will meet to-day for the first time since the Christmas adjournment. Two questions are to be asked, one by Mr. Davies inquiring tho total…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the quarterly meeting of the parochial council of Holy Trinity Church Messrs. Herbert S. Vincent and E. D. Legh were elected members vice Messrs. James Martin…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—In your issue of the 9th instant appears a letter from " A Ratepayer of Petersham " on the above question, in which, referring to one from " Hurstville," he delivers himself thus:— "Surely…
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