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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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This council met on the 10th instant. The North Shore Gas Company wrote declining to accede to the council's request for a reduction in the price of gas to private consumers. The Under-Secretary for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →With the exception of Alderman Salier all members of the Petersham Council were present at the regular meeting held on Tuesday night…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--The manager of the Newcastle branch of the Commercial Bank of Australia has, on behalf of the bank, seized the municipal electric lighting works…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dr. MACLAURIN, in answer to Mr. Day, said that £500 was voted on the supplementary estimates of 1892, under agreement with Mr. Keightley, to bore 1000ft for coal on church and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alderman Macfadyen, J.P., addressed a meeting of the electors of Botany last evening from the balcony of the Old Halfway House, Botany-road. He said that on the last occasion he appeared before…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The council met on Wednesday evening, when the Mayor's minute on the subject of retrenchment came up for discussion. Alderman Mashman reiterated his objection to the Mayor having on his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Mayor of Sydney was waited on yesterday by a number of gentlemen representing the wholesale fruit trade and presented vita a petition requesting that a barricade might be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The election of a representative of the municipal councils and a representative of the licensees on the Metropolitan Transit Commission took place yesterday, the poll being taken in the Protestant Hall and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Melville, M.P., had an interview yesterday with a financial agent with reference to a loan to the Lambton Council for the purpose of releasing the electric light,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A deputation of wholesale fruit merchants and growers was introduced to his Worship the Mayor of Sydney (Sir Wm. P. Manning, M.L.A.) by Alderman Jessep…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The appeal of the Municipal Council of Sydney and the Sydney Driving Park Club, Limited, v. the Attorney-General of New South Wales came before the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the last general meeting of the Glebe Council a recommendation from a committee of the whole council, recommending the appointment of Mr. Burton, an ex alderman of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LIVERPOOL, Thursday.--In response to an application from the municipal council for a renewal of the loan from the Lackey family, a reply has been received, stipulating that a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WOLLONGONG, Thursday.--At the Small Debts Court to-day, the Borough Council of Wollongong sued Con. Lees, a ratepayer, for £6, arrears of rates. It was contended on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Recent disclosures respecting the financial state of borough councils in different parts of the colony would seem to suggest that municipal government in New South…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A large gathering of electors took place in the Waterloo Town-hall last evening, when Alderman George Anderson, one of the candidates for Waterloo, made his first…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The regular meeting was held on Monday Present—Ald. Blacket (presiding), and Ald. Dyer, Ewart, Taylor, Heilbut, and Lightfoot. CORRESPONDENTS…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE regular meeting was hold on Wednesday afternoon. Present: Aldermen F. C. Cox (Mayor), Spurway, Grimes, Midson, Johnston and Eyles…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A special meeting was held on Wednesday. Present: Ald. Dox (Mayor, in the chair), Spurway, Grims, Midson, Johnston and Eyles; also Council-Clerk, J. Saunders…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The usual meeting was held on Wednesday. Alderman Slee was voted to the chair in the absence of the Mayor, who was detained on a jury in Sydney, and the following were also…
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