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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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The above council met on Thursday evening, the Mayor (Alderman Pearce) presiding. The Board of Health notified that disinfectants would be supplied in order to enable the council to deal with the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A special meeting of the City Council was held on Thursday afternoon for the purpose of receiving the report of the garbage disposal committee, recommending the acceptance of a vender for the erection of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In connection with the case of plague discovered at Balmain on Wednesday, a special meeting of the local council to consider the subject was call-ed for Thursday evening. The Mayor said that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Some little time ago Mr. Thomas Longworth, the proprietor of Woollahra House, Rose Bay, made application to the Department of Lands for the reclamation and purchase of the land beyond…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Central Court yesterday, before Mr. Smithers, S.M., James Simms, 11 Randle-street, City, was charged upon an information sworn by Inspector Baker, with having, on March 17,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sir, -- My attention has been called to your report of the proceedings of the City Council, from which it appears that allegations have been made that curtain aldermen have been…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A LARGER and influential meeting of the members of the Cootamundra Farmers and Settlers' Association was held on Saturday afternoon at the local Town Hall, to discuss various important matters of vital…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →The monthly meeting of the committee of the New South Wales Municipal Association was held at the offices, Queen Victoria Markets, on Wednesday afternoon, Alderman John Wheeler…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The first duty of a municipal body is to keep its district clean. After that it has many other duties, the first and most obvious being that of looking after…
Continued on Trove, page 671 →The hearing of this action was resumed in the Banco Court, before the Chief Justice and a jury of four, in which James Brierley, a ratepayer, sought for an injunction against the municipality of Burwood and £50…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mr. W[?] Q.C., and Mr. Kely[?] instructed by Mr. John M'Laughlin, appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. P[?] Q.C., and Dr. [?], restructed by Messrs. Pigott and S[?] for the defendants. Th[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A meeting of this council was held on March 20. There were present—Aldermen H. Mills (Mayor), Milne, Murdoch, Tayler, Williams, Cox, Crump, Campbell, Wheeler, Swan, Cohen, and Bowen. Messrs. Pont Brothers wrote…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Earl Beauchamp was entertained by the citizens at a banquet last night in the council-chambers. The attendance was not large. The Mayor presided, and there were also present Mr. G. A. Cruickshank and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A SPECIAL meeting of the City Council was held on Thursday afternoon to consider a report from the garbage sub-committee to the effect that a tender for the erection of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE quarantining of a whole block of the city, comprising business places, wharves, offices, and private dwellings, has created a great sensation. The stop was an heroic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clause 74 of the Federation Enabling Bill deals with the question of appeals from the High Court to the Queen-in-Council. It is provided that the Parliament may make laws…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Premier, with whom was the Attorney General, had a conference on Saturday with the Mayor, the town clerk, the President of the Board of Health, and the Under-Secretary for Works. It…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A conference took place on Saturday morning between the Premier, the Attorney-General, the Mayor of Sydney, the president of the Board of Health, the Under-Secretary for Works, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The report of the valuators of the borough of North Sydney was before the local council at the last meeting. The valuators, among other matters, drew the attention of the council to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Premier had an interview with the Mayor yesterday, and impressed upon Sir M. Harris the necessity of promptness in all action taken. The Mayor premised to see…
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