City Council. the Plague Day by Day. Ought Business Places to Be Quarantined?
The City Council met at the Town-hall yesterday morning. Sir Matthew Harris (Mayor) presiding. The Town Clerk read a copy of a report…
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Council & local affairs, 1900
3,909 stories in Sydney's papers · page 50 of 196
Eights of British Subjects. Appeal to the Privy Council. a Protest From New South Wales
Yesterday Sir George Dibbs, who was the president of the Anti-Bill League after Mr. Want had resigned the position and rejoined the Ministry, and Dr. MacLaurin, who took a prominent part in…
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In his recent admirable address to the New South Wales Institute of Architects, the President (Mr. John Barlow) was much to the point when, touching upon the sanitary department of his subject, he laid…
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With a view to early participation in Municipal Elections, the General Executive recommends as basis of discussion the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Law Report. Friday, March 30. Banco Court. (Before the Chief Justice and [?] jury of four.) Action Against a Municipality. Brierley v. Borough of Burwood (part heard)
Mr. Want, Q.C., and Mr. Kelynack, instructed by Mr. John M'Laughliu, appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Pilcher, Q.C., and Dr. Sly, instructed by Messrs. Pigott and Stinson, for the defendants. This…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Municipal Appeal Court
Mr. Smithers, S.M., presided over an Appeal Court held yesterday at the Newtown Police Court, in connection with the recent municipal assessment of the borough of Camperdown. Mr. Hingsby,…
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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…
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THE regular meeting of the above council was held at the Council Chamber on Tuesday evening last. Present—The Mayor (Alderman Christiansen) and Aldermen Chapman, H. Scrivener, Perry,…
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The idea of Imperial Federation has not hitherto been in much favor in Australia, chiefly because it seems to be thought that it necessarily implies some surrender of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The City Council and the Plague
A series of great public meetings should bo held to afford citizens an opportunity of expressing their opinions 61 the Mayor and aldermen of Sydney, and of their culpability…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Black Death Woe, Woe to the City! If I Were Mayor of Sydney!
"The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land: you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the firstborn were alain of old, to sprinkle with blood the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our City Fathers. Gambolling Among Garbage. Some Serious Statements. Mr. Richardn, the City Surveyor, Charged with Receiving £500 From a Firm of Tenderers. Alderman Norton Demands a Committee
THE adjourned meeting of the City Council, called for the purpose of considering the recommendation of the Garbage Committee, that a tender for the supply of a destructor…
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There can be no reasonable doubt that two of the most prominent questions calling for settlement in the next Parliament are Municipal Reform and the formation of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Plague. Still Continues to Spread. Several Fresh Cases. Condition of the Quarantined—Over-taxed Hospital Accommodation—The Quarantined Area—The Council's Crusade—Supply of Serum —Rubbish Boxes
THE plague has continued on its merry march during the week, and several fresh victims have fallen to its ravages. Despite the Premier's step in having…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Bubonic "Black Death." the Sanitation of Sydney. The Water, and Sewerage Board. Radical Reform Required—no Paltering with Palliatives. The Board Must Mizzle and the Country Council Come
Out, dama[?]d spot all the per[?] of [?]bia will not sweeten it. Lay on, Ma[?]: And dam[?]d be he that first [?] "Hod enough."…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Labour Council
On Thursday evening at the Trades Hall the Sydney Labour Council met under the presidency of Mr. T. Thrower. A letter was read from the Bricklayers' Union, intimating,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Special Meeting of the Balmain Council
At the couclusion of the fortnightly meeting of the works and finance committees of the Balmain Council a special meeting was held on Friday night for the purpose of rescinding any motion previously…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. M'credie and the City Council
In regard to a statement in "The Daily Telegraph" to the effect that Mr. M'Credie had been waited upon by an officer of the City Council, and asked to co-operate with the council's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Divided Authority. (Dedicated to the Government, the City Council the Health Department, the Water and Sewerage Board, &c., &c.)
"Why stand the crowd a-gaping? Why the constable on guard? Why all the windows open, While the doors are Iron-barr'd?…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Federation. Objections to the Privy Council Clauses. Proposed Imperial Court of Appeals. a Favourable Reception. London, March 31
In connection with the objections taken to the clauses in the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Bill dealing with appeals to the Privy Council, Mr. R. B…
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