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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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The Prince and Princess of Wales go to Bethnal Green to-day to open the last of the new dwellings built on the site of the worst slums in London by the County Council. Royalty will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A deal or anxiety was manifested in the faces of the members of the City Council yesterday when Alderman Waterhouse solemnly asked the Mayor if any aldermen, excepting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At Tuesday night's meeting of the Mosman Council, Alderman Rose gave an explanation of certain remarks of his at a previous meeting of the council, when discussing the subject of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Popular estimation of the City Council is shown by the allusions made by citizens in their conversations. Everybody "has a dig at" the unfortunate body which is now the scapegoat for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Various matters in the Town Hall were moved a stage or two forward yesterday. The town clerk was definitely appointed, the city organist sent on a holiday without pay, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of the Sydney City Council was held yesterday morning. Present: The Mayor (Sir Matther Haris, M.L.A.), Aldermen M. Chapman, Lees, Jessep, Smail, Norton, M'Elhone, Barlow,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the meeting of the City Council yesterday the. Mayor (Sir M. Harris) was asked by Alderman Norton for the production of documents relating to the destruction of garbage by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →There was an appearance of strained interest, of unusual alertness, of unwonted wakefulness, about the chamber as proposals for kerbing and guttering and startling suggestions of expenditure…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A letter from our special London correspondent in to-day's issue deals exhaustively with the question of Privy Council appeals, as affected by the Australasian Commonwealth Bill. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fine healthy vigor marked the debate in the City Council yesterday on Alderman Norton's motion that leave of absence from 1st July to the date of the expiry of his contract (9th…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the City Council meeting yesterday morning Alderman Norton asked if the Mayor had offered to the Government the use of the building in Prince Alfred Park as a plague…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Alderman Norton, pursuant to notice, then moved:--"That, in accordance with the recommendation of the finance committee, leave of absence from July 1 to the date of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—I read with astonishment a statement in your report (published yesterday) of the last meeting of this council that "Mr. Neild explained that during his absence in England the Secretary for Works…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At yesterday's meeting of the City Council, Alderman Norton asted the Mayor whether he hail beard anything of a proposal to take portion of Prince Alfred Park for the purpose of a quarantine…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In the District Court, before Judge Murray, the municipal council of North Sydney sued Mr. E. M. Sayers, of Mosman, Drs. R. D. Ward, F. H. Kingdom and W. Sheldon, of North Sydney, and Mr. John Burnett, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Before his Honor Judge Murray, in the District Court on Wednesday, the Borough of North Sydney sued B. M. Sayers, of Bradley's Head-road, Mosman; John Barnett, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, May 9, 4.6 p.m.— Extreme opponents of the French Government won nine seats at the Paris municipal elections yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The extreme opponents of the Government have won nine seats at the Paris municipal elections…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The municipality of New York has decided to welcome Messrs. Fischer, Wolmarans, and Wessels, the Boer peace delegates, on their arrival in New York. The one member of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Here is yesterday's record of the work of the City Council. The proceedings speak for themselves. When correspondence was called for, Alderman…
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