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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Limited, have the Fifeshire due here in a few days from london. A report from Melbourne stat[?]s that the Fifeshire, in command of Captain Cou[?]l, left London on March 5, wh[?] fine weather held to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A deputation, representing about forty-eight shopkeepers, against whom "summonses had been issued by the City Council for displaying their goods on the footpaths, waited, upon the Mayor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The council met on Wednesday evening, the Mayor (Alderman J. Mahony) presiding. The council clerk reported that receipts for the month totalled £208 16s 10d. The inspector of nuisances reported that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Once already the affairs of the city of Sydney have been placed in commission. The chosen of the properly owners were deemed by the Government of the colony to be unfit…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of the City Council General Purposes Committee was held yesterday, the Mayor (Sir Matthew Harris) presiding. The following recommendations in regard to employees of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The City Council met yesterday in committee of general purposes, the Mayor occupying the chair. It was decided that the recommendations in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the Water and Sewerage Board on Wednesday a communication was read from the Marrickville Council, asking that their application for permission to tap refuse into the main, sewer be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A further meeting of the general purposes committee of the City Council was held yesterday. Present—The Mayor (Sir Matthew Harris), Aldermen Landers, Dymock, Hughes. Jossep, M…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Consideration of the re-organisation report was to have been continued by the general purposes committee of the City Council at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. However, the stress and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The council met on May 7, There were present Aldermen Taylor (Mayor), Curties, [?]ull, Cohen, Horton, Smith, New, [?]idge, Broad, Woods, Wells, and Ferris. A communication was received from the Public…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The extreme opponents to the present French Government (M. Waldeck-Rosseau, Premier) have won nine seats at the recent Paris municipal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ordinary meeting held on Wednesday. Present :—The Mayor Alderman John Mahony, J.P.). and Aldermen Lime, Wilkins, Coates, J P., Windsor, J.P., Hewatt, Osborn,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The fortnightly meeting was held on Thursday, when there were present Alderman H. Sparrow (Mayor), in the chair, and Alderman Gallagher, Johnson and Adams…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The fortnightly meeting was held on Friday. Present, the Mayor (Alderman W. Hibble) and Aldermen Benson, Tucker, Swan, Redshaw, Anderson and Jordan…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →This Council met on Tuesday Present : — Mayor Christiansen, and Aldermen Perry, Watt, Smith, Chapman, Murray, and H. Scrivener…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The democracy of Australia is singularly blind, or, otherwise, marvellously considerate, or contemptuous, of the local obstruction to Federation. When great financial…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This council met on Wednesday evening, the Mayor, Alderman Bell, presiding. The Postal Department notified that the postmaster at Fairfield had been instructed to send the morning mail by the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The specification prepared in reference to the destruction of city refuse is in the hands of the Mayor, the legal advisers of the corporation having dealt with the document, and it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The City Council accepted a tender at the end of March for street cleansing, and the destruction of garbage by fire. There apparently the matter ended and the public naturally have been…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →GUNDAGAI, Friday. -- Trouble still pursues the municipal district of Gundagai. Although the council was formed and gazetted in August, 1890, a rate was not struck until February, 1901,…
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