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The Legislative Council of Cape Colony by l4 votes to 11 has accepted the Customs Convention of British South Africa. To its acceptance the Council added a rider…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Judge in Divorce this morning began the hearing of a suit in which Philip Eld Eldershaw asked for a dissolution of his marriage with Mary- Ann Eldershaw,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BURROWA, Monday.--Thomas Stevenson, of Narellan station, has been appointed chairman of the temporary shire council board. INVERELL, Monday.--The first meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—At the first meeting of the Kanimbla Shire Council at Lawson last week three out of the five councillors balled from Emu, a vory small and extreme eastward corner of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →ARMIDALE.—The first meeting of the temporarily appointed Shire Council for Dumaresq was held in the courthouse, Armidale, on Saturday. Mr. W. C. Higinbotham was appointed chairman. It was agreed to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Messrs. Houlder Brothers and Co, Ltd., report movements of their steamers as follows:— The Langton Grange was at London May 20 The Drayton Grange sailed from Wellington June 14 for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At a meeting of the Molong Council this week, a letter was received from the treasury, asking the Council to apply to the Government for the validation of a loan of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The "Nepean Times"-says it experienced a surprise call when Alderman Noller, J.P. Mayor of Parramatta, dropped in on the way through from Leura. Mayor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →INVERELL.—Ashford temporary shire council met on Monday, and Mr. R. J. Higgins was elected chairman. SUTHERLAND.—Meeting held at Miranda. Mr. G…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A meeting of the Leichhardt Municipal Council was held on Monday evening, the Mayor (Alderman Neal) presiding. Alderman Treadgold moved-- "That this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the last meeting of the above Council, The Mayor verbally reported the result of the deputation to the Premier…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The council of the Railway Institute some little time ago appointed a sub-committee to draw up a scheme for improving the methods of teaching the various trades to apprentices,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At the last monthly meeting there was a good attendance, under the presidency of Mr. C. Frater. Correspondence was read from the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →At the Balmain Council meeting last night, on the motion of the Mayor (Alderman M. H. Cohen) the following resolutions were agreed to without discussion:—"[?]. That Messrs. Law and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Arthur Phillips, the Deputy Coroner, and secretary of the Albury Racing Club, has been selected as clerk of Hume Shire Council…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →COOLAMON, Wednesday.--Mr. W. H. Robson has been appointed president of the Coolamon Shire Council, and Mr. .L E. A. Florence temporary clerk. HORNSBY, Wednesday.--At the meeting of the Hornsby…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A deputation representing the Workmen's Dwellings Committee, headed hy Aldermen M'Ivor, English, Fitzgerald, and Perry, and Mr. J. Cochrane (secretary for the Sydney Labor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday the Lord Mayor (Alderman Allen Taylor) received a deputation of the Market Gardeners' Association, who sought information as to what the council proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Wednesday, 2.50 p.m.-The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has dismissed the appeal in the case of Spencer v. Langdon. Mr. Frank Farnell, chairman of the Fisheries…
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