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Sir,—I noticed a letter in a recent issue on the above subject by the president, Mr. W. Cowan, advocating a rate of 2d in the £ on the unimproved value of 33 square miles of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →At noon on Wednesday, Mayor C. Dyor, as Returning-officer, read the nominations in connection with the extraordinary vacancies in Newington Ward…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The police authorities have received word from Wellington (N.Z.) of the arrest in that city of Thomas Glassop, late council clerk at Ashfield…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Next Wednesday evening Mr. H. N. Southwell will direct another of the Municipal Concerts, which have proved so successful at the Rotunda in the park. These open-air entertainments are in aid of the park…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The conference of the Meyers of municipalities with the Minister for Works was continued at St. James'-hall yesterday. There was again a large attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Golden Text.— "Rejoice, because your names are written in heaven."—Luke 10:20. Introduction.— At least twenty years have passed since the events of our last lesson. Jacob had gone…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Royal Agricultural Society's Show Ground yesterday the postponed celebrations in connection with St. Patrick's Day were attended by many thousands, a large…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The police authorities in Sydney yesterday receives a message from New Zealand, announcing that the late Council Clerk of Antacid, Thos. Glassop, who disappeared…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The police authorities have received word from Wellington (N.Z.) of the arrest in that city of Thomas Glassop, late council clerk at Ashfield…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GOODRADIGBEE.—A proposal from the Under-Secretary for Public Works has been carried sanctioning the expenditure of £1600 on building a road to Barren Jack. The council will co-operate with several othe[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The gathering at St. James' disclosed the genus Mayor as physically smaller, but more rotund and urbane, than the presidents--in just harmony with a more sedentary environment…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Information has been received by the Ashfield police that Thomas Glassop, ex-council clerk to the Ashfield municipality, was arrested at Wellington (N.Z.) on Friday. A warrant was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A feature of the celebrations held on Saturday at the Show Ground in honor of St. Patrick's Day was a speech by Mr. H. Mahon, M.H.R…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dr. Norris, chairman of thE Board of Public Health, prepared an interesting memorandum on the constitution of combined sanitary districts with whole-time officers of health. He…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Aldermen Hugh Fredericks and Matthew Robson Richardson, representatives of the North Ward, in the Jamberoo municipality, have tendered their resignations…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →One good effect of the Local Government Act will be to make aldermen pay stricter attention to finance. Hitherto some municipal councils have not shown much interest in this important…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As a wind-up to the Municipal Conference which had been sitting in Sydney during last week, the delegates were on Saturday taken by the Minister for Public Works (Mr. C. A. Lee), on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A general association embracing both shires and municipalities would be a strong factor in the State. The existing body, which is now a little inadequate to the times, and perhaps a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the last meeting of the Blacktown Shire Council, Councillor Angus and the engineer (Mr. W. J. Fordyce) pointed out that thousands of pounds' worth of damage was being done to the main Western-road by a traction…
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