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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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Mr. W. J. Laws. Mayor of Balmain, was interviewed by a "Star" reporter on Tuesday on the council's relations with the Electric Lighting Company, whose prospectus we…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following estimates were adopted at the last meeting of the council:—Amount of the proposed expenditure out of the general fund, to which the proceeds of the rate are to be carried, £20,935 11s 5d;…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The annual meeting of the Western District of the Western District Council was held in Dubbo last week, the president, Mr. A. fel, in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The regular meeting of the Redfern Municipal Council was held last night, the Mayor (Alderman J. Leitch) presiding. The valuators. Messrs. Palmer and Son,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A special meeting of the Marrickville Council was held to adopt the report of the estimated expenditure (£20,000) for the current term, and to strike a rate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When the Balmain Council first listened to a scheme for obtaining from a company that was to be promoted electric lighting, which it did not want, and a garbage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Proceedings were brought with the view of busting three Leichhardt alderman from office. Mr. D. G. Ferguson (instructed by Messrs. Davis and Wolstenholme) moved on behalf of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A report was presented to the last meeting of Redfern Council from the electrical engineer (Mr. Balfour) with reference to the failure for short periods, on recent occasions,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. W. Cleland (the retiring,Mayor of Willoughby) in his annual report said that the Local Government Act appeared adequate, but was likely to prove [?]oo…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the council meeting on Monday night a motion was carried by six votes to five affirming the desirableness of establishing municipal baths…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The unimproved capital value of rateable land in the municipality is set down a[?] £196,348, and the assessed annual value at £15,368. The limit of general rates and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Although so much work is done in committee, the fact, that the City Council has been unable to get within distance of clearing its business sheet at two consecutive…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"You cannot kill persistent will'--Heavens! but I like that line." It was a well-known city alderman who unburdened himself of the quotation, and embellished it with the little aside…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Mayor of Waterloo (Alderman Ross) entertained a number of friends and municipal representatives at the local Town Hall on Friday night to celebrate the occasion of his election…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the East Maitland Police Court to-day, before the police magistrate, Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, Jas. Bernard Rooney was charged, on an information by John Thomas Russell,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A special meeting of the above was held on Monday night last, when here were present—The Mayor (Ald Higgins), Ald Judges, Hand, Masters,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At a special meeting of the Redfern-Council, the Mayor and council clerk were empowered to ascertain the best arrangements thatt could be made with the council's bankers for the transference at the debit…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Hurstville council, at its meeting on Tuesday, resolved, on the motion of Ald. Cook, to protest to the Government, in the strongest manner possible against the proposed reservation of 2800 acres, for a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sir, I hope you will grant me a small space in your valuable paper to call the attention of the ratepayers to the above…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,--Alderman Thomas Henley, M.L.A., having addressed a circular letter to the aldermen comprising the councils of the municipalities affected by the operations of the…
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