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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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The Government has now in preparation for presentation to Parliament a bill to confer the franchise upon all adult citizens of Sydney in municipal elections. The bill is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the Hurstville Council meeting last night Ald. Hall, the new representative of Penshurst Ward, was welcomed to the table with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alderman J. R. Neilson, whilst at work on Tuesday, in the blacksmith's department of the Clyde Works, met with a very serious and painful accident. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"I desire to review operations of the Council for the past year. The year just closed completes the fifth under the Local Government Act,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Recently a cire[?]lar was issued to Shire and Municipal Councils, under Ministerial authority, showing in what way the Government wished to amend the provisions…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The position of shire clerks who have not passed the regular examination and obtained necessary certificates, although quite competent to discharge their duties, was brought under the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Mayor of Dundas (Alderman F. E. Spurway), who retires from the position in favour of Alderman Nell, presented the following report at the last council…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →This council met on Wednesday Present: The Mayor (Alderman F. Lidbury), Aldermen Woodland, Larcombe, Hayes, Kent, Kingsley, Jenkins, Board, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The ordinary meeting of the council was held on Monday. Present: The Mayor (Alderman G. Ritchie), and Aldermen Gibbons, Cover, Race, Lightfoot, Hunter…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Alderman W. J. Jones, Mayor-elect of Kogarah for the second term is the subject of our brief biographical sketch. Mr. Jones was born in London in 1858,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Rand wick Council as constituted three weeks or so ago found itself unable 1 to elect a Mayor for the ensuing year. Under the Act it then devolved upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This council met on Monday. Present: The Mayor (Alderman A. Hirst), Aldermen Zani[?] Animus, Dobbie, Bailey, Hamilton, McBurney, Stimson and Schorer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An extraordinary waste of electricity occurred at the Town Hall to-day. According to the Corporation Act of 1879 the City Council has to meet four times each…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Having accepted an office of profit under the Crown --that of Minister for Public Works -- Mr. W. H. Edgar, M.L.C., had to retire and nook re-election as…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Orange Municipal Council at its last meeting considered a note from the stationmaster that the Chief Commissioner for Railways would visit Orange shortly, and asking…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →To be led out to the seaffold with her head shrouded in a black veil, and to be guillotined, was the sentence pronounced at the Caen…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Evert Zola never conceived anything so appalling as the details of a crime which were unfolded before the Assize Court of Calvados, in Normandy, where the Baroness…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As announced, the Sunday School Demonstration, in two sections assembled in the Town Hall and Lyceum Hall, Sydney. What a pity that we have not a suitable auditorium in which to hold this annual gathering…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The secretary of the New South Wales Labor Council Mr. E. J. Kavanagh stated this afternoon in answer to a question by an "Evening News" reporter that the Newcastle miners had…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A West Australian correspondent writes in reference to the vacant position of city engineer to the Perth City Council (West Australia). " Mr. Paterson, the last occupant," he writes,…
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