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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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OTTAWA, Friday.--The Senate yesterday debated the limitation of appeals to the Privy Council on a motion suggesting that the Australian system should be followed…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Senate yesterday debated the question of the limitation of appeals to the Privy Council on a motion suggesting the adoption of the Australian system…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The first year of what has been styled "The Sunday School Advance Movement," has been full of encouragement and blessing. Our people on every hand have expressed hearty approval of the forward step…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One of the first items that engaged the attention of the Lord Mayor (Alderman Cocks) when he took office was the small coal supply stored at the City Council's electric light…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Ex-Alderman John E. Chant, of the firm of J. E. Chant, Ltd., died, this morning after a long Illness. He took a prominent part in public affairs prior to his illness, being an…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Municipally, matters are malodorous and mouldy. Not only Sydney, but the suburban Councils, are shaky and smellful. Prom all quarters come cries for more…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →One of the most outrageous Jobs ever attempted to be perpetrated in the City Council of Sydney is now in course of incubation in the secret cellars and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There was an air of mystery at the office at the North Shore Gasworks last night. It was rumored that the Lord Mayor (Alderman Cocks) would penetrate the envelope of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The next move, so far as the men are concerned, will depend upon the advice of the Gas Employees' Council. This body met at the Trades Hall after the mass meeting on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir,--The statement by the Town Cleric and the Lord Mayor, appearing in to-day's issue of your paper, is a complete refutation that certain alleged irregularities obtained in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The electric lighting department of the Town-hall is being inundated with applications for extensions of the service, no that the in convenience to householders in certain…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →CASINO.--Owing to the financial position of the municipality, a policy of retrenchment has been decided on. The municipal quarry will be closed down, after existing orders have been executed. It has also…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →At the electric lighting committee meeting yesterday afternoon, during a reference to the tenders for carting material, Ald. Arthur M'Elhone mentioned that an individual had been…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The serious allegations of corruption that were ventilated at the last meeting of the North Sydney Council will receive further attention at the meeting of that council…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"The North Sydney electric lighting scheme is coming as fast as we can bring it," said the Mayor (Alderman Walker) last night. "And it is being introduced in the only way…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At the last council meeting, the Mayor of Rockdale, Alderman H. Broe, stated that for the purpose of keeping accounts, it was necessary to draw a cheque for [?]50 the amount…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Lord Mayor of Sydney (Alderman A. A. C. Cocks, M.L.A.) in making a public appeal for volunteers to assist the cempanies to maintain the supply of gas, made the follow…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →What is a dairyman? It seems a pity to waste time discussions a question that any infant-schoolboy can answer. And yet some day in the near future we will probably have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →During a discussion [?] tenders at a meeting of the electric light committee of the City Council yeaterday, a charge of undue favouritism to a certain contractor was made by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Kavanagh, secretary of the Labor Council, stated to-day that the executive committee of that body will hold a special meeting to-night to consider the broad…
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