A deputation waited upon the Minister for Lands yesterday, to represent to the hon. gentleman the commercial depression, which it was alleged was due to the unsatisfactory provisions of certain clauses of the Land Act. It ...
Article : 2,721 wordsThe sad death of Sir Alexander Stuart, Executive Commissioner for New South Wales, has cast quite a gloom over the Australian colony in London. Ever since his arrival in England, just previous to the ...
Article : 1,652 wordsThe following letter, written to a gentleman in Sydney, by a colonist now in England, although somewhat pessimist in tone, will be read with interest:- "I heard yesterday that a telegram had been received in ...
Article : 1,157 wordsSir,—At last the general public, and the Sydney merchant especially, appear to be waking up to the fact that the Land Act, as it at present stands, has much to do with the commercial wave of depression that has been and still ...
Article : 1,136 wordsNo less than six deputations waited on the Minister for Works (the Hon. W. J. Lyne) yesterday morning. The first to be received consisted of representatives from the Petersham Municipal Council, who asked that a platform ...
Article : 1,103 wordsThe shipment of horses to India (the Melbourne Argus of Wednesday says) is being carried on with a great deal of briskness at present, and the season has commenced with a very fair prospect of activity. The days for the conveyance ...
Article : 491 wordsThe state of the Cook's River-road also formed the subject of a complaint made to the Minister for Works yesterday by a deputation, which was introduced by Mr. J. F. Smith, M.L.A. It was pointed out that the road was ...
Article : 194 wordsSir,—I see from your parliamentary report in this day's paper that Mr. Dibbs, in reply to Mr. O'Sullivan, said the number of civil servants in the colony was 24, 389, equal to 2.43 per cent. of the population. The population of the ...
Article : 105 wordsThe extension of the North Shore Cable Tramway formed the subject of the deputation which next waited on the Minister for Works. Mr. Michael MacMahon, Mayor of Victoria, headed the deputation, which was ...
Article : 234 wordsA large and influential deputation from Parkes and Molong next waited on the Minister of Works to draw his attention to the advantages of extending the railway from Molong to [?], via Manildra, as originally ...
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Advertising : 241 wordsA deputation representing the Council of Waverley waited on his Worship the Mayor, Mr. John Young, yesterday. The deputation set forth that at a certain part of the road known as Carrington-street, which ran in a ...
Article : 147 wordsAnother numerous deputation waited on the Minister for Works to ask his support to a proposed loop-line from St. Peters to Liverpool. The deputation consisted of the Mayor of Liverpool (Mr. J. W. Taylor), and Aldermen C. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 31 Jul 1886, Page 13
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