AFTER carefully and charitable perusing the papers submitted to the Legislative Council, relative to the addition to the salary of the Colonial Treasurer, claimed by that gentleman, we have thrown them down upon the table with the most unmitigated disgust at the ...
Article : 512 wordsWhether Mr. E. Dean Thomson has, or ever had, any aspirations to fill Mr. La Trobe's old shoes, whenever the former might succeed in plotting him out of them we are not exactly in the secret thus far to affirm. We all know he is fond of ousting superior ...
Article : 1,980 wordsThe preposterous idea of requiring any qualification for members to serve in the Legislative Council might be illustrated by dozens of cases; but some of these instances are so remarkable that, at the present moment, it might not be amiss to refer ...
Article : 438 wordsWe might as well have included "Magistrates" under this heading. The same process which manufactures the one manufactures the other. When we take a glance at the Nominees of Council, and a slight retrospective view of their past career, their ...
Article : 765 wordsPresent -- the Mayor, Alderman Ryan, Councillors, Eldridge Peden, Thomas, Weekes, Watson Broad, Oatley, Arkins, Hogan Simmons, Driver, M'Encroe. The Town Clerk read the minutes of the last meeting. ...
Article : 753 wordsSwallows have for a long time past, taken a fancy to build their nests outside of peoples' windows. People have seldom found fault with the quarters thus taken up by them; because, with the exception of a slight chirraping, now and again, and an occasional ...
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