Some Peculiar Bets. on the Presidential Election
SOME very curious wages were made in connection with the U.S. Presidential election :-- A Detroit Republican agreed to…
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Politics & elections, 1901
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The Federal Parliament
It has been given out in one of the Melbonrne papers that the tariff will be prepared and an emitted as a part of the session's business. This, Mr. Barton explains, is his desire. He…
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The measures to be dealt with by the Federal Parliament at an early date comprise bills to provide for the taking over of the Postal, the Customs, and the Defence Departments. Another…
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It has been decided that there shall not be another session of the present Parliament. That is a wise decision. Political affairs are in such a mixed condition that a dissolution is preferable to…
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There will not be a lack, of candidates for the State Parliament, and there are signs that party discipline will not be so strong in the contests for seats in the new Assembly us it was for places in the…
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It is stated that the Commonwealth Civil Sorvice Bill is to be a marked advance on corresponding State measures. There is to be an abandonment of the system of promotion by routine; there is to be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Municipal Election. Mr. A. Meek Returned
The official declaration of the nomination for the extracrdinary vacaney in Maclean Council, caused by the retirement of Aid. D. T. Burt, took place on Saturday, and resulted in the…
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The weather in Melbourne to-day is wet, cold and wintry. Immediately the Exhibition Building doors were opened the building was rushed by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Opening the Federal Parliament. a Gorgeous Spectacle. Speech by the Duke of York. a Never-to-be-forgotten Scene. Sydney, Thursday Night
The weather in Melbourne to-day was somewhat wintry and unpleasant, but this made no appreciable difference in the numbers that thronged the streets…
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IN accordance with an advertisement in our last issue, a fairly well attended meeting of electors favorable to the candidature of Mr. G. S. Briner for the Raleigh electorate, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Federal Parliament The Opening Ceremony. A Gorgeous Display
MELBOURNE, THURSDAY,—The Federal Parliament was opened to-day amidst a scene of great splendonr. Gathered together in the magnifican interior of the Exhibition building, the larges…
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THE State Minister for Lands announced at Wellington yesterday that the Government intended to introduce, both a Re-appraisement and Closer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Federal Parliament. the Governor-general's Speech
THE Governor-General's speech, read in the Senate on Friday, said that measures will first be introduced for setting in motion the machinery…
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Sir Richard Baker, who has been elected President of the Senate, was president of the Legislative Council of South Australia at the time of the Federal elections. He was born at North Adelaide…
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THERE were 14,000 or 15,000 persons present in the Exhibition building, Melbourne, on Thursday to witness the opening of the Federal Parliament. The building has the largest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"The Examiner." Tuesday, May 14Th, 1901. Political and Social The Federal Parliament
The great ceremony ia over; the Federal Parliament has been opened with all the honours. The Commonwealth has now entered upon its career, and what that career will be who can say? The…
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PREMIER Peacock, of Victoria, offered the Federal Government the use of Melbourne State Parliament House for the Federal Parliament. A majority of the members of the…
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SIR,—At Tuesday's meeting of the Maclean Municipal Council, Ald. Mackay asked the Mayor "whether I intended, as I promised to do, win or lose, to pay the cost of the late election." These are…
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A BOWRA correspondent informs us that fully 130 electors attended the meeting con-vened by Mr. A. Graham in the Royal Hotel…
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Sir Wm, Lynn has convened a conference of electoral officers of all the States with a view to drafting a Commonwealth Electoral Bill, The Inter-State Commission Bill, the Commonwealth Publice Service…
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