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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1906

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General Election in Great Britain

The Burrowa News · Friday 26 January 1906 · page 2

THE general election in Great Britain is in process of development. The returns received point indubitably to a great Liberal victory. Tan awing of…

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Municipal Elections

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 26 January 1906 · page 2

THE ratepayers should not forget the approaching Municipal elections. So far nothing has been heard definitely as to who the candidates will…

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Labour Parliament

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 2

The first business dealt with on Friday by the Labour Parliament—the annual conference of the Political Labour League of New South Wales—was the exclusion of strangers from…

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Opening of Parliament

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 4

The House of Commons will meet on February 13 for the election of the Speaker and the swearing-in of members The King, accompanied by the Queen, will open-Parliament on February 19…

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Telegrams. British Politics. London, Thursday. the Dublin Election

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 4

The devolutionists are making a strong fight against Mr. Long in Dublin. Lord Dunraven denies that Mr. Long is the mouthpiece of the Irish Unionists, and condemns Mr. Long as an…

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The Elections. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 3

No Unionist has been elected in Wales. A thousand female operatives in the Blackburn district, England, have withdrawn from a trade union as a protest against the…

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General Election Mr. Balfour's Refuge. Mr. Disraeli Defeated. London, Jan. 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 3

To-day is the last day of polling in the district boroughs and county divisions, but it will be some days before the final returns are to hand. In the polling yesterday the notable…

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Election of Officers. Trustees

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 2

The President said they had now to elect three trustees and would ask for nominations. Mr. Collins proposed the names of…

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Labour Parliament

Goulburn Herald · Monday 29 January 1906 · page 2

THE first business dealt with on Friday by the Labour Parliament in Sydney—the annual conference of the Political Labour League of .New South Wales—was the…

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Sudden Death of a Candidate

Goulburn Herald · Monday 29 January 1906 · page 4

After the close of the poll for the election in Galway North, Mr. Higgins, the Nationalist candidate, died suddenly from heart failure…

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General Cables London, January 26. the General Elections

Goulburn Herald · Monday 29 January 1906 · page 4

TO-DAY is the last day of polling in the district boroughs and county divisions, but, it will be some days before the final returns are to hand. In the polling yesterday the notable…

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The British Elections

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 29 January 1906 · page 2

Up to Saturday 661 elections had taken place in the United Kingdom, in the present general elections, out of a total of 670 seats in the House of Commons…

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British Elections

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 30 January 1906 · page 2

Mr. A. J. Balfiar has accepted on public grounds, the offer of Mr. A. G. H. Gibbs, member for the city of London, to resign in his favour. It is not likely…

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The British Elections

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 31 January 1906 · page 2

OF all the features in the British elections, which concluded on Friday last, perhaps the most noticeable is the emphatic manner in which the English working…

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The Municipal Elections

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 31 January 1906 · page 2

MONDAY last was the day fixed for the reception of nominations for the vacancies in the Borough Council [?]ed by the retirement or Aldermen Learmont, M[?]field and Sla[?]r, and for the…

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Labour Parliament. Opposition to Alliances

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 February 1906 · page 4

The annual conference of the Political Labour League of N.S.W. was continued on Tuesday night. It is understood that the chief subject of discussion was ill relation to two important…

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The British Elections. London, Jan. 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 February 1906 · page 4

Latest polling returns of the general election in the United Kingdom give the state of parties as follows:—Liberals, 1375; Labour, 51; Nationalists, 83; Conservatives and Unionists, 152; total, 661…

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General Election. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 February 1906 · page 4

The Times says that if Mr. Haldane's remarks as to purchasing labour be applied to commodities, then freetrade is gone. (Mr. Haldane implied that the State might take…

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General Election. How Parties Stand. London, Jan. 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 February 1906 · page 3

The state of parties in the new House of Commons, with three returns yet to come, is:— Liberals ………378 Conservatives and Unionists ……… 155…

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Municipal Elections. One Contest Only

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 1 February 1906 · page 3

The nominations for the three annual rotation vacancies in the local Municipal Council closed at midnight on Monday last, and the official nomination will take…

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