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Hunter Valley · Politics & elections
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.—Ministers, in answer to questions, said that the matter of a bill to authorise the issue of Deeds of Grant to Trustees for land for Churches, &c., was under…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE MAIL STEAMERS.—Mr. Weekes gave notice of a motion for returns shewing the time occupied in the conveyance of mails by the various routes Suez, and Panama, to London…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEW MEMBER.—Mr. George M'Kay, member for Orange, took the oath and his seat. QUESTIONS ANSWERED.—Ministers, in answer to questions, said that £729,110 beyond the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE BILL.—Mr. Gordon presented petitions from Maitland and Newcastle in favour of the Presbyterian College Bill, with the amendments proposed by him; and a third petition, on the other side, from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →QUESTIONS ANSWERED.—Ministers, in answer to questions, said: That the Registrar-General was authorised to issue the notice of 1st July relative to registration of brands; that sixty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NOTICE OF QUESTION.—Dr. Macfarlane gave notice of a question as to the intentions of the Government with reference to the relief of the sufferers by the floods at Mudgee…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →QUESTIONS ANSWERED.—Ministers, in answer to questions said: The Weatherboard not being a permanent railway station, there would be no telegraphic communication except for railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NOTICES OF QUESTIONS.—Mr. Weekes gave notice of his intention to ask whether the Government proposed to carry out a recommendation made by a Select Committee in a former session, for a survey of the harbour of Port…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →QUESTIONS ANSWERD.—Ministers, in answer to questions, said—That the instructions from the Engineer-inChief to Mr. Barton, late engineer of trial surveys, should be laid on the table; that the traffic returns to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PETITION.—Mr. A. Campbell presented another petition in referenoe to the name to be given to the new Presbyterian College—the petitioner, Mr. T. Buckland— objecting to the name "St. Andrews."—A Message was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →QUESTIONS ANSWERED.—Mr. Byrnes, in answer to questions, said that the Governments of New South Wales and Victoria had agreed upon Echuca as the site for a railway and traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →QUESTIONS ANSWERED—Mr. Dooker, in reply to questions put by Mr. Jennings, stated that it was not tbe intention of the Government to continue the line of telegraph from Wentworth up the Darling to Bourke, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FEDERAL COUNCIL BILL.—A bill to authorise the appointment of members of the Executive Council to be members of a Federal Council for the Australian colonies, brought in by Mr. Parkes, was read a first time…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[Herald.)—The returns have come in from twelve out of the sixteen polling-places. Mr. Suttor has a majority everywhere. The following is the result so far as known: —For Mr. Suttor, 798; for Mr. Forster, 252; majority…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Legislative Council sat for only five minutes yesterday.—Mr. Docker brought, in a Bill to Facilitate Proceeding in Insolvency, which was read a first time.— A Bill to Regulate the Volunteer Force was brought up…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ASSENT TO ACTS—Messages were brought up by the Private Secretary, conveying the assent of his Excellency the Governor, on behalf of her Majesty, to the Border Customs Act, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →QUESTIONS ANSWERED.—Ministers, in answer to questions, said: that Mr. Graham's conditional purchase at Wambangalong was annulled by the Commissioner for Crown Lands, there being no…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SMOKE NUISANCE ACT.—Dr.Macfarlane moved for a number of returns illustrative of the operation of the Smoke Nuisance Abatement Act; and the motion was seconded by Mr. E. Deas Thomson, who expressed his regret that the act had not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ministers, in answers to questions, said: That the tender of Gilbraith and Bridge for supplies to Berrima gaol was declined in consequence of it not being the lowest; that on the 20th July, the Secretary for Works…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PARRAMATTA FACTORY STREET BILL.—The Parramatta Factory street Bill was taken through Committee and reported without amendment. FEDERAL COUNCIL BILL.—The Federal Council Bill…
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