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Politics & elections, 1868

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New South Wales Parliament. Tuesday, Dcember 7, 1868. (From our Sydney correspondent.) Legislative Assembly

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 10 December 1868 · page 1

Parliament met again to-day, and after the new Ministry had been sworn in, Mr. Robertson made the following statement, for a copy of which I am indebted to the S. M. Herald:—…

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New South Wales Parliament. Tuesday, December 7, 1868. (From our Sydney correspondent.) Legislative Assembly

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 10 December 1868 · page 2

Parliament met again to-day, and after the new Ministry had been sworn in, Mr. Robertson made the following statement for a copy of which I am indebted to the S. M. Herald:—…

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New South Wales Parliament. (From the S. M. Herald.) Tuesday, December 8, 1868. Legislative Council. New Member

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 12 December 1868 · page 2

Mr. Robert Owen took his seat as a member of the Council. DONATION FROM HER MAJESTY. A message was received from the Governor…

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New South Wales Parliament. (From the S. M. Herald.) Thursday, December 10, 1868. Legislative Assembly

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 December 1868 · page 2

[We give all the portions of Thursday's business not already given fully in our correspondence, published in Saturday's Mercury.] QUESTIONS.—Ministers in answer to qnestions said:—…

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New South Wales Parliament. Tuesday, December 15, 1868. Legislative Assembly. (From our Special Correspondent. Sydney, Tuesday night

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 17 December 1868 · page 2

It was a close shave whether there would be a House at all this evening. At 3.30 there were only nineteen members (a quorum), including the Speaker, present. For in the way in which Mr. Gordon came in and walked…

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New South Wales Parliament. Tuesday, December 15, 1868. Legislative Assembly

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 19 December 1868 · page 3

[We have already given, in Thursday's Mercury, from the reports of our special and ordinary Sydney correspondents, the Parliamentary business of Tuesday, up to past nine o'clock that evening. The great interest…

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New South Wales Parliament. Thursday, December 17. (From our Special Correspondent.) Legislative Assembly

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 19 December 1868 · page 4

The speaker took the chair at twenty-nine minutes past three o'clock. In answer to questions, Ministers replied that it was not intended during the present session to bring in a…

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New South Wales Parliament. Thursday, December 17. Legislative Assembly

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 December 1868 · page 2

[We conclude from the Herald's report, the Parliamentary proceedings of Thursday, nearly completed in Saturday's Mercury by our special correspondent] WANT OF CONFIDENCE DEBATE…

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Arrival of the Suez Mail Per Bombay. News to November 27. November Wool Sales Opened Well— Penny Higher. Liberal Majority in New Parliament. Archbishop of Canterbury Dead. Probability of War in Europe. Riots at Drogheda. Prussia Arbitrates Between England and the United States. Spain Declared for Monarchy. Mercury Office, Monday, 2 o'clock p.m

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 December 1868 · page 2

We are in receipt of the following mail telegram from our Sydney correspondent:— The Rangatira has arrived at Glenelg. The Bombay arrived at King George's Sound on the…

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New South Wales Parliament. Tuesday, December 22. (From our Special Correspondent.) Legislative Assembly

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 24 December 1868 · page 2

The Speaker took the chair at twenty-nine minutes past three o'clock. THE STAMP DUTIES. Mr. SAMUEL gave notice that to-morrow be would move…

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New South Wales Parliament. Tuesday, December 22. Legislative Assembly

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 26 December 1868 · page 4

[We take from the Herald's report the concluding portion of Tuesday's proceedings, the report up to ten o'clock having been already given (in Thursday's Mercury) by our special correspondent.]…

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New South Wales Parliament. (From the S. M. Herald.) Wbdnesday, December 23. Legislative Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 26 December 1868 · page 2

THE PANAMA MAIL.—Mr. Owen, in reply to questions relative to the Panama ro[?]te postal communication, stated that the Government had received no despatches relative to the discontinuance of the line; but that the…

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