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Hunter Valley · Politics & elections
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Messages were received from his Excellency the Governor, announcing, the royal assent to the Cook's River Road Lighting Bill, and Clift's Coal Leasing Bill, and enclosing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Saturday a meeting of the ratepayers of East Maitland was held at the Council Chambers, Maitland Mechanics' Institute, to elect an auditor of the Borough Council, in the room…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ministers, in answer to questions, said:—That the miners' rights for 1869 had been issued at Nundle by senior constable flynn; that the question of making St. Patrick's Day a holiday had not been under the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →After some discussion on the Police Regulation Bill, in the way of explanations from Mr. Holt, Mr. Docker, and Mr. A. Campbell, The house went into committee on the bill…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →AMONGST the subjects brought up for discussion in England by the recent general election, is the law that unseats members of Parliament, on their accepting office of profit from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ministers, in answer to questions, said:—That the offence of which Joseph and George Launt had been convicted was of such a character as to be andeserving of a remission of sentence; that the Rev. J. A. Burke,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Wednesday evening a special meeting of the members of the West Maitland Company of Volunteer Rifles vas held in Sergeant Shepherd's long room, over the armoury, for the purpose of electing an ensign for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Some time was occupied on a question as to whether the house should adjourn to Tuesday next, or take the usual day (Wednesday), not-withstanding the leave granted to the President,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A meeting of ratepayers in the Borough of West Maitland was held yesterday, at the Council Chambers, for the purpose of hearing announced the names of candidates nominated to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The branch steamer Alexandra, Captain Paddle, reached Glenelg Pier at 8 a.m. to-day, after a passage of 95 hours; the run to the Sound occupied 98 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Royal assent was brought down to the Temporary Appropriation Act, and to the Act for altering the title of the United Fire and Life Insurance Company. [?] SUPERANNUATION FUND…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tuesday night was made an additional sitting day, on the motion of Mr. Owen. In reply to Mr. Weekes's question as to the survey of the valley of the Hawkesbury, in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Parliament was opened to-day. The Queen's speech says:— "There is a special interest in the resumption of your labours at the present time, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ministers, in answer to questions, said—That the Government had proclaimed four roads through a portion of the Water Reserve, and the Sydney Corporation had lodged objections…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Tuesday, at noon, the formal declaration of the result of the ballot for an alderman to serve in the Borough Council, in the room of Dr. Liddell, resigned, took place at the Council…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Sydney Boundaries Amendment Bill was read a second time, and the committal made an order of the day for the next sitting day. A bill for the Prevention of Small-pox was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE referred the other day to the effect produced by the wholesale intimidation practised during the general election in England, upon the former opponents of the ballot. Closely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Owen moved the second reading of the Small-pox Prevention Bill. A lengthened discussion ensued, not so much on the second reading as with respect to an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →OUR graceless Parliament has been prorogued in an appropriately graceless manner. No portion of the blame indeed rests upon the Upper House, which has on the whole pursued a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Owen gave notice for the next sitting day, of fresh motion for suspension of the standing orders, to get through the Compulsory Vaccination Bill through all its stages in one…
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