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Hunter Valley · Politics & elections
162 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 9
AT the ceremony by which the electors of the Lower Hunter did honor to their representative, Mr. McElhone uttered the common remark that Parliament is what the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Parliament was opened to-day with the usual ceremonial. The Governor's speech [?]fers to the marked depression of trade all [?]r the world, including Victoria, although…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On the motion of Mr. De Salis, it was ordered that the Criminal Law Mitigation Bill, interrupted by a count-out, be restored to the paper…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mr. Speaker took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. There not being a quorum of members present, Mr. Speaker declared the House…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AN exciting and painful scene occurred in the Assembly last night (says the Melbourne Telegraph of July 10), just before the adjournment, when Mr. Bent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Questions were asked by Messrs. M'Elhone, Copeland, Bennett, and Macintosh, and answered by Ministers, or postponed at their request…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The result of the poll which took place on Monday in the election of an alderman to fill the vacancy occasioned by the voiding of Mr. Daniel O'Connor was declared at the Town…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →After a session which has extended over more than ten months, Parliament was prorogued to-day. The event was marked by the usual ceremonies of a Vice-Regal appearance…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Sir John Robertson laid on the table by-laws of several municipalities, by-laws under the Public Vehicles Regulation Act, and amended regulations under the Diseases in…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A meeting of the shareholders in the floating baths company was held in the Council Chambers, West Maitland, yesterday evening. Between twenty-five and thirty shareholders…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DURING the time of a contested election in Meath, some forty years ago, Sir Mark Somerville sent orders to the hotel proprieter in Trim to board and lodge all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The polling for the election of a Fellow to fill a vacancy in the Senate of the Sydney University took place to-day (says the Echo of Thursday), voting being done by ballot in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Venerable Archdeacon Child, Vicar-General of the Diocese of Newcastle, has issued a circular, in obedience to a mandate from the Metropolitan, summoning the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BOHEMIAN in the Brisbane Week thus facetionsly refers to barristers in the Queensland Parliament:— "I never thought barristers were such…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN the Assembly a few days before the prorogation, Mr. McElhone, on a motion for adjournment, said lie had risen to call attention to a gross miscarriage of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday (says the Riverine Herald of August 9) a youth of l8 was brought into Echuca, and lodged in the lockup, on a charge of housebreaking at Torrumbarry, where he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Monday last, at the nomination of candidates in the above election. Mr. Combes made the following observations on the education question and the joint…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—As the Synod of the Church of England in this diocese has been summoned for the special purpose of electing a bishop, I cannot but express my regret, in common with many other churchmen, that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Honerable Sir George Wigram Allen, Knight, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, directs it to be notified for general information, that a Writ hath this day issued, and that the following arrangements…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Tuesday, at noon, in the Court House, Morpeth, the nomination took place of a candidate for the vacancy in the Assembly, caused by the acceptance by the Hen. Robert Wisdom of the office of…
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