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Hunter Valley · Politics & elections
193 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 10
A TELEGRAPHIC message received on Tuesday informed us that the Cabinet has decided that Parliament shall meet for dispatch of business on Tuesday, September 26. That seems…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Friday evening a special meeting of the West Maitland Borough Council was held in the Council Chamber for the purpose of electing a successor to the late Mayor (Mr. R. A…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MILITARY warfare is distinguished from other conflicts between men, in the fact that the plans of contending leaders are kept as secret as possible. No general who wishes to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—The indications of the approaching electoral struggle are rapidly multiplying. Every where intending candidates are making their intentions known, and each seat will…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Houses will assemble this day in circumstances which are unprecedented in our history. Legislation of the past session has doomed the representative Chamber, and it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Pope has written to the Archbishop of Bordeaux, the purpose of which is to recommend loyal submission to the Republican Constitution. His Holiness expresses a hope…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Governor opened Parliament at noon to-day in the presence of a very large gathering. The speech, which was remarkably brief, states that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By telegraph from Greville's Co. we were informed on Tuesday that Parliament had been opened that day at noon by Sir Robert Duff, in the presence of a very large…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →INDICATIONS are not wanting that the Government will have no little difficulty in Confining the work of Parliament to the small programme put forth in the Governor's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Speaker announced that he had presented to the Governor the reply adopted by the House to his Excellency's opening of Parliament speech. The Attorney-General, in reply to Mr. G. D…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In consequence of the recent sad death of the late respected Mayor of West Maitland (Mr. R. A. Young) a vacancy occurred in the local Borough Council which it became…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In the Assembly to-day a number of petitions were presented in favor of a Mining on Private Property Bill. Mayor Manning, of Sydney gave…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Tuesday, in the Legislative Assembly, the preliminary business was of no great importance. The Minister of Mines intends to introduce the Coalmining bill…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Premier gave notice of the introduction of a bill to deal with the Naval Defence Act, and also to rescind Mr. Haynes's resolution of yesternight. Several petitions were presented in favour of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir George Dibbs, in answer to Mr Molesworth, said that £140,453 ,7s 11d had beeu paid out of the consolidated revenue to 30 September, 1893, under the provisions…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Legislative Council, having only formal business on the paper for consideration on Thursday, did not sit more than a quarter of an hour. On the motion of Dr. Creed, a select committee was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Assembly to-day the Speaker (Sir Joseph Abbott) being too ill to attend, Mr Ninian Melville occupied the Speaker's chair, and on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Assembly, when it met on Tuesday, found, to its regret, that it lacked a Speaker. The Clerk read a letter from Sir J. P. Abbott, stating, amid many expressions of regret, that an attack of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There was a large attendance of members of the Assembly this afternoon, and a deal of speculation as to the outcome of Sir Henry Parkes' motion of censure…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The champion sleeper of the House of Commons is Sir Richard Temple. Sir Richard is a habitual House sleeper. He makes a business of it. Sir Richard has…
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