The Work of Parliament
A PARAGRAPH elsewhere outlines the Government programme for the approaching session of Parliament. In preparation for carrying its measures, the…
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Politics & elections, 1895
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The British Elections
Attention has for the time been fixed on our local politics, so that many persons have failed to notice the results of the general election in the United Kingdom and Ireland…
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Mr. Michael M'Cartan, the late Nationalist member, has been re-elected for South Down, defeating Dr.Rowan, of Melbourne, by a majority of 700. Mr. John Morley, who was defeated for…
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Archie M'Keachnie, one of the candidates for the representation of St. Peters, appeared at the Newtown. Police Court on Friday in answer to a summons charging him with ri[?]ous behaviour in Cook's…
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Aa at the time of the election of Speaker there will be no Leader of the Opposition, probably the duty of congratulating Mr. Speaker will devolve upon Mr. Clarke, the oldest member of…
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The Imperial Parliament will be formally opened on Wednesday next. The Speech from the Throne will be delivered on Thursday. It is expected that the Speech will be of a formal nature, containing…
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TO-DAY, as our readers have been informed, Parliament will assemble, but the time will be fully occupied in tho processes of swearing-in, members of the Assembly, and of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Opening of Parliament. the Proceedings Dull and Uninteresting
The new Parliament was opened at noon to-day, in the presence of a large attendance of members. The galleries were crowded by ladies, but the ceremony was of the tamest possible description…
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Mr. Gully has been re-elected Speaker of the new House of Commons without opposition…
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At the conclusion of the swearing-in ceremony, Mr. Henry Clarke proposed Sir Joseph Abbott as Speaker, remarking that his decisions had always been characterised by firmness, integrity, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Opening of Parliament Sydney one o'clock
Parliament was officially opened at noon to-day by the Lieutenant-Governor. Though the proceedings were somewhat more animated than the formal opening yesterday, yet the function was…
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PARLIAMENT was opened to [?] non at noon to day The [?] evening Parliament having been read in both Houses, the [?] of…
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IT is notable that in England as in New South Wales, the election of a Speaker of the representative Chamber of the Legislature has not been made a party question. Not precisely…
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"Many years ago," remarked an old Kentucky wheel horse, "I engineered a congressional race for a friend of mine, and during my labours in his behalf I got away off into a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Parliament of New South Wales. Wednesday, August 14. Legislative Council. the Address-in-reply
Mr. S. E. Lees moved and Dr. Cullen seconded the Address-in-Reply to the Governor's Speech. After the two new members had spoken a general debate ensued, in the course of which the…
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Mr. John Redmond, leader of the Parnellite section of the Irish party, intends to move an amendment to the Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne insisting that the Government…
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On the assembling of Parliament on Wednesday for the official opening the Vice-legal speech was read as follows: "HONORABLE GENTLEMEN OF THE…
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The debate on the Address-in-Reply was continued in the Legislative Council, Mr. E. E. O'Connor leading off in a lengthy speech, in which he contended that the questions of the exemptions…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Election Joke
Good joke of a northern election: Four electors, who had taken a little more liquor during the day than they could…
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The new Parliament was opened at noon on Wednesday, in the presence of a large attendance of members The galleries were crowded by ladies, but the ceremony was of the tamest possible description…
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