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Hunter Valley · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1900

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The City Elections

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 December 1900 · page 2

THE polling for the election of aldermen under the new regime takes place on Friday. Candidates are numerous, but there is a strong family likeness…

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Parliament

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 8 December 1900 · page 4

Parliament was pro[?]ogued by proclamation on Wednesday last until the 16th January next. It is probable, however, that it will not meet again until April of May…

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The British Parliament

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 December 1900 · page 3

The Marquis of Salisbury, in the House of Lords in the debate on the Address in Reply, strenuously reiterated that the war in South Africa would bo prosecuted to the end. The British policy, he said,…

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The City Municipal Elections

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 December 1900 · page 3

Ministers of the Crown express themselves as highly gratified at the result of yesterday's municipal elections…

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Parliament

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 12 December 1900 · page 2

Parliament has obligiugly taken itself off. Advantage was taken of the generally weak and spineless character of the position to pass a…

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The Imperial Parliament

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 December 1900 · page 3

In the House of Commons yesterday the debate on the Address in Reply to the Queens speech was resumed mr. Lloyd-George Liberal moved an amendment, indirectly condemning Mr…

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The Issue in the Federal Election

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 December 1900 · page 2

ALTHOUGH Mr. Reid has not definitely announced himself to be a candidate for election to the Federal Parliament, his activity in the freetrade cause is a tacit declaration to that…

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The Imperial Parliament. London, Dec. 7

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 December 1900 · page 3

The Queen's Speech is the shortest on record. It only states Parliament is summoned to make further provision for South Africa, China, and other matters left over from the spring…

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The Issue in the Federal Election

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 December 1900 · page 11

Although Mr. Reid has not definitely announced himself to be a candidate for election to the Federal Parliament, his activity in the freetrade cause is a tacit declaration to that…

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Late News by Cable. London, Dec. 16. the Imperial Parliament

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 December 1900 · page 3

Parliament was prorogued yesterday. It will reassemble on February 14…

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Tuesday, December 18th. 1900. THE N.A.A. ELECTION

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 18 December 1900 · page 2

THE ballot, in connection with the election of office-bearers and committee of the Northern Agricultural Association, was counted last Saturday…

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Letter to the Editor, the State Parliament

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 December 1900 · page 8

SIR,—The elections for the State Parliament approaching and it behaves every elector to make the candidates pledge themselves to a diminution of the numbers returned to the State Parliament. Instead of 125, seventy would supply all…

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The Presidential Election. Reasons for M'kinley's Success. Victory for Sound Money

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 December 1900 · page 5

Although the result of the recent national election had been foreseen by careful observers of the course of American politics, not many expected that the decision would be given with so much emphasis. The…

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A Bye-election

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 December 1900 · page 3

In the representation of Blackpool, in the House of Commons Mr. Worseley Taylor, Conservative, has succeeded Sir Matthew White Ridley, who has been elevated to the peerage…

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The Federal Elections

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 25 December 1900 · page 3

ONE of the first stps which the Governer General will be called upon to take after the appointment of the Federal Ministry and the proclama…

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The Federal Parliament. Hunter Electorate

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 29 December 1900 · page 2

On Thursday last, we received the following telegram from Mr. R. G. D, FitzGerald M.L.A.:—"Mr. Barton has decided to stand for the Hunter…

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Election Incidents

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 29 December 1900 · page 5
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

Sir Edward Watkin once distinguished himself in an election contest at Exeter by his adroitness and tact as a canvasser, and a host of stories are in circulation about…

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The Presidential Election. Reasons for M'kinley's Success. Victory for Sound Money

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 December 1900 · page 12

Although the result of the recent national election had been foreseen by careful observers of the course of American politics, not many expected that the decision would be given with so much emphasis. The…

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