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Politics & elections, 1901

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The Federal Election Messrs Gould and Walker

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 12 March 1901 · page 4

AT the Mechanics' Institute on Friday night, the Hon. A. J. Gould and Mr J. T. Walker were received by a large audience on the occasion of…

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The State Election

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 13 March 1901 · page 2

WE are in receipt of a manifesto from Mr. W. M. Fleming, of "Russ ley," Aberdeen, who is a candidate for representation of Robertson Electorate…

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The State Parliament

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 March 1901 · page 3

There is a growing impression in political circled that the State Parliament will not meet again till after the general elections…

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The State Parliament

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 March 1901 · page 2

A PRACTICAL result has come of the newspaper controversy about the need for reducing the numerical strength of the State Parliament. On Tuesday there was formed in Sydney an…

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The Meeting of Parliament

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 March 1901 · page 2

READING between the lines of a paragraph which appeared yesterday in the senior morning Sydney paper, we judge that Mr. See, anticipating his accession to the Prime…

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Federal Elections

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1901 · page 2

IT is rumoured that there will be a contest to the Hunter electorate after all. The Hon. E. Barton is to be opposed by a Mr A. Woodward, of…

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The Federal Election

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 March 1901 · page 2

WE are hearing just now a great deal about the "marvellous prosperity" of New South Wales and the decadance of Victoria, all, of coarse, with the…

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The Candidates

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 March 1901 · page 2

THE list of duly nominated candidates for the Senate grows longer and longer. But there is a terrible lack of quality in the names. The…

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The State Parliament

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1901 · page 4

A PRACTICAL, result has come of the newspaper controversy about the need for reducing the numerical strength of the State Parliament. On Tuesday there was formed in Sydney an…

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The First Federal Member of Parliament

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 16 March 1901 · page 2

The operation of the electoral law of Western Australia has placed Sir John Forrest in the position of being the first member of the Commonwealth Parliament of Australia…

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The Newcastle Elemion Mr Gilbert the Freetrade Candidate

Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 March 1901 · page 3

FOLLOWING is Mr Brunker's reply to the request that he should stand for the City of Newcastle in the Freetrade interest:—" In acknowledging…

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The Federal Parliament

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 March 1901 · page 3

Mr. and Mrs. Mulock, Canadian representatives at the opening of the Federal Parliament, are passengers by the Himalaya…

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The Hunter Election

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 March 1901 · page 3

The retirement of Mr. Higgins from the Hunter contest is considered a very wise step, as it is recognised in political circles that had he gone to the poll he would have been defeated by a ten to one…

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The Federal Elections. Address by Mr. P. HIGGINS

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 March 1901 · page 4

Between two and three hundred people assembled in the Town Hall on Saturday night, to hear an address delivered by Mr. P. Higgins, a Sydney barrister, on behalf of the freetrade candidates for the Senate…

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The Federal Election

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1901 · page 2

IT was rumored on Friday that Mr. Barton was, after all, to have opposition in The Hunter, and the name of Mr. P. Higgens, a city barrister, and…

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The Hunter Election. Mr Biggins not Standing. [By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 19 March 1901 · page 3

MR HIGGINS will not contest the Hunter electorate against Mr Barton…

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Letter to the Editor. a Senate Candidate

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 March 1901 · page 6

SIR,—So the outspokenness of Mr. John Norton meets with the approval of your Goulburn River correspondent. Mr. Norton's outspokenness on the federal question amounts…

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The Federal Election. Address by Mr. J. G. GRIFFIN

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 March 1901 · page 5

Last evening Mr. J. G. Griffin, of Sydney, a candidate for Senatorial honours, delivered an address from the balcony of the Exchange Hotel to a large audience. The Mayor…

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Latest News by Wire. Sydney. an Election Rumour

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 March 1901 · page 3

It is reported that the Hon. E. W. O'Sullivan intends to oppose Mr. Reid for the Federal electorate of East Sydney, but the report is discredited in well-informed circles, the general opinion being that the…

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The Federal Premier's Election. Official Declaration

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 March 1901 · page 3

At the Town Hall at noon to-aay, in the presence of about a dozen electors, Colonel Alex. Wilkinson, Returning-Officer for the Hunter federal electorate, made the official announcement of the election of…

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