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Politics & elections, 1871

10 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

The Government and the Parliament

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 11 March 1871 · page 2

THE Legislative machinery of this colony is at a dead-lock. For many months nothing has been done worth recording, because our political men have "been so busy quarrelling as to who should,…

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Dissolution of Parliament

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 2

SIX MONTHS AGO there was probably no greater favorite among all classes than the present Colonial Secretary—we speak of him as an individual and not as a…

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The Queen’s Speech at the Opening of Parliament. My Lords and Gentlemen

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 29 April 1871 · page 4

AT an epoch of such moment to the future fortunes of Europe, I am especially desirous to avail myself of your counsels. The War which broke out in the month of July…

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The Present Parliament

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 13 May 1871 · page 4

No one who was present at the sitting of the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon, would have dreamed, unless accustomed to the scene, that he gazed upon a council of…

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The Present Parliament

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 10 June 1871 · page 1

AT the dinner given to Mr. Cuthbert, last week, Mr. Dibbs, in proposing as a toast “The Parliament,” said, “It was a notorious fact that, so far as the shipowners were concerned,…

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Arrival of the English Mail, Via Suez. News to August 7. Great Orange Riots at New York. 31 People Killed and 175 Wounded. Elections in France Indicate Preference for a Republic. a New Holy Alliance to Be Formed. the Ballot Box Triumphant. General, Home, and Foreign News Favorable

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 2 September 1871 · page 2

THE English Mail via Rangoon, reached Adelaide on Friday, 25th. We take the following chiefly from the Herald’s telegram published last Saturday, and received at Tinonee on Tuesday:…

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Meeting of Parliament

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 7 October 1871 · page 2

NOTWITHSTANDING THE EXPERIENCES OF LAST SESSION—When the House doled out supplies month by months in order to prevent the machinery of…

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Meeting of Parliament

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 18 November 1871 · page 2

AND NOW FOR POLITICS AGAIN ! All our readers are by this time aware that after the usual recess, which we trust honorable members employed in recruiting their…

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The Governor’s Speech at the Opening of Parliament

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 25 November 1871 · page 1

HONOURABLE GENTLEMEN or THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY,— 1. The great length to which the last…

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Arrival of the English Mail, Via Suez. Wreck of the Rangoon Steamer. the Queen’s Health Better. Brigham Young Has Fled. a Clergyman Murdered His Wife. Another Fenian Raid. New Governor Appointed. Prorogation of Parliament. Latest Dates, Nov. 6

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 2 December 1871 · page 2

THE English mail reached Adelaide last Monday. It was brought by the Behar, which took the place of the Rangoon, wrecked on a rock when leaving Galle Harbor on the 1st…

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