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Mid North Coast · Politics & elections
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SIR,--I should be very sorry to-think the aldermen of Kempsey were not alive to the responsibility devolving on them in the choice of a Mayor at this critical period in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FRIDAY last saw the polling for three councillors in the place of Ald. Thompson, Bond and Lawlor, whose seats because vacant by effluxion of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A SPECIAL meeting of the Kempsey Borough Council was held on Thursday evening for the purpose of electing a Mayor for the current year. Ald…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Parliament was re-opened to-day, but with no ceremony. There was no ministerial statement, the business of the House being taken up just where it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TUESDAY, FEB. 26TH. -- Parliament reassembled to-day. No gay military uniforms, no thundering of cannon, no formal speechmaking -- members, including ME,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TUESDAY, MARCH 5TH.--We entered the arena, that .is, the Assembly, with our loins girded for the fight. Our side were confident of victory over the censure motion,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TUESDAY, MARCH 12TH.--With a heavy week's work before us, we entered the chamber to-day determined to keep strictly to business. Your other member, Mr. F…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TUESDAY, March 19th.--The first thing we did to-day was to pass an address of Condolence to Lady Duff. Premier Reid spoke very highly of Sir Robert Duff's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TUESDAY, MARCH 26. -- After a reply from Lady Duff to the address of condolence passed by the Assembly had been read, and Mr. Rose had tried to glean…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TUESDAY, APRIL 2ND. -- The O'Sullivan, who is never happy unless worrying himself over someone else's salary, elicited as Soon as the House assembled that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TUESDAY, APRIL 9TH. -- I object to holidays, strongly. When the House met to-day we members knew that we would have to work hard to allow the frivolous…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17TH. -- These facts were elicited to-day by questioning members: That the Civil Service Commission cost the country £971 11s 6d and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TUESDAY, APRIL 23RD. -- Nearly all the "agitating" members of the House had one or more questions on the business-paper to-day. Among other, the following…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TUESDAY, APRIL 30TH -- Inquiring members having elicited the following information -- that the Shea's Creek reclamation works would cost the country £495,179,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AS we have had a very exciting week in the House and I am busy prospecting for a probable portfolio (in case the Government are defeated) I purpose making my…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TUESDAY, MAY 14TH. -- To-day's sitting was marked by the introduction from the Legislative Council of the Medical Practitioners Bill, a measure aimed at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE spent the whole of the week debating Parkes' motion of censure. The talkee-talkee was at times most wearisome, but the upshot of it all was a brilliant victory…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TUESDAY, MAY 28TH. -- "Questions" concerned military retrenchment, Captain Close, and other matters of minor importance. A petition from Newcastle against…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This has been a week of stone-walling in the Assembly. Premier Reid's tariff proposals came on for consideration on Tuesday, and as soon as the Opposition…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TUESDAY, JUNE 11TH. -- Varney Parkes having taken a fresh oath, as if a new member, the usual catalogue of questions came up for answer. The world was…
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