Dissolution of Parliament
A FEW years ago, when Mr. Lucas, in an elaborate speech, criticised the administration of the Railway Department, he was humorously charged by Sydney Punch…
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Politics & elections, 1869
6 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers
Bribery by and of Members of the Victorian Parliament
Tub case of Alexander v. Jones, lately tried in Melbourne, has developed a more extended system of corruption among some of the members of the Victorian Legislature than…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Expiring Parliament
THERE seems at last to be a hope that we are all about to be relieved for a time of the chattering obstructionists in the Assembly, who have done so much to make the public weary of the force of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prorogation of Parliament
THE Parliament is prorogued. To all concerned even to those who have had nothing more to do with Parliament than to read the debates, it must be a relief to know that that the long and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Goldwin Smith on the Result of the General Election in England
MR. GOLDWIN SMITH has addressed the following letter to the Bechive newspaper:— The details of the English have at length reached this remote and secluded spot, and I have the means of estimating the real character…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Propagation of Parliament
A MOST welcome official document was issued by his Excellency the Earl of Belmore yesterday—[?] yet eloquent; simple yet convincing. At last the tire some Parliamentary session as brought to a close, and their accustomed [?]tediousness,…
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