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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1907

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After the Election

Delegate Argus · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 4

AFTER humping across hilly roads for six weeks one feels glad to gey home again. Yet an experience such as I have had is an education. I have…

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The Blayney election. SYDNEY

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 14 January 1907 · page 2

Great interest centred in the election for the representation of Blayney in the New South Wales Parliament, and the voting was close…

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The Transvaal elections

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 21 January 1907 · page 2

The Esrl of Elgin, Secretary of State for the Colonise, approves Lord Selborne's refusal to permit Transvaal railway employers to…

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The Federal Parliament. Sir.william Dyne's Movements

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 28 January 1907 · page 3

[?] is being brought to bear upon Federal Ministers to induce them to content to a merely formal meeting of Parliament on February 20. The…

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Election of Mayor of Cooma. Special Meeting of Council

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 15 February 1907 · page 2

A special meeting of the Cooma Municipal Council was held at the Council Chambers yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of electing a…

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Victorian general elections

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 18 February 1907 · page 2

The Victorian general elections will be held on 15th March…

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Intercolonial News. SYDNEY, Friday. The Federal Parliament

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 22 February 1907 · page 2

The Leader of the Opposition, Mr. G. H. Reid, in a speech in the House of Representatives yesterday, made a bitter protest against…

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The elections in the Transvaal

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 22 February 1907 · page 2

In the House of Lords, Lord Harris, the Marquis of Landowns (late Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), and Lord Aubbourne (late…

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Quarrels amongst Irish members of parliament

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 18 March 1907 · page 2

Mr. William O'Brien M.P. has been awarded mages of a farthing each, on six counts, or a total of three halfpence, in proceedings…

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Parliament Supplanted by the Cabinet

Delegate Argus · Friday 19 April 1907 · page 5

The fact that the thinking has to be done by individual heads, in the case of all Parliaments, has led to the existence of a number of persons…

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The Federal Parliament

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 17 May 1907 · page 2

The Federal Parliament will probably not meet before 10th July…

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Cooma Pastures Protection Board. Election of Members

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 17 May 1907 · page 2

The election of five directors of the Cooma Pastures Protection Board, under the Pastures Protection Amendment Act of 1906, took place at Cooma…

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Liberal Candidates for N.S. Wales

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 17 May 1907 · page 2

Trouble is being experienced in selecting liberal candidates for some seats. For Goulburn—Messrs A. James and F. Rose, both good men,…

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The P. P. Board Election

Delegate Argus · Friday 17 May 1907 · page 7

A WELL-ATTENDED public meeting of ratepayers of the P. P. Board was held at Little's Hotel, Bombala, on Monday afternoon,…

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Thackeray as a Parliamentary Candidate. A Neat Compliment From His Opponent

Delegate Argus · Friday 24 May 1907 · page 6

Thackeray's candidature for Oxford is vivaciously, treated in the newly-issued volume, the tenth, of the biographical edition of his works which his daughter, Mrs. Ritchie, is…

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The Sketcher. Electioneering Humours. Of Clever Things said on the Hustings

Delegate Argus · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 6

A Parliamentary candidate has been very fittingly defined as a man who "is asked to stand, wants to sit, and is expected to lie," and whatever the realisation of his…

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Second Russian Parliament dissolved. LONDON

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 17 June 1907 · page 2

The second Parliament or Ro[?] like the first, has been dissolve by the Czar…

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N.S.W. Parliament

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 1 July 1907 · page 2

The final [?] of the wenti[?]h parliament opens to-morrow. The sitting [?] p[?]ob[?]d not extend over a fortnight…

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The State Parliament

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 12 July 1907 · page 2

The State Parliament concluded its business on Thursday, and the battle in the electorates will now commence…

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In and Around Sydney. Some Pen Pictures in Parliament

Delegate Argus · Friday 12 July 1907 · page 5

"Gentleman, Mr. Speaker!" The gentlemen stand ; Mr. Speaker enters the gentlemen bow to Mr. Speaker; Mr. Speaker bows…

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