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Murray · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1875

76 stories in Murray's papers · page 3 of 4

New South Wales Parliament

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 10 July 1875 · page 16

In the Legislative Council on Tuesday, the 29th June, the House again went into committee for the further consideration of the Land Bill Clause 2, having reference to improvements in…

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New South Wales Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Friday, June 18. Telegraph Wire From Hat to [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 July 1875 · page 4

Mr. W. H. Suttor (for Mr. Phelps) asked the Postmaster-General,—“Is it the intention of the Government to place on the Estimates for 1876 a sum of money for the creation of a…

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New South Wales Parliament

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 17 July 1875 · page 15

In the legislative Council, on Tuesday, the 6th inst., the House again into committee on the Land Bill. Clause 15 was the first under consideration, referring to the forfeiture of lands shown to…

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Victorian Parliament

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 24 July 1875 · page 15

After having been made a subject for comment by the press, and been the cause of legal proceedings, the case of the Bates children has—in accordance with the usual colonial practice—been…

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New South Wales Parliament

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 24 July 1875 · page 16

In the Legislative Council, on Tuesday, the 13th inst., the consideration of the Land Bill was resumed in committee. A new clause was proposed by Mr. Watt to stand as clause 3 of the…

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Victorian Parliament

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 31 July 1875 · page 15

A bill for amending the Impounding Act—a statute that is greatly in need of amendment, it being practically inoperative—was briefly discussed in the Legislative Council, on Tuesday…

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New South Wales Parliament

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 31 July 1875 · page 16

The consideration of the Laud Bill was resumed the Legislative Council, oil Tuesday, the 20th inst.; the clause before the House being that providing that selectors upon lensed land should…

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Tasmania. Opening of the Tasmanian Parliament. Hobart Town

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 31 July 1875 · page 11

Parliament was opened to-day by His Excellency the Governor, in the presence of a more than usually large attendance of ladies and gentlemen. Sir J, M. Wilson was unanimously elected…

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Victorian Parliament. Ministerial Crisis

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 7 August 1875 · page 18

Consequent on the vote of the Legislative Assembly, on Thursday, on tho spirit duties, being regarded as a test of the opinions of the House on the Ministerial financial policy, the…

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New South Wales Parliament. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 7 August 1875 · page 18

In the Legislative Assembly, on Tuesday, the 27th ult., Mr. Sutherland undercover of a motion for the adjournment of the House stated that he had been misrepresented during his temporary…

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The Yackandandah Shire Elections

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 7 August 1875 · page 17

Complaints are freely made relative to municipal mismanagement, but when opportunity offers ratepayers decline to take any trouble to improve the calibre of the local bodies to…

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New South Wales Parliament

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 14 August 1875 · page 17

In the Legislative Council, on Tuesday, the 3rd inst,, the Volunteer Force Regulation Act Amendment Bill passed through its final stages. and was returned to the Assembly without…

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Prorogation of the New South Wales Parliament

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 August 1875 · page 3

SYDNEY, August 11.—Parliament was prorogued to-day to 14th September. The Governor's speech referred to the measures passed during the session, particularly to the Land Bill, and the satisfactory…

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New South Wales Parliament

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 21 August 1875 · page 8

In the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, Mr. Buchanan moved— “That in the opinion of this House, the fact that any single member can clear the House of strangers, by merely calling the…

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The Privileges of Parliament

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 August 1875 · page 3

The Standing Orders Committee, to whom was referred the question of privilege in reference to the offer of a bribe to Mr. Scholey, M.P., within the precincts of the Legislative Assembly, agreed to…

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Victorian Parliament

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 15

Mr. Berry, pursuant to the custom of Chief Secretaries on meeting Parliament after their acceptance of office, took the Assembly into his confidence on Tuesday evening, and explained…

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Victorian Parliament

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 10

Before proceeding to what may be termed the real business—the debate on the financial statement and the want of confidence motion brought forward by Sir James M’Culloch—the Legislative…

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Victorian Parliament

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 2 October 1875 · page 15

Reference was made by Mr. Higinbotham in the Assembly, on Tuesday, to the report of the Judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in the cases of Winter v. the…

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Victorian Parliament

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 9 October 1875 · page 15

Attention was directed in the Legislative Assembly, on Tuesday, to the proposed abdication of the Minister of Lands in the Echuca dummy cases. It was alleged by Mr. Mackay,…

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