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Murray · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1888

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New South Wales Parlia-ment. Payment of Members Affirmed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 June 1888 · page 19

In the Assembly on the 14th inst. the first business of importance was the consideration of the Payment of Members Bill, in’[?]roduced by the Minister of Lands in his private capacity. The…

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Votes of Condolence by the British Parliament. London, June 16

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 June 1888 · page 26

Both Houses of Parliament will be asked to pass votes of condolence to the Queen and the Empress Victoria on the death of the Emperor Frederick…

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The Presidential Election

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 26 June 1888 · page 2

London, Monday.—The Republican convention finds considerable difficulty in securing unanimity with reward to the nomination of a candidate for the presidency of the United…

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Victorian Parliament

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 June 1888 · page 37

An ex-Minister who never speaks unless on subjects with which he is thoroughly familiar, and then always with practical force (Mr. Lang ridge), created some astonishment in the Assembly…

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New South Wales Parliament. Thursday, June 21

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 June 1888 · page 37

In the Assembly the correspondence by cable between the Government and the agent-general with regard to the selection of the chief commissioner of railways was laid on the table by the…

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The Presidential Election. the Republican Convention at Chicago. General Harrison the Republican Candidate. Programme of the Party. London, June 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 June 1888 · page 18

The programme put forward by the National Republican Convention which meets at Chicago to select a candidate for the presidential election, denounces the proposal to abolish the…

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The New South Wales Parliament

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 June 1888 · page 3

The agitation so persistently carried on against the of distribution proposed by the Bulli Belief Fund Committee wee revived in the Assembly on Tuesday, when the bill intended to the funds in trustees…

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Victorian Parliament. Tuesday, July 3

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 July 1888 · page 17

The Legislative Council sat only for a few minutes. Replies were received through his Excellency the Governor to the addresses of condolence forwarded to the Queen, the Emperor…

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New South Wales Parliament. Thursday, June 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 July 1888 · page 17

In the Assembly, during the debate on the monthly supply bill, attention was called by Mr Abbott to the delay in passing the rabbit subsidy to the Western district landholders. He stated…

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Victorian Parliament. Tuesday, July 10

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 July 1888 · page 17

The Legislative Council sat only for a few minutes. The President announced to the Council that he had received from the Presidents of the Legislative Councils of South Australia,…

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New South Wales Parliament. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 July 1888 · page 21

In the Assembly to-day the bill to facilitate mining on church and school lands passed its final stage, and it was announced that the Government intended to introduce a bill dealing…

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The Chinese Restriction Bill „ Before Parliament

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 July 1888 · page 26

The threatened rapture between the two Houses in connection with the Chinese Restriction Bill has been averted, the Government having accepted the amendments insisted on by…

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New South Wales Parliament. the Proposed Property Tax. Thursday, July 5

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 July 1888 · page 26

In the Assembly it was decided not to send the pictures now hung in the Assembly Chamber to the Melbourne Exhibition The matter was brought under notice by an application front…

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The New South Wales Parliament

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 July 1888 · page 1

The Government propose to close the session by Friday week, if possible, and with a view of pushing on business will ask the House to sit on Monday and Friday next week. The [?] will probubly take…

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The New South Wales Parliament

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 July 1888 · page 3

In the Assembly on Thursday, after a short debate in which the necessity of introduction a Local Government Bill was strongly urged, the Land Tax Bill was read a third time…

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New South Wales Parliament. Thursday, July 12

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 July 1888 · page 37

In the Assembly, after a short debate, in which the necessity of introducing a Local Government Bill was strongly urged, the Land Tax Bill was read a third time…

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Parliament

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 25 July 1888 · page 3

Another all night sitting has been placed on record by the Assembly, the house sitting from Thursday afternoon till after midnight on Friday last…

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The Victorian Parliament

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 July 1888 · page 2

London, Thursday,—Rear Admiral Field, who stated in the House of Commons that a very able man of great wealth in Victoria had told him…

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New South Wales Parliament

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 July 1888 · page 27

The Government find themselves somewhat in a dilemma in connection with their railway policy. In the Railway Act recently passed to vest the management in commissioners, it is…

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Victorian Parliament. Tuesday, July 24

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 July 1888 · page 37

The annual financial statement submitted by the Treasurer was listened to with eager astonishment by a well-filled House. That Mr. Gillies had a surplus of nearly a million to…

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