Notes and Events. Egg Throwing at Elections
THE majesty of the law and the necessity of the preservation of order at all times and seasons have been vindicated at the Murrurundi Police Court last week. An…
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Politics & elections, 1877
223 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 12
Lower Hunter Election
THERE has been bus very little excitement over this election, people here knowing it was a certainty for Mc, Jacob, Mr. Buchanan did not put in an appearance all day. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Telegrams. The Australian Eleven versus N. S. W. Fifteen. Opening of Parliament. Indian Famine Fund. Annexation of the New Hebrides Collision on the Great Northern Line SYDNEY. Recd. Monday, 8.20 p.m
THE Governor will attend in the Legislative Council on Wednesday to declare the causes of Parliament meeting. Sir G. W. Allen will probably be…
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THE Sydney public are all on the alert about the opening of Parliament. The general impression with many is that Sir John Roberson's Ministry cannot hold its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Telegrams. Opening of N.S.W. PARLIAMENT Fifty-nine Members in Attendance. Sir G.W. Allen re-elected Speaker. Dr. Bowker on Cross-benches, and Mr. Hungerford on Government. Robertson Sworn in for Mudgee and Macquare. Hanging of a Native at New Hebrides Inquiry against Star of India Doctor Ministerial Dinner badly attended. House in Surry Hills Struck by Lightning. Colonel Scratchley in Sydney. SYDNEY. Recd, Tuesday, 8.30 p.m
PARLIAMENT was opened at noon to-day but without any ceremony. The business was merely of a formal nature,—swearing in members and…
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THE ninth Parliament of New South Wales was opened at noon on Tuesday, by Commission, There was little or nothing of that spectacular display usual on such…
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By our Sydney telegrams, it will be seen that Mr. FARNELL has moved a want o[?] confidence motion against the Govern. merit. We may, therefore, expect that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Opening of Parliament. Wednesday, November 28, 1877
MR. SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-seven minutes past 11 o'clock, a.m. The House then proceeded to Government House to present their Speaker to…
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THE Speaker took the chair at twenty-nine minutes past 4 o'clock. [?] were received announcing that the Governor had given the Royal assent to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Select Poetry. the Ninth Parliament of New South Wales. Opened at Noon on Tuesday. King Henry V. ACT 3, SCENE 1
KING HENRY: "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; On close THESE WALLS up with our AUSTRAL…
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THE Speaker took the chair at twenty-nine minutes past 4 o'clock. Mr. Combes, in reply to Mr. Bennett, said that plan, &c., of the survey of the railway…
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The Tamworth News says:— "Those who do not expect much from the wisdom likely to be collected under the existing Electroal Law, at the late…
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WE clip the following extracts from the leading articles of the papers quoted, and recommend them to the notice of our readers:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Telegrams. Another Sea Serpent on the Coast. The Storm in the Interior. Two Women Stabbed in Sydney. Another Victim to Strychnine. The Civic Elections. SYDNEY. Recd. 6.15 p.m
THE chief office of the barque Maid of Judah, reports seeing a sea serpent, about the length of the vessel, off the coast. The vessel passed within 40 yards of it…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →N. S. W. Parliament Legislative Assembly. Tuesday, Dec, 5, 1877
Mr. CAMERON moved the adjournment of the House, in order to be enabled to draw attention to irregularities in conducting immigration The Agent General had stated in a…
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THE following petition appeared in a Supplement to the Government Gazette on Wednesday:— Colonial Secretary's Office,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →N. S. W. Parliament. Legislative Council. Wednesday, Dec. 5, 1877
THE President took the chair at half-past four o'clock. Sir Wm. Macarthur and Mr. Butler Q.C. took the usual oaths, and signed…
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WE have received a neatly got up and very prettily managed galop, written and composed by Herr Becker, whose musical abilities are so well end favorably known hero. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Telegrams. Latest Parliamentary. Election of Mayor for Sydney. Reported that the Marquis of Normanby will succeed Sir Hercules Robinson. Trickett Challenged by the Canadian Champion Sculler. Shipping Disasters Telegraphic Communication with Western Australia. SYDNEY. Monday, Reed. 8.20 p.m
Mr. JAMES MERRIMAN, M.L.A., has been re-elected Mayor of Sydney. A London journal, called Truth, states that Sir Hercules Robinson returns home…
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The Echo, December 8th, 1877.—Alluding to the election of aldermen to the Assembly, this paper says:— "What is the use of electing…
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