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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1888

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Tuesday, June 5Th. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 June 1888 · page 5

THE Speaker took the chair at the usual hour. MARTINI-HENRY RIFLES. In answer to Mr. Gould…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Tuesday, June 5Th. Sydney, Wednesday. the Supreme Court on the Chinese Question

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 June 1888 · page 5

AT midnight, on the PREMIER'S motion for adjournment, Mr. MOORE called the attention of the Premier to a report of proceedings in the…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Wednesday, June 6Th. Sydney, Thursday. the Land Tax Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 June 1888 · page 5

AT midnight, Mr. DOWEL was speaking, and thought the bill should be so amended as to be of a progressive character as regarded taxation, and…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Thursday, June 7Th. Sydney, Friday. Land Tax Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 June 1888 · page 5

AFTER the division On the second reading of this bill, A motion by Mr. BURNS that the House should go into committee on the third…

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[By Wire From the Sydney Papers.] London, Thursday. Re-election of President Cleveland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 June 1888 · page 5

President Cleveland, the only candidate for the Presidency of the United States, has been declared re-elected. Senator Stanford; of California, the…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Tuesday, June 12Th. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 June 1888 · page 6

THE Speaker took the chair at the usual hour. BOARD OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION. In answer to Mr. Frank Farnell…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Tuesday, June 12Th. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 June 1888 · page 4

MR. COPELAND'S MOTION IN FAVOUR OF PROTECTION.—A CLOSE DIVISION. AT midnight the House was discussing the following motion by Mr. Copeland:—"That,…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Wednesday, June 13. SYDNEY, Thursday. the Railway Policy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 June 1888 · page 5

AT midnight the debate on Mr. Moore's motion for adjournment with the view of alluding to the railway policy of the Government was proceeding…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Thursday, June 14. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 June 1888 · page 5

IN the Assembly, LAND TAX. After Mr. Creer's amendment was negatived, further discussion ensued, in which…

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[Reuter's Telegrams.] BERLIN, Monday. the German Parliament

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 June 1888 · page 5

The German Reichstag has been summoned to meet for the despatch of business on the 25th inst…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Tuesday, June 19. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 June 1888 · page 5

THE Speaker took the chair at the usual hour. RESUMED LAND. In answer to Mr. Fitzgerald,…

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The Presidential Election in the United States

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 June 1888 · page 4

SOME of the papers in New South Wales have fallen into a curious error regarding the American Presidential election. Because Mr. GROVER…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Tuesday, June 19. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 June 1888 · page 5

AT midnight the Assembly was discussing the motion of Sir Henry Parkes, "That the House go into committee to consider the above bill in detail."…

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The French Elections

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 June 1888 · page 5

An election for Charente, in the French Chamber of Deputies, resulted in the return of a Bonapartist. M. Paul Deroulede, the Radical, was…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Thursday, June 21. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 June 1888 · page 5

THE House met at the usual hour. PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS. Mr. BUCHANAN made an explanation as to the remark reported to have been made by…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Tuesday, June 26. SYDNEY, Tuesday. THE Speaker took the chair at the usual hour. Permanent Trustee Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 June 1888 · page 5

THE Speaker took the chair at the annual hour. PERMANENT TRUSTEE BILL. A message was received from His Excellency the Governor, stating that this bill had…

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WASHINGTON, Monday. the Republican Candidate for the Vice-presidency

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 June 1888 · page 5

Levi Morton, of New York, has been nominated as Republican candidate for the vice-presidency…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Wednesday, June 27. SYDNEY, Wednesday. QUESTIONS

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 June 1888 · page 5

THE House met at 3 30 p.m. In reply to Mr. Nobbs, Mr. BURNS said that the amount of revenue for the year 1887, derived from the…

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The Republican Candidates for the U.s. Presidency and Vice-presidency

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 June 1888 · page 4

EX-UNITED STATES Senator General BENJAMIN HARRISON, whom the Republican Convention at Chicago have by their eighth ballot nominated for…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Wednesday, June 27. SYDNEY, Thursday. the Newtown Election

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 June 1888 · page 5

AT midnight, debate was proceeding on Mr. Copeland's motion, "That it be referred to the Committee of Elections and Qualifications to inquire into and report to this House…

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