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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1892

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The Imperial Parliament. Probable Date of Dissolution

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 May 1892 · page 4

LONDON, Saturday.—It is reported that at a meeting of the Cabinet to-day it was decided that Parliament should be dissolved at the end of June, probably the 20th…

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Election Riots in Belgium

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 May 1892 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.—The successes of the Clerical party at the elections in Belgium have provoked the liberals, and serious street fighting has occurred in Brussels…

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Hunter District Water Supply Board. Arrangements for Elections. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 May 1892 · page 5

IN a proclamation issued in to-day's Government Gazette the regulations for the election of the municipal members of the Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board…

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A Labour Candidate for Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 June 1892 · page 5

A GENTLEMAN who announced himself as "Andy Kelly," began to harangue the people passing in the street from the School of Arts balcony last night. A large crowd…

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Dissolution of Parliament

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 June 1892 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.—It is now virtually certain that Parliament will be dissolved about the end of June…

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The Bogan Election. Retures Still Incomplete. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 June 1892 · page 4

THE polling for the parliamentary election for the Bogan in the room of Mr. Case, deceased, took place yesterday, but the electorate is so large, and there are so many…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. the Bogan Election

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 June 1892 · page 4

The latest returns from the Bogan election give the following result:—A'Beckett 900, Halloran 830, Plummer 270, Wilkinson 262, Ryrie 234. There are 10 returns yet to…

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In Recess. the Bogan Election

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 June 1892 · page 5

HAS resulted in the return of a gentleman who has had previous Parliamentary experience, and whose active political career was only temporarily severed by the rough…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Sunday. the Bogan Election

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 June 1892 · page 5

ALL the returns for the Began election are now in, and they give Mr. A'Beckett a majorisy of 110 over Mr O'Halloran. COMPLETELY BURNT OUR…

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Hamilton. Mock Parliament

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 June 1892 · page 8

Mr. Britton has succeeded in forming his ministry. His colleagues are—Dr. Smith, and Messrs. Melville, Donald, and Kinder. With such men he should be enabled to…

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Australian News. New South Wales. Municipal Election

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 June 1892 · page 6

THE returning officer, in declaring the result of the municipal election at Queanbeyan, did so under protect by the defeated candidate on account of there being two illegal…

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Australian News. New South Wales. Parliament Further Prorogued

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 June 1892 · page 6

AT a meeting of the Executive Council, Sir Julian Salomons, M.L.C., Vice-President, presiding, Parliament was further prorogued to the middle of July Mr. J. F. Burns,…

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The British Elections

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 June 1892 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday.—The election campaign is now in full swing. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, in a sanguine speech in Birmingham stated that Ulster was organising…

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Queensland. Brisbane, Thursday. a New Election Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 June 1892 · page 5

A new Election Bill is to be introduced for the purpose of preventing ballot stuffing, providing that claimants must set forth their occupation and residence before a justice of…

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Tasmania. Opening of Parliament

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 June 1892 · page 6

The opening of Parliament has been gazetted to take place on July 26. SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. GEORGE SALIER, M.L.C…

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The General Election

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 June 1892 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Mr. A. J. Balfour, leader of the House of Commons, announced this evening in the Chamber that it was the intention of the Government to dissolve…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Tuesday. Municipal Elections

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 June 1892 · page 5

MR SLEATH, secretary of the Miners' Association, was defeated by 12 votes at the election of the Broken Hill Municipal Council yesterday, Mr. Barnett, the nominee of the…

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The British Elections

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 June 1892 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.—Mr. Gladstone will meet the Nonconformist leaders in London on Saturday to discuss the appeal to the electors just issued in view of the coming…

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Queensland Parliament. The Land Grant Railway Bill. BRISBANE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 June 1892 · page 5

In second reading of the Land Grant Railway Bill will be forced to a division to-night, when it is expected the Government will occure a majority of about 12…

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Dissolution of Parliament

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 June 1892 · page 4

LONDON SATURDAY —In the House of Commons yesterday night, Mr. A. J. Balfour announced that Parliament would be dissolved on Juno the 25th or 29th…

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