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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1897

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Parliament. Wednesday, December 1. Legislative Assembly. the Warren Bore. Trade Disputes Bill. Friendly Societies. Crown Land Bill. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 December 1897 · page 5

THE SPEAKER took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. PRIVILEGE. Mr. COPELAND, as a question of…

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Parliament. Thursday, December 2. Legislative Assembly. the Port Kembla Bill. Probate Duties Bill. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 December 1897 · page 5

THE SPEAKER took the chair at half-past o'clock. THE PORT KEMBLA BILL. Mr. YOUNG moved the third reading of…

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The Mary A. TROOP. Action in Parliament. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 December 1897 · page 5

ON the motion for adjournment in the Assembly this morning Mr. Dick said he desired to draw the attention of the Premier to the extraordinary flaw in the Shipping…

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Parliament. Friday, December 3. Legislative Assembly. Probate Duties Bill. Stockton Graving Dock Bill. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 December 1897 · page 5

AFTER our report closed this morning the Legislative Assembly continued the debate on the Probate Duties Bill. After the carrying of the second reading the bill was taken…

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The Cretan Trouble. the Governorship. Russian Candidates

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 December 1897 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The names of three candidates have been submitted by Russia for the Governorship of Crete. The Powers have rejected two…

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The Liberals and the Next Election. What Mr. H. Gladstone Thinks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 December 1897 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—Mr. Herbert Gladstone, M.P., speaking at Guildford last night, said that if the Liberals desired direct to win at the…

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Parliament. Tuesday, December 7. Legislative Assembly. Distress at Dudley and Wallsend. the Easter Encampment. North Coast Line. Savings Bank of New South Wales. Womanhood Suffrage. Primitive Methodist Church Property Bill. the Weighing of Coal. Probate Duties. Municipal Subsidies Bill. Artesian Wells Bill. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 December 1897 · page 5

THE Speaker took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock QUESTIONS. Mr. WATKINS asked the Minister for…

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South Australia. Adelaide, Wednesday. Business in Parliament

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 December 1897 · page 5

During an all-night sitting on Wednesday the Government was defeated by the Labour party in the effort to strike £20,000 off the railway estimates, and £10,000 was…

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Fire Alarm at Parliament House. Firemen and the Refreshment Room. Arrival of Suburban Brigades. Sydney, Thursday Morning

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 December 1897 · page 5

AT 12.30 Parliament House was surrounded with the full strength of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, with fire engines and other appliances complete…

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Parliament. Wednesday, December 8. Legislative Assembly. Amending the Libel Act. Plebiscite on the Fiscal Question. Dredging Lake Macquarie. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 December 1897 · page 5

THE Speaker took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. QUESTIONS. Mr. YOUNG, in answer to Mr. WHEELER,…

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Parliament. Thursday, December 9. Legislative Assembly. Sunday Trading. False Alarm of Fire. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 December 1897 · page 5

THE Speaker took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. SLEATH said, that as a matter of…

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Wharf Labourers' Union. Election of Officers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 December 1897 · page 4

A MEETING of the recently-formed Wharf Labourers' Union was held in Dooley's Hall, Watt-street, last evening, and, notwithstanding the unpropitious state of the…

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Federation and Parliament. Address by Mr. E. Barton. Sydney, Friday Night

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 December 1897 · page 5

MR. B. BARTON delivered an address in the New Masonic Hall to-night on " Federation and Parliament." Mr. A. W. Meeks was in the chair, and among those on the platform…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Wednesday. the Election Inquiry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 December 1897 · page 5

The petition by Messrs. E. Joske and T. B. Ashworth against the return of Mr. J. S. White as member for Albert Park was this morning withdrawn by the petitioners. The…

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