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Northern Rivers · Politics & elections
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THE Lismore-Tweed, Railway and Byron Bay Break water resolutions were not moved last night. It is not expected they will come on before the end of next week…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. WILLIS moved the abolition of the tea duty. The whole of the Opposition present supported the motion, which the freetraders opposed. The parliamentary whips set to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Assembly yesternight Mr. DIBBS moved the adjournment of the House, and said he condemned the Government for not proceeding with practical legislation. The wants of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE news which reached here shortly after 9 a in on Thursday that the railway to the Tweed had been passed by Parliament quickly spread, and although the full significance of the news…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following comments on the discussion are taken from the S. M. Herald:— The whole of the formal business having been pushed through in the short space of 20…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Assembly yesterday Mr. Bruce Smith obtained leave to introduce the various Public Works Bills, which will probably be proceeded with on Wednesday next…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Assembly yesternight, in reply to questions, the COLONIAL TREASURER said none of the Treasury bills created to extinguish the deficit bad yet been placed upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Assembly put through a large amount of business yesternight. There was only a small attendance of members, at times only 10 or 12 being on the opposition benches…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN the Assembly yesternight Mr. COPELAND introduced a bill limiting the duration of sessions of Parliament. Mr. M'Court has been elected to the vacancy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LISMORE TO THE TWEED RAILWAY BILL. On Thursday Mr. Bruce, Smith moved the third reading of the Lismore to the Tweed Railway Bill…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN the Assembly yesternight an unusually large number of questions were asked of no material importance. One with regard to the private bar nuisance showed that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Assembly yesternight a number of questions were answered of no material importance. Mr. W. STEPHEN moved the adjournment of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE case of the unfortunate men SMITH and SULLIVAN, which was before Parliament on the 29th ultimo, does not appear to have received much consideration from members…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN the Assembly yesternight the preliminary business was without material importance. Mr. BRUNKER moved the second reading of the Clown Rents Bill No. 2, contending that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN the Assembly yesterday after the preliminary business was disposed of, Mr. DIBBS asked the Colonial Treasurer if he was prepared to state definitely when teh financial…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Assembly yesternight the atmost good feeling provailed, and all signs of obstructive tactics had vanished. The preliminary business was unimportant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Legislative Assembly yesternight there was a large attendance, the galleries and precincts of the chamher being crowded. Mr. DIBBS gave notice of the introduction…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. SALOMONS raised a point of order in effect that the whole Bill was absolutely illegal, inasmuch that the original Bill-had-been-altored from Grafton to Tweed Railway, to Lismore to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Assembly yesternight, in reply to a question, Mr. M'MILLAN said the Government do not think of carrying into effect any great constitutional change in regard to Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Assembly, in reply to Mr. Garvan, the Premier stated the Government considered it would not be in the public interest to take any legislative step in connection…
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