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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1903

133 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 5 of 7

Local Option and the Parliament. (To the Editor of the Observer.)

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 6 October 1903 · page 2

SIR,--On the 16th October a resolution in favour of full local option without compensation will come before the Legislative Assembly and it is of vital consequence…

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Parliamentary Elections

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 6 October 1903 · page 2

IT is notified in the Government Gazette that the time within which copies of the general lists of voters for the Legislative Assembly must be transmitted to revision…

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Open Column. (The public are allowed to express their opinions in this column providing all correspondence is signed by the writer—not necessarily for publication. At the same time, we wish it to be clearly understood that we do not endorse the ideas of those whose make use of it.—Ed. Q. A.) Local Option and the Parliament. to the Editor

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 October 1903 · page 2

SIR,—On the 16th of October a resolution in favour of full Local Option without Compensation will come before the Legislative Assembly and it is of vital consequence that…

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The Cooma Candidate

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 9 October 1903 · page 2

We “Queanbeyan Age, have received private communication from Cooma in which reference is made to the young political aspirate who is preparing for the…

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N.S.W. Parliament

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 10 October 1903 · page 2

Dr. Ross made an unsuccessful attempt to get his Juvenile Smoking Bill finally passed on Tuesday. The House will sit in conjunction with the regulative Council on Thursday to elect a…

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N.S.W. Parliament

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 October 1903 · page 2

In view of the nature of the business that was to come before the legislative Assembly on Tuesday the smallness of the attendance in the House was not readily accountable. It was said that…

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Boers in Parliament

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 20 October 1903 · page 2

Two most uncompromising Members of the Afrikander Bond have been elected to the Natal Parliament by the districts transferred from the Transvaal after the war…

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Schools and Halls As Polling Booths

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 23 October 1903 · page 3

With a view of saving expense, Mr. Perry, has granted the use of the public school buildings as polling booths for the Federal and State elections, so long as those elections…

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The Federal Elections

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 October 1903 · page 3

WE mention for the general information of the electors of this electorate that the electoral roll for each division of this electorate may be now inspected at the respective post…

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N.S.W. Parliament

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 24 October 1903 · page 2

In the Assembly on Monday, another discussion on the Federal capital question took place. Mr. Wood sought to open up a discussion on the lands administration. To do so he moved the suspension…

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Federal Candidates’ Election Expenses

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 27 October 1903 · page 4

With regard to Federal candidates’ expenses sections 169,170 and 171 of the Commonwealth Electoral Bill bear upon this point. Briefly, they enact that the…

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Queanbeyan Age with Which Are Incorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror & Captain's Flat Miner. Tuesday, October 27, 1903. the Federal Parliament

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 October 1903 · page 2

Mow that Parliament has been prorogued, the whole of the Federal political attention of the nation will be applied to the coming elections. The record of the Legislature…

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Glen Innes Election

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 27 October 1903 · page 2

Glen Inness, Saturday.—It is anticipated by good authorities here that Mr. Thomas, the Opposition candidate, will win the Glen Innes seat by a majority of 200 votes. The…

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Public Schools as Federal Polling Places

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 October 1903 · page 2

MR. JESSOP : I wish to ask the Minister for Public Instruction if it is a fact that arrangements have been made by his department with the Federal authorities to…

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Federal Election

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 October 1903 · page 2

THE proposal to pay the divisional returning officers £26 per annum was endorsed at Tuesday's Executive. Electoral registrars, to the number of 4000, have been…

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Glen Innes Election

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 October 1903 · page 2

GREAT interest was manifested in the Glen Innes election on Wednesday, the result of which was eagerly looked for all over the State, and now it is over, and we find that…

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N.S.W. Parliament

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 31 October 1903 · page 2

Since a witness summoned before a select committee successfully defied the committee and declined to give evidence members of select committees have felt annoyed. The Government has been…

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Federal Elections

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 3 November 1903 · page 4

The proposal to the divisional returning officers £26 per annu[?] was endorsed at Tuesday’s Executive. Electoral registrars, to the number of 4000, have been appointed…

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A Candidate

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 3 November 1903 · page 2

A telegram from Yass to the S. M. HERALD says that it is understood that Mr. Arkin[?] formerly teacher at Reidsdale and Murrumburrah, and now said to be a barrister in…

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Federal Elections

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 6 November 1903 · page 2

In the New England electorate Mr. Deakin will speak on behalf of Mr. Sawers, and Mr. Reid will speak on behalf of Mr. Lonsdale. Mr. Deakin arrived in Sydney on…

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