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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1904

153 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 8

The Liquor Question and the Forthcoming Election. to the Editor

The Age · Tuesday 31 May 1904 · page 2

SIR,—As the above question will be brought well forward at the forthcoming election, I would like to bring under the notice of electors w' at the temperance people…

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State Parliament

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 3 June 1904 · page 2

A NOTIFICATION appeared in a supplement to the Government Gazette on Monday further proroguing Parliament to June 14…

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Mr. Wise’s Electioneering Trick

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 3 June 1904 · page 2

PROBABLY few of the two hundred delegates who attended Mr. Wise’s Local Government Convention suspected it, but all the same they have been made, quite…

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Our Candidates

The Age · Friday 3 June 1904 · page 2

A LETTER, written by Mr. I. F. Lockwood, the Electoral Deputy of the Queanbeyan branch of the I.O.G.T.,published in last issue of this paper, setting forth political views…

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The Federal Parliament

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 7 June 1904 · page 2

Mr. Hughes declares that any censure motion that may be moved by Mr. Reid would merely be a party move. He believed that if the Federal Government were…

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A Candidate

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 7 June 1904 · page 2

Thus the “Gundagai Independent”:— Harry Dawson, the sporting Sydney, solicitor, has announced his candidature for Monaro. Dawson has suffered defeat on…

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Local and General News. Another Candidate

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 10 June 1904 · page 2

From a notice in this issue it will be seen that out esteemed townsman, Mr. R. M. Higgins, has announced himself as a candidate at the forthcoming election as an…

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Queanbeyan Age with Which Are Incorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror & Captain's Flat Miner. Friday, June 10, 1904. A Third Candidate

The Age · Friday 10 June 1904 · page 2

A DEFINITE announcement of the candidature of Mr. R. M. Higgins, of Braidwood, for the Queanbeyan electorate is advertised in to-day's issue. Mr. Higgins is not a neophyre…

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Members of Parliament and their Claims

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 14 June 1904 · page 2

A correspondent of an exchange writes : One member has given as a reason for opposing reduction of Parliamentary salaries that many M’s.P. “cannot exist” on…

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Election Manifesto

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 14 June 1904 · page 1

THE I.O.G.T. Society has issued the following manifesto:-- Ladies and Gentlemen,--Within a few weeks from now you will be…

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The General Election. Mr. Wade, M.l.a., and Mr. Millard at Braidwood

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 June 1904 · page 2

On Friday evening last Mr. G. A. Wade, M.L.A., and Mr. A. Millard, the selected Reform candidate for Queanbeyan, addressed a fairly large meeting at the Literary Institute, amongst those present being…

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The Federal Parliament

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 28 June 1904 · page 2

IT is useful to analyse the external criticism to which a community is always subject, not only on account of the direct advantages which lie in…

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Appointments in Connection with the Forthcoming Election

The Age · Tuesday 5 July 1904 · page 2

WE have been informed by the new Returning Officer that his instructions are to the effect that, in making the necessary appointments of his Deputies and Poll Clerks for…

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The General Election. Dr. Blackall at Jembaicumbene

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 July 1904 · page 2

DR. BLACKALL, the selected Ministerial candidate for the Queanbeyan electorate, addressed a large meeting at Jembaicumbene on Wednesday night last. Included in the…

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The General Election

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 12 July 1904 · page 2

The Waddell Cabinet on Saturday decided that Parliament should not be dissolved by proclamation, but that it should be permitted to expire by effluxion of time on Saturday…

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Last Federal Elections

The Age · Tuesday 12 July 1904 · page 2

AT the Small Debts Court at Deniliquin last Thursday, John Kelly, presiding officer, sued W. A. Newman, divisional returning officer, Melbourne, for £2 2s, for services…

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The Election

The Age · Tuesday 12 July 1904 · page 2

A SPECIAL reporter of the Sydney Morning Herald paid Queanbeyan a visit on Saturday and left for Bungendore in the afternoon. The reporter says that there is a very strong…

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The General Election

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 July 1904 · page 2

At a meeting of the State Cabinet held on Saturday, it was decided that the general election shall take place on August 6. Mr. Waddell explains that a Saturday was…

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The General Election

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 July 1904 · page 2

The Liberal Party and the People's Reform League, not being in accord in Wollondilly, have decided to allow both Mr. M'Court and Mr. Innes Noad to fight the matter out…

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The Defunct Parliament

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 19 July 1904 · page 2

On Saturday last about midnight, the 19th Parliament of New South Wales expired by eff[?]uxion of time. Those who have been enjoying their £6 a week for…

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