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Politics & elections, 1871

4 stories in Riverina's papers

Election Humours in Victoria

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 15 March 1871 · page 4

IN the "good old times," (says the Australasian) when elections in England lasted for a fortnight, and Sam House, the publican, sold beer at 3d. a pot in…

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An Election Riot in Victoria

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 18 March 1871 · page 4

SANDHURST has at present the unenviable pre-eminence of being the only place at which riotous proceedings have taken place during the present…

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Young Men in Parliament. (From the Freeman's Journal.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 31 May 1871 · page 3

AS no spectacle is fairer and more ennobling than a brave young man called to a place of responsibility, quietly discharging public duty and honourably earning his bread, so…

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The Opening of the First Imperial German Parliament. (From the Times.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 17 June 1871 · page 4

THE "White Hall" is a magnificent one, worthy the imposing spectacle it was to witness, and characteristic of it. Architecture and decoration blend…

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