Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Politics & elections, all years

Riverina · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1885

66 stories in Riverina's papers · page 4 of 4

Election for the Murrumbidgee. Official Declaration of the Poll

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 10 November 1885 · page 2

AT noon, on Saturday last, about a couple of hundred persons assembled in front of the hustings in order to hear the official declaration of the poil. The candidates present…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Opening of Parliament. Sydney, Wednesday, 3 P.m

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 19 November 1885 · page 2

Sir Alfred Stephen, Acting Governor, opened Parliament at noon to-day. In his speech he regrets the long prevailing drought by which the country has seriously suffered,…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Opening of Parliament

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 November 1885 · page 2

THE first real business of the Assembly, after having heard the Governor's speech read by the Speaker, is always to move the appointment of a committee to prepare the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Precis of Parliament

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 24 November 1885 · page 2

ON Friday night Ministers made the replies following Sir Patrick Jenaings, in reply to Mr. Davies, for Mr. Watson, and that Cootamundra had been appointed a polling place for the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

English General Elections. London, 24th November

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 28 November 1885 · page 3

Colonel F. A. Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Mr. G. O. Trevelyan have been returned unopposed for Lancashire and Harwich respectively…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The Young Election

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 30 December 1885 · page 4

REFERRING to the Election and Qualifications Committee's decision, which resulted in the unseating of Mr. W. J. Watson for the Young electorate, the Herald's Young…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →