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Riverina · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1889

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 8 August 1889 · page 2

IN the Assembly to-day, the Premier an being questioned as to whether the House would be afforded an early opportunity of expressing its views on the subject of…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 10 August 1889 · page 2

IN the Assembly to day Mr. Farnell postponed for three weeks hie motion for leave to bring in a bill for the suppression of unlawful gaming…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 15 August 1889 · page 2

MATTERS took a peculiar and unexpected turn in the House shortly before the dinner hour to-day, when only a limited number of members were present. When it was…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1889 · page 2

So far all the attempts of the Government to get on with the Estimates Have been rendered nugatory by the tactics pursued by the members of the Opposition. Parliament…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 22 August 1889 · page 2

IN the Assembly to-day, the Postmaster. General admitted that in refusing to forward through the post copies of a recently-established sporting publication, which he…

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The Primate of Australia. the Election of Canon Smith Re-affirmed

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 22 August 1889 · page 3

THE Anglican Synod resumed its sittings in Sydney on Monday, when a large amount of business was got through. Dean Cowper read a letter which he had that day received…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1889 · page 4

THE Assembly to day lost no time in resolving itself into a committee for the consideration of the Estimates. The railway and military Estimated were…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 August 1889 · page 2

THE Council sat late this evening dealing with the Land Bill in committee. The compensation clause, proposing to grant extension of pastoral leases in the Central and…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 31 August 1889 · page 2

THE House went into Committee of supply after 5 o'clock for the further consideration of the Estimates. The first estimate put was Public Instruction, £592,788, and on…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 5 September 1889 · page 2

In the Legislative Council to-day some further progress was made with the postponed clauses of the Land Bill, no material amendments being made. Progress was then…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 12 September 1889 · page 2

THE Council again considered the Land Bill to-day. Clause 43, dealing with the extension of pastoral and homestead leases, was further debaced. The clause had been amended by…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 14 September 1889 · page 2

THE Land Bill, which had passed the third reading in the Legislative Council, was received in the Assembly to-day, the consideration of the amendments being fixed for…

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THE Wagga Wagga Advertiser. Saturday, September 14, 1889. Parliament and the Lash

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 14 September 1889 · page 2

"This is rue liberty, when freeborn men, Having to advise the public, may speak free." MILDOM. THE second reading of Mr. Harold…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 19 September 1889 · page 2

ThE action of the Postmaster-General (Mr. O'Connor) in selling to Messrs. Tate and Co. the right of advertising on the back of postage stamps issued in the colony for one…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 September 1889 · page 2

IN the Legislative Council the Public Works Committe's Remuneration Bill and the General Post-office Approaches Improvement Bill was read a third time. After dealing…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 26 September 1889 · page 2

IN the Legislative Council to-day a message was received from the Assembly, station that the amendment made by the Council in the Payment of Members Bill had been agreed to,…

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THE Wagga Wagga Advertiser. Thursday, September 26, 1889. the French Elections

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 26 September 1889 · page 2

No more satisfactory intelligence has been cabled lo Australia for some time concerning European political matters, than that received regarding the result…

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Parliament

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 28 September 1889 · page 2

In the Legislative Assembly, the Council's amendments on the Land Bill were further considered. The Government asked the House to…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 1 October 1889 · page 2

In the Legislative Assembly to-day, Mr. Frank Farnell was sworn in, and took his seat for Central Cumberland. Mr. Andrew Brown asked the…

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The Municipal Election

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 1 October 1889 · page 2

IN order to enable all persons interested therein to comply with the provisions of the law in reference to the approaching municipal election, we give below an outline of the clauses of the Act bearing…

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