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Riverina · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1896

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Elections Act Amendment Bill. Introduced in the Assembly

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 4 August 1896 · page 3

The Home went into Committee of the Whole on Friday last to consider the expediency of bringing in a bill to amend the electoral law. In the course of his…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 6 August 1896 · page 2

IN the Assembly to-day, the City Council Electric Lighting Bill passed through committee with some amendments. The bill provides that £250,000 shall be raised by a…

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N.s.w. Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 6 August 1896 · page 2

In the Assembly the City Council Electric Lighting Bill pulsed through committee with some amendment. The bill provides that £250,000 shall be raised by loan by the City…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 13 August 1896 · page 2

IN the Assembly to-day Mr. Fitzpatrick moved the adjournment to call atteution to the case of the man Win. Crcsswell, now in the Parramatta Lunatic Asylum, who is…

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New Zealand Parliament. Wellington

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 13 August 1896 · page 2

IN the Council to-day the Government introduced a bill to amend the Constitution by putting an end to life membership in the Council, and making a certain number of…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 15 August 1896 · page 6

IN the Council the second reading of a bill to change the constitution of the senate of the Sydney University by reducing the terms of office of…

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The Parliament of Agriculture at Wagga. What They Debated

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 18 August 1896 · page 4

THE Farmers' Conference opened on Tuesday. There were fifty delegates present. Mr. G. F. [?], the President presided, [?] the delegates, and congratulated…

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The Parliament of Agriculture at Wagga. the Final Decisions. [Continued from page 4]

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 18 August 1896 · page 2

AT Thursday's sitting of the conference it was decided at the instance of Mr. R. Crowe that immediate steps should be taken to prohibit Queensland stock and skins from entering the…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 20 August 1896 · page 2

IN the Assembly to-day private members' business was taken. Mr. Adrian Knox moved the second reading of a No Liability Companies Bill, pointing to the absurd and…

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N.s.w. Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 20 August 1896 · page 2

In the Assembly to-day private members' business was taken. Mr Adrian Knox moved the second leading of a No Liability Companies Bill dealing with the absurd and…

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N.s.w. Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 22 August 1896 · page 3

Wednesday's sittings of the Assembly did not conclude until 2.80 this morning. The House had then passed the second reading of the Electoral Reform Bill…

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Parliament. Plebiscite on the Fiscal Policy. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 27 August 1896 · page 2

IN the Assembly to-day, Mr. M'Gowan, the leader of the Labor party, moved that in the opinion of the House the commercial and financial unrest consequent upon the…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 29 August 1896 · page 2

IN the Council to-day, on. the motion of the Attorney-General, the House re-committed the Mining Laws. Amendment Bill, liberalising the conditions of mining on…

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Proportional Representation in Parliament

The Worker · Saturday 29 August 1896 · page 1

Miss Spenco, of Adelaide, South Australia writes that she has received from the author, the Rev. C. E. Garst, a pamphlet in Japanese and English on the Hare-Spence system of effective…

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The New Parliament Houses

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 2 September 1896 · page 2

The Institute of Architects in Sydney have held a meeting, presided over by Colonel Kowe, aud decided to wait, by deputation, on the Minister for Works with a protest…

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Parliament. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 3 September 1896 · page 2

IN the Assembly this evening Mr. Gould, Minister for Justice, said it was intended to appoint a permanent judge of the Supreme Court as soon as possible in the place of…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 5 September 1896 · page 3

IN the Legislative Assembly to-day, Mr. Carroll announced his intention of resigning to seek the protection of the Bankruptcy Court. His seat was declared…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 10 September 1896 · page 2

IN the Legislative Assembly to day it motion by Mr. Rose for leave to introduce a bill for the registration of cyclists wag negatived by 35 to 24…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 12 September 1896 · page 2

IN the Legislative Council to-day the question of municipal ba[?]hs, electric lighting of the city, proposed additions to the Treasury buildings, and the Newcastle Friendly…

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Parliament. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 17 September 1896 · page 2

IN reply to a question, the Colonial Secretary said he had under consideration the question of having chromo lithographs of the various suakes found in (he colony prepared…

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