Local News. the Legislative Council
We understand the seats in the Legislative Council, or Upper Chamber of the New Parliament, have been offered to the undermentioned gentlemen. It will be seen that the…
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Council & local affairs, 1856
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The Legislative Council
The undermentioned gentlemen have, we understand, declined the proffered honour of seats in the Legislative Council or Upper Chamber of the New Parliament:— The Lord Bishop of Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Privy Council. Council Office, Whitehall, November, 27,1855. DEVINE V. Wilson and Others
PRESENT: The Right Hon. Lord Justice Knight Bruce, the Right Hon. T. Pemberton Leigh, the Right Hon. Sir John Patteson, the Right Hon. Sir W. H. Maule, the Right Hon. Sir E. Ryan…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Privy Council. Council Office, Whitchall, November 27, 1855. DEVINE v. Wilson and Others
Present: The Right Honorable Lord Justice Knight Bruco, the Right Honorable T. Pemborton Leight, the Right Honorable, Sir John Patteson, the Right Honorable Sir. W. H. Maule, the Right Honorable Sir E. Ryan,…
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THOUGH the whole of the seats have not yet been filled it is likely that the members of the Legislative Council will be Gazetted not later than Tuesday next. It is understood that the House will consist of about…
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Scene: The Taileries; President; the Emperor, the Duke of Cambridge, Marshal Pelissier. General Della Marmora, General Canrobert, Sir Edmund Lyons General MacMahon…
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THE following proclamations weie published in a Supplement to the Government Gazette yesterday evening:- By his Excellency Sir William Thomas Denison, Knight,…
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By his Excellency Sir William Thomas Denison, Knight, Governor-General in and over all her Majesty's Colonies of New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australin, and Western Australia,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Judges in the Council. (From the Hobarton Mercury, May 6.)
The compatibility of a seat in the Legislative Council with the holding of judicial office is a subject which has lately excited considerable attention, without however eliciting any greater novelty than a certain degree of…
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By his Excellency Sir William Thomas Denison, Knight, Governor-General in and over all her Majesty's Colonies of New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia, and Captain General and…
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This structure, which has only been three weeks in erecting, is nearly ready for the reception of the Members on the occasion of the opening of Parliament on Thursday next. It is an iron building, the foundation being massive blocks of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Empire. Saturday, May 17, 1856. Swamping the Council
DURING the whole controversy upon the constitution of the Upper Chamber, there has been only one popular argument adduced in favour of the principle of nomination. We do not…
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His Exeelloncy the Governor-General directs it to be notified, that he has, with, the advice of the Executive Council, in Her Majesty's name, summoned to the first Legislative Council, by writs of summons under the Great Seal of the colony, the following…
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HIS Excellency the Governor-General, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to appoint His Honor Sir ALFRED STEPHEN, Knight, to be President of the Legislative Council of New South Wales…
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A CIRCULAR, of which the following is a copy, giving the particulars of the arrangements to be observed in the interior of the Legislative Council Chamber, has been issued by the direction of the President:-…
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Towards the close of last session, the sum of £10,000 was placed by the Legislative Council at the disposal of the Executive Government, to the end that such additions should be made to the old Council Chamber as would…
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A LETTRR from Paris thus describes the breaking up of the Council of War that assembled in the capital of France in the month of January last—the writer being one of the parties present on that occasion:—"A…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parliament of New South Wales. Legislative Council. May 22Nd, 1856
YESTERDAY, in accordance with notice given, and in acquescence with the grateful anticipations of hundreds of colonists, the first parliament of New South Wales assembled under the New Constitution…
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MR. WARREN to move, on Tuesday next,—1. That Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, be the days on which the Legislative Council meet for the despatch of business, unless otherwise ordered. 2. That on Wednesday and Thursday…
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The Legislative Council met at half-past eleven o'clock, pursuant to adjournment; and at ten minutes past twelve o'olock the arrival of his Excellency the Governor-General was announced, when the President…
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