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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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE campaign is fairly begun, and the tug of war is not far distant. It will not be a fight of "forms and ceremonies" but a great struggle for the reform of abuses and the advancement of the colony…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Parliament of New South Wales was formally opened for the despatch of business yesterday, at noon, by his Excellency the Governor-General, in person. The ceremonies, except in the calling of the members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dr DENISON begs to intimate to the families and friends of his beloved and esteemed pupils, that the duties of his Establishment will be resumed about the end of the ensuing month, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thursday last was the commencement of a new era in the history of this country. It was a day never to be forgotten -- a day the most important that hap ever occurred in the annals of the colony -- the first dawn of responsible government…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE opening of our New Parliament by his Excellency the Governor General, took place yesterday. The long anticipated event called forth as its witnesses many hundreds of our citizens, and not a few from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We take the following from the second edition of yesterday's Empire. Empire Office, Friday, 1 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR, -- After waiting some time for the second edition of rhymes from your picked-up poet, the first edition of which appeared in the Illawarra Mercury of May 5th., and finding it not forthcoming, I write this as a stimulus to revive his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. James Garland, the mover of the Address in the Legislative Assembly, is the youngest son of Thomas Garland, Esq., of Ardlethen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He is now forty-three years of age, having been born in 1813…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was a fortile subject for comment in the speeches of Messrs. Cowper, George Macleay, D. Cooper, W. Parker, T. A. Murray, R. Campbell, Jones, Holroyd, Piddington, Plunkett, Richardson, Forster, Donaldson,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-five minutes past three O'clock. PAPERS. Mr. DONALDSON, by command of his Excellency…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tasmania was the first of the Australian colonies to avail herself of the permission in the old Constitutional Act, and provide herself legally with a more extended Legislature, and two elective chambers. Tasmania was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Council met at four o'clock. The PRESIDENT intimated to the Council that the Governor-General had named one o'clock on Thursday next as the hour when it would be his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE SPEAKER took the chair at half-past three o'clock. COUNCIL PAPERS. Mr. DONALDSON laid on the table the following…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE members of the Legislative Council assembled at ono o'clock to-day, in pursuance of adjournment. PRESENTATION OF THE ADDRESS. The PRESIDENT having taken the chair,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Earl of Albemarle presented a petition from the native and European merchants of the British settlement of Singapore praying for protection from piracy, They asked what steps had been taken to comply with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Mr. Speaker, I think I see a Stranger in the Gallery." Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL, M.P. 1.—THE ADDRESS. Mr. Garland moved it; Mr. Faucett seconded it; and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following business was transacted in the Legislative Council on Friday last after the -Address to the Governor-General had been voted. FRIDAY, MAY 23…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NO INCONSIDERABLE anxiety subsisted through the past week respecting the then mysterious names of the highly honoured occupants of seats in the prospective Upper House. It is useless to descant…
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