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THE PRESIDENT took his seat at a quarter to 12 o'clock. The hon. members present were the Colonial Secretary, the Chairman of Committees, Dr. Macfarlane,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A MESSAGE was received from the Governor informing the Council that he would take the earliest opportunity of transmitting to Captain Denham and the Lords of the Admiralty copies of the resolutions agreed to by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Legislative Council sat on Tuesday afternoon for a short time. Immediately after the President took his Beat the Clerk-Assistant left the Council Chamber, returning the Appropriation Bill assented to by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE [?]oye not to be a accused of profanity in treating the honorable the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly as an ordinary human, and thus giving him a place in our gallery. When we commenced [?]ging our pictures, this…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE public are at last indebted to Mr. Horsman for an amusing and instructive episode, that has relieved the weary sameness of parliamentary debates. For a long time air. Horsman has been in a state of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Friday night Mr Ewart brought the late fight for the Championship under the notice of the House of Commons, by asking the Home Secretary whether it was intended to introduce any alteration in the law with regard…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE took occasion a few weeks ago, on the question of the adjournment from Friday till Monday, to call attention to the marvellous manner in which the House of Commons transacts its…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN reply to a question from Mr. Ferrett, the Colonial Treasurer said that Mr. Commissioner Boyle would receive full pay during the whole time he had been lately absent from his district, no other arrangement…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Wednesday, 13th June, the Governor's assent was brought down to the Lien on Wool Act Continuation Bill, and to the Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company's Bill.—The public Loan Bill for 1860 was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE PRESIDENT took his seat at a quarter to twelve o'clock. The hon. members present were the Colonial Secretary, the Chairman of Committees, Dr. Macfarlane,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—When the prophets of evil in our House of Assembly were predicting night after night, a few months ago that the fatal experiment of a separate Government for this insignificant community would soon prove a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Many if not all of your readers, are aware that a "system of competitive tests to determine the appointments to civil and military offices in England and India" has been inaugurated in the mother-country some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. Hosea Biglow writes to the National AntiState Standard: "Its gut to be the fashun now to rite letters to the candid 8s and i wus chose at a publick Meetin in Saalam to du wut wus…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following proclamation appears in yesterday's Gazette:— "By his Excellency Sir William Thomas Denison, Knight, &c., &c…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Thursday, the 19th, the nomination took place at Wellington, for a member of the Leg[?]ative Assembly, in the room of the late N. Hyeronimus, Esq. There were two candidates, Messrs. Sylvanus Browne Daniel, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT 12 o'clock, on Wednesday, August I, the Returningofficer, Hugh Wall[?]e, Esq., in company with the several candidates and their friends, arrived on th[?] hustings. The form of reading the writ authorising…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AS SOON as the poll closed this afternoon, a large crowd began to collect in front of the police office, Morpeth, which gradually increased until half-past five o'clock, when the poll was officially declared, at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TUESDAY EVENING.—The polling to-day has been characterised by manly independence, and mumal forbearance. No undue influence was exercised by either party. The whole rationale of the day's proceedings…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →VERY early in the day on Monday, Sir Charles Napier and Sir Michael Seymour took their accustomed places, and the portent was in favour of an abundant naval garrulity, the business being the resumption of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir Charles Nicholson rose and said: As matters connected, with my own private affairs will probably require my leaving Brisbane within a few days, I purpose, during that interval, to place in the hands of his Excellency the Governor my resignation…
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