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Sydney · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1871

522 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 27

Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Friday, December 1, 1871

Evening News · Monday 4 December 1871 · page 3

The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-eight minutes past 4. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. WILSON, in answer to Mr. Stewart, said (1)…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Tuesday, December 5

Evening News · Wednesday 6 December 1871 · page 4

THE SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-eight minutes past 4. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. WILSON, in answer to Mr. Hoskins, said…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Tuesday, December 6

Empire · Wednesday 6 December 1871 · page 3

THE SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-eight minutes past 4. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. WILSON, in answer to Mr Hoskins, said…

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New South Wales Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Tuesday, December 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 December 1871 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-eight minutes past 4 o'clock. RESERVES IN THE LIVERPOOL PLAINS DISTRICT…

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Parliament. Legislative Council. Wednesday, December 6

Empire · Thursday 7 December 1871 · page 3

THE PRESIDENT took the chair at twenty-nine minutes past 4 o'clock. BILLS FROM THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY…

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New South Wales Parliament. Legislative Council. Wednesday, December 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 December 1871 · page 2

THE PRESIDENT took the chair at twenty-nine minutes past 4 o'clock. PAPERS. The POSTMASTER-GENERAL laid upon the table…

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Parliament. Legislative Council Wendesday, December 6. Bills From the Legislative Assembly

Evening News · Thursday 7 December 1871 · page 4

The PRESIDENT reported a Message from the Legislative Assembly, which, having 'passed the', Roads Bill and the Blackwattle Bay Bill, sent them for the concurrence of the legislative Council…

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Municipal Elections. To the Editor of the Evening News

Evening News · Thursday 7 December 1871 · page 2

SIR,-I would beg to call the notice of the electors of the city of Sydney through your columns to the recent municipal elections, and to the unprincipled manner in which parties who were not candidates…

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Municipal Elections. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 7 December 1871 · page 4

[?] would beg to call the notice of the electors [?] of Sydney through your cloumns to the recent municipal elections, and to the unprincipled manner in which parties who were not candidates at…

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Parliament. Legislative Council. Thursday. December 7

Evening News · Friday 8 December 1871 · page 2

The President took the chair at twenty-eight minutes past 4 o'clock. DEDICATED GROWN LANDS RESUMPTION BILL. Upon the motion of Mr. DOCKER, this bill was read a third time, passed, and returned to the…

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Parliament. Legislative Council. Thursday, December 7

Empire · Friday 8 December 1871 · page 3

THE PRESIDENT took the chair at twenty-eight minutes past 4 o'clock. DEDICATED CROWN LANDS RESUMPTION BILL…

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New South Wales Parliament. Legislative Council. Thursday, December 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 December 1871 · page 2

THE PRESIDENT took the chair at twenty-eight minutes past 4 o'clock. PAPERS. The POSTMASTER-GENERAL [?] on the table of…

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The Parliament. The Budget

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 December 1871 · page 1298

THE TREASURER, on Wednesday, made his financial statement, the details of which are given below :— Mr. LORD said: Mr. Lackey,—It now becomes my duty to lay before the committee a statement of our financial…

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Mr. P. J. Smyth in Parliament

The Irish Citizen · Saturday 9 December 1871 · page 3

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Friday, December 8

Empire · Saturday 9 December 1871 · page 4

The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-six minutes post 4. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. BYRNES, in answer to Mr. Wabb, said the…

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New South Wales Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Friday, December 1

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 December 1871 · page 5

Mr. WILSON, in answer to Mr. W. Forster, said the rights of tenants of Crown lands over water reserves—where the land is reserved from sale—are admitted by the Government to the same extent as…

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New South Wales Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Friday, December 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 December 1871 · page 4

THE SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-seven minutes post 4 o'clock. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. Mr. WEBB asked the Secretary for Public Works,—…

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Bills before Parliament. Bill to Regulate the Admission of Volunteers

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 December 1871 · page 1299

THE following is Mr. W. Forster'a Bill to regulate the admission of persons into the Volunteer Force:—"Whereas the admission of her Majesty's subjects to serve as Volun- teers under the 'Volunteer Force Regulation Act of 1867'…

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Municipal Elections

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 December 1871 · page 6

The election of Aldermen for the vacant seats in the City Municipal Council was finally decided on Saturday last. The result of the polling has been anything but favourable to the hopes of…

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The Late Municipal Elections. (To the Editor of the Freeman's Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 December 1871 · page 10

SIR,—The civic elections are over, and the march of intellect is improving according to the opinion of some persons; Orangeism is alive; the glorious memory of William has been…

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