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Politics & elections, 1874

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Punch's Visions out of Parliament VISION 1

Sydney Punch · Friday 2 January 1874 · page 5

AS soon as the Members of the Legislative Assembly had put their tongues away for the season, Mr. Punch retired to his ancestral halls; then, burying himself in his awful and mysterious den, he called…

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An Election at Vienna. (From the Austrian Correspondent of the Times.) Vienna, October 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 January 1874 · page 8

ON Monday, Vienna was called upon to exercise its constitutional right of electing its members for the Reichsrath. She exercised this right for the first time fully, for on all former occasions she…

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Government Notices. Designs for New Parliament Houses, Adelaide, South Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1874 · page 6

The South Australian Government are prepared to receive COMPETITIVE DESIGNS for New Houses of Parliament. The designs are to be drawn to a uniform scale of eight…

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Xii. the "Times'" Correspondent on the Prussian Elections. Berlin, October 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1874 · page 3

The three years term of the Prussian Parliament expiring next month, the House has been dissolved, to secure the completion of the elections before the ordinary time of meeting in November. Notwithstanding the noarness of…

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Telegrams This Day Cable Message. the London Money Market. Seduction in Rate of Discount. the Stroud Election. British Trade Returns. the Spanish Circular. Trial of Jean Luie for Perjury. Alleged Subornation. the French Assembly. London, via Singapore, January 9th, 7.15 a.m. Received in Sydney, January 9, 11.23 p.m

Evening News · Saturday 10 January 1874 · page 2

The rate of discount is 4 per cent. News had been received from the Cape Coast to the 18th December. The British forces had constructed a bridge over the Prah…

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Parliament. Tuesday, 13Th January. Legislative Assembly

Empire · Wednesday 14 January 1874 · page 2
Also in Evening News

THE SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-seven minutes past 4. QUESTIONS. All the questions on the paper (4) were withdrawn, and fresh notice given for a future day…

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New South Wales Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Tuesday, January 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 January 1874 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-eight minutes past 4 o'clock. MESSAGE. Mr. SPEAKER announced the receipt of a message…

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Telegrams This Day Cable Message. Repulses of the Dutch Troops at Atcheen. the Next Papal Election, London, via Singapore, January 12

Evening News · Wednesday 14 January 1874 · page 2

Received in Sydney, January 13th, 9.50 p.m. Intelligence has been received from an independent source, to the effect that the Dutch forces, when attacking a mosque at Kraton, were twice…

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Papal Election. London, January 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 January 1874 · page 5

A Papal Bull has been issued authorising the next Papal election to be held, without a regular conclave, in the Italian principality of Monaco, in France, or in Malta. Germany, however,…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Wednesday, 14Th January

Empire · Thursday 15 January 1874 · page 2
Also in Evening News

THE SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-eight minutes past four. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. PARKES, in answer to Mr. Buchannan; said the sheriff informed him that the Head Bailiff had addressed a letter…

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New South Wales Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Wednesday, January 14. the Speaker took the chair at twenty-eight minutes past 4 o'clock

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 January 1874 · page 2

LAW OF ARREST UNDER CIVIL PROCESS. Mr. BUCHANAN asked the Colonial Secretary,— " Has he received any correspondence between the Sheriffs bailiff in Sydney and the Sheriff in reference to the law of…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Thursday, 15Th January

Empire · Friday 16 January 1874 · page 4
Also in Evening News

THE SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-nine minutes past 4. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. PARKES, in answer to Mr. Buchanan, said…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Thursday, December 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 January 1874 · page 6

San Francisco Mail Service.—In answer to question it was stated that the contractor for the San Francisco Mail service was entitled, by the terms of his agreement, to the privilege of a free port at Sydney, and to…

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Punch's Visions out of Parliament Vision the Second

Sydney Punch · Friday 16 January 1874 · page 2

"THE glow-worm shows the matin to be nigh," said Mr. PUNCH, "and it's time for us to he off." So they rose into the air again. "We must be nearly over Camden by this time,"…

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New South Wales Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Thursday, January 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 January 1874 · page 10

THE SPEAKER took the chair at half-past 4. MISSING LETTERS. Mr. BUCHANAN asked the Acting Postmaster-General.—"1. The number of letters that have gone astray during the last three…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 January 1874 · page 6

AT the first meeting of the House on Tuesday after the adjournament of the Christmas holidays. Mr. MACINTOSH presented a petition from the…

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Parliament Legislative Assemely. Friday, 16Th January

Empire · Saturday 17 January 1874 · page 3

THE SPEAKER too the chair at twenty-nine minuter past four. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. PARKES, in anwer to Mr. Burns, said that in the…

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