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In the Assembly to-day, Mr. Graves stated that he intended to allow tenderers for the erection of the Cliffy Island lighthouse to visit the locality in the Government steamer Despatch. It was not intended that any…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In the Assembly to-day a return was submitted showing that the 12 engines and tenders recently imported cost a total of £30,300. Mr. White, the farmers' delegate, now in Victoria,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Tuesday afternoon the formal opening of the new session took place in the presence of a large crowd of people. At twenty minutes past 12 his Excellency the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →'The straw is broke the game's begun, We used to say at school: The Session's broken now for work Should be each member's rule,--…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, August 18.—The Houses of Lords and Commons, at the close of to-day's sittings, adjourned until October, towards the end of which month Parliament will again meet for the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Probably never since the introduction of responsible government has the opening of a new session of Parliament been witnessed by such a number of people as that which assembled in and around the Legislative Chambers on…
Continued on Trove, page 349 →MISTHER PUNCH, SOR,--Agraybly to your insthructions to furnish ye wid a report of the openin' of Parlymint on Tuesday marnin'--I borryed a shirt collar and a new pair iv brogues, wid which me and me stchick walked up to the Council dore together. But sure a spalpeen wid a bald hid an' a bilyard cue in his fisht, wanted to know…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →London, July 24.—In moving the vote of credit in the Commons, Gladstone stated that the expedition would conlist of 2400 cavalry, 13,400 infanay, 1760 [?], and 3700 garrison [?], and that the Commissariat reserve…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Who shall foretell, at the opening of a session, the course of events that will lead to its close ? The session which began on Tuesday is the third and, presumably, the last of…
Continued on Trove, page 352 →In the Assembly a lengthy discussion arose on a formal motion for adjournment relative to the question of forest conservation. Subsequently the House went into committee for the…
Continued on Trove, page 360 →In the Assembly to-day a return was submitted showing that the 12 engines and tenders recently imported cost a total of £36,300. Mr. White, the farmers' delegate, now in Victoria,…
Continued on Trove, page 360 →The SPEAKER took the Chair at half-past 4 o'clock. OFFICIAL INFORMATION. Mr. LACKED, in reply to Mr. J. P. Abbott, said the matter of water supply for Gunnedah, was being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The SPEAKER took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. MOTIONS. On the motion of Mr. TRICKETT, a measure to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In the Assembly, the greater part of the sitting was occupied in the discussion on the Land Bill. New point—first, that the new clauses abolishing interest, was carried as follows:—All lands sold from…
Continued on Trove, page 351 →THE third session of the tenth Parliament under responsible Government was commenced on Tuesday at noon, with all the pomp and ceremony customary on such occasions. At about ll o'clock the Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →On Friday, 30th June, the House of Commons met at two o'clock in the afternoon, and immediately after question time resumed consideration of the Coercion Bill in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. LACKEY, in reply to Mr. J. P. Abbott, said that the tollbars at Annandale, Becket's bridge, and Fox-underthe-hill, at junction of Bligh-street and main Sydney and Cook's River roads, at Railway-bridge, Newtown, and at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—The identical course suggested by Judge M'Farland, in the last sentence of his letter in this day's Herald, was tried in the case of the See of Melbourne some five years ago…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →In the Legislative Assembly, the Speaker took the chair at a quarter to 4 o'clock, and shortly afterwards the members present proceeded to Government House and presented to His Excellency the reply to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the Legislative Assembly to-day, the amendments insisted on by the Council in the Licensees Qualifying Bill were considered. The Attorney-General proposed that the amendments be agreed…
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