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Politics & elections, 1884

1,666 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 84

Victorian Parliament. [By Telegraph.]

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 June 1884 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--In the Assembly, Mr Deakin, in reply to a question, stated that no correspondence had been received from the Government of New South Wales since last session on…

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Parliament. Legislative Council. Wednesday, June 18

Evening News · Thursday 19 June 1884 · page 3

The President took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. He reported that paragraphs 4 and 5 of the message sent by the Council to the Assembly in connection with the Matrimonial Causes Act…

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Parliament of New South Wales. Legislative Council. Wednesday, June l8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 June 1884 · page 3

The PRESIDENT took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. MATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL. The PRESIDENT announced his having received from the Assembly a message to the effect that the Assembly did…

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Parliament of Victoria. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 June 1884 · page 8

The add[?] from the Legislative Council in reply to the Vice-[?]al speech was presented to the Acting-Governor this morning by the President of the Legislative Council and a large number of members…

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Parliament. Legislative Council. Thursday, June 19

Evening News · Friday 20 June 1884 · page 3

The Legislative Council adjourned until Wednesday next, there being no business on the paper…

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Parliament of New South Wales. Legislative Assembly. Thursday, June 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 June 1884 · page 5

MR. SPEAKER took the chair at 4.30. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. DIBBS, in answer to Mr. A. G. Taylor, said that £130 had been voted for repairs to Botobolan-road, and the…

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The Plague of Questions in Parliament. (By a Poor Patriot, in the Pall Mall Gazette.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 June 1884 · page 5

The precedence accorded to questions was conditional, net absolute. The safeguards devised to secure that they should be genuine inquiries for information, and not controversies in the disguise of questions were to the effect…

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The West Macquarie Electorate. a Rumoured Candidate

Evening News · Friday 20 June 1884 · page 2

We understand, on very good authority, that the seat in the Assembly rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr. T. H. Hellyer, late member for West Macquarie, will be contested by Mr. Pilcher,…

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Parliament. Friday, June 13

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 June 1884 · page 9

MR. SPEAKER BARTON, immediately upon tak­ing the chair in the Legislative Assembly informed the House that he had been served with a writ at the suit of Mr.A.G.Taylor damages…

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Parliament of Victoria. Melbourne

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 June 1884 · page 1167

The Legislative Council sat only for half an hour this afternoon, when Colonel F. T. Sargood intimated that the Government intended to bring in a bill to enable members of both Houses to hold offices in the…

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Parliament of New South Wales

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 June 1884 · page 1192

THERE were no less than 27 questions on the business paper of the Legislative Assembly on Thursday, nearly all of which were Answered by Ministers. The adjournment was moved by Mr. Buchanan…

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Parliament. Legislative Council. Thursday, June 12

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 June 1884 · page 1187

The PRESIDENT announced his having received from the Assembly messages to the effect that the Assembly had agreed to the amendments made by the Council in the Manly Gaslight and Coke Company's Bill, the…

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Parliament of South Australia. Adelaide

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 June 1884 · page 1167

Upon the assembling of Parliament to-day, the Minister of Justice in the Legislative Council, and the Chief Secretary in the Assembly, moved for a fortnight's adjournment, in order to allow the Ministry to…

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New South Wales Parliament. Legislative Council. Wednesday, June 18

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 June 1884 · page 16

The PRESIDENT took the cbair at half-past 4 o'clock. He reported that paragraphs 4 and 5 of the message sent by tie Council to the Assembly in connection with the Matrimonial Canses Act…

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Victorian Parliament. (By Telegraph. From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 June 1884 · page 14

IN the Assembly, yesterday, Mr. Deakin announced that no correspondence has been received from the Government of New South wales since last session on the question of locking the…

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Parliament of New South Wales. Legislative Assembly. Friday, June 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 June 1884 · page 9

When the report of yesterday's proceedings of the Legislative Assembly closed in the Sydney Morning Herald in consequence of having to go to press, the 65th clause of the Land Bill was under discussion, in which an amendment to…

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Parliament of New Zealand. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Wellington

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 June 1884 · page 12

The Hon. H. A. Atkinson, Colonial Treasurer, made an interim financial statement in the House of Representatives this afternoon, when asking for supplies to carry on the business of the country up to the end of…

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West Macquarie Election

Evening News · Saturday 21 June 1884 · page 5

So far no new candidates are in the field for West Macquarie, and the contest bids fair to be a political duel between, Mr. Pilcher, who has represented the constituency before, and Mr. Richardson, the…

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The Northumberland Election

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 June 1884 · page 1193

A meeting was held at the Protestant Hall, Castlereagh-street, on June 13, for the purpose of celebrating the return to Parliament of Mr. R. C. Luscombe as one of the representatives for the electorate of Northumberland. There was…

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The West Macquarie Electorate, a Rumoubed Candidate

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 June 1884 · page 18

WE understand, on very good authority, that the seat in the Assembly rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr. T. H. Hellyer, late member for Weat Macquarie, will be contested by Mr. Pilcher,…

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