The Victorian Parliament Houses
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Alternate tenders for the completion of the west front of Parliament Houses were opened to-day. Those of John Pigdon were the lowest. The amount of his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Politics & elections, 1885
1,571 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 79
Victorian Parliament. [By Telegraph.]
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--In the Assembly to-day, on the motion of the Commissioner for Customs a select committee was appointed to inquire into and report upon the present fire brigade system of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland Parliament. [By Telegraph.]
BRISBANE, Wednesday.--In Parliament to-day the Charitable Institutions' Management Bill. passed through committee. The Local Government Act Amendment Bill was discussed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Australian Parliament. [By Telegraph.]
ADELAIDE, Thursday.--The Assembly held a comparatively brief sitting to-day, no business of importance being transacted. The refusal of the Government to purchase the Largs Bay Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Parliament of Victoria. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne
In the Legislative Assembly to-day, Mr. Service, in reply to Mr. Bent, said that the Government did not intend to appoint a select committee to inquire into the whole circumstances of the Fish Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Parliament of Queensland. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspodent.) Brisbane
In the Legislative Council to-day the Appropriation Bill for £250,000 was passed through all its stages. The Additional Members Bill and the Pacific Islanders' Employers Compensation Bill were read the second…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Parliament of South Australia. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Adelaide
There was a short sitting of the House of Assembly, this afternoon. The debate on the Railway, Commissioners Bill was continued, and was further adjourned. Mr. Rees withdrew his amendment for the rejection of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Parliament of Victoria. Melbourne
In the Legislative Council to-day the second reading of the Bills of Lading Bill was taken, and the debate was ultimately adjourned. Mr. Lorimer denied that the bill had been approved by the Chamber of…
Continued on Trove, page 261 →Parliament of Tasmania. Hobart
The Education Bill, which was introduced in the Legislative Assembly to-day, provides for an Education Department, with a Minister of Education, a Director of Education, inspectors, and teachers, and also boards…
Continued on Trove, page 261 →Parliament of Queensland. Brisbane
In the Legislative Assembly, this afternoon, the standing orders were suspended, and the Appropriation Bill for £250,000 was passed through all its stages, The Charitable Institutions…
Continued on Trove, page 261 →Parliament of South Australia. Adelaide
In the Legislative Assembly this afternoon, immediately after the House meeting, a question was brought forward as a formal motion relative to the Vermin Destruction Act. In the course of the discussion that…
Continued on Trove, page 261 →Parliament of New Zealand. the San Francisco Mail Service. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Auckland
Sir Julius Vogel's motion relative to the retention of the San Francisco mail service was carried in the House of Representatives to-night by a large majority. He then announced that it was the intention of the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Correspondence. the Coming Elections. to the Editor
SIR,—Allow me, as a resident of Balmain, to express my unqualified surprise at a letter which appeared in your issue of the 25th inst. Whoever " Radical" may be, he surely cannot…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Glebe Municipal Election. Nominations. Speeches of the Candidates
A meeting of the ratepayers of the Glebe was held on Monday in the Glebe Town Hall, for the purpose of electing an alderman in the place of Alderman Wearne, who recently resigned in consequence of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parliament of Queensland. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Brisbane
In the Legislative Assembly to-day the second reading of the Rabbit Bill was moved by the Premier, who explained that the present bill only deals with the administration of the Act, as the Government did not…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Parliament of Victoria. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne
In the Legislative Council this afternoon, the bill to provide for the appointment of an acting Supreme Court Judge was passed. The Bills of Lading Bill, to prevent captains from signing bills for cargoes not…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Parliament of Tasmania. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Hobart
The debate on the financial statement was commenced to-night in the Legislative Assembly, and was adjourned till to-morrow. The criticism on the statement was very weak, and a general opinion was expressed that the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Parliament of South Australia. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Adelaide
In the Legislative Council to-day the Local Loans Bill was rejected. On the meeting of the Assembly, Mr. Rounsevell, the late Treasurer, made a warm attack upon those who…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Elections to the Senate of the University. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Under the by-laws of the University, after the occurrence of a vacancy in the Senate, that body appoints a day of convocation of legally qualified voters for the election of a successor. The by-laws which give the right of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lord R. Churchill's Election. a Ladies' Battle
The London cable messages to the New York papers on the subject of Lord Randolph Churchill's re-election for Woodstock contain some rather graphic descriptions of the contest…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →