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Politics & elections, 1887

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New South Wales Parliament. Scenes in the 15 Assembly. Cloture Proposals. Sydney, Friday. 4 p.m

Nepean Times · Saturday 21 May 1887 · page 4

The House is still sitting. The Opposition continue stonewalling the cloture resolutions. Early this morning several scenes. occurred, but nothing of a very exciting nature. The…

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The Late Mudgee Election. (To the Editor.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 May 1887 · page 9

SIR,—I notice in the last issue of the Freeman you say in reference to the Mudgee election that the Premier congratulated the House and the country on the important issue of the late…

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Country News. The Mudgee Election. Mudgee, May 14

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 May 1887 · page 1082

The election is over, and, as I predicted in my last, Mr Haynes is elected. The issue during the last week of the contest was not Freetrads or Protection; it was simply a stand-up fight between the sectarian parties, in which the…

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The Mudgee Election

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 21 May 1887 · page 7

The declaration or the poll in Mudgee give Mr. Haynes a majority of 165. He returned thanks, and was loudly cheered. Mr. Garden, the defeated candidate, did not put in an…

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The First Parliament

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 May 1887 · page 4

Thirty-one years yesterday the first Parliament in Now South Wales assembled and to-night the living members of it will commemorate the event with a dinner, at which the Premier…

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The First Parliament. Meeting of the Surviving Members. a Commemorative Winner

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 May 1887 · page 5

Twelve of the 21 surviving members of the first Legislative Assembly last night. at the invitation of the Premier, Sir Henry Paikes, met at a dinner given in the Parliamentary…

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Parliament of New South Wales. Legislative Council. Wednesday, May 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 May 1887 · page 4

The PRESIDENT took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT. Mr. SALOMONS moved, without notice, that the House, at its rising, do adjourn until 4 o'clock on Tuesday…

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No-confidence Motion in the New Zealand Parliament. [By Cable.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Auckland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 May 1887 · page 8

In the House of Representatives to-night, on the motion for the second reading of the Tariff Bill Major Atkinson moved an amendment to the effect that the financial proposals of the Government were…

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Melbourne Cup Candidates

Referee · Thursday 26 May 1887 · page 5

I have it on very good authority that when the entries for the Melbourne Cup come out that the mimes of Too Soon and Foul Shot will, iu nil probability, be found…

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Parliament

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 4

WEDNESDAY, MAY 26. — In the Council; Report re operation of Rabbit Nuisance Law ordered to be printed; Bills of Exchange Bill read a third time…

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PARLIAMENT. Legislative Council

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 1104

The Legislative Council has sat once this week, on Wednesday, and then only for a few minutes, the short sitting and an adjournment until Tuesday next, which took place when the sitting terminated…

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The First Parliament

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 1103

We live in the midst of commemoration days. We have been keeping this week the birthday of the QUEEN. We shall soon be celebrating the Jubilee anniversary of her…

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The Gagging Parliament. (To the Editor.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 9

SIR,—Parliaments in olden times were in danger from without. Kings played fast and loose with them as they willed. Oliver Cromwell dismissed his Parliament in disgrace, compelling them to…

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The First Australian Parliament. a Commemoration Dinner

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 8

AN important historical gathering took place on Monday evening last, when the surviving members of the first Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, at the invitation of Sir Henry…

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Parliament in Session. Council. Wednesday, May 25

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 13

The report of the select committee on the operation of the Rabbit Nuisance Act was brought up. An abstract of the report appears in another column; and if it does not surprise those interested…

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Gathering of the Members of the First N.s.w. Parliament

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 9

Last Monday night Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of the colony, happily celebrated the anniversary of the inauguration of the first Parliament of New South Wales by a banquet…

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Opening of the Hungarian Parliament. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, May 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 12

The Hungarian Parliament was opened yesterday. The Emperor Francis Joseph in his opening speech referred to the good relations which subsisted between Austria and…

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The New Attorney- General. the South Sydney Election

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 May 1887 · page 6

Mr. B. R. Wise, the newly-appointed Attorney-General, took charge on Saturday of the office lately vacated by Mr. Foster. He was engaged in departmental duty all Use forenoon,…

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Parliament

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 May 1887 · page 4

Both Houses of Parliament will meet this afternoon for Government business, and in second reading of the Crowd Land (Auction Sales Balances) Bill, Beer Duty Bill,…

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The South Sydney Election. Mr. Wise Addresses His Supporters

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 May 1887 · page 5

Last evening a meeting of the South Sydney Branch of the Freetrade Association was convened for the purpose of enrolling a committee to secare the re-election of the recently…

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