A Peculiar Demand American Electioneering Dodge
London, Tuesday Night.--In view of the approaching Presidential election a curious motion is to be introduced into the United States Congress by the Republican party…
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New Zealand. New Zealand Parliament
WELLINGTON, This Day.--in the House of Representatives the Government promised that during the recess they would…
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On the motion for the House to go into Committee of Supply, Mr. Walker, senior Opposition whip, moved that the Representation Act passed last session should not come into force till the next census in 1891. The…
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Discussing the methods of election in the United States, the MORNING POST says that both the great political parties have now made their arrangements for the…
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BATHURST, This Day.--In the District Court yesterday a case was heard in which Mr. Tonkin, M.L.A. for East Macquarie, was sued by G. Hulks, for the recovery of…
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In the House of Representatives the no-contiuence debate terminated at midnight. Mr. Walker's amendment,—"That the Representation Act passed last session should not come into force till the next census…
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LONDON, Saturday Night.--It is probable that the Imperial Parliament will be adjourned on Saturday next…
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A further attempt, which was made in the House of Commons last evening, to revive the Hughes-Hallett scandal, with a view to the expulsion of Colonel…
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ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--The House of Assembly resumed its sittings today after the adjournment over the opening of the Melbourne Exhibition. A bill providing for the…
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In the Assembly yesterday it was stated in reply to a question, that Ministers had intimated to the New South Wales and Victorian Governments that they would be…
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In the Assembly yesterday it was stated, in answer to questions, that the Estimates contained a vote of £2000, as a first instalment toward the proposed School of…
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In the Assembly, the Minister of Education stated that £2000 had been placed on the Estimates for the establishment of a School of Mines. A lengthy discussion took place in regard to the rabbit pest in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Latest Cables. the Imperial Parliament. the "Times'" Charges Bill. London, August 8
In the House of Commons last night a protracted debate took place on the motion for the adoption of the report of the Committee of the Whole on the bill for the…
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ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--In the House of Assembly today the Commissioner of Crown Lands stated that the Tintinallogy disease had made its appearance amongst the rabbits in…
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ADELAIDE, This Day.--A local option resolution was given notice of in the Assembly yesterday. The Mining on Private Property Bill was considered at…
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The bill introduced by Mr. Bradlaugh, member for Northampton, providing that jurors, witnesses, and persons required to take the oath, shall, if they object, be…
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In the Assembly to-day, Mr., Holder gave notice that be would move that the principle of local government be extended by a measure of local option, so as to give the pebple control of the liquor traffic. The…
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WELLINGTON, This Day.—A native member, Taiwhanga, tried his hand at stonewalling, and kept the house sitting right through thursday night and into…
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In the House of Commons to-day, Sir John Gorst, Q. C., tho Under-Secretary for the India Office, replying to a question put by Sir George Campbell, member for…
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Taiwhanga, one of the Native members of the house, profiting by the example of Pakeba in the discussion on the Otago Central Bill recently, commenced yesterday afternoon to stonewall the Native Land Bill in…
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