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Politics & elections, 1892

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The General Election in Victoria Melbourne

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 April 1892 · page 881

The nominations of candidates for the general election for the Legislative Assembly were received to-day. The following members of the Ministry were returned unopposed:—J. A. Peacock,…

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The General Election in Victoria. Melbourne

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 April 1892 · page 872

The candidates nominated for the 95 seats in the Legislative Assembly number 219. The number is considerably less than that at the general election of 1889, when there were 248…

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The Victorian General Election

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 April 1892 · page 4

Many circumstances combine to invest the general election in Victoria with special interest, and not alone to residents in the colony. Several of the questions upon…

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Auburn Borough Council. Election of Mayor

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 16 April 1892 · page 3

The first weekly meeting of the Auburn Borough Council was held on Wednesday evening in the Temperance Hall, for the purpose of electing a Mayor for the current…

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Queensland Parliament

Evening News · Monday 18 April 1892 · page 6

BRISBANE, Saturday.-In the Legislative Council on Thursday the Pacific Island Laborers Bill was read the third time, and passed. The debate on the second reading of the Leprosy Bill…

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Alterations to Parliament Buildings

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 April 1892 · page 4

A vote was passed on the additional estimates immediately prior to Parliament being prorogued for additions and alterations to Parliament Buildings. Steps were at once…

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Queensland. the Bulimba Election. Return of the Black Labor Candidate

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 April 1892 · page 5

BRISBANE, Sunday. -- The Bulimba election yesterday created more than passing interest. The candidates were Mr. J. R. Dickson, formerly Treasurer in the Griffith Ministry, and…

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The Sydney Cup. Review of the Candidates

The Australian Star · Monday 18 April 1892 · page 3

On Monday next the great event of the Sydney turf year, viz., the Sydney Cup, will be decided, and the coming one will be the 27th event of the name decided under the…

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Bulimba Election. The Black Labor Question. BRISBANE

The Australian Star · Monday 18 April 1892 · page 4

The Bulimba election on Saturday was of more than passing interest. The candidates were Mr. J. R. Dickson, a staunch advocate of black labor, and Mr. Fitzgerald, the…

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The Chief Justice and the Bulimba Election

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 April 1892 · page 5

BRISBANE, Saturday. -- Considerable comment has been caused by the publication of a letter written by the Chief Justice to Mr. Fitzgerald, one of the candidates for the…

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The Victorian Elections

The Australian Star · Tuesday 19 April 1892 · page 4

THE general election in Victoria will take place to-morrow. The event will be one of the most important of the kind that has taken place in the…

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Victorian News. Postponed Sports. The General Election. MELBOURNE

The Australian Star · Tuesday 19 April 1892 · page 6

The weather has improved, and Williamstown race meeting takes place, whilst the first day of the Victoria Amateur Athletic Association sports also eventuates…

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The General Election in Victoria. Arrangements for the Polling. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 April 1892 · page 5

It being the eve of the polling day for the general election, there is great activity on the part of candidates, who are endeavouring to have the last word with the electors, but the Easter…

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Victorian Elections. Views of Candidates. Melbourne

The Australian Star · Wednesday 20 April 1892 · page 6

The general election is exciting intense interest to-day, though strong demonstrations will not appear until late in the afternoon. The late hour of closing the poll is…

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Bogan Election

The Australian Star · Wednesday 20 April 1892 · page 6

MR. WALTER T. COONAN, solicitor, has announced his intention to contest the vacant seat for the Bogan electorate…

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The Victorian Elections. Results of the Polling. Generally in Favor of the Ministry. Defeat of the Labor Party. Majority for One Man One Vote

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 April 1892 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--While the day had not been declared a holiday, it might as well have been, for people were so much interested in the electioneering that there…

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The Victorian Elections

Evening News · Thursday 21 April 1892 · page 4

The Victorian elections have gone about as we anticipated. We said, when writing on this subject on Saturday last, that the language of the Liberal and Labor…

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Labour Members at Grenfell. the Issue for the Next Election. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Grenfell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 April 1892 · page 5

Messrs. M'Gowen and Davis, Ms. L.A., addressed a public meeting last night. They stated that the object of their mission was to set themselves right with the people as regarded their action during the…

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The Victorian Elections. Losers of the Deposit Money. Sir Graham Berry Heads a List. What the Government Think. MELBOURNE

The Australian Star · Thursday 21 April 1892 · page 6

The result of the elections proves that the question of one man one vote has a very small effect in the country districts either respecting the nominations or the…

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The Bogan Election. Issue of the Writ

The Australian Star · Thursday 21 April 1892 · page 6

THE writ for the election of a member of the Legislative Assembly to serve in the room of the late Mr. G. E. Cass, M.L.A. for the Bogan, was issued this afternoon. The…

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