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The statements of the polling in the different country districts show that as was anticipated, the voting was small in the outlying places, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →HOBART, Monday.--Parliament meets formally to-morrow, merely to carry out the provisions of the Electoral Act, which provides that both Houses shall assemble within 90 days of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Sydney Council of the Churches resolved at its last meeting that an effort should be made to secure the embodiment in the preamble of the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE election for the Federal Convention is over, and New South Wales has good reason to be proed of the sound…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It was intended on Saturday to absolutely close the rough return which has been in course of preparation as the returns came to hand, and to concentrate the attention of officers upon making up the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Labour Club, Castlereagh-street, last night several of the labour candidates at the federal elections delivered addresses. Mr. Moroney presided. Mr. J. C. Watson said the fact that the party had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following is the list of candidates for the Federal Convention:—Sir J. Forrest, Messrs. J. Clingworth, M.L.A., C. H. Pason, R. Rees, Hassell, M.L.A., Hackett, M.L.C., Briggs, M.L.C.,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The scrutiny of the Federation Convention elections was continued to-day till a late hour. The returns are still incomplete with the exception of one miner box. The following progress figures…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inspection of the figures will show that the labour party vote cannot be estimated at more than 17,000. Messrs. M'Gowen and Ferguson both secured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A few returns from remote polling places in outlying parts of the colony came in yesterday, but as the numbers of votes are necessarily small, depending as they do upon a scattered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A meeting of Labor Leaguers and those who sympathised with the labor movement was held last night at the Labor League Centre, Castlereagh-street. The attendance numbered about…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →That the popular vote may be trusted to deal wisely with an exceptional issue in these colonies has just been forcibly demonstrated from the experience of New South Wales. Much of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MR. A .J. BROWN ELECTED SPEAKER. HOBART, Tuesday. -Parliament opened today by commission, as arranged at a formal meeting of members, held in the forenoon, to select a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Both Houses of Parliament met to-day, and Parliament was opened by Commission The business in the Legislative Council was purely formal The House of Assembly elected its…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the meeting of the City Council yesterday the Mayor, in answer to a que-tion, said there could be no doubt that had any disorder arisen in connection with the large co[?]course that assembled in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The result of the Federal elections in South Australia is practically known. The list includes three Ministerial candidates, who head the list, in a bunch,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In issuing invitations for the first quarterly luncheon of 1897 the Mayor made a somewhat unique departure by confining the invitation to heads of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tho circular letter from the Leichhardt Council, asking co-operation of municipal bodies in an effort to secure the election of the Mayor by the ratepayers, came before the Woollahra Council…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—The election to fill the vacancy in the Legislative Council caused by the resignation of Mr. J. J. Duncan, who represented the north-eastern district, has resulted in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alderman Matthew Harris has a grievance. It relates to the arrangements made by the daily newspapers, particularly by "The Daily Telegraph," for posting up returns in connection with…
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