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Politics & elections, 1897

2,161 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 109

Occasional Notes. Satan in Parliament

The Catholic Press · Saturday 24 April 1897 · page 11

Among the candidates sucking the suffrages of the W.A. labour electors are two individuals known to the world as Vosper and Hales. Between these two statesmen…

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The Opening of Parliament. Meeting of the Cabinet

The Australian Star · Saturday 24 April 1897 · page 3

A meeting of the Cabinet, at which all Ministers, with the exception of Mr. Brunker and Mr. Carruthers were present, was held yesterday evening, when…

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Home and Foreign. Ireland. the Evicted Tenants. a Question in Parliament. [?]

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 24 April 1897 · page 5

Mr. Dillon, M.P., on Maren [?] te Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can now state the number of application which have been made to the Land…

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Meeting of the Cabinet. Opening of Parliament. Business to Be Submitted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 April 1897 · page 9

A meeting of the Cabinet was held yesterday. At it all the Ministers were present, executing Mr. Brunker and Mr. Carruthers. Ministers had tea together, and afterwards sat in consultation until…

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The Meeting of Parliament

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 April 1897 · page 4

The session of Parliament which opens tomorrow is to be held under circumstances for which we might search a long while before finding an 'exact precedent. After…

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Hurstville Election

Evening News · Monday 26 April 1897 · page 3

Considerable interest was manifested by the electors of the Hursville Municipality in the election on Saturday to fill the extraordinary vacancy in Peakhurst Ward caused through the…

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Opening of Parliament

Evening News · Tuesday 27 April 1897 · page 4

PARLIAMENT will be opened to-day, and Butler is expected to land. The two subjects have nothing in common, and only the most jaundiced minded of disappointed aspirants…

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The Headless Parliament

The Australian Star · Tuesday 27 April 1897 · page 4

No more singular coincidence could readily be imagined than that the Parliament of New South Wales, and probably of other Australian colonies,…

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The Opening of Parliament

The Australian Star · Tuesday 27 April 1897 · page 6

A good deal of interest seems to be attached to the opening. of Parliament, which is to take place to-morrow. Most of the country members are already in…

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Opening Parliament. a Brilliant Ceremony. The Governor's Speech

Evening News · Tuesday 27 April 1897 · page 6

After having rested for about five months, during which members have been enabled to visit their constituents to give an account of their stewardship, the parliamentary representatives…

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Opening of Parliament. To-day's Proceedings. Forecast of the Governor's Speech

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 April 1897 · page 5

The third session of the 17th Parliament of New South Wales will be opened by the Governor at noon to-day. There will be the customary ceremonial. One hundred rank and file…

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Opening of Parliament. Official Proceedings. Forecast of the Governor's Speech. the Business of the Session

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 April 1897 · page 5

Parliament will be opened to-day by his Excellency the Governor. The ceremony will be of the usual character. The official portion of the programme will be carried out in the Legislative…

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Opening of Parliament. The Governor's Speech. Programme of the Session. The Measures Proposed by the Government--As Set Forth in the Vice-Regal Address

The Australian Star · Tuesday 27 April 1897 · page 5

Some delay was occasioned in the issue of copies of the Governor's speech at the opening of Parliament to-day. This was due to the necessity of some alteration…

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In Parliament

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 April 1897 · page 7

In the Legislative Council the purely formal business of listening to the delivery of his Excellency's speech having been completed the House adjourned till the usual hour of meeting in the…

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Parliament. Legislative Council

The Australian Star · Wednesday 28 April 1897 · page 3

The President took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. DECEASE OF A MEMBER. The PRESIDENT announced that…

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Outside Parliament House

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 April 1897 · page 7

Despite the fact that the official opening of Parliament had been announced for noon, people were assembled outside the railings of Parliament House before 11 o'clock, and as timo were on not only…

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The Opening Op Parliament

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 April 1897 · page 4

From a party standpoint the session of Parliament which opened yesterday is unusually devoid of interest, a fact that was soon made evident by the air of listlessness characterising the newly-ussemhlcd House…

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New Notices in Parliament

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 April 1897 · page 5

Mr. Gowen,—That all Government employees (servants of the Railway Commissioners included) should work not more than 48 hours in any one week. Mr. Moore,—That, in the interests of bona-fide settlement, legislation should…

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Opening Parliament. the Governor's Speech

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 April 1897 · page 7

The third session of the seventeenth Parliament was opened with the customary ceremony yesterday, and attracted the usual concourse of spectators outside the Parliamentary Buildings, and the usual…

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The Proposed New Parliament Buildings

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 April 1897 · page 4

The Public Works Committee devoted yesterday to the further consideration of the expediency of erecting new Houses of Parliament. During his examination, Mr. F. W. Webb, Clerk…

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