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It is expected that the position of the Government will be challenged Immediately the Houses meet. Mr. Barton is understood to be averse to hostil action until Federation has been got rid of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday—Parliament was opened,this afternoon by Lord Brassey, with the usual ceremony. The_ Governor's address, referring to federation, says:—"The people of New…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Members of each party in the House of Commons have agreed to facilitate the passage of the Australian Commonwealth Constitution Enabling Bill through the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Australian system of voting has acquired. World Wide celebrity, and in many places is held up as the. ideal method of recording accurately, speedily, and secretly, the…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →Top Row (Standing up):—1, W. Bird; 2, F. A. Hearle; 3, J. Parle, J.P.; 4, J. Keggen; 5, G. Lt. Taylor. Second Row: 1, W. P. Fitzgerald, J.P 2, G. Russell; 3, Alderman P. F. Hart, J.P., Returning Officer; 4, Walter Ives; 5, John Keane…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →"The general desire among commercial men," said Mr. Rupert Clarke, general manager for Holdsworth, Macpherson and Co., "is that the case of the anti-Billites…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"We have been requested thus early to say that the accommodation for visitors to the Council Chamber on the 18th instant is limited to 225; that the President's cards of admission for that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Premier has at present under consideration the operation of the Grand Committee system in connection with the House of Commons, under which bills of a technical character are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Last night the delegates met in Aaron's Exchange Hotel, and we will publish a full report in our next issue. The voting for the new Council resulted as follows:—The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Several shire councils in the country districts having passed resolutions asking that the colony should be divided into districts for the purpose of electing Viotorian representatives to the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The City Council yesterday approved of four bills recommended by the general purposes committee and ordered that they should be forwarded to Parliament for adoption. The bills are—Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PERTH, Tuesday.--In the Assembly, Mr. Leake continued the debate on the Address-in-Reply, and moved an amendment expressing regret that the Governor's Speech did not state the intention…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In the Legislative Assembly to-day the Federal Bill was recommitted, and an amendment having been inserted enabling voters to vote in any portion of the colony the measure was passed through its…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The amendment moved to tho Address-in Reply, regretting that provision had not been made by the Government to refer the Commonwealth Bill to the people, moved by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the Legislative Assembly to-night, the amendment moved by Mr. George Leake, leader of the Opposition, to the Address in Reply regreting that the Government had not made provision…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NOWRA, Tuesday.—Thomas Kennedy, one of Alderman David Davis's original electioneering secretaries, sued that, gentleman who is member for Shoalhaven in the small debts court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A[?] David Davis, M.L.A. for Shoalhaven; was sued in the Small Debts Court today by Thos. Kennedy, one of his original electioneering secretaries, for £1 4s 6d, cost of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Wednesday.--The French Chamber of Representatives and the Senate have been prorogued…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The passing of the disastrous Secret Conference Bill has produced one humorous episode at least. During the recent campaign the member of Parliament for a certain constituency was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,--I presume the law on this point is the same here as in England, where it provides that every M.P. on accepting salaried Ministerial office must resign his seat in the House…
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