The State Parliament
A proclamation is published in the Government "Gazette" further proroguing the Stale Parliament to Tuesday, 19th April. It is probable that the next, proclamation will summon…
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Sir William Harcourt. Retiring From Parliament
LONDON, Tuesday.--The veteran Liberal statesman Sir William Vernon Harcourt, M.P., has announced that, owing to uncertain health, he will not seek re-election at…
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Sir,--In your issue of Saturday, Mr. Arthur Griffith attempts to defend our Parliament, from certain denunciatory remarks in the "retiring address" of the president of the Methodist…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Federal Parliament. the Opening Ceremony. Election of Officers. Tnteresting Contests Probable Policy of the Opposition. Labour Caucus Meeting. (From Our Special Reporters.) Melbourne
The second Commonwealth Parliament will open in Melbourne to-day, at 2.30 p.m. Members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives will meet in their respective…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Australian and Imperial Topics. the Eve of Parliament. London, Jan. 29
We are now almost on tho eve of the meeting of Parliament, and in the course of many years' experience I have known only one or two cases in which the beginning of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Commonwealth. Opening of Parliament. Probable Adjournment Until To-morrow. the Government and the Caucus
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The final arrangements for the opening of Parliament, to-morrow add only a few detail to what has already been, telegraphed. Members will assemble at 2.30,…
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LONDON, Tuesday:--Liberal demonstrations in the provinces continue to blink the Chinese labor, fiscal, and education questions…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The second session of the Commonwealth Parliament was opened yesterday; but there was no brilliant display, as on the occasion of the opening of the first…
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Mr. Deakin lost no time in challenging his detractors with the Arbitration Bill, on which his fate is alleged to depend. The first reading was moved last night, the second is set…
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Sir,--Ever since the Assembly passed a vote for the reduction of my salary as Acting Chief Justice I have felt that It was right, on public grounds, and for a warning to those who might…
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The following is the Speech road by Lord Northcote. at the opening, of the Federal Parliament yesterday. The Speech appeared in the war edition of the "Star" last night:--…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Interference of Parliament. To the Editor of the "Evening News"
Sir,—Ever since the Assembly passed a vote for the reduction of my salary as Acting Chief Justice, I have felt that it was right, on public grounds, and for a warning to those who might…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Commonwealth. Opening of Parliament. (From Our Special Reporter.) the Senate. Melbourne
Looking Into the chamber of the Senate from the galleries one is struck by the number of unfamiliar faces. New South Wales sends only one now member to the Senate…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Federal Parliament. The Opening. a Scene of Activity. a Crowded Gathering. [By Telegraph.] MELBOURNE
The Federal Parliament House presented an appearance of nativity to-day to which it has been a stranger for some months past. Attendants had been furnishing up the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Federal Parliament Opening Ceremony Proceedings in the Senate. President Re-elected. the Governor-general's Speech
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The second Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia assembled to-day. There was an absence of the magnificence, brilliance, and popular…
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Senator PLAYFORD, Vice-President of t[?] Executive Council (S.A.), reminded senators that the time had come for the election of President…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Disputed Federal Elections. Sitting of the Court. Two Petitions Presented. Melbourne
The Federal Chief Justices sat to-day for the first time in the Court of Disputed Roturns, to deal with petitions arising out of the recent Federal elections…
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The election to fill the vacancy in the representation of Normanton Division (Yorkshire, West Riding) in the House of Commons, due to the death of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Late Federal Elections. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—We have elected to the Senate Messrs. J. C. Neild and J. P. Gray, to the House of Representatives J. C. Watson, W. H. Wilks, W. Webster, [?] Wilkin, H. Willis, and W. M. Hughes, all of when…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Another By-election. Still the Flowing Tide
LONDON, Wednesday.--The by-election for the Normanton division of Yorkshire, rendered necessary by the death of the Radical member, Mr. Ben Pickard, has…
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