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Politics & elections, 1906

3,162 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 159

Bourke Ward Election

The Australian Star · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 4

It is long since a municipal election, and especially a bye-election, excited so much interest as was created by that contest for Bourke Ward yesterday, from which Mr…

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At the Council Board. Municipal Matters in General. Mayoral Elections. Paddington

The Australian Star · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 7

The principal business at the meeting of the Paddington Council last night was the election of Mayor for the ensuing year. There was a full attendance of aldermen. The…

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Municipal Elections Penrith Polling Day

Nepean Times · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 3

There was not very, much stir over the municipal elections this year the only time for some years that there has been any opposition. This may be accounted…

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The Giant Land Frauds. Willis Escapes. £69,000 [?]n Bribes to Members of Parliament and Others

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 4

The cable brought the anticipated news on Tuesday that Willis had got out of the handcuffs at Durban—and as fa[?]e…

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Austria and Hungary. Emperor Joseph Sanctions Dissolution of the Hungarian Parliament. Fiery Prediction. London, Friday, 2.30 p.m

The Australian Star · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 1

The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria (who is also King of Hungary) has sanctioned the dissolution of the Hungarian Parliament…

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Nepean Cottage Hospital Election of Committee

Nepean Times · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 8

At the Council Chambers on Friday night of last week, Mr H J F Neale read the result of the poll in the presence of about a dozen subscribers,…

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The British Elections. Protestant Test Questions

Watchman · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 3

The Imperial Protestant Federation, London, favor us with the following copy of test questions which Vere put to candidates for qlcetoy to the H[?] [?] ainmins if [?]…

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The Election in our Village. Importance of.the Baker In English Politics

Watchman · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 3

Our village lies in a crooked elbow of the Thames and vainly tries to climb the hill on which some of us have succeeded in lodging ourselves. The whole constituency in…

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Water and Sewerage Board Elections

Evening News · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 6

Two members of the Water and Sewerage Board, in the persons of Alderman R. D. Meagher, Who represents the City Council, and Alderman Thomas Henley, M.L.A., who is one…

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An Irish View of the Elections

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 8

The Irish news by the last mail reads rather belated in the light of the cabled results of the general election. The manifesto of the Irish leaders to the Irish voters…

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Traffic Employees. Close of the Conference. Election of Office-[?]arers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 17

The annual conference of the New South Wales Government Railways Trafile Employees' Association, which was opened at the Sydney Trades Hall on Thursday morning, was…

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The Mayoral Elections Hurstville

The St George Call · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 5

All the available space for the public was taken up at the Council Chambers on Tuesday night in full anticipation of a contest for the Mayoral Chair…

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Aldermanic Election

The Mosman Mail · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 2

The election of two aldermen last Saturday was not so exciting had been expected. Messrs. Dean and MacDonald were elected…

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Special Meeting of the Council. The Election of the Mayor

The Mosman Mail · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 5

On Wednesday evening; a special meeting was held of the Bo[?] Council for the purpose principally of electing a Mayor for the [?]…

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The Municipal Elections

Mosman, Neutral and Middle Harbour Resident · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 5

A goodly number of ratepayers assembled in the vicinity of the Town Hall on Saturday evening, to await…

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Mosman Council Special Meeting. Election of Mayor

Mosman, Neutral and Middle Harbour Resident · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 8

A special meeting of the Mosman Borough Council was held at the Council Chambers on Thursday night, the business being the…

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Municipal Elections

Liverpool Herald · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 7

LIVERPOOL.—Very little interest was evinced in the municipal elections this year. For the offices of aldermen, Messrs. Marsden (North Ward) and Sindel (West Ward)…

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Ryde Council. Election of Mayor

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 10

A special meeting of the Ryde Council was held on Tuesday. Present:The retiring Mayor (Alderman W. Thompson), and Aldermen H.S.John Tukcer, S.A…

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Election of Mayor

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 3

Alderman Critchley nomitated Alderman Stimson for the position of Mayor for the current year. It was an established precedent that there should be a fresh Mayor…

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Election of Mayor

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 3

This Council met on Thursday. Present: Mayor Murray, Aldermen Latham, Hamilton, Asimus, Baglee, Bennett, Hirst, Palmer and Allen…

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