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Politics & elections, 1906

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Date of the Elections. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 March 1906 · page 7

The St. Arnaud Agricultural Society has passed a resolution asking Mr. Skene, member for the district, to bring under the notice of the Federal authorities the inconvenience…

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The Douma Elections

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 March 1906 · page 7

LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--It is estimated that 68,000 Russian workmen will be permitted to vote at the National Douma elections Which take place next month…

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Another By-election

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 March 1906 · page 7

LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--The agent for Mr. H. C. W. Verney, Liberal candidate for the Basingstoke division of Hampshire --a vacancy created by the death of Mr…

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Wail for Protection. Active Organisation in Victoria. Preparing for the Elections. the Alliance with Labor

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 March 1906 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.--The communications which have just passed between the Chamber of Manufactures and the Political Labor Council of Victoria will put an end to any…

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The Russian Parliament. Election Dates Fixed

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 March 1906 · page 9

LONDON, Tuesday.--Arrangements have been completed so that 28 of the Russian National Douma constituencies will elect their representatives on April Stand the rest…

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Tocumwal. Election of Officers

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 7 March 1906 · page 13

At the annual meeting on 17th ultimo, the following gentlemen were appointed office-bearers for the ensuing twelve months:—President, Mr. Wm. Quirk…

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The Russian Elections

Evening News · Wednesday 7 March 1906 · page 2

Twenty-eight constituencies will elect their representatives to the Russian Duma on April 8. In the remaining constituencies the elections will be on April 27 and May 3…

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Electioneering English-women

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 March 1906 · page 5

There are two types, the orator and the quiet worker. Both exercise enormous influence. The orator will often begin by facing a small audience of her own sex. Her…

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The Russian Duma. Election Arrangements. London, March 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 March 1906 · page 9

Twenty-eight constituencies will elect their representatives to the Russian Duma on April 8. The remaining constituencies will conduct the elections on May 3…

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The British Elections. After the Battle. Some Fragments of the Bullets

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 March 1906 · page 11

In the basic and hurry of a great general election in England we. who live in the faraway colonies, have conveyed to us only the echoes of the deafening noise resulting from…

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Tasmanian Elections. Local Option and Labour. Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 March 1906 · page 6

The Tasmanian National Political Association held a meeting at the Town Hall this evening. Lively passages ensued on the local option issue, which the association is…

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Modern Russia. the New Legislature. Two Assemblies with Equal Powers Ministers Eligible for Election

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 March 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.--An Imperial manifesto issued in St. Petersburg yesterday announces that the Council of the Russian. Empire will be composed of au equal…

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The February Reviews' on the British Elections

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 March 1906 · page 6

The February reviews, which came to hand yesterday, contain a number of articles on the British elections. The reader's compassion is moved by the plight in which the "National…

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CARDINAl v. Chief Justice. Question in Parliament

Evening News · Friday 9 March 1906 · page 3

LONDON, —"Wednesday, 2.55 p.m.—In the House of Commons to-day, in reference to the correspondence between Cardinal Moran and Sir Frederick Darley, Mr. William Redmond asked…

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Imperial Parliament. Payment of Members. a Huge Majority. London, March 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 March 1906 · page 7

In the House of Commons last night Mr. W. H. Lever (Liberal) moved his resolution in favour of payment of members of Parliament. Sir Henry Kimber…

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Official Election Expenses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 March 1906 · page 7

The Government has accepted the resolution of Mr. Rowlands in favour of defraying from the public funds returning officers' and other official charges in…

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The British Parliament. O'brien and Davitt's Views

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 27

Mr. Wm. O'Brien, M.P. for the City of Cork, has given the following views on the New English Parliament:— The Gladstonian Home Rule is not possible…

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Electioneering Tactics

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 38

According to a writer in an English paper the last General Election was a peculiarly ill-natured one; "and mud, and writs for slander," he adds, " have been plentiful."…

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Seen During the English Elections

The World's News · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 20

A Dog that Canvassed for Mr. Emmott, One of the Successful Liberal Candidates…

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Old Election Expenses

The Australian Star · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 6

The man who at one time aspired to Parliamentary honours was very apt to find himself on a road beset with turnpikes where very heavy toll was…

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