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Politics & elections, 1906

3,162 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 159

Employers' Federation and the Elections

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 March 1906 · page 8

The Employers' Federation has been discussing what attitude it should assume in connection with the Federal elections. The difficulties obtruding themselves regarding the sinking of…

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Fire Brigades Board. Election of Members

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 March 1906 · page 13

The election on the Fire Brigades Board of representatives of fire insurance companies and of the volunteer fire brigades was hold at the headquarters of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade…

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Polling Places

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 March 1906 · page 7

The polling place in the [?]awarra division named Barber's Creek will in future be known as Tallong. Florida, in the electorate of Gwydir, has been appointed a polling place…

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Tasmanian General Elections. the Nominations. Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 March 1906 · page 7

Nominations for the Assembly electlon closed on Saturday throughout the State. In all 71 were received for 35 seats. In eight constituencies the old members have…

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Victorian Protectionists. Organising for the Elections. Labor Assistance Sought

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 March 1906 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--In regard to the proposals put forward by Mr. Charles Atkins, chairman of the Chamber of Manufactures, to ensure uniformity of action on the question of…

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Parliament of Commerce

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 March 1906 · page 9

The resolutions to be brought forward by the Sydney delegates at the forthcoming meeting of the Council of the Chambers of Commerce of the Commonwealth were given in…

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The Russian Elections

Evening News · Tuesday 20 March 1906 · page 4

The abstention from voting of the Russian peasant proprietors at the Duma elections will cause no little surprise. The glorious privilege of the franchise has at last—to a limited…

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Elections in Russia. Priestly Influence. Abstention From Voting. London, March 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 March 1906 · page 7

The election of delegates to the Primary Electoral Colleges for the election of the National Duma of Russia has begun. There are enormous abstentions on the part of the…

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Queanbeyan Election

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 March 1906 · page 8

QUFANBEYAN, Monday.--Messrs. Ryric and Hungerford have entered vigorously on their electioneering campaign, and are addressing meetings throughout the electorate…

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Unhappy Russia. Primary Douma Elections. Electors Stand Aloof. Clergy Sweeping the Polls

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 March 1906 · page 7

LONDON, Monday.--The election of delegates to the Primary Electoral College in connection with the Russian National Douma began with an enormous abstention on…

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"The Dawn of Home Rule." Cardinal Moran on the Outlook. an Irish Parliament in College Green

The Australian Star · Wednesday 21 March 1906 · page 2

"We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times." These lines from Tennyson's "Day Dream" served as the text of Cardinal Moran's…

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Municipal Election at North Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 March 1906 · page 13

A poll was taken on Monday to fill the extraordinary vacancy on the North Sydney Council caused by the resignation of Alderman J. R. Hardle (Tunks Ward). An unusual…

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W. and S. Board Election. Polling To-day

Evening News · Thursday 22 March 1906 · page 5

The election to fill the vacancy on the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board, caused by the retirement, through effluxion of time, of Alderman Thomas Henley, M.L.A., as…

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The Week in London. Labour in Parliament. London, Feb. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 March 1906 · page 8

The House of Commons met on Tuesday, but Parliament is to be opened formally by the [?]ing in person next Monday. I need enter [?]nto no technical details, but enough was seen…

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Election Humours

The Catholic Press · Thursday 22 March 1906 · page 35

Candidates for Parliamentary honors Inevitably have to face awkward questions put to them by hecklers. In a book containing many election anecdotes, just…

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The Queanbeyan Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 March 1906 · page 6

Nomination day for the Queanbeyan by-election is Wednesday next. Up to the present the only candidates in the field are Colonel Ryrie, the Liberal and Reform League…

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W. and S. Board Election

Evening News · Friday 23 March 1906 · page 3

The poll for the election of a suburban member on the Water and Sewerage Board yesterday resulted as follows:— Alderman Thomas Henley, M.L.A.: Sydney,…

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Queanbeyan Contest. Liberal Candidate's Campaign. Braidwood

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 March 1906 · page 5

Colonel Granville Ryrle addressed the electors in the Literary Institute Hall last evening. Mr. J. McDowell occupied the chair. There was a fair attendance of electors, who…

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New Zealand Licensing Committees. a Luke-warm Election. Wellington, March 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 March 1906 · page 5

What ought to have been quite "the" event of this week fell flat, stale, and perhaps one can hardly say altogether unprofitable, but at all events lacking usual interest. The…

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Victorian Parliament. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 March 1906 · page 11

The State Parliament has been further prorogued to May 1. Probably it will not meet till six weeks later…

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