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Politics & elections, 1906

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, July 21, 1906. the Surry Hills Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 July 1906 · page 10

The electors of Surry Hills to-day have an opportunity which rarely falls to the lot of ordinary mortals in by-elections. The can strike a note which will give…

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Legislative Assembly By-election

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 July 1906 · page 9

All election to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement from the Legislative Assembly of Mr. W. H. Irvine, representative of the Lowan electorate, was conducted to-day. The…

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State Parliament

Sunday Times · Sunday 22 July 1906 · page 8

The censure motion moved by Mr. McGowen, leader of the Opposition and the Labor Party, attacking the Government over the Crick episode of the previous week, when it was ruled that the…

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The Scene on Polling Day

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 July 1906 · page 5

The scene of the final settlement of issues between the contending parties was a side street, off Crown-street, Surryhills known as Beaufort-avenue. Usually a quiet and sedate…

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Unlawful Acts on Polling Day

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 July 1906 · page 4

The Chief Federal Electoral Officer desires to cell attention to several new provisions in the Commonwealth Electoral Amending, Act of 1906. The following acts are on polling day, and on…

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The By- Elections. Surry-hills Contest. a Liberal Victory. Result of the Polling

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 July 1906 · page 5

The polling for the election of a representative of Surry-hills in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly excited more than common interest in the locality immediately…

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Liquor in Parliament

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 July 1906 · page 4

The arm of the prohibitionist grows longer and stronger every year in the colonies, and today it is shaking its fist in threatening manner even at the doors of the liquor bars of the…

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The Temper of Parliament. Possibilities of a Fourth Party

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 July 1906 · page 7

The temper of the Legislative Assembly has by no means been improved by the happenings of last week. The fact that the motion to dissent from the Speaker's ruling, which was…

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Surry Hills Election. Mr. Bruntnell Returned. the Labour Candidate Third. Retiring Member Badly Beaten

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 July 1906 · page 7

The polling for the election of a member to represent Surry Hills, the vacancy having been caused by the resignation of Mr. John Norton, took place on Saturday. There were…

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The Honour Op Parliament. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 July 1906 · page 11

Sir,—As one who above all things would like to maintain the honour and fullest inhereat power of our Parliament, I have read with great interest your powerful and merited…

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Parliament's Honour. Mr. Carruthers in Defence. Inadequacy of Parliamentary Machinery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 July 1906 · page 7

"The other day the 'Herald' said, 'Oh, for an hour of another Parkes,'" the State Premier remarked on Saturday. "I should like to trespass on the space of your journal for…

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Tramway Troubles. Petition to Parliament. Magnetic Brake Report. Union Executive Dissatisfied

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 July 1906 · page 7

It is proposed, now that the president of the Tramway Employees' Union has been unsuccessful in the contest for the Surry Hills seat in the Legislative Assembly, to proceed with…

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The Excitement of the Election

Evening News · Monday 23 July 1906 · page 5

As a rule, there are hardly two persons before the Court on any day on charges of drunkenness, and other offences against the good order of the community, who submit the…

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The Surry Hills Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 July 1906 · page 6

The return of the selected Liberal and Reform candidate, Mr. Bruntnell, for Surry Hills on Saturday, is on several grounds satisfactory, but it carries a note of…

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Canvassing at Elections

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 July 1906 · page 7

Attention is drawn by the Federal electoral officer to restrictions placed on cauvassing on election day. Canvassing for votes, soliciting votes, and inducing any elector to vote…

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Excitement of the Elections. an Excuse at the Water

The Australian Star · Monday 23 July 1906 · page 5

When a neat, quiet man turned up at the Water Court this morning and said it was the excitement of the elections he was suffering from, the court was dispose to look upon…

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The Successful Candidate

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 July 1906 · page 5

Mr. Albert Bruntnell is well known in public life in Sydney, and especially, in connection with the temperance movement. He is, in civil life, the general secretary of the New South…

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The Surry-hills Election

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 July 1906 · page 4

Although the right candidate has been returned at Surry-hills by a substantial majority over the one next highest on the poll, it would be useless…

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The Alliance Candidate

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 July 1906 · page 5

At a special meeting of the executive council of the N.S.W. Alliance, it was resolved to support the candidature of Mr. John Fitzpatrik for Cootamundra. Reference was made to Mr…

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Parliament's Honor

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 July 1906 · page 4

The Protestant-hall was crowded to the doors last night in response to an Invitation from the People's Reform League to protest against the action of the State Parliament with regard…

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