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Politics & elections, 1913

3,779 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 189

State Parliament. Impressions of a New Member. "Things Abe Not What They Seem"

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 January 1913 · page 10

Mr. Simon Hickey, M.L.A., ranks as the youngest member in the State Parliament, having been elected prior to the last session for the electorate of Alexandria, to fill the vacanoy…

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Late Sporting. Melbourne Training Notes. Australian Cup Candidates at Work Melbourne

Evening News · Tuesday 28 January 1913 · page 7

The Australian Cup candidates. The Parisian and Bobades, galloped a mile and a half in 2min 47 1/2sec at Caulfield this morning. They ran the last nine furlongs in 2mind 5 [?]sec…

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The Tasmanian Elections

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 28 January 1913 · page 3

The Tasmanian elections have not yet been finally decided, the count in one of the divisions not taking place until Wednesday, Up to the present,…

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Test of the Candidates

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 January 1913 · page 3

Thirty-eight subjects are set for the examination, each having a maximum number of works prescribed to it. The candidate has to make a selection totalling a maximum of…

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Tasmanian Elections. Hare-clarke Voting Unpopular. Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 January 1913 · page 9

For Wilmot four Liberals and two Labourites have been elected. The four Liberals are Muleahy, J. Best, II. Hayos, and W. II. Lee, and the Labourites J. A. Lyons and M…

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The Federat Elections

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 January 1913 · page 8

It is expected that the date of the Federal elections will be about the end of May next. This serves to remind us that though the elections are only…

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Federal Elections. Elaborate Preparations. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 January 1913 · page 9

The Federal electoral authorities state that they are taking elaborate preparations for dealing with the approaching elections. In addition to voting for candidates for the…

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The Blayney Election

The Sun · Tuesday 28 January 1913 · page 7

We have now had the opinions of the several newspapers on the Blayney election, and it is rather amusing to notice how each tries to twist the result round so as to support the…

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State Elections. Probably in October

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 January 1913 · page 10

TENTERFIELD, Monday.--In connection with the fifth annual farmers' carnival to-day, Mr. C. A. Lee, M.L.A., replying to the toast of "Parliament," said that there would be no…

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Blayney Election

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 January 1913 · page 10

PARKES, Monday.--From Tichbourne it is reported that several members of the Labor League there, one of the most active in the district, have resigned, consequent on…

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Tasmanian Election. the Count for Franklin

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 January 1913 · page 10

HOBART, Monday.--Though counting has not been completed for Franklin, yet it seems assured that Messrs. A. Cotton (Lib.), J. W. E[?]…

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French Marriages. Forms and Ceremonies. Restrictions Upon Candidates

Evening News · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 13

In France the trials of marriage begin before the knot itself is tied, and this is where the addresses comes is as between that they do in France and what thy 4o in Dugland…

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The Blayney Election

Evening News · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 2

Mr. W. A. Oakley writes:—The political outlook appears clouded to many letter writers, over the recent elections at Blayney: to my mind the result points clearly to a desirable…

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Federal Elections. Liberal Organising. Ingleburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 14

At a successful meeting of supporters of the I Liberal partv, held in the School of Arts on Friday evening, at which Mr. Fry, organlsor foi tho Llboinl Association, was present, a…

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Tasmanian Elections. Liberal Ousts Independent. Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 14

The Franklin count resulted in the election of three Liberals—Messrs Cotton, Evans, and Ewing-ant three Labour members-Messrs Earle, Dicker, and Mai tin…

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The Liberal Party and the Federal Elections. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 9

Sir,—In your issue of to-day appears an article dealing with the Federal elections, written in that vein of captious and misinformed ciitleism which I fool obliged to state…

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Yass. Preparing for the Election. Yass

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 13

Dolegates are arriving from the outlying centres to attend the Liberal conferance tomorrow. A nomination for the Liberal selection was received to-day from Mr. T. Corby…

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Butchers' Officers. the Annual Elections

The Sun · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 7

The ballot for the election of officers of the New South Wales branch of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union has been counted, and the new officers are: --…

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The Tasmanian Elections

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 18

The Tasmanian State elections were held on January 23, and resulted in a victory for the Liberals (the Government). The voting is by ballot on the Hare-Clark system of…

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H.M.S. Torch. Questions in Parliament. London, Jan. 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 January 1913 · page 9

Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, replying in the House of Commons yesterday to a question by Major Archer-Shee (Unionist), said that the places…

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