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  2. FIRTH MINISTRY.

    After an Interval ol less than two 6. R. Dibbs having been at the head of a Ministry from January 17 to March 7, 1889, Sir Henry Parkes came back to power at the head of his ...

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  3. SIR HENRY PARKES.

    Sir Henry Parkes was a native of Warwickshire, England. He. was born in the little village of Canley, parish of Stoneleigh, on May 27, 1815 His father, Thomas Parkes, was a farmer, ...

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  4. FIRST PARKES MINISTRY.

    At me ensuing general [?]non Mr.Parkes [?] for East Sydney, and was elected. Since his first term of office with Mr. Martin three Ministries had come into power, headed respectively by John ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. THE "EMPIRE" NEWSPAPER STARTED.

    Up to the close of 1850 there was but one daily newspaper in Sydney. The want of a second was obvious, and was severely felt; and one of the most important actions of Mr. Parkes's life ...

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  6. IN OPPOSITION—DETHRONED—DEFEATED.

    After Sir Henry's unexpected, and somewhat quixotic retirement from office in October, 1891, Sir George Dibbs came into power at the head of his third Ministry. Sir Henry was pressed ...

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  7. O'FARRELL AND THE "KIAMA GHOST." LEGISLATIVE CAPACITY.

    A was during Mr. Parkes's first farm or [?] that Henry James O'Farrell shot his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, then on his first visit to Sydney. The event caused a profound sensation During Me first term of office as Colonial Secretary in the Martin-Parkes Ministry, Mr. Parkes gave remarkable proof of his capacity as a legislator by framing and passing into law. in ...

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  8. FIRST ENTERS PARLIAMENT.

    Mr. Parkes first entered Parliament as successor to Wentworth. His first election was to the old mixed Council which had passed the Constitution Bill, and two years before the granting ol Responsible ...

    Article : 194 words
  9. AN EARLY OBSERVER.

    Early in bis teens he turned his attention to public movements, and although he had more than once denied that he had ever been associated with the Chartist movement in England, it is ...

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    THE LATE SIR HENRY PARKES, G.C.M.G. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  11. MARRIES AND EMIGRATES.

    As the boy grew to manhood, always struggling against adversity, seeing no hope of improving his lot in his native land, Henry Parkes turned his attention to the Greater Britain ...

    Article : 190 words
  12. WORK IN THE COUNCIL.

    One of the first subjects he took up in Parliament was that of immigration. He moved a motion in the Council in favor of a more liberal immigration system Ulan than prevailed. His motion was defeated; but ...

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  13. FIRST EMPLOYMENT—SELLS TOYS.

    His first regular employment was as a farm laborer on the Regentville Estate ol Sir John Jamieson, about thirty-six miles from Sydney, and near the town of Penrith. Here he worked for ...

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  14. FIRST MEETING WITH ROBERTSON.

    It was in connection with the last-mentioned subject that Henry Parkes and John Robertson first met. A historical interest attaches to the meeting, and there was something peculiarly characteristic in ...

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  15. THIRD TRIP TO EUROPE.

    As the result of the general election of 1882, Mr. Stuart came into office at the head of a strong Ministry, which lasted from January 5, 1883, to October 6, 1885. Sir Henry Parkes, after going ...

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  16. FIRST ATTEMPT AT SPEECHMAKING.

    H vas in 1848, about nine years after ms arrival in Sydney, that Mr. Parkes made his arst attempt at speechmaking. Wentworth and Bland were again candidates for the representation of Sydney. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  17. THE SOUDAN EXPEDITION.

    it was during the regime of the Stuart Government that the New South Wales Contingent was dispatched to Egypt to assist the British forces in the Soudan. The Premier himself was absent ...

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  18. UNDER RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT.

    The old Council came to ac end in December, 1855, and a few days before its last sitting Mr. Parkes and nounced that it was not hie intention to seek a seat in the new Parliament, the first under Responsible ...

    Article : 227 words
  19. FEDERATION.

    Sir Henry Parkes is justly entitled to be regarded as one of the fathers of the federation, movement in Australasia. Though not the first to suggest the idea of a federal union of the ...

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  20. IN THE FOURTH PARLIAMENT.

    At the general election in December, 1860, he was again elected for Bast Sydney, and resigned bis seat on May 13, 1861, in order to proceed with Mr. W. B. Dalley to England as lecturer on Australia as ...

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  21. A "GROSS LIBEL" ON THE ASSEMBLY.

    In the following September when Parhament met, one of the first things the House did was to resolve, on the motion of the Premier (recently' knighted), that Sir Henry Parkes had grossly ...

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  22. HIS SECOND MINISTRY.—KNIGHTED.

    For a little over two years Mr. Parkes was In opposition to the third Robertson Ministry, which succeeded his Government on its downfall, and which lasted from February, 1875, to March, 1877. This ...

    Article : 310 words
  23. PARKES AND DARVALL.

    A memorable contest in which Mr. Farkes engaged was that in which he opposed the re-election of Mr. (after Sir John Bayley) Darvall at East Maitland in August, 1863. Mr. Darvall joined ...

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  24. HIS FOURTH MINISTRY.

    Sir Henry Parkes aid not return to omce again until January, 1887. The Stuart Ministry in October, 1885, merged into the first Dibbs Ministry, which, however, lasted only twelve months and ...

    Article : 377 words
  25. A PUBLIC TESTIMONIAL

    While in office with his fourth Ministry Sir Henry Parkes was known to be in extremely embarrassed circumstances, and during September, 1887, a public testimonial to him was organised. ...

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  26. FIRST SPEECH—A PROPHECY FULFILLED.

    But the voice of roe [?] Premier was soon to be heard. Parkes made his first political speech at a meeting he and some of his friends had organised in the beginning of 1849 to petition the ...

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  27. TRANSPORTATION.

    The second time in which the voice or Henry Parkes was heard in public was at an Important; Period in the history of his adopted country. The subject of transportation was agitating ...

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  28. ELECTED FOR KIAMA.

    About nine months after his defeat for Bast Maitlamd Mr. Parkes was nominated for Braidwood, an extraordinary vacancy having occurred there. His nomination was against his own wish , and he took ...

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  29. HIS THIRD MINISTRY.—PARKES-ROBERTSON COALITION.

    The fourth [?]try or sir john Robertson has a short career, lasting exactly four months, namely, from May 17, 1877, to December 17 of that year. It was defeated on a Supply BUI, and on advising a ...

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