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Frederick Stuart (Australian Politician)
Frederick William Stuart (187918 February 1954) was an Australian politician. He was born on the Hunter River to farmer Frederick Stuart and Janet, ''née'' Graham. He attended primary school before serving in the Boer War with the New South Wales Lancers and then the Mounted Rifles. After the war he spent some time in the Orange Free State, running a business there before returning to Australia in 1905, settling in Murwillumbah in 1909. He married Marjorie Phillips in South Australia, with whom he had five children. He ran an office for Hindmarsh, Johnson and Co., an auctioneering firm he eventually took over (it became F. W. Stuart and Co.). From 1925 to 1927 he was a Progressive member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and has been regarded as am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hunter River (New South Wales)
The Hunter River ( Wonnarua: ''Coquun'') is a major river in New South Wales, Australia. The Hunter River rises in the Liverpool Range and flows generally south and then east, reaching the Tasman Sea at Newcastle, the second largest city in New South Wales and a major harbour port. Its lower reaches form an open and trained mature wave dominated barrier estuary. Course and features The Hunter River rises on the western slopes of Mount Royal Range, part of the Liverpool Range, within Barrington Tops National Park, east of Murrurundi, and flows generally northwest and then southwest before being impounded by Lake Glenbawn; then flowing southwest and then east southeast before reaching its mouth of the Tasman Sea, in Newcastle between Nobbys Head and Stockton. The river is joined by ten tributaries upstream of Lake Glenbawn; and a further thirty-one tributaries downstream of the reservoir. The main tributaries are the Pages, Goulburn, Williams and the Paterson rivers an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Perdriau
Raymond Stephen Perdriau (3 December 188625 December 1951) was an Australian politician. He was born at Waverley in Sydney to surveyor Stephen Edward Perdriau and Grace Marion, ''née'' King. After attending Scots College and Sydney Grammar School he was employed by Dalgety's Ltd and then began farming on the Tweed River. During World War I he served in the Australian Imperial Force's 3rd Artillery Division and was wounded and invalided at the Battle of Passchendaele; he attained the rank of corporal. On 5 November 1916 he married Isabella Aitchison in London, with whom he had a daughter. He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1920 as one of the members for Byron, a member of the Progressive Party. He served as Minister for Business Undertaking for one day, 20 December 1921. A coalitionist Progressive who had joined the Nationalist Party by 1922, Perdriau was defeated in 1925. On 29 August 1939 he married Myrtle May Webb, with whom he had four more ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Following are lists of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly: * 1856–1858 * 1858–1859 * 1859–1860 * 1860–1864 * 1864–1869 * 1869–1872 * 1872–1874 * 1874–1877 * 1877–1880 * 1880–1882 * 1882–1885 * 1885–1887 * 1887–1889 * 1889–1891 * 1891–1894 * 1894–1895 * 1895–1898 * 1898–1901 * 1901–1904 * 1904–1907 * 1907–1910 * 1910–1913 * 1913–1917 * 1917–1920 * 1920–1922 * 1922–1925 * 1925–1927 * 1927–1930 * 1930–1932 * 1932–1935 * 1935–1938 * 1938–1941 * 1941–1944 * 1944–1947 * 1947–1950 * 1950–1953 * 1953–1956 * 1956–1959 * 1959–1962 * 1962–1965 * 1965–1968 * 1968–1971 * 1971–1973 * 1973–1976 * 1976–1978 * 1978–1981 * 1981–1984 * 1984–1988 * 1988–1981 * 1991–1995 * 1995–1999 * 1999–2003 * 2003–2007 * 2007–2011 ''2007–2011'' is an compilation album by P.S. Eliot released in 2016 on Don Giovanni Records. It compile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 member radio stations. * January 21 – The first nuclear-pow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1879 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The United States Note is valued the same as gold, for the first time since the American Civil War. * January 11 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins. * January 22 – Anglo-Zulu War – Battle of Isandlwana: A force of 1,200 British soldiers is wiped out by over 20,000 Zulu warriors. * January 23 – Anglo-Zulu War – Battle of Rorke's Drift: Following the previous day's defeat, a smaller British force of 140 successfully repels an attack by 4,000 Zulus. * February 3 – Mosley Street in Newcastle upon Tyne (England) becomes the world's first public highway to be lit by the electric incandescent light bulb invented by Joseph Swan. * February 8 – At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute, engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first proposes the global adoption of standard time. * March 3 – United States Geological Survey is founded. * March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Missingham
William Thomas Missingham (15 May 18681 February 1933) was an Australian politician. He was born at Jamberoo to farmer David Missingham and Priscilla, ''née'' Noble. Educated at Jamberoo and Kiama, he moved to the Richmond River area in 1890 to manage the Pearce Creek butter factory and, in 1898, became a dairy farmer. On 25 November 1891, he married Margaret Elizabeth Dorrough, with whom he had four children. He served on Terania Shire Council from 1906 to 1922 and as president from 1909 to 1922; he was also vice-president (1914–17) and president (1918–22) of the Shires Association of New South Wales. In 1922, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as a Progressive Progressive may refer to: Politics * Progressivism, a political philosophy in support of social reform ** Progressivism in the United States, the political philosophy in the American context * Progressive realism, an American foreign policy par ... member for Byron; he was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Gillies (Australian Politician)
Robert Towers Gillies (187626 July 1941) was an Australian politician. He was born on the Paterson River to farmers Dugald and Mary Gillies. He attended public school at Pimlico and worked as a blacksmith. Around 1903 he married Mabel Elsie McKeever, with whom he had six children. He farmed at Cudgera from around 1908, before relocating to Tweed Heads around 1922, where he became a contributor to the ''Tweed Daily'' and a councillor from 1922 to 1925. In 1925 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as one of the Labor members for Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and has been regarded as among the ..., but he was expelled in 1927 for his opposition to Jack Lang. He later joined the right-wing All for Australia League. After leaving politics he became a commercial agent in Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Budd
Arthur Eames Budd (25 September 187028 November 1957) was an Australian politician. Born at Ipswich in Queensland to farmer John Budd and Sarah Naish, ''née'' Eames, he was educated privately before becoming a railway worker and road contractor, moving to Murwillumbah in New South Wales in 1891 to become a farmer. On 14 August 1895 he married Annie Knight, with whom he had ten children. Budd served on Murwillumbah Municipal Council from 1904 to 1908 and from 1920 to 1927, with a period as mayor from 1922 to 1927. He was managing director of Budd's Farm Supplies until 1927 and had been a foundation member of the Tweed River Agricultural Society in 1910. From 1921 to 1927 he was the Murwillumbah district Coroner. In 1927, Budd was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Country Party member for Byron. He served until his retirement in 1944. On 8 January 1935 he remarried Ida Swinney. One of his sons from his first marriage, Sir Harry Budd, served as a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Nesbitt
George Nesbitt (185913 December 1948) was an Irish-born Australian politician. He was born at Castlederg in County Tyrone to John Nesbitt, a Master in Poor Law, and Rebecca, ''née'' Gregory. He arrived in New South Wales in 1885 and worked for a Sydney softgoods firm as a traveller to the North Coast from 1887 to 1895. In 1895 he settled in Lismore and opened a general store; also in that year he married Adina Morgan. He was active in various retailers' and commercial travellers' associations throughout the 1890s and 1900s, and was an alderman and mayor at Lismore from 1906 to 1907. In 1913 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Liberal member for Lismore; with the introduction of proportional representation he became one of the members for Byron. He left the Assembly in 1925 but in 1927 was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boer War
The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the South African Republic and the Orange Free State) over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa from 1899 to 1902. Following the discovery of gold deposits in the Boer republics, there was a large influx of "foreigners", mostly British from the Cape Colony. They were not permitted to have a vote, and were regarded as "unwelcome visitors", invaders, and they protested to the British authorities in the Cape. Negotiations failed and, in the opening stages of the war, the Boers launched successful attacks against British outposts before being pushed back by imperial reinforcements. Though the British swiftly occupied the Boer republics, numerous Boers refused to accept defeat and engaged in guerrilla warfare. Eventually, British scorched eart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Muswellbrook Chronicle
''The Muswellbrook Chronicle and Upper Hunter advertiser'' is a newspaper published in Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia since 1872. It has also been published as ''Muswellbrook chronicle'', ''Muswellbrook & Denman, Upper Hunter regional show'', and ''Hunter unlimited''. History ''The Muswellbrook Chronicle'' can trace its origin back to 1868 when it was called ''The Muswellbrook Monitor'', this was then followed by the ''Courier'', published from 1872 to 1876 and continued by the ''Upper Hunter Standard'' from 1876 to 1888. This subsequently gave way to the ''Muswellbrook Chronicle'', which was established in August 1888 by Pierce Healy. Digitisation The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia. See also * List of newspapers in Australia * List of newspapers in New South Wales This is a list of newspapers in New South Wales in Australia. List of newspapers in New South Wales (A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Northern Star
''The Northern Star'' is a daily newspaper serving Lismore, New South Wales, Australia. The newspaper is owned by News Corp Australia. ''The Northern Star'' is circulated to Lismore and surrounding communities, from Tweed Heads to the north, to Kyogle and Casino to the west and Evans Head to the south and includes the seaside towns of Byron Bay and Ballina. The circulation of ''The Northern Star'' is 14,737 Monday to Friday and 22,653 on Saturday. ''The Northern Star'' website is part of the APN Regional News Network. History The two-page first issue of ''The Northern Star'' was brought out on 13 May 1876, on the tiny Albion hand press that today holds pride of place in the foyer of the Goonellabah Media Centre. In 1955, building started on the media centre in Goonellabah, and in 1957, the move was made from the Molesworth St office. In 1981, ''The Northern Star'' commissioned a 7unit Goss Urbanite Web Offset press capable of printing 20,000 fifty-six page copies – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
