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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1851

19 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers

English News. Queen Victoria Opening Parliament

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 9 July 1851 · page 1

AMONG the many political pageants of this world there is not one more affecting than that which we annually witness when Queen Victoria opens her Parliament. The…

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The Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal. Wednesday, July 23,1851. "Malna Est Veritas Et Prevalebt." the Coming Election

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 23 July 1851 · page 2

It is now high time for the Electors of the Western Boroughs, and of the County of Bathurst, to consider whether they shall be represented or not in the new Legislature,…

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The Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal. Saturday, July 26, 1851. "Magna Est Veritas Et Prevalebit." the Coming Election

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 26 July 1851 · page 4

OUR further remarks upon this subject are unavoidably postponed, ia consequence of a press of advertisements. The subject shall be resumed in our next…

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The Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal. Wednesday, July 30, 1851. "Magna Est Veritas Et Prævalebit." the Coming Election

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 30 July 1851 · page 2

WHO is to represent us, or whether we are to be represented at all, appears, for the present, to be a question about which no one concerns himself. Gold seems to have…

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Electioneering Intelligence

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 August 1851 · page 2

Representation of the County.—We had it from very respectable authority a short time ago that Mr. Darvall intended offering himself for the representation of the County of Bathurst at an…

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Writs of Election

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 August 1851 · page 3

Bis Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified, for general information, that Writs have been issued for a General Election of Members to serve in the Legislative Council,…

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The Coming Election

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 August 1851 · page 2

Whbrb are all our pub'ic-spirited men-are they asleep, mesmerised or gone to the diggings'? What are they doing?-any­thing or nothing, or is it the old ttory of everybody depending upon somebody else?…

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The Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal. Wednesday, August 13, 1851. “Magna Est Veritas Et Prævalrbit.” the Coming Election

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 August 1851 · page 2

THE last, but by no means the least important topic to which we feel it our especial duty to allude in connexion with the coming election is the transportation…

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The Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal. "Magna Est Veritas Et Prævalebit." Candidates for the Representation of the Western Boroughs

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 30 August 1851 · page 4

Now that there appears to be a prospect of a contested election for the Western Boroughs, it becomes our duty, and one we are in nowise disposed to shirk, to say a…

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Local Intelligence. Election for the Western Boroughs

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 September 1851 · page 2

A meeting of the friends of Mr. Holroyd was held at Mr, Whitton's, Commercial Inn, on Saturday evening last, Mr. Bray in the chair. About forty individuals were…

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The Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal. "Magna Est Veritas Et Prævalebit." Wednesday, September 10, 1851. the Elections

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 September 1851 · page 2

EVERYTHING connected with electioneering passes off very tamely in our town and district. A little faint excitement may show itself occasionally when the relative merits,…

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Local Intelligence. Election for the County of Bathurst. Nomination Day

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 September 1851 · page 2

The day for nominating the candidates for the honor of representing the County of Bathurst being fixed for Monday last, a temporary erection was constructed on the…

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Election for Sydney

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 September 1851 · page 3

Notwithstanding the excitement of a Spirited contest, the tactics of each candidate's Party being carried on with considerable Zeal, the proceedings of yesterday were…

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Election for Thr County Of' Rox­burgh and Wellington

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 September 1851 · page 6

On Wednesday last about a hundred people assembled in front of the hustings on the square to witness the nomination and election of W. H. Suttor, Esq., for the…

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The Election. Representation of the West­ern Boroughs, Nomination Day

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 September 1851 · page 4

Mr. Holroyd arrived in Bathurst on Thursday last about noon, accompanied by an escort of his friends and supporters, some on horseback, and others in gigs. ', He…

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Election of the County

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 September 1851 · page 2

The final state of the poll was officially declared at the hustings on Monday, at 12 o'clock, by the returning officer, Captain Sutherland. Both candidates, attended by…

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The Bathurst Erse Press and Mining Journal. "Magna Est Veritas Et Prævalebit." Wednesday, September 24, 1851. the Elections

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 September 1851 · page 2

THE PEOPLE of Bathurst have occasion to congratulate themselves upon the very peaceable and orderly manner in which the business of the elections has been conducted…

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English News. Imperial Parliament. House of Commons, June 27

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 October 1851 · page 2

On the order of the day for considering the Ecclesiastical Titles' Assumption Bill, as amended in committee. Mr. W. Miles moved to add a clause…

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Miscellaneous Extracts. the Admission of Jews to Parliament

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 December 1851 · page 2

Whether Alderman Salomons or Baron Rothschild take their seats in the House of Commons is a matter of little import to the people, so far as those gentlemen are…

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