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

Politics & elections, 1855

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

The Meeting of the British Parliament

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 10 March 1855 · page 1

Parliament has been summoned to meet for the dispatch, of business on the 12th instant—six or seven weeks before the customary time. The reasons, for this step…

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Arrival of the Lighting. News to January 7. Meeting of Parliament

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 31 March 1855 · page 1

By the arrival of the Steamer Telegraph this morning, the English mail for Sydney brought by the packet ship Lightning, has reached its destination. The…

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Imperial Parliament. House of Lords.—friday

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 28 July 1855 · page 3

The Convention with Sardinia Bill was [?]d a second time. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. The House met at four o'clock…

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The Bathurst Free Press "Magna Mst Veritas Rt Prevalebit." Saturday, October 20, 1855. the Forthcoming Election

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 October 1855 · page 2

"We would point out the necessity of caution to those of the Electors who have already begun to bestir themselves in electineering matters. In no past period of…

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The Bathurst Free Press "Magna Est Veritas Et Prevalebit." Saturday, November, 8, 1855. the Forthcoming Elections

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 November 1855 · page 2

FROM notices and paragraphs which are already before the public, our readers will perceive that the leaden stagnation which Las for some time past deadened the…

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The Bathurst Free Press " Magna Est Veritas Et Prevalebit." Saturday. November 17, 1855. the Personalia of the Coming Election

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 November 1855 · page 2

THE time appears to approach when" it will be expected of us that we should [?]speak out an opinion or two upon the candidates who are now in the field, as…

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Terrible Election Riots in Louisville

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 December 1855 · page 2

The Louisville Courier (Anti-K.N.,) gives the following account of a terrible election riot at that place:— Never, perhaps, was a greater farce, or…

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The Bathurst Free Press "Magna Est Veritas Kt Prevalesit." Saturday, December 8, 1855. Electioneering Matters

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 8 December 1855 · page 2

Since our last notice upon this vitally important question the only item of news worth narrating is the withdrawal from the list of candidates for popular favour of…

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The Bathurst Free Press "Magna Est Veritas Et Prevalebit." Saturday, December 22, 1855. the Candidates for Wellington and the Squatting District of Wellington and Bligh

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 December 1855 · page 2

As is already known, Mr. Samuel, the] present member for the County of Roxbargh, is a candidate for the representation of the County of Wellington ; at…

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