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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1865

6 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Opening of Parliament

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 7 February 1865 · page 4

ON Tuesday the 24th ultimo, the members of the Legislative Council and the newly elected members of the Legislative Assembly, met at noon in their respective Chambers in Macquarie-street,…

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Punch in Parliament. Friday, 24Th March, 1865

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 11 April 1865 · page 2

MR. SPEAKER arrived at half-past three, and Ministers were for some time subjected to that ingenious species of torture known as the question, and answered the various queries in the…

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West Sydney Election

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1865 · page 3

The writ of election for a member to serve in the Legislative Assembly, for Sydney West, has been issued. The nomination will take place on Wednesday next, the 18th instant; and the polling…

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West Sydney Election

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 24 October 1865 · page 2

ON Wednesday at noon—pursuant to a notice published by the Returning-officer, and in conformity with the terms pf the necessary writ—a public meeting of the electors of West Sydney was…

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Legislative Assembly. Wednesday, November [?] Election of [?]

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 14 November 1865 · page 2

THE election of Speaker, consequent on Mr. [?] resignation, took place in, the Assembly on Wednes-day. The candidates proposed were the Minister for Lands, Mr. Arnold, and Mr. J. F. Josephson,…

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The Late Election for Speaker. to the Editor of the Examiner

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 21 November 1865 · page 2

SIR,—I think it will be admitted that on the late election to the chair of our Assembly, a more contemptuous opposition to the Hon. W. M. Arnold could not have been conceived, and the public at…

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