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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1889

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Echoes and Opinions. Absent Members of Parliament

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1889 · page 4

THE election of Messrs. SEE, GOODCHAP and WANT, in their absence from the colony, with the prospect of neither of them returning before the termination of the coming Session, raises a…

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Echoes and Opinions. Absent Members of Parliament

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1889 · page 4

THE election of Messrs. SEE, GOODCHAP and WANT, in their absence from the colony, with the prospect of neithor of them returning before the termination of the coming Session, raises a…

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Grafton Municipal Elections. The Nomination

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1889 · page 3

THE Mayor was in attendance at the Park pavilion on Wednesday to officially declare the nominations received for the vacancies in connection with the Borough Council. Three of the gentlemen…

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The Grafton Election. Declaration of the Poll

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1889 · page 3

AT noon on Wednesday the official declaration of the poll taken on Monday for the election of a member to represent the Grafton constituency, was made by the Returning Officer, Mr. A…

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Maclean Municipal Elections. By Telegram

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1889 · page 5

MACLEAN, FRIDAY.—Nominations for the extraordinary vacancy caused by the resignation of Alderman G. Martin, were made to day at noon. Three candidates were proposed, but one…

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Grafton Borough Council. Election of Mayor

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1889 · page 8

THE new Council met on Wednesday evening to elect the Mayor for the current year. Present—Aldermen M'Kittrick, Hockey, Lowe, Murray, Wunderlich, Laird, Campbell, See, Rothschild, Beatson,…

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Maclean Aldermanic Elections. Nominations

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1889 · page 8

ON Tuesday, in the School of Arts, Maclean, the nomination of Aldermen in the room of Messrs. Folbigg and Bond, who retired by effluxion of time, and Auditors, was held. Mr. D. See, Mayor and…

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Grafton Municipal Elections. The Nomination

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1889 · page 3

THE Mayor was in attendance at the Park pavilion on Wednesday to officially declare the nominations received for the vacancies in connection with the Borough Council. Three of the gentlemen…

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The Grafton Election. Declaration of the Poll

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1889 · page 3

AT noon on Wednesday the official declaration of the poll taken on Monday for the election of a member to represent the Grafton constituency, was made by the Returning Officer, Mr. A…

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Maclean Municipal Elections. By Telegram

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1889 · page 5

MACLEAN, FRIDAY.—Nominations for the extraordinary vacancy caused by the resignation of Alderman G. Martin, were made to day at noon. Three candidates were proposed, but one…

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Grafton Borough Council. Election of Mayor

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1889 · page 8

THE new Council met on Wednesday evening to elect the Mayor for the current year. Present—Aldermen M'Kittrick, Hockey, Lowe, Murray, Wunderlich, Laird, Campbell, See, Rothschild, Beatson,…

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Maclean Aldermanic Elections. Nominations

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1889 · page 8

ON Tuesday, is the School of Arts, Maclean, the nomination of Aldermen in the room of Messrs. Folbigg and Bond, who retired by effluxion of time, and Auditors, was held. Mr. D. See, Mayor and…

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The General Elections

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 12 February 1889 · page 3

SATURDAY'S polling has given what is apparently a severe knock to the Protectionist cause. Indeed it would almost appear as if Sir Henry Parkes' prognostication of a Free-trade majority of 24 was…

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The General Elections

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 12 February 1889 · page 3

SATURDAY'S polling has given what is apparently a severe knock to the Protectionist cause. Indeed it would almost appear as if Sir Henry Parkes' prognostication of a Free-trade majority of 24 was…

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The General Elections. Wednesday's Polling

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 16 February 1889 · page 5

SYDNEY, THURSDAY.—The polling for following electorates took place yesterday, resulting in the return of 11 Protectionists and 4 Free-traders, the totals now being—Free-traders 65,…

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The Farmers and the Election

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 16 February 1889 · page 2

PERHAPS no other class in the community do politics affect so much as the agricultural. Yet farmers, as a rule, are not the most prominent in electioneering, nor so united in their action as they…

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The Glen Innes Election

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 16 February 1889 · page 8

THE Glen Innes Examiner, hitherto holding to Free-trade principles, gives the following cogent reasons for supporting two of the Protectionist candidates for the representation of the electorate,…

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Selected Lines. The Candidate

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 16 February 1889 · page 6

"Father, who travels the road so late?" "Hush, my child, 'tis the candidate;" Fit example of human woes— Early he comes, and late he goes;…

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Ulmarra Municipal Election

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 16 February 1889 · page 8

THE official declaration of the poll took place at the Council Chambers on Wednesday in the presence of a few of the ratepayers, three of the candidates being also present…

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Maclean Aldermanic Elections. Declaration of the Poll

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 16 February 1889 · page 8

ON Wednesday, at noon, the result of the poll was formally declared at the School of Arts. Prior to reading ont the numbers, one of the candidates (Mr. J. M. Kelly) handed in a protest against the…

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