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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1861

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Local and Provincial. Municipal Election

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 16 February 1861 · page 2

ON Thursday, at noon, a number of electors assembled in the town-hall to hear the official declaration of the state of the poll. The MAYOR, after expressing a hope that the…

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Local and Provincial. Municipal Election

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 16 February 1861 · page 2

On Thursday, at noon, a number of electors assembled in the town-hall to hear the official declaration of tile state of the poll. The MAYOR, after expressing a hope that the…

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New South Wales Parliament Legislative Council. Wednesday, February 20

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 27 February 1861 · page 2

CUSTOMS BILL.--Mr. Want resumed the debate in the Customs Bill, and was followed by Mr. Docker, Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Hill, all in opposition to the measure…

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Our Celebrities in and Out of Parliament, Roughly Sketched by a Free Hand. No. Iii. the Hon. John of Nackie Nackie

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 27 February 1861 · page 3

A CANNY Scot turning Cockney dandy is something like an imaginative Irishman setting up for a metaphysician. Old Horace's lively bit of word-painting, in the exordium to his "Art of Poesy"—which by…

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Our Celebrities in and Out of Parliament, Roughly Sketched by a Free Hand. No. Iii. the Hon. John of Nackie Nackie

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 27 February 1861 · page 3

A CANNY Scot turning Cockney dandy is something like an imaginative Irishman setting up for a metaphysician. Old Horace's lively bit of word-painting, in the exordium to his "Art of Poesy"—which by…

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New South Males Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Tuesday, February 26

The Yass Courier · Saturday 2 March 1861 · page 3

DISTURBANCES AT LAMBING FLAT.--Mr. Hoskins asked the Colonial Secretary whether the direction of the military sent to Burrangong would bo confided to a civil…

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Our Celebrities in and Out of Parliament, Roughly Sketched by a Free Hand. No. Iv. the Member for Morpeth

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 2 March 1861 · page 2

BOTH the Gracchi were gentlemen. So were Caius Marius, Signor Rienzi, William Tell, George Washington, Kosciusko, cum multis aliis who loved and served their country. It, therefore, follows that the…

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Our Celebrities in and Out of Parliament, Roughly Sketched by a Free Hand. No. Iv. the Member for Morpeth

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 2 March 1861 · page 2

BOTH the Gracchi were gentlemen. So were C[?]s Marius, Signor Rienzi, William Tell, George Washington, Kosciusko, cum multis aliis who loved and served their country. It, therefore, fellows that the…

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The Parliament. Legislative Council Thursday, February 28

Goulburn Chronicle and Southern Advertiser · Wednesday 6 March 1861 · page 2

CHURCH OF ENGLAND SYNODS BILL.—The House resolved itself into committee of the whole on the Church of England Synods Bill. A long discussion took place on the 17th…

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New South Wales Parliament Legislative Council. Wednesday, February 27

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 6 March 1861 · page 3

THE only business of importance transacted was the second rending of the Scab in Sheep Act Continuation Bill and the passing through committee of the bill to enable coroners to…

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Our Celebrities in and Out of Parliament, Roughly Sketched by a Free Hand. No. V. William Macleay, Esquire, M.P.

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 9 March 1861 · page 2

No problem in moral mathematics would better reward the trouble of a solution, than to investigate the cause which prevent oligarchical parties from retracing their errors. Did an Assembly ever…

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Our Celebrities in and Out of Parliament, Roughly Sketched by a Free Hand. No. V. William Macleay, Esquire, M.P.

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 9 March 1861 · page 2

No problem in moral mathematics. would better reward the trouble of a solution, than to investigate the causes which prevent oligarchical parties from retracing their errors. Did an Ascendancy ever…

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The Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Thursday, March 7

Goulburn Chronicle and Southern Advertiser · Wednesday 13 March 1861 · page 2

CROWN LANDS ALIENATION BILL.—The House then went into Committee on the Crown Lands Alienation Bill. The eighteenth clause, providing for the sale by…

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New South Wales Parliament Legislative Council. Wednesday, March 6

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 13 March 1861 · page 2

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY'S VISIT TO BURRANGONG.--Mr. Docker asked the Attorney-General for an explanation of the reasons of the Government for sending Mr. Cowper to…

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New South Wales Parliament Legislative Assembly. Tuesday, March 12

The Yass Courier · Saturday 16 March 1861 · page 3

MINING PARTNERSHIPS.--Mr. Wilson moved for leave to introduce, a bill to limit the liability of mining parternerships. The hon, member explained that there was a difficulty…

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Our Celebrities in and Out of Parliament, Roughly Sketched by a Free Hand. No. Vi. the Strong-hearted Woman

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 16 March 1861 · page 2

The word-artist, while sipping a cup of cocoa, indulgeth in a little conversation with Mrs. Goulburn (a well-conditioned, florid complexioned gentlewoman) and Miss Goulburn (a young lady with languid)…

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New South Wales Parliament Legislative Council. Thursday, March 14

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 20 March 1861 · page 3

CHINESE GRIEVANCE PETITION.-- Mr. Merewether presented a petition from Sang Sing Do. This petition was in the form of a letter, but was couched in respectful…

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Our Celebrities in and Out of Parliament, Roughly Sketched by a Free Hand. No. Vii. Political Publicans

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 23 March 1861 · page 2

WOE unto him who dares to hew down the Dagon of the multitude! A nation has as much right to reverence its Shams, as an individual has to indulge in personal vanities. Captain Spangles (late of the…

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New South Wales Parliament Legislative Council. Wednesday, March 20

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 27 March 1861 · page 3

PITT-STREET TRAMWAY BILL -- Mr. Hargrave moved the second rending of the Pittstreet Tramway Bill, on which Mr. Johnson moved an amendment that it be read that…

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Our Celebrities in and Out of Parliament, Roughly Sketched by a Free Hand. No. Viii. Sir John Nodes Dickinson

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 30 March 1861 · page 2

"Plato had a cause his seruaunt to scourge, and yet cleaped [called] he his neighbour, to perfourme the doing, himself would not, least wrath had him amaistered [overcome], and so might he have laids on…

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