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

Politics & elections, 1892

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Opening of Parliament

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 September 1892 · page 2

Open again; One man one vote Al[?]s in train; Is conned by rote; Every member Of other things Till December The Guv'ment sings;…

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Election Ballads

The Burrowa News · Friday 2 September 1892 · page 1

FROM amongst the reams of campaign literature, published during the British elections, we extract the following, which appeared is the London…

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Candidate for Wesleyan Ministry

Goulburn Herald · Monday 19 September 1892 · page 3

MR. G. W. FURNER, an employs of the Australian Store Company, left Goulburn last week with the view of preparing himself for examination as a candidate for the Wesleyan…

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Riotous Proceedings.—parliament Threatened

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 September 1892 · page 4

AN immense concourse of persons, evidently bent upon creating a disturbance, assembled at the Queen's Statue, Chancery-square, on Tuesday evening, when an indignation meeting was held to…

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Labour Candidates. London, Sept. 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 September 1892 · page 4

Mr. H. H. Champion, the socialist, who recently visited Australia, says that he is in a position to provide the election expenses of 100 labour candidates in Great British…

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The Leeds Election. London, Sept. 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 September 1892 · page 2

The contest at South Leeds to fill the vacancy created by the elevation of Sir Lyon Playfair to the peerage lies between Mr. John Lawson Walton, Q C., Gladstonian Liberal, and Mr. Reginald…

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Great Mass Meeting at the Statue. Parliament House Guarded by Police Violent Speeches at the Statue

The Yass Courier · Friday 23 September 1892 · page 2

BILLS were distributed in the city on Tuesday afternoon inviting the workers to "roll up in thousands and demand the immediate release of the men unjustly imprisoned lit Broken-hill for championing…

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Cable News. South Leeds Election. London, Sept. 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 September 1892 · page 4

The South Leeds election, to fill the seat vacated by Sir Lyon Playfair, who has been elevated to the peerage, has resulted in the return of Mr. John Lawson Walton, Q C., Gladstonian Liberal, by a…

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Successful Candidate

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 September 1892 · page 2

MISS ETTA CHANNELL, pupil of the Run of Water Public School, was successful in her examination for admittance to the High School held in June last…

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How Two Elections Were Lost

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 September 1892 · page 4

Captain Penton, the Conservative candidate at the recent British general elections was defeated in Finsbury by three votes and a London correspondent gives the…

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Mr. Carnegie's Candidate

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 October 1892 · page 4

THE London Daily Chronicle says:—We learn that Mr. Keir-Hardie has sent the £100 which he received from Mr. Andrew Carnegie towards his election expenses as a contribution to the strike…

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Parliament. the Crisis Debate in the Assembly

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 4 October 1892 · page 2

The confidence debate concluded on Friday evening last after sitting twenty five hours. There was great excitement.-- The motion before the House was:-- "(1) That the present administration does…

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Election of an Alderman

The Yass Courier · Friday 7 October 1892 · page 2

ON Tuesday last the [?] of an alderman to till the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alderman Poplin look place in the Mechanics' Institute. Punctually at 12 o'clock the Mayor (Mr. M. Coon)…

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The State Elections in America. London, Oct. 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 October 1892 · page 4

The Democrats have carried the election for the Governor of the State of Georgia by a majority of 70,000…

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Parliamentary Election. London, Oct. 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 October 1892 · page 4

The election for the Cirencester Division of Gloucestershire, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Arthur B. Winterbotham, Unionist, has resulted in the return of Colonel Thomas…

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Local Option Undemocratic. an Open Letter to the Parliament and People of New South Wales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 October 1892 · page 2

A dream of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evil-doing, for God more esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person than the restraint…

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Cable News. the Approaching Elections. London, Nov. 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 November 1892 · page 2

The secret ballot will be used for the first time in 35 States at the approaching elections to the United States Congress. The Republicans fear that they will sustain in consequence…

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Cable News. the Presidential Election in America. London, Nov. 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 November 1892 · page 4

The Democrats now claim that Mr. Grover Cleveland will be elected President by a majority of 244 votes, composed of the solid South and the States of Now York, Indiana, New Jersey,…

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LONDON, Tuesday night. the Presidential Election

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 9 November 1892 · page 3

The New York Herald states that Cleveland, the Democratic candidate, has been elected President of the United states…

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Cable News. the Presidential Election —Mr. Grover Cleveland Returned. London, Nov. 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 November 1892 · page 2

The New York Herald announces that Mr. Grover Oleveland has been elected President of the United States. Nov 9…

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