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Politics & elections, 1874

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New South Wales Parliament. (From our Sydney Special Correspondent.) Tuesday, November 17, 1874. Legislative Assembly

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 November 1874 · page 2

The Speaker took the chair at twenty-nine minutes past four o'clock. RESIGNATION OF MR. RODD. Mr. SPEAKER announced the resignation of James…

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New South Wales Parliament. (From the S. M. Herald.) Wednesday, November 18, 1874. Legislative Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 21 November 1874 · page 5

Mr. SAMUEL laid on the table an abstract of Crown lands reserved as sites for towns and villages, and it was ordered that the document be printed. Mr. DOCKER brought up a report from the…

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New South Wales Parliament (From our Sydney Special Correspondent.) Thursday, November 19, 1874. Legislative Assembly

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 21 November 1874 · page 2

The Speaker took the chair at twenty-eight minutes past four o'clock. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. SUTHERLAND, in answer to Mr. Watson, said…

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New South Wales Parliament. (From the S. M. Herald.) Friday, November 20, 1874. Legislative Assembly. Questions Answered

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 November 1874 · page 4

Ministers stated in answer to questions, that some of the surveys for the proposed construction of a railway from Redfern to deep water at or near the Circular Quay had been completed, and the others…

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New South Wales Parliament. (From our Sydney Special Correspondent.) Tuesday, November 24, 1874. Legislative Assembly

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 26 November 1874 · page 2

The Speaker took the chair at twenty-eight minutes past four o'clock. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. ALLEN, in answer to Mr. R. B. Smith, said that…

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Prorogation of Parliament

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 28 November 1874 · page 3

The following is the proclamation by His Excellency Sir Herecales George Robert Robinson, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and…

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Parliament Prorogued Expected Dissolution and General Election. Defeat of The Government on Mr. Combes' Motion. Mercury Office, Maitland, Friday morning, Nov. 27, 1874

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 28 November 1874 · page 2

We compile the following particulars of the "political crisis" from our Sydney correspondence of Thursday evening, and from other sources. It will be seen that a dissolution of Parliament,…

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New South Wales Parliament. (From the S. M. Herald.) Wednesday, November 25, 1874. Legislative Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 28 November 1874 · page 5

Mr. SAMUEL laid upon the table by-laws of the Municipality of Redfern, and a report for the year ended 30th June, 1874, of the Training School Ship Vernon. Ordered that the documents be printed…

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The Expected General Election. Election Rumours

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 28 November 1874 · page 2

Although the fact of the dissolution of Parliament was not made known in Maitland yesterday, there was no doubt, when the proceedings of Thursday became known, that the announcement would come…

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The Political Situation. Dissolution of Parliament. Election Rumours

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 December 1874 · page 2

Our Sydney special correspondent, writing on Saturday night, says:— This afternoon a proclamation was issued in a Gazette Extraordinary, dissolving the Legislative…

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The Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, December 1, 1874. the Dissolution of Parliament

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 December 1874 · page 2

WE said the other day, referring to the action of the Assembly, and the conduct of the Premier, that we were most perversely landed in a political crisis. Nor, after reflection, do we find it…

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Dissolution of Parliament

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 2 December 1874 · page 3

The following preclamation dessolving the Legislative assembly was issued in a supplement to the Government Gazette on Saturday afternoon. The writs of election will be…

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Dissolution of Parliament. the Political Situation. Election Rumors. Issue of the New Writs. the Dissolution Proclamation. (From a Government Gazette Extraordinary, Nov. 28) PROCLAMATION by his Excellency Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 3 December 1874 · page 2

Whereas by the Bill passed by the Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales, in the seventeenth year of the reign of Her Majesty the Queen, intituled "An Act to confer a Constitution on…

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Election Rumours

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 3 December 1874 · page 2

Since writing in Tuesday's Mercury, there has been little additional election news cropping up. Mr. Hanley Bennett will stand again, we hear, for Liverpool Plains. He has no notion, as has been stated…

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The Writs of Election

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 3 December 1874 · page 2

ELSEWHERE, we publish from the Gazette Extraordinary, the arrangements made for the General Election. So far as the Northern district is concerned, and especially the Maitland…

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General Election. Election Rumours. Candidates already in the Field. Election Items

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 5 December 1874 · page 2

Since we wrote last, election news has passed to a great extent out of the category of rumour, and we are able in many cases to name the candidates really in the field. Our Sydney special correspondent, in…

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Election Meetings. Patrick's Plains Electorate. MR. W. C. Browne at Belford. (From our own reporter.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 5 December 1874 · page 2

On Thursday afternoon Mr. W. C. Browne, late member for Patrick's Plains, and a candidate for re-election, met the electors at Belford. Mr. Ralph Millar, of Corinda, was voted to the chair…

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General Election. Election Rumours. Candidates already in the Field. Election Items

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 December 1874 · page 2

Since our lact some progress has been made in the positive coming forward of candidates, as will be seen by the list below. For West Maitland we have to make public quite…

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The General Election. Candidates Already in the Field

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 9 December 1874 · page 3

THE following is a list of the candidates coming forward for the various elecorates named;-For Patrick's Plains our late…

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The Election. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.)

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 9 December 1874 · page 3

SIR The time for the enlightened, free, and independent electors of Patrick's Plains to exercise the important right of the franchise is at hand…

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