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Illawarra · Politics & elections
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FROM all parts of the colony, notes of the coming struggle are sounding, and there can be no question, that the elections shortly to take place, will be the most important that has ever been in this colony, and it would…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—Permit me, in a few lines, to contradict some of the most unblushing falsehoods that have ever appeared in print. I refer to the communications appearing in your two last issues from Mr. Henry Progress, or Moss, and G.U.A. equally well known as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—Being forced on the arena of public opinion, by a communication which appeared in your journal of the 14th instant, signed John M'Arthur, Honorary Secretary, in which my name has been made rather freely with by that person—in his futile…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—With refence to that part of the letter on the above subject, signed John M'Arthur, Honorary Secretary, which he so obstinately denies "that those who were asked to sign the requisition, with very few exceptions allowed their names on condition, that they…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—I have this moment read a letter headed as above, signed "John M'Arthur, Honorary Secretary,"—in your journal of the 14th instant. I certainly am surprised at the in temparance and audacity which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The time is now fast approaching when an opportunity will be afforded to the electors of this colony to express their opinions at the polling booth, and by their decision upon that eventful day the present and future prospects of the colony will be materially…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR—Although it is the frequently expressed opinion, of many good men that it is most presumptuous for a person, who has not had the very useful—but in their opinion indispensable advantage of a classical, or at least a liberal education, to attempt to convey to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SIR—Permit me space in your columns to reply to the three communications appearing in your last issue signed respectively: George Underwood Alley; S. W. Davies and Henry Moss; in which my name appears rather prominently…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—From Mr. M'Arthur's position here, as a respectable store-keeper, of the firm of M'Arthur and Lindsay—those who know him, but who are not acquainted with me, and the numerous friends and acquaintances throughout the colony, whom I…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A public meeting of the electors of the town and district of Braidwood was held on the 24th instant, in the Court-house, Braidwood, the object of which was the nomination of fit and proper persons as representatives in the new Parliament. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →One Monday last Mr. G. F. Pickering met the electors in the Agricultural Shed, Market Square. The building was well filled by a respectable and very attentive body of the electors. A motion was made by Mr. C. Jenkins, that Dr. King do take the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A good cause does not stand in need of deluding its friends of its enemies; least of all, of the laborious delusions attempted upon more than one constituency of late. It is not worth while to notice, further than as to one particular…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is matter for surprise to a thoughtful man that the squatters in the northern districts, and in some others, appear to be so easy in regard to the general election now going on. There cannot be a doubt that the land regulations will be one of the very first great…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR—The electors of this county have now the means of deciding two things, viz., whether any of the gent emen offering themselves for our suffrages be "fit and proper," and who this, if any, are. Upon the first of these, there can be no doubt in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN our leader of last week we dwelt on "Political Consistency," and urged the necessity of its observance alike in the gentleman seeking at our hands representative honors, as in the electors themselves…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The election for the borough of M—was close at hand; there were two candidates in the field whose influence were so nearly balanced that a neck and neck contest was expected. Under these circumstances every vote was of consequence; the utmost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE confine ourselves this week to the consideration of the political career of Mr. HENRY OSBORNE, as we proposed in our last, in order to test his aptness to sit in the New Parliament as one of the representatives of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE resume the topic of our articles of the two last weeks and proceed in the enquiry who are the gentlemen seeking to represent this district in the New Parliament, and what their pretensions to the Honor? We refer our readers to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In accordance with the writ of election issued by his Excellency the Governor General, a public meeting of the electors of the Sydney Hamlets took place on Monday, for the purpose of nominating two fit and proper person to represent the Hamlets in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The nomination of candidates took place on Wednesday, at the hustings erected on the Race Course. The weather was unfavourable, raining at intervals during the day. On the opening of the business, about 3,000 persons were present…
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