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Illawarra · Politics & elections
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SIR,—I think it very wrong for any person to in[?] question of religion in electioneering, as it naturally increases that excitement which generally attends political contests; and, when once aroused, who knows where it will stop? Any person…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—It is reported that the election of a parliament representative for Illawarra will, so far as the Roman Catholics are concerned, turn on the subject of religion; that the Catholics, almost to a man, will give in their adherence to the candidate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Daniel Egan, Esq., J.P., one of the candidates for the representation of this electorate, met a large and influential body of the electors yesterday, in the Moruya new Court House, to explain his past career in Parliament, and his views for the future, [?]re…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DEAR SIR—I Know you well, and believe you are a gentlemen of veracity, and good intention. I don't say this to flatter you, but simply by way of expressing my belief in your sincerity in the sentiments you expressed the other night when presiding…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Peninsular and Oriental steam Navigation Company's steamship Northam, 906 tons. J.R. stead, commander, arrived at Kangaroo Island, with the English April mails, at 11 o'clock this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON WEDNESDAY NEXT, the Polling will take place. This is the practical part of the business. Here the elector acts alone, and has to judge for himself. He has the Ballot, and his vote ought…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—It has been remarked by a wise authority that, in public affairs, cunning—let it be ever so well wrought —will not conduct a man honorably through life—like bad money, it may be current for a time, but it will soon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following are the arrangements for the election of a member to represent Kiama in the New Parliament:— NOMINATION—To-morrow, at noon, at the Court House, Kiama, R, J. Perrott, Esq., Returning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE first trial of the Ballot is over, and the result is favorable to the wisdom of that provision. Everything was done in an orderly manner, and without the wonted excitement. Voters were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Moruya is, now a days, more than usually honored. the rival candidates for the electorate prize is among us, and addressing sections of their respective supporters in the neighborhood…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The polling commenced punctually at 8 o'clock, at the each of the pulling places. During the whole of the day at Wollongong, with a few brief intervals, the polling was incessant. The greatest earnestness and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE regard the result of the Illawarra election with satisfaction. We take it to be a triumphant vindication of the past acts of the COWPER Cabinet, as a whole; and as an unequivocal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr J. F. Clements has defeated Mr H. Rotton, the old member, at Bathurst, by a majority of 70, the numbers being 348 to 278. Mr R. Jamison, a member of the late Assembly, has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The final declaration of the poll for West Sydney was the same as in our last. On Wednesday, the successful and rejected candidates addressed a large number of electors. Mr Deniehy addressed the electors on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Government and the Opposition are equally sanguine as to the result of the general election. The former go the hustings, not on the question on which they have been defeated, but on general…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HALF the elections are over, and the Ministry is very decided on behalf of views which are in the main liberal. We are inclined to think, also, that it is the liberality of the Cowper…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late last night we received a complete Return of the Poll for the representation of Shoalhaven, which shows the return of Mr John Carrett, by a majority of 59 over Mr Blakeney. The return is as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Messrs. Byrnes and Oakes have defeated Mr Holroyd for Paramatta. Byrnes got 380, Oakes 352, and Holroyd, 277 votes. S. N. Darke, a local man and an agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The ballot has proved a great and signal triumph. Its secrecy ensured peace and order, and the total absence of those personal asperities which have hitherto so much and so vex[?]tiously disturbed the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I trust you will bear with me for enlarging somewhat on my hastily concocted remarks on the electioneering proceeding at this place, on the 13th inst. I would endeavor (faintly it may be), in the first place, to convey…
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