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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Politics & elections
46 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 3
[Our want of space, and the lateness of the hour, have compelled us to give only an abridged outline of Mr. Jones's re-election, but all the leading topics of his speech are embodied in the report…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday at noon the nomination of a member to serve in the present Legislative Assembly for the Southern Boroughs in consequence of the Honourable Terence Aubrey Murray, Esq, having accepted office for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE meeting at the East Maitland Court House on Monday night was not very creditable to the electors of the Northumberland boroughs. We like to see a certain degree of enthusiasm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The liberal party in these boroughs, notwithstanding all the anticipations to the contrary, is likely to baulk the malice of its enmities. It will not be split into two opposing factions. An…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The President took the chair at right minutes past four. Several reports and papers were laid on the table, and ordered to be printed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—As the present election for the Boroughs is exciting a very great deal of interest, and will doubtless involve a [?]tion of business on polling day, which it is expected will be within a fort-night from this date, I beg to suggest, through your columns, to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr Wise moved that the Warrant of the Queen to provide for the administration of the Government in the event of the absence or death of the Governor-General, be referred to a Select Committee, with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"When nature removes a great man, people explore the herison for a successor: but none comes—none will come…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Speaker took the chair at twenty-five minutes past three o'clock. Mr. Weekes and Mr. Gideon Lang were appointed members of the Committee of Elections and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Legislative Council met yesterday purenant to adjournment. The House was principally occupied in considering in committee the Titles to Lands Bill. After various…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A public meeting win held yesterday at East Maitland, for the purpose of nominating a member to serve in the Legislative Assembly in the room of the late G. R. Nichols Esq. A temporary hustings was erected on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →If anything were wanting to convince the electors of these boroughs of Mr. Russell's total unfitness for the office to which he aspires the proceedings of yesterday would have supplied it. Anything…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The three towns composing the Northumberland Boroughs presented, yesterday, a spectacle that must have been edifying to foreigners desirous of becoming acquainted with the working of British institution. None…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In answer to a question from Mr. Weekes, in regard to the line of electric telegraph to Albury, Mr. Cowper said that the necessary securities had been taken, but that in all matters connected with the contract for the construction of this line the Government would…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. RUSSELL, as we anticipated, has suffered a signal defeat. We congratulate him on the opportunity thus afforded him of again retiring into the peacefulness of private life, since he seem so…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Dess Thomson submitted in an amended form his resolutions for the adoption of the recommendations of the select committee on Australian Federation. In the course of an elaborate speech, the hon members gave a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday, according to the announcement of the Returning Officer, the official declaration of the poll for the Nortuhumberland Boroughs was made at the hastings East Maitland. About eleven o'clock Mr. Dickson, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A public meeting was held on Wednesday night, at Morpeth, in the Presbyterian School-room there, to consider the propriety of petitioning the Governor General to dissolve the House of Assembly, so that an appeal to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. BOURN RUSSELL, the defeated candidate for these Boroughs, has commenced an attack upon a few voters who happened unfortunately to be opposed to him. He has charged no less than…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR DANIEL COOPER, Knight, the Honourable the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, directs it to be notified, for general information, that a writ hath this day issued, and the following arrangements have been…
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