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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1880

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Civic Elections

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 November 1880 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—Aldermen Playfair, Moore, and Harris have been re-elected. There is opposition in the other six wards…

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Parliamentary Elections. Gloucester

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 November 1880 · page 3

COPELAND, Saturday.—Mr. Charles Readett has boon returned at the head of the poll. A protest was urged against the election from an eligible elector,…

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Further Prorogaton of Parliament

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 November 1880 · page 2

LONDON, November 27.—The Imperial Parliament has been further prorogued to January 6th…

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The Elections

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 November 1880 · page 2

THE progress of the elections in New South Wales (observes the Australasian) affords much matter of interest to Victorians. In one sense the elections in the…

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The Imperial Parliament

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 December 1880 · page 2

LONDON, November 29.—The Imperial Parliament will meet for the despatch of business on January 26…

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Parliamentary Elections

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 December 1880 · page 3

UPPER HUNTER.—Messrs. John M'Elhone and J. M. Laughlin have been returned. BURROWA.—Mr. T. M. Slattery polled 456 votes, and Mr. Middleton 258. There…

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Parliamentary Elections

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 December 1880 · page 2

MUDGEE.—As far as the returns to hand go, they show Messrs. S. H. Terry, Louis Boyers, and David Buchanan to have the largest number of votes…

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The Bourke Election

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 December 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Returns to hand from Bourke gives Mr. Barton a majority of 145. There are four returns yet to come in…

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Bribery at English Elections

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 December 1880 · page 2

THE results of the English election Commissions, lately given to the world, reveal a most extraordinary system of systematic bribery, a system indeed to…

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Opening of the New Parliament

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 December 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The first session of the tenth Parliament opens to-morrow. The members of the two Houses will assemble in their respective Chambers at…

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Opening of the New South Wales Parliament

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 December 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Parliament was opened at noon to-day by the swearing-in of the now members, the ceremony occupying an hour and and a half. Ninety nine…

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Official Opening of the New South Wales Parliament

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 December 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The opening of Parliament to-day was celebrated with all the usual pomp and ceremony. A guard of honor of a hundred of the Permanent…

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New South Wales Parliament. Legislative Council. Thursday, December 16, 1880

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 December 1880 · page 8

IN the Legislative Council, the adoption of the address in reply to the Governor's speech was moved by Mr. Lucas and seconded by Mr. Richard Hill, both now…

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The Gloucester Election. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 December 1880 · page 2

SIR,—In your issue of the 14th, your Raymond Terrace correspondent, speaking in reference to the late Gloucester contest, says that many who were opposed to Mr…

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New South Wales Parliament. Legislative Council. Friday, December 17, 1880

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 December 1880 · page 4

THE President took the chair at three minutes to 2 p.m. On the motion of Sir John Robertson, the members of the House proceeded to…

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Bourke Election

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 December 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The returns from Boorooma, the last polling place in the Bourke electorate, gives Mr. Barton 17 and Mr. Oliffe nil. Mr. Barton is…

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The Bourke Election

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 December 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The returns are all in for Bourke, and give the following result:—Barton, 308; Oliffe, 566…

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