An Election Bet
MOUNTED on a donkey, R. Pitcher Woodward, a wealthy Brooklynite, started on November 27 from the Hotel Bartholdi, Broadway for San Francisco…
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Politics & elections, 1897
33 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 2
Municipal Elections
THE ratepayers of the various municipalities throughout the colony will shortly be "billed upon to exercises their franchise in the selection of men to represent them in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Municipal Elections. A. Walk Over
OWING no doubt to the fact having got abroad that two of the five candidates. nominated to fill the three vacancies in the Council, had withdrawn, very little interest was displayed in yesterday's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Federal Elections
THE lack of enthusiasm that prevails generally in connection with the Federal elections, which take place on the 4th March next, would seem to indicate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coming Federal Convention Elections
MR. J. HAYNES writes:—On the 4th March next, which will be a public holiday, the entire colony will be in the throes of a general election…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Federal Elections. Mr. B. R. Wise at Lismore
ON Monday evening, Mr. B. R. Wise, one of the candidates for election to the proposed Federal Convention, addressed a meeting in the Theatre Royal on Federation. There was an attendance of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lismore Municipal Council. Election of Mayor
A SPECIAL meeting of the Council wan held last Friday evening for the purpose of electing the Mayer for the ensuing municipal year. Present— the Mayor (Alderman J. F. O'Flynn), in the chair;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cardinal Moran and the Federation Election
THE doubt as to whether Cardinal Moran would allow himself to be nominated as a candidate for election as a delegate to the Federation Convention was set at rest on Friday morning,…
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"If the aboriginal mid half-caste male adults—over 200 in number—in the Moree electorate should follow the example of the Gerah police tracker and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Election of Mayor at Coraki
AFTER the proceedings in connection with the filling of the mayoral chair in the local Council on Thursday night, the aldermen, at the invitaion of the newly-elected…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The northern Star. Saturday Morning, February 13Th, 1897. the Hospital Election
THE little electioneering tactics adopted at last Hospital election were very successful,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Democratic Federal Candidates
At a meeting of electors bold in the Protestant Hall on Monday, for the purpose of hearing addresses by Messrs. M'Gowun, Hughes, and Holman on behalf of the Democratic…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Federal Elections. The Churches and the cardinal
THE sectarian aspect imparted to the Federal Convension election proceedings by the candidature of Cardinal Moran has been discusscd throughout: Sydney to the almost entire exclusion of every…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Municipal Elections
ALD. GULLEY has been re-elected Mayor of Casino. For the new municipality of South Grafton the following candidates were elected…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Election of Mayor at Ballina
THE Ballin Council met on Wednesday night to, elect the Mayor for the current municipal year. There was a full Council present and about 30 ratepayers. Mr. Geo. Martin, the retiring Mayor,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Federal Elections. Mr. John Haynes, M.P.
THE present federation movement may not have any tangible result; on the other hand it may, and this is the point which should not be lost sight of by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Federal Elections
BEFORE we will have another opportunity of addressing our readers the Federal election—an event unique in the annals of Australian history—will have taken place…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Northern Star. Wednesday Morning, March 3Rd, 1897 The Hospital Election
THE scrutineers returned with a kind of bomb-shell in their hands in the way of a return of the voting. Mirabile. dictu! the Mayor, was at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Aorthern Star. Saturday Morning, March 6Th, 1897 The Federal Convention Election. Polling Day
THURSDAY last was the day appointed for taking the poll to elent ton representatives for the colony in the Federal Convention, and the day was proclaimed a public holiday. The banks and public offices closed,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scenes at the Federal Election
A WRITER in the Evening News with a keen eye to striking seenes during polling day, writes...... Another familiar name has gone up on the board, and simultaneously, electrically,…
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