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Politics & elections, 1871

16 stories in South Coast's papers

Municipal Elections

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 11 February 1871 · page 2

TUESDAY last was the day set apart for the nomination of candidates for the office of Alderman and Auditors in connection with the Municipal Districts] throughout the…

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Municipal. Numba Municipal Election

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 18 February 1871 · page 2

THE annual election of alderman and auditors look place at the Council Chamber, Numba, on Monday the 13th instant, when the result of the poll was as follows :—…

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Murder through an Election Quarrel

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 4 March 1871 · page 4

THE Ballarat Star gives the following brief account of the unfortunate case of fratricide at Egerton :—" A Very shocking murder was committed near Egerton on Tuesday evening…

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Meeting: to Disolve Parliament

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1871 · page 3

ABOUT forty gentlemen interested in the trade and commerce of this port held and adjourned meeting at the Commercial Rooms, George-street…

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England. Opening of the British Parliament London, February 9th

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 4

The Queen opened the present session of both Houses of Parliament to-day in person. The Lords and there Commons mustered in full force,…

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The Bourbon Party Framing a Constitution with Parliament

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1871 · page 4

March 31—It is stated that the Bourbon fusion has been accomplished with Count de Chambord at its head; that its chiefs are framing a liberal constitution,…

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The Prorogation of Parliament

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 1 July 1871 · page 4

NEVER within this recollection of the oldest or any other inhabitant were the " boys' in Macquarie street” sent about their business with such curt [?] as they were on…

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The Shoalhaven Election

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 5 August 1871 · page 2

MR James Warden, who has consented to be placed in nomination for the Electorate, has had several meetings during the week, the first at Milton, where Captain Sheaffe…

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Legislative Assembly. Writ of Election. Legislative Assembly Office, Sydney, 26th July, 1871

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 5 August 1871 · page 2

THE Honorable William Munnings Arnold, Esquire, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, directs it to be notified, for general information, that a Writ hath this day issued, and that the…

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Shoa[?]haven Election

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1871 · page 2

THERE is, as jet, hut one candidate in the field for the vacant Beat in the Assembly, occasioned by the resignation of the late-member for Shoalhaven. Mr James…

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Shoalhaven Election

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1871 · page 3

“Velox” in Bells Life, of Saturday last says :—The electors of Shoalhaven being in a stale of political “widowhood” are of course inconsolable under their…

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Shoalhaven Election. (To the Editor of the Shoalhaven News)

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1871 · page 2

SIR,—Tour report in last week's News, of Mr Warden’s Ca meeting, having been very inaccurate, as regards the propositions submitted, and the vote thereon, perhaps you…

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Shon[?]haven Election Requisitions. (To the Editor of the Shoalhaven News.)

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1871 · page 2

MR EDITOR,—With your permission, I wish to [?] mention to the conduct of certain parties [?] above matter, and to enter my protest, as an elector, against the system of requisitions in…

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Shoalhaven election

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 26 August 1871 · page 2

ON Monday last, the nomination of a gentleman to serve in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, for the electoral district of Shoalhaven, in the room of…

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Town against Country in Parliament

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 2 September 1871 · page 2

ALLUDING to the way in which country interests are sacrificed to those of Sydney, the Goulburn Herald had an able article recently in which it was pointed out what…

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Prorogation of Parliament

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 23 September 1871 · page 3

PROCLAMATION by His Excelleney the Right Honorable Somerset Richard, Earl of Belmore, a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy…

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