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Politics & elections, 1877

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New South Wales Parliament Tuesday, 23Rd January. Legislative Assembly

The News, Shoalhaven, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1877 · page 2

THE SMALL POX,—Mr. Mackintosh called the attention of the Colonial Secretary to the fact that her Majesty’s ships now in quarantine, were placed near the residences of a large…

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Broughton Creek and Bomaderry Council. Election of Mayor

The News, Shoalhaven, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 24 February 1877 · page 2

The Council met for the election of Mayor on Saturday, the 17th instant. Present—The retiring Mayor, with Aldermen Kunkler, Boxsell, Gray, Tindall, and M‘lntyre…

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The Elections

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 25 August 1877 · page 2

THE following are the arrangements made by the Hon. George Wigram Allen, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly for the elections consequent upon the acceptance of office by Sir…

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Shoalhaven Election

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 27 October 1877 · page 2

THE Local Candidate, Mr. Richards, met a number of the electors for this Electorate in the Temperance Hall, Terrara, on Tuesday last, [?] Brown, Esq., J.P., being voted to the…

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Election Items

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 27 October 1877 · page 2

AT the nomination for East Sydney, Messrs. Mackintosh, Sedgwick Cowper, Alexander Stuart, Perry. John Davies, Greenwood, Josephson, Dixon, Melville, Cover, Mason, and Sir…

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Election Items

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Monday 29 October 1877 · page 2

At the Newtown nomination on Friday last, Messrs S. C. Brown, and James Yeomans, were nominated. At the Canterbury nomination, Messrs…

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Election Items

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Tuesday 30 October 1877 · page 2

At the nomination at Queanbeyan, Messrs. William G. O’Neill, Thomas Rutledgo and James B. Thompson, were duly proposed and seconded ; the show of hands being in favor of…

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Shoalhaven Election

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Tuesday 30 October 1877 · page 2

ACTIVE canvassing on the part of the friends of the candidates now seeking the honor of representing the Shoalhaven Electorate in the new parliament, has been the order of both day…

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Election Items

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Wednesday 31 October 1877 · page 2

For the Mudgee electorate, Mr. Rouse had a very successful meeting on Saturday, [?] able resolutions were carried by large majorities, At Hartley, Mr. Brown resigned in favor of…

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The Shoalhaven Election

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Wednesday 31 October 1877 · page 2

THE ”free and independent electors” of Shoalhaven [?] to discharge one of the highest duties that periodically devolves upon the [?] countries in which the…

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Election Items

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 3 November 1877 · page 2

Messrs. Alex. Bowinan and Moses have been returned for the [?]; Piddington was third nearly one hundred behind ; W. C. Browne has been elected for Patrick’s Plains, and Mr…

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Correspondence. [We do not identify ourselves with the opinions of correspondents. the Late Election and the News. (To the, Editor of the News.)

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 17 November 1877 · page 2

SIR, — My attention has been called by Mr. Richard’s election committee to the following sentences in your leader of the 31st October, the day of the election :—“The electors should be…

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Our Member’s Maiden Speech in Parliament

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 8 December 1877 · page 2

ON the opening of the ninth Parliament of this country, the new elected member for Shoalhaven was, in conjunction with Mr. Dillon, entrusted with moving the adoption of the Address…

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