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Politics & elections, 1890

12 stories in South Coast's papers

The Candidate

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 1 February 1890 · page 3

Who comes and grasps yon by the hand, And welcomes you with greeting bland, And flattery you can't withstand ? The candidate…

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The Municipal Elections. Nomination Day

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 5 February 1890 · page 2

YESTERDAY (Tuesday) was Nomination Day in connection with the various municipal elections. At Nowra the Returning Officer (Mr. Mayor Seccombe) attended at the Council…

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Nowra Municipal Council. Election for Central Ward

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 12 February 1890 · page 2

AT noon on Saturday last Mr. Mayor Seccombe, the Returning Officer, attended at the local Council Chambers for the purpose of officially declaring the result of the poll for the…

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Mayoral Elections. Broughton Creek and Bomaderry Municipal District

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 19 February 1890 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting of the Broughton Creek and Bomaderry Municipal District Council was held in the Council Chambers, Berry, on Thursday morning last, at 11 a.m.: there being…

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POETRY. The Candidate

Moruya Examiner · Friday 7 March 1890 · page 4

Who comes and grasp[?] you [?] the hand, And welcomes you with greeting [?]and, And [?]ry you can’t withstand? The candidate…

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Special Telegraphic Intelligence. Opening of Parliament. SYDNEY. Tuesday, 2.30 p.m

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 30 April 1890 · page 2

PARLIAMENT opened at noon to-day with the usual coremonies. The Governor's Speech is lengthy, and promises a number of useful Bills, including measures to give effect to the decisions…

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Opening of Parliament

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 2 May 1890 · page 2

FOLLOWING in the Governor’s speech [?] at the opening of Parliament on Tuesday HONOURABLE GENTLEMEN OF THE [?] COUNCIL AND GENTLEMEN OF…

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The Kiama to Nowra Railway. the Bill Before Parliament

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 9 July 1890 · page 2

IN the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday evening Mr. P. H. Morton, M.P., presented a petition from certain residents and freeholders of Nowra, alleging certain facts in opposition to…

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Nowra Municipal Council. Special Meeting—election of Mayor

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 9 July 1890 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting of the above named body was held in the Council Chambers, Nowra, on Tuesday last for the purpose of electing a mayor in the room of Mr. Edwin Seccombe,…

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The Election of a May Queen at Whitelands

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 12 July 1890 · page 3

For many beautiful things the world will have to thook John Ruekin—for few things more beautiful than the thought which induced the resumption of May Day…

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Melbourne Cop Candidates

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 24 October 1890 · page 3

As the time approaches for the greatest equine contest of the season, the racing fever waxes warmer, and almost every second person one meets…

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Bega [?] Farmers’ U Election of Officers

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 5 December 1890 · page 2

A GENERAL meeting of me[?] of the Bega District Farmers’ Union was on Tuesday afternoon held in the School of Arts for the election of officers. There…

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