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Southern Highlands · Politics & elections
19 stories in Southern Highlands's papers
THE weekly meeting of the Bowral Debating Society was held Wednesday evening in the school of arts. The attendance of members and of the public was fair; but it would have been much larger had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A DISASTROUS explosion of dynamite took place this afternoon at Westminster Hall. A lady informed a police constable that she bad observed some men place a parcel in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE divisions on the votes of censure upon the Government proposed in the House of Commons and House of Lords respectively, by Sir Stafford Northcote and the Marquis…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE fifth session of the eleventh parliament of New South Wales was formally opened at noon on Wedneday by his Excellency Lord Agustus Loftus. The proceedings attracted…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ON Thursday evening a public meeting was held in the Bowral school of arts to elect five trustees, to whom may be conveyed the land offered by Mr. S. Hordern as a park…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PARLIAMENT was prorogues to-day. The Queen's Speech alludes to the failure of the expedition despatched to the relief of Khartoum, and states that although the objects were not attained, her Majesty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. VARNEY PARKES has been returned for Central Cumberland by a majority of 100 votes over Mr. N. G. Bull…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WRITS of election were gazetted on Thursday, 8th instant. The date of nomination in the Camden electorate is October 15; Polling day, October 19, return of writ, November 20. Two members are to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. GARRETT delivered a political address at the school of arts, Bowral, on Monday night last. Notwithstanding the inclement weather there was a large gathering present, and Mr. Garrett was favoured with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. GARRETT haabeen well received through, out the electorate. He has held meetings at Campbelltown, Camden, the Oaks Joadja Creek. Mittagong, Bowral, Moss Vale,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Goulburn Argus says that the friends and supporters of Sir Henry Parkes met at the Mechanics' Institute Tuesday. There was a large attendance, and Mr. W. Davies…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALREADY the elections as far as they have gone have proved most disastrous to the government, and the result fully justifies our expression of opinion last week as to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SIR,—Will you allow me to correct a false impression that has got abroad in connexion with the late election,—which is as follows:—That Mr. Kidd had not the slightost knowledge of the circulation of those…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have seen a few elections in different parts, but rever before did we see one pass off with any thing approaching the quietitude which attended the election in Bowral on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →You must wake and call me early, call me early, M'ria dear; To-morrowill be the jolliest day I've seen this many a year…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Who walks the street with stately tread, and doffs his hat to show his head, And glories in his shining pate? The aldermanic candidate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR Alfred Stephen, Acting-Governor of New South Wales, opened Parliament at noon on Wednesday, and read the usual speech. The speech regrets the existence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →POLLING day for the election of the first Municipal team for Bowral was a red-letter day in the history of the district. It had been proclaimed a general holiday: men donned their Sunday clothes, women…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No good could be done, says the Globe, by the exclusion of the press from Parliament—and whatever harm might ensue would certainly not accrue to the press. It is to the press that the speakers owe what…
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