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Southern Highlands · Politics & elections
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SCIENTISTS say we progress: seepti[?]s say we go back ward. To some extent they are both right—we frequently progress backwards. We did s[?] over our municipality. At first election nearly every other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I SAID if not too busy I might write again about the municipal election. Well, I am busy, and the ailment is chronic; but I must have another word or two about the election,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FIVE nominations have been sent in to the Returning Officer, Mr. J. J. Campbell. They are Mr. J. Hodgson, Mr. M. Rice. Mr. J. L. Campbell, Mr. W. Piggott, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →IT'S to be contested. In the eleventh hour there is quite a heavy supply of aspirants—some matured, some budding. There is competition and new blood. Competition is a patent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The official declaration of the poll was made at the council chambers at noon on Saturday last, in the presence of about 30 or 40 persons. The Returning Officer,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Z. was a struggling township in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty—, its origin being obscure, in fact someone might think low (for it was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE establishment of a municipality in our midst was long talked of before it took place, and many little jokes were rife as to who should first fill the civic chair; but…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT was generally reported that Mr. G. Tate, J.P., would be appointed returning officer in connection with the first election of aldermen at Moss Vale; but yesterday morning we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE first thing Mr. Sly did towards furthering this new interest was to introduce the subject into his Sabbatical discourse, for this astute gentleman believed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AND now the subject had been sufficiently aired, talked of, commented upon, discussed in the local papers,—now at last my friend, who was charged with aspiring to the mayoral…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MONDAY next,the 22nd, is the day of nomination of candidates for the vacant seat in the Bowral Municipal Council, and any candidate wishing to withdraw must give…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MESSRS. Harrison and Fleming, who announce themselves in our advertising columns to-day, are alone in the contest; Mr. J. Loseby having been thrown out of it…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE Mayor was in the chair punctually at 12 o'clock on Monday last, and there were 80 persons present to hear the speeches of the three candidates who are aspiring to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE third session of the thirteenth Parliament of New South Wales was opened by his Excellency the Governor at noon, on Tuesday last. The Speaker took the chair in the Legislative Assembly precisely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SATURDAY last was polling clay for the election of an alderman to fill the extraordinary vacauey in council. Notwithstanding the invalidity in the nomination of two of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LOCALLY, considerable interest is being taken in the approaching municipal election. If proof of this is wanting, glance at the names of the fifteen candidates who have already…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE first municipal election in the municipality of Moss Vale took place on Saturday last, from 8 a.m till 3 p.m. Mr. George Tate, J.P., acted as Returning Officer, and…
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