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Southern Highlands · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1893

31 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 2 of 2

To Purge Parliament

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 13 May 1893 · page 2

A VERY vigorous example of that kind of conduct which is rapidly making the Parliament of this colony a reproach and a by word was furnished by Mr. Grahame,…

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Election

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 21 June 1893 · page 2

THIS will plunge us into the thick of another aldermanic contest, and may prove a sort of consolation stake to some of the defeated ones, and it seems…

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Election of Mayor. Special Meeting of Council. Alderman J. J. Campbell elected. Thursday, June 22

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 24 June 1893 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting of the Bowral Council was held on Thursday evening for the purpose of electing a mayor for the end of the current municipal year in the place of Mr. John Hodgson,…

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The Candidates

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 19 July 1893 · page 2

MESSRS. R. S. MACKENZIE and O. P. Law are now legally in the field, each anxious to fill the vacant chair of our municipal council. There seems to be no point of…

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Candidates

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 6 September 1893 · page 2

THESE are likely to be well nigh as plentiful as blackberries in all the electorates, and the anticipation seems general that if there be any want of organisation in the…

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The Candidates

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 16 September 1893 · page 2

ALREADY the names of the candidates are coming to the surface, and so far we do not see any great cause for rejoicing in a few at least of the electorates. The great…

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Opening, of Parliament

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 30 September 1893 · page 2

THE third session of the fifteenth Parliament of New. South Wales was opened at noon today by his Excellency the Governor with the uaual formalities…

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Re-Assembling of Parliament. the Governor's Speech

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 30 September 1893 · page 8

After a recess of three and a half months' duration members of both Houses of the Legislature of the colony reassembled for the dispatch of business on Tuesday. The…

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The Coming Election. (To the Editor of the Scrtineer.)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 1 November 1893 · page 2

Sir,—Would you kindly allow me space for a few remarks re the candidates for the Bowral electorate. There is much talk just now about honest Government, but how can we attain that without honest…

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The Coming Election. MR. H. Taylor at Bowral

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 22 November 1893 · page 3

A large and representative audience listened to Mr. Taylor's address in the Oddfellows' Hall, Bowral, on Saturday evening last. Mr. J. Lewis was voted to…

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Prophets and Candidates

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 13 December 1893 · page 2

THE prophets are very quiet as to what will be the outcome of the next election. The candidates are taking time by the forelock and announcing themselves, but…

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