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Southern Highlands · Politics & elections
16 stories in Southern Highlands's papers
SIR GEORGE DIBBS is a candidate for a seat on the Federal Convention—not an ordinary candidate, be it understood—he does not particularly want the billet, but…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Up to the present there does not seem to be very much interest taken in the coming election, but the next few weeks will tell, when all the excitement—if there is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE nominations for aldermen and auditors closed on Monday night. The retiring aldermen are—Messrs. R. S. Mackenzie (Mayor), C. Waters, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →By the present appearance of things something like 40 candidates for election to the Federal Convention may be expected, to go to the poll. Among them the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT 12 o'clook noon yesterday (Tuesday), at the Town Hall, Alderman T. Loveridge, as Returning Officer, conducted the public nomination of aldermen and auditors for the municipality for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON 4th March next, which will be a public holiday, the entire colony will be in the throes of a general election. Whether the people like it or not, they have to come…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SPECIAL meeting of the council was held on Wednesday evening for the purpose of electing a Mayor for the ensuing year…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MEN, rather than measures, is without doubt the idea which voters will be influenced by in recording their votes for candidates for the Federal Convention. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DEAR SIB,—Polling for the election of delegates to the Federal Convention takes place on Thursday, 4th March, and I find it impossible in so short a time to do more than speak at a few of the larger…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN effort will here be made to weigh calmly and dispassionately the chances of the candidates who now face the Federal electors. It is at once desired that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DIALOGUE overheard outside the Fitzroy Booth, Sydney:— "Well, Pat, did you vote?" "Faith I did."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PARLIAMENT is on the eve of meeting again, and if the Premier has his way it will simply meet to part for another three-months, making an unusually long recess…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WITH the nightmare of overwhelming defeat at the federal elections still before them, the Labor party, both inside and outside the House, are firmly convinced…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two counts out on successive Tuesdays looks very much as though the interest of members of Parliament in their work was not nearly as keen as before the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Acts regarding the "Right Packing of Salmond" and "Against Clandestine and Unlawful Marriages" are fair spicimens of the paternal legislation of the time. The latter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is a curious circumstance that Queen Victoria has never seen her "faithful Commons " in session. She is denied a spectacle that may be…
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