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Politics & elections, 1843

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The Elections. List of Representative Candidates. (Corrected Up to Teh Present Date.)

The Australian · Friday 9 June 1843 · page 2

1. District of Port Phillip, (to return five members) Dr. Nicholson, Dr. Lung, Messrs. Walker, Ebden, James Macarthur. Junior, and Sir Thomas…

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The General Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 June 1843 · page 2

WRITS have been issued for a general Election of Members to serve in the Legislative Council, addressed to the respective Returning Officers of the Electoral Districts…

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The Elections

The Australian · Friday 9 June 1843 · page 2

NEXT week will be decided the contest for Legislative Representation in every Electoral District of the Colony, and the hour approaches we regard…

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The Forthcoming Election

Australasian Chronicle · Saturday 10 June 1843 · page 2

THE day is fast approaching when the electors of the colony, of this incipient nation, are to exercise for the first time the valuable privilege of the "elective franchise," in returning members to serve…

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The Elections. List of Representative Candidates. (Corrected Up to the Present Date.)

The Australian · Monday 12 June 1843 · page 2

1. District of Port Phillip, (to return five members) Dr. Nicholson, Dr. Lang, Messrs. Walker, Ebden, James Macarthur. Junior, and Sir Thomas…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Monday, June 12, 1843. "Sworn to no Master, of no Seet am I." the Election Week

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 June 1843 · page 2

THIS week will be a conspicuous era in the chronicles of Sydney. To-morrow the first election of members to represent its citizens in our first colonial Parliament…

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General Election

The Australian · Monday 12 June 1843 · page 2

WE shall be extremely thankful, and, it need be, will be happy to remuneration any intelligent correspondents, who will be at the pains of fully communication to us…

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English News. Imperial Parliament. House of Lords, February 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 June 1843 · page 3

Parliament was this day opened by commission, with the usual formalities. The Lords Commissioners were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor,…

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County of Cumberland Election

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 13 June 1843 · page 2

THERE seems to be no doubt but that Mr. James Macarthur will be returned for this county. We learn from various quarters that Mr. Lawson has no chance; he and his family are unpopular both with…

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Original Correspondence. Camden Election

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 13 June 1843 · page 2

MR. EDITOR—The day when the election for the county of Camden will be decided is almost at hand, and therefore it behoves the independent electors for that county to consider seriously the part which they…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday, June 14, 1843. "Sworn to no Master, of no Seet am I." City of Sydney Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 June 1843 · page 2

YESTERDAY was the day appointed by the Governor's writ for the nomination of two members to represent the City of Sydney in the New Legislative Council…

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City Election

The Colonial Observer · Wednesday 14 June 1843 · page 1092
Also in The Teetotaller and General Newspaper

Yesterday being the day appointed for the nomination of members to serve in the Legislative Council for the City of Sydney, the various candidates and their supporters…

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Camden Election. to the Editor of the Colonial Observer

The Colonial Observer · Wednesday 14 June 1843 · page 1091

SIR--In the Herald of Saturday there appears a letter containing the following extraordinary paragraph, purporting to be a reply to the address of a Presbyterian, published in your paper of the 31st…

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Nomination of the Sydney Candidates

The Australian · Wednesday 14 June 1843 · page 2

Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, the Right Worshipful the Mayor presented himself at the Huntings in Macquarie-place, for the purpose of transacting the appointed…

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Polling Places

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 15 June 1843 · page 4

His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified, that an error has occurred in the notice from this office, dated the 30th ultimo, wherein the chief polling place or place of nomination for the…

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The General Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 June 1843 · page 4

WRITS have been issued for a general Election of Members to serve in the Legislative Council, addressed to the respective Returning Officers of the Electoral Districts…

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Original Correspondence. the City Candidates. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 June 1843 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—In your leading article of yesterday a comparison is instituted between the respective claims of the candidates for the representation of this city, and it appears to…

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News From the Interior. (Front our various Correspondents.) Parramatta Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 June 1843 · page 2

IN pursuance of the Writ directed to Gilbert Eliot, Esq., Returning Officer for the Borough of Parramatta, yesterday was fixed as the day for tho nomination of a Member for that…

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City Election

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 15 June 1843 · page 2

Tuesday last was the day appointed for the nomination of candidates to represent the city of Sydney in the intended new legislature; and for this purpose a commodious platform or hustings had been…

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