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Politics & elections, 1843

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Country News. Election Meeting at New Town

The Australian · Friday 10 March 1843 · page 2

On Wednesday a Meeting of the Electors of Cumberland was held on the New Town Road, at its junction with the Enmore and Camperdown Roads. The Candidates for…

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Electioneering Candidates

The Sun and New South Wales Independent Press · Saturday 11 March 1843 · page 2

HAVING been requested by several of our Subscribers, to give a more definite opinion of the various Candidates for the representation of the County of Cumberland, than we have hitherto done, we beg to say,…

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The Elections

The Omnibus and Sydney Spectator · Saturday 11 March 1843 · page 1

THIS being the first number of the New Series of the OMNIBUS, the hurried manner in which the publication has been got up, has prevented our expressing opinions…

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Our Candidates!

The Satirist and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 11 March 1843 · page 1

IT is laughable to reflect, for a moment, upon the various descriptions of persons who have come forward as Candidates for Representative Honors. First, we have the wealthy…

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The Greek Election; Or, a Scene in a Hell

The Satirist and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 11 March 1843 · page 3

This is in a most original style: the dismay pictured on some of the visitors--the excitement of winning in others: the contrast is good, but the lyon of the night, when…

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The Election

The Sun and New South Wales Independent Press · Saturday 11 March 1843 · page 3

Now, while there is a "lull" in the electioneering excitement, which has of late put the whole colony in political commotion, it may be as well for us, calmly, to view the merits of the respective candidates…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Monday, March 13, 1813. Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." the General Election. [Continued.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1843 · page 2

IN our previous article (on Friday last), we analyzed, as far as the 27th clause the Act for regulating our approaching General Election; we now proceed with the…

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News From the Interior. Durham Election. Public Meeting at Paterson

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1843 · page 2

ON Monday, the 6th instant, a meeting of the electors of the county of Durham, resident in the neighbourhood of the town of Paterson, took place there, pursuant to a short notice in…

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Electioneering Movements

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1843 · page 2

No fresh candidates have come into the field during the week. In Sydney the candidates are resting upon their [?]ars, for having canvassed the city they can do no more until the…

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Representative Candidates

The Australian · Monday 13 March 1843 · page 2

The following is a List of the Candidate for Representative honours who are at present in the field; namely, for 1. District of Port Phillip, (to return five…

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Election Act. Annosexto Victorlæ Reginæ, No. 116

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 March 1843 · page 3

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the Fifth and Sixth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria,…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday, March 15, 1843. Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Electioneering

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 March 1843 · page 2

WE give below a list of the electoral districts, showing the number of members to he returned by each, and the names of the candidates…

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Electioneering Intelligence

The Colonial Observer · Wednesday 15 March 1843 · page 885

A correspondent on whom we can rely informs us, that Mr. James Macarthur does not entertain the views on the subject of the currency ascribed to him in the Herald's…

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Durham Election—public Meeting at Paterson

The Australian · Wednesday 15 March 1843 · page 4

On MOnday last a meeting of the electors of the county of Durham resident in the neighbourhood of the town of Paterson, took place there pursuant to…

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Original Correspondence. a Word About the Elections. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 March 1843 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—A bundance of scurrility, brawling, and verbiage, has been bandied to and fro by the various rival showmen at the late election exhibitions in this district, yet it would…

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The Camden Election

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 16 March 1843 · page 2

THE Camden electtion has presented within the last week a different aspect from that which it had worn before. There are no longer three candidates in the field. Doctor Osborne has resigned ; and…

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Country News. Northumberland Election

The Australian · Friday 17 March 1843 · page 4

On Wednesday last, a public meeting of the electors of the County of Northumberland, was held at Cox's Hotel, East Maitland, pursuant to advertisement…

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Representative Candidates

The Australian · Friday 17 March 1843 · page 3

The following is a List of the Candidate for Representative honours who are at present in the field; namely, for 1. District of Port Phillip, (to return five…

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News From the Interior. (From our various Correspondents.) County of Argyle Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 March 1843 · page 2

A NUMEROUS and highly respectable meeting of the electors of this county was held at Buagonia on Tuesday, for the purpose of affording to William Bradley, Esq., an…

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Camden Election

Australasian Chronicle · Saturday 18 March 1843 · page 2

THE interests of Mr. Therry in the approaching contest for the county, have received an important accession, intelligence of which only reached us yesterday. Mr. Henry Osborne, of Marshallmount,…

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