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Politics & elections, 1848

186 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 10

City Election

The Sydney Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 July 1848 · page 2

THE electioneering tocsin, echoing through the remotest extremities of Sydney, has infused a sudden and unwonted vitality into the "mercantile interest."…

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Admission of Jews to Parliament

The Sentinel · Thursday 6 July 1848 · page 3

We alluded in our last number,to a statement of the Times journal, that the heavy calamities with which the country has been recently visited, were not from God. A leading article, in favour of the…

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Electioneering

The Sentinel · Thursday 6 July 1848 · page 2

ON Tuesday evening last a very numerous and respectable meeting of Mr. Lamb's friends took place in the School of Arts, for the purpose of arranging means to insure the return of that…

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General Elections

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 July 1848 · page 4

HIS Excellency the Governor has directed it to benotificd for general information, that Writs have been issued for a General Election of Members to serve in the Legislative Council,…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Friday, July 7, 1848. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." the General Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 July 1848 · page 2

OF the sixteen Electoral Districts in the Sydney division of the colony, five are at present, so far as is known, entirely destitute of candidates. For the county of…

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The Coming Elections. the City of Sydney

The Sydney Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 July 1848 · page 2

The Candidates for the honor of representing the City of Sydney in the Legislative Council having now declared themselves, we feel ourselves called upon…

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Electioneering. Messrs. Went World and Bland

The Sydney Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 July 1848 · page 2

THE Central Committee of these gentlemen met at the Fitz Roy Hotel, last evening, at which the two candidates attended, and in speeches full of point and…

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The Approaching Elections

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 8 July 1848 · page 8

The electioneering campaign may now be looker upon as having been fairly opened, and we purpose to offer a few remarks upon the merits of the respective candidates as far as we have been enabled, from past…

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The Elections

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 8 July 1848 · page 2

A meeting of persons favourable to the nomination was held at the Royal Hotel on Monday evening. At the appointed hour of meeting there was a very numerous assemblage, and Alderman Wilshire was called to the chair; and in the course of the…

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The General Election

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 8 July 1848 · page 1

There is at present on the tapis a general election; a species of drama which may be divided into three parts, the comic, the serious, and the serio-comic…

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The Last New Candidate

The Sydney Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 July 1848 · page 2

IT never astonishes us to witness the shiftings of a weathercock, or the spinnings of a whirngig. In like manner it cannot excite much surprise, that Mr…

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Miscellaneous Extracts Public Buildings—the New Houses of Parliament. (From the Times, February 15.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 July 1848 · page 3

THERE is a fate against the public buildings of this country. The spell is not in our architects, it is not in our quarries, it is not in our resources, but some where or other in the chapter…

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Electioneering

The Sydney Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 July 1848 · page 2

[The following lines, although written upon the occasion of a general election in the mother-country, contain much that may be usefully applied to our forthcoming selection of candidates for legislative…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday, July 12, 1848. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I.' the Approaching Elections

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 July 1848 · page 2

LAST week, when about one-third of our electoral districts were without candidates, we began to entertain serious apprehensions that on the assembling of the…

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Bathurst Election

The Sydney Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 July 1848 · page 2

WE regret to hear that it is the intention of Mr. Darvall to oppose the late member, Mr. Francis Lord, in the County of Bathurst. Mr. Lord has been an useful and…

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County Elections. "The End Crowns All."--shakespeare

The Sydney Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 July 1848 · page 2

THE features as yet developing themselves of the approaching election are extremely singular. In one place is evinced all the violence of party feeling approaching…

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The Elections

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 July 1848 · page 3

THE following abstract shows the dates on which the different elections are to take place:— THURSDAY, July 20.—Nomination of…

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Forthcoming Elections

The Sentinel · Thursday 13 July 1848 · page 2

Electioneering matters are increasing in interest, particularly in the metropolis and the surrounding districts. The representation of the city will doubtless be sharply contested. Besides the…

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The Country Elections. "The End Crowns All."--shaksfeare

The Sydney Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 July 1848 · page 2

THE formation of the Legislative Council is a matter of such paramount importance, so immediately affecting the interests, not only of every individual in…

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General Election

The Australian · Thursday 13 July 1848 · page 4

His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified for general information, that Writs have been issued for a General Election of Members to serve in the Legislative Council…

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