Bell's Life in Sydney. Sydney, February 23, 1856. the Cumberland Election
Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 23 February 1850 · page 2
THE approaching election for the vacant seat in the County of Cumberland will causer the resumption of transportation question to be fully argued. There is no…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 March 1850 · page 2
YESTERDAY being the day appointed for the nomination of candidates to supply the vacancy created in the representation of Cumberland by the retirement of Mr. Cowper, a meeting of…
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The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 9 March 1850 · page 8
THE nomination of a gentleman to serve in the present Legislative Council, as member for the county of Cumberland, took place on Wednesday last at Parramatta. The utmost indifference appeared to have existed…
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Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 9 March 1850 · page 2
As the intrinsic value of an article is that which it will bring by public appraisement, we may form no incorrect opinion of the intrinsic value of Legislative houors, a prise which, at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prorogation of Parliament. (From the Times, November 21.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 March 1850 · page 3
YESTERDAY being the day to which Parliament was prorogued, a great number of well-dressed ladies and gentlemen attended below the bar to witness the ceremony of further proroguing…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 March 1850 · page 2
THE polling, yesterday, excited very little interest in Sydney. The numbers at Darlinghurst were, for Byrnes, 202; for Douglass, 59. At St. Leonard's, for Byrnes, 10; for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Declaration of the Elected Candidate for the County of Cumberland
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 March 1850 · page 2
THE declaration of the elected candidate for the metropolitan county of New South Wales took place on Saturday, but at this event, as throughout the course of the election,…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1850 · page 2
THE apathetic feeling with which the progress of civic matters is usually regarded was exemplified yesterday in the election of an Auditor for the city, and two Assessors—one for Gipps…
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The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 23 March 1850 · page 2
Parramatta being the principle polling place for the County of Cumberland, the returning officer, A. W. Young, Esq., declared here, on Saturday last, the final state of the poll for our county, as follows: --…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →City Council. Monday. PRESENT—Aldermen Allen, Thurlow, Broughton, Egan, and Fisher; Councillors Josephson, Lingard, Williams, Jenkins, Roberts, Moore, Moffitt, Paton, Thomas, Thornton, Wilkie, and Ryan. Election of Chairman
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 May 1850 · page 2
The TOWN CLERK having reported that His Worship the Mayor was unable, from extreme indisposition, to attend, Alderman ALLEN was, upon the motion of…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 June 1850 · page 2
THE Parliament was opened to-day, with the usual formalities, and the Lord Chancellor read the following speech:—…
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The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 8 June 1850 · page 13
The Parliament was opened to day, with the usual formalities, and the Lord Chancellor read the following speech: -- "MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, "We are commanded by her Majesty to assure you that her…
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The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 22 June 1850 · page 3
As was expected, the Port Phillip election was very closely contested. The polling at Melbourne and Geelong only were known when our latest papers left, and the GEELONG ADVERTISER gives the following as the result: --…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 June 1850 · page 3
WE have selected a few quotations from the Melbourne daily papers, which will be amusing to our readers. It will be remembered that the polling took place on Tuesday, June 11th;…
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The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 29 June 1850 · page 4
A highly respectable meeting of the citizens, at which about seven hundred electors attended, was held in the Saloon of the Royal Hotel, on Tuesday night at seven o'clock, for the purpose of putting in nomination as candidate a fit and proper person or persons to…
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Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 29 June 1850 · page 1
An advertisement which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald of Tuesday, calling, a meeting of the electors at the Royal Hotel on that evening, opened the ball of the approaching…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Electioneering Ditty. Set to the old tune of "Bow, wow, wow."
Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 29 June 1850 · page 1
Thank goodness! things are looking well, the city is uprising From out its late stagnated state, in manner quite surprising…
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The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 6 July 1850 · page 3
A public meeting of the Electors was held at the Royal Hotel, at 2 o'clock on Monday afternoon, for the purpose of giving the Rev. Dr. Lang an opportunity of freely expressing his sentiments on various topics of political importance…
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The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 6 July 1850 · page 8
SINCE our last Mr. Campbell has retired from the field: there is now every appearance of the contest being confined to Dr. Lang and Mr. J. R. Holden. Both of these gentlemen have met the electors…
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The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 13 July 1850 · page 8
NOTHING in the features of our common citizenship is so repugnant to the best feelings of freemen, as the violation of a public trust or the abuse of a sacred right, for the gratification of personal feeling…
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