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Politics & elections, 1850

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Election for the City of Sydney

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 3 August 1850 · page 4

On Saturday last, the declaration of the result of the Pell in the late election of a representative in the Legislative Council for the City of Sydney, was declared by the Mayor, at the hustings, in Macquarie-place…

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The Book of the Election, and Second Book of the Chronicles of Imposters. Chapter I.

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 3 August 1850 · page 1

Now Parke[?]nnery begat Broddie, and Broddie begat Forester, and Forester begat Brown, and Brown begat Thorlow, and Thurlow begat Grant, and Grant begat Wilshire, and Wilshire…

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The Catholic Artist and the New Houses of Parliament

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 29 August 1850 · page 3

Our readers will be pleased to learn that Mr. Herbert's frescoe of" Lear"—of which there was an oil painting in the last exhibition of the Royal Academy—has procured for this distinguished artist a very large commission for…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, September 7, 1860. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Corporation Elections

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 September 1850 · page 2

ALTHOUGH the Bill for the regulation of the Sydney Corporation now before the Legislative Council has not yet reached the third reading, it has progressed…

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The Civic Elections

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 5 October 1850 · page 9

Now, that the Bill for regulating the Corporation of Sydney has received the assent of his Excellency the Governor, and become law, the citizens have a solemn duty to perform in looking out for fit and…

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The Approaching Municipal Election

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 17 October 1850 · page 6

AFTER an existence of nearly eight years, during which it has been presided over by eight different gentlemen, who, whatever might be the standard of their ability, have…

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The Election for Gloucester, Macquarie, and Stanley

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 17 October 1850 · page 6

AT a Meeting held at Raymond Terrace, Mr. Robert Campbell, merchant of Campbell's Wharf, Sydney, and Mr. Richard Jones, stockholder of Moreton Bay, were…

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The City Council Election

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 19 October 1850 · page 8

THE time for the annual election of City Councillors is fast drawing near, one short week more and the day of election will be here. We again therefore exhort our fellow citizens to be no longer…

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The City Council Election

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 26 October 1850 · page 8

AT length we think we may fairly conclude that the Citizens have awakened to a sense of their duty with respect to the election of City Councillors. During the past week several public meetings of…

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The Election for City Councillors

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 31 October 1850 · page 10

It is now in the power of the citizens to remove, to a certain extent, the causes of complaint hitherto so rife against' the mismanagement of civic affairs by the City…

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The Municipal Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 November 1850 · page 4

YESTERDAY being the day appointed under the now Act for the nomination of city councillors, at noon the Mayor presided at a meeting held in the front of the Town Hall, to carry out the…

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Municipal Election

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 2 November 1850 · page 2

The first nomination of candidates to fill the places of the retiring members of the City Council, came off yesterday at the Town Hall. A large number of persona assembled on the occasion, and the whole proceedings were conducted in the most or[?]erly manner. At twelve o'clock, the Mayor said that this was…

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The Election. To the Editor of the People's Advocate

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 2 November 1850 · page 2

SIR. -- It having been industriously circulated by many persons that Mr Lenehan had used his influence to prevent his workmen at any time from attending any meeting, or exercising any political privilege on any question whatever, I most distinctly deny it; on…

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The City Election

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 2 November 1850 · page 2

YESTERDAY the first nomination of candidates for the City Council, took place at the Town Hall. Upon the whole we are gratified at the result of this part of the experiment, though we do not think the citizens have been altogether true to themselves, in looking out…

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Corporation Election. " Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen." To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 November 1850 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—The quotation above may well be applied to the citizens this day. The opportunity is now given them of sending in six respectable men—men worthy of the…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Monday, November 4, 1850. "Sworn to no Matter, of no Seat am I." the Corporation Elections

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 November 1850 · page 2

We have so often called attention to the principles which ought to guide the citizens in the choice of members of the City Council, that we need do no more…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday, November 5, 1850. "Sworn to no Matter, of no Seat am I." Domestic Intelligence. Municipal Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 November 1850 · page 2

THE Municipal Election yesterday passed off very quietly. With so many candidates it is difficult at present to estimate the number of persons who actually voted, but it appears probable…

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The Municipal Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 November 1850 · page 2

THE declaration of the result of the poll for the Municipal Election, was made yesterday, at the Town Hall, in York-street, by the Mayor…

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Municipal Election

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 9 November 1850 · page 4

On Monday last, the first election trader the new Act, for the office of City Councillors, came off in the different Wards of the City. Of the retiring candidates only one ventured to appeal to the citizens for their support, and the return shows his confidence…

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Election of City Councillors

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 9 November 1850 · page 1

THE conclurion of this bit of farcical confusion, fur it can be termed nothing else, arrived on Wednesday last, when the true state of the poll was declared, viz.:—…

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