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Politics & elections, 1851

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Original Correspondence. Camden Election. To the Editor of the People's Advocate, (per favour of the Empire.)

Empire · Monday 15 September 1851 · page 3

SIR—In your paper of this morning is a paragraph in which, after some strictures on Mr. Macarthur's alleged illiberality towards Emancipists, you attack Mr. Henry Osborne, the candidate for…

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The Elections

Empire · Monday 15 September 1851 · page 3

THE nomination for Gloucester and Macquarie took place last Thursday at Raymend Terrace. The show of hands was in favour of Mr. Joseph Simmons, senior;…

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Domestic Intelligence. City Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 September 1851 · page 4

IN pursuance of a writ issued by His Excellency Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy, Governor-General of New South Wales, to William Thurlow, Esq., Mayor of the city of Sydney,…

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Domestic Intelligence. City Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 September 1851 · page 2

IN pursuance of a writ issued by His Excellency Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy, Governor-General of New South Wales, to William Thurlow, Esq., Mayor of the city of Sydney,…

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Interior. the Hunter River Elections. (Abridged from the Maitland Mercury, Sept. 13.) the Nomination for Gloucestre and Macquarie

Empire · Tuesday 16 September 1851 · page 4

A meeting of the electors of the united counties of Gloucester and Macquarie was held at Raymond Terrace, on Thursday, at the Courthouse, for the purpose of nominating candidates…

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City Election. Nomination Day

Empire · Tuesday 16 September 1851 · page 3

Yesterday being the day appointed for the nomination of candidates for the representation of the City in the Legislative Council, a very large number of the citizens assembled, at an…

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Yass. Election for the Counties of King and Georgiana

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 September 1851 · page 2

SEPTEMBER 13.—The nomination of a member for the above counties was fixed to take place in this town to-day. We cannot avoid remarking on the inconvenient place appointed,…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday, September 17, 1851. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Yesterday's Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 September 1851 · page 2

THE announcement that Dr. LANG is returned at the head of the poll will take most of our readers by surprise. It will be seen by the report of the proceedings,…

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City Election

Empire · Wednesday 17 September 1851 · page 3

THE election of members for Sydney, yesterday, has resulted in the triumphant return of Dr. Lang at the head of the poll; Messrs. Lamb and Wentworth being the…

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City Election

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 18 September 1851 · page 9

THE termination of the contest for the representation of this city in the newly constituted Legislative Council, fills one with surprise and regret on the one hand, and…

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City Election. Nomination Dat

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 18 September 1851 · page 8

Monday being the day appointed for the nornination of candidates for the representation of the City in the Legislative Council, a very large number of the citizens assembled, at an early hour…

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Cumberland Boroughs Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 September 1851 · page 5

PURSUANT to the writ addressed by his Excellency the Governor-General to[?]Robert Fitzgeral, Esq., the Returning Officer of the above mentioned Electoral District, a meeting of the…

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PROGRESS of the Elections City Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 September 1851 · page 4

YESTERDAY afternoon, pursuant to notice, the final state of the poll in the election of Representatives for the City of Sydney was officially declared by the Right Worshipful the…

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Cumberland Boroughs Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 September 1851 · page 3

PURSUANT to the writ addressed by his Excellency the Governor-General to[?] Robert Fitzgeral, Esq., the Returning Officer of the above mentioned Electoral District, a meeting of the…

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PROGRESS of the Elections City Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 September 1851 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon, pursuant to notice, the final st[?] the poll in the election of Representatives for the City of Sydney was officially declared by the Right Worshipful the…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Thursday, September 18, 1851. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." the Elections

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 September 1851 · page 2

WE mentioned yesterday that Mr. CHISHOLM was returned for King and Georgiana; and Mr. G. M. M'LEAY, for Murrumbidgee. By this day's Herald it…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Thursday, September 18, 1851. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." the Elections

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 September 1851 · page 4

WE mentioned yesterday that Mr. CHISHOLM was returned for King and Georgiana; and Mr. G. M. M'LEAY, for Murrumbidgee. By this day's Herald it…

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City Election. Declaration of the Poll

Empire · Thursday 18 September 1851 · page 3

Yesterday ofternoon, at four o'clock, a great number of the citizens assembled before the hustings in Macquarie Place, for the purpose of hearing the official declaration of the poil taken the…

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The Empire. Thursday, September 18, 1851. the Election for Cumberland

Empire · Thursday 18 September 1851 · page 2

THE electors for the metropolitan county are called upon to-day to nominate fit and proper men to represent their varied and important interests in the legislature of…

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City Election Returns

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 September 1851 · page 3

A slight error having occurred in printing the numbers polled for the respective candidates, we give them again as corrected by the Mayor, viz.:—…

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