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Politics & elections, 1852

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The Municipal Elections

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 November 1852 · page 2

YESTERDAY being the day appointed by law for the election of representatives to serve in the City Council of Sydney, at 12 o'clock a very small gathering of people assembled in…

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English Extracts. the Late Parliament. (From the Economist, July 3.)

Empire · Wednesday 3 November 1852 · page 3

In the five years of the late Parliamont's oxistence, trade and international communication have much extended. An oxtraordinary discovery of the precious metals…

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Electioneering in Tipperary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 November 1852 · page 7

TIPPERARY, always notorious for something out of the common in the violent line, has the following neat production posted throughout the county:—…

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The Municipal Elections

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 November 1852 · page 6

THE election of members to serve in the City Council for the year 1853 took place yesterday, and polling places were opened pursuant to advertisement in…

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The Municipal Election

Empire · Thursday 4 November 1852 · page 2

A POLL of the citizens will be oponed this morning at 9 o'clock for the election of ten City Councillors. Twenty-three gentlemen have been placed in nomination, of…

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Electioneering in Tipperary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 November 1852 · page 3

TIPPERARY, always notorious for something out of the common in the violent line, has the following [?] production posted throughout the county:—…

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Election of City Councillors

Empire · Friday 5 November 1852 · page 2

Yesterday, at 4, P. M., a number of the citizens attended at the Town Hall to hear the declaration of the poll in the Civie Election. The Right Worshipful the Mayor, on appearing in the…

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The Empire. Friday, November 5, 1852. Yesterday's Election

Empire · Friday 5 November 1852 · page 2

THOUGH we cannot congratulate the six or seven respectable persons who were yesterday clected to the City Council, on the fortune which has overtaken them, we…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, November 6, 1852. "[?]orn to Master, of no Sect am I." the City Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 November 1852 · page 2

"SILENCE gives consent." So says one of those pithy adages which express truths upon which mankind are agreed. The citizens of Sydney were well aware…

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The Municipal Election

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 6 November 1852 · page 2

Monday last being the day appointed for the nomination of City Councillors, a meeting of the citizens was held at the Town Hall, at which from two hundred to three hundred persons were present…

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Who Are Really Eligible Candidates for Emigration

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 6 November 1852 · page 10

The above is a question that appears to be almost impossible of solution; and now that there has gone abroad a largely growing impression that something must be done in the way of emigration, the…

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The Civic Election

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 6 November 1852 · page 2

ALTHOUGH this election has not terminated exactly as we could have wished, we still think there is some reason to hope for a better state of things than has hitherto prevailed. At all events eight or…

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Election of City Councillors

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 6 November 1852 · page 2

MONDAY at noon being the eventful day and hour appointed for the nomination of the citizens to fill up as many vacancies in the Municipal Body, the Right Worshipful the Mayor,…

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The City Election

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 6 November 1852 · page 2

THE result of this important contest would appear to have kindled the wrath of our Empirical contemporary to the degree of furnace heat, and he has…

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The Municipal Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 November 1852 · page 2

SATURDAY being the day appointed by the Mayor for the official declaration of the result of the municipal elections in the city, at two o'clock P.M., about 100 people assembled in…

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Election of City Councillors

Empire · Monday 8 November 1852 · page 3

0n Saturday afternoon, a number of the citizens of Sydney assembled in front of the Town Hall, to hear the final declaration of the poll, in accordance with the announcement made by the…

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English Extracts. the Late Parliament. (From the Times, July I.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 November 1852 · page 3

TO-DAY this strange session will be over, and in a few hours our 656 representatives will be released from the arduous and honourable office which the greater part of them so lately…

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Dublin City Election—tory Success

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 11 November 1852 · page 2

Toryism has had a temporary triumph in the return of Messrs. Vance and Grogan and the defeat of Mr. Reynolds. We do not conceal the regret and mortification we feel at this unexpected result. That…

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The Times on the Irish Elections.—the Herald on Tip, Perary Violence

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 11 November 1852 · page 8

THE Times in the plenitude of its contempt for everything Irish, dogmatically pronounces the Electors of Ireland to be "past hope, past ridicule, and past…

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City of Dublin Election—speech of Mr. Reynolds

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 11 November 1852 · page 7

Immediately after the close of the poll several thousand persons assembled in Halston-street, in front of the Parochial House of St. Michan's, it having become…

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