Election for the North Riding of Cumberland. Official Declaration of the Poll
Empire · Thursday 10 April 1856 · page 2
The official declaration of the poll for the North Riding of Cumberland took place at Parramatta, yesterday, in presence of about 200 persons. At twelve o'clock precisely the Returning Officer, the elected members,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The New Parliament. No, 11,—Henry Osborne
Empire · Friday 11 April 1856 · page 4
MR, HENRY OSBORNE, who represented the Eastern Division of Camden in the late Legislative Council, has been elected to the new Assembly as one of the two members now allotted to that constituency under the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Members Returned for the New Parliament
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 April 1856 · page 2
SYDNEY HAMLETS (2).—Daniel Cooper, S. A. Donaldson. CITY OF SYDNEY (4).— Charles Cowper, Henry Parkes, Robert Campbell, James Robert Wilshire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The New Parliament. No. 12.—John Bayley Daravall
Empire · Saturday 12 April 1856 · page 4
THE learned gentleman recently elected at the head of the poll for the North Riding of Cumberland may be looked upon as one of our future Parliamentary celebrities. Of good birth, classically educated, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The New Parliament. No Iii.—robert Campbell, "All sound and fury, signifying NOTHING!" No Iv.—james Robert Wilshire
Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 12 April 1856 · page 2
This gentleman, the fourth member elect for Sydney, was born subsequent to the battle of Trafalgar, the great gun of which fight was the 70th cousin, 53 degrees removed, to his mater…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Election for the South Riding of the County of Cumberland
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 April 1856 · page 3
The following is the complete, though non-official, state of the poll for the above electoral district. It will be seen that Messrs. Manning and Weekes have been returned by a large majority,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →King and Georgiana Election. Gunning
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 April 1856 · page 3
Monday was a very exciting day in Gunning, owing to the election. It was a holiday with every-body; ordinary avocations were abandoned for the nonce alike by electors and non-electors. Racing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Election for Gloucester and Macquarie
Empire · Saturday 12 April 1856 · page 4
The following is the result of the poll at Raymond Terraco and Stroud:— BARKER. WILLIAMSON, ANDREWS. Raymond Torraco.. 96 45 2…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Election for King and Georgiana
Empire · Saturday 12 April 1856 · page 4
Returns have riached Sydney from four polling-places out-of the seven appointed for the Counties of King and Goorgiana—from one, however, only to half-past 12 o'clock. So far as the numbers were ascertained, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Election for Wellington and Bligh
Empire · Monday 14 April 1856 · page 4
The nomination for the pastoral district of Wallington and Bligh took place at Wellington, on the 2nd instant. Mr. Goorge Lord was the only candidate placed in nomination. The Returning Officer (Samuel Curtis,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Durham Election. Declaration of the Poll
Empire · Monday 14 April 1856 · page 4
We learn from Saturday's Mattland Mercury that on Friday last, at two o'clock, the Returning Officer, Gilbert Cory, Esq., officially declared the state of [?]oll for the county of Durham, at the Court-house. Taterson,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The New Parliament. No. 13.—John Hubert Plunkett
Empire · Tuesday 15 April 1856 · page 7
IN a Sydney newspaper of former years, which there is reason to believe possessed correct, information on the subject, we find the following biographical sketch of the present Attorney-General:—…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Election for St. Vincent
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 April 1856 · page 5
WE are informed that the poll for this electoral district closed at Braidwood on the 10th instant, as follows:- Roberts.................... 65…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Election for the North-eastern Boroughs. To the Editor of the Empire
Empire · Tuesday 15 April 1856 · page 7
SIR—I cannot let the address to Mr. Plunkett by his committee at Newcastle, and that gentleman's reply (which appeared in Tuesday's Herald), pass without making a few comments upon them…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Election for the Pastoral District of the Murrumbidgee. (From a Correspondent of the Goulburn Chronicle.)
Empire · Tuesday 15 April 1856 · page 6
On Wednesday, the 2nd instant, the Returning Officer of this District, F. W. Viner, Esq., J.P., called a public meeting in the Court House, Tumut, for the purpose of returning members to represent the Pastoral…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Phillip, Brisbane, and Bligh. the Polling
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 April 1856 · page 5
WE have reports from two different correspondents of the result of the polling for this constituency, so far as was known at Scone on the 11th and 12th April. Combining the two together, the following is the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The New Parliament. No. 14.—John Marks
Empire · Wednesday 16 April 1856 · page 5
[?] second member for East Camden is a perfect anti[?]als to his colleague in the representation of that conency. Mr. Odborne is growing ripe in years; Mr. [?]ks is yet wearing the bloom of early life. The first…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Members Returned for the New Parliament
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 April 1856 · page 5
SYDNEY HAMLETS (2).—Daniel Cooper, S. A. Donaldson. CITY OF SYDNEY (4).—Charles Cowper, Henry Parkes, Robert Campbell, J. R. Wilshire. WEST CAMDEN (2).—James Macarthur, J. N. Oxley…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The New Parliament. No. 16.—James Martin
Empire · Thursday 17 April 1856 · page 4
THE senior member for Cook and Westmoreland is another of the many men of influence in this country who are generally regarded as "sons of the soil," but who are not Australians by birth. Like several other…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Lord-advocate of Scotland on the Responsibility of the British Parliament. (Abridged from the Scotsman of December 21.)
Empire · Thursday 17 April 1856 · page 3
Last night a solres took place in the Assembly Rooms, Leith; the Provost of that burgh presiding. The hall was filled, and among those on the platform were the Lord-Advocate, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →