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Politics & elections, 1860

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The Election for Central Cumberland. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 December 1860 · page 5

SIR,—I observe by your issue of this morning that prior to my arrival at the hustings at Liverpool, yesterday, Mr. Farnell stated that "the day after nomination Mr. Macpherson made it his business to…

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YASS. Thursday, four p.m. Lachlan Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 December 1860 · page 4

At five of the polling places Mr. J. N. Ryan had 150 votes over Mr. Martin…

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East-sydney Election. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 December 1860 · page 8

SIR,—Although, disposed to make considerable allowance for disappointment and chagrin at the result of the late elections yet there is a limit beyond which your official correspondent "Pym" should not be…

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Payment of Members of Parliament. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 December 1860 · page 6

SIR,—Mainly by the efforts of Mr, Wentworth (the politicla Frandenstein, who has raised a Moaster, which be told a friend in London only a few menths eago the would make any saxrifice to lay [?]) this…

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YASS. Thursday, four p.m. Lachlan Election

Sydney Mail · Saturday 29 December 1860 · page 5

At five of the polling places Mr. J. N. Ryan had 150 votes over Mr. Martin…

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The Elections

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 December 1860 · page 4

THE result of the elections so far as they hare yet been ascertained, shows a large majority in favour of the Government on the question of Free Selection before Survey. But in the general policy of the…

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The Murray Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 December 1860 · page 5

As waa generally expected, the opposition to our late representative, Mr. Hay, came to A premature, decease. Foolish in its origin, and ridiculous, in its progreas, no other fate 'would have been appropriate…

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Ministerial Interference at Elections

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 31 December 1860 · page 2

The elections have exhibited Messrs. Arnold and Robertson in an amiable light. Whether by force of facts, or of "free selection," or by dint of that strenuous and persevering…

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