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Politics & elections, 1887

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An Irish Election

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 16

London, February 6.—The parliamentary election in Longford, Ireland, has resulted in the return of Mr. Healy, a nationalist…

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The Parliamentary Elections

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 3

The preliminary ca[?]paing of last week ended on Friday night with a blaze of elocutionary pyrotechnics and election lenthusiasm. All the exciterment was centered…

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Balmain Municipal Council. Election of Mayor

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 2

The meeting for the election of the presiding officer of this Council for the ensuing year was held on Tuesday night last. There were present—the Mayor (Captain…

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The Elections

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser

THE elections are over and a Sabbath calm has settled down over the district again, broken only by rumours of wars and echoes of strife from the far off country…

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Municipal Elections. Balmain

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 5

Although the excitement of the Parliamentary elections rather flattened out the municipal canvass and injured some of the candidates seriously by diverting their…

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The Elections. The Week's Proceedings

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 340

During the past, week the business of electing a new Parliament for this colony has proceeded apace, and by this time next week most of the interest in the election proceedings will have almost ceased…

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The Elections.-- Overwhelming Victory for the Government and Free trade

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 8

The elections have resulted in an overwhelming victory for the party of Sir Henry Parkes and Free Trade. In the metropolitan constituencies the three Ministers who were…

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Electioneering in the Country

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 9

There is a school of advanced thinkers who desire to see the State in these colonies do more towards furnishing the people with entertainment than it does. They maintain that the…

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The General Election

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 5
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The result of yesterday's nominations and polling add 10 to the list of members returned. Of these six are Ministerialists and freetraders, and four Oppositionists and…

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Paddington Election. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 9

Sir,--As one of the scrutineers for the late election at the Sydney polling-booth, Protestant-hall, I would call the attention of the authorities to the fact that only one polling…

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The Canterbury Election

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 4

How are the independent electors of Canterbury to dispose of their votes today? There are nine candidates, eight of whom are freetraders. It may be…

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General Elections. Mr. Nobbs at Liverpool. a Very Disorderly Meeting

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 4

FOR some time past rumours had been rife that the favourite of Granville, Mr. John Nobbs, would be treated to a warm and lively reception when he aired his views political…

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The Central Cumberland Election

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 4

TO-DAY dawns big with the fate of five anxious candidates—and of Central Cumberland ! Three of the candidates are the old members ; of the…

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Election of Mayor. PARRAMATTA

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 8

THE only business before the Parramatta Borough Council on Wednesday afternoon [?] was the election of Mayor for the year 1887-8. There were present the retiring Mayor…

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Election Items

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 8

The Free Trade Association deeply regret to announce that Mr. Thos. W. Warren, who had arranged to contest the Eden electorate, was taken seriously ill on Thursday night, and that his doctor (Dr. Jones) has written to say…

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Election Results

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 13

The result of the elections in the metropolitan district, on the 5th instant, was almost unanimously in favor of the Government. There was very little excitement. The electors appear to…

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To-day's Polling

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1887 · page 4

The polling for the election of members to represent the following electorates will take place to-day:— BRAIDWOOD. FORBES…

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The General Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1887 · page 3

There was only one nomination on Saturday—that for Yass: Plains. There were, however, five pollings—for Canterbury, Carcoar, Central Cumberland, Hartley, and Hawkesbury, the results of which will be found below…

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