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A meeting was held in the Town-hall, Newtown, last night in support of the candidature or Mr. Mitchell. There was a crowded attendance. The chair was filled by Mr. Wbately,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In answer to a question by Mr. G. H. Cox, Mr. Simpson said the Government respectfully declined to admit the existence of any custom which would limit their discretion and judgment in making…
Continued on Trove, page 404 →Mr. Cox wanted to know why the recent large additions had been made to the Council during the sitting of Parliament; this being, as he contended, a departure from an old and established…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The SPEAKER took the chair at half-past 3 o'clock. There being no quorum present, Mr. SPEAKER announced [?] the House stood adjourned till Tuesday next, at 3 [?]'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →AGAIN, at equally short notice though happily from a very different cause, the electors of Newtown are called to the poll. As this is understood to he a stand-up fight between…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mr. J. F. Whiting, who recently unsuccessfully contested the West Ward Municipal Election has made an application to the Returning-Officer (Mr. McCredie)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A meeting of the friends and supporters of Mr. Joseph Mitchell was held in the Newtown Town Hall yesterday evening. The hall was crowded to an uncomfortable extent long before 8 o'clock, and some hundreds of persons…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →An extraordinary vacancy having occurred in the Manly Council, Messrs. W. H. Vivian, Coker, and John Cameron contested the seat. The first-named candidate was proposed by a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,--Seeing in your issue of yesterday (under the above heading) about the manner in which the last election at that place was carried out, I can safely vouch…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. J. F. Smith, the Protectionist candidate for Newtown, addressed two immense and enthusiastic meetings of the electors last evening. The first was held…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, This Day.--Mr. S. W. Webb, late Mayor of Newcastle, it is said upon apparently good authority, will run for Newcastle at the next election. Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IF there can be organised a body of members of the Assembly exercising sufficient independence to act without respect of parties or of perrons in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There is a very strong consensus of opinion amongst members on both sides of the House that some vigorous action should be taken to put down disorder in the Legislative Assembly. The better class of legislators recognise…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,-- When and by what method is our Parliament to be purified? At present a comparison between it and a Birmingham pothouse would be greatly in favor of the latter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The election of a member of Parliament to [?] the vacancy in the representation of the Newtown electorate, caused by the appointment of Mr. W. J. Foster to the Supreme Court Bench, took place at Newtown on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In consequence of tne resignation of Mr. Walter S. Shirley, the Gladstonian Liberal member for Doncaster, a fresh election took place yesterday. Mr. Fitzwilliam, a Unionist,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE result of the Newtown election has been disappointing. It had been hoped, sot unreasonably, that since in a twelvemonth the Protectionist cause had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE excitement attending the Newtown election reached its climax on Saturday when the poll closed at 4 o'clock. Canvassers then adjourned to the hotels, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Newtown election on Saturday result in a victory for the freetrade candidate Mr. Mitchell, who defeated the protectionist, Mr. J. F. Smith by 147 votes, or nearly double the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Friday Night.--At a Parliamentary election at Doncaster to-day the Hon. Henry Fitzwilliam, the Unionist candidate, was returned by a majority of 200 votes,…
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