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NOTES BY "FALCON."
1. The candidate who knows he is beaten in advance. 2. The dead-in-earnest candidate who is generally " agin the Gov'mint." 3. The free-and-easy candidate who goes to the country confident of being returned. 4. The supercilious candidate who "stands" outof compliment to an inferior set of beings. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. THE CAMPAIGN.
In the metropolis the influence of Mr. Barton is steadily increasing, whilst that of Mr. Reid is waning. This is apparent from the feeling manifested in the meetings held by ...
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TASMA'S LETTER.
Most men one meets this week seem to have a positive genius for talking politics; they use you as a sort of mooring, and when you would detain them with a delicate ...
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The Clarence Examiner.
In commending the candidature of Mr. GARRARD the other day, Mr. WANT wound up the record of his colleague's virtues with the declaration that he had "plenty of ...
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FACTS AND RUMOURS.
London wool sales closed with good competition. Sharpest frost of season on Thursday morning. ...
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SHIPPING.
City of Grafton (Captain Anthon), from Sydney. Passengers—Mesdames Saddler, Oakes, Avery; Misses M'Kittrick, Tibbit, Noud; Messrs. C. Oliver, D. Kirkalder, J. ...
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THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
During the fight over the Convention Bill this individual was a popular idol; but a large number of the people who applauded him then are hissing him now. Jack Want's ...
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THE CHAMELEON.
The writer was reading up some old favourites the other evening when he came upon the following. It was not so intended, but it is a capital portrait of a certain ...
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PATHETIC CASE.
It is a particularly pathetic case that at North Sydney—the poor woman who lost her legs by a tram accident at the moment her husband was dying of consumption, ...
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COMMERCIAL.
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REPUBLICANISM IN SPAIN.
In the event of the Sagasta Ministry going in Spain as the result of recent reverses, it is more than probable that the next Prime Minister at Madrid will be Senor Emilio ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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A "WHIP" YOU CAN'T CRACK.
It is worth while being a political secretary or party " whip " in England. Recently the organising secretary of the Conservatives was presented by his grateful colleagues with ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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VARNEY PARKES.
This feeble son of an illustrious man announced the day before yesterday that on the evening of the following day he would, in the King Division, make some sensational ...
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A PROMINENT AUSTRALIAN.
Mr. R. E. O'Connor is one of the three gentlemen who have recently come in for so much hostile criticism at the hands of the Premier in connection with the M'Sharry ...
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AN EGG EPISODE.
The Premier met with an egg reception in East Sydney on Monday, and the Ministerial organs reported it as "just like the other side," as though decent Bartonites were in ...
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A GREAT LADY NOVELIST.
By the death of Mrs. Lynn Linton the world of literature, so far as it is contributed to by women, loses its brightest ornament. The Sarah Grands, Lady Cooks, and Marie ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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THE HON. JOHN HUGHES.
This individual, who was raised to the Legislative Council by Mr. Reid because he had delivered several speeches in favour of land and income taxation, and because it was ...
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UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS.
The results of the Junior University examinations held last month are to hand, and we notice that the whole of the eighteen candidates from Grafton passed. Of these ...
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RELIGIOUS.
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THE LAND TAX.
As is pretty well known, the principle object Mr. Reid had in view in passing the Land Tax Act was "to put the rich man into the collar." It was declared by him ...
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BARTON SCORES.
It is generally allowed that Mr. Barton has scored heavily against Mr. Reid in the famous M'Sharry controversy. The Premier, it will be remembered, sought to make ...
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