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- ↑ "East Coast Election". Daily Telegraph. 10 June 1884. p. 2.
- ↑ "Mr Ree's charge against Mr Locke". Poverty Bay Herald. 8 July 1884.
- ↑ "Candidates for the General Election". Wanganui Chronicle. Vol. XI, no. 4032. 7 July 1884. p. 2.
- ↑ "Declaration of the Poll". Poverty Bay Herald. 23 June 1884.
- ↑ "The East Coast Election". Hawke's Bay Herald. 20 June 1884.
- ↑ Oliver, Steven. "Kate Wyllie". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Ministry for Culture and Heritage . Retrieved 19 January 2019.
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