South Bourke Victoria—Legislative Assembly | |
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State | Victoria |
Created | 1856 |
Abolished | 1889 |
Namesake | Bourke South |
Demographic | Rural |
The Electoral district of South Bourke (sometimes Bourke South) was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in then Australian colony of Victoria. [1] It was one of the original 36 electoral districts of the Assembly. [2] It covered an area east of Melbourne, bounded by Dandenong Creek in the south and east, Moorabbin, Prahran and Hawthorn in the west and Templestowe in the north. [3] It was abolished in 1889. [1]
Two members originally, one after the redistribution of 1877. [4]
Member 1 | Term | Member 2 | Term |
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Patrick O'Brien | Nov. 1856 – Aug. 1859 | Charles Pasley | Nov. 1856 – July 1857 [r] |
Sidney Ricardo | July 1857 [b] – Aug. 1859 | ||
Louis Smith | Oct. 1859 – Dec. 1865 | Hibbert Newton | Oct. 1859 – July 1861 |
George Paton Smith | Feb. 1866 – Jan. 1871 | Michael O'Grady | Aug. 1861 – May? 1868 |
James Fergusson | Apr. 1871 – Mar. 1874 | John Crews | May 1868 [b] – Apr. 1877 |
George Paton Smith | May 1874 – Apr. 1877 | ||
James Fergusson | May 1877 – Feb. 1880 | ||
John Keys | May 1880 – Mar. 1889 |
r = resigned
b = by election
Keys went on to represent the new Electoral district of Dandenong and Berwick from April 1889. [5]
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THE ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF DALHOUSIE.
ANGLESEY. Bounded on the west by part of the eastern boundary of the County of Dalhousie, namely, by the River Goulburn from the confluence of Hughes's Creek to the confluence of Dabyminga Creek; thence by Dabyminga Creek to its source in the Great Dividing Range; on the south by the Great Dividing Range to the main source of the River Goulburn; on the east by the range dividing the waters of the main source of the Goulburn and Big Rivers from those of the Rubicon and Snod-por-dock Creek northward to Mount Torbrick; thence by Jerusalem Creek to its confluence with the River Goulburn; thence by the River Goulburn to the confluence of the River Delatite; thence by the River Delatite and its north-west arm to the Dividing Range between the last named arm and Septimus Creek; and on the north by that range to the source of Hughes's Creek; and thence by Hughes's Creek to its confluence with the River Goulburn, excepting the country included in the Boroughs of Seymour and Avenel ... DALHOUSIE. Commencing at the junction of the Rivers Campaspe and Coliban; thence by a line south-easterly to the source of the Mclvor or Patterson's Creek; thence by a line north-east to the confluence of Hughes's Creek with the River Goulburn; on the east by the River Goulburn until it joins the Dabyminga Creek, by that creek to its source in the Dividing Range; on
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