Source: Year Book of Australia (1899), matching the total votes recorded in the 1898 Statiistical Register, and slightly higher than reported in SMH 28 July 1898, p.7, where it was noted the figures were not final. It is likley there is was a published declaration in the Newcastle Herald Elections Notices, 29 July, p.3, but that page is missing from the microfilm copy in the NSW State Library.