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Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 131, 12 January 1877, Page 3

, -{The/J-uardiansays a petition has been lodged with the Resilient Magistrate ; ' :i againat the election of James -Shand 'to * :i the . office * .of .County "Councillor for,. ;0 n tram Ridiqg, Taieri County, oh" the ground that' irregularities' occurrediri '■"•' the proceedings 'which tended to; defeat* -~ the '-fairness of. > the r election../ ilT.hei petitioners — Messrs Peter.Grant, Robert -.-■ Harvey, and Donald Borrie — ask that the electiori may be - declared r v'oid.- ,:An*: •inquiry, on the sutgect is .-to;, -be, .held, at -. tne. Resident Magistrate's Court, on the* 1 stlli lnSt. ; ;*-,_, - .',*. \AAAIv lA ■' The, ship Cardigan Castle' arrived *&t' Lyttelton ort Saturday •morning , V'after f u 1 *- -' passage of 95 days, during Avhlch^there; -y fhas been a Targe amount . of .sickneis,, f {v. no less than 13 deaths having taken place. Enteric" fever arid diphtheria sßppear to'have beeri-the most I preyalent. r >] Que caae of suicide . occurred. There are now two r cases of severe sickness on I .board— one of enteric- fever, ! and -other of tonsilitis, so that the shipvhas been placed in quarantine. The) lasj.-death : bccurred on 20th December, from enteric fever. , , No. more particulars 'Jartt to hand; ' till' 1 communication with tha ' vessel* hieing strictly interdioteoL