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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3671, 20 April 1883, Page 2

A telegram the other day stated that, owing to the unavoidable delays that have occurred in the delivery by the Property Tax Commissioner of the rolls under the Rating Act, ISS2, to local bodies, the time for their delivery was extended to the 30th instant, and other extensions of dates for holding meetings, conducting elections, tfcc, consequent upon the above postponement arc being- arrangred for by the Government. Prior to the receipt of this information the Road Board elections for the County of the Hawke's Bay had been duly fixed, and the nominations appointed to bo made to-day. Yesterday Mr Sntton, as chairman of the County Council, telegraphed to the Government for instructions, and stating that the elections could come off without waiting , for the property tax valuation rolls. To-day a telegram -was received from the Tinder-Secretary to the effect that the elections might be proceeded with. In the meantime, however, the property tax valuer had received instruc- M tions by circular from the Government ~M stating that all the elections had been post- ™ poned till the first week in June. How the nominations will be received to-day by the various returning officers we shall not learn till to-morrow. Those who could be communicated with from the county office will accept the nominations, and those who liave been misled by the Government circular will not do so. Any way there is Kkel} ,, to be a jumble of some kind, and it Avill all be owing to the ridiculous theory that local government can be best conducted from a head-centre at Wellington.