THE MAYORALITY OF CROMWELL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 222, 27 July 1866, Page 2

THE MAYORALITY OF CROMWELL.

On Saturday last the enrolled ratepayers of the municipality were called upon to elect, for their chief-magistrate the man in whom they placed the greatest confidence. Messrs W. J. Barry, Henry Leslie, and Thomas Shanley, had been duly nominated for the contest, but only the former two abided the expression of public opinion as to their several merits; Mr Shanley having on the previous evening transferred his interest over to Mr Leslie. The election was carried on in the most determined manner by the rival partizana of the two candidates, and each seemed equally confident of victory. At the close of the poll Mr Warden Stratford, as the returning-officer, announced the numbers polled for each candidate, and the figures proved that Mr William Jackson Barry headed the poll over Mr Leslie, by a considerable majority. The victorious party naturally exult Hit immediately "chaired" the mayor elect, and amidst much orthodox demonstration of joy, bore him to the front of Mr Kidd's Cromwell Hotel, and there mounted on a porter-case, Mr Barry

returned his unfeigned thanks to his supporters for the honor they conferred upon him. He further hoped that any acerbity of feeling which may have existed during the contest would thenceforth cease to exist on either side, and as a proof of his intention to forgive all that may have been said to his disadvantage, he would invite all his opponents to meet his friends that evening at the Cromwell Hotel, and spend the evening in pleasurable concord. At nine o'clock a considerable number of the electors formed a meeting, Dr Corse occu pying the chair, and Mr Burrows the vice. Jollity was generally admitted to be the ruling genius of the meet. Mr Grant, during the evening, proposed the health of Mr Leslie the defeated candidate, and none were present but felt disposed to respond to the toast gladly and promptly. Mr Barry repeated his wish to see all past unpleasantness hearsed in oblivion, and stated his determination to serve the electors one and all, to the utmost of his power, whether any of them be his ill-wishers or not. The hilarities were kept up until a late hour, and at their termination, the Mayor elect had every reason to be proud of his energetic supporters.