CROMWELL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 462, 24 February 1871, Page 3

CROMWELL.

(from our own correspondent)

At the time of writing these lines, there is still a slight chance—a very slight chance—that Mr. Macandrew may he defeated by -Mr. Reid, but ere these fantastical hieroglyphics are converted into good square print—that “ faint chance ” will have become—l venture to prognosticate—n thing ofthe past. The eloquent address delivered by Mr. Reid here, gained—l believe—all the votes that were recorded for him at Cromwell, yesterday. ForPortnnate it would have been for Air. Reid, as far as Cromwell is concerned, if the election had taker, place the day after his address, for then, I think, he would have polled a majority here, but, as it was, between the delivery of the address and the election, a good many ofthe voters found time to analyze what he had spoken, compare it with what he had written, and then compare both with the actions, speeches, and writings of Macandrew. All those that did this necessarily came to the conclusion that Macandrew was the man, and, that, under his administration the Province—each individual in the province—and therefore they themselves—would stand a better chance of being well paid, either for their mental or bodily labor than they would under Reid. They then recorded their votes according to their convictions, and the resuit was a large majority for Macandrew. The Superintendent also obtained a majority at Bannockburn, Nevis, and Bendigo, and even at the Gorge, where it was thought, by some, that Reid would poll every vote—he obtained six. The general opinion seems to be now—even among Reid’s supporters—that a Council ought to be returned pledged to support the Superintendent’s views, so that there may be no dead locks, and that the government of the Province may be carried on smoothly, and the projected railways and goldfields’ waterworks completed as soon as possible.