THE ELECTION.
Like all elections conducted under the ballot, the election to day has been most orderly, and the arrangements have been most complete. Some persons, whose extreme ideas of the impossibility of ascertaining how electors have voted, extend to shielding the crime of personation, object to them. But the common sense of the electors will pronounce in their favor. The system adopted is that once (if not now) pursued in Victoria, under which, if necessary, those who abuse their privileges can be prosecuted. Tin- - , even under the ballot, is necessary to purity of election ; otherwise liberty would merge into licentiousness. The results are, we believe, as follow : Pish - - - • 395 B ithgate - - - * 370 Birch ... - 149 Majority for Fish - 25
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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2367, 2 November 1870, Page 2
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119THE ELECTION. Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2367, 2 November 1870, Page 2
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