ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 3218, 13 June 1873, Page 2

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

Three persons were nominated yesterday for Oamaru country—Dr Webster, Mr Waddell, and Mr Aitcheson. Mr Waddell had the show of hands, and a poll was demanded by Dr Webster. It takes place on the 17th. The nomination for Naseby took place today. The candidates proposed were: Richard Oliver, Cecil Albert De Lautour, John Phillip Armstrong, and David Hunter Mervyn. The poll will take place on the 16th. The show of hands was Oliver 31, De Lautour 29, Mervyn, 2, Armstrong 3. Mr Gillies was to address the (electors at Naseby this evening. Mr Donald Henderson has retired from the contest for the Clntha, in favor of Major Richardson and Mr J. W. Thomson.

A Milton correspondent writes:—“ The contest between Mr Ounniaghame and Mr Gillies was, as your telegrams informed you, very keen—only a majority of fifteen for the latter in his stronghold, where the Reid party expected to have no contest, or only a very feeble opposition. The moral effect on the other side, though beaten, will be great. About thirty more votes were polled than at the last election. Extraordinary exertions were made by Mr Gillies’s supporters. Voters were brought from Lawrence, Canada reef, &c., whose names were on the roll, but whose qualifications bad ceased years ago. Three cases of voting under false names took place in the Gillies interest ; and one foreigner and a youth about fifteen years old were put forward by them and rejected. These facts speak for themselves.”