ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 3224, 20 June 1873, Page 2

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

THE POLLING AT TUAPEKA. Tuesday, the polling day, which had been looked forward to with a considerable degree of interest, on account of the uncertainty which seemed to hang around the election, at last arrived. Early in the morning all the vehicles Srocurable in the district, including coaches, uggiea, cabs, express waggons, and spring carts, were decorated respectively with posters, bearing the following in bold characters .’—“Vote for Brown, the People’s Candidate and Miners’ Friend,” “Vote for Bastings and Justice to the Goldfields,” “ Vote for Vincent Pyke, the Progressive Candidate.” The contest, according to common talk, was understood to be between Mr Brown and Mr Pyke, it being taken for granted that Mr Bastings’s return was certain. However, Mr Bastings’s friends did not feel satisfied with this feeling of confidence on the part of many of the electors, and wisely advised them, on going to the poll, to be sure and divide their votes. Had they not done so, Mr Brown would have received many more plumpers than he did. Between the hours of three and five o’clock the excitement in Peel street and the neighborhood was intense, such as has never before been witnessed at any election in Tuapeka. The three candidates (especially Mr Pyke) had each excellent committees, and they spared no expense and labor to return the men according to their heart. Shortly after four o’clock, a large crowd assembled in front of the Court-house. Before the Lawrence poll was declared, a messenger from Wetherstones announced the result of the polling there as Bastings 66 Brown 55 Pyke 14 which was received with great cheering by the friends of Mr Bastings and Mr Brown. A few minutes afterwards, a messenger from the Blue Spur announced the result there as Bastings 82 Brown 78 Pyke - 28 This left Pyke 91 behind Brown, whose friends were now confident that he could not be beaten, unless they bad woefully miscalculated their strength in Lawrence. Mr Pyke’s friends, however, appeared still jubilant; but their glee received a fatal blow when the Court-house doors were opened and the Returning Officer announced the following as the result of the Lawrence polling Bastings 196 Brown 167 Pyke 117

Thus sending Brown 141 ahead of Pyke. The announcement was received with vociferous cheering for the successful candidates. There still lingered in the bosom of Mr Pyke’s supporters, a hope that Waipori and the Beau* mont would reverse the result, although it could not possibly lie other than it proved to be—a forlorn hope. The Beaumont return showed as follows Bastings 26 Pyke 14 Brown ■ 8 And the Waipori, which arrived about eight o’clock, was Brown 65 Bastings 62 Pyke - -. - - - *55 One feature in this election is worthy of attention : viz., the fact that several persons, holders of miners’ rights, came from Switzers and voted at the Beaumont; and a considerable number from Waitahuna, at least 35, voted at Lawrence, also on the ground of their miners’ rights; a good proportion of the latter, we are informed, having voted at Waitahuna on the day previous from the qualification they had by their names being on the electoral roll. This it can easily be seen, is nothing but an election dodge, ana we simply draw attention to it, as showing the stratagems adopted on these occasions, and the way the law may be evaded. The following analysis of the voting in Lawrence may prove interesting to some. There were plumpers as followsßastings, 20 j Brown, 37; Pylce, 61. Divided votes for Bastings and Brown, 125 ; do for Bastings and Pyke, 5l; and for Brown and Pyke, 5. The analysis of the votes at Waipori shows thus Plumpers, Brown, 27; Bastings, 5; Pyke, 19. Divided for Bastings and Brown. 30: for Brown and Pyke, 8 j Bastings ana Pyke, 28. The complete returns from the vari* ous booths are as follows Bastings. Brown. Pyke, Lawrence - * 196 167 117 Wetherstones - 66 65 14 Blue Spur * - 83 78 38 Beaumont 26 8 14 Waipori - - 62 63 35 432 373 228 At least 150 more votes were recorded at this election than at the former one in 187 L MOEKAKL The following is the result of this election : Teschemaker • • • 55 Hutcheson • • • 56 Murcott • • • - 45 Steward .... 9 Mr Teschemaker was returned by the castingvote of the Returning Officer. A protest has been lodged against the election on the ground of the polling at Hampden not being held at t i place advertised. PENINSULA. The polling took place yesterday, and excited a good deal of interest throughout the district. At its close the poll stood as follows . Tolmie. Gotten, Anderson’s Bay - • -66-68 North Harbor - » - 21 • 5 Portobello - - • -47-17 134 90 Majority for Tolmie, 44. The official declaration takes place at Anderson’s Bay on Monday, at 10 a,m. THE LAKES. The polling for two members for this dis? trict took place yesterday, with the following result:— ’ Innes. Clark. Hallen. Manders, Queenstown- 18 13 108 85 Arrow- - 123 91 14 6 Macetown, } Gibbstown, >75 130 101 5(» “SsLM un 215 25Q 230 168 Mr Hallensteip (Opposite), and Mr Clarke (Government), are elected, .