THE PORT ELECTION.

Evening Star, Issue 4016, 10 January 1876, Page 3

THE PORT ELECTION.

The polling at Port Chalmcm to-day caused great excitement there, the friends and supporters of Mr Reynolds straining i every nerve to secure the number of votes i necessary to counterbalance the majority ; it j seemed to be generally understood Mr Green would secure at Blueskin and 1 tho surrounding districts. passed off very orderly, if we except j a little difference between the representatives of our morning contemporaries at Port Chalmers. With true journalistic*. ] esprit, each espoused the side favored by Lis { paper ; each was an equally strong partisan, but he of the ‘ Guardian ’ was Homo- I what more important, inasmuch as he was a ' committcemaji. When they met, in tho course of the afternoon, the' ‘ Guardian’representative accused his journalistic brother 1 of unfairly reporting Mr Reynolds's meeting on Saturday, and of making an improper j allusion to the part lie (the ‘ Guardian ’ representative) had taken at that | meeting. This he followed up with I a threat to slap the other’s face, but ' .the latter, dissatisfied with his opv<> j ncut’s mode of expressing himself, inn.no- j diately struck him in tho'lacc. Of course I a crowd collected ; but what might have ! proved a serious combat was happily prevented. 7 At 5.15 p.m. the result of the poll at Port Chalmers was declared to be • • Reynolds, Green. Port Chalmers ... ... 225 jpg Purakanui ... ... ... ;; j p Blueskin 21 SO - - - i 24!) iyy I Majority for Reynolds, 50. j in 1871 the numbers polled at Puri Cliul- i mors were—Maeandrcw, ISI ; ,fago. 51; and at Blueskin— Macandrow, 19 ; Jam), *43.