ELECTORAL NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 4023, 18 January 1876, Page 3

ELECTORAL NOTES.

g Mr Baigont, the member for Motueka, declares himself to be a supporter of the present Ministry and an Abolitionist. The * Bruce Herald’ states that the gentlemen who nominated Sir Julius Vogel for the Clutha have decided not to press his candidature. The poll takes place on Thursday, and Mr Thomson’s return may be regarded as a certainty. Mr Moody, one of the defeated candidates for Wellington City, has furnished the laranaki ‘ Budget ’ with an account of his election experiences. He says “Once start on the track as an M.H.R., and you will have to bid farewell to peace, appetite, sleep, or comfort of any kind; and in their place you bo pestered with a lot of smirking, loafaug, pandering, flattering parasites. • •, I assisted in the general election in England in 1868, which resulted in the disestabnsmneut of the Irish Church—the last election decided by open voting—and I say deliberately that I never met with such despicable political characters as Lave crossed ray path during the recent elections Wellington. I say this not in bitterness of spirit at being at the bottom of the poll, tor I never expected to be otherwise. I went into it for a purpose. My purpose waa gained, 1 1 There appears to have been plenty of dirt throwing at the official declaration of the poll at Queenstown. Mr Mandcrs, after being at pains to trace his genealogical tree, and to show that “ lie had sprung from no ignoble blood,” dubbed himself the John Bright injuturo of the new Assembly, and entered upon a discussion of personal matters in the course of which he fell foul of Mr Biadshaw and the Mayors of Queenstown and Arrow, who had supported the latter. The Mayor of Queenstown was iu“bytruth,education,amiability Mr Mandcrs could, and had been accustomed to move m circles where the presence of storekeepers’ assistants would not be countenanced, while another individual he characterised as “'one of the paper collar mob. Mr Bradshaw, who is reported to have o«eii_ subjected to ihterruptioas, <juar«

relied with the * Mail,’ in reapect to which he threatened to take legal advice on hia , return to Dunedin; and referring to hia other opponent (Mr Cope) said the latter had informed him that he got LBO for standing out, of which he promised him (Mr Bradshaw) L2O, and pressed him very hard to take it. Mr Cope’s explanation of this little circumstance was that his friends had contributed the LBO to assist him in contesting the election, which showed that he was respected, and finding that Mr Bradshaw had not been well treated by his friends he thought it nothing but right to offer him assistance. NORTHERN MAORI DISTRICT. The following is the polling for this district, as far as the returns to hand give it:— Honi Kari Katawhiti 209 Wi Katene ... ... ... 171 Witu Penatene ... ... ... 137 Kei Te Tai 154 Tunoti Pohihipi 90 Returns from three places are not yet in. Pohipi’s stronghold is in the northern part of the district, and it is expected the contest between him and Kari Katawhiti will be very close, RODNEY ELECTION. The only return to hand is from Waikworth, which gives Mr Sheehan 47 and Mr Moat 32. WAIKAIA ELECTION. All the returns but one (Nokoraai) are now in. Mr Bastings had majorities in every place save Potters. His present total is 239, and Mr Ireland’s 110. Mr Mervyn only obtained eleven votes. NASEBY ELECTION. The returns, with the exception of those from the Serpentine, are all in. They are as follows: De Lautour Chapman Hertslett

Naseby 106 38 17 St Bathan’a 57 3 2 Hamilton's 31 10 1 Hyde 25 2 0 Kyeburn 30 1 4 Cambrian 25 0 0 Blackstone 18 3 0 292 57 24 Majority for De Lautour, 235.