ELECTORAL NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 4028, 24 January 1876, Page 3

ELECTORAL NOTES.

Sir Robert Douglas, the member for Mars - den, declares that he is quite opposed to any division of the Colony. Tell it not in Gath. Mr Sheehan, the Fidus Achates of Sir George Grey, declares against Separation. The following is from a report of one of his speeches at Warkworth, in the Rodney electorate : “As to Abolition he would tell them any attempt to resuscitate the Provinces was impossible. Ho was prepared at all hazards to hold to the unity of the Colony, and the land fund of the Colony ought to be the common revenue of the Colony.—Mr A. Cruiekshauk asked : Is Mr Sheehan going in for one united Colony ?—Mr Sheehan : Provincialism is a thing of the past. He was a supporter of a united Colony,—Mr Gubb ; Will you vote for the repeal of the Abolition Bill? Mr Sheehan : Certainly not; the Provinces are gone.

A Christchurch correspondent of a Thames paper says “ You will see that the Abolitionists are carrying most of the seats here, and if good men could be obtained I believe every one might be won. The greatest joke of the whole was the contest for Selwyn, where Reeves was ‘ certain.’ lam told that so sure was he of going back to Wellington, that he had actually engaged a house there, and had got it partly furnished, when young Fitzroy tripped him up and changed all his plans. Mrs R. received the news at a’ ball the same evening, and had to he assisted from the room, so great was the shock. The affair created a great deal of comment, and not a little rejoicing in certain quarters.” The complete returns for Waitemata give —Macfarlane, 171 ; Hurst, 151 ; Lee, 131 : Henderson, 70.

The polling at Nokomai for the Waikaia election was as follows :—Bastings, 3 ; Ireland, 8; Mevvyn, 0. The totals are--Bastings, 242; Ireland, 118; Mervyn, 11.