Ashurst Licensing Electon
(FROM OUJ& OWN CORRESPONDENT.) There was almost as much interest taken in the local option polling on Monday as the general election. We often hear this Licensing Act spoken of as the outcome of a grandmotherly policy; this idea was (no doubt unintentionally) strengthened by the returning officer, Mr ' Sherwill, having a ladies' bonnet-box in front of him to receive the voting papers. There- was a general gathering of the clans, for the Bunnythorpe, Watershed, Midland and Spur roads were all represented, much to the astonishment of the good people of Ashurst j who very seldom see them. There must have been a good general at work to get theni to interest themselves so much in the local affairs of the southerns. There is a first-rate caricaturist, among us, but so well shrouded that he preserves his incog, I would say -" Vile the cloak that shadows Borgia," such a light should not be hid under a bushel. 'At Ashurst 138 votes for the local option and 136 for the committee were polled; at Mangaone the total number of votes recorded was 44.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 126, 16 April 1891, Page 3
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185Ashurst Licensing Electon Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 126, 16 April 1891, Page 3
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