THE THAMES ELECTORAL ROLL.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1975, 23 June 1880, Page 2

THE THAMES ELECTORAL ROLL.

The Thames people are horrified at the shrinkage of their electoral roll to its purification under the new law by their [Registrar, Mr J. Alicia, who has struck off 2009 names. Well may a correspondent (" Ichabod ") in the " Thames Advertiser" make the following mournful reflections:—" Our numerical and influential electoral roll has always been our boast. We have flaunted it in the face of every Minister, Member of Parliament, and constituency sinoe we became possessed of it. It was brought into existence and embellished by tha gentlemen referred to. A roll that we used to look upon with a degree of pride and pleasure, and crow over as being the biggest in the colony, and the best for impersonation purposes that ever came under the hands of the printer. A roll that we could unblushingly and unhesitatingly shake in the face of the whole colony and say, ' Beat that if you can,* has had the ' come hither * put on it at last by Albert J. No matter how painful it may be to relate, the truth must be stated. Albert J., with a stroke of his pen, has cossigned our boast, our pride, our pleasure, to oblivion, and the place that once knew the old Thames electoral roll shall know it no more. Just fancy, 2000 Thames electors annihilated by one man!"