THE Grey River Argus PUBLISHED DAILY. THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1873.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1509, 5 June 1873, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus PUBLISHED DAILY. THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1873.

The Court for the Revision of the Electoral Roll for the Grey District was opened on Wednesday, at 12 o'clock, by the Registration Officer, W. H. Revell, Esq. Mr Newton appeared for a number of the claimants. Mr Revell stated that he had received a communication from E. J. Lee, Esq., the Revising Officer for the district, requesting him to open the Court and read the list of names objected to as not qualified to be placed upon the Roll. As there had been so much said and written recently about the Revision of the Electoral Roll, he (Mr Revell) would decline tv interfere with the Revision, and he would adjourn the Court until three o'clock in the afternoon, by which time he expected Mr Lee would be present. The Court was accordingly adjourned. In the meantime a number of persons, whose names were objected to, waited upon the Registration Officer at his office, and on making amendments in their applications,- the objections to them were withdrawn. Messrs S. Haisty, of No Town, and M. H. Hayden, of Ahaura, appeared for a number of claimants whose applications they had attested. On supplying certain information required . by the Registration Officer with respect to the description and nature of the qualifications on which the claims were made, the objections were withdrawn in nearly every case. The only objections held gocd were those in which the description of the qualification given was of the most vague and general character, or where the situation of the property could not be ascertained with any degree of accuracy. There were also objections maintained against a small number of claimants who were either lodgers or living on the premises of those in whose employment they were. The Revising Officer, who had been detained by the state of the roads owing to the recent bad weather, arrived at three o'clock, and the Court re-opened. Some formal business was transacted, and it is understood the reading over the list of claims objected to will be gone on with to-day. Owing to the (course followed by the Registration Officer, the number of disputed claims is now reduced to a minimum, and of these not many more than a dozen are from the country districts Had this plan of obtaining information with reference to debatable claims been before adopted, a vast deal of misapprehension and bad feeling would be altogether avoided. It is satisfactory that the misunderstanding is at length cleared up, and it is still more satisfactory to know that the result of this Revision Court will be to place several hundred new names upon the Electoral Roll of the Grey Valley.