WELLINGTON.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 251, 12 April 1865, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

' ELECTION OF SUPERINTENDENT COMPLETE POLLING RETURNS. (From llio Advertiser.') Tu our last issue we gave the returns for all the -districts from .which they had up to that time been received, and we are now, through the courtesy of C. I). R. Ward, Esq., the Principal Returning ■ Officer, enabled to give the complete list as for - Vwarded by the Deputy Returning Officers to Wei- . lingfan. it is as follows ; ; Featherston, Borlase.

Total majority tor Featherston ...232. It will thus be seen that after all the trumpet* blowing of the Featherston party-rafter all the ft rasmglorioua boasting about continued confidence' and 'overwhelming majorities—and after all the . undue| influence brought to bear—the friends of the Superintendent have not much reason to raise further outcry with regard to the success their candidate achieved in the late contest, if indeed ■ success it can in any sense be called at all. Frequently has it been urged by Dr. Featherston’s supporters —and it is asserted that they had their chief’s authnvity for making the statement—that . Ui iass ho should be returned by an “ overwhelmv snrr rnn.uipifi? M lirt wmilfi 'mimAiliMtlu' Uta

. uriess ho should be returned by an “ overwhelms Ing majority” he would immediatiy tender his resignation, and now the 546 men who believe that his policy has been injurious to the-best interests and progress oft he Province will patiently wait and see whether this pledge is to be kept. ; The opposition journals have not from the commencement to due end of this contest scrupled to > avail-theniselves of the most disreputable devices : of newspaper literature for the purpose of gaining . their end, and we should hardly wonder if at lea-t : a portion or. them claimed a victory, and by misleading the public mind endeavor to cover Dr. . Featherston’s retreat from the position in which ■ , lio,plaoed himself£y the promise or pledge alluded - to. Consideriug that less than one-third of the . electors on the Roll vote for him, while nearly one-half of them showed they had no confidence in his policy by refusing to record their votes at

all, and that, the opposition candidate polled -oidy • 233 votes less, it cannot, surely be conUmdad that 1,. Dr.,Featherston by any stretch of (heimagination v' has gained a victory. Mr Uorlase, by some means j or other, has gained a certain amount of unpnpui- iarity with a class of the community, and there is

7 not the slightest question that this was uti.scru- ;• pnlnnsly. worked to advantage hy tin opposition, ! and the scsull oftlie election shows plainly enough' % -that, hadrtie’esndidate been either Messrs Ludlam, Hickson, MnntcJl, dr G. Hart, Dr Foatherstoix i would have stood in a miserable minority. We do ■y not say this oht of any disrespect to Mr Borinas, t in whom we have ourselves, together with a large proportion, of the electors, every confidence; but simply because the result proves the fact beyond any question or doubt. We have fought at almost every conceivable disadvantage, but to the best of our ability we have been consistent in our opposition, arid we have refused to avail ourselves of any dishonourable or dishonest measures to f further the end we sought to obtain, and while we candidly confess to our virtual defeat in the contest, we do not envy our opponents the triumph they derive, indeed, well m : ght Dr. Fcathmton exclaim v Another such victory, and I’m undone.”

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