THE ELECTION.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 296, 10 December 1873, Page 2

THE ELECTION.

Ine Jun baa been giowJDg fast add furious since eleven o'clock thia moroicg, aod Trafalgar-sireet, in which are Situated the Committee Rooms of the rival candidates, has never before presented such a scene of excitement. Crowd6 have been collected all day rjund Mr Curtis' room : where some exceedingly clever caricatures are exposed to view, the chairman of Mr O'Conor'® Committee figuring coospicuoualy among them. Every now aod then the crowd has been dispersed by the charge of a mounted emissary from (he O'Conor camp, his horse decorated with placards pasted on to hie neck and hind quarters setting forth the manifold virtues of thß royal candidate, anl proclaiming the demerits of his opponent. The visits of this energetic supporter were usually : acknowledged by a trumpet blast from an ? extraordinary instrument of torture to the ears from which the most villianoue sounds were extracted by the doughty " Little Fred " who has a peculiar habit of hiding from the public view during times of peare, but at the fir6t warning note of a political contest invariably turns up again and is especially great on the polling day. Half hourly bulletins have been issued throughout the d»y giving the supposed state of the poll, but whether the ballot box has another tale to reveal will he j learned at four o'clock. On the whole the present is certainly one of the moat exciting elections thut Nelson has known. The following is the result so far as it was known at the time of our going to press : Curtis: O'Conor.

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