The Nelson Evenign Mail. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5,1876.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 4, 5 January 1876, Page 2

The Nelson Evenign Mail. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5,1876.

;A ta^ieb -$r more umnterißG(^lig>eiepC> ; tio^l{a)ii^f^^Hidh^^ plata iti%he : Waimea yesterctay iFV' imp>asiße to conpeive. Had a stranger been sec dotirn in the neighborhood of Wakefield he might have gone the length of .supposingj.that sotpebody's pig had died suddenly j&dd ' -\fhexpeptedljr, thereby creating a liitle of that mild excitement | which is caused by such events in a country v district, but,,^as for, .supposing,, that an election of a member of the Parliament which will have to deal with matters of such vast importance to the welfare ofthe colony -was goingon, .such an idea could . never,„ haye entered his head. There,- wis no huiijM ing to and fro of conveyances, hone of that ; < persuasive eloquence which js so fr^ently be heard! at %he. door bf a palling booth," and often so amusing to listen to, no excitement in any shape ov, forrm' whatever, and even when the poll Tfras' made-up anjd the.nunibjßrsjdjsglayed, in the window, there appeared to be very little anxiety tp learn, the /.result, and still less, except perhaps on the part of the candidates and one or two of their most intim^Q friends, seemed to be the desire tokhbw- what liad been doing at the other polling places.^. "We never could have believed than an election, especially at the present poli- - tical juncture, could* have passecljoff so quietly, so apathetically, but we live and learn. "What the result of the | election will be it, is impossible to say. i yet, as the Matakitaki m.ay.'altogether J I upiset the small majority obtained by ; | Mr Baigent, but as both candidates are equally sanguine' of obt^inin^ the sii^ port [of that . district,' it would be idle' | to speculate on the result.. The number of; electors whose names are qh: the toll as residents in .that, part if ;dphsiderable,' ; being no less than ,82, m addition; iojvrhich the holders of miners' rights are entitled to vote, but we are informed 1 by; a . gentleman 'who waa.in the TTpppr. Ballet last week that many have left the district altogether,. and: that nearly. I the whole of, those .who, remain, behind, are down the Yalle|6hdlid£iy^keeping, so , that it is quite" possible, ihat; only a viery ] few votes iPaynbe recorded. A telegram received from' the iyell this morning stiates. that Mr p&igetfi may 1 safety reckon on ainajdrity in the; { XT|)per s Buller,.but of rthe value of such infoiv mation 1 \v"e are not in a position 1 to offer : an/ppiaiioh. i ,-'• r :' ; _.V^v' : V 7 ' ''' r '. : "' :