COLLINGWOOD ELECTION.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 209, 15 September 1879, Page 2

COLLINGWOOD ELECTION.

The Midge, which arrived in harbor last night, brought the news that Mr Gibbs was declared duly elected for the Collingwood district on Saturday afternoon. It ia said that there was considerable excitement in the township of Collingwood, and no little surprise and indignation were expressed when on the evening of the polling day it leaked out that in consequence ,of the informality at the polling at Siateford Mr Campbell, the Returning Officer, entertained the idea of declaring Mr Kuddleston elected. However. Mr Campbell, upon reconsideration, eventually decided otherwise, and we have to congratulate the inhabitants of the district upon their narrow escape from boing represented in Parliament by one who has not a single interest in common with the settlers in Golden Bay, and whose only niotive in askiug them for their suffrages was that he might obtain from strangers that which, it is to be presumed from his coming so far to seek it, he could not persuade those to whom he is best known to confer upon him, namely, the honor and profit attaching to a seat in the Colonial Parliament. Seat seekers in the jsouth may take a lesson from this election', and rest assured that all such attempts to strengthen the hands of Otas;o or Canterbury at the expense of Nelson will be attended with precisely the same result as that which the gentlemen from Christchurch and Dunedin will have to relate to their friends on their return home after a sojourn of three or four weeks in Golden Bay.