The Elections.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 294, 10 December 1881, Page 2

The Elections.

: Mr Sbyinour Defeated. "" j : Sir W. tox Defeated. ' I Mr Ormond Defeated. '" ! i Mr Reader Wood Defeated'/ Mr Balianoe Defeated. " ' Hon E. Richardson Defeated. Mr Wakefl eld Defeated. • ' ' Mr Saunders Defeated. ■;■ _

WAIMEA. : "'■ -■•■■ r 7~Saephard. RichmcnoV Richmond ... ... 90 56 Wakapuaka ... ... 39 - : 24 Stoko ... ... 39 36 Brijjbtwatar ... ... 50 20 Waim«t\Vest ... 31 6 UppMTWftk'efl'eld " ■ -.1 45 13 Lowsr Wakefisld ... 65. $6 Mo.upiko ...-' ... 10 4 Totals ... ... 369 19* Majority for ShfpWd 160. Number on toll 880. Total number voted 563. MO rUEKA. Hurstho jse. Gibbs. Huddleston Motueka ...125 29 7 Riwaka ... 35 4 14 N-faucnoti „.29 2 0 Lower Moutere 22 3 0 Upper T&kaka 5 15 3 Lower T*kaka 39 59 17 Motupipi ... 4 9 3 Dovedale ... 23 7 1 Taimor ... 3 12 3 Upper Moutere 29 _,; 39 6 I Collingwood ... 8 38 6 Rockville ... 7 17 ,-5 SaHsbory's Creek 0 '16 :2 „ Pakawau ... 1 "7 1 Wangapeka ... 00 00 00 • - ' Totals ...330 257 78. ../:■ : ) : Majority for Hnrsthonie, 73.- Number oil, ijoUl'2os. Total niiinber voted 665. v,L .;'■■' j WAIRAU, ■ Dodcon. Seymoar. Blenheim ... ..382 180 " Spring Creek ..63 73 Renwick ... .. 36 „.. .. 52 r -, r Valley ... " 22' v '-"atr 1 -" Aw«tere. ... 32 40 Kekerangu ... 8 7 Other Returns ... — — ; ' ; 550 8&l'" V "'. : Majority for Do^son l f 9. ; | T : AUCKLAND. Auckland Nortn— T. Peacock 346, W. L. ; Heea.33o, Garrard 4. ;: -.;- Manukan— Sir G. M. O'Rorke, 377, 6. ! M'Gee 157/ , .■>'•.■ -.> '- ■' . ' '■ ' Thames— J. Sheehan 546, . J. Speight 529, Bay ofclslandi — Richard Hobbs 625, John ; Lundon 294. , liarsden— -0. Michelsen 245, G. E. Aldertou i 223. Donald M'Leod 86. Return* incomplete. [ Rodney— -Seymour Gaorge 332, J. Shepherd 180, H. W Farnell 2. Auckland East— Sir George Grey 349, J. M. Clark 315. Parnell— F. J. Moss 30§, Richard Monk 174. Eden— J. A. Tole 446, Reader Wood IST. Waitemata— W. J. Hurst 421, Ew«n Alison 177. Returns incomplete. Franklyn North— Major Harris 320, W. P. Buckland 302, S. Luke 183, J. G. Gordon | 8. Franklyn Soatb— Major Hamlin 192, JF. Liwry 157. Returni iicompiete. Waipa— F. A. Wbitakar 432, M«jor Jickgo« 394, S. Johns 237. Corotnandel— J A Cidmaa 574, Alexander Brodie 251, Jaana Mickay 240 Eetirns incompleto. Aaeklani West— J. M. Dargarille iiSS, A. F!«ming 201, Dr Willis 119. , Newton — W. Swasaon, unoppoitd. Wnikato— J Wbyte, unopposed Tauranga— Vaaey. Stawsrt 267, CaptaiH Morris 229, W. Kelly 181. Return* inccmplets. Eait Ccaat— A. M'Donald 403, S. Locke 376, A. Porter 161, M. J. Gauuon lUI. Rsturns ificoroplste. TARANAKI. Taranaki— Col. Trimble 120, J. Closeby2l, Returns incomplete. Fgmont— Major Atkinson 737, G. Hutchison 400. New Plymouth— T. Kelly 328, Major Burn 179. HAWKE'S BAY. Napier— Jnhn Bachanan 489, J. M'Sweeney 114, J. W. M-Dougall 187. Waipaw*.— W. C. Smith 583, J. D. Ormond 563. Hawka's Bay— Returns not in. WELLINGTON. Thorndon— W. H. Levin 772, Thomas Dwan 226. Te Aro— Charles Johnston 397, J. H. Shaw 342, E. Stafford 321.

South^-William Hutchison 47P, Paul Coffey 390, W. B. Edwards 257, Chailes Hen'drey 14. : /. Ea. gitikei— John Stevens 491, Sir William ' Fox 489. , M Eoiton— J. G. Wilson 315, C B Izard, 242, f Dr Buller, 208, Geo. W. Russell 198, .Dr Newman 197, W. Fiance 61. Returns in complete. Manawatu— Hon W. Johnston unopposed. Waitotara— Hon John Bryce unopposed. Wanganui— \V. H. Watt ,397, John Ballance ;< 393...- „: . ....... .... '_ .^, Hutt — Thomas Mason 400 Henry Jackson 348, M. L. Marks 50, Donald Sinclair 14. Wairarapa South— W. C. Buchanan 436, Henry Bunny 370, Burton Bpyes 119. ' " Waifarapa North— George Beetham 598, A. W. RennaU.34o. Returns incouiplete. NELSON. Nelson — H. A. Levestara unopposed. M'.tUi-ka— R. Hurathouse 330, William Gibbs 257, H..8. Hii'idleston 7» • , ' Waimea—Joseih 1 Shephaid 369, J.C. Rich- | mond 194. . . BdPer— E. j. o*Conor 402; JobrT Munro 399. Returns incomplete. Ina^ahaa — .Thonns Wpstorn 739, : Richard j Re. yes 516, William M'Lean "39. * ' j MARLBOROUGH. W^irau— Hsnry Do.ison 550, A. P. Saymour 381. Piiuon— Mr Connolly 354, Eyes 311. : : : : WESTLAND. : : ' : G.-fymoulh — Joseph Pettie 757, FraDk Guinnass 599. Kunisi a— Richard J. Serdm 763, Edward Blake 623. Hoskika.-G.eo C. Fitz^eratd 576, Robert Q. . lldd i\4. '■ Returns ihcimplate; so aa of them will cot be in for several days. CANTERBURY. Cheviot— Hugh M'llraiih 359, Alfred Saun- . .d?rs 339. W". C. Fandall 112. . . . . Ashley— rW.jF. 44^6, James Guild - 230, Marmaduka Dixon is 2, J. A. Cuntiingham 108, W. Pateraon 9. .', Avon— Hon Wm Rollestpn unopposed. Kaiapoi— lsaac Wilson CBB, J. H. Lee ' "554. ' - . •- " . St Albans— J.- Evans Brown 2JB, J; L. Wilson .l6B, Allan W. O'Neil 85 Sfsnmore— Walter H. Pilliet 383, W/ P, Cqwlishaw 362) Wiiliam Fleaher 301. ;' Christchurcb. North— ;N H. Thcrnpsoii, S/mjl-. P. Andrews. 'Majority for Mr; Thompson in. Chriatcharch South — S. John Holmes 673, John Anderson 580. Sydenham— William White '62, -Charles Clark 183, J. W. Treadwell 111, J. R. Andrew 70._ Heathcote— Wynh Williams 233, A. Hornbrook 158, J. T. Fisher 1 13. r . "'. Lyttelton— Henry AUright 259, Edwaid. Richardson 248, S. R. Webb 246 Lincoln— A. P. . O'Callaghan 277, H. W. Perrymanl^^.- " : ; ! Akaroa — William Montgomery ungpposed. Swl^yh— Hon J.'Hall 467, A. Lockhead 169. Col-.ridge— D. At'Miltan 368', J; D.-Enys 141, John Jebson 118. .. , ..-, Ashburton— Edward G. Wright (unbpposen). Wakanui— J. C. Wason 447, Joseph Ives» 443, Charles W. Purnell.' GfralrJine— W...Pdatletbwaite r 51«7 Eiward Wakefield, 483, J. HayhursS 63, ■ Timaru— Richartr Turnbull 413, J. S. Gibson 150, J. T. Partridge 77. : , , V.X GUffstone— Dr Fisher 351. Captain Suttfir • ' 302, D. AnScr*)n' 76, W: J Newton 1 1 . Waimate— W. J,.. Steward 468, Johu Manchester 825, William Biteman 46. ' -OTAGO. : '""' Danedia Soath— H. S. Fish 565, A) H. Robb 283 ... Dunedia Bast— -M. W. Green 487, J. U Davis 470. ; : t Duuedin West— Hon. T. Dick 459, W. D. Sliswart 45!.,.. Dtinedin Central— T. Bracken 340, E. B : Cargiir32o ) H.Bistiagß 263, W. Dickson . ::rr76;^E. Grahsnrr43.' Cavcraham-TrW. Barron, unbppoae'd. '^ :'■:. ■'•'■ P«ainsula— J. Scaton 298, W. H. Cutten 284, M. Donnelly 203, James Lewis 76. Port-Chalmers—^J. Macand re v, unopposed. Roslyn — J. Bathgate 341, Cap Jain Scott 327, E. Hodgkinson 249. Tateri — J. Fulton •■ -,- t ~ -■ - Bruce— James Rutherford 54^'; Jatnsa Adam 4G6, W. A. Murray 411. ; ; , : Waikouaiti— James Green 155, A. Thompson 110. Returns iocomniet's. Mount lia-O. A. De Lautour 205, M. J. S. Mackenzie 177. Returns incomplete. Lakes— T. Ferftug 324, A. C. Thomson 323, A Meßride 36. Returns incompUte. Du'.staa-V. Pjke 452, W Fraser 297, Returns incomplete Oam*ru — S. E Shrimski 396, Jemea Haasell 337 W^i^ki— Duncan 378, Read 329. Moeraki— J. Mackenzie 469, W. H. Williams 172, W. Mnrcott 122. Tuapeka- J. C. Bro«rn 482, G. F. C. Browne 444. ' ' i . Clutha— A. M. Jbwetfc 187, W. A. Thomson 172. Ret Jrns incomplete. — - SOUTHLAND. Awarua— J. P. Joyce 526, A. Kinross 486, •;; J. W. ffijrf?29, D.-Smytri .104. -RBturns ...incaroplete;, '. :J idw „,-'- -' Mataura — F. W. Mackenzie 145, G F. ;;; Richardson 143, J. T. Thomson 94. Rettras incomplete. : - - Wallßoe— T.;t-Daniell 216. jj M'lntosh 192, H. Hirat 181, J, E. Ellis 133,18. Hodgkinson 84, W.-Johnsfcone 15, Jr-C. Ruttolph 13. Returns incomplete. Hokonui H. Driv«r 340, C. Cowan 164 T P Finn 60. Returns incomplete. Mr SaDkey has lately been delivering his opinions on/^h.&l's\ibje;ct of church choir music. He does not object to quartet choirs but he would have a large chorus_cho!ir aroupd the quartet, to join in at certain pjwts. 'He likes solos and special pieces by the trained singers -,' jetlhe woiild have only obe or tiro ,such pieces during any one service, md would have at least tyro hymns in which the whole congregation could join. He says that the -minister should join in the singing, and not be_ fumbling over his notes as if he had Nothing to dp with' praising God . The minister should not only sing himself, but urge all to sing. Choirs ought to behave like ladies and gentlemen. They, have no business to be whispering; or : flirting, 'dv reading newspapers while the. minister is preaching. They ought to sing distinctly, so that.the congregation can understand the words. The church is not an opera, to gratify, a taste for artistic music. It should furnish the ausic that will please and"edify the majority of the worshippers, and not merely a cultured and fastidious few. The children should be brought to the church and accustomed to tako part in the singing. In Mr Spurgeon's church the children all sit tojether, and great pains are taken to train them in singing. Ministers ou«ht to pray for a special blessing on the singing. It is a means of grace as well as the Scripture reading and' the sermon. ' And, finally; 'the hymns and the sermon oug ht to b» inf harmony with each other.

A Connecticut pastor declined an addition of lOOdols. to his salary, for the reason, among others, that the hardest part of his labours, heretofore, had been the collection of his salary, and it would kill him to try to collect 100 dols, more. According to the New Education Code in Eng and, all boys at school are to be taught to sew, so that when they get to be men they will be able to fix on their own buttons. Another vile aciempt to do away with the sacred institution of marriage Mr Vale, a Victorian po itician, characterised the people at F.eniingtoa on the Melbourne Cup day a collection of the " whole devilry of the Colony." At a meeting at Hokitika Mr Fitzgerald was asked to define " Conservative " and " Liberal," and he replied, the Conservative is a man in office who intends stopping there and the Liberal is a njau who is trying to turn him out, (Roars of laughter). A trial, lasting over a period often months, has been made hy the engineer of the Lyttelton ilarbor Board of the merits of Newcastle and New Zealand coal, the re>ult of which is 15 per ceut in favor of the latter. He had played cards : A butcher's boy carrying a tray on his snoulder, accidentally struck it against a lady's head and nearly knocked her hat off. ' The deuce take the tray,' cried the lady in a passion ' Madam,' said the boy gravely, 'the deuce can't take the tray.' Alias Helen Gladstone, the English Premier's sister, who lately died at the convent at Coblemz, was at one time a rtiguiug belle and woman of fashion among the English aristocracy. A club has, it is stated, been established in St, Petersburg, the nembers of which bind themselves, under penalty of heavy fines, to employ only .Russian workmen, to dine at Russian restaurants, and to abstain from everything coming irom foreign sources. U having betn remarked that cigaretteBmokiog is killing thousands of young men, the Chicago Tribune savagely aays that the kind of young mea who smoke cigarettes can ail be spared. The fittest wouid still surTive. Mr Richard Turnbnll, a Timaru candidate and ex-M.HE., the other day, referred to the Timaru Herald in the following complimentary terms : — " A more vile organ never existed. It got its bread by evil speaking, and its drink by lyiDg and slandering." The He- aid, in a leading article on the subject, says :— " In our ignorance of the technicalities of British law, we assumed that the speaker of this abominable language could be brought to account, and be made to answer in a criminal Court of Justice for making use of it. On consulting our solicitor, howerir, on the matter, we find that words such as these are not ' legal libel,' because forsooth they were spoken and not written.' Some interesting information respecting the advancement of the telegraph system in the colonies has been laid before Parliament by the Colonial Treasurer of New South "Wales, as an appendix to his " Waya and Mea- s " From the document in question, it appears that in Septmber last that colony had 13,689 miles of wire. Victoria has less than half this number of miles, the total length beiug represented as 6675. New Zealand comes text to New South Wales with 9587 miles, then Queensland with 8967 miles, South Australia with 7017 miles, and Tasmania with 1000. The revenue derived from telegraphs in the various colonies for 18S0is stated as follows :— New South Wa'es, £84,110; Victoria. .£85,350 ; New Zealand, £73,002 ; South Australia, £55,152 ; Queensland. £46,31:) ; Tasmania, £7422.

A Chicago man, envious of Dr. Tanner's reputation, has determined to go without work for forty days, and says he feels confident of success.

As an iDatance of the thoroughness with which musketry practice ia taught in the German army, may be mentioned a device which baa recenily been introduced with good reeultß. The better to accustom the men to the interferences with sight in a battle, clcu^s .of . smoke ere produced by burning furza and ;wet grafs, or by other means, between the marksmen and the targets.

The breaking upof Parihaka appears to be looked upon in a very favorable light by some of the Natives, The Ha-wera Star f nrnißhee the following in illustration :— " The feast given to returned Parihaka Natives at Taiporohenui concluded on Wednesday with a great haka, iv which over 100 men and women took part. The following list of purchases made for the feast by Patohi'and the resident Natives will give an idea of the expenditure incurred on account of these entertainments:— 18 head of young cattle, 1000 loaves of bread, 7 hhds beer, 50 gals spirits, 10 bags of sugar, 5 boxes of tea, 20 pig--, also, about £25 worth of tobacco and matches. The total cost would probably reach £250. to raise wbi- h a number of tenants of the Native s in the neighborhood of Hawera have been dunned to give 'orders' on account of rent con.ing due. Yesterday these voracious visitors proceeded to Mokoia; thence they go to Patea, feasting everywhere."

I)r. Richardson has contributed an able article to the Church < f England Temperance Chroni-le,in which he points out that " whenever strong drink produces a permanent effect upon the human body there is estahlished in the affected p -rson perhaps unexceptionaliy the habit of falsehood. No one had met with a dipsomaniac whose word could be relied on. Women or men, the members of the dipsomaniac class had to some extent and too often to the saddest oextremest extent, forgotten the truth. This is so certain i hat falsehood becomes a part of the diagnosis, if we may so say, of these ca-c-s. The shame of exposure of the untruthfulni'ss fades awaj It is as if the very knowledge of truth — a< if the distinction between what is true and what is not true — had become utterly ;ost or forgotten. The most earnest appeal to all tha is left good in these lost natures is rart-ly of pennante ■■ t service, while the practice, which is the bane, 13 retained."

U^frrring to the recent fire at R-efton tht Herald s^ys : — Withio un or fif?eeD minuter of tbe ringing of the fire bell several hurdred people had r^ac ed the scene of th« fire, and the f^cene iv Broadway was past aii description From one end of the block to the c?her the occupants assisted by scores of wiilina hand 9 were pouring out sheir stock on to the opposite B ; de cf the street, and in the midit of the most indescribable confusion and the wildest cxci ement of icreaming and half frantic persons, a small number of the brigade were strogaling in seeming disordeto gft lh« engine into play, but there is bo denying the fact that there was a great want of discipline. It rray be mentioned however, that the property of several leading members of the brigade was threatened by the fire, and it ia a nice point to decide whether the duty they owed to the brigade or to themselves j ought to hsve been uppermost. Bat it is certain that both the captain of the brigade and several of his men did give tuercsebes the benefit of the doabt, and we shall not pretend to say whether or not they are to be blamed for bo doiDg. Tbe effect howerer was to throw tbe brigade into complete diaor ganisatioo, rendering it next to useless. The Tasmanians are beginning to repine at the fact that they are more heavily faxed, sod that living is dearer, than in the ad j ;ining colonies. This ha 3 become 60 notorious that a committee appointed by the Lf gislative Assembly recomms nded that "a reduction should be made on the duties now payable on thoße articles of daily and universal consumption, the prices of which determine the cost of living, so that it should not exceed the cost of living ia tha other Austrslhn colonies ; that, in particular, the duty on imported sheep and cattle, and also on carcase meat, should be abolished." A tradesman or good workman can live bttter in the other colonies— ibv S^uth Australia, Vicoria, or New Soath Wales— on £2 per week, than he can in Tasmania for £3, meat being 2£d per lb. more, the 41b loaf 2d, wearing apparel, espfcially boots and shoes, 25 per cent, dearer. The Napier electoral rolls contain some queer things, but about the queerest are the two following : — One man, resident in Waipa wa County, got his name on the Waipawa rolls und r a residential claim. He was sentenced to six months imprisonment, and that time he spent in retirement in the Napier gaol. On emerging, as he had been six months' " resident" here, he claimed to be put on the Napier roll — and there hi 3 name appears. He has now two residential votes, one given for a period spent in prison. Another 13 a similar case, but more glaring. A man who has served fire sentences of three months each for vagrancy, and who has hardly been out of gaol 48 consecutive hours fince his arrival in the colony, is also ou the roll. He was released the other day, and he was heard to say that he would keep out until after the flection, and then "go up" agai i. The f llowing tetter from the Hon. W. Rolieston has been addressed to the Chri-t---chnrcb /V«v : — -in my speech at the Avon Domination to-day, I ref.-rreri to a letter from Mr Stout, which was published in one of the morning papers ; but I spoke only in goner il terms respecting the latter part of that document. Mr Stunt, by means of a series of questions, implies that the Ministry or a member of it bad, prior to tho issue* of the late proclamation to the West Coast Natives received information that Sir Arthur Gordon's return was then imminent, and that because of that information the i^sne of the proclamation was hurried. I shall be obliged if you -ill allow me to state absolutely that reit er the Ministry as a whole nor any member of it hal, up othe time when the "Gazette" containing the proclamation was published, receiv- d information that the Governors speedy return might be expected, and that, in fact, no intelligence as to the Governor's movements, actual or inten led, had been received by the Government, or by any Minister, from the time his Excellency left Auckland for Fiji until he returned to Wellington."