A DEAD MAN HONORED.
“ Election of a Dead Man ” is a good startling head-line, as it appeared in a Melbourne daily paper last week. What bothered a whole roomful ot common councilman was, that at a shire election, two candidates were nominated, and that before the day of election one died. Under counsel’s advice (Councillor Cornelius O'Flanagan ?), the poll was proceeded with, and, singular to relate, the dead man was elected. This was a poor compliment to the second on the poll, but the successful candidate did not take his seat, and the shire councillors rightly enough want a clause in the Local Government Act to prevent dead men getting elected in this uncomfortable way in future.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2498, 23 March 1881, Page 4
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117A DEAD MAN HONORED. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2498, 23 March 1881, Page 4
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