NAPIER.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2533, 17 February 1877, Page 2

NAPIER.

Friday,

The figures sent yesterday re the Napier election were pretty nearly correct. Sutton's election, at all events, is undoubted. At first, when the Napier, Wairoa, and Hastings result was only known, there was great jubilation in the Buchanan camp, and Buchanan himself was returning thanks as the elected member, when to his discomfiture a messenger arrived with the results from Taradale, Meanee, and Pukelapu, vbich reversed the victory giviDg it'to-Button with a majority of 23 over Buchanan. When that became thoroughly certain there were great rejoicings in town. A brass band turned out, and marched to the Criterion Hotel, outside of which a large body of Sutton's friends had assembled. Sulton was loudly called for, and in compliance with the call he addressed the assemblage from a carriage drawn up ia front of the hotel. He thanked the electors for the proud position in which they had placed him, and expressed a hope that the experience he had acquired during a residence of twenty years in the colony would enable him to render service in Parliament to the district, and the colony at large. He repeated the promise he had several times made during the contest that on his return from Wellington he would render an account of his stewardship. He trusted he would be as well received then as now, and that the

cordial feeling manifested on the present occasion would always subsist between himself and his constituents, and that he would always retain their confidence. There was immense cheering at the conclusion of Sutton's address, and then the carriage in which Sutton and some of his principal supporters were seated paraded the streets, headed by the band playing " See the Conquering Hero Comes," " He's a Jolly Good Fellow," and other appropriate tunes. It was followed by a large concourse of people, and on returning to the Criterion, Mr Sutton again, but more briefly, expressed his thanks, and then proceeded home, after much hurrahing, &c. The band continued playing at intervals for some hours after, and it was very late before the signs of rejoicing had entirely ceased.