The Situation.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3348, 15 September 1879, Page 2

The Situation.

In order that our readers may be able, at a glance, to see daily tbe result of the elections as they take place, and the relative position of the parties,, we hive arranged the following table :— „ -„ ...

— .M A Cokstatikoplb correspondent refetes a tale of the seraglio,'which may be a godsend to' the chronicler! of the " society "journals. The beautiful Hafuro, y a wife of the wealthy Kaffedshi Mahmond . Effendi, was suddenly missing, and her .. husband instructed the secret police to . search for her. She was discovered in the romantic Tilliage Eefilikoi, between Therapia and Buyukdere, living at the wife of Raif Bey, the adjutant of the Sultan. The lady , escaped from • the police, and her whereabouts is not yet discovered j but Baif Bey was carried"up to Constatinople. The Sultan caused the husband and the betrayer to be brought before him at the same time, and is said. to have addressed them as follows :—" I dismiss both of you for ever from my service! You, Aaif, because you have stolen that man's wife; you, Mahmud, because you hare allowed your wife to be stolen from you. A servant who steal* tho wife of another might rob me of my own, and a servant who cannot watch hit own wife is not fit to be entrusted with the charge of a cup of coffee/ Mahmud, , as. Kaffedshi, or coffee-bearer, had the elevated post of serving the Padishah with his coffee. , . r ._, ... The Stern Cull of Doty .—At a recent performance in the New Haven Operahouse, as a number of students left their seati between the acts, a good ladjr waa heard to observe:—-" Ain't too bad those ' fellows have to go homo and to go to ■tudying?"

Electorate. Name. r 1 rs I I 1 ■|. . —- '■« , -J '* ■ i i i Avon .. - Selwyn Mataura Totara .. .;] Mount Ida ..' Pictoa Newton Thames Akaroa.. Invercargill .. Dunediu .. -J Kollestoa John Hall Shanks Hon. W. Gisborne .. Dc Lautour ■....- Kenny ' '.. Swanson '■.. Sir G. Grey, Sheehan Montgomery Bain Uick Oliver Stewart Ireland .. i Willia .. | Hursthousc Pyke Allwriglit Moss Bunny Beethani Tolc Levin HiitchinHon, '■ McDonald ; , ... Atkinson ' ... Brj'ce' Ballance Bowen . . .. Macandrew Driver Reed, Seddon . ' Hislop, Shrimski Masters, Reeves Hirst Wallis, Hunt .Pitt,Adams . Johnson McLean McLoughan. .. KeUy Turnbull Saunders - • .' .-. Whyte .. .. Button, Russell Fisher Seymour Trimble Richmond .: George ■• .. Wakefield .■ O'Rorke ReaderAVood - l-i 1 1 1 - T 1 2.! 1' - i 1 | 1 Waikaia Rangitikei Motueka Dunstau Lytteltoa Parnell Wairarapa.. -j Eden ... ". .. Wellington j ! East Coast .■.:* 'Egmont '.. Waaganui.. j 1 1 1 1 ~ ~ - ~ 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 :i • i' ■ i i l-: i l l * ' i- . ; ii "if . Kaiapoi . .. Port. Chalmers Roslyri. i Hokitika Waitaki Grey Valley Wallace City West .. Kelson .. Mauawatu Waikouaiti .. Riverton „ ... New Plymouth Timaru Cheviot Waikato Napier Heathcote Wairau ■". .. Grey and Bell.. Kelson Suburbs Rodney' ■ .'. Geraldine Onehung* Waitemata Western SUori District Southern Maori District Cavcrshain Bruco Taieri Hutt Buller Tuaiieka Clivc. . Christchurch •! City East Waipa Bay of Islands Northern Maori District Marsdeu Franklin Wellington Country Ashley Clutha Collinjfwood .. Wakatip Eastern Maori District Wainica 1 - - f •-«■ 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 -I = TeWheoro > Tainui Barren Murray Fulton Mason Fisher . .. Brown ' '.. Onnond Sir George Orey Stevens Andrews .. Speight - .. WhiUkcr Lundon ' .''":•• 1 1 1 1 1 1 ~ i . i » i 1 1 i i Tawhia Colbeck llamlin, Harris Brandon Moorhoura Thompson Gibks . .. Finn i i 2 — ■■'■; ■-I 1 i 1:7 l l l 1 I- ' Tomoana .. I | Shepherd .. j - (i | I — I Totals .. • i