The Situation.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3349, 16 September 1879, Page 3

The Situation.

The general elections are now oTer, and the results hare proved it to be the closest contest the Colony has ever experienced. By tho lfsfc given below, which has been prepared with great care, it will be seen the GoYerntneut have 44 fotes to back them—jost one-half the Howse—while the forces of the Opposition are reckoned at 36. The middle or independent party numbers eight, some of whom will doubtless be found on the side of the Government. However, close divisions may be expected in the ensuing session of Parliament.

A yotjkg man who has tried everything else and failed, writes to us to inquire the requisites for a good reporter. The only answer ire can give him ia s—" A bottle of whiskey, a lead pencil, a cast-iron constitution, and a Rhinoceros' bide, be able to ran down a man at one corner and drink at his expense at another, talk politics with everyone from the Premier to Andy Otto, and give an opinion on everything from the Eastern Question to the best means of improving the Thames Harbor."

Electorate. Name. 2 i > a a 4J s o "3 £ o •a c I I O Avon .. Selwyn.. llataura. Totara .. Mount Id% Picton ... Newton Thames Akaroa.. Inrercargill .. Dunedin .. •< WaikaiaRangitikei Motaek&r Dunstan Lyttelton ParneU Wairarapa.. < .. .. Wellington ' | East Coast Egmont Wanganui.. 4 Rolleston John Hall Shanks Hon. W. Gisborne .. i DeLautour .. Kenny Swanson Sir G. Grey, Sheehan Montgomery Bain Dick Oliver Stewart Ireland Willis ' Hursthou.se Pyke All Wright Moss Bunny Beetham Tolc Levin HutcJiinson .. McDsnald Atkinson Bryce .. Ballance Bowen Macsuidrew Driver Reed, Seddon Hislop, Bhrimski Masters, Reeves Hirst Wallis, Hurat Pitt, Adams Johnson McLean McLoughan Kelly • Turnbull Saunders Whyte Sutton, Kusaell Pisbcr Seymour Trimble Richmond George Wakefleld O'Rorke • Reader Wood 1 1 1 1 2 1 I — ■ ~~ - 1 ~ I — 1 1 7 1 I - ~ " - ~ - 1 ~ 1 ~ i — : 1 — I — 1 i ! i _ ~ 1 1 ~ ~ 1 i- ; , i i -• i i - i i 1 ;'. - i .. . J - - I Kaiapoi Fort Chalmers R«slyn.. Eokitika Waitaki Grey Valley .. Wallace City West .. Nelson.. .. Manawatu Waikouaiti .. Kiverton New Plymouth Timara - .. Cheviot .. Waikato Napier.. Heathcote Wairau Grey and Bell.. ' Nelson Suliurbs Kodney Geraldine Onehunga Waitemata Western Maori District Southern Maori District , Caversham ' Bruce Taieri Hutt Buller : Tuapeka .. '. Clive.. Christchurcb I i City East .. ! Waipa .. ' Bay of Islands ' Northern Maori District '. Marsden .. < Franklin .. 1 Wellington Country .. ] Ashley .. ] Clutha .. [ Collinjjwood „ I Watait'p .. ] Eastern Maori District .. ' Waimea .. I Gladstone .. I Coleridge .. ' i i .T ~ - i 2 2 2 ~ - ~ - i I i 2 I 2 1 1 - I — I - 1 i- ~ 1 1 —— I -_. I 1 1 2 I . . . 1 - i~ 1 " i i - __ I - I 1 1 1 1 - 1 I 1 1 _-_. I — I TeWheoro 1 - Tainui Barron Murray Fulton Mason Fisher Brown Ormond Sir George Grey Stevens Andrews Speight Whitaker Lundon 1 1 - _ H —~ I - 1 1 — ! I *~~ 1 1 1 1 I I I - — I 1 - I1 I 1 1 I _ 1 , I 1 i ~A r i Tawhia, Colbeok Hamlin, Harris l i 2 _ __ - ~ -I - Brandon Moorhouse Thompson Gibjw Finn 1 I - - 1 1 1 1 __ . I Tomoana .. I Shepherd ..I Soidholinu ..I Wright - il • , i 1 „,.. I 1 i — Totals .. .'. T - v 30