SUPERINTENDENCY ELECTION. THE POLL.

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 237, 15 November 1873, Page 2

S UPERINTENDENC Y ELECTION. THE POLL.

Some useful information for all who keep hones may be i obtained by studying the evidence taken before the Select Committee on Horses, just printed. For instance it appears from Iho evidence of Mr Church, the general manager a- d secretary of the General Omnibus Company, that oats have been discarded as forage for oranibut horse* for the last six years. These animals are fed entirely on maize and chaff, each horse receiving as its daily ration about 171bs of the former and lOlbs of the latter. The maize is just broken sufficiently to enable the horses to eat it without difficulty, and they thrive better on this fodder than they ever did on oats. Indeed, every one who remembers the omnibus horse of former days, with his jaded, and careworn appearance and his hollow ribs, must observe^ vast improvement in the condition of the animals. On the ground ot economy also maize is preferable to oats a? forage for horses, its price being much lower, and the saving effected being about 8s or 4§ a quarter. These facts have long been known to many owners of horses, but gentlemen with private stables find great difflculty in substituting bruised maize and chaff for the old fashioned forage of oats and trusses of hay. Coachmen and corndealers resolutely oppose the innovation for the reason that it enables the owners of horses to exercise a control over supplies for their stables and prevent waste and fraud. Nothing can be more simple than to allow so many pounds weight of a compound forage for each horse per day and to •cc that he gets lL ; whereas it is almost impossible to check the consumption or ascertain the quality of onts and trusses of hoy which are frequently delivered deficient in weight to the injury of both the horses and their owner, but to the adrnnlnge of the servant and the tradesman. 2?otes and Qturic* recently had an article di»iiHiii«.tntting thut the story of the Bishop and the kettle which lately w«nt the rounds of the papers was originally told of Bi»bop Porteub.

Tiik following is the state of the poll at tlie undermentioned pl.ices : — Dargarille. Williamson. Luslc Hamilton -16 40 7 Cambridge 19 37 1& TeAwamutu ... 28 20 10 Ntfaruawabia 19 19 1G Mutakana ... 20 9 12 Wark worth ... 33 14 15 Malmrangi Heads ... 16 20 2 Puhoi 4 14 21 Pokeno 5 12 .Bombay Settlement ..12 34 7 Stokes Point ... 4 11 t Hendersons Mill ... 3 23 3 Wade ..11 23 12 Papakura . 26 74 33 Howick ... 24 48 7 Alexandra . 39 17 \\ Onehunga ... 81 121 31 Mercer ... 2 4 2 Hirer head .5 5 11 Pamnure ... 21 42 35 Whau ... 47 8 7 North Shore ... 14 30 10 (iruhatnstowu ... 313 591 392 Otabubu ... 57 79 32 Auokland ... 656 741 380 Newton ... 95 73 13 Parnell ... 117 35 32 Tauranga ... 42 102 17 Jlaglan ... 1 31 0 Coromandel ... 11l 161 32 Heleusville ... 10 40 0 Hastiugs . . 7 11 3 Huist ... 12 11 3 Newmarket ... 79 61 38 Aratapu ... 61 5 0 Hokianga ..8 47 2 Kaukapakapa .. 17 5 11 Kawakaw* River ... 24 27 2 Maketu ... 4 3 9 Mangapai ... 21 9 26 Mangawai .. 9 28 14 Mauku ..7 6 40 Mongonui . 3 15 16 Port Albert ... 17 7 33 Pukekohe 28 27 34 Russell .3 14 7 Whangarei Township 62 34 50 W»ipu 1 i ioi Waimate 6 16 10 Wh»ngaro* 15 10 8 Waiuku ..17 31 51 Waitangi Pallt . . 6 4 1 Wairoa ... 5 8 24 Matata ... 4 Ob Opotiki . f8 29 7 Raugiriri ..1 1 3 Whangarti Heads ..12 8 17 Matakohe ... 2 7 15 2400 2546 1763 Majority for Williamson .. ... 411