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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 714, 13 January 1877, Page 2

What man but feels uncommonly small when m tbe thick of an election he is passed over as a nonentity by both sides as having no vote. And m this country, where the qualifications necessary are held by nearly every man, when such is the case, it is generally his own fault. Tbe legislature has provided that during three months m every year, January, February, and March, every pet son entitled to vote shall have the opportunity of requiiing that his name shall be placed on the electoral roll of the district for which he is qualified. Yet how many are there not who neglect this. Such men indeed deserve i to lose their privilege of citizenship, and were it only to warn snch against misadventure we might hesitate to refer to the subject. There is, however, another, and as it happens, this year, m the Waikato electoral districts, a large class of electors with whom we have more sympathy, men whose names are on the roll at present, and who might naturally leave the matter where it is, to whom a word of advice and caution is necessary. There are, we learn, a large number of claims to vote upon both the Waikato and Waipa electoral rolls incorrectly stated. These were passed by the Returning and Registration Officer last year as he believed, and rightly so, that 'they would besettled by theßevisingCourt. This year all such claims* incorrectly •or insufficiently stated, will be struck out by the Registration Officer, as will also the names of all those who may no longer be eligible to vote for the same property or holding which qualified them last year. It therefore behoves every elector, even though on the roll of lastyear, to ascertain clearly whether his claim to be there is still good, or correctly stated. A maD, for instance living m one house this time last year may be on the roll, his claim resting on the occupancy of the house he was then residing m, and though, meantime, he may have only removed into a house m the next street, unless he re-registers his claim to vote it is the duty of the Registration Officer to strike his name from the roll. Now should he fail during this or the next two months to re-register his new claim to vote, he will have no other opportunity of getting his name replaced till this time twelvemonths. A pplications|to be placed on either the Waikato or Waipa eiectoial roll will be received not later than the 31st of March by the Returning and Registration Officer, at the Court-house, Hamilton, m the form prescribed by the Act.