MAJOR JACKSON AT ALEXANDRA.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1464, 19 November 1881, Page 2

MAJOR JACKSON AT ALEXANDRA.

This candidate met the electors, pursuant to announcement, at the Public Hall on the evening of Thursday, About 50 electors were present. Mr George Teasdale occupied the chair. The candidate repeated the speech he delivered at Te Awamutu in an abridged form, omitting the reference made to the railway refreshment room at Mercer, and adding by way of addenda that he was a local resident of many years' standing, that he had always striven to act honestly as between man and man, and that if he had wronged anyone he would be prepared to recoup them fourfold. At the conclusion Mr Sage moved, and Mr Cosfcer seconded a vote of thanks As an amendment, Mr Fmch mo\ ed and Mr Reynolds seconded a vote of thanks and confidence in the candidate. On being put the confidence motion was negatived on a vote of two to one. Not a single question was put, and the proceedings, which lasted about one and a-half houid, were otherwise flat and uninteresting.