TE AROHA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2375, 29 September 1887, Page 2

TE AROHA.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.! Tk Aroha, Wednesday. The interest displayed here iu the election, on Monday, afforded proof that the electors were fully alive to the importance of the occasion. From an early hour the friends of the candidates were at work, and throughout the day our thoroughfare wore a lively appearance; numbers of voters coming in from Wainrongomai and Shaftesbury. During the evening excitement continued, and up till the hour of the closing of the telegraph office a number of persons were about anxious to obtain information respecting the results in this and other electorates throughout the colony. The victory of Mr Kelly for Tan ranga was the cause of much rejoicings to the friends of that candidate, and of disappointment to his opponents. There Mr Gill had a majority of thirty, and at other places from which returns were first received, he was also considerably ahead. His supporters were therefore hopeful that he would carry tho day, but later returns from distant parts of the electorate showed that they had miscalculated the result. There can be little doubt, however, that but for the candidature of Capt. Kerr, whoso cause from the first was hopeless, but who nevertheless received from the New Zealand Alliance, considerable support, which would otherwise have been given to Mr Gill, the result would have been different, and Mr Kelly instead of heading the poll, would have held second place. Much inconvenience wars caused to the voters of Waiorongomai and Shaftesbury by their having to travel to Te Aroha to record. It is to be hoped that at future elec tious a polling-booth will be fixed at the former place, and the electors there be saved a deal of unnecessary trouble. Almost as much interest was manifested in the Waikato election as in the one more immediately affecting this neighbourhood, and the final result of the contest there was eagerly waited for. The polling at Waihou and Morriusville, for which places returns came first to hand, proved, notwithstanding the confident predictions of his opponent, that the old member was still a hot favourite, and the calculation based thereupon by Mr Whyte’s friends here were fully borne out by the general result. The nows of his success was hailed with the greatest satisfaction, and there can bo no question that if Te Aroha had remained a portion of the Waikato electorate Mr Whyte’s large majority would have been swelled to much greater proportions by the record here. A plain and fancy dress ball, under the auspices of the linking club, came off last night iu the Town Hall, and brought the linking season to a close. There was a numerous assemblage, nearly a hundred persons taking part in the festivities. Many were dressed in fancy costumes, in which much taste, and in one or two instances, some grotesque humour was displayed. The arrangements were excellent, and the whole proceedings passed off with much eclat, forming an appropriate wind-up to what lias been a most successful rinking season.