THE BOROUGH ELECTION.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2086, 11 September 1896, Page 2

THE BOROUGH ELECTION.

There was a CPrtain amount of excitement yesterday afternoon in connection with the Borou_h Council election, a considerable proportion." of the votes being recorded, including those of some ladies and --gentlemen who came front some distance outside the Borough to exercise their privilege. Some amusing cartoons -were displayed on the shutters of Mr Jule Lelievre'scity butchery. The most drastic represented the borough in the shape of a lady feeding some fowls and grumbling at the small return she got for her expenditure, while a gentleman standing by advises her to kill off the old lot altogether and get a new crowd, i.c , to reject the retiring councillors seeking re-election. Another represented a number of distinguished burgesses, recognisable by the emblems of their various callings, making demands on the Borough for their various fads—from asphalt to electric light, while the third pictures the Chairman of the Works Cojimittee holding a horse, representing the Borough, in front of the municipal stables, and stating that it was in good condition from asphalt pills, but required more stimulous in the shape of electric light, water supply el hoc genus omni After the declaration of tho numbers, calls were made for Mr Orbell, who said no one was more surprised; than himself at the position he occupied on the poll. As a comparative stranger he took his return as a very high compliment, arid to recognise what the electors had done for him, he would carnally consider their interests in every possible,way.. Mr McGregor pleasure at the result of the poll, especially as the quite new blood element introduced in the person of.his friend Mr Orbell. He was sure they would all work together fur the common weal, and he would do his best according to his lights for the public interest without fear or favour. Mr T. E. Taylor thanked the electors for giving him again a place in the Council. He had endeavoured to do his duty in the past, and he intended to do so in the future. He trusted 'hat the confidence the burgesses had that day placed in him would be fully rewarded by his actions for the next three years. Mr McGregor said that in the darkness he could net see Mr Orbell, who, il he were present, no doubt excuse bim if he proposa 1 a vote of thanks to Mr Sims as Returning Officer, who had had a dreary day of it, and the confidence the candidates and their friends reposed in him was shown by the fact that no f candidate proposed to have any scrutineer present. The vote of thanks was carried by the acclamation of the electors present, and after hearty congratulations from the friends of tbe successful candidates present, an adjournment was made to the Criterion Hotel, where informal, but hearty congratulations took place.