FRANKLIN ELECTION RETURNS.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1305, 14 April 1874, Page 3

FRANKLIN ELECTION RETURNS.

Many a one has expressed his wonde-;. the length of time which has elapsed since election for Franklyn without a- bHc in{ .. mation beinj? given of the r <jSaltm After the activity shown by the tar i leretefore in pigeon and horse .e. X p reS sing s there has been, we understar^ a general surpr i se at the fact that r^ tn j s par ti C ular case we have done Nothing. The struggle took place on J_ flurs day last, and yet on this, the fiftJ^ .day, the public have not been infonr.ed through the press as to the .returns a*. Bombay and Pokeno, distant from Auckland respectively twenty-eight and thirty-four miles. Does the Star take fylame to itself for this ? Far from it. For once we have intentionally waited to see really what our morning contemporaries would 'do. It is true that there is an epidemic among our carriers which first suggested the idea of making this experiment, but it is needless to say that this would not have prevented us from obtaining the information if we had not resolved to be passive. "When thesp returns will come in goodness knows; but as they will probably only confirm the return of Mr. Joseph May, nobody cares particularly. After this little episode people will, on Mure occasions perhaps, better appreciate the Stab's efforts at catering for the public appetite.

[Since the foregoing was in type we have weired the complete returns. We suppose leiraght to publish them, although we would holding them over in order to fl'rethe thing a further trial. As they came tons by a by a bullock dray it is probable, however that either they were intended for our contemporaries or duplicates have been Bent by the same means of transport.]