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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 254, 2 November 1897, Page 5

We are requested by Mr Geo. Fowlds, of Victoria Arcade, to'announce the result of the bye-election held by him of the six best looking men in the present House of Representatives, viz., Seddon, 278 ; Ward, 239; Holland, 193; Hunter, 183; Russell, 157 ; Moore, 101. Several voters selected five out of the six successful candidates, but none voted for the whole six, and Mr Fowlds has, therefore, decided to give the promised £5 5s ,to the Auckland fund for the British Engineers' strike. All but one of the 70 candidates received some votes, and the favours were pretty well distributed, so that it is evident the public consider most of the members highly endowed with manly beauty.

An advertisement appears in another part of this issue with regard to the Rebate Alliance Company's coupon system. The shopkeepers mentioned in the advertisement have each decided to present a prize to the customer who obtains the highest value in coupons representing cash purchases made at their respective' shops between Ist and 20th November.

An appropriation by tender in the first o-roup of the Auckland Co - operative terminating Building Society took place last njght at the Wesley Hall, Newton, when £600 was disposed, realising the sum of £141. We understand that the second group is also rapidly filling up. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon, before Mr H. W. Brabant, S.M., the undefended case of William Thomas v. John P. Ward, claim £104 19s, was decided in favour of the plaintiff for the amount claimed, with costs £5 12s. Mails by the E.M.s. Oroya, which left Melbourne on the 28th September, arrived in London on the 30th October, three days before contract time.

Notice ! Salvage ! We have removed balance of Furnishing Drapery Stock to our Queen-street premises. Carpets, linoleums, and furniture at Elliott-street. Toaaon Garlick Company (Ltd.)—(Advfc.)