WELLINGTON SEATS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 119, 18 November 1908, Page 5

WELLINGTON SEATS.

[PKKBB ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, last night. Great interest was manifested inthe elcctious today, and judging from the crowdg in the streets.. it 4 appeared certain thli^ a^events to^oight haye proved, fife polling Was heavy. A feature of the. ? city returns is the number of second ballots required. ■- The Wellington Central elections aroused perhaps the keenest excitement. It was diffibult to speculate on the -result, and probably few were surprised when -the returns gave Mr Fisher the narrow margin to, the good of 152 votes. The seamen's and absentees, votes are yet. to. come in to •*the Mimber of 183. It is, therefore, just possible, but extremely improbable, that Mr Hislop' may win the second ballot. The second ballot for Wellington East will bo between Messrs Atkinson, a former member of tho House of Re*--presentatives, and Mr David McLaren, tho Labor candidate. Mr McLaren has sat for some years on the Wellington City Council, and he was a candidate for Wellington East at the 1906 election, when he polled 763 votes, compared with 1741 to-day. Very large crowds congregated tonight to see the results posted on the newspaper bulletin boards. The people were extremely orderly. Ringing, cheers went, up as the results were displayed. The night was calm, fine and warm, and under these circumstances the people stayed out till a late? hour. Addresses were delivered by a number of successful and unsuccessful candidates.