ASHLEY DISTRICT.

Press, Volume XLVIL, Issue 7728, 6 December 1890, Page 5

ASHLEY DISTRICT.

JQnHng thenar "pit ""the ebctoen pollfnf f places in tire J Ashley' district the Keenestj activity prevailed/, Probably,th? area ot\ thla electorate Lβ on&xtt the xaosfrexteaeivej in the «olo»yy aed ifr includes Amuri,; Cheviot, with the northern ridings of thaf Ajhloy County, aaniely, Kowal, Mound Thomas. Ashley, aud Oxford. In fovmerdffetrlofc: the Besldena Ma&tatrafo'ej Oburs at 'West Oxford was the eaief jfclH ing place, bat with the alteration ottMb' boundaries, and exCeflfclcm of the districts \ Ambatley Courthouse isadw feha principal ! polling plaoe. There Mc 0, , theßecurajtag Officer, trae busily engaged i all day, and ao the cloae of. the Vo(;Idk at 6 ;pum. t owing to theexceUeat made to getia the returns, able with the | atatf of deputies and mcntii o£ cotomuiiE. 1 catioa employed, to make nptho results,': AbtJut 10 p.m., the latest' rettu;ns l)elisg \ birotiffht in by Mr B. J. Paseone jErpm *' H&wl:ewood, ' m.Ues t , to *" Walaa, and thence telegraphed i and ; iroin St. Helens, Hanmer Piaia*, , twe'ttty- 4 ; f6u? paUes co Oalverden, by Mr T. I-yiwJtecy, 1 and thence sent-by wife to Aiaberky. Thefe *was s considerable arapsnO J ■61 escetteraent. -Mr T, WUdo% acblkl jao Deputy Eoturnlng Officer Iα the,," * lQ*fbra Coarthouee. At AraSJQrley I thfere w&a a conetaat of voters * being Brought in all day*s4d a* Urge . gathering o£ persons about at thfe* polling ; 1 place till a late boar to learn the resale , At Oulverden there was a good ■, d«gM of : driviDfe to aud fro in ihe'interee'is otMs?,, | , Lance, whose position 'from this 'point ♦ i con hoards was looked on. during the ; election' as merely unassslhtbKv - The i nombarof peraonbm the Ashley',district ,J ie %2&, and the nominal populatlqu ftades "\ . the present system of regfa&ratkjtf 1)037 ; } on the electoral roll, 2360. v The following are the returns :*-<; •' ♦ r ' McrtdieJi, r Xauce. itoberiey •» 115 . , 01.. 'Jl Walau 9 31' » i "-U Cheviot HUla .„ 10 12 ;;. ~H ' w 4Y . JM' - '. v {, % ... .... 60 " ..jffl* i, ':■ ... U . ."f?^::.^ ; Bt.Heleni»- ~ .7,' .; MT iLi^S HawkDwood 0 .-,.,'. ft . „„,. 4 : . CabbageTreetlafc S . ~'lB*'" .','■' l view &vi • ;.»• sa f .• i ;is \,..,',3 Nortiht.obam u -' -28* . .*. Q Jxjb'ara.,,, , ...j 23 85 ~; 4 !; . ;,,s*, IS. j,, , v , ; -4t. ir j, v , a il ?