Political Notes.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6020, 10 December 1890, Page 3

Political Notes.

A scrutiny of the elector* ro\h in conmotion with the Napier made this evening. It w beli ««* «»«■ were eighteen oases of double votingIn oar list of returns on Saturday, -Mr "Drake (Labor) headed Mr Beeves (OppoluSet by L vote only tho numbex. beinir Drake 1111, Beeves UlO- Agrees Sation menage received this njonunß a&ye that after a scrutiny votes wue Quoted from Mr Reeves and ninei from Mr Drake, thus the former is elected by one vote, the corrected numbers being Beeves 1103, Drake 1102. Mr T Ij. Buick, the new member for Waimea-Pioton, i> a carpenter by tra.le mot a baker, and that of being ,tbirty-five years of ago he ia barely twenty../ftro and therefore probably tho youngest t member of the new House. \ The following was the voting at Auckland :-Bhera 200(5, Thomson 1860, Kees 1761, Porter 1501, Napier 1319, WalUe7«, and Farnall 250.

Thore was one tolerably well authenticated oaee during the election in this district of a man having risen from the dead to record hie 7oto. In one of the polling places a name was found on the roll, the owner of -fwhioh, according to returning officer and ..Bomtineers, hud been dead two years. _ They • therefore, crossed that name out, having no wjzpectation that the individual in question would lay aside his harp, hie orown, ami his robes, Aon moleskins, and want to exowiee f Ha earthly franchise. Two hours after, L ▼ever, in walked the very man, asked 2£. ballot paper, and, having refused to 'rfmtt ,>* h ° dead, BOt the Paper a " Toted l> n S itikei Advocate. • L- tof the rolls in relation to the A eorahn/« lno ta Mr Drabo) an d the old member back into tha House. The Auckland Central «£ ', SaturJrpetitn : >&or asking that he will , lianient at once, as tho petitic 3 £•*"» that it ie necessary for tho pubi te '""** that the new Parliament should .T'f immodiato cootrol of tlie government •' V \ p colony, the petitioners believing it to , r° unconstitutional and improper for a defesu ** I Ministry to carry on tho work of tho Gov-' ( ernment. |

In speaking at tlie declaration of tho poll j for Mount Ida Mr Scobio Mackenzie naid ! that in one sense tho contest had been a melancholy ono, as he had to djsplaco a gentleman with whom ho was on the best terms, and who had many strong claims to t ho sympathy of tbo electors awl of lumsclt, to*, it was a contest, and he had to fiirht and . not t0 bandy empty and hypocritical -words. Shr Robert Stout asserts that ho will not ro . enter l>rliamentevou»uouia one of tho favor.

SSSK 6 . Si tf.t theOpp-Uonnad ToW mainrit\ '. and consequently were 111 Goyscnmeut to ™« g should be called toge the* afconoo In the that there was matew.il in lV P"'* *° r ' good Ministry) Mr BaUanee .ur r y cm till April, and then formulate .* P" 1 which the Houeo could oritioiso. A • *" personnel of tho now Cabinet, Sir * J {i f Stout expressed the opinion that the *■- labor members wore men of ir-tolligence n moderate vievvti. He depreuutud any rovu ' lutionary change in the mr idenco of taxation, and thought that a lurul tax should be approached gradually by exemptions from f the property tax. He positively stated that he would not re-entei ■ politics. Mr George Beotham'/i defeat for the Maalcrton seat has oxcit ed gt-Tiorn-l regret throughout this provir oial district and amongst the members of the late House, ■ irrespective of party. Mr Beethain was personally ouo of tho to oat popular men in > the House, nuA hf . was thoroughly "ntraight" politically . As a consistent Free Trader he was i .inch opposed to the action of Sir Harry A ckinson in introducing a protective tariff, bt it he nevertheless, on general grounds, ie rnained loyal to that leader. This waa tb c more creditable, ac Mr Beetham was pussed over when the Cabinet was chosen, although be had evury right to expect oifer of a Heat. Ho wan always attentive, to his Parliamentary

duties when in the colony, and was a thoroughly good membor for "Wellington generally.—Pest. [pee riwss association. I Invercaugilli, This day. The stoarnfr Despatch lfffc Biverton yesterchy for Conl Island, ono of thu polling places in tho Wallace district. ' She Wiis unable to go sooner, to the bud weather. Tho poll is to bo taken to-day, but only a few votes, and Mr Mclntosh has a majority of 163. Uncertainty prevails as to the validity of the poll, seeing ie was not taken on the statutory date.