THE NEW PARLIAMENT.
THE RE-COUNTING OF VOTES. It would be too much to expect an election to pass oif without some rumours of :orruption, upsetting of successful candidates, wrong counts, &c, but the gentlemen who set afoot this class of stories are particularly in evidence at the present time— even more so than usual. If half the stories we now hear were to be believed another election would be inevitable. We have made enquiries, hpwever, and are able to state — at any rate in respect to the City electorate — that most of tho rumours that have reached us are without material foundation. The scrutiny so far has shown no unusual proportion of errors in the count, but the number of dual votes is rather larger than usual. There are numbers of stories in circulation concerning the Suburbs election, but these on investigation will probably end in smoke. AH the electoral rights have not yet been returned, and the final result of the polling hero will probably be known within the next day or two.
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Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 1170, 9 December 1896, Page 6
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174THE NEW PARLIAMENT. Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 1170, 9 December 1896, Page 6
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