THE Grey River Argus PUBLISHED DAILY WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1876.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXI, Issue 2316, 12 January 1876, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus PUBLISHED DAILY WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1876.

To-day the election for two representatives for the Grey Valley in the Parliament of New Zealand takes place, and probably by this evening it will be known of the four candidates which two have been taken, and which other left. We have little to add to what we have previously expressed, regarding the merits of the candidates. They have each stumped the district very industriously, and their several views are well-known to the electors, and from all appearances there will be more interest displayed upon this than upon former occasions of the kind, and, no doubt, a very large number of votes will be recorded. But we may Bay emphatically that out of the four candidates Mr Martin- Kennedy should be one of those returned, for reasons that we have repeatedly urged. It is of minor consequence which of the three others gets in, for in fact there is not much choice between them. It is purely a matter of personal selection, and as we have no predilection for any of them, and base our opinions upon public grounds only, we can only advise the electors to secure Mr Kennedy's return, with anyone else as his colleague they may think fit. The various polling-places are as follows : — The Resident Magistrate's Court, Grey mouth M'Gregor's Old Store, Paroa School-House, Marsden Warden's Court, Greenstone Warden's Court, Dnnganville, Clifton Warden's Court, Maori Gully, Arnold School- House, Brunnerton Warden's Court, No To»vn School-House, Hatter's Terrace, Nelson Creek Court-House, Ahaura Archibald's Dwelling - House, Middle Township, Moonlight School-House, Granville, Half -Ounce. School- House, Noble's, Waipuna M'Hardie's Buildings, Little Grey Resident Magistrate's Court, Reefton School-House, Black's Point Mathew's Beading Rooms, Caplestown Warden's Court, Cobden M'llroy's Store, Seventeen-Mile Beach. We should mention that it has transpired that a number of miners' rights renewed in the Nelson Province have not had the renewal properly stamped or initialed by the proper officer, but are simply marked "renewed" in writing, and that on this account the returning officers will not be allowed to receive them. If there are many cases of this kind great inconvenience and injustice will be occasioned through the carelessness, of those whose duty it is to comply with the law. Such renewed rights might not perhaps be questioned in a Warden's Court, but they do not fulfil the conditions of the law relating to elections.