The Inanhahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, JULY 28, 1884.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1423, 28 July 1884, Page 2

The Inanhahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, JULY 28, 1884.

Although the whole of the members just elected to the new Parliament have not declared themselves with equal clearness as to the party leaders they purpose to follow, sufficient can be gathered from the general tone of the electioneering addresses to make out a tolerably reliable list of the strength of each. In another column we give the names of the different members with the initial of the party to which they belong, and from which it will be seen that the electious have greatly purged the Ministerial ranks. No less than thirteen members of the late Parliament who voted with the Government on Mr Steward's amendment have been left out in the cold. The position of parties stands something as follows : —Supporters of the Atkinson or Ministerial party, 33 ; supporters of Sir Julius Yogel, 11 ; supporters of Sir George Grey 9 ; Oppositionists who have not declared their leader, 28 : Independent, 4 ; Doubtful 5, which with the four Maori j members constitutes the full Parliament of 94 members. It will thus be seen that the Atkinson Government are in a hopeless minority, and in »11 probability will resign immediately on the assembling of the House. The elections have also proved fatal to the power of Sir George Grey, 9 members only having declared their intention of accepting his leadership. The cotnparitively small following credited to Sir Julius Yogel may be accounted for by the uncertainty prevailing as to whether he intends to remain in the Colony, and this feeling removed there is little doubt the whole of the AntiMinisterial party will range under his banner. From this it will be seen that the North Island members are classified as follows: — Ministerialists, 21; Greyites, 5 ; Independent, 5 ; Opposition, 2 ; Vogelites 2 ; and Doubtful, 1. Total 36. The 54 South Island members are divided as follows :—Ministerial, 12 ; Opposition, 25; Vogelites, 9 ; Greyites 4; Doubtful, 3, and Independent, 1, total 54. In the old Parliament four of the five West Coast representatives voted with the Atkinson Minstry, and Mr Guinness, the i member for Greymouth, is now the only candidate returned as a supporter of that party, the other three being Vogelitps and the fourth a follower of Sir George Grey. The usual formal official scrutiny in connection with the recent election took place at the Court House, Reefton, on Saturday last, before Mr H. Lucas, Electoral Registrar of the district, and Mr J. S. Fitch, (scrutineer for Mr Menteath), and Mr J. Harold, (scrutineer for Mr R. Reeves). The official declaration of the poll will be made by the Returning Officer at noon to day. As Parliament is summoned to meet on the 7th August (Thursday week) the newly elected West Coast members will have very little time to arrange their private affairs before leaving for Wellington. Mr Menteath, the representative for Inangahua, leaves for Greymouth to-morrow morning, and in the event of no steamer leaving northwards in time, he will probably proceed overland to Christchurch. It was, we believe, Mr Menteath's intention to visit the different centres of the electorate before leaving, and confering with the people, but as he has to remain in Reefton until after the official declaration of the poll, he finds it is impossible to carry out that intention Mr Menteath will however be glad to receive communications from any of bis constituents on matters affecting the public welfare, and we doubt not that all representations so made will receive the fullest attention at his hands. There was a slight fall of snow in Reefton on Saturday evening last, and again yesterday, but it disappeared almost as quickly as it fell, to the great disappointment of Young Reefton. The temperature, however, continues very low, and from the dullness of the atmosphere it is evident that a heavy fall has taken place on the surrounding hills. On Wednesday morning last the Brunnerton ballot hox was " removed " fiom the hotel there where it had been left by the Deputy Returning officer, and information of the occurrence was shortly after communicated to the public through an appropriate channel. It appears, however, that the deputy returning officer had taken the precaution to remove everything from the box before allowing it out of his sight, and the box being therefore empty its conts were truly "of nn value." and hence, no doubt, the celerity with which it was returned.! We know Hop Bitters are above and beyond all as a nutritious tonic and curative. Read thoroughly the " Rougit on rats." — Clears out ratsmice, roaches, flies, ants, bed-bugs, beetles, insects, skunks, jack-rabbita, gophers. v Druggists. Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents, Christchurch. " Decline of man." — Nervous Weakness, Dyspepsia, Impotence, Sexual Debility,, cured by "Wells' Health Tienewpr." Druggists. TCompthorn<\