Motukaraka.

Northern Advocate, 9 December 1893, Page 7

Motukaraka.

[Own CorniEsi'ONDEST.] THE ELECTION. The polling here was without excitement of any description, but there can be no hesitation in saying that the Government candidate certainly had not Government assistance here. All the influence of Government representatives here went to tho other fellow. There was a gentle breeze before the polling commenced between the schoolmaster and a school committeeman. The committeeman asked the schoolmaster if he : was aware that- it was a public holiday, and that the schoolhousq should be used for polling in. The schoolmaster replied that he understood that the polling was in the same place as last, election (a corner of the unoccupied teacher's residence) and the school went on all tho same. Tho (committeeman retorted that tho laws of the countiy must bo respected, and when children wore taught to break the laws of the country they

would very soon learn to break the Divine laws also. Hie schoolmaster said that he considered some of the laws of the country were not right, and he therefore would not observe them. To this the other replied, that right br wrong, the laws of the country must be respected, even if a law is wrong it must be obeyed till it is altered. „ There -were several applications *f or': registration sent in in good time by ladies and others, but froni some cause or other not yet explained, their names do not appear on the roll. In time it will probably come out why these persons have been disfranchised this election.