The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1879.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 204, 9 September 1879, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1879.

The last scene of the electioneering drama which has been played here for the last fortnight was acted at the Provincial Hall today, when the official declaration was made of the poll in the Nelson and Suburbs districts. Successful and defeated candidates vied with one another in expressing their gratification at the good humoured manner in which the elections have passed off, and altogether they, to all appearances, formed about as happy and united a family as, under the circumstances, could possibly be gathered together. At the Licensing Court this morning the license for the Postboy Hotel was transferred from the late A I). Black to his widow Sarah Black. The half-yearly meeting of the Naval Brigade will be held at the Port Public Hall to-night at half-past seven. The Wellington Chronicle must be credited with one of the most ingenious attempts we have yet seen to catch the Good Templar vote, or rather to direct it against a candidate to whom it was opposed. Our contemporary says :— " It pains us to think that some of the Good Templars are acting unwisely in supporting Mr Hunter as the champion of local option. Mr Hunter, as a merchant, has been a large dealer in wines, spirits, ales, and intoxicating liquors generally. He has made large sums of money out of the drink traffic— a traffic which in Wellington has sent hundreds of strong men to the grave and left many penniless wives : a nd helpless children to the cold cn *" t y of the world, which has largely aided to nil the lunatic asylums and the prisons and which, in truth, has produced enormous and wide-spread evil. Yet on the profits of that traffic Mr Hunter has "clothed himself in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day." How i, it tbata section of the Good lemplars support this man who has waxed rich on the gains of this traffic?"

The Hokitika election resulted in the return of Messrs It. C. Reid and Seddon. The/V. Z. Times of yesterday says: — There was some rather sharp work with reference to the conveyance of voters to Blenheim. y ir Seymour's friend* chartered the steamer Napier to go there, and just as the vessel was about starting from the wharf at midnight on Saturday with eight ardent Seymonrites, these geutlcmeu were startled by tindiug that uiue others had come aboard, who wanted to be|at Blenheim to-day to give their votes for Mr Henderson. As might very naturally have been expected, those who had chartered the little steamer strongly objected to the Ileudersqnitcs travelling in the same boat with them, consiikhug that they wanted to row with different electoral oars ; but the latter refused to leave, giving ag their reason that the Napier was a passenger vessel, and therefore, provided that she had sufficient accommodation, they could not be turned ashore. The captaiu was appealed to, and the result was that Mr Henderson will be minus nine votes on the termination of the polling for the Wairati district to-day. Mil. Mabin wili hold an auction to-morrow at the lied Horse Hotel, Kichmond, particulars of which will be seen in his advertisement. A trap will leave his Nelson Auction Rooms at noon, taking persons to the sale, but in case anyone should misa it, they will be in ticue if they leave by the 2 p.m s, train. George Augustus Sala leaves for the Sydney Exhibition to represent the Daily Telegraoh. An English cricketing team, comprising Daft (captain), Ulyett, Lockwood, Punder, Emmett, Selby, and Skewsbury, have sailed for Quebec to play a series of matches in Canada and the States.