ELECTION ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8065, 28 September 1887, Page 5

ELECTION ITEMS.

Mb. Moss's committee are iuvited to meet him at the Presbyterian School this evening at eight o'clock.

Mr. Withy, in our advertising columns, thanks the Newton electors for returning him.

The official declaration of the poll of Manukau will be made at noon on Friday, and of Eden on Saturday at 4 p.m. At 10 a.m. to-morrow (Thursday), at declaration of poll, Auckland .North, Mr. Samuel Vaile will deliver a short address upon the action of the Press in relation to his election. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDKNTS.)

Hamilton, Tuesday. — Inspector Kiely had made excellent police arrangements in both the Waikato and Waipa districts, and everything passed off peaceably and orderly. The ouly case calling for interference by the police was the arrest of a voter at Cambridge for personation. Campbell loses his £10 deposit. Kossell, Tuesday.—The official declaration of the poll takes place on Thursday next at four o'clock.

Te Aroha, Tuesday.—The large majorities obtained by Mr. Gill at Te Aroha, Katikati, and one or two other places from which returns were earliest received, led to the hope that he would head the poll. Mr. Kelly's success came, therefore, as an unpleasant surprise. But for the hopeless candidature of Captain Kerr, who, in receiving the support of the New Zealand Alliance, deprivod Mr. Gill of .many votes, there can be no doubt the result of the election would have been different. Almost as much iniarest was manifested here in the Waikato as in the Tauranga election, and the success of the old representative for the district was the occasion for much rejoicing among the numerous friends of Mr. Whyte in this neighbourhood. Wellington, Tuesday.—The whole of the Ministers are expected to assemble by the end of the week, when they will consider what action they will take in regard to their position. Wellington, Tuesday.—All the Wellington papers are severe to-day on the manifestation of larrikinism which occurred in the Wellington streets last night. A band of young fellows paraded the streets, pelting respectable people with rotten eggs and haodfuls of flour. Ladies and children, as well as men, were subjected to this form of outrage. Mrs. Menteath, the wife of the newly elected member for Te Aro, has won great applause here by her courage and pluck in assisting her husband's candidature. She is a lady in every sense of the word, according to the testimony of all ladies who know her. It was curious to see her on the box of a four«horse brake, bringing up the stevedores and whatf labourers to the polling place, they cheering the little lady vigorously, and she evidently proud of the compliments from these " real labourers of the day." I understand that Lady Stout and Mrs. J. C. Brown did excellent service for their husbands on the polling day.