WAIRARAPA.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 106, 15 February 1873, Page 5

WAIRARAPA.

(from our own correspondent.) The official declaration of the poll took place outside the Court House, Greytown, on Saturday morning at 10 a.m. The following is the result :—Mr Bunny, 200 ; Mr Beetham, 182 ; Mr Pharazyn, 151; Mr Toomath, 113 ; Mr Renall, 89 ; Mr Masters, 30. N Messrs Bunny, Beetham, and Pharazyn were declared duly elected. Messrs Beetham and Pharazyn then thanked the electors for the honor conferred upon them. The numerous friends of Mr Donald, Mania, will regret to learn that he has been seized with a severe illness. Drs Grace, Smith, and Spratt have been in attendance. lam sorry I can record no signs of amendment as yet. Mr Bunny has promised to use his influence in procuring the services of Mr Blackett to inspect the Waiohine, and advise as to the best method of resisting its encroachments.

A meeting of the shareholders of the Wairarapa Boiling-down Company was held in the coffee-room of the Institute on Friday last, H. T. Wardell, Esq., in the chair. The report stated that an offer had been made for the premises by Mr A. Ellis of £45 a year, for a term of three years. This offer had been accepted by the directors. The statement of receipts and expenditure for the past year showed a balance in the hands of the treasurer of £24 odd. The liabilities, to the amount of £lB, will have to be deducted from the above amount, No dividend vyas declared, lam not aware of there ever having been any dividend, yet the benefit to Wairarapa has been great. I regret to announce the death of Mrs Hooker, wife of Mr Thomas Hooker, of Belvedere Saw Mills. She had been in infirm health for a considerable time. Her funeral took place on Saturday, and was numerously attended. The death of Mr William Groves, of Castle Point, previously announced by telegram, was very sudden. He had been a resident at Castle Point for many years, and is much regretted. Much interest is taken in the East Wairarapa elections ; it is hard to say how it will go. The Valley will vote for MiBarton, while Whareama, East Coast, will vote for" Mr Andrew. If Mr Andrew be at the head of the poll, it will be by a very narrow majority. In this" election as in that of Wairarapa West, it is men not measures that divide the electors. As in Wairarapa West personal friendship or the reverse too frequently swayed the electors, quite irrespective of the merits of the - different candidates, so it will be in that of Wairarapa East. The candidate who has most friends and fewest enemies wins the day. It may be a hard matter to set aside all feelings of friendship or animosity in selecting representatives, yet no election conducted under such circumstances can be a fair and just one. In the Wairarapa West election, the contest was seen to be between Mr Pharazyn and Mr Toomath. Mr Toomath's non-residence militated much against his success. To those who heard his addresses this was sufficiently explained. So much siipport was promised him everywhere that his success was thought certain. Mr Pharazyn's committee though small was most energetic, and in Greytown wrought up the electors so nicely as to give Mr Pharazyn a large majority in the very place where Mr Toomath's success was assured. Though on public grounds a tooth and nail opponent of Mr Pharazyn's, I must compliment him on his success, and his committee on their electioneering skill.

Artesian wells are beginning to attract attention in Greytown. lam empowered to state that, already a sum of about £3O is promised on certain conditions to any one who will undertake the task of boring one in Greytown. The subject has just been mooted. When further ventilated a nrach larger sum will be obtainable. I hope some one will undertake the task.