MINING BOARD ELECTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 139, 26 April 1862, Page 4

MINING BOARD ELECTION

The following is the result of the election for JVlemTjors of the Mining Board, Tuaijeka :— Bnxlie .. .. .. 243 , M'Masters SWS . White 103 Caplis l'Ji ' . M'fntyre .. ... "... ISO - Savago 177 • Clarke 104 l'iirrel 15.7 : (ia&coigne I^3 Chappie W2 Hose .77

The first seven are therefore elected. The pro-ceedings-were of a very orderly character, and. but for the iacb 'thai; the: entire arrangement;! for';taking, votes.: have -been so miserably bungled, would have passed' off both to the satisfaction of candidates and voters. "As 'it is, 'owing- to there being,only one polling booth, large numbers of men were unable to record their votes, the crowd, being, so great at the entrance :as to prevent anyone going, .inside to record his , vote, unless ; : indeed he was not particular, to, having - the ■* best"' portion of their'garments in their hands'. ■• For fully three hours it was impossible to get near the polling; -booth ; and at -1 o'clock; the tiacUor closing tJie goi.l, there were scores of miners outside, waiting; to .record their votes.1 As a matter of course, there were an atheinas both loud and deep, hurled against the supposed authors. of this neglect, and at: one time so. great was the excitement aud indignation, that there seemed a probability of the polling-booth being taken by storm. From what can be ascertained, more tlian a thousand miners recorded their votes; and at least thiee times that number would have done so, had ihere been an opportunity in the immediate neighborhood of their work, to unable them to do this, without losing a whole day's labor. It is to be hoped that before another election takes place, more satisfactory arrangements will have been made. . The ollicial declaration of the poll will bo made tomorrow. ' Death op Miss "Woodfall. —A passing mention must here be made of the death of one who, though not directly, was incidentally connected with literature —of Miss Woodfall, the daughtsr of Henry Sampson Woodfall, the first publisher of Junius's letters ! She was of great age—ninety-four—born, therefore, before Junius had made his first appearance, and long before the United States of America had existence. ' As she resided with her father until his death in ISO 3, she may bi considered as the last direct authority on the subject of those letters. Though not unwilling to converse about Juuiu3, and a good test of an anecdote, she really knew but little, and, :is we believe, for the best of all reasons, that her father knew but little that was not known to nil. She rcsidod for many years in Dean's Yard, Westminster, where she whs universally respected; and the dean and chapter have, we hear, kindly acceded to her known wish to be buried in the cloisters, and Dean Trench lias volunteered to read the funeral service. What a link in tradition is thus lost! The \Yoodfalls have been, more or less, connected with literature and literary men for two centuries; before the days of Tope certainly, who gave half-a-crown to Henry Sampson, when a child, for reading a page ot Homer.— Athcncaum. . Pki-voi: Al*-iu;d. Prince Alfred is expected to return to England next month, which is the earliest time possible, in consequence of the unavoidable delay which occurred in the transmission of tne letters s°nt out announcing the meUncnoly intelligence of the te-riblc bereavement which had iallen on him and the rest of flic Jioynl family, and recall] iipc Prince Alfred to"Unhand. The St. Orcorge, in which-the Prince is sei-yin"', had left the \Vest Indies for Mexico Wo days befurothe letters arrived at the 'former .station., A numerous deputation from Lancashire and Yorkshire Ins waited upon Lord l'nlmerston and Sir C. Wood, with reference, to the Indian Tariff. The Ministers declined to make any promise as to the Abolition of the Cotton importduties. The Victorian Cross has been conferred on Major It. 11. Kontinge, C'apt. James Biair, Lieuts. U. Or. Balser, W. F. V. Waller, and ,T. C. C. Dayies, M. Cupnian, A.' Mayo, J. N. and Conductor Miller."The regulations for the twelve additional line regiments have been issued from the Horse Guards. . Shock iku Cask op Child Muhdek. —At the County Petty Sessions, Coventry, or Friday, a middle aged woman named Anne Lole, a widow, was brought up, charged with the wilful miuder of her illegitimate child on the 17th of January last. It appeared that the child was born on the 20th December last, and was then remarked to be strong and healthy. A few days afterwards several female neighbors noticed that it had several sores about its body. They attributed them to boiling water, but the prisoner denied that such could possibly be the "case. The sores became worse, until, according to some of the witnesses, its little hands were raw, and its nails were oft.1 _ When its clothes ■were removed, nearly all the sum came from its body. At the request of the neighbors, the prisoner consulted Mr. Orton, surgeon, who concurred with his assistant in attributing the sores to the application of boiling water, as the prisoner's neighbors had previously done. Mr. Orton told the prisoner his suspicions, but she denied having scalded the child. When the prisoner returned she falsely told her neighbors that it arose from " inflammation of .the liver." The child lingered till the 17th of January, when death terminated its sufferings. A post mortem examination showed that it died from no natural disease, but from the injuries inilicttd upon its person by the application from time to time of boiling water. The Bench1 committed the prisoner for trial/for "wilful murder."— Times, February 25.