SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8792, 30 April 1890, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

Auckland, April 20. TIIE CUMULATIVE VOTE.

There is great indignation over the way in J which the cumulative vote has been exercised at 1 some of the school committee elections. The chairmau of the City Schools' Committee, Mr I Gorrie, who has served as such since the Education Act has been iv force, and done splendid 3 service, was thrown out, aud a caudidate placed . at the head of the poll whose " publio " services 3 have principally consisted in forwarding the mll terests of the Licensed Victuallers' Association ot licensing elections. The city householders were so indignant that a resolution was passed by a majority, iv the ratio of 10 to 1, that the incoming committee communicate with the Government requesting them to ; take steps to repeal tho cumulative clauses of the Education Act. At tba election men were detected attempting to vote twice, and the chairman (Mr Speight) impounded a bunch of voting papers which one man was attempting to place in the box, not allowing them to ba opened. Councillor Crowther, one of (he \ candidates elected, said he had 23 employes 1 entitled to vote, aud all he had to do if he had ' liked was to bring them in and record 154 votes for himself. The whole thing, ho said, was simply monstrous, and he declined to be a party to it. Matters were not much better in tne of the suburbs. The ex-mayor (Mr Devore) aud chairman of the Ponsonby School Committee for years past was placed fifth on the list, the poll being headed by a candidate by 50 of a majority over his fellows, who had got the benefit of the cumulative vote. There is a geueral feeliog that those clauses of the act originally intended to protect a minority are being grossly abused, and Bhould bo repealed. DISCOVERY OF AN HEIR. A detective and lawyer's clerk, who succeeded iv unearthing Joseph Thomas Levien working at a mill in Kaituna Valley, Marlborough, heir to a property worth £75,000 in Sydney, left for Sydney to-day. Matters are all in trim for the trustee handing it over to Levien. The property was left by LeVien's grandfather, Mr Roberts. AUDITING. Somo time back the Auditor-general refused to sifin the accounts of the Auckland College and Grammar School, owing to the expenditure ou prizes for sports aud for exhibits to tho Dunedio Exhibition. The forme- was satisfactorily explained, aud the auditor has vow waived bis objectiou to tho latter, owing to the exceptional niture of the expenditure. THB TAILORESSES' STRIKE. The members of the Tailoresses' Union on strike have taken to walking down to M'Bride's factory iv thu evening and beating those who have rs;m.ijied in or gone back to work. To-night some of the forewomen were takeu home in c.bs and followed to their residences and hooted. Inspector Broham and a detachment of police and detectives were dowu at the I factory to-night when the jricls cam . out from j wo-k._ M'Uriue states that ho intends layiug '] jan information against tbo ringleaders. I '.