THE MAYORALTY.
In our Wednesday’s issue we announced the result of the polling for Mayor. Only one informal vote was recorded, Mr Milroy addressed the small crowd of electors a few minutes after the numbers were declared, and said: I have to thank you very much for the position you have placed me in to-day, and I must apologise for giving you so much trouble in taking you away from your employments. It was only at the last hour that I thought of contesting this scat, to enable you to record your votes if you wished ; and I hope your trust in me to-day will not be misplaced. My interests in this town lie with yonrs, and in promoting my own benefit I shall be promoting the best interests of all. I hope you will have no cause to regret the trust you have placed in me to-day. (Applause.) Mr Sherwood stepped forward and said : I have very frequently had the pleasure of thanking you for having given me a victory, but now, though I cannot thank yon for giving me a defeat, I can do so for having placed me in so good a position on the poll. I have shown how I can conduct myself in your interest after a victory, and I will now show yon how I can conduct myself in defeat. I have heard one remark by an elector that Storey’s paddock turned the scale to-day. Mr Paul: Yes, Storey’s paddock did it. Mr Sherwood : I shall take consolation from that, for I did not mislead the people of Storey’s paddock, unless I did so by telling the truth as to their position. Yon, of course, are entitled to return whoever you please, and I can only heartily hope that the gentleman you have now 7 elected will be able to do much better than I have done. I think that is the best wish I can express for the whole place. The question of the progress of the town has been before yon in various forms from time to time. Had it not been so, I would have bad a public meeting ; but I con sidered that yon had decided at the ballot-box in favor of improvements. I can say, with Mr Milroy, that my interests also lie in this place, and that they may be quite as much as his ; and therefore it is as much to my benefit that the town should progress as it is to his. And while I give him every credit for desiring to serve your interests, I hope he will do so heartily and push the place ahead. I can now retire with a conviction that all the years I have represented yon, I ’have done my duty without fear or favor. (Applause.) As the crowd began to disperse, and re-form in small groups, several cheers were given for the successful candidate.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 966, 1 December 1882, Page 3
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