NOT YET CONCLUDED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume X, Issue 2026, 15 September 1883, Page 2

NOT YET CONCLUDED

The JSkomIjKV- WILMOKKoase hei*advanced another stage, but it has not been .d.sposed of yot ; — not by a very long way indeed. It is much too good a thing for the lawyers to let slip through their hands. One doubt has been set at rest. Miss Wilmoro is not Mrs Bromley. The lt.M. said he knew this to be so ; lie knew it judicially. How he came to know he did not say. ' But why did he not say ? He would certainly not have made the assertion if it were not not true ; and we would imagine there should have been no secret in the matter, especially when so much hinges on it. Such reticence on the part of the R.M. has been widely discussed.

THE REASON WHY

Hero are some of the reasons each candidate gave at the close of Thursday's election why he was not returned : He would have been returned if it nad not been for tho betting. The very friends who had asked him to stand voted on the opposite direction. Should have got in if the ratepayers had understood his scheme for raising money and boring for oil. Because the newspapers did not back him up. Would have been at the top of the poll if old "Sad-dle-trees had retired. Would have been curtain to have buen put in if Silverings had not stood. Would have got in had the weather allowed his supporters to get oui and record their votes. There had been no niisiake about his election only Mr. Samuf.l got hold of Ins supporters and drove them up in his traps, when they could but- feel grateful to Mr. Samuel by each of them giving him a vote. Would have been sent in at ihe top of the poll instead of being at the bottom because everybody thought his return was so safe that only fourteen ratepayers troubled themselves to vote fov him. Would have stood the best show in the crowd if he had been a publican. Would have been elected if he had canvassed, but he never asked for a vote. Would have been all right if the Returning Oilicer, the Poll Clerk and the two scrutineers had not laid their heads together to keep him low down on the poll. Would yet be in his place in the Council if the Government have the ballot papers examined to show how the box was stnli'ed. The above are samples of what the candidates had to say tor themselves after tiie declaration of the poll on Thursday night. But ihere was one opinion expressed in common by all the defeated candidates. This was, that they felt very glad after all that they had not been returned. To be a Councillor was to be bullied by the ratepayers, and blackguarded iv the newspapers, besides having to sit up till midnight once a week te listen to a lot of rot and twaddle being spouted.