ELECTION OF MAYOR.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4725, 25 November 1886, Page 2

ELECTION OF MAYOR.

The annual election of Mayor took place yesterday, A good deal of interest was manifested in the polling. Traps were running for the candidates, and the friends of each were particularly active in their canvass for votes. Shortly after six the result was declared, the following being the votes recorded : — T. W. Porter 153 H. E. Kenny 56 Informal... ... ••• 2 Owing to the early stage at which the result was arrived at only some few persons were present at the declaration. Major Porter briefly thanked the ratepayers for the honor they had conferred on him. Mr Kenny said he desired, in the first plac', to thank the ladies and gentlemen who had voted for him. The electors, in theexerciseof their discretion, had thought fit to place Major Porter at the top of the poll, and he (Mr Kenny) accepted the result in good humour and without bitterness. Major Porter had been good enough to say that ho (Mr Kenny) had acted in a most gentlemanly way throughout the election. He (Mr Kenny) certainly supposed that no election was ever contested with less of personal feeling so far as the candidates themselves were concerned. He respected Major Porter as a private individual, and he had in no way, flirectly or indirectly, assailed him personally. On the other hand ho felt quite sure that Major Porter had not instigated or inspired the dastardly attacks which had been made upon himself, and he did not hold Major Porter responsible for them. It was with pleasure not unmixed with a good deal of surprise, that he heard Major Porter declare that he was not going into office as the creature of any party or faction in the town. For the best interests of the town, and indeed of the district also he trusted that this might be the case. If Major Porter would only consult the dictates of his own conscience and act upon his own judgment instead of trying to curry a little evanescent popularity, ho would prove as good a Mayor in the future as he had done in the past, and the electors would have no reason to regret their choice.