COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTIONS.

Southland Times, Issue 3249, 16 November 1878, Page 2

COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTIONS.

; The poll for the" b£ a representative for the Winton Biding, of the •Southland" County Council District, took place on "Wednesday. The ret^ng.niembprj Mr H. 0. Sgrpull, sought re-electiony bu^ was opposed^ lay Mi ! j. Thomson} senr. ' Polling booths were: ppened* j at Wintbii andiDipibon, ttiefprnier^ being presided r dvef ; By Sir ESmund Rogers/ '•* and, the lattet iby \ MrT Willoughbyv ' ? The ji&r;i sult,6f the ; election. ; was officially /declared j on Thursday at W.inton, inthe presence.of a small. (gathering of-persons, amongst- whom a I was Mr Sproull, the .tmsuccessfolrcandiaate. TKe'Tfiumbers were! as f follows. :^-Eor -Mr,\ Thonwon^Winton, 157. ; For Mr Sproull— * "pnton^ 127 .; .. Dipton," 22 ;, -total, v 449; ; >No ; • votes .were recorded^at Diptpn.for Mr .Thomson, (but. notwithstanding that fact he still*headed' the.pollby; means of his large fpllbwr -» ing at *Winton "by 8. votes. : .roar; votes j^erey declared informal by 'the Returning' Officer, i an.d.Sj.enclpsedtathe^etura^gpfficerin en-^." .v6lppes were Wceived under' prptest,.btit ! dot*, opened. Co tisiderable,' dissatisf action afos6"*" during the' day okijiig tp the imperfect condjl- ") tipn.of. the 'manuscript electoral roll, and 'the/' returning officer had' in consequence great ; difficulty in conducting the election. After the 'declaration o£ the poll a vo^te of thanks 0 yras ;pas^d; to the "returning 6ffic£y;bn thef inpttoh of Mr Sproull. .' '. :v * . The Vacant seat in the Southland County "~ Council for the Waihopai Eiding, to which " 4li ; Bfydotie," the retiring member, did not" seek re-election, was contested by Mr Ahdrew ! ' Kinross and' Mr Robert M'cCalliim. The-, number of vctes recprded was npt large, and the result wa3 an exceedingly . close one, Mr Kinross only heading the poll by one vote. The totals were : — Kinross, 70 j McCallum, ■6fc :<;.■...•■.■■■■■.•,.•; ; The result of the contest between Messrs Miles Reginald Bree and Thomas; Mac Gibbon f op <the Gore seat on the Southland County 7 C6une}],has resulted ia the returnjof ,thelatt^rr gentleman. ' ' ■ - '„,/' ' ;^ The fgllowing are the gentlemen returned' as members of the Southland County Council'^ in the various ridings, with the exception of Fortrpse, thej returns for which are not' yet to hand,':— Awarua, Mr John H. Smith ; Wai-' lacetown, Mr' A. Baldey; Winton, Mr Johiu. Thomson, sen. ; Waihopai, Mr Andrew Kinross ; Gore, Mr T. Mac Gibbo n; Waikaia, Mr P. & McCaughan; Qreti, Mr .Cuthbert .Cowan ; and Wyndham, Mr ! James Gi ' Shanks.. , r.. '. . a -.