Winton.

Southland Times, Issue 12773, 5 December 1893, Page 4

Winton.

(from our own correspondent). ■ The Borough Council met on the Ist instant. Present—the Mayor and Councillors Starkey, McWilliam, Cameron, Liddell, and McCormack. The clerk was directed to require a person who had burned the gorse hedge and fence at the recreation grounds to make the same good, failing which legal proceedings to be taken. The procuring of a supply of office requisites was authorised, and accounts amounting to L4l IGs 4d were passed for payment. At a recent meeting of the Jockey Club a letter was read from the secretary to the Metropolitan Club ruling that first and second money should be divided in a dead heat. Mr W. Mcßae was given a fortnight to make good his objection to the handing over of the stakes won by Toby in the Trot. Accounts amounting to L 47 2s Id were passed for payment. At the la t Templar meeting six candidates were initiated and two proposed. By way of enteitainmeat we had extracts from the Hope of Winton Chronicle, a paper started under the editorship of one of the recently enfranchised, and to be specially devoted to the advocacy of temperance views of all shades. Other articles, however, found places in the first issue, specially an account of the Hon. J. G. Ward’s recent meeting here. The greatest victories have not infrequently some humiliating feature connected with them, and so the glorious extension of the franchise to the fair sex contained in it at that meeting evidence of an unlooked for lack of chivalry on the part of the sterner sex towards the women electors, and this of course came in for a share of notice in the correspondence columns of the new paper. On the sth inst. the Lodge is to devote the greater portion of the evening to discussing temperance. 4th Dec.