THE COLONIST PUBLISHED TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, AND SATURDAYS. NELSON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1874.

Colonist, Volume XVI, Issue 1809, 12 September 1874, Page 3

THE COLONIST PUBLISHED TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, AND SATURDAYS. NELSON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1874.

Since our last, the election of four members for the City Council has taken place, and the result has been that two out of the four gentlemen brought forward by the Eeform League, namely Messrs Haddow and Stringer, have been returned, the other two being a late member and a former member of the Board of "Works —(Messrs. W. Wright and J. E. Hooper). While, therefore, the League may feel content at one half of the persona they

proposed being returned, the non-Leaguer s of this community may, we thiuk also feel content that two who have not professed themselves strenuous reformers, but who should be accredited for moderately progressive views, have also been returned to represent the middle party to which many incline. With several, the fact of some of the candidates being the nominees of a Reform Association at all, was sufficient to exclude them from the benefit of a vote, but this feeling was not widely spread amongst the earnest part of the community, who, taught by experience to what a pass a Province may be brought by the hisses faire failing, have hailed the formation of the Eeform Association as one of the necessary means to disentangle the knotted skein which for so long has tied up our Province. A commendable desire, also, to recognise the pains which some of our citizens have imposed upon themselves in their pursuit of men and means for the satisfactory couduct of our affairs, happily, led many to vote so that, as the result shows, fifty per cent, of the members returned were advanced under the banner of the League. The Burgess Koll contains 641 names. More than half (318) of these, according to the roll, possessed five votes and 209 four votes each, but little more than a third (270) of the full number went to the poll. One of the unsuccessful candidates, Mr. Levien, after the declaration of the poll, entered a written protest against the proceedings, as shown in another column.