INGLEWOOD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10601, 29 April 1896, Page 2

INGLEWOOD.

[from otjr own correspondent.J The following are the names of the* newly elected Inglewood School Com* mittee and number of votes obtained by eaoh:— Tarplee 15, Alien 16, Spnrdle 15,, Storrlng 13, Bridgeman 11, Newland 10* J. P. Kennedy 10, H. P. Carstena 12> Surrey 13, Todd 10. There were three, who received 10 Totes each, and thfti second ballot resulted 88 follows;— J. P«. Kennedy 16, Newland 9, Todd 7. There were only 16 householders present. . MrTarplea was appointed chairman. As this report is not a long one, jwrbaps*. you could find space for the following bill given to one of .the candidates after aTrim election many years ago. A copjT of it was- fotmd in the County Meatif amongst the papers of Archdeacon O'Connell, Vicar-General of the Diocese ofMeath. The t»H ran thus:— My Bill, yer honer.— To eatfci l&freeholdersabove stairs for Sir Mark at 5s 6d a head-» to me £3 12a 9d ; To eatin 15 more below stairs and two men from Scotland afteir . supper— is to me £3 15s 9d; To 6 be'dsia ' one room and four in another, at two* I guineas every bed, and not rL'ore than* fom in any bed at a time, cheap enough,. [ God knows— is to me £32 18s; T* eata* 1 i$ horses and S males about ay -land* all night, at 15b every one of them, and for a man which was loo* en Jnead of watching them all night, is to m» £ 0 ss; for breakfast ortayin themornifigf for everyone of them, and as maay more as they brought, as near as I can guess, ia to me £4 12s ; to raw whisky and punch, without taking any account for hot water, and glasses of porter, and as well for breakfasting a lot above stairs, and for glasses, and delay for the first day ontl night, I am not sure, but for three daja and a-half of the election as little a» I cau call it, not to be very exact, it is in oil or thereabouts, and not to be too particular,, is to me £57 19s ; for shaving and crot^ , ping off the heads of the 49 freeholder* ' for Sir Mark, at 15d for every bead of them, by my brother who hadfa vote, i* ' to me, £3 15s Id ; for medicine and nurse* for poor Tom Kerran in the middle of the night, when he waj not expected- £ don't talk of the piper or for keeping bitn sober as long as he was sober— is to me, £40 103. Now watch the figures. The *, total is £100 10s 7d, you may say £111 ; so yer honor, Sir Mark, send me this £111 by Bryan himself, who and I pray for your success always in Trim, and no more at present.— Signed iD place of Jimmy Cirr'a wife f Bryan x Garraty (his mark).