MAYORAL ELECTION.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2170, 17 December 1875, Page 2

MAYORAL ELECTION.

On the poll being declared yesterday and when it was known that Mr Macdonald was 45 votes a-head of his opponent, the cheering was very great.* Mr Macdonald was carried by excited supporters to the shop of -Mr JBrowp f & which had served as a committee room. ,- for Mr Davies, and having ascended^the^ verandah and ord^r being with some dim 1-* culty restored, informed such of the crowd as could hear him that he had prepared and carefully rehearsed a speech, on the- supposition that "'he* wouhNW 5 defeated, but as he had succeeded it was of no- .use. He thanked them for -jjftP.. fair spirit in. which the election had been conducted, and said "that he thought his opponent, if he addressed them, would thank them also. A« regarded the £50, he did not know fronT whom the announcemefit that he intena«Uf to give it to the Hospital? had emanatedf it had not done so from him, but nevertheless he would strictly adhere^tp thtj terms of it. He was proud of the "position in which h^ swas plabea^r^t^shbw^d'liiat he possessed the good will,and esteemoor.f r . his fellow burgesses^; He :hld :Wh#:WP unaided and independent, and no steps had been.,,taken-to s«curehis r , return until afrer his address" of "the previous Saturday. As regarded his position ashead It of,;^ T poU^ I h<s fouj^^ aajy it was altogether unexpected* fjfor omf of all he had asked only some half-a-dozen had refused him support," while 300-had-promised to Tote.forhim, And those who had refused \h«fd regretted >t%^werP obliged to do so/ but were under previouin promises tffiupport^Mf fDalieil:^STA3slk iMr Macdonald wag-then conveyed by his%suppdrters iffa^^ singularlyinconvenfent position amidst lb!ud; rcneersi6 : tHeiP/ojiii*^ ciarHdteliand^the'crow^dispersW 'I**- -, ; - .8,1561