THE TIMARU ELECTION.
The Press Agency floods us with heaps of telegraphic rubbish from all parts — Hong Kong even now has been requisitioned for the purpose— but events in which we are really interested are too often passed over as not worthy of notice. Thus the election of a member for Timiru iv the room of the Hon. Mr Stafford took place on Monday, but the Agency did not think it necessary to telegraph the fact. We learn from the •Lyttelton Times' that Mr Richard IVcjbull was elected without opposition. The new member, in thanking those present at the nominatipn for the honor that had bet.n done him, said he should do his, duty in the House independently and fearlessly. 'In future legis'ation v property would have \to take its fair share of the burden of taxation, but he should not support manhood suffrage as sketched out by Sir G. Grey. If after 'an opportunity were given to property-holders to tax property in proportion to other things, and they refused to do so, he should then support a measure for the extension of {he franchise. '
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XI, Issue 765, 17 April 1878, Page 5
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185THE TIMARU ELECTION. Tuapeka Times, Volume XI, Issue 765, 17 April 1878, Page 5
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