THE GENERAL ELECTIONS.
The polling for the seat in the General Assembly, representing the Hokitika district, took place yesterday. But little excitement was caused at the various polling booths, and the number of votes polled was comparatively small, owing to a number of unnaturalised foreigners being disqualified from voting, and also to the fact that many miners were disfranchised W\W *<) ftpjr wjnar*' rights m t h,ejn e • ';• ,''i ' ■••• '
sufficiently old. The whole of the returns from the polling wla'ceS bavc >jot coiita in, but we give Mich a« air to liaiid. It will bo >i!cn th&t, sj far, Mr White has a inijortty: — Mr Wuitu. Mk lU*i r. Hokitika •. '21-2 Hokitika 117 ' Kanieri 97 Kanieri 44 Ilau Hau J5 Hiiu Hau '2(5 Blue Spur v. 21 Blue Spur... 17 Stafford 88 Stafford 84 Arahura ......... 4 Aiahura ...... 1G Fox's, ..v.. >. im VoVr 18 I Goldsbordugh ... 2.5 Goldsborough 104 : -336 4-20 '. Majority for Mr White, 110.
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West Coast Times, Issue 1661, 26 January 1871, Page 2
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154THE GENERAL ELECTIONS. West Coast Times, Issue 1661, 26 January 1871, Page 2
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