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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue XXVI, 31 July 1871, Page 2

The election to-day for a member of Council, in room of Mr Henry Anderson, is, so far as we can gather from the candidates themselves, of no political significance, and will be decided altogether on merely personal grounds. ■ In such a case committees are all powerful. Electors, as a rule, are never at any time forward to vote, and many, strange to say, will not vote at all unless they are waited upon. If a vote, they perversely cay, is worth having, it is worth asking, and the proceedings at the late Superintendental election proved that Wellington electors are no exception to the rule. The voting to-day will, therefore, mainly turn on the exertions of the candidates' supporters. The personal merits of the candidates are equally well known to the electors, and whatever decision they come to will excite no rancorous feeling. We do not wish to be understood as approving of this state of happy indifference. On the

contrary, we would greatly prefer to see an election contested on clearly defined and public grounds, even with the asperities that more or less attend all contests between citizens divided for the nonoe into two or more hostile factions. Why Mr Seager should dispute the seat with Mr Mills, or why Mr Mills should dispute the seat with Mr Seager, we are equally puzzled to make out. We have heard nothing from either to help us to a solution, and must content ourselves with the philosophy of honest Dogberry, "An if two men ride together, one must ride behind."