The Foxton Election.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 207, 29 July 1884, Page 3

The Foxton Election.

The mystery of the Foxton election! returns has not yet been cleared up. Mr Ames, the Returning officer, has found it necessary to further postpone the official declaration of the poll till Wednesday next, m consequence of not yet having received the returns from Paikakariki. It appears that these returns were handed by Mr Scott, the deputy returning officer at Paikakariki, to the postmaster at that station, to be immediately for warded m the usual course to Mr Ames at Foxton. For some hitherto' unexplained reason these were not forwarded by the postmaster until he received a. communication from, Mr Scott asking why they had not, been sent, and instructing him to forwatd them at once. Tlie returns are now presumably at Foxton, where they were to he scrutinised by Mir Ames to-day. Ii now appears thai m several casns on scrutiny of the voting papers it was found that certain electors had either voted at two different polling placesor had been frwiccicpreHented. In these cases Vioth papers wore of course cancelled, as there was no means of telling which ot the two was genuine. We (Wellington paper) are now informed by Air Ames that the re>ult of the poll (assuming the returns from Paikakariki to be correct as stated by the deputy retnrning offioer, viz,, jirown, 63; Izard, 11 ; Wilson, 9) is that Wilson has a majority of one vote.