From our Correspondent
Gawler Plains.July 11.
The usual monthly paper of the
Smithfield Farmers' Club was read by
the Secretary on Friday evening last. The
attendance was not so numerous as on some former occasions, which may be attributed to insufficient
publicity resulting from a mistake. The paper
was well received, and at its
conclusion a vote of thanks was presented to the lecturer. Some routine business was
afterwards gone through and the meeting
adjourned, Mr. Scoulor having promised to
read the next paper.
The polling for
District Councillors took place on
Monday, which resulted in the election of Messrs. B. Heaslip (22 votes), Riggs (24), and S.
Smitham (17). Very much inconvenience is
experienced by the ratepayers in being
needlessly called upon to
attend— one day for nomination and another for the ballot. The fact is, not one-third so
many attend on the voting-day as on the
first day, and so the Councillors are
practically the representatives of the
minority. Now on the present occasion
the show of hands on the first day
indicated clearly enough who were
to be the coming men, and the ballot proved that the first was right. It appears, and has been
expressed by many here, that the
sooner we retrace our steps to the old
system of nominating and
polling the same day, the better it will be for all concerned. The division of the district into
wards was also another subject of
discussion with many, and from what I can
gather from the ratepayers, I
should say we are rapidly drifting into that very desirable condition. Mr. Evans, of Gawler, (gave his lecture on ' Four Years in America' last evening at the
Institute. It was listened to with
great attention, and met
with the hearty approval of the audience, judging from the unanimous vote of thanks accorded to
the lecturer. I am happy to say that Mr. Rowland is so
far recovered from his late accident as
to be able in some measure to attend to
his regular business, he
having acted as a scrutineer on Monday last.
SA Register 17 July 1865
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