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THE COUNTRY ENTHUSIASTICALLY
FEDERAli.;
When this country vote is examined the
great preponderance of/Federalists is appa
rent, tor it has so far declared lor the Bill ,
at the rate of 3 to 1. the totals being—Yea,
13,222; No, 4,187. There Mso the Labour
members found that the constituents were
hot oh the -same side his they ore. Mr.
Roberts will reflect seriously upon the de
cision of Gladstone, for of the seven boxes
counted ail: but Warne'rtown, where the
numbers were 14 to 17, went strong for fe
deration, and. Port Pirie loo icing to the
Broken Hill trade cast 711 votes for and
344 against. Laura was even more, pro
nounced, the numbers being 294 to. 44, and
the present totals for the district give a
majority for "the Bill of 711. Newcastle
also hopes to benefit) from Broken Hill
and the Queensland trade, and what they
think of the Bill can be gauged by the fact
that Port. Augusta voted—Yea, 386; No.
35; and Quom, 296—72; while the district
majority, is 079. The Hon. G. McGregor
stumped 'the Bouth-Bast, and considered
that he had won that portion of the
colony for the opposition. ' Tlie • re
sidents there' ivete assured ■ that
if the .measure became, law the trade of
that division would be drawn into the
western parts of Victoria, but the electors
have shown that they can judge best for
themselves, and they are prepared to take
the risk, if there is any. What Mount
Gambler thought of' the advice of the
l abour members was to vote 1,149 for and
287 against, and Penola 209 to 16. Narra
ooorte. the other big centre in the South
East, cast 504 for ana 37 against. However,
there is a grain of comfort for those who
counsel delay. The communal single-lax
reformers at Murtlio village settlement are
unanimous, and sixteen of them with'fine
irony solemnly stalked into 'tlie booth and
voted ''No," while poor "Yes" could not
find a supporter. Tlie rest of the settle
ments are to come in, but they may not
all be so enlightened. The two districts
in the South-Last have given a majority
at present of 1,556 for. Encounter Bay
l opes to get some of the Murray trade,
and Mr. O'Malley scores over Mr. Carpen
ter tc the tune of a majority of 289, Goolwa
r ating 218 to 30. The Two chief places in
Mount Barker constituency polled—Mount
briber, Yes, 2C0; No, 108; and
Strutluilbyn, 297—104, but, modest though
rw eel-sounding Woodehester went 52
to 22 against. the Commonwealth.
Ncnrlunga voted solidly for the
proposal, Maelaren Vale being- 132
to 14, Morpliett Vale 92 to 11, Aldinga
7l to 10, Villmiga 114 to 69. In Onknpa
ringa, Harrogate opposed it by 30 to 6,
and Stirling Last by 92 to 75, but the
butter districts, Woodside, favoured it
by 108 to 74, and Balhuimnh 91 to 46.
barossa lias two interests, the manu
facturing and the wine, and tlie repre- j
sentafives of both overwhelmed the an
tagonists to the Bill; Gawler wont for it
by 489 to 250, and in tlie grape country
opposition was infinitesimal. Angaston I
recorded 216 to 19, Tanunda 226 to 14,
Lyiulocli 140 to 18, Nuriootpa 69 to 10.
Williaiiistowii was a noticeable exception
and 44 Billites found themselves in a
minority of 1. Cuineracha itself spoke
out to the tune of 352 to 15, Blmnberg 85
to 15, Mount Torrens was 36 and 34, and
Maidstone 52 to 15. Light- lias a majority
of '792 for, Kapunda voting 536 to J46.
Eudundn, who wants some of the river
trade, went 207 to 12, while Ebenezer has
covered itself with glory in federal history.
It gave 72 votes lor the Bill, and none
against, while Brownlow was 50 to 2. Jn
Wooroora the principal places were Rala
klava 227 to 51, Auburn 134 In 32, Port
Wakefield 129 to72, and MountTeinpleton23
to nil. Yatala was distinguished by Gilles
Plains voting 12 to 10 against, but this was
altered by Salisbury 122 to 39, Sniitlifield
74 to 19. The hay industry was trium
phant. Mr. Holder found his own dis
trict strongly supporting him. Kooringa
went. 410 to 81, Konmark .141 to 10—the
fruit industry wants a larger market—and
SfiddJewortli 98 to 37. Wallaroo was an in
teresting vote because the Smelting Com
pany are putting up machinery to treat
ores from the other colonics, and although
.it is it strong labour centre the voting
was:--Wallaroo, Yes 207—No 77: Moonta,
482—298; Kadina. 302—67. Yorkc's Penin
sula with its salt industry voted in the
proportion of 7 to 1. In Flinders, Port
Lincoln by 1 vote went; against, the figures
for being 101, and at Warrina there were 8
opposed and none in favour. Frame was
pretty solidly Federal, Orroroo being 155
to 39, and Dnwlisli 9 to 0. .Stanley, another
wine district., had Rochester 24 unanimous
for the measure, Clare 439 to 83, Blyt.li 100
to 41, and iSevenhills 97 to 19. Jn the
Northern Territory there were three places
where no votes wore recorded, but Port
Darwin was 88 to 14.
The votes have been counted of 154
|. boxes, and of these only 21 have declared
against the measure, and 14 of these Avere
in the citv, 9 places were unanimous, 7
being for federation.
Mr. Sheriff Boolhby anil his excellent
staff of ofiieers earned out the onerous
and exacting duties of making up the
totals of the poll for the colony nnd each
district with expedition on Saturday night.
The system adopted was admirable for its
completeness and correctness, and no error
of entry could remain long undiscovered.
Eight clerks were employed, and t.hey were
paired off, each couple having charge of a
Legislative Council division. One man kept
a cheek' on the other, and when the
balances were struck at frequent, intervals
they had to agree in their totals to show
accuracy. Telegrams came in slowly at
first, but by 9 o'clock the rate had con
siderably quickened, and three message
boys were kept busy bringing telegrams
from tlie _ office. Mr. Schomburgk, the
•Sheriff's riglithand man, promptly arranged
them according to their districts, and the
work of transferring the information to the
scrutiny-sheets was immediately proceeded
with. At half-past 10 the rush was over,
hut t he telegrams were received up to mid
night. At this staae proceedings were ad
journed until 9 o'clock on Monday morn
ing.
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