Tlie last scene in the election drama was played at the Court-House on Wednesday. Now that the contest is over wo trust people will be done with it, and not

"nurse their wrath to keep it warm." The worst phase in the whole affair is, perhaps, the publication of two letters, on Tuesday evening, one a miserable effort to stir up the prejudices of creed and nationality, and the other a dastardly attempt to impute dishonesty in the con duct of the election. The winners, how ever, can afford to be generous in their victory, and " forgive and forget," and gentlemen on the other side will also do the same.
The Local School Committee have in structed Messrs Young Bros, to call for tenders for the erection of an addition to the Girls' School.
We observe a notice in the Canterbury Standard announcing that they will shortly publish a new Christmas story, en titled " Clift'cot," from the pen of the authoress " L.J.5.," of Westport. The reputation of the writer ensures a treat to readers of the Standard.
