1893 City of Auckland by-election

New Zealand by-election April 2024 July 2019 1893 City of Auckland by-election New Zealand 1893 presidential no 1890 New Zealand general election 1890 general 1893 New Zealand general election 1893 City of Auckland 4 August 1893 3,020 120px Alfred Cadman New Zealand Liberal Party 1,888 115px William Lee Rees New Zealand Liberal Party 1,132 MP William Lee Rees Alfred Cadman New Zealand Liberal Party New Zealand Liberal Party The City of Auckland by-election of 1893 was a by-election held on 4 August 1893 during the 11th New Zealand Parliament in the urban upper North Island electorate of the City of Auckland. Background In 1893, William Lee Rees accused Alfred Cadman, the Member for Thames, of using his position as Minister for Native Affairs for his own personal benefit. Cadman then sued Rees for libel but the trial proved inconclusive. The jury in the libel case found that "the letters of Mr Rees to the Premier were defamatory, and that the defamatory matter was not only not fair and bona fide comment on the acts and conduct of the plaintiff, but that it was not true", however they only awarded damages of £1 which "implied [Cadman's] acts and conduct were yet not above suspicion."https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT18930626.2.10?query=arthur%20cadman Otago Daily Times 26 June 1893 14 October 2016 Papers Past On 11 July 1893 while in the debating chamber of New Zealand's parliament Cadman challenged Rees to vacate his seat and contest the subsequent by-election against him.https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OAM18930712.2.6?query=arthur%20cadman Oamaru Mail 12 July 1893 14 October 2016 Rees accepted the challenge although Cadman was ultimately successful. http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OW18930727.2.47 The Cadman-Rees Contest Otago Witness 27 July 1893 2057 1 April 2016 Papers PastButterworth Graham 2c2 Cadman, Alfred Jerome 3 April 2016 Results The following table gives the election results: A by-election was later held in Thames for Cadman's newly vacant seat. References Auckland 1893 Category:1893 elections in New Zealand Category:Politics of the Auckland Region Category:1890s in Auckland