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MISCELLANEA. 
Election of Mr. Hales as Coroner. 
The election of coroner for the Oswestry and Pimhill districts 
of the county was held at Ruyton-of-the-Eleven Towns, on the 
morning of Thursday last. The Deputy Sheriff, J. J. Peele, 
Esq., at eleven o’clock, proceeded to the hustings, accompanied by 
the Hon. Thomas Kenjmn, H. P. T. Aubrey, Esq., and a numer- 
ous party of gentlemen and freeholders of the neighbourhood. 
The Sheriff having opened the Court, the Hon. Thomas Kenyon 
proposed Mr. John Miles Hales as a fit and proper person to be 
elected coroner for the district of Oswestry and Pimhill. He had 
known Mr. Hales for some years, and had no doubt of his capa- 
bility for the office. He was a man of sound sense, and an honest 
heart ; and he (Mr. Kenyon) felt confident that Mr. Hales would 
use every exertion to make himself conversant with every part of 
the duties which the office required. 
H. P. Aubrey, Esq., seconded the nomination, and said that he 
fully concurred in every word Mr. Kenyon had stated. He had 
known Mr. Hales for twenty-seven years, and the last sixteen 
years he had been in almost continual communication with him, 
in consequence of his (Mr. Aubrey) being one of the Committee of 
Management of the Oswestry Dispensary, and Mr. Hales holding 
the office of Secretary and Dispenser to tiiat institution. He was 
sure Mr. Hales, from his medical knowledge and general intelli- 
gence, was as fully qualified to fill the office of coroner as any one 
the freeholders could select. 
No other candidate being proposed, the Deputy- Sheriff declared 
Mr. Hales duly elected, and administered to him the oaths of office, 
and the other oaths necessary to be taken on the occasion ; after 
which 
Mr. Hales thanked the freeholders for the confidence they had 
placed in him by electing him to the office of coroner. The gen- 
tlemen who had nominated him, had stated that having known him 
for many years, they considered him qualified to discharge the 
duties of coroner, and he was quite sure that any thing he could say 
for himself would have little weight in comparison with the re- 
commendations of gentlemen who stood so deservedly high in the 
estimation of the county as they did. He said every exertion 
should be made on his part efficiently to discharge the duties of 
