NEW ZEALAND NEWS.
• IBi Teleirraph—Pr«n Anoolatloa.) 4 . INVENTOR OF VOTING MACHINE.* Christchurch, September 17. Mr. J. H. Xewlyn. of Clmstchurch, tho inventor of a voting machine, has received a letter from tho Department of Homo Affair;, Melbourne, stating Hint the Commonwealth is not at the present, time considering the adoption of any voting niaohine, as it holds StMiato and other elections and usually one or more referendum. l ;-un the fame day. Any machine, therefore, which was to J)o both effective and economical would have to coyer the some ground. The letter stated, further, that if Sir. Nowlyn were to exhibit his machine in Melbourne there would be no objection to responsible officials inspecting it on the understanding, of course, that the Commonwealth would not be committed to' any expenditure in tho matter. THE NORSEWOOD CASE. Napier, September 17. At the Supreme Court the hearing of n nlinrgc of manslaughter against Mathias Potcri Beck, arising out of the death of his wife, Mary Ann Beck, at South Norscivood, was not concluded when tho Court rose this afternoon. LARGE.WHALE STRANDED. W-innanui, September- 17. A' whale, sixty feet long, is stranded on the beach at Castleeliff.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1548, 18 September 1912, Page 8
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194NEW ZEALAND NEWS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1548, 18 September 1912, Page 8
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