TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 May 1913, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[PHU PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

NAPIER ELECTIONS AND ROWS

NAPIER, This Day

The magistrates have ordered a recount of votes cast at the Harbour Board poll. The petitioners are alleging that certain votes which should have been declared informal were credited to one candidate who was returned by a majority of one.

At a meeting of the Northern Union League, the following motion was carried"That in connection with

a motion passed at a meeting of the Hawke's Bay Rugby Union, regarding expelled northern union players, participating in Rugby football, this League knows of instances of northern union players playing Rugby, and the secretary be instructed to

write to New Zealand, the Hawke's Hay, and the Southland Rugby Unions to this effect, offering to supply names if desired." RUGBY ROUGHS. A sequel to the football lraoas on McLean park on Saturday week, heard in the S.M. Court at Napier yesterday, when John Weber, Percival Jamieson and Thos. Martin each were tilled £o and costs for assaulting and obstructing the police in the execution of their duty. John Neilson, for inciting the crowd to violence. was fined £2 and costs. ORPHANAGE BURNED. AUCKLAND, This Day. The Roman Catholic Orphanage, at Takapuna, was destroyed by fire early this morning. The inmates escaped uninjured. THE TAINUI'S CARGO. WELLINGTON. This Day. New Zealand cargo for London carried by the Tainui is valued at £260.000." [The collision of the Tainui with another vessel is reported in our cablegrams of to-day.J