TELEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 April 1915, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

LrKlt i'UEBS ASSOCIATION. J TROOPER KILLED AT THE FiIONT. Gisborne, This Day. X-ews has been received that Trooper Thomas Henry Mossman, a member of the Legion of Frontiersmen, who went from this distriiTt with the Expeditionary Force, was killed at the front. He was a well-known sheepfarmer. WRECK NEAR STEPHEN'S [SLAND. Nelson, This Day. Nyberg Bros , . (Gxeymouth) steamer Rakura, 81 tons, struck a "rock near Stephen's Island at o o'clock this morning and sank. The crew were eared. The Rakura's crow has ueen landed from her own boats aF Wiggins ind Brown's station, Port Handy, on the northern end of D'Urville's Island. It is thought the crew will proceed to the French Pass to catcli the Wellington steamer. The Anchor Company's Rogulus passed through Stephen's Island passage at 2.30 o'clock this morning. A fresh north-west wind is, blowing and the weather is very thick, with heavy rain. The steamers Red Pine and Jane BougTae sank in the vicinity in recent years. ELECTION'S PETITIONS. Wellington, This Day. The Elections Petitions Court (Full Court) this morning dealt with the question whether the petition in the Taumaruiiui case was liTed in time. The affidavit set out that the writ was made returnable within 2R -Says from November 21, the date oi tlie endorsement on the writ that Mr Jennings was elected on December l?th. The official recount was completed on December 18th and published next Lay. Pile petition was presented on .January 15th. Mr Finlay. for Mr Jennings, said that if the date on which iho petitions must be lodged ran from the late of endorsement then it was not in time, but if the latTor date it was in time. He relied on the Wairarapa ?ase. decided in 1897, but if the Court bold the decision in that was not good in law then ho had nothing further to say.