AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1927, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. PROCESSION ABANDONED. SYDNEY, Oct. 17. The Trades Hall decided to abandon the postponed eight hours’ day procession which was to have been held on Saturday next. N.S.AY. ELECTION. SYDNEY, Oct. 17. Tlie New South AA’ales elections took a novel turn, and one without precedent, when Air J.R. Neild, the Nationalist candidate for Hurstville, applied to the Equity Court for leave to apply lor an ex-parte injunction to restrain the returning officer from declaring the result of the poll, or from forwarding to the Governor the name of the Labour candidate, Mr AY. J. Butler, who polled 7039 votes, against Air Neild’s 7002 votes.

The grounds of the application are stated in an affadavit by applicant to be that advices were reeoived by the Returning Officer before the poll was declared that there was a number of absent votes polled in tlie electorate, and, it is alleged, that the day before the poll, the Returning Officer in Hurstville had stated that there were eighty absent votes missing, and that unless one candidate got more absent votes than eighty, there would be a row. It is also alleged that on Saturday morning the Returning Officer refused to announce how many absent votes had been received, and, on these grounds, Ah* Neild lias applied for an injunction.

Tlie Court granted leave to serve a short notice motion upon the Returning Officer for an injunction, the application to be heard to-morrow. AHJRDER. CHARGE. SYDNEY, Oct. IS. Airs Hoey was committed for trial on a charge of murder in connection with the death of her husband, cabled on the 14th. ACQUITTED. AIELBOURNE, Oct. 18. / Cricri, an Italian fern cutter, charged with the murder of a countryman, Polishina, in Gippsland district, cabled on 6th. was found not guilty.