NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 85, 9 December 1914, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

EXTRAORDINARY ELECTION TACTICS.

THE EDEN CAMPAIGN

AUCKLAND, This Day

A sensation was caused by the circulation of a document purporting to disclose an offer made in writing by the secretary of Mr. Parr's committee in the Eden electorate, to Mr. Wesley Richards, one of the iwo LiberalLabour candidates, of £IOO conditionally on Mr. Richadrs going to the poll. In to-night's Star Mr. Parr's publishes the following advertisement.: "I am informed that yesterday while I was absent at Cambridge attending the funeral of my sister C. J. Harris made aand signed the offer to Mr. Wesley Richards conditional on his going to the poll, I desire most emphatically to say that this offer was made during my absence from town, without my knowledge, sanction or authority. I utterly repudiate the transaction and all or any connection with it. C. J. Harris is no longer secretary of my committee. 5 '

WHEN DOCTORS DIPPER

A ROTORUA CASE

ROTORUA, December 9

In the Rotorua case, Or. Baxter v. Dr. Scott-Watson, a claim of £2/2/, fee for administering anaesthetic, Mr. Dyer, S.M., gave judgment for plaintiff on the grounds that defendant had ongaged plaintiff and it was the eastern ■for the operating surgeon to pay the anaesthetic fee.

A CORRECTION. WELLINGTON, Dec. 8. The member of the Samoan force who was mentioned in a telegram yesterday from Auckland as receiving 90 days' imprisonment for theft and drunkenness, was not Private Morton, ibut Sergeant Morton Rogers, of the Army Service Corps. THE PRICE OF BARLEY. DUNEDIN, Dec. 9. The price of pearl barley has been advanced by £2 10/ psr ton The local quotation is now £l7 10/ petton. SUPREME COURT. HAMILTON, Dec. S. At the Supreme Court, Richard John Hackett, on five charges of theft and eleven of false pretences.and escaping from custody, was sentenced to two years on each count of false pretences, cumulative, and six months for escaping from custody.