THE GENERAL ELECTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 72, 25 March 1903, Page 2

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

THS AUCKLAND ENQUIRY. PKB PBBSS ASSOCIATION. Auckland, Marob 24. Further evidence wu taken to-<Ujf regarding the en'o'mutt of names. Mr Raid, solicitor for compUinutt, urged iha'. the registrar should eorreet technio >1 errors in the applications. Mr King retorted that Mr Beid's friends kept their enrollment cl<iai b*ck, and rushed them in on the list day, enbarassing the registrar. Dunbdin, March 24. At a no licence -meeting held at Milton last night, it was resolved •« that this Meeting of the elector* of Bruee protests against the voiding of the licensing election by the Mtgiitrate An unsubstantial and purely technical grounds, and r?solves to petition Parlumen t at the e-rliest opportunity to validate the pill, bs the Magis'rate who conducted the recount, and held the enquiry has plainly and finally d clared t.'»at the required majority of three fifths unmist >k«ably declared the will of the electors of Bruce, and r hat the irregularities and technicali'ies did not attic, the result. This meet* ing pledges its-If to resist every attempi to get behind the polls, and to demand a free poll fir a free people.