DUNEDIN NORTH ELECTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 301, 16 December 1908, Page 2

DUNEDIN NORTH ELECTION.

MAGISTRATE'S DECISION. By Telcgrapli.—l'rcss Association. Duuedia, December hi. Mr. Widdowsou, S.M., reports that lie Ist not satislicd tlmt all the voting papers for Diiilcdin North have been placed before him ami says tiiut In- is unable consequently to complete the recouni. The probabilities are that Mr. Barclay will taks action by election petition. RETURNING O'l'l'lCEirs 'J.TON. Dunedin, Last Night. it is understood that on llie re-count Barclay led by 11 votes, but 17 voting nailers in favor of 'l'hoinson have disI appeared. 'J lie returning- ollicer (». LarniU-h) states these papers were tlu last tu In; dealt with in ltie con,it. As ■ soon as they were counted he left the ' inner oilier- (where the ciiuiil took place) [ before sealing them up and placing them , with tlie rest of the papers, his reason | being that he wished to immediately / despatch to his superior ollicers ollicial intimation of the result of the election. Ttiis, he says, is the only time when an opportunity for the disappearance of tile papers occurred, lie slates the dis- > crepaney could have occurred in 710 > other way. There is the possibility 0! • 1111 opinion of a Supreme Court judge • being taken as to whether the Magis- > tratc should be compelled to complete a

re-count of votes handed to him and give a decision thereon, but nothing definite has been decided. The only other method of procedure is by election petition.