HOKITIKA.
Saturday. A remarkable case, to bo beard shortly in banco in Christchurch, is exciting great attention and interest here. The plaintiffs are Mr Seddon, M.H.8., Mr H. B. Rae, County.Clerk, Messrs McLean, Watt, and Jack (ex Mayor, of Hokitika). The defendants are Messrs Taylor, Warner, and Nancarrow, of Greymouth. The plaintiffs claim to be legally elected members of the Wostland Board of Education by a majority of rotes, and they pray the Court to oust the defendants on the grounds that they are not properly returned. It is alleged in numerous affidavits that after ['four committees had voted and sent in their votes to the office of the Board they became aware how other committees had voted, and they were induced to give a second vote, obtaining back from the secretary to the Board the first votes given, thus altering the whole election. Some astonishing statements are made in the affidavits as to the steps taken to induce the committees'to act in this way by the defendants. The papers ia the case are most' voluminous, and have been prepared by Mr- Purkes, solicitor, of this town. The plaintiffs have retained Messrs Har* Ser and Button, of Christohurcb, to conuct their caie.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4461, 23 April 1883, Page 2
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202HOKITIKA. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4461, 23 April 1883, Page 2
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