ELECTION PETITION
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THE EXETER SEAT.
SEVERAL VOTES DISALLOWED
(Received April 10, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, April 9
At the hearing of the election petition against the return of Mr H. St. Maur for the Exeter .seat, the judges annulled several bad voting papers and deducted five votes from the total apparently polled for Mr St. Maur, on the ground that payment had been made, and that the candidate had distributed bills.
Several voters testified that the statement's made by them to Mr H". R. Duke, the defeated Unionist candidate, to the effect that they had received payment, was all lies. Mr justice Ridley stigmatised the statements and the denials as a disgrace to the city and the country. The present figures give Mr Duke 4781 votes, and Mr St. Maur 4777. Judgment will he delivered on the other points to-morrow. (At the general election in December last Mr St. Maur (Liberal) polled 4786 votes against 4782 secured by Mr Dnke.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10209, 11 April 1911, Page 5
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166ELECTION PETITION Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10209, 11 April 1911, Page 5
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