THE ASHBURTON REGISTRATION CASE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6473, 25 November 1881, Page 5

THE ASHBURTON REGISTRATION CASE.

TO THB EDITOB. Sib,— The paragraph in the Lyttelton Timee, of this morning, is inaccurate in stating that the hearing of this information had been adjourned a second time. The prosecution completely foiled to prore that the defendant, Mr Worthington, had been guilty of the charge made against him of making a false claim with the view of obtaining a vote for the Wakanui district, and the Resident Magistrate dismissed the case without hesi* I have been requested by the Court to correct your report on the ground that this was a test case, upon the decision of which a number of similar charges depended, and consequently of considerable interest and importance to the public. It i is further summons against Mr Worthington was adjourned, but this did not involve anything in the nature of a criminal charge. Several objections to this summons were urged on behalf of the defendant, and the> Magistrate adjourned the hearing to consider the different point* raised, the most important of

which was, that under the 28th section of tho Representation Act of 1879, tho Magistrate was precluded from striking off the name of any living person without his writien consent from the time of the issue of the election writ until the completion of the election.— 1 am, oca., F. WILDING, The defendant’s solicitor. Hereford street, Christchurch.