A SECOND BALLOT TROUBLE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10103, 22 March 1909, Page 3

A SECOND BALLOT TROUBLE.

(Per Peess Association-.) tlisborne. March 22. U tin' Magistrates Court the case p.iii.c v. ti. K. Darton. a candidate at the remit e.M»nd ballot of the general electinn. was resumed this morniti;,'. The Crown Prosecutor intimated that iisimt-.l reccint for tab hire had been sent in with, accused's vouchers clatmim; the £SO allowed to second ballot candidates. I'oiuwel for defendant said he was prelared to admit that electors were carried in carriages, but his Worship said admissions cmild not be taken, the offence betni an indictable one. fi. f. Hill, returning officer, stated mat defendant told him prior to the second ballot that he desired to withdraw. He tint not think he had a chance, and did not feel justified in p>in-i to further expense. Witness slid he could not retire, the second ballot bein- compulsory. Defendant asked whether he was within Ins rMits in rharsiniz cab hire, and witness replied that as far as he (witness) was irae he thought he was. That was his nnßres'mn. He had not loked the point w. Witness was about the booths on the At of the ballot, and saw nothing to lead aim to suppose the supporters of one candidate were being brought to the poll more than the supnorters of the other.