THE OAMARU LOCAL OPTION POLL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2394, 18 January 1900, Page 56

THE OAMARU LOCAL OPTION POLL.

.DECLARED VOID. OAMARU, January 11. Major Keddell, S.M., gave judgment today in the petition against the licensing poll in Oamaru, where reduction had been carried. One ground of the petition Avas that the returning officer had not personally counted the votes in the licensing poll, and that the poll, therefore, was void. I The magistrate upheld this, and declared ' the poll void. If this interpretation is ' correct it will probably mean" that every licensing poll in the colony can be upset if ' petitioned against. No appeal can lie | a-gainst the decision.

According to the Taranaki Herald, an investor had a share of good luck at the races on Tuesday. In the Scurry Stakes he intending securing ten tickets on number 10, but in the excitement the money was put on number | 1, Vibration, who won, and paid a dividend of £4 Bs. i The Education department has for some time been in communication with the Mataura Falls Paper Mill Company with reference to art paper for use in the schools of the colony. At the last meeting of the Education Board (says the Southland Times) a sample was submitted that was in ever^ ■vyay credit- ■ able to the mairufacturers. The verdict of the experts to whom it had been submitted was one of thorough approval. Some slight changes will be made in the weight and hue o£ paper, and it will be supplied to thofee schools that wish, it for art purjioscs.