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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1030, 20 January 1911, Page 8

The Tramway Committee holds to-mor-row its first meeting after the late vacation. The matter of tho proposed new tramway award will come up /for discussion, and will be. reported upon at the meeting of the council 011 ThuralaJ- next. Htcjps will lie taken shortly to promote a conference between a council suh-commit-tce and representatives of the Tramwaymen's Union. The total number of co-operative labourers and al'tisans employed by the Public Works Department during j\ovembcr was 5360. The Wellington bi'anch of 'tho-Labour Party at its-meeting oil Wednesday next will select, eight candidates to contest the municipal election in April next. While entering, a-polling, booth, at Hastings, England, a voter dropped down dead. Ileart failure is .understood to have been the cause. An doctor in Wolverhampton (West), named Joseph Tuckley, died after recording his vote, lie returned home, and shortly afterwards was found sitting in an arm-chair in the kitchen dead, presumably- from heart disease. A prominent Sunderland politician, Mr. George W. Bnin, ou arriving homo from a Unionist meeting, found liis son, Mr. Frederick Bain, had died of syncope. Deceased was a solicitor and joint secretary of the Northern Tariff Federation, for which he often spoke,