THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 87, 15 April 1901, Page 6

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

Since page 5 of this issue went to press, nominations of municipal candidates have b*een made as follows : — Wellington City.— Mr. David M'Laren, nominated by Herbert Baillie, W. J. Evans, Wm. Shackleton, and John Hutcheson, M.H.R. ,• Mr. Edward Carrigan, nominated- by Messrs. H. Walker, Alex. Clark, and Geo. H. Jackson,; John Peacce Luke, nominated by Messrs. Alex. Veitch, Thos. Wardell, Isaac Clark, J. Embury, and Thos. Carmichael. Meirose Mayoralty.— -Mr. G. H. Baylis . has been nominated for the Mayoralty of Melrose by Messrs. J. Burke, R. Tait, M. Chappell, W. Staples, C. Swiney, J. R. Foster, E. R. Mowbray, J. EAving, and J. Moffat. * i Island Bay Ward of Melrose Borough.—Mr. William Quiti, nominated l>y Messrs. M. Chappe 1 !!, Q. Swiney, J. R. Poster, W. Staples, J. Ewing", and' .J. Moffat. Ohiro Ward nominations were received I 'to-day aa -follows:— Mr.-: John Sharp M'lndoo, . nominated by Messrs. James J Goer, A. B. Fitchett, E. Seagaf, M. Fliun, and J. G. Bay; Mr. John Max Walter, nominated by Messrs. J. H. l' Davidson, P. Carmody, L. Dwan ; Mr. , John Brawn, nominated by* Messrs. A. [ Graham, Robert Tait, D. Teazo, and A. Q. S. French; Mr. Frank Jennings, nominated by Messrs. Ed. Seager, A. W. J. Moran, T. A. BaHaretaise, Wm. Blick, Jas. Howie, and Chas. Pearco; Mr. C. W. Tanner, nominated by Messrs. P. G. Howden and A. Luff. Another Kilbirnie Wa rd nomination has been lodged, that of Mr. John James Mead, nominated by Messrs. F. Laurenson, G. D. Hewitt, H.". A. Shepherd, J. B. Bourke, G. Dome, F. J. W. Fear, and J. Wishart. Mr. A. Orr, one of, the candidates for municipal honours in the city, will address the electors tomorrow evening at Aro-street. Mr. T. W. Wilford Announces that he will address the burgesises of Wellington at the Opera House on Thursday evening next. Ex-Councillor Devine, -who retired from , the City Council: to cotttest the Mayoral election of 1899, is a candidate for the coming City Council election. His address to the burgesses appears in our advertising columns. [BY TELEGRAPH — rKKSS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, This Day. Mr. Thomara M'Kenzie, M.H.R., has been elected Mayor of Roslyn. unopposed. Councillors Muir and Scott and Mr. J. Braithwaite "have been returned unopposed for the High Ward. There is a contest for all t3_e other city wards. la connection with the question of the route for the coming Royal procession, which lias given rise to some difference of opinicm, the Premier inspected parts of the proposed route to-day with the Mayor of Wellington and members of the citizen's, committee-, and will communicate with, the Governor on the subject. 7i'he Premier has received a cablegram from Colonel Banks, of the Sixth Contingent, stating that he and his men, arrived at Pietersburg on the Bth inst., flll well. This aiternoon Dr. M* Arthur sentenced Sinclair Smith, alias Fuller, to twelve months' imprisonment for obtaining £6 from Oliver Mackley by false pretences. Four out of the five prisoners who were brought up for sentence before the Chief Justice to-day attributed their presentposition to drink. ■ The steamer Royalist now in port is something of an oddity in the shipbuilding line. She is of the turret pattern, which being interpreted means that instead of widening gradually up to the deck, she suddenly narrows' in from just abaft the bows right along to the stern, while the deck itself stands- up in the centre and is considerably narrower than the total width of the ship. This, it is claimed, gives her a. greater carrying capacity than usual in proportion to her registered tonnage— in her case something like 5300 tons capacity to 2000 tonnage. Below the i deck the protruding sides of the vessel form a sort of ledge, on which a considerable quantity of timber or like cargo can bo carried. The deck spaceis, of course, cramped. Asked "How do you walk up and down here?" an officer of the vessel repliedy "Well, we just don't." At a meeting of the Forty-mile Bush sawmillers held last week, it was decided to increase the* price of red pine timber by 8d per 100 ft.