MAYORAL ELECTIONS.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8737, 26 November 1896, Page 2

MAYORAL ELECTIONS.

♦ * (BY TELEGRAPH') * Wellington, November 25. The following is fche result of tha > Mayoral election : ; ?. D. Bell „ 1239 L G. Eißher ... ... 852 3 Majority for Bell .„ 887 1 Timaru, November 25. ? Mr J. J. Grandi, ex-oounoillor fo* . many years, has been elected Mayor, . beating Mr John Jackson by 102 vofcea. I Hokitika, November 25. Mr H. li, Mitohell waa eleofced Mayor, beating J. Maude, the present Mayor, by 55 votes. Mr K. W. Wade, the third oandidate, received very little sup* port. 1 Napier, November 25. Result of Hastings mayoral election : 1 Fitzroy, 277 ; Ellis, 82. [ Christchurch, November 25. A good deal of interest was taken m the . mayoral election to-day. The candidates . were Councillor W. H. Cooper, who held ; the positition bhe year before last, and . Councillor J. T. Smibh. The resulb was : Cooper .... .„ .„ .. 692 Smith .„ ... , M 525 Majoriby for Cooper ... .„ 167 In the speeches after the declaration of the poll, Mr Smith accused the liquor trade of working to secure his defeat, and said if he had so wished he could have had the prohibition leagues at his back. Mr A. Chalmers has been elected Mayor of Lyttelton, and Mr N. K. Bowden Mayor of Sydenham. Westport, November 25. The mayorol election to-day was keenly contested, and the polling was the heaviest on record for a mayoral election. The result was the re-election of Mr H. Larsen for fche fourth time, who polled 205 votes ; J. Soanlan, 196 • S. Riley, 75. Dunedin, November 85. The city election resulted as follows : H. Gourley „ „, H. F, Hardy « 549 Mi jority for Gourley ,„ 397 Afc Roslya Kemnitz defeated A, Matheson, Afc Balclutha, where liquor v. prohibition entered somewhat into the contest, M'Corley (liquor) polled 119, and D. Sfcewarb (prohibition) 85. Invercargill, November 25. In the mayoral election Josiah Hanan polled 358 votes as against 259 for John Stead. Bofch are councillors, and Mr Hanan will be the first; native of tne towiji fco occupy the chair. There was a good deal of the temperance element m fche contest, Mr Stead being a prominent good templar ahd prohibitionist. New Plymopth, Noveniber 25. Mr J. B. Roy was elected Mayor for the fifth time, polling 310 to Councillor Furlong's 133. "