CORK ELECTION UPSET
IRREGULARITIES DECLARED TO BE PROVED. ' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, May 22. The hearing .of the East Cork election petition has been finished. Captain A. J. 0. Donolan (Nationalist) has been unseated, on the ground that accounts were suppressed relating to compromising payments and that the election had 1 been conducted with a reckless disregard of the statute. Captain Donelan, retired, is sixty-Hve, and has Bat for East Cork for eighteen years. Ho -was chief Nationalist 'Walp. At tlx© general election in December he M r William O’Brien, leader of the Independents (who won a seat easily n Cork City, however), by 3173 votes to 1834.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7448, 24 May 1911, Page 7
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