GENERAL CABLES

Southland Times, Issue 21429, 25 June 1931, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

CONSERVATIVE WINS BY-ELECTION. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 7 p.m.) London, June 24. The Wavertree (Liverpool) by-election resulted:— A. R. Nallicain (Conservative) 18,687 S. L. Treleaven (Labour) 10,042 The election was due to the retirement of Mr J. A. Tinne. At the general election in 1929 the polling resulted: J. A. Tinne 16,880 (Conservative) ; S. L. Treleaven (Labour) 13,585; H. R. Rathbone (Liberal) 11,723.

THE CANADIAN BUDGET. Ottawa, June 23. The Budget system for 1931 shows that the total new requirements amount to 104,208,000 dollars which will either be voted by Parliament or raised through Parliament authorized securities. MISS NICHOLS’S SPINE INJURED. St. John (New Brunswick), June 23. X-ray pictures revealed to-day that two vertebrae in Miss Ruth Nichols’s spine were cracked. While painful, the injury is not serious, and there being no dislocation the fractures will mend quickly. Miss Nichols’s plane was wrecked when landing. END OF SICILIAN MAFIA. (Rec. 8.25 p.m.) Rome, June 24. After, a trial extending over a year, 131 members of the Sicilian Mafia were found guilty of crimes of murder, blackmail and robbery between 1910 and 1926. This represents the final cleaning up of the Mafia. When the verdicts were announced the prisoners in an iron cage indulged in abuse in four languages. Fifteen were sentenced to life imprisonment, nine to 30 years, 14 to 25 years, 16 to 15 years and 77 to 10 years or less,