WESTPORT COLLIERY DISPUTE.
MINES STILL IDLE,
i'iiv TKLwaurir.- -vrkss association*.] Westport, This Day.
The Stockton collieries are Fit ill idle. A meetiinr of the Union decided to leave the dispute'in the hands of the local Mining Department. Any communication? from the manager are to he forwarded fo that body.
PRESIDENT OF CHINA.
YU AN-Sn IH-K AI ELECTED,
lYiorriiiiJi.- Tic = --A> ocintiiMi.- Copyrif?li\ Tekincr. Monday.
The first election of President of ihe Chinese KopuLilie, wag conducted to-daw bo;h houses of the Legislature
vo'iinr;
The ballot; Issfced 12 hours, in all 7,-,« nii'inhcr!' votit.r: on the 200 nominal ioup R'civoil, Dr Sun-yat-sen, leader of the revolution, who is now in t'xik\ boinf; ono of the cand - dates. The first ballot proved inconclusive, none of the enndidateg securing the requisite majority. Yuan-aliih-kai led the ballot with !71 vote, Li-yuan-heng beins =eeond with 1 ■'>■!.
The. second ballot, in which a number of {hose in the first ballot were eliminated, rdso failed to result in a definite election, Yuan'a vote going up to h<7 and I d-ymui-heng's ti 162.
M (lie third ballot Yuan shih-kai was elected with a total of 507 votes, Li-yuandnmr polling 179.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 609, 8 October 1913, Page 5
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191WESTPORT COLLIERY DISPUTE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 609, 8 October 1913, Page 5
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