GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 90, 23 April 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

' SHREWSBURY BY-ELECTION. ’ [By Electric Telegraph-Copyright] [United Press Association.]

At thhyShrewshwys)ye 7 el6ctioir Mr Lloyd . (Unionist) secured 2412 votes and Mr '(deceived 1.5 p.ni.) 1 , London, April 22. " . The Australian squadron came' second in; the gun-layers tests ; for 1912 with heavy and light guns. . ; (Received 11.35. a.m.) , iU ; : • m ■’ Brussels, April 22. ■ Herr :;Socialist ? Party*, speaking ; in> tip fJJjairfc: ilber, s/olive branch in holding,.ppt shh ! f profe pept of electoral reform, , 4>i It is expectediiSthdl £the strike will ■ now" end. :• . -i , - I (Received 11.35 a.m.) London, April 22.

In the Douglas libel potion,., a verwajs :given for defendant; - It was j'i|iqidi\tliat the' J Qtatdmeirfe- ■’wdfe libellous, ;jbut truebj -il The Bookrt.Gliih had not been, negligent, ..~x.; MUNEGI PA L NOMINATIONS. 1 -o. ?■ r. ‘V■{. [Per Press AsspopvTtQN.]. b rMr A. W. Gillies has been jre-elect? :ed.Mayor of Haw.era unopposed.—P. A. Ay.At Feilding the sitting Mayor,. Mr E. Goodbehere, will be opposed byvMr A. M. Ongley. Mr B. R. Gardner, Mayor of Levin since the Borough’s inception in 1906, has been re-elected unopposed. For nine (vacancies on the Council, tlnjsre tverc eleven nominations. • - Thomas C. Crump was, t( re-elected Mayor of Eltham unopposed. Mb" George Young ; has been elected •Mayor of Inglewood unopposed. • Mr J. V. Brown (present Mayor), >and -Mr J. P. Thomson have been nominated for the Mayoralty of Napier. Sixteen candidates have been nominated for the nine seats in the. Council) Mr F.-C. Tumor; was elected Mayor of Eketahuna rjnopposed., Ten nominations were received for six seats in ,the l Borough Council; Mr David McLaren (present May or) , and Mr John P. Luke have been nominated'for the Mayoralty of Wellington. There are thirty-seven nominations for fifteen seats in the City Council.