The work of counting votes capably and quickly doos by the scrutineers, Messrs. W. S. Jackson and H. A. J. Mackray, and at 5.20 the result was made known. Mr, C Pearce was returned at the top of the poll, and all the British didates, with the American and Rus sian representatives, were Count, Jezierski obtained the ninth place by only a small majority over the Japanese candidate, and the German candidate was at the bottom of the poll, a considerable number of votes in arrear. The official return reads as follow:
E.C. Pearce 1,082 I. Ezra. os 987
A. 8. P. White-Cooper..... 925 L. Merriman 900
H.C. Gulland 0... 896
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.
