THE TEESDALE MERCURY—WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1916.
DEATH OF JABEZ BALFOUR. THE GREAT AIR RAID. FILM CASE AT FOLKESTONE TOTAL AUSTSA’ IAN CASUALTIES. For t/ie Blood is the Life. FINAL OFFICIAL FIGURES OF At Folkestone the Victoria Pier Syndi The casualties disabilities suffered by cate, Limited, were summoned for a breach “ Imps re bk>o< Australian* on ac. service to the begin STORY OF THE “ LIBERATOR - CASUALTIES. of the Cinematograph Act by giving cine polsoaa tbs ning of January imbered 36.951. This whole Sjsista.' FRAUDS. A complete return of the casualties caused matograph display*, on Sunday, February 6. docs not include" rwhose names have bv the recent Zeppelin raid on England has The Town Clerk prosecuted. and Mr. appeared in easu list* and who have been issued by the Secretary of the War Harker, barrister, defended. The Victoria CURED since returned to *’ :• Details, as supjJied An ’elderly man who was found dead in Office. Appended is tlie official statement: Pier i* not licensed for cinematograph bv the Base Record** Office of the Defence an express at Newport, Mon., was identi The following are the final figure* of London, since Christmas. They stated that a case for appeal on tho ground of insuffi I received from Sick. G06 office;. 7 chaplains, 4 nurses, cient evidence. — your " Clarke’s and 14.171 mm. they had previously been in Burma Total ...... G7 „.... 117 Blood Mixture** cighteetKvears ago. Previous to 'f’he death of Jabez Balfour recalls one of that I used to have regular attacks of wet and dry Prisoners of W* 6 officers and 54 men. the most coloseal eerics of frauds ever re Grand total killed and injured, 184. scurvy at the spring and fall of the year ; at that Nature of Casu. ' ▼ Unknown.—49 officers For a half centui corded The failure of what were known a« V.c. HERO KILLED time mv face was »o bad it reached from ear to ear. I and 2M men its use and fame t These figures are greater than those pre tried numerous so-called cures but received no benefit. Totals.—1 4‘.?7 ' ors. 12 chaplains, 5 the Liberator group of companies in 1892 An old gentleman recommended roe to try a bottle been extending. Now millions viously given (59 killed, 191 injured) l*eeattsc nurses, and 35,507 mm. was aggravated by the fact that the majo several persons reported as injured have Sergeant David Finlay, of the 2nd Black of CLrke's Blood Mixture, and from taking the first use it. For it shines brightest, and^ Wat A. has l»een killed in Mesopotamia. dose the sores stopped running and were healed up rity of 23,000 shareholders and 28,000 died of their wounds, and because the police in ten days, and I am pleased te say I have never ’it shines longest. J is easily put on. creditors were people in humble circum have found on further inquiry that some Finlay was awarded the Victoria Cross in been troubled since.—(signed) J. RoUinson, West If and it cannot rub oft. The clothing is’ stances. who had plated tbcir savings in children under sixteen have }>eeri returned June last for conspicuous bravery on May 9. Street, Oldham. AN OLD SOLDIERS HOME W not soiled, while the shoes are softened what they believed tn be absolute ^security. as adult*. and that several cases of slight near Rue du Bois, when aa a lance-corporal (rod preserved by its use. The extent of the ruin in which these injury have been treated at hospitals and he le the liabilities amounted to -£‘8,360,000, the wounded man, and carried him over a di*- Gout, kc., don’t waste your time and money on and sixty years < 1 ge ho has joined the AC- L. Hauthaway & Sons, Inc, tance of 100 yards of fire-swept ground into lotions and ointments which cannot get below the BOSTON, MASS.. U. S. A. -assets were supj»orted to be worth only surface of the skin. What you want is a medicine Army Veterinary C i;*. The applicant said OFFICER'S WIFE CHARGED. cover. quite regardless of his personaJ Afor United K nrdorn j£3,000,00ft, leaving *a k>ss of nearly that will thoroughly free the blood of the poisonous West was a carte: n.l occupied a cottage safety. J0HX 8. DZXD t SONS, LU^ X5.500,00* matter which alone is the true cause of all your on the farm on a klv tenancy. He left Loodnn, Kafland. Balfour, who was certainly a man of great A wd*l]-dpv.-**'d woman, Mrs. Spencer suffering. Clarke’s Blood Mixture is iust such a in fhe middle of J try without giving any Clarke, wife of nn Army captain, witK medicine. It is composed of ingredients which quickly ability, was born in 1843, the mmi of a man notice, and left hi • wife at the cottage ’rhe thirty-two year*’ service to his credit, was expel from the bl »od all impurities, from whatever who occupied the positon of a messenger 15,000 TRAINS FOR THE ARMY, cause arising, and by rendering it clean and pure, can applicant said lie v. as three carters short, in the House of Commons after having charged at Liverpool Police-court with be relied on to effect I work on the farm was Im-hind, and the been a marine store dealer. His mother fraudulently ^converting to her own use £40. Sir William Portal, deputy-chairman of a lasting cure. I horses were idle in the stable. He had was Mrs. Clara Lucas Balfour, a temper the moneys of the Soldiers and Sailor* tho London and South-Western Railway I advertised for men but could not definitely ZEPPELIN VICTIM’S SON. Families* Association. The defendant had Over M years* I engage any l>eca -* he had no cottage for ance writer and lecturer. Jabez was edu Company, s|»caking at the annual meeting, BBCCCM cated abroad. He had some years of busi keen joint secn»tary of the Litherland said the line had to bear the brunt of the I them to live in The defendant said he had An inquest has been held by a landed ness training in the office of a firm of Par branch of the a.saoriatiou. and it was alleged movement of troops, and from August 1914 Pleawnt Clarke’s I tried to get a house, and hoped to do so at coroner on the ix>dy of the widow of a jegt- liamentary agents, * and before he was that she had falsified receipts for amounts to the end of Januarv last had provided to take. I the end of the wis*k. An order for possession inan who l.ad died from injuries ^ustaimd 'tweux.y-five years of age he had begun his given to dependants of soldiers and sailors, over 15,000 special trains. I in twenty-one days was granted. during the last Zeppelin raid on October 13, uchemtv, the main one being the Liberator the irregularities extending from July to Thi* was quit*' independent of the large Blood It was stated that tlx* woman had leea Building Society, which proved an enormous September butt year. She pleaded guilty, number of special trains run for soldier* on living in k-dgings with her little boy. 0u and her solicitor urged that her health at attraction to the people with small savings. leave, and. in addition, the company had to Sold by all Mixture DAMAGES FOR A KISS. the night cf the raid they were out together^ Balfour became managing director of this the time the offences were committed was haul over 2.500 ambulance trains. Chemist* *r.d and after a bomb had Ixen dropped bccaiDe such that she did not realise what she whF Stores, J 9 per oottle. separated. The 1m»v walked home alone, and society in 1870. drawing an enormous salary. doing. She had fifteen children, ail living. Ellen Mary Millard, a married woman, of He settled down in Croydon, and was first R.fu AUen-road. Holloway. in the Clerkenwell his mother was later found in a hoqntaL Three of them were serving with the forces. LORD DERBY AS AIR MINISTER. >shere she recently died from her iajurieij Mayor of that town in 1833. Three years Her husband and family were grief stricken . AND “NEVER BEEN County-court, obtained £1 a® damages for before Tam worth had sent him to Parlia TROUBLED SINCE” assault against Thoma* Ayree, timekce^xr, without knowing what had happened. by what hail happened. Two medical men Answering a question by Sir J Bethel! in ment in the Liberal interest. Ln 1886 he were calleel to speak of her physical and of Athelstane-road. Finsbury Park. The It was xbentioned that the deceased had ■•contested Walworth and was defeated, but tl-c House of Commons, the Prime Minister plaintiff stated that she was in bed with had a lot of trouble. She lost her h i.- MM mental state, and the Bench bound her over said - fifteen months ago, and lier twenty-one-'eaF three years later he was back at West tn be ef goad In'baviotir. her three children when Ayres came to her minster as member for Burnley. Besides his The Earl of Derby has accepted the chair room “and nut his arms around my neck old daughter three montlw lat Admiralty cc;ised on the transfer of the goed S.-.iaar•♦aw. and ho would do all . he was ba»ed upon the claim that above all “Merchants and others are reminded that seen that the results would bo exciting if his arms around her neck and kissing her where a letter of credit is is-ued for the anti-aircraft defence of London to the War the powder magazines became overheated. A he never did such a thing. could to get her something from the Prince things, it was safe. To the very eve of the Office. of Wales’s Fund, which he hoped would b«ot disaster the directors pretended that its financing of merchandise shipped either Dreadnought is entirely clothed in a suit of from the United Kingdom or from Oversea He had now accepted the appointment of underwear to protect it from fire and after the bey’s future. He would give iicr operations were of the ordinary building adviser to the Commander-in-Chief of the £1 fr»m his" jMM>r-l>px, and he hoped the society character. But less than ten years to a neutral country in Europe, or where water. The actual ccnstruction of the RIFLE FIRE. documents relating to the shipment of such Home Forces in connection with gunnery material is a l»ccret, but it i6 known to be public would, on reading of the case, assid after the foundation of the Liberator allied matter, relating to such anti-aircraft de the bov to become settled in life. companies began to come into existence, the 2p»ods are handled in any form by banks or for the most part cellulose, which is ob Although the quick-firing gun is running other institution* in this country, the banks fence, and he was also, under an arrange tained from the fibrous rind of the cocoa- A formal verdict was returned. operations of which were far more ambi ment made in November, 1914. available for ♦he rifle close as the rnobt effective of tious. It may lie said that the hard-earned vnd institutions arc required before under nut. Cellulose swells when it touches salt modern light weapons, the rifie is still at taking the business to insist upon the pro consultation in regard to naval gunnery water. Therefore, if a hole should be made savings of the Liberator members were us^d when the Board of Admiralty desired his She top of the list. For means nf advancing, to support grandiose speculative schemes of duction of a declaration signed by th“ con in the ship’s side—say by a .-.hot—this cellu or for bringing aa enemy attack to a THE DESTROYED ZEPPELIN. signee and countersigned by the consignee's advice. lose expands and covers the opening, so pre land development and buikling over which banker in the neutral country that the. failure, a bedy of infantry, good marksmen, no one exercised control, and which at the venting a*i inrush of water. The cellulose cannot be beaten. There are several methods The brilliant French aviation success n goods are for consumption only in the is also treated tn make it fireproof. Mineral de^troving a Zeppelin by gunfire- continue best were reckless, and at the worst fraudu :ountry to which they are shipped. of directing rifle fire in medem warfare, lent The secret of the finance of Jabez COUNCILLOR IN COURT ww>l is a material used upon the latest each one employed to gain a d‘finite object, to hold the public attention, and the Pad "The form of declaration may be obtained type of battleship. It looks like v.ool, but correspondent of the "Morning Post ,1 M Balfour was "When in difficulty start a w from any banker in the United Kingdom. and each method has i>een carefully elabo company.” DejK-ndent uj>on the Liberator Alfred Cecil Knight, of Springbank-road. *s really composed of snowy threads of a rated to secure the maximum result "Dis. a few further details supplied by eye-wi The* absence of such declarations has caused Lewir-ham. wa* summoned at Greenwich sort cf glass. The men who pack mineral neases, one of whom describes how for tw there sprang up a scries of companies of prejudicial delays.” tributed frontal fire” i> the command given which nobody but Balfour himself seemed to Police-court bv the Lewisham Borough wool have to wear masks to prevent the when a trench is attacked by a line of men or three minutes shells burst like fireworj have any control. The other directors, the Council, of which he is a member, of being needle-like particles from being inhaled. It roughly the same length as the trench is. In round the dirigible, while the fifth or SUM official?*. the shareholders, the depositors SIR LAURENCE GOMME DEAD. the owner and in possession of two legs of is A remarkable non-conductor of heat, and this- case each defender fires straight ahead .^iell seemed to pass through it. Half 4 bowed to Balfour’s will. A certain builder mutton supplied to the Lewisham Military is used to cover the refrigerators and cold at the advancing soldiers. Supposing there second later an immense jet of reddish Bad became, under his a?gis. involved in colonial Hospital, which were unsound and unfit for storage chambers, and also the explosive is an isolated body of the enemy in a cer rose vertically, outlining the Zeppelin, a* Sir George laurence Gomme has died at food. The hearing occupied the whole of stor<*s The boilers and steampipes of a enterpriser, including the erection of the his Buckinghamshire residence, Long tain epot. at such times "concentrated fire’’ suddenly it enveloped the whole shell of the day. It was not alleged that the defen Dreadnought have "jackets” in order to is directed upon that particular place, and huge blocks which are now the Hotel Cecil Creadon, aged sixty-Hiree. airship horizontally, while it was still atJ and Whitehall Court. When he failed his dant deliberately foisted unsound meat London County Council from 1900 to March ruined cottage, or clump of trees, or what Zeppelin Vegan Io fall to pieces. portM that the condition of the meat was due to and sometimes ordinary blanketing. ever shelters the enemy stragglers, until osm extent of £2.000.000. This is not the place 1915, when he retired. He was. however, dropping eff it as it came down to the for & complete account of the Liberator defrosting. The magistrate said that the they ar? wiped out. or forced to retire. witn a 7ra.-h There was a roaring sound very much more than chief municipal officer defendant had done nothing morally wrong, “Oblique fire” is employed when ail attack schemes, but it may be said that while of lhe County of London. Born at Hammer it felt, as if the motors were still workim disaster followed disaster the directors except to jiermit hi* servants to take out is to bo launched Th- infantry on either the Toarin^ being probably due to the rapd smith nnd educated at the City of London meat that had not l>oen hung up the night IN DUST AND WATER side of the attacking sections open fire throve. From the seven leading companies School, he imbzlwd a deep affection lor ail passage H the fl am Ing mass through the ad of the group Balfour and his colleagues re before. There had onlv been a slight amount obliquely upon the enemy directly in front As it resched the ground the bombs whid that concerned London. of negligence, and without recording a con The feathered tribe have many peculiar of their advancing comrades. Another !♦ o.irr:o.J exph ded Except in the ca*eM| ceived as remuneration £178.554. The final He was Fellow of the Anthropological -collapse involved some £7,000,000 of capital. viction he would dismiss the summons on ways and fancies alx»ut the details of their method besides the hand-to-bar.d bayonet . ■ o< r oli clothing was burnt off tai Society and formerly president, and at the the defendant paying twenty guineas coeople had been caught in the cuiU choice of bath water, but also about the unexpected fire is very disastrous urx n the Lieutenancy of London in 1853, and until he quality or their "toilet dust.” Wild ducks, of the financial jugglers, and (says the The Rev. R. J. Campbell, formerly Pastor most seasoned troops, and in nine cases out retired he never lost cloee touch with the though they drink sal> water, prefer to of ten the trench can he made untenable if Kent ha*- asked tho- Education Board t« ** Morning Post ”) distress and ruin went of the City Temple. London, has been re admit wounded soldiers of good education tu stalking through the land. There were county government. bat lie in fresh-water pools, and will fly the "enfilade fire” is kept up. "Reverse ceived into the ministry of the Church of long distances inland to running brooks and training colleges with a view to fitting them several suicides, and many old people had to England at Birmingham Parish Church by fire” is just as demoralising, and this is as teachers. begin life all over again. A fund was .raked ponds, where thev dress their feathers in employed by a body of men who have Bi>nop Rusnell Wakefield A challenge to the early hour- of the morning Sparrows An eigbteen-year-old private in a Sorrel for the most necesr-itou* of the investors in PAMPHLETS TO BE DESTROYED. the congregation to declare any impediment managed tn creep round to the rear of the the Liberator and its affiliated bank*> and bathe often, Ixith in water and in dust. They enemy, and from there have opened fire, regiment has painted a oft. portrait of Ix^rJ passed unanswered. Kitchener and presented it to the Churci building societies which had been declared At Wilms low, William Jackson, com- are not so particular about the quality of with quick ar.d deadly result-’. If the ground The sermon was preached by Canon the the water as al»out the dust. They prefer Army as a token of gratitude. haakrupt. Balfour always thought that if inercinl traveller, was summoned to show Hon. James Adderley. who welcomed Mr. over which an attack is to bo made is in a he had been allowed be could have cause why 2,000 pamphlet* headed "Unite clean water, but they sometimes take a dip hollow, then on the hills at the reen bnyiflfl presence of a laree congregation. he can get it—in tlie streets or on the tops margarine, fat. and other food for his < <■»» subsequently- paid. ■General Strike.” should not be destroyed. Prior to the ordination of Mr. Campbell a fire” upon the enemy, over the beads of One morning in December, 1892, Balfour The evidence showed that defendant dis of houses—but he is most careful in the their comrades advancing to th* r.*la* fiat in Whitehall Court from tributed the pamphlets in a train, and the ham by the Church Association. The new not only inflict heavy casualties, but alsc During the hearing at Sunderland of his -.country seat and received new* that the prints were found by the jiolice at his h< ine. driest and finest possible, suits him best. hamper machine gun work, thus -aving the charge of gambling against a munition theology with which Mr. Campbell formerly Partridge- like to scratch out the •soil from •eye of the law wjh upon him aud that at Defendant now said that the pamphlets were identified himself was made the ground of lives of the on-rushing troop-. ' "Covering worker who will not Im* sixteen until nexfl any moment he might lie arrested. He fled net his property, but belonged to a group. under the grass and fill their feathers with fire” is a valuable aid at all tiros, ar.d the month, it appeared that he earned 27s. opposition to his admission to the Anglican cool earth. Most birds are fond of burnt at once. He caught the eleven o’clock morn The Bench ordered that all the pamphlet*, on ministry. commander has a great piece of luck when week at a shipyard. j ing train by wav of Calais to Basle, went to Conscription and ‘‘British Prussian ism l»e ashes. Some early morning take a walk the country will allow of its use. "Con Genoa, and took steamer to Buenos Av res. destroyed, and that certain other prints be across a field that has been burnt over, and verging fire" ie used to stop ?u advance ol The h ue and cry was too late. Balfour in referred to the military authorities. see the number of winged creatures that enemy in marching order. In - ich a case his wisdom, had gone to a country from A NEW WAR MEDAL. rise suddenly from the ash heaps. A darting concealed infantry open lire upon the oppo which extradition proved to be very difficult. form, a small cloud of ashee, and the sing soldiers. and by frontal. enfilade Two of the men concerned in the ventures— THE GLENGARRY. In the House of Commons Mr Asquith, bathers disappear. oblique, etc., firing can annihilate th< Hobbs. the manager, whom Balfour had met questioned by Sir A. Markham ns are. Cn.--ing knives, cpi'ling home was in a gk»n through which ran the CAMEROONS CONQUEST COMPLETE salt, and breaking look ng - glasses, fcfl arrest before he left the country. Finally, river Garry. In Cases of defy the power of Rome. These cantons were in April, 1895. Detective Freest. from Scot all like Monaco—little States, independent example, are things that very few pcopM land Yard, arrested him, and he was Mr. Bonar Law stated in reply to Mr. Fell Digestive Debility, or united in more or less unstable con will do willingly, howcvei hard-headed tbq brought back to England. Five weeks later in the House of Common that a telegram Benger’s Food forms an ap federacies. They might be called the star may l»e in ether re.-pertA. The belie.** that it Jabez Balfour, "Who had never denied him OBSERVATION BY CAMERA. was irceived from the Governor-General of dust of which the planets of the European is unlucky to cro-- knives dates back to ths self a luxury, was standing in the dock at Nigeria on February 18, reporting that the petising and easily digested solar system were fornud. Rome itself was time when men u*ed theii daggers to ent Bow-street, and in the evening he was taken Th? Germans, anticipating that their obser German garrison at Mora in the north of cream, so soothing as to allay originally just such a village State. their food with. In those days women were to Holloway. The trial began on October vation- by air-hip and acroplnne would be th< Cameroon*, had capitulated. internal irritation, and so always expecting their men folK to quanes 25, 1895, and finished on November 2G. Bal challenged and rendered difficult by the Mr. Bonar Law said this completed the and the accidental crossing of knives on tMl four was sentenced to fourteen years’ penal eagernc-s of the Allies’ airmen to give conquest of the Cameroon* by the Allied delicious as to gently incite table was koked ujton as a warning thH servitude, and Mr. Justice Bruce told him battle. with characteristic foresight em forces, and he had telegraphed his warm into activity the weakened THE BLACK SEA they would abortlv In? crb*»ed in dcadN that the four walls of hi* prkon cell would barked upon tlie war prepared to overcome congratulations to Maior-General Dobell, to digestive functions and pro coin bat. In tho.-c dnvs, too, and for inanj not be sufficient to keep out the bitter wails the difficulty. The way they managed it was Brigadier-General Cunliffe and to the forces cess of nutrition. The Black Sea is in everybody’s mind a century later, .-alt was very cx]»cnsive, cf his unfortunate victims. He was released by a camera in a parachute. From a scaf under their respective commands. these days, but do you know low it got its and the salt-hox was an important tabfi in 1907. and subsequently wrote hie prison folding-like apparatus a folded parachute is Begin Benger’s Food when digestion name? To the ancient Greeks it was known decoration. The servant* sat at table Ih1o< experiences for a new*-pa per, articles discharged upwards. As it falls the para is deranged; always use it in tem as Pontus Axenoe, meaning the Inhospitable the salt, md their master and mistred being republished in a book. chute opens, and the camera within auto WOMAN’S NOSE CUT OFF. porary sickness, in infantile diarrhoea* Sea, on account of the savagery of the above it. To upeet it meant swift punish? matically “registers” a bird's-eye view of and whenever internal disorder prevails natives of its shores, and the conspicuous ment to the offender, and in time theig absence of harbours. That name survived the surroundings. Sentence of three years’ penal servitude in infant, invalid, or age d person. sprang up the belief that it was unlvckv to’ TO PROTECT THEIR YOUNG. until Greek commerce and influence had spill the salt. The breaking of a looking- was at Guildford Assizes passed on John fairly established itae’f round the borders of The war spirit is quaintly illustrat«l by Byrne, a soldier, for having maliciously glas.^ superstition i.s a!*o a very old one* a letter which has just been received by the the sea, and out of appreciation of the fact Hundreds of years ago it u«»ed to be a com* In Brazil a species of tree-frou constructs wounded Marie Dumont. a Belgian. at they renamed it Pontus Euxinus, meaning in the water a curious nest, or fortification, recruiting officer for Bradford, Captain Woking. The prisoner accosted the woman mon belief that those who wished to harm Burton. The writer says: “I am only six in a dark lane, and evidently mistaking her the Hospitable Sea. Then the Turks came others could do so by getting pictures or to protect its eggs and young from the at teen years of age, but I am a strong girl, along and made the acquaintance of its fogs, tacks of fish. Starting at the bottom of a for another woman asked her to return some making images of their enemie-. and do and willing to do my share by roughing it, money. Not understanding him she made no and storms, and shelterless expanse, and troying them The destruction of the piq pond, the mother frog erec*s a circular, and I have big feet and big hands, and tube-like wall of mud. which at the top pro answer, and the prisoner then cut her across they gave it the name it etill enjoys—the ture would be followed by the death of :ta would not in the least mind wearing trousers the face with a razor, practically severing Black Sea. original. Even the victim’a reflection in • jects above the surface of the water. In and big boots. I should love to be a soldier, the water thus enclosed the eggs are laid, her nose and disfiguring her for life. Food mirror wa*- enough for the purpose, pro as I always wished before the war I was a vided the mirror was promptly broken. and when they have hatched out, the young bov and could have ’listed.” For INFANTS, As the result of a special * to: Lord Shaftesbury, K.I*., K.C.V.O., It is announced from Melbourne that ham and Northumberland have joined the to employ these natives in the manner sug BENGER'S FOOD, Ltd.. Manchester, Eng. been apjsiinted his Majesty'b Lieutenant fur Manchester citizens have just passed forces, and the difficultv of maintaining the resolutions undertaking to practise self- gested.” said Mr. Tennant in the Honsc of under the t>chem? for settling soldiers on BAaNCM OFFICRS— the county of Dorset. Commons, in reply to a question by Sir the land and providing for the dependants WevTor*'U.S.A -js WiUxiaSt. Bvdnrv nkW t»y. PKt st output daily increasing. It i* *ugge-tcd denial and promote thrift. Cax/Jx* ^rriti hatloruM Droc < Chara lea I Co.. Ltd. Mr. Howard Houlder, who has been proi Joseph Walton with regard to the possi of soldiers killed in the war, the Australian MBt Gabnal St Montreal Q branrh-a • hrnoifhmit «:anada. m that there should he wholesale employment Up to January 31 sixtv-five N.C.O.’s and bility of enabling Zulus and Basutos to States will find the farms. while the of women at the pit heads in order to enab.e minent in shipping circle* for forty jnen have been totally blinded. volunteer for service. Commonwealth will find the money. more men to go down tbe mines. has Ixien elected Mayor of Croydon.