VARIOUS CABLES.

Southland Times, Issue 14371, 18 March 1910, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

L.C.C. ELECTIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. LONDON, Mar. 16. Sixteen aldermen nominated for the London County Council by the Moderate party have been elected. They include Lady St. Heller, Mr Harold Cox, M.P., and Mr Geoffrey Drage. BLINDED BY A HAT PIN. BRUSSELS, Mar. 16. The Belgian Court has awarded £4OO damages to a man who was blinded by a hat-pin in a tramcar. The tramcar company and the lady who wore the hat that held the pin wore ordered to pay half the amount each. BOARD OF TRADE ADVISORS. LONDON, March 16. The Advisory Committee of the Board of Trade includes the Hon. W. HallJono.s (N.Z. High Commissioner), Lords Avebury tint! Strathcona, Sir A. Spicer, and Mr H. Birchenough. A TINY WINDFALL. SYDNEY, March 17, Marshall, a working man of Lithgow, has come in for a windfall. An uncle, late senior member of Marshall, Stewart and Company, shipbuilders, of Glasgow, has made him chief beneficiary of property valued at £40,000. TWO DEATHS. PERTH, March 17. Two well-known graziers in the Wyndham district have died under peculiar circumstances. John Mackenzie shot himself when drawing a revolver from his saddlebag, and Sarn Mugglestone was found unconscious on a bush track, and subsequently died. LIFE SAVERS. LONDON, March 16. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s boats saved 64 1 lives from 4 2 vessels in the year 1 DOR.