, 1898-12-07
TELEGRAMs.
ST. CROIX STATION.

that tile Government has decided to give the
following assistance in(Niew OF the distress ,
caused by the late hurricane: To Barbados
o free grant of forty thousand pounds and
to St. Vincent twenty-fv, thousandc pounds,
to cover certain eNpenseA of relief such as
re-housing end repairs to public works. Tn
addition a loan will be issued to both islands
of fifty thousand pounds each to be lent 10
planters to meet their immediate difficulties
caused by the storm, no less than fifty pounds
to be lent in any case. Interest is to be ut
the rate of 8 per cent, to be paid yearly
from date. Of borrowing, The sec"Ilty to be q
1st mortgage on the various estates, 10
money to be lent on any other security. No
principal is to be repaid for three years, then
5 per cent of same to be repaid annually
so that the whole sum will be repaid in
% years. The money is not to be applied to
replacing obsolete buildings and machinery
nor the paying of Of pre-existing liabilities
OH estates. The planters to combine as far
rs possible to utilize the money to the best
advantage.
New York, December 3rd.-London news
announces that Mr.. AstOr has given towards
the.GordoniMemorial College Scheme the sum
Of 5 thousand sterling. Lord Kitchener Of
Khartoum has visited the Stock Exchange.
saying, he had come there for half a
million.
Advices from Bombay announce that two
brigades each of infantry, cavalry, artillery,
sappers and miners Lave been ordered to
concentrate against the Mad Mullah, who
is now threatening Chitral's communication.
From Peshawar it is reported that six thou
sand troops ale preparing for the field.
The Rome correspondent of the London
daily News" lelegraphs that the Anti
Anarchist conference has abandoned the
proposal to extradite anarchists.
Paris news states that Spain is exercising
her privilege and refuses to cede a Caroline
Island or grant religious freedom throughout
the Carolines or cede q cable and ooaling
station at Centa. Prolonged negotiations
are possible, as Spain requests commercial
privileges in the West Indies, pleading hard
ships of the abrupt interruption and the
analogy of the open door policy announced
for the Philippines.
Spain proposes that she and the United
Stntes jOlmtIy appoint a Commission con-
siSting of one member each of Z nations to
decide if Spain was responsible for tho
"Maine" explosion, anil if 50 she will send
a warSh'p to salpt9 the United States
flag.
his reported that Germany upon inquiry
learns that Spain wants ten million francs for
The Carolinps.
The U. $. S. "New York''has been ordered
to proceed to Havana. All is reported quiet
there.
A Madrid despatch announces that the
Bank of Spain has made another advance to
the Government of sixty million pesetas to
cover the expense of repatriatirg the troops
from the Philippines and the West Indies.
Dispatches received in London from Buda-
Pesth state that a plot to assassinqte Prince
Ferdinand of Bulgaria has been discovered Mt
Sofia end that numerous arrests have been
made.
A telegram from Manogua, Nicaragua, re-
ports that the revolution in Salvador has Sno-
ceeded and that Senior Regalado has been
inaugurated President. The greater republic
har been dissolved and the former regime
established. Everything quiet.
SPECIAL.
London, Decbr. 3rd.-The subscriptions to
the Mansion House Relief Fund up to Friday
night amounted to forty-three thousand
eight hundred pounds.
London, Dec. 3rd.-The West India Com
mittee state that Sir Thomas Upton is send
ing an engineer to Barbados to repo t on inc
prospects of establishing central Facton's
in that island, with the "pproval Of the Col
NAL Office, and that if be is satisfied with the