, 1898-01-08


guarded.
It is believed japan has made similar
declarations to China as the aU )ve.
The New YORK Times in an editorial,
expresses the opinion that when the above
is officially Communicated the reply Of tue
United States should express entire APP
prevail.
A telegram from the Hong Kong CORES
pondent If a London paper reports the arri-
val there of Inns. Powerful"
Cairo news announces that the gunb0ats on
the Nile have reConnoitred twenty miles
south of Metemmeh.
1t is sem. Officially stated that the British
movements in Egypt are entirely due to the
DerVishes' movement northWard. and that an
advance to KhartOum is net implied.
4 telegram from London, Ontario, reports
that the floor of the City Hall in that place
collapsed under a political meeting number
ing 2 thousand persons. A large iron safe
and a massive steam coil fell upon the
struggling crowd. Twenty corpses have
already been recovered.
The Official Gazette, Havana, publishes
an edict raising The embargo on the ex-
portation Of tobacco, and provides for a twelve
dollars duty on one hundred kilOs for all
grades except Santiago tobacco. The export
duty on manufactured tobacco, cigars, and
cigarettes is abolished, and the importation Of
tobacco prohibited.
A telegram from Tampa states that a large
fLbustering expedition left Cleveland Keys
Tor Cuba on Thursday last.
Advi css from Calcutta report that the
rebels have blocked the road to Lundi Kotal
cut6ng off communication between General
Sir VIM. Lockhart and the Oxfordshire troops.
Antigua, 9th Mr.. Thomas Baynes, first
Puisne Judge of the Leeward Islands has
been offered and accepted the second Puishe.
Judgeship of Trinidad.
London, Jany. 5th.-It is announced that
the letter from the Chancellor Of the Exche-
quer on the countervailimg question does not
in any way commit Lord Salisbury, Mr..
Chamberlain or the Cabinet. The Customs
authorities admit that there are no practical
difficulties in levying duties. The English
press are discussing the sugar question and
American reciprocity.
Sugar In stock on the LIST inst was 81 900
tous. Last year l4I 900 tons.
Plymouth, January 5th.-The r. NJ. S.
"Atrato' from the West Indies arrived here
at s o'clock p. m,
Jamaica, Jany. 6tk.-An important public
meeting was held in the Town Hall Yesterday
afternoon to consider the position of the
sugar Industry III Jamaica aud The report Of
the sugar comm i~sSiOnera under the Presiden-
Cy Of His Excel encJ Sir Henry Blake. The
following resolutions were unanimously pass
ed: First, that tbs main staple product Of
the British West Indian Colonies is sugar;
That it has been couclusively shown by the
report of the West India Royal Commission
that the sugar industry in the West Indies is
threatened with extinction; That a large
proportion of the population of Jamaica is
dependent on the cultivation Of the sugar
cane for its subsistence That this Industry
cannot be replaced by any other that would
afford such steady employment or which
could be established under a long period of
years; That such employment is peculiarly
adapted to the labouring class md to the
small settlers Of this colony who have hither.
to relied principally on the CANE for their
support; That owing chiefly to the now
unremuneratlve prices Of sugar and its by
product rum and the consequent abandon
ment of many sugar estates this colony is
suffering from severe depression
That Jamaica Is solely dependent on its
agriculture aud as the result Of the decline
of sugar the interests Of every Industry
pastoral, commercial a,d professional are
seriously suffering; Tina, lie continuance
or restoration Of the sugar Industry depends
on obtaining prompt relief; That he cause
of its decline is The existence of the Etlopean
system of bounties O the productions Of beet
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