The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-19

x CHcHsS oL tdxatlOn Dy the BrlrlSn gov
 ernment. The feeling of the people
 against the substitution of English fol
 Italian as the official language is very z bitter.
 There will be some wine this year
 The wine crisis in Portugal becomes
 more and more serious. The quantity \ of wine now stored in cellars is esti.
 mated at 1S2,0oo,oOO gallons, which leaves no room for the storage of this
 years exceptionally large harvest. The measure of damages for the fail
 ure of seed rice to grow when planted B hy one who bought it under a warran- Y ty and did not discover its worthless < ness until 1t was too late to plant an- " other crop Is held, in North Carolina, X to be the purchase price, the cost of { preparing the soil and planting the seed { and reasonable rent for the land, less < its rental value for crops that could
 have been planted after 1t was too late Tor rice.
 Sir Robert Griffen, in his address be-
 Spre the British association at Glasgow, X ranked Great Britain, Russia, Germa- X ny and the United States as the worlds
 leading powers, chiefly because of their x pppulations. France, despite her sta z tionary population he added, may
 still for economic reasons be classed K with them" He thought the future Y %re1at tions of Britain and Germany with ' America IS to be matter of immense < Interest. Free trade, he was sure, z would be accepted ultimately all
 around.
 The Earl of Hopetown, governor gen. SG1sal of Australia, is forty one years of Nage and has been man of varied ac-
 tivtties Besides having achieved dis < attnctton as a traveller, he has been a lord in waiting, lord high commits
 s1oher of the Episcopal Church, a pay
 master general, lord chamberlain of the royal household, president of the Soci- sety of Naval Architects, a general of
 Arcl1ers, captain of yeomanry, lieu tenant colonel of submarine mines. a master of harriers, master of beagles, sa governor and governor general
 English companies are taking an
 Important part in the management of
 Russian industries. According to a
 late Russian publication, forty-fve different British corporations are thus
 engaged, mainly in southern Russia. ' or these, sixteen operate in the petro-
 ieum industry, eight in coal, iron and
 steel production, twelve are develop
 Ing mines yielding metals and precious stones, while the remaining nine are engaged in textile industries, bicycle making and constructing water works snd mills Of different kinds.
 NX The London Lancet pays it's city this NDhH hHp1tHltHl. LOHdOH IS possibly the most inconvenient and most untidy city of Europe. The streets are either
 muddy, slushy or dusty; they are lit- tered with straw. cabbage leaves, | newspaper posters and omnibus tick cts; they are constantly being grubbed | aip for some reason or other; barrels 1 0f beer coals and other goods are de- ltyered across the footways at all | hours of the day. So long as London is governed by, or rather is dependent for 1tb due regulation upon, number of | bodies all independent of each other, so continue. We make no suggestion as tc who should be the governing body, but that there should be one is certain. V The labor question is a very difficult one in the new Australian common wealth. It Is not probable, for in- Queensland government to expel all Kanakas and Polynesians from the su- gar districts will be put into execution without considerable trouble. To be sure, the total number of the islanders employed is not very great, only about D,000 or ,00O, but seems that they have taken very kindly to the life of civiliza- ton and will resent bitterly any at- tempt to relegate them to their former condition of savagery. At least one third of them are regular attendants at the mission schools, and some of them have made astonishing progress, being able to write intelligent letters in Eng ish protesting against the movement for their expulsion. Several thousand of them are Christians and regular at- tendants at the various mission ser vices, and their deposits in the govern savings banks amount to |l5o,o lt