, 1908-04-08

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clall, the Secretary for Scotland, will
probably be supplan'ed ia add ion to those
telegrapheI Yesterday. There are rumours
Of overtures being made to Lord Rosebery,
and Nj Birrell is likely to I, tain the Irish
Chief Secreturyship, but nothing is certain
before Mr.. Aaquith's return, ut the earliest
ON Friday. Inere is some criticism of his
not choosing the most direct and quickest
roule, and this also includes some CRITICS N
of the King, some even Suggesting that HIS
Majesty should return.
Two tenenonts in Castle Street Oxford
Street, collapsed Yesterday, their foundations
having been undermined by excavations fot
an adj oining structure. Eight dead DO lies
have been removed and Ii IS feared Others
still, remain III the ruins.
RUSSIA, Germany, Sweden and Denmark
have adopted tne Convention for maintain
ing the status quo of the Bgltic coasts, and
it ls ey pected the CONVENTION regarding the
North Sea will also be adopted shortly.
A despatch from Lisbon reports that seven
persons have been killed and about one hun.
dred wounded in the rioting, which still con
tinues, the mob p%elting The troops with paw
ing stones. The Republicans have elected
five only of ninety candidates in Lisbon, aud
have been thoroughly defeated elsewhere.
The longest and hardest fighting took
place Mt Saint Domingue's Church, the centre
of the Republican districts
4 Copenhagen telegram announces that
the death OF Mr., Lassen, the Finance Minis
ter, was caused by Il stomach complaint, The
Folkething has adjourned.
A Picking despatch states that tho
Chinese Foreign Office has rejected Japau's
proposals for reciprocal postal arrangements
i'll Manchuria, rs derogatory Of Ghira'- SOW
ereignty, and China viii allow onl, Chinese
mails to be carried upon Chinese railways.
The japanese boycottin Canton Is spread
ing. About Il thousand women clad in white,
as a sign of mourning have ho.d d demon
s~tration against Japan, and were most en-
thusiastic despite a dreuchinp rainstor'n.
Washington, April jth. -Secretary Root
anticipates there will be no great difficulty III
adjusting Manchurinn affairs. Russia, ms tho
principal proprietor around Harbln, naturally
desires the promotion of Russian interests,
nevertheless the United States do not per
ceiye the necessity for submitting to the dc
crees, licenses and other Russian regulations,
as the territory is not Russian, moreover the
foreigners III Hardin insist upon controlling
the foreign quarter rs in all oriental cities.
Tho status of United States consuls is re-
garded as being identical with that OF Rus
sia's Governors General, and Il businesslike
arrangement is all til 1t IS necessary.
At Mukden the Japanese have attacked
the Chinese staff Of the United States Con
sulate, and upon tho United State, eousnf4
roquisition, the Chinese police arrested IT'D
japanese and took them to the Japanese
Consulate. A diplomatic protest will b. made,
unless an apology is forthcoming
A despatch from Toxic announces that
the receipts from taxes exceeds tho estimates
by fifty million yen, and this dispeis all doubts
regarding Japanese bonds.
Montreal. April 7th-A warrant being
served upon an eccentric British book agent
named Smith, accused of drunkenness, in bis
lodgings, he barricadod himself within tho
house and from windows fired upon every
body in sight, the entire police reserves and
part of the fire brigade b~esie8ed the house
and the fire brigade turned ten streams of
water into the fiat. A policeman was killed, hfs
chief and another person also being wound
ed; finally as Smith carelessly passed before
a window fifty shots were poured in, wound
ing him badly, and he SURRENDERED.
New York, April 7th
Flo IL, Blended Clear per barrel 5. - 500
Meal, Kindred, per barrel 3.55
New Seasons Pork
Heavy Mess Pork, $154--l53
Crystals per h., 4 3
0u8"r' Muscovado 89otest 3 /
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