The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-06

and Loro baitauf or Bur1etBh re" senting the pressure -pFopsed to be denounced 1t in private. but Lord Rothschild Is understood to have brought them to their knees. With i4o peers pledged to vote against the second reading 1t was impossible for Lord Lansdowne 10 secure a majority on the other side. though. no doubt. his method of drawing the lifs-bloo1 from the measure by drastic arena ments would have commended itself to the intelligent peers more than the crude suggestion to bludgeon 1t.
 Ship Building Matters.
 A curious feature of the current com petition for British navay shipbuild- ing contracts is the pressure which Is being brought to bear on the powers that be by different and in some in- stances very small centres of the in- dustry. Time was then this sort of thing was not at all necessary. when price. design, and ability to do the work requirei were all the clements of competition. Of late, however. a marked change has taken place. and its effect Is distinctly to the disad- vantage of the smaller places and the smaller concerns Formerly the tor pedo boat builder. the shipbuilder. the armor plate maker and the gun maker were separate. and stood upon their own financial basis. Now In several notable instances the four are not only combined In one business, but where large contracts like that for Spain for the rebuilding of her navy are concerned the combinations are united against the world. Few separate con- cerns could hope to compete against vast organizations of this character, and it seems Idle In the circumstances Cor little communities interested In shipbullding but Isolated from the main groups to hope for any large measure of naval work. The larger concerns can execute contracts of this kind much more cheaply than the smaller, and 1t is not fattering them to say they can do them just as well. They are erganizaed to do the very best work at the lowest possible price, By reason too of their combination they are able to quote very keen prices for special branches of their work, This was evident In the recent competition for destroyers when, as was to be expected In the present scarcity of than those of isolated specialists in torpedo work.
 The American Exhibition.
 Now that the excitmeht of the Presidential Infection in the United GNAtt6 Nh . OVtTs 6fft <AAnGTtOAH Exhibition promised for the next sea- Golden West and American Industries Exhihitlon,s grows daily In impor-. tance. The Hon. Advisory Committee. ia of the strongest, such important personageS as the Lord Mayor of London. repfesenting the commerce. of this side of. the Atlantic, and MessrA William Waldorf Astor and J. Pierpont Morgan. as representing the other side. being among the latest noteworthy additions thereto. Already contracts have been made with American im- presarios. Among many shows ar ranged for. ars the Coney Island at fractions Of The DeluKe." and 'The Spirit of Niskara.. l. while in the Elm press Hall a Red Indian spectacle will be the prominent feature. All that is the latest in riding devices has been secured. and music--aiways a feature at Eariscourt-wlll maintain its night reputation by the inclusion of American in addition to the first class military bands which visitors are accustomed to hear there.
 The cost of hunting in the United Kingdom amounts to more than &ls.250. 900 per annunl, said Mir. Martin in hls presidential address to the Surveyors Institution in London the other day. There are in the king dofn.' he added, about 450 hunting establishments. and according to published statistion the cost of main taining all the stag and fox hounds amounts to e2,B80 900 year. The cost of the hunters kept in connection with the various packs amount to at least $16, 750, 900 per annuann. In some of the countries the hounds are out once week on the average, but in the most fashionable countries this average is greatly exceeded. The material bene- its conferred directly and indirectly on the rural districts by hunting are and in many cases are a valuable addition to the wages fund at time when wages Are lowest and work is slackest"
 For over a week highly optimistic forecasts of the October output of the Transvaal gold mines were circulated in the market, but the actual rsturn for once actually exceeded the most sanguine estimates. The total value of the gold returned for october from the whole Colony was 913.120,0o0. or just $635,000 above the previous highest The labor position In the Transvaal is now apparently no longer doubtful, as October brought a further increase of nearly 5000 natives In the complement of the mines. whose total native stan now exceeds 139.000 "boys."