, 1908-05-09

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elevation to the peerage has resulted in the
return Of Mr.Ihorne,a Libel Il, Ly 45I4 votes,
Mir. Amery,the Unionist candidate, however,
secured 1906, making it virtually Il Liberal
defeat and his endangers MrChurchjiIs sue.
cess at Dundee on the nin.h but the result
there is likely to tie affected bv Mr..
Churchill's success in adjusting the dispute
IN the ship building industry, which he is
now negotiating. Mr.. Amery's remark
able campaign establishes the fact of the
growing popularity Of Chnmberlainism aud
the Liberal neWHlAl ers make no attempt TO
disguise The significance of the Wolver-
hampton poll. The Unioni~ts attribute
the reversion of public opinion TO the reaction
Of trade, w5ich ma lifted Mr.. Chumberluin's
campaigE, and II Mr.. Asquith's budget state
ment tomorrow imposes any further UNI
popular taXtlion the disintegra'ion Of the
Governments majority viii probably be
more rapid.
Two hundred brokers have listed their
names as nonapDiicnDts for reelection rs
members of the stock exchange on account
of bad trade. being unable to make sufficient
to cover expenses and they cannot pay the
fees.
Greenwich observatory announces the
discovery of an eighth moon of Jupiter.
A Paris telegram says q New York dealer
h's sod the Hope diamond suppo,ao;y /,
the Sn tan Of i Ikoy, for oigIty thousand
pounds.
The Kaiser has invited Mr. Hill, the newly
appointed United States Ambassador to
Germany, to the KEEL Regatta.
At the instance of the Chinese legation,
the German Foreign Office is prosecuting q
military official who looted the m1rrioI,
ccrtiicl.e If the Chinese Emperor IL 1910,
AID VII h "a tece tIy restored - CHA.
The ST. Petersburg correspondent Of the
Central News says Mr.. Rockefeller of
New York is negotiating for the con-
struction of the Amur Railway, and the
bill before the Douma has passed its
first stages. Mr.. Rockefeller offers to
employ only Russian labour and mate
rails, without any subsidy, but merely
nm authority to issue debeutures, and will
complete it in five years. The surveys are
now proceeding and opinion is favourable.
Other St. Petersburg dispatches report
that the firms Of Chariteneuko Sons and
Cherkassky Company have suspended with
liabilities respectively of 1,5O0,0 900 and
100000 pounds. Sugar firms are embar-
rassed by the restriction of exports and a
prodnctipn in excess of consumption and lie
situation is SO serious that The stu e bank
will assist in checking the crisis lest it should
extend 10 other trades.
The British Charge d Aft sires at ST. Peters
burg has state to a Journalist that tie
troubles in Afghanistan are due to the
Ameer's feebleness, which is destroying his
auth )rity; the Anglo Russian entente is not
til cause.
The Mayor of st. Petersburg, while pre-
senting the usual bread and salt to King
Gustav Of Swe len, was stricken fatally with
apoplexy
New York May 6th-It is reported that
bombs have been struggled from here to
India via Italy BY associations of patriotic
East Indians, and rifles have been shipped
as sewing N %,clines, and ammunition as CON
densed milk. The plotters are said to be
animated by the ease with which Japan
overcame Russia.
According 10 a despatch from Port nu
Prince the French Minister announces that
the case Of Major Larracque, whose life was
saved by the arrival of the interchangeable,
has been referred to the Foreign Office,
Paris, and that hereafter the French lega-
ton will refuse asylum to active officers.
Washington May 6th-The United States
and japan have signed q treaty of arbitra-
ton, being the first result of the resumption
of negotiations, which were suspended in
consequence of the attacks mnde upon Jap
nm