, 1908-06-17

iHUioofHS upon TIE noyhl sLlnu elSnty per-
sonages, among them Princes of the Houses
OF Cumberland; Coburg, and Bourbon, Don
Carlos and others.
New York, June 13th-The Lusitania has
beaten the Mauretania's record by seven
minutes, averaging "a SO knots fog prevent
ed a better run. Upon her return she will
be fitted with fourbladed propellers, to re-
duce the vibration.
The Treasury officials have seized aboard
the Ward Liner Segurancia, war materials
shipped for Cuba; presumably for Revolutions
lists during the approaching elections.
St. Thomas 10 Accommodation with
Demerara restored.
London, June 15th-The race for the
Grand Prix De Paris yesterday resulted as
follows Northeast first, SAUCE Pourpree
second, Souvigny third,
The death is announced of the Earl Of
Derby.
The Iron and Steel Trades journal per
sists in its statement that two British, four
German and three Russian firms and the
United States Steel Trust have combined as
telegraphed on Friday.
The tunnel under the Thames between
Rotherhithe and Stepney was opened by the
Prince of Wales on Saturday.
At the dinner given by Lord Charles
Beresford to the commanders Of his fleet it
WAS observed that Sir Percy SrJtt was not
invited.
At Portsmouth the steamer Bengore Head
ran amuck and narrowly escaped splitting
herself upon the battleship Revenge she
damaged the battleship Vengeance and ipI
ally got aground.
Two hundred Anglican Bishops, includ-
ing forty from the United States, have
arrived in England for the Pan Aneli-
N0n GnTppaCS of v1i.l Alo o1:.- IL
every part of the world will be repre-
sented. The Prince of Wales and lord
StrRthcona will give garden parties. The
wife OF the Archbishop of Canterbury
presided at a preliminary women's meeting.
Mr.. Hennlker Heaton Is prom oting an Anglo
American Governmental monopoly of the ca
b.es, arguing that his proposed peuny per word
rate would utilize their entire carrying ca
pacity Of three hundred million words annu-
ally, instead of the present twenty five miE
hon.
The suffragotte demonstration on Satur-
day was the most successful ever held, ifs
teen bands led each about a thousand Of the
paraders, representing societies from tbs
colonies the continent and the United States.
Among them were university graduates in
their caps and gowns, hundreds of doctors;
many well known writer's, artists and ac-
tresses, hundre = of typists, s%hopgirls, operas
tiveS, servants ana nurses several thousand
barmaids joined to demonstrate against the
licensing bill, Mrs. Fawcett, Ladies FrancGs
Balfour, Somerset, Onslow, Grove; Strachey,
Russell, Mrs. Depard and three daughters
Of Golden were present many walked and
others drove and motored, and seven hun
dred banners, bearing appropriate notices,
were carried. Another meeting iii Hyde
Park on Sunday, is designed to demonstrate
to Mr.. Asquith that his doubts whether
women want the suffrage are not justified.
Mr.. Aequith is progress ing with his COM
promise j. ~lucation Bill, and he is pressing
his old age pensions Bill hopefully against the
Labourites. and a critical opposition The Cow
eminent is being neither helped nor hurt by
the Kings Russian visit, and the GOODNESS Of
the Press regarding it signifies both conf
dence in the King and an indisposition to-
ward an alliance, and it is in striking con-
trast with the cordially towards President
Fal!ieres and the Anglo-French entente.
Berlin advices state that official Influence
and editorial cooperation unite in minimizing
the criticism of England's policy of isolating
Germany. Influential Germans qnery whether
the time has arrived, when Germany should
exercise that counter pressure which Prince
Won Bulow predicted in the Reichstag as
the necessary result of persistence with Eng