, 1909-10-30

sions Will be cancelled if the Conser-
natives won in a general election. Nh.
Balfour has again denied what he called
a frigid calculated lie, by which Mr..
IRE dishouours the legal profession and
his country. 1t was inexplicable, be add-
ed, how Mr.. Ure could stoop so low,
and be was sorry that he, Mr. TIRE, was a
Scotchmau. In nn interview Mr.. Ure de.
clared that Mr.. Balfours remarks were scan
dalous, and later in a speech at Doneaster he
contended That his words do not bear Mr..
Baifour's Interpretation.
At Doncaster VI. De Lagrange flew ut
the rate Of t|fty-tour miles m hour,
A Madrid telegram announced that Queen
Victoria mad her children will visit the Isle
of Wight and this is construed as flight
from the vengeance of the Ferrerites.
The Paris Liberte asserts upon what it
claims to be unquestioned authority that
the Gar and King Victor Emmanuel have
agreed regarding the polit' cal independence
and economic development of Montenegro,
the adoption Of the Anglo French policy of
Crete for the Cretans, not for Greece, and
that hereafter Italy and Russia will CO.
operate regarding the Balkans.
Ottawa, 27th-rhe Government has asked
for grants in aid for dry docks and ship
building plants at Saint John two million
five hundred thousand dollars, and Lewis 3,
T5.O00 dollars, The dock atLevis will be one
thousand feet long, the largest in the world.
The firms applying IRE Harland and Wolff,
Macarthur and Perks, the builders of the
Manchester ship canal, the Canadian Pacific
Railway and the Allan Dominion Manches-
ter and White Star steamship companies.
1t is expected the aid will be given and the
work done within three years.
E,rA Dat 80 naE OItI Tlo d .:A.-J
steamer Hestia, from Glasgow FOR st. J I'm,
has gone ashore during a north east gale at
Seal Cove Grand Manan Island. A boat with
Captain Newman and twenty men is missing,
and only six of forty persons on board have
certainly survived.
London, Oct. 27th-Sugar in stock on
the 23rd inst was 81 600 tons. Last year
$4,000 tons.
Copenhagen, Oct. 28th-Tho Radical
Leader, Hr. Zahle, has formed q ministry
with Hr. Schavenius as Minister for Foreign
Affairs, and Hr. Edward Brandes Minister
Of Finances. Other names viii be telegraphed
later.
Londoo, oct. 28th-The race for the Cam
bridgesliro Stakes ut Newmarket yesterday
resulted as follows Christmas Daisy first,
Mustapha second, Sir Martin third.
In the House of Common yesterday Mr..
Asquith announced that on the fifth he will
move the rejection Of all the Lo"ds amend
ments to the Irish Land Bill, and the House
of Commons will then adjourn until the
twenty third.
During the recess the budget will be in
the hands of the Lords, and the adjourn
ment of the Commons will prevent a general
election before the new year.
General Booth, of the Salvation Army, has
resumed his duties after his operation. One
eye is totally blind, the other is partially
useful, and may be so perhaps for five years.
Mr.. IRE, in the course Of a speech, said
that Mr. Balfour had violated all the decen.
cie8 of public discussion. His attack upon him,
he declared, was outrageous and abominable,
Astounding in vile degrading e%pithets, which,
if deserved, would necessarily compel his
withdrawal from public life, and doom him
to perpetual dishonour, but there was not
a vestige of truth in NIr. Balfour's allie
cations, he therefore applied Mr.. Baltour's
language to Mr.. Balfour, and asserted that
he d%ishonoured his Profession, and position
in the country, and he Mr.. IRE was sorry
that Mr.. Balfour was a Scotchman. Mr. re
gave a version of his remarks which differs