, 1909-01-30

OF the Maine from Havana harbour.
Representative Rainey has charged Sem
ator Lodge. Mr.. Cromwell. Mr.. G. P. Taft
and others as being connected with a pro-
posal pending in the Panama assembly for q.
land grant of one million acres and q Rail-
way two hundred miles long. He declared
it the most Infamous railway proposition
ever made. which will inpoverish Panama
indirec ly and rob the United States
Treasury, and urged q congressional invssSi-
cation.
A despatch from Portauprince announces
that N. Firmin has been appointed Minister
to Cuba and M. Fouchard Minister to Ger
many. The Vasquezites are demonstrating
on the Dominican border and a revolution
airy movement is predicted in March.
II. M. s. Scylla arrived at Tampico on
the twenty sixth.
The New York Senate has adopted a re-
solution praising the crews of the vessels
concerned in the recent collision and rescues,
and especially Mr.. Binns, the wireless opera
tor of the Republic. The directors of the
White Star Line have also adopted a similar
resolution. Cross lawsuits, which will be in
stituted, will elicit facts which are now OBJ
scure.
st. Johns Newfoundland, January 28th-
Sir Robert Bond, the Premier, refuses to &C.
cept the fisheries treaty recently signed at
Washington.
Trinidad, 2~8th-German cruiser Bremen
from P~ernambuco arrived this morning.
Copenhagen, Jan. 29th-The St. Croix
has been repaired and viii leave on Febru-
airy first.
It is expected that the new defence regu-
lation bills will be submitted to the Rigsdag
on the fifth of March.
The Crown Prince visited Berlin on she
twenty eighth to congratulate the Emperor
upon his tftieth birthday.
The National Bank 'has lowered it's rate of
discount by half per cent.
London, January 29th-Yesterday was the
third day of unusual fog, by which traffic
and business have been seriously disorga-
nlzed; pleasure resorts are deserted aud Shop
keepers an rest urants have suffered many
robberies.
Sir Frederick Treves confirms the Kings
patronage of the Radium Institute, but de-
MES that a roya. charter is to be given it.
Viscount Creagh is among the patrons and
apparently plenty of radium and money will
be available for charitable treatment.
AprOpOs of Mr.. Andrew Carnegie's predic.
ton of the decadence Of the British Iron
Trade, DR.. Arnold, Professor of metallurgy
ct Sheffield University, in a lecture at the
Royal Institute, said that within o y ear Brit
ish ironmasters would make q new steel with
a cutting power fourfold that of the greatest
known.
The King has presented the Sultan Of
Turkey with a charger from the Royal News,
The Picking correspondent of the Times
says an official communicate has been issued,
that there is no anxiety regarding the EN-
peror.
The Canadian and Russian loans are sell
ing at a discount, and markets are dropping
under pressure of the withdrawal of capital
for new issues, which in January have been
thirty millions sterling, and a larger amount
in Paris. There is also removed anxiety
regarding the situation in the Balkans;
Turkey desires q rectifcation of the from
tiers in consideration of q reduction
of her demands for an indemnity from Bull
garia. Sir Edward Grey is sounding the
powers regarding cooperation to impose
peace, which is being endangered by Bull
garia mobilizing her reserves along the from
tiers, and Russia has issued a circular to the
signatories of the Berlin treaty in a similar
sense.
A telegram from Sofia says England has
urged Turkey to accept four millions ster-
ling, which Bulgaria would pay if Turkey
apanuoneu ner demands IOr q Tectlncau0n
of the boundary. Bulgaria has declined
to negotiate during the tendency of the
demands for a reotifcation. and the Austro-
Turkish negotiations are protracted because
the Turkish boycott of Austrian
has not ended.
The Constantinople correspondent OF the
Times says that Turkey might accept four
millions Immediately If Bulgaria would
promise one million more later.
st. Petersburg dispatches state that the
Cabinet has anproved a hill IN be submittad