, 1909-10-27
TELEGRAM MS.
ST. CROIX STTAION.

crnases 9 100. 600 pounds, chiefly upon spirits,
and increases 1850, 600 pounds in death du-
ties land tax and post office. He proposed
to meet the deficit by taking half a million
more from the sinking fund.
The Shakespeare MemoriaICommlttee nave
resolved to raise FIVE hundred thousand
hounds for a national theatre to be complet-
ed by the tercentary Of the poets death,191o'
and an appeal has been issued.
Mr.. Cody, the aviator, executed his natura-
Iization papers publicly at the Doncaster
aviation meeting amid the cheers OF the
crowd the band playing God save the hlng,
At IL @ Blackpool meeting NJ. Latham
f,w amid q gale; sometimes 1t seemed ne
would be carried away seaward, and at other
times he appeared to be overturnlng. Ills
speed exceeded eighty miles an hour,and the
spectators, becoming ~affrighted, shouted to
him to descend. He, however, continued ms
flight, safely fulfilling his engagement to hy
regardless of the weather His mon0pIane
was singularly birdlike, fitting, soaring SIDE
wise and sometimes retrocedlng while the
engines we're going full speed ahead. The
admiring spectators shouted, Gle has made
a most wonderful spectacle"
At Paris the Baroness de LarOche flew
alone in q Voisin biplane, being the first Wo-
man aviator.
A despatch from Calcutta announces that
1876 persons have been killed and many more
injured by an earthquake in Beluchlstan.
The Kaiser has appointed his daughter
Princess Victoria Louise a Colonel OF HuS-
sars. She paraded on horseback wearing the
regiments cognizance, q silver skull and
crossbones on her busby.
A despatch from Athens reports that the
Military League demands that the Grown
Prince renounces his succession to the throne
in favour of his infant son.
Following upon a vote Of want OF conf
dence regarding the budget, the Danish
Ministry has resigned.
A Madrid tele gram says the change
in the Ministry is the basis for hopes Of in
ternal quiet. Senior Moret, in an interview,
has stated he will reverse Senior Maura's pol
lev and will maintain social order with res
pect for the law. The French newspapers
anticipate a termination of the complications
regarding Morocco.
Ottawa, Oct. 23rd-Sir Wilfrid Laurier,
the Premier, Mr.. Fielding, Minister Of FL
nance, and Mr.. Paterson, Minister Of Gus
toms, listened yesterday to the arguments
of d deputation favouring a subsidy
of 25O,O dollars for three years for
six sailings each season between the lead
ing parts of the Dominion and New
Zealand, the exports tbither being already
four million dollars annually.
Boston Mass. Oct. 23rd-Two thousand
persons listened yesterday to Mrs Pankhurst's
opening campaign. She talked for two
hours and defended a civil war in the United
Kingdom, but did not recommend it for the
United States.
New York Oct. 23rd-A despatch from
Cape Hayti states the insurgents have cap
tured Villalobo after hard fighting General
Alvarez has landed a thousand rifles and am
intuition between Monte Cristi and Fort
Liberte.
London, Oct. 25th 1t is Surmised that
the Government will announce a general
election before the fate of the Budget is de-
termined, thus preventing the Lords posing
as champions of popular rights or forcing a
selection of the issue for an appeal to the
country The chances are again in favour
of its rejection, and the country is showing
alarm over the emigration of capital, the
slackness of trade. particularly the paralysis
of the building trade and consequent IN
employment. Bermondsey is being SO tho
roughly canvassed that the harassed electors
refuse to answer their door bells. Some pro-
phets expect the Unionists to be first and
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