, 1910-12-07

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cheaper than a dil ect route, but would ne
c~essitate retelegraphing on Danish Territory.
Ottawa Dec. 5th.-The budget is 1865,
600 dollars, an increase OF over SIX millions,
but smaller than the growth OF the revenue.
1t includes twenty three millions tor trans
continental railway and three millions for nu-
val serv ce. The naval programme resultmg
from last weeks vote viii require over ten
millions. Contracts will be let forthwith tor
four Bristol Cruisers and SIX river destroyers
to he built in Canada at a price enabling the
establishment Of dockyards BY the successful
firm among the half dozen bidders. The price
. will be above that for foreign construction,
and the shipvards will be subsidized, besides
their establishment being promoted. 1t Will
he three years before the first vessel is cCm-
pletod ana the others will be built within
three more. The designs are British and
for oil burners exclusively.
Canada is c nsidering proposing m lmpe-
rial conference for uniform naturalization in
all the Dominions, giving British citizenship
instead Of Colonial.
Jamaica, 3rd-American Gun Boat Mari
eta from Blueiclds arrived at 2.3O |. m.
local.
Dominica, 3rd-U.S. Cruiser Dixie and
Torpedo E.otiIa arrived $50 p m.
Jamaica, 4th,-H. NJ. s.. "Briliaut' arrived
this morning from Bernuda
London, Dee. 9th -Portisnns and parti-
san newspapers profess satisfaction with the
results of Saturdays elections. Tue Daily
Chronicle says they are a doathbloW to the
hopes of the protactionists and the Lords.
The Morning Post says it is lndlsputable
that the referendum proposal has seriously
weakened the Unionists. The Daily Graphic
declares that Lloyd Georgeism is defeatablo
only by q combination OF freetraders Nnd
tariff reformers,and he Daily Telegraph says
apparently we are already ID the shado" Oh
another election.
How weakly the tide is running appears
from the fact that thirteen Of the majorihes
on Saturday were each under two hundred,
and MI. Suiut Maur won Exeter for the Iii
berals by ony four.
The aggreg tie poll of the Unionists is
295,151, Liberals 306,313, a decrease from
the previous election Of 3l,0OU and $1,000
respectively.
The totals Yesterday afternoon were Liber-
als fifty eight, Nutionalists fifteen, Labourltes
eight, Uniouists eighty one, q tie with the
coalition. Polling was more spirited, due
probably to a corresponding improvement III
the weather. Floods in Huntln8donshlre
are interfering with the campaigning there.
The Stock Exchange has reacted upon Sat
urday's results. The decrease IN poIilng ana
the substantial similarity OF results, tlu5 lar,
to the last elGctlOl Suggest Nlt' o'iH o"A
does not take the politicians entirely sub
s~tantially and discounts their predictions 81
ruin, subversion Of the constitution, dollar
dictatIon etc. Journalists assembled from
the ends of the earth to witness a ]poIItlcaI
cataclysm eel hoazed, such changes "soare
remarked being attributable rather to per
sonal or local than to Imperial causes,
and the present indications are that the
election will alter very little.
A despatch from Sydney, New South
Wales, says the programme OF the Common
wealth at the Imperial Conference will IL.
cludo the naturalization OF one Atlantic
cable for the completion of the all red route
to Australia, mutual naturalization subject to
local immigration laws, commercial coopera-
ton for the encouragement of British manu-
features, cooperation of the Empire with the
Dominions for the promotion aud dlsulbu-
ton Of immigration, and cooperation for OBJ
sertalice of the laws throughout the Empire.
A Melbourne telegram says the Cominon-
Wealth. will send thirty delegates to the