, 1910-08-20
TEL NGRAA.S
ST. CROIX STATION.

mar has been decorated with the Grand
Gross Of the Order Of Dannebrog.
Doctor Dreyer from RiDgsted has been
appointed Director of the geological Gar
deus.
Advices have been received Of the loss of
the ship alabama" carrying the Mikkelsen
Expedition in search Of the remains of the
Erickson Expedition. All hands were saved
and w~interel on Shannon Island, from
whence they are expected to return by a
Norwegian steamer.
The g. 9. st. CrOix arrived at Rotterdam
today. Among her passengers are Herr
Selmer, a veterinary Surgeon, and Mrs. loft,
wife Of Bank Director loft.
London, August l9th.-The free trade and
tariff reform newspapers are engaged III q
brisk controversy over Sir Wilfrid Laurier's
favourable response to the Western provin-
ces' memorial, for a lover tariff or American
reciprocity. The Daily Mail III q leading ar
ticle on imperial wreokers declares that re-
ciprocity would be promotiye of annexation,
which would be the first step towards impe-
rial disintegration and it alleges hat the
free traders are allied with the immigrants,
who are engaged in a campaign of Ameri-
canisation, in which they are assisted by the
repeated rehuff5 of the mother country to
the colony thereby embarrassing loyal Cana
dams.
The aviator Moissant, continuing his jour
ney from Paris, started from Tilmanstone for
London, but Il slight disorder compelled him
te-descend at Sittiugbourne, from where he
restarted, bnt the breaknge of a rod stopped
the engine. and neeessitatod n dangerous de
scent at Rainham. He then telegraphed to
Paris for the parts necessary for repairs.
and expects to arrive in London to-day.
The newspapers marvel that he is making
his sixth fight. ou'y the first being within u
month, and also wonder that he is able to
steer by the compass while other aviatOrs
find it useless through vibration. He de
MES being a Spluiard, AMI states that he
was born at Chicago Of Freuch-Canadjan
parents. The newspapers publish countless
columns Of reports and also portraits, and
in leading articles contend that the common
cla! utility of aerial travel has almost been
demonstrated
The city Of Paris viii present gold medals
to NM Leblanc, Auburn and Llgagneau.
and will entertain them at a public banquet.
The Royal Commission to report on trade
between Canada and the West Indies has
finished its Investigations and the result
will soon be published. All the members
have signed the report except Mr.. Fielding,
who is absent.
A despatch from Livingstone, Rhodesia,
states that Arnst, the holder Of the worlds
aquatic championship. beat Barry, the Eng
lish champion, by two lengths in a sculling
match on the Znmbesi. Tho banks of the
river were thick with spectators carrying
cameras, who had been brought by the rail
why to where Livingstone first saw the VIC
toria Falls,
II. NJ. S. Rainbow has started for Esqui.
mault with a volunteer crew and the naval
instructors loaned by the Government to
the Dominion.
Crippen's Solicitor has applied for the
punishment of the Daily Chronicle for con
tompt of court in suggesting that Crippen'a
wife was poisoned and in doubling the de-
mails that he has confessed.
Advices have been received at Copenha-
gen that the M!kkelaen Expedition to find
the remains Of the Erichsen Expedition has
been wrecked on the coast Of Greenland.
Mr.. Mikke!sen and his party landed on ShHn-
~ Il.