, 1912-08-17
TEL Ms
ST. CROIX STATION.

ILL 49, H"A
The Standard" attributes Mr.. ChurchilPs
viruient letter to Sir George Richie to the
violence OF despair, the 'Daily Telegt aph"
considers the letter tedins, the DAILY Ex-
press regards it as lurid limehousing, aud
the "Daily News" thinks it will be read with
gratitude by all Englishmen who are not
blinded by partisanship or hunger for office.
Mr.. Bonar Law, in IL letter answering Mr..
Churchill's, says the latter's charge against
him would have been correctly made against
Nj. ChurchilIs father, but cannot rightly be
made against tue present opposition to
Home Rule, because the warning Of civil war
is so plain that TIE Government will not per-
sist against the opposition of both Ulsterinen
and Tuglishmen. The Government, he de-
clares, deceiyes itself if it imagines it can
enact Home Rule not only without . popu-
lar mandate, but against the majority OF The
electors of the United Kingdom.
Several suffragettes on bicycles blocked
Che road before Mr.. Churchilrs automobile
near Landwich aud compelled him to listen
to a lecture OH his iniquitous obstruction OF
Woman Suffrage, aftor which he was allowed
to proceed unscathed.
Mr.. Charles Des Graz, British Minister at
Lima, telegraphs that there are no Protes-
tants in the Putumayo district, and therefore
only a Catholic mission is permissible under
the constitution Of Peru.
Dispatches from st. Petersburg state that
the Car entertained NJ. Poincare at inn-
cheon, and afterwards received him i'll a pri-
vate and personal audience. Secrecy regard
ing the interview is still maintained, but it
is rumoured that the Importance of the mis-
sion has been exaggerated, that i. nj. Pom
care has failed in his overtures 10 NJ. Sazo-
uoff. the Russian Minister for Foreign
Affairs.
Quebec, Aug. 14th-The S.. S. Corsican
for Liverpool with seven hundred persons on
board collided with an iceberg near Belle
Isle and smashed her stem above the water
line, out wus able to proceed. Amusement
is felt that an iceberg should be there at the
present time.
Washington, Aug. 14th-The disagree
ment between the House of Representatives
and the Senate regarding the Panama Canal
tolls has given rise to q report that the SUBJ
iect will be postponed until the Winter SEES
sion. Both the Democrats and the Repnb-
licans are amazed by the outcry on both sides
! of the ocean, protesting that the proposals
| are prefdious and monumental, aud that
J they endanger reprisals. The London press
/ continues its protest, the Times declaring
1 that discrimination in behalf OF tire Amerl-
Z can marine engaged in foreign trade will be
! disastrous to British carriers i'll the gram,
! nitrate. oil. coal aud other trades The Ger
man newspapers comment sarcastically on the
American disregard of the British protest.
It is stated that the Royal Mail Company
has ordered four steamers $50 feet lorg Tor
the Panama trade.
New York, Aug. 14th-The site OF the
kEquitable Life Insurance Company bulia-
Fng, which was buried iii January tasi, has
been sold for fourteen million dollars, and
q building to be the largest in the world
will be erected thereon. Ii will be thirty
six stories high, and the total cost will reach
thirty million dollars. The transaction Is
the largest such ever made in the United
! States, and perhaps in the world.
San Juan. 14th--S am, Tuesday, no fresh
cases reported.
LONDON, August 18th Mr.. Borden will
spend the. last week before sailing for home
Nm the thirtieth instant III visiting Germany
untoficially, but with apparent reference to
Anglo German questions.
Mr.. Buxton, President Of the Board OF
Trade, is considering the application Of the
Canadian Industrial Disputes Act to British
affairs.
The steamship lines have agreed to main
tain a southern course across the Atlantic until
September, on account of the unusual num-
Der of icebergs being encountered.
The Cabinet Ministers are leaving town
with precautions against interference by
s~uffragettes. Mr.. Lloyd George and Sir
Rufus Isaacs. have escaped to the Continent,
but MI. Asqnith's and Mr.. Mckenna's pre-
emit residences are unknown. A revised
version of the recent encounter with Mr..
Churchill states that he charged the suffra-
gettes' barricade of bicycles, scattered the
fragments and escaped the intended lecture.