, 1912-05-15

don proceeded to Sheerness for examination,
and the Don Benito was towed into shallow
water and grounded.
At Kempton Park on Saturday, Mr.. Nc
Calmont's Bachelors Hope won the great iu-
bilee handicap, Mr.. Whitney's Whisk Broom
second, Mr.. Giants Mustapha third. Doran-
do won the Sunningdale plate. The King was
present and witnessed his horses victory for
the first time.
The death is announced of Mr. Archibald
CoWes of Paisley.
Ia the House of Lords, Earl Beauchamp,
First COMMISSIONS of Works, introduced
the acknowledgements Protection Bill, which
gives the Government rights of %preemption
regarding purchase from private owners of
monuments, which otherwise are to be sold
abroad. Earl Curzon and other Opposition
Peers supported, and its passage is expected.
The first issue of the Daily News and
Morning Leader explains that competition
between them weakened their point of sup
port Of the same public causes, hence their
alnalgamatiOn for economy and energy TO-
ward praiseworthy ends. The Duly News
ignored racing, the Daily News and Leader
contains racing news without tips. The Daily
Mail, welcoming the newcomer and discuss
ing the Pail Mall Gazette's prediction of
several amalgamations, says several Unionist
tAC OCIsNo VAN bAAOASA
lack Of prosperity.
In the first ten days of Nav there were
thirty hours of sunshine, and on Saturday
the temperature reached eighty degrees; for
fifty seven days only half an inch of rain has
fallen and everybody able to do SO has fed
from London, despite desperate efforts to re-
vlye and prolong the season, including a mid
July garden patty at Buckingham Palace
and O ball even later.
A Paris despatch reports the driest spring
for two hundred AMI forty years, the tenn
perature last week resembled mid june
and approached to ninety degrees repeatedly,
the dust is very annoying, practically there
has not been a drop of rain for eight weeks.
The Daily Mail opens an inquiry into the
industrial unrest with an article by Mr.. H.
G. Wells, the novelist, in which he declares
that the strike epidemic is rather revelation
airy than economic, and expressive of dis
srust of society's ability of disposition to re-
medy the wrongs Of alienated millions, If
the governing class expects to continue
governing its first duty is to remedy this
sullen discomfort, otherwise socialism must
come.
The Daily News publishes an article by
Mr.. Lloyd George. II is, he says, impossible
to prevent strikes because public opinion
does not exist before the strikes occur. The
Minimum Wage Act Is unable to remedy the
strain of the wage movement under which
the structure of society may collapse. The
workers now want a place in the sun, they
read newspapers and books, and this new
knowledge makes the difference between
the new and Old Inbour The
under payment of agricultural labourers is
the root of the trouble, their wages should
be Il pound weekly, slums must be abolished
if capital is procurable, thus creating q de-
mand for labour, leveIling village wages up
ward The Government, he says, is not liv-
ing for popularity but for enabling u new
nation to arise.
Germany has asked Turkey to accept Bar
on Won Wagenheim, at present Minister to
Greece, rs Ambassador vice Baron MurschaII
Won Bieberstein.
Germany is cordial toward the San Fran
cisco Panama Exposition and will send Il fleet
through the Canal. While unable to repress a
WEAKNESS Of expositions she nevertheless will
exhibit in a limited why, including troops, but
she is deferred partially by the severity of
American customs.
Colon, 14th-Orotava arrived this morn
mo hrjn01u0 news wrackinU utoo,>or D,;uo.