, 1912-07-10
KILOGRAMS
ST. CROIX STATION.

eond, and Mr.. Walkers tantasie third.
Mr.. Austen Chamberlain, presiding ut o
luncheon at which Mr.. Foster was the guest
OF honour, said England owed Canada the
first step towards imperial preference, but
Mr.. Foster, having linked Canada and the
British West Indies, and being engaged III
an effort to link the Dominions among them
selves, is nevertheless unable to hope that
the Motherland will participate in such q
commercial union. But, he added, this is
only for the moment, and each bye-electlon
brings nearer another government Tor the
United Kingdom, which will grasp the hand
Canada extends, fulfilling the proudest duty
of cementing the Empires strength by the
bonds of commercial union. Canada, he
declared, is a sanatorium capable of reju-
v%enating Britain's nationality, and there is
no better way of binding people together
than bv interchanging sentiments and pro-
duets in the method already begun.
The Sydney Telegraph, discussing Cana
da's threat to retaliate if the United
States discriminates regarding the Panama
Canal tolls, suggests that other countries
should initiate Canada.
The Chimes" in a leading article, apropos
of the arrival Of Mr.. Borden's party, says
the Canadian Premier comes not as a partl-
san but as the spokesman OF the principle
embodied in the Dominion's election that
Canadians should remain master Of their
own destiny under the British flag, which
awoke a depth OF sentiment in England COM
parable to that evoked by Canada's sending
of a contingent to the South African wal.
The "Times'' thinks action regarding Cana
da's naval contribution should not be de-
ferred in favour of temporary eXpedleuts,
and hopes some means viii be devised for
-. a1 aA~trOl ,l1Aa I1nt
years conference continuous III principle.
On the 10th inst. members OF Parliament
will entertain the Canadians at Il banquet
in the restaurant Of the House Of Commons,
and another dinner Will be given at the
Carlton Club.
1t is expected that Canada, while desiring
to cooperate with the Admiralty, is also
DESTROYS of building her own ships for the
promotion Of the Dominlon's shipbuilding
industry on the greatest scale, and also
wishes for uniformity IN the naturalization
laws, assimilating the status Of naturallzed
French and Germans in the Canadian navy
to that of British subjects i'll case Of war.
President Taft's adjunct letter is operating
to make Mr.. Borden's reception the warmest
extended to any Canadian for many years.
The master of EIibank having refused
the Labourites' demand that the Govern
ment should withdraw it's Candidates at the
Hanley and Crewe bye elections, the La
bourites held q conference and resolved
that there should be no general desertion
OF the Liberals but only those Labourites
necessary for bye campaigns shonld be seut
there, that is they recognize themselves as
useful to the Government but not essential,
while they are entirely dependent upon the
Government tor Labourite legislation. New
ertheless it is expected that little will be
done with the Home Rule measure befote
Parliament ndjourns in August, to be follow
ed by its passage by the drastic application
OF the closure in October.
A Berlin despatch states that Professor
Grugel, of the Agricultural department of
the University Of Rostoek, announces his
discovery of the bacillus of foot and mouth
disease, and also of u serum which, while not
curative, acts as o preventive, and is there
fore administrable to healthy cattle. The
price of mea, il London is now fifteen per
cent higher in ~cnsequence of the outbreak
of the disease in England.
Farther advices tlon Hong Kong state
that 6u Frauois May assailant, wio was