, 1912-02-10
KILOGRAMS
ST CROIX STATION.

40, tha Insurance Act only upon terms 70 Dc
sn,roved by the British Medical Association,
vh;eh will meet at the GulldhalI on the
,wenfv first. The Daily News says this is
tbe crisis of the fate of the Insurance Act
The sentence passed upon Mr.. Bertrand
Stewart at Leipsic has led to a proposal that
British tourists should boycott German re-
sorts, in protest against a judicial scandal
and gross miscarriage of justice, and anti
German feeling is increased.
The Ulster Unionist Council has issued n
manifesto urging non interference with Mr..
Churchill's meeting, and ali loyal Unionists
are urged to abstain from anything reflect
inc upon the Unionist cause. The Grand
Orange Lodge has adopted a similar resolu-
tion.
Unionists profess satisfaction with having
forced Nh. Churchill to speak IN the Nation
aIist quarter behind bayonets, instead OF III
Ulster Hall. The Liberals propose TO the
Unionists that both should cancel Their en-
zsaoements at Ulster Hall, and the Roman
Catholic Clergy are casting Their lnnaehce
against violence. The Police protected the
woi knen erecting the tent for tomorrow
meeting. Mr.. Churchill, accompanied by his
wife and mother, starts for Belfast To-Day.
The outlook is calmer.
The CITY does not like Mr.. Lloyd Georges
remarks about consols attributing their de-
preston to Unionist Policies, the south Afri-
can war, the Irish land act and the enlarg-
ing of the area of trustee Investments, With
out suggesting remedies. Tn City thinks
contributory causes aye the national ana
municipal extravaganza, causing burden.ome
taxation, MIR. Lloyd Georges reduction of
floating debt is admitted, but the City would
prefer a specific redemption of consols.
The Arbitration League has issued a nu-
merously and intiuentialIy signed memorial
for an international agreement against avla-
ton in war, before the creation of vested in
terests and establishment Of the practice
make prevention impossible.
A wireless report has been received at Liv-
erpool that the Doris from Galveston has
picked up the crew Of the Hiberna, for Bar
balos, abandoned in a sinking condition.
Several newspapers publish leading ar
tic'es upon a Berlin despatch quoting
the Vossischezeitung that negotiations are
ripening between England and Germany
upon q political event of the fist import
ance. The-Standard surmises a division Of
the Portuguese colonies, if they are sold.
German engineers have completed an in
ternal combustion engine for naval use. one
engine each Of three propellers, each engine
with three cylinders of two thousand horse
power each. A total of eighteen thousand
horsepower is obtained for one hundred tons
Of oil for twenty four hours at full speed.
If this is realized, all dreadnoughts will be-
come obsolete; as there will be no smoke
stacks, the vessels will be invisible, they
will have no boilers, and bunkers will be
so NAL that their radius of action will be
tripled. The perfection of this counterde-
sign has been n matter of long effort.
The inventor of a parachute for a~viators
jumped off the Eitfel Tower to test it, drop
ped like a stone and was dead before picked
up.
Persia has paid Mr.. Shuster's three princi-
pal assistants, according to their contract,
three years salary and expenses, other Ameri-
cans eighteen months pay.
Russia has executed four constitutionalists
at Resht.
The National Assembly at Marking has
debated Juan Shi-Kai' proposal, and accept
ed it with the addition that it becomes effec-
tive after the abdication of the throne. The
Dynasty will expire with its present mem
bers- The immediate removal of the E,u-
peror ~ waived, but his assumption of the
title OF Ia, or great, is refused. A pension