, 1912-07-06

that the Titanic took uniustifable risks,
the cause of the disaster being excessive
speed aud a bad lookout. Lord Netsey's
conclusions, he added, would be included III
forthcoming new regulations for British
ships. During the thirty six sessions held
1851 questions were asked ,anl ninety eight
witnesses appeared before the court. 1t IS
not expected that Captain Smith and MIR.
Iomay will be censured, and generally speak
ing personalities have been neglected. The
recent changes in the personnel of the Board
OF Trade will also tend to modify
The international Wireless Conference bias
adjourned, and Will lnee{ again ut Washing
ton in 1917. Today the delegates will sign
the recommendations for making the wre-
less service the most effective lite saving
equipment, for example, during the final
ten minutes of each hour all must be silent
for distress calls, and a distressed ship will
control the magnetic field of Ter radms, Sc
Letting these whose answers are desired.
British and French military interests pre-
vented the adoption of the United States
recommendation of u general wave length
of eight hundred metres, instead Of winch
a proposal of six hundred metres for short
dist noes, and 1900 for longer was adopted.
Weather Observations viii take precedence
over commercial traffic, and messages VIII be
classified as commercial, government, naval
and military. A maritime conference Will
classify vessels, and ali in the frs, class
will be compelled to install wireless equip
ment. Rules have been adopted for the pre-
v|entiou of interference within crowded
areas, and also for the compuisIon OF rival
companies to exchange business, they being
no longer allowed to disregard each other,
Hereafter England, France, Russia, Gorma-
ny and the United States will each have SIX
votes, Italy three, Spain and Portugal two
each, and other countries one each.
Dispatches form Cairo state that arrests
in connection with the plot to aSsassinate the
Khedive, Lord Kitchener and the Premier
continue, including one editor Of the Nation
alist newspaper, and another has been recog-
nized as shadowin9 Lord Kitchener The
plot is proving larger than expected,
Advlces from Hong Kong state that a
Chinaman discharged a revolver at Sir
Francis May, the Governor, tho bullet
perforating his chair, Tne guard surround
ed tne Governor aud seized the Chinaman,
who was still grasping the revolver. The
Chinese feared that Sir Francis Mays APP
pointmeut in February last ~si4nitiel the
extension of British territory and the seizure
of the kwan 4ung province.
Berlin news states it is rumoured TINT the
lnGclllS DEW 6Sl iIC 1L6tI uL1Nl u INdloNt
Will result in tue betrothal OF the l&tter's
third son, Prince Adalbert, who accompanies
his father, to the Czar', eldest daughter, the
Grand Duchess Olga, although they have
never met The Car is awaiting the arrival
of his visitors, Including Dir. Won Rethmanu-
Hollweg, at Baltjsehport at the entrance into
the Gulf Of Finland.
Ottawa, July 5th-Further details of the
reciprocity agreement state that Canada
custom on ~arrowroot should not exceed fifty
cents per hundredweight. Cocoa beans UNI
roasted, uucrushel aud unground lime
Juice. raw, concentrated, and uuretined, AMI
Times, to be free. On foreign cocoa a MIMI
mum duty of seventy live cents per hundreds
weight is collected, on lime JUICE five cents
per gallon, and on lines ten per cent al
valorem Either Canada OF the British West
Indies individually many require products
receiving concessions TO be transported dl-
rect without transhlpment, but Canada re-
SCI YES her right to regulate freight rates. A
correction states that the half cent per degree
ON molasses begins to be imposed ut seventy
five degrees, under seventy five degrees pay
mo four and n half cents,