, 1912-01-17
TEIEGRAMS
SIT CROIX STATION.

MaiAsties' visit to India, and, apropos of their
departure, one says eve bid farewell to
Emperor George, the conqueror of our
hearts"
Upon embarking His Majesty cabled to
Nj. AsQuith Only highest hopes have been
realized, aud the success of our visit exceeds
an icipations.
.no.ch said that Irish fiscal autonomy was
I.srefeus;ble only upon sure proof that it was
NOT preiudicial to England, which,he believes,
;mnossible. This is 81 .nificant, because Lord
MacDonnell was formerly Under Secretary
for Ireland, and some expect he will become
81 member OF the Government soon.
Tvpical results of the miners ballot are
the Sunderland Wearmouth Lodge, eleven
hundred and ninety four Tor a strike, and
four hundred and fifty three against, Hylton
five hundred and ten for, and seventy five
against, regardless OF the advice OF Mr..
Thomas Burt Mp, Mr.. Charles Fenwick
\. and Mr.. John Wilson MP, all practi-
cal miners.
In the second days play of the third test
match at Adelaide, M.C.C. scored three hun
dred and twenty seven for four, Hobbs one
hundred and eighty seven, Rhodes fifty nine.
The Daily Express says Mr.. Churchill has
surrendered Admiralty House to the new
naval war staff.
The Y. NJ. C. A. fund is now twenty six
thousand six hundred and five pounds, and
the daily takings are increasing, but the
average is below the requisite owing to the
sloR1ess of the increase.
The Lancashire Cotton Manufacturers
Association issues Il manifesto stating 1t has
no desire to humiiiate the operatives OF their
leaders, but is merely anxious not to be IN
volved in a quarrel between Unionists and
non-U nionists, enabling the mills to be run
by both with larger wages upon an engage
ment against strikes like the present. The
operatives propose a truce for six months,
the dispute to be settled while the mills are
running. The strikers are ~stitfened by the
General Federation of Trades Unions hav-
ing resolved to. assist them.
Since the German Crown Princes return
to Berlin from Danzig, he has done every
thing short of q public retractlon 10 show
that his demonstration III the ltelchstaS was
merely critical OF Ge,mapy's foreign policy,
and not anti-British; he emulates the kais-
er's example, and has written to En9llshmen
that he desires to be regarded as a friend of
England.
A Paris despatch says President Fallieres
offered the Premiership to NJ. Bourgeois
vice NJ Caillaux. NJ. Bourgeois declined
pleading i'll health, and recommended Nj.
DeIcasse. The journal Des Debats says the
crisis proves that NJ. Cnillaux negotiated
with Germany, unknown to NJ. De Selves or
NJ. Cambon, upon Il basis adapted to disrnem-
Der the African Empire, ruin French Nlntu-
ence in the Levant Alternate, Spain and\sub-
snordinate French influence in Europe
10 Austro-G German interests, and 1T is easy
TO understand the regret of the Austro-Gor-
man press ut the fall of their great French
Minister. which ends frances night mare.
The political chaos and popular indifference
~cnntrast with the financial qualification at
the defeat of the author of the income tax.
The Seine is rising threateningly, but is
still three feet below the food of 1910.
The census of France is 39,6Ol, 500, an in
crease of $40, 264. The population of Paris
j. 2,888, 10.
NJ aeterlinck has devoted his Nobel prize
to establish rewards for the best publications
in the French language upon any subject
A Bombay despatch states that a brigade
at Ahmadnagar has been ordered to prepare
10 leave for Persia for protection of the
Southern trade routes. 1t includes the first
Dublin Fnsiliers, two Indian regiments, one
hundred and three Mabratta infantry and
49, l1 - - - kl.on riQoa