, 1913-10-18
ST. CROTX STATION.

broken when his machine fell, has since died
anil been barred with military h%ouours.
Maior-General Castenschiold has been APP
appointed InPpector-General of Cavalry, vice
the late Maior-General Bale.
Colonel Ibsen has been appointed a Major
General.
London, Oct. 17th-The engineers who
are attempting to exLinguish the fire in the
Universal Mine believe further rescue is i'm
possible. Seventy four bodies have been
recovered and 3t3 are still entombed.
An express train smashed the rear cars
Of the Continental Express from Liverpool,
containing foreigners en- route to Hull. Ten
persons were killed, and twenty-five injured
have been sent to the hospital, while many
others were less seriously injured. The
accident is attributed either to pulling the
communication cord, thereby stopping the
forward train. or to misunderstanding the
signals, allowing the oyertaking OF the traiu
which has been stalled by the failure Of its
engine.
'"The Citizen" says that the strikers at
the Bee Hive Mill have agreed to resume
work upon overseer Hulton's pledge of
good treatment, and the paper believes this
pledge Will avert a general cotton strike.
The underwriters OF q NewZealand loan
has been left with ninety-two per cent of the
offering, and there have been many similar
incidents recently. At q meeting Of the
leading underwriters it was agreed not to
offer more, until the money market becomes
easier.
There are unconfirmed rumours that the
French and English bank rates will advance.
The Bank of Englnnd's ratio of reserves
stands at "a 80, which is very high.
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Mid Division of Norfolk, has resigned,
through losses sustained in the Cuban Ports
Company.
Lord Dunedin md Sir John Hamilton,
LORD Justice of the Court of Appeal, have
been appointed Law Lords upon the Judi
cial CommIttee of the Privy Cornell, under
the recent Appellate Jurisdiction Bill.
The Nationalist OF Mid Ireland are drill
ing, with the purpose Of opposing the VI
stor mems crossing of the River Boyne when
Home Rule comes into operation.
Adyices from Paris state that eighteen
balloons started in the contest for the Cor
don Bennett international Cup. The Anne
lican entry "Goodyear," which covered five
hundred and fifty miles in forty-four hours,
has landed at Burlington, Yorkshire.
Dispatches from Berlin state that Herr
GolGbei ger,a Priyy Councillors and President
OF the Permanent Exposition Commission,
has resigned, and that Professor Busley, his
successor, favoars exhibiting at the Panama
Exposition. Herr Ballin'a independent move
ment for representation by Germany at San
Francisco will now unite with the official
participation, and already one thousand ac-
ceptances have been received.
The Hamburg American Line announces
an increase OF its capital by one million
five hundred thousand pounds, for new SER
vices via Panama and the Orient. It is neces-
saly to rebuild the "Imperator's' boilers,
in order TO reduce her coal consumption and
accelerate her speed. The builders con-
tract obliges them to pay three hundred
pounds each day she is laid up. The shares
have declined upon the belief that the capt.
tai issue is due rather to the Atlantic rate
war than the contemplated new services.
New York. Oct. 17th-The ..Grosser I'm