, 1913-10-08
ST. CROIX STATION.

spinners directly and six hundred and fifty
thousand weavers Indirectly.
Mr.. Ben Tillett, secretary Of the General
Workers. Union Of Great Britain and Ireland,
addressing the International Syndicalist
Congress, thanked Sir Edward Carson for
giving a lead 10 the Labourites, and added
that when they have his courage they will
fight the Government.
Advices flom Dubl1n state that Mr.. Larkin,
the Lnbour leader, appeals to all his com
rades to support the Dublin strikers, rs the
masters admit themselves to be upon their
mnrroWbOnes.
The death is announced of the Lady
KniqhtIy of Fawslty. Also of Sir Frederick
William Williams from an overdose of ether.
Advices from Calcutta state that the
"Indian Witness says that Methodist
and Episcopalion newspap rs claim two
million native converts, of whom one
hundred and fifty thousand have been
bnptized, but that critics nllege that baptisms
haye been made without sufficient care re-
gnrding the reality of their conversions.
There is some fear of q movement of resent
ment by the unconverted natives.
The Land Inquiry Report under Mr.. Lloyd
Georges directions, asserts that the rural
labourers' wages ate inadequate to maintain
eficirnc>, and that long hours and the
tewness of holidays are rs Objectionable as
the loWuess Of wages. The oIuission of o
reference to q minimum wage is considered
remarkable.
Sir Sydney Olivier, addressing the Church
Congress, said his. experience in JanaIcw ami
his observation in the United States, had
convinced hIn that race differentiation pro-
notes social discoFdy where the proportions
OF races are such Us in the Southern States.
and obscure prepare ions for civil war and
rebellion are foStered thereby. Lord Sell
borne said that backward races cannot exist
independently III association with superior
races, and that the civilized races shCul con
troll them fully and completely in order to.
avert auarchism.
The English Mar1oni Company proposes
to issue five hundred lhourund ordinary one
pound shares, including two hundred and
fifty thousand shares immediately at three
pounds five shillin2s, in connection with the
pulchase Of the CRoldschmiQt patents, which
are now working four Thousand miles across
the atlantic. The American AIarconi Com
pany is progressing with its plans for com
munlcatlons between Massachusetts, and Den
mark and Northern Europe, also across the
United States to- Honolulu, and With South
America Australasia and India.
Dispatches from the Near East state that
Greece has rejected Turkeys peace proposals
and modified her reserVlsts. King C|onstan-
tine will establish his head quarters in Mace
donna.
France hos informed Turkey that she will
not grant her u loan until pence is arranged
with Greece.
Forty thousand Macedonian Bulgars, in
cooperation with 10000 A4banians, are aeI-
ing against the Servinns in Macedonia.
The osicial list of the Bulgarian casualties
ia the two recrnt wars is "A 1892 killed, 1852.
missing and 1O4, $50 wounded.
General Felix Da z has sailed from Europe
and is due at Vera Cruz on the Doth inst.
Ottawa, Oct. 4th-Mr. Doherty, Minister
Of Justice, in a speech at Lethbridge, said
that the Government will consider the re-
moving OF the Dominion duty on United
States wheat, in order to secure the removal
of the United States duty OF Canadian
wheat.
New York, Oct. 4rh-A despatch from
Baltimore states that the steamer ''Arcadia'
has arrived there with 81 persons rescued
from the British steamship "Templemore,"
bound from Baltimore to Liverpool, and
which vas burned off the Virginia capes.
Washington advices state that the Senate
has passed the Conference Report on the
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