, 1913-01-22

says that the war in steamship rates was
started by the Canadian Pacifc's establish
ing q service between Trieste and Canada,
and the Hamburg American Coy. a line be-
tween Hamburg and Boston. 1t is reported
the Atlantic Steamship Pool will meet in
Berlin on the 28th inst.
Before the Putumayo Atrocities Investi-
cation Committee Sir John Lister Kaaye,
continuing his testimony, resented the sug-
gestion implied in the increases in his salary
from $50 to 1000 pounds, and stated that
his lawyers had made all the answer neces-
sary to Canon Henson's sermon at West
minister Abbey.
Prince Albert sailed yester day on Fl. NJ. S.
Cumberland on a six months cruise, visiting
the Canary Islands and the British West
Indies.
George Parrot, q gunner, has been SEN
fenced to 4 years Imprisonment for selling
naval information to Germany.
Jhe steamship "Veronese'' from Glasgow
for New York via Brazil, has been wrecked
off Oporto, 81 passengers being saved and
Is drowned. The year 1912 was the most
disastrous known for shipwrecks, the losses
reaching@E7,0 C0 5000. In the North Allan
tic alone there were ten wrecks. There
were also 6,O31 disasters among vessels
under five hundred tons, including 228 total
losses ana IDTby SIX missing.
Advices from Paris state that NJ. Poincare
has been elected President of the Republic on
"a second ballot receiving 429 votes and nj.
Pans, Minister of Agriculture, 327 votes.
New York, Jan. 18th-The Valorization
Committee has sold $4,000 bags of Brazil
liam coffee on the same terms, that is, about
fifteen dollars per bag, to seventy eight buy
ers throughout twenty States ia the United
States. The Committee has further Or
dered 100000 bags to be sold in Europe
on February third, and q bid of eighty
seven francs has already been made.
There will he no further sales during 1913.
OF the original nine million bags, two thirds
have been sold, and the bonds have all been
retired, leaving three million bags clear
profit.
Mr.. Nagel, Secretary Of Commerce and
Labour, has ordered Mr.. Myths to be deport-
ed for moral turpitude.
London, Jan. 20th.-H. M. S. "Cumber-
land" with Prince Albert aboard, left Ply
mouth on Saturday for the West Indies via
Teneriffe and is due at St, Lucia on Febru-
AIRY 9th. Besides the places already advised,
his itinerary will include visits to Porto Rico,
where he will arrive on March eighteenth;
jamaica, March twenty second, Havana, April
third; Hamilton, Burmuda, April tenth, and
thence to Gibraltar, He travelled from
London with the other cadets, carrying his
own hammock and handling his own lug
gnge. The King vetoed n proposal to give
him a special cabin and insisted on condi-
tions of equality.
A forecast of Turkeys reply indicates the
rejection of the Powers advice and a resump-
ton of hostilties is expected within Il week,
although the domestic conditions IN Turkey
are unstable, both politically and financially.
The rioting at Belfast eliminated in five
hundred O~rangemen assaultipg the National
list headquarters with stone throwing and re-
volver firing. but the police dubbed many
and restored order.
191 persons were rescued and forty three
drowned in the wreck of the "Veronese" off
Oporto. She was insured for 200, 600 pounds,
which, including other losses on the same day,
makes the largest total since the Titanic
disaster.
MIR. Lloyd George celebrated his fftieth
birthday two days after the Insurance Act
became effective, and received countless
kilograms of congratulations, as examples:
Fifty, not out" from Tiyerto Liberals,
and Making big hits with insurance pen
.sions, and still scoring"
In the international Rugby football match
played at Cardiff on SATURDAY., England de-