, 1913-03-15

munaI Electors Union and one Christian
Socialist.
Professor Hoffding on his seventeenth
birthday was appointed a Commander of
Dannebrog of the first grade rhe Univer-
sity students gave him a torchlight process
sion.
The death is announced of Judge Hans
chell, formerly resident in st. Croix.
H. NJ. S, Ingolf left Dartmouth yesterday
for Copenhagen.
The st. Jan arrived at London yesterday.
London, March 14th-The Inter Univer-
sity boat race was rOwed in ideal weather
with smiling skies and on a MINDLESS river.
Cambridge led from the start to past Barnes
Bridge. but Oxford won in the last quarter
by a quarter OF a leugth. 1inp, twenty
minutes and fifty three seconds. The crowd
was among the largest that ever witnessed
the race, which was Il most spectacular con-
test. The cheering was terrific, the Pr nee
of Wales leading for Oxford from the I'm
pres beat.
London, March l4th-The death is an
nounced Of Admiral Sir Archibald Douglas.
Vice Admiral Sir Percy Scott has on
nounced that he is retiring to make way for
younger men.
A despatch from Sydney states that Lady
Scott has sailed for home aboard the S. S.
ssMedina'.
The Government have warned the Mar
conf Wireless Company that they will not
grant a licence for q transatlantic station
in North Wales without the report of the
Commission of Inquiry. The Company there
fore would proceed at its own risk.
In the House of Commons yesterday, Mr..
Asquith stated that at the first opportunity
he will propose a plan for making the House
of Lords IL true and impartial judicial au-
thority. Mr.. Samuel indicated the detail
regarding the new second chamber. It
will not contain a trace of the hereditary
principle, and it's veto will not be restored,
the present House will be reformed within the
life of the present Parliament. The forepo-
ing statements were made during a debate
on Mr.. Walter Longs amendment to the
address, that it was improper to proceed
with the Home RUE and Welsh Disestablish-
ment measures without the reform of Parliq-
ment, or q referendum. Mr.. Long said the
Government had shattered the Constitution
by its failure to renew the promise to reform
the House of Lords, and the country was
thus under a single Chamber Government.
Mr.. Asquith retorted that the Constitu-
ton had been shattered when the Lords
rejected the Budget, thus taking the
responsibility for whatever had happen
ed since. Mr.. Bonar Inv, closing the
debate for the Opposition, declared the
country did lot believe that the Irish and
Welsh Bills could be rated without the re-
form Of the House of Lords, or the consent
of the electors, and he asserted that the
Governments policy endangers representa-
tive government, and that a second chamber
is necessary, since autocratic power should
not be entrusted to anybody.
Mr.. Asquith, in answer to y ques-
ton, stated that all possible steps viii be
taken to enforce and amend the laws regard
ing outrages by sutfragettes.
Anti-suffragette hooliganism continues,
and small riots have occurred at Radlett and
Edenbridge. The Government have sued
Mr.. and Mrs. Pethiek Lawrence for six hun
dred pounds, being the unpaid balance of
the costs of their prosecution. Tradesmen
have sued Mr.. and Mrs. Pankhurst and
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence for damages done
by suffragettes. Other releases of invalid
ed hunger strikers, including Miss james,
who is an epileptic aud a cripple, have
been made.
A despatch from Sydney, New South
Wales, states that Lord Denman, the Gov
ernor-General, has laid the corner stone of