, 1913-09-17
Higgins, Mrs. Carl Neumann, Miss Murlel
Henderson.

ST. CROCK STATION.

meeting of the British Association on Satnr-
day was q vide one. 1t began with a paper
on radium and its discoverer, Madame Cur
RE. who is a delegate, and continued with a
paper on the intellectual similarity OF men
ana women. Then a "fNtigne machine
showed that fifteen days are r. qnired by
nerve force to make up 10Y sixteen hours loss
of sleep. A study of hrredity proved that
certain qualities are passed to the progeny
by one sex only, for instance, a high egg
weld is Inherited from the sire and not the
dam, and the same is true OF the milk yield
ing qualities OF cows. The engineering sec.
ton showed a sixteen horse power motor
driving a screw III the air, not III the water,
which would propel q caual barge carrying
forty tons four miles an hour, at fifty per
cent less cost than touring by horsepower.
1t was announced that Professor Bateson
will he the President ut the meeting next
year to be held in Australia.
1.-The connivance Of the postal employees in
the peuil n~echlace robbery has been estab-
lished by evidence given ut Bow Street, but
whether by French or English employees the
Authorities decline to divuIge.
Loud Lorehurn proposes that both politi-
cal parties shcul confer with a view to set
thing the Igish question by consent. Much
interest HIS Dttb 0ACllCH 'AVl - d" ! uC III
bernls say the proposition comes too late,
and the Unionists declare they will only en-
ter when the Government consent to drop
the present Bill. The Nationalists declare
such II conference useless unless the Union
lists admit the principle Of Home Rule, and
Sir Edward Carson opposes il, SINCE none
agree, No change is 50 far matchmaking
Advices from Liverpool stale that the
Lord Mayor Of that city, as a mark of SYM
pathy towards the people Of the city of New
York, arranged that the body of MIR. Gayn0r,
who died suddenly on board the S.. S. Bal
TIC, = while Ell route to Liverpool on Il recH-
p9rating voyage, should be escorted by
mounted police and lie IN sta c at the Town
Hall, resting on n catafalqae draped with
the flags of the two countries. a guard of
honour watched throughout the night, until
after the curly morning. religious services,
when the ronains were placed on board The
S. s. "Lusitrnin," homeward bound.
Advices frop' Berlin state that there are
fifty thousand unemployed in that city.
twenty-four Thousand beng members Of
trade organizations.
Dispatches from Picking state that orders
have been issued by the provisional Presi-
dent which signify that China has complied
with the demands made by Japan, as out
lined on the 18th i st.
Ottawa, Sept. 15th-A paper mill, with a
capital Of two and a half million dollars, has
been Incorporated.
Toronto, Sept. 15th-The mineral produc-
ton of the Province Of Ontario for the first
half of 1912 was %S18,600,00O an increase of
three and three quarters million dollars.
Rev York, Sept, 15th-One million err
tridges and five hundred Mausers have been
shipped on the $. S. "Iroquois' for the Gov
eminent Of San Domingo. The gunboat
Nashville" is Ell route for Sun DOMINICAN
waters to cooperate with the "Desmoines. ,"
st. Kits, l5th-The death occurred sud
denly yesterday afternoon of Mr. Plngemann,
Superintendent of Works and an official
member Of the Legislative Council.
London, Sept. 16th-The presence of Mr..
Bonar Law aud Lord Curzon ut BaAmornI.
as the guests of the King, has revived to
fever heat the discussion Of the possibility
of an attempt to compromise the Irish ques-
tion. The English Press states that both
parties are anxious for q settlement which
viii prevent the civil war threatened by
Ulster, if Home Rule becomes law.
AS evidence of the prosperity of the Brit
ish shipping business, the Manchester Liners
Company has declared a dividend of y per
cent haiDy tho first dividend for TON voorc