, 1913-07-19
TELEG RIA MS
ST. CROIX STATION.

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Wallis West bias been granted a divorce, up
on proof having been submitted of Mr.. Corn
wallis Vests disobedience Of the order
granted by the court IN March last for the
restitution of conjugal rights. The plaintiff
has resumed the title Of Lady Randolph
Churchill.
The betrothal is announced of Prince
Arthur of Connaught to Princess Alexandra,
Duchess Of Fife. The Court Circular ex-
presses their Mnjesties' qualification and
states that the King gladly consents.
In the House Of Lords, the motion for the
second reading of the Home Rule Bill was
rejected by three hundred and two votes to
sixty-four. A mo ion by the Marquis of
Lunsdowne, that the House declined to con-
slder the Bill until it bad been submitted to
the countly's judgment was passed with
out a division Lort Curzon dlssented from
the Marquis of Lansdowne's declaration Of
the readiness of the House to accept the Bill
following Il favourable referendum.
The "DaiIy News" Interpretation is that,
after a referendum, the House Of Lords
would amend the Bill, substituting mutila-
ton for the guillotine and thus annulling
the election.
In the House of Commons, Mr.. Asquith
stated that the Government will introduce q
Bill next year TO reform the House Of Lords.
The Cabinets apparent intention to go to
the country on u Bill for a new Second
Chamber will compel the Peers to prepare
for q life and death sight,
The Blackburn Chamber Of Commerce has
represented to the Board Of Trade that the
clause in the tariff Of the United States
forbidding the importation of the products
of the labour of children under fourteen
years of age, is equivalent to a prohibition
Of the importation of Lancnshire's manufac-
lures, and the Chamber suggests that the
Government should protest against it..
The German press contends that the
tariff clause regarding the prohibition of
child labour IS more advanced than the
conditions existing in the United States,
that is, the United States seeks to impose
upon foreign nations conditions which itself
neglects.
The Paris correspondent of the "Daily
News" quotes an assertion by ella Contro-
verse" that the Kaiser inherited 800, 600
pounds worth of Krupp stock, and the same
paper insinUates that this explains the large
orders for wan material. Herr Thyssen, o
we'll known German ironmaster, is named as
it's authority.
Advices from Picking state that both
HOUSES VI L htllhID6ul nave D6Gu summoned
70 consider Russia's demand that China
should recognize the full autonomy of outer
Mongolia, according to the Russo-M ongolo
Treaty of November third last year, by
which Russia recognized and guaranteed
Mongolia's independence under its new
ruler. There is great opposition TO the
treaty throughout China, and much excite
ment prevails,
Dispatches from the Near East state that
the Bulgarian Premier has resigned, upon
the concession of the territorial demands of
Servia and Greece. 1t is also stated that
Bulgaria will stop the invasion by Rouma-
mia by granting her similar concessions.
Three Bulgarian priests support the state
ment made by Mussulmans that thirty thou
sand refugees have been massacred at Dol
ran, forty miles north west of Salonica.
New York, July 17th-Advices from
Washington state that both the Senate and
the House of Representatives have passed.
and President Wilson has signed a Bill ia
cilitating the Arbitration of Railway Strikes.
President Wilson has TO WASH