, 1913-04-26

burdment OF Scutari continues.
Advlces from Brussels state that The strike
will be compromised.
New York, April 23rd-The United States.
District court has decided that British law
fixes the THAMES responsibility for dam
ages, therefore 60 200 pounds are available
for the payment of 651 claims, aggregating
is, 1904, 731 dollars. The owners will appeal
for the application of United States laws,
which would limit the loss to 81, 900 dol
lars. The case will promote the adoption
of one law for all nations, at a conference to-
be held at Brussels in September,
Advices from Washington state that the
tariff has been re-iDtroduced as amended
by the Democratic caucus, and without any
alteration in the West Indian items. 1t
will be debated for three weeks and will
then without doubt pass the House of
Representatives.
Grenada, 23rd-Two fresh cases small
pox have occurred in the out districts.
Barbados, 23rd 1t is announced here
His Majesty the King of Denmark has been
pleased to confer ON his Consul i'll Barbados,
Mr.. V. Hanschell, the distinguished order of
''Knight of Dannebrog."
London, April 24th-The death is an
nounced of Lord Gorell of Brampton.
Mr.. Cresson, second Secretary of the
U. S. Embassy in London, has won the
diplomatic golf challenge cup on the Rane-
lagh Links.
Mr.. Lloyd Georges budget speech is pro-
badly the most optimistic ever made in the
House of Commons. He SAID that last year
was the most prosperous ever experienced
judged either by the volume of ~profits,o or the
wages paid, and he forecasted bis revenue
upon the continuance or betterment of these
conditions. He anticipated an expenditure
of 1876 million pounds, necessitating a reve-
nue. of seven and a half million pounds above
that of last year, which had been reduced by
the Golfers strike, a poor harvest aud the
Balkan war, but he was able not to propose
new taxation, through the unexhnusted
resources of the Budget of 1912 sur
passing his highest hopes. The duties Oh
spirits had Yielded an increased revenue
of two million pounds. but the consumption
had decreased by eight million gallons. The
income tax exceeded the estimates, as also the
stamp tax, which shared one million pounds
cheques daily. He anticipated that the taxes
of 1918 will surpass last years yield of twen~
ty five million pounds. The largest and most
sterile increase in expenditure was for arma-
ment, which included fifteen million pounds
annually since he entered the Cabinet. The
expenditure for the navy in 1910, which
was then thought to have reached the
maximum, shows no prospect of decrease,
unless the nations change their policies
His anticipated increases of income left "
deficit of about one million pounds, which
he proposed to take from the balances Of
the Exchequer. His inquiries in the most
authoritative quarters justified his belief
that the buoyancy will increase with the
declaration of peace, and the wastes of wae
would be repaired by the prosperity of the
countries concerned, which was so great
that the task would be accomplished in a min
imum period, the worst having already passed
The Liberals marvel tFat Mr. Lloyd
George has been able TO introduce four sue
cessiye budgets without new taxes, despite
the increase in expenditures. The Union
lists regard the budget as a gamble in fu-
lures and as piling up trouble for his sue
cessor if his optimism is unrealized.
Lord Robert Cecil, in introducing bis
suffrage petitions, was received with shouts
of 'neVer".
The Suffragettes have burned Hardswortlo
Park boathouse and its contents, and the
bad ignition of q bomb alone saved the
Minister in Thanet Parish church, a historic
structure. Miss Beatrice Harraden's pro-
perty has been sold. Miss Zelie Emerson is