, 1913-12-17

'O1NN 49, " W. hi'O Oh6bCE NNAoA
YOUR, and it regards this rs another auti-
British Intrigue Matched in the United States.
A member If the Pearson firm SAYS they
will not return to any country which rejected
contracts recently until asked, and hat the.
Incidents have so galsed the costs of produce
ton, that it would be Improbable to any
body.
Iu New York it is reported that Lord
Murray IS at Panama. Ell route fod Costa Ricar
with II revised proposal for the. new Congress.
Dispatches from San Jose, CostaI2ica,. state,
that neither of the three candidates has re-
ceived a majority and therefore Congress will
elect a President. Seniors Duran and Ygle.
sias have combined against the leading
candidate, Senior Fernandez, and the drst
named election is expected. Senior Yglesias-
is anti foreign, while Senior Duran's policy
Is unknown.
Kingston, Jamaica, 15th-South Camp
Road Hotel was destroyed by fire at an early
hour yesterday morning. The efforts Of
the fire brigade to check the flames
were unsuccessful. Loss estimated ut
$4,000. The guests, who were asleep, had 81
narrow escape. Loss partially covered by
Insurance.
London, Dec. 16th-In the annual cross
country races between Cambridge and Ok
ford the former won with twenty nine points
against the %latter's twenty-six.
In the Rugby football match between
Edinburgh University and Cambridge the
former secured twenty-three points to the
latter's six.
The Court of Appeal has dismissed the
appeal from Nh. Justice Joyce's decision that
u woman is not a person within the meaning
OF the o~licitors' Act and therefore incl gible,
Us a lawyer.
The London County Council has followed
the example of the Project Of the Paris DO
lice III forbidding women to wear hatpius. With
unprotected points. Notice has ACCORDINGLY
been posted IN the tramcars.
The remains of q Miss Bradfeld have
been found Ia the Leeds and Liverpool Can
NJ. She was the manager Of her br01ber's.
business in OldhaIl Street, Liverpool, and it
has been discovered that she WAS murdered
there and wheeled INTO Il handcart throuuh
the busy streets 10 the canal, where her
body ives dumped in a sack. Two employ
ees are suspected. one of whom, named Ell
toft, has been arrested, but Summer, alias.
Ball, is wanted.
The Liberal Press denounces the alleged
proposal to merge London's lighting and
transportation interests into a trust for
which a Bill for a central plant TO supply
light and power will be introduced during
the next session of Parliament. Tie Mid
land and Nolthwestern Railways are among
those planning the electriication of their
systems and it is expected they Will take
their power from the new company
1t is expected that the Governments of the
Union Of South Africa Will appoint a com.
mission of lnqalry regarding he Hindu
troubles, including Sir Richard Solomon.
High Commissioner in London, Mr-EsseIen, =
member of the Legislative Council Of the
Transvaal, and Mr.. is. Wylie, K. G.. of
Dul ban. 1t is stated that the British and
Indian Governments are alarmed by the
union Of Hindus and Molammednns in .
demand for equality Of treatment as British
subjects throughout the Dominions, despite
hostile legislation like that enacted in the
Provinces of Canada and the Union of South
Africa.
Tn death is announced of Mr.. John Snt-
ton, who succumbed under an anaest hetic,
before an operation was begun. He was,
among the best known British Agricult wrists.
The betrothal is announced of Earl Speu-
GERS eldest daughter to Mr. Sidney Peel. q
son of the late Viscount Peel.
Adviees from St. Petersburg state that
Russia has proposed that the Povors viii