, 1913-10-08

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rage settlement of one hundred and fifty
thousand pound is charged upon the File
estate during the Princess Royals life, and
in the event of her death, the inheritance
will bring Il larger income. The trustees are
Lord Farquhar and the Duke of Connaught.
1t is said that the Duke Of CounHupht
plans to retire upon the termination of his
Governorship, having declined the Viceroy-
atty of India and also that of Ireland under
Home Rule.
Some sufragettes we're forcibly elected
from Westminster Abbey for inter j%ecting in
the Litany an appeal for women IN prison.
They declare that worse will happen, unless
the suffragettes are included III the Clergy's
prayers.
Tue "Daily Mails" correspondent at Bel
grade states that the Greco-Turk:sh sltua-
tlon is most precarious. and that Greece has
notified Servia to prepare for a grave emer-
gency. Seryian troops have been sent to
the Bulgarian frontier.
The Chimes" correspondent at Athens
says that if the Powers assent in Turkeys
destroying the Treaty of London, Greece
will bring m .ttcrs to | heal.
Advices from Berlin state that the Kaiser
has commissioned Dir Won Bethmann-Holl-
veg to secure Prince Lu lwig Of Bavaria as
Ulut VIZ ShC DbAAO Va 1NilNt
regarding the Brunswick succession. 1t is
stated that the Kaiser will absent himself
from the Empress birthday family purity,
to avoid meeting his son-in-law, that ~, the
Imperial Family is divided BY the dispute.
A despatch from Rio de Jnn4ifo states
that during the naval Inano vres tho
''Gurduy'' collided with the "BorhornmH, >
the former sinking with the loss OF thIrty-twO
lives.
New York, Oct, 7:h-A despatch from New
Orleans states that NJ. Bunnu Varllla, the
late Count De Lesseps chief engineer, has
started for Colombia. He declares that the
Panama Canal will be obsolete in twenty
years unless made into a senlevel route, as
a syndicate now plans for n duplicate canal
across the Isthmu, of DarieD, upon obtaining
a concession which NJ. Buuau VtrIIla is now
seeking.
Washington adyices state that the United
States Government has no fears Of another
c tnul until experience shows that the Pana-
mt Canal IS inadequate. The expense of
NJ. Buuau Varilla's plan for u cn.al with Il
mini mum OF SIX hundred feet in width, is
considered prohibltory forit to be u CONNER
cial success IN competition with that OF
Panama.
Other Washington advices state that the
IaIItf allows Tor q f6uuGClOu 0I UVe per cent
in all customs duties on freights in American
ships. Seventeen nations, includng Den
mark, having treaties for equal treatment,
will receive the same discount for their ships.
The British Treaty requires equality for the
products of His Majesty's territories i'll Eu-
rope, that is, Canada, the British West In.
dies and Australia are not included,
and therefore there will be a proper
4ouate discrimination against their com-
meIce. Goods from Prussia alone in Ger
many will receive a discount, if carried III
German ships. Twenty three nations are
unprotected against this discrimination, IN
clnding France. Probably tt eaties generally
will be revised and there will be new differ
eutial treaty for Cuban sugar. Duties are
being collected Professionally at the Old rates,
until leisure allows for a final liquidation at
the new rates, which are, however, often
obscure in legal construction, and there Will
doubtless be much litigation
London, October 7tb.-The West IHdia
Committee state that the first steamer leaves
ST. john N. B. on the twenty-third of Nov
ember and Halifax on the fifth of December.
The subsidy granted for the service is eigb-
ty nous md pounds.
10 Il. IN. Barbados, Bar. 30.10, E., partly
cloudy.