, 1913-01-11

Tn the House of Commons Mr.. GinneIl,
M. P. for Westmeath, asked for the report
of Police Inspector Kane on his mission to
Dublin in 1907, and on being refused, asked
whether it contained the names of Lords
Haddo and Cover, whereupon he was re-
buked by the Speaker, for making charges
in the form of q question.
Mr.. Ginnell moved a resolution that the
crow jewels scandal is clearing.
Foreign trade for 1912 reached the re-
cord figure for imports of 744, 1885, 14 pounds,
an increase of Ga, 738,9 87 pounds, chiefly in
raw materials, especially United States cot
ton, and for exports of 487, 434, OO2 pounds, an
increase of 1894, 7O4 pounds, chiefly IN
manufactured goods. The shipping indus
try is correspondingly stimulated, with q
warship tonnage actual and anticipated of
$4,000 tons and even night shifts are un-
able to sustain the coEstruction. programme,
including foreign orders. Merchantmen I'M
der construction have been sold at a profit
while yet unlaunched and further contracts
are impractlcable with a guarantee for
prompt delivery. On the first voyage of
one vessel just launched and costing thirty
thousand pounds she earned a profit of one
hundred pounds daily for ninety days.
The Daily Telegraph says that five thou
sand pounds in specie have been stolen en-
route from Berlin to Hamburg for Rio
Janeiro, per 5. S. cap Blanco'. Other
smaller unpublished robberies have occurred,
and underwriters ale alarmed by the indi-
cations of skilled international thieves who
have exceptional opportunities of learning
the movements of bullion.
Eighteen hundred doctors who abstained
from the Insurance panels, met and de-
nounced Mr.. Lloyd George in language sell
dom heard publicly, for example, "Moral
Leper", Judas Iscaliot" 'Bill Skies" and
"Uriah Heep".
Advices from Paris report the departure
of Senior Reyes, ex-President Of Column
bia, for the United States, hoping to secure
from the President elect, DR.. Woodrow Will
son, arbitration of the claims regarding
Panama.
The French Commissioner for the i'm
provements of Martinique and Papete Cra-
hitD in connection with the opening of
the Panama Canal, have arrived at Paris.
New York, January 9th.-It is reported
that every acre OF oranges and lemons
between Los Angeles and Sau Hern@dino
has been frozen, One-ifth of the crop
remains on $50, 900 acres, with the danger
that if sudden warm weather should occur
the loss would be doubled. The present
loss is twenty million dollars,
Grenada, 8th.-H. M. s.. Sirius arrived 2
p. m.
ST. Thomas, 8th-German cruiser "Hansa"
arrived 4.3O p. m.
Copenhagen, Jan. 10th-The Landsting
yesterday finished the first reading of the
Reform Bill. The spokesman of the Right
Party and the free Conservatives proposed an
essential alienation of the Bill, while the
other Parties recommended it. The Prime
Minister stated that the Bill was not final,
but provided a base for discussion.
The Upper Court has confirmed the de-
cision of the Christiansted Court which sem
fenced Catherine Edwards to thirty days
Imprisonment with hard labour, and also
that on Robert Williamson of one years i'm
prisonment, while it has acquitted Albert
Griffith of theft, through lack of evidence.
The death has occurred in Randers of
Etatsraad Ankerstjerne, a merchant of that
town.
The st. Jan left London to-day.
London, Jan. 10th-The Uniohist mem
bers of the House of Commons are almost
unanimously signing q memorial, asking Mr..
Bonar Law not to resign the leadership,
~pledging their loyalty and asking the aban,