The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-06

new dock, the authority will erect 164 houses in West Ham on garden city lines, on the basis of 22 to the acre. Tn Woolwtch forty houses are to be erected. fas
 The corporation of the City of Lon don is holding a private inquiry into the aIIeged control of the English meat supply by the big American beef companies It was proposed at a re- cent meeting of the corporation that the development of these companies be clipped by placing a limit upon the number of stalls they may hold in the SInithfield market, but upon adverse report by a special committee, it was decided not to interfere The com nittee reported that the conditions of the business and the nature Of the trade have very materially changed during the last ten years. and that the tendency to eliminate the middIeman. or commission. agent, and to concen- uate the trade into fewer hands had affected the meat trade assweu as otl- ed. however, by 90 votes to TO to have a private inquiry to ascertain which sections of the market, if any, are~un- der American control It is assert ed that many of the Snnithdeld sales men are financed by. what is called tstrust funds but the extent of the American influence in s1nithheld is not known.
 For singing hymns in 3. loud, raul. cous voice, regardless of the pitch and beat observed by the other members the village blacksmith of the village of TunstaH, has been sent to jail on the charge of disturbing the peace The complaining witness was one Of the church wardens, who testified that TunstaiI's singing was so loud and so bad that the nerves of the church goers gave way and the blacksmith became almost the only regular at tendant at service Jail sentence was imposed in lieu of a. one pound fine with costs, which the defendant re fused to pay
 The merchant shipping bin. which is the British part of an international movement to standardize ship con struction and management with a view to lessening the perils of the sea, has passed it's second reading in Par Hament Fourteen maritime natioEs agreed on the needed reforms in con ference here last winter, those to be carried out during the present year There is no opposition in either house to the bill, although some aques-. ton was raised as to the wireless con ditions by shipowners, who said they should receive assurance of fair ltreatment from the wireless compan-
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 John Burns, in moving the second reading, said that within the past twenty years 4,70O vessels, totaIIng B. coo, 900 tons have been lost at. sea, with the drowning of 1s,474, passen- gers and crew.
 The possibility of the north and the south of England becoming two dis tinct nations was almost seriously dis cussed by Bishop Wellson, dean of Manchester at recent meeting in London The bishop said that any one who had gone from the south to 1.-the north, as he had done, would be struck by the widening gulf between the two sections. For one thing there was the growing difference of ecclesiasticaI feeling, the south show ling more and the north less sympathy with rituaI5stic practices
 The differences had also been aug, mented by the tenacity with which the north and Lancashire particularly had clung to the doctrines of free | trade. whereas the south of England was largely, though mot entirely eiy- en to protection or tariff reform