The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-20
SCOTCH WORKERS DEPRIVED BY LAW
 OF THEIR "P&G"
King of Maoris Comes to Lon- don to Seek Justice of
 George ".

I,ordoua June 20-The Scottish work 1ngman thas been deprived of his early morning drink which is generally a 70 and ga pint of beer, and a gill of whiskey.
 It has been found that the habit of drinking before breakfast has a bad effect onithe health Of the worlzingnan and a law has just come into force which prevents thP saloons or clubs from opening before 10 o'clock In the morning. By this time the men have returned to work and the time for temptation passed
 while the regulation applies to the whole o6 Scotland, the mischief it ia intended to strike at is localized in the industrial districts of Glasgow. Thers it is the custom for the work1ngmen to start. th cir day at in the morning, iand continue until, 6:30 in the evening with a breakfast interval from to 91SO ,and a dinner hour from to 2. with the saloons open from 3 o'clock it1nere was temptation for the men to take a refresR1er' before breakfast. and t3iis was not only unwholesone in .1tseR but comduced to excessive drink sdrinaang at other hours.
 T7ass men have not complained of the new law. but they have asked that if the gaA0ons are not opened before lbreaaznast hoxr they be opened before least have a tdrfnk after eating.
 Tho saloon keepers have been com pIairIAnr thata xhe best part of their trade win be4ruined.
 ,revRa4a. King of the 7daoris. abor- ,1z1nes. ofI New zealand, has arrived in EneAand to lay the grievances of his people before King George, who is known among the natives as the fs'Rreak white -fa4hsr.
 eoun T5i years ago the 1Eaorfss under ,daas treaty. of Waaitangi, which was att tended bvs over 500 chiefs, ceded sov- erefnnfw, toa Queen Victoria, but reserv- ed to themselves and their tribes ter sritorfal rights. The tre@4y, the natives declare has been broken, especially In regard to Maori; lands.
 The kIug, Te Rata. and two chiefs ] in their native costumes first laid the matter before Lewis Harcourt, colo nial secretary, who in turn introduce ed them to King George. Of courses His Majesty who the natives believe to be all powerful can do nothing: The government of the dominion of New Zealand is supreme in the matter, and 1 for either the King or the imperial l xoverunenf to interfere, would raise in the. dominion one of those incl i dents which are already two frequent l beeween the Home authorities and | the governing dominions.
 Sir Cevll Hertsiet, British consul | general at Antwerp reports:
 4sGernxan shipping at Antwerp has increased. and is continuing to in crease moEe rapidly than British ship ping At the present rate of pro gress only three or four years need elapse before German shipping ex- ceeds British at Antwerp, and it will do so unless active measures are adopted to retain and increase the | trade of British vessels visiting the 1 port.
 .sIn 1918 British shipping actually | declined by 42 vessels and 96,2o7 | tons, while during the same period | German shipping increased by z 8 ves- sels and 361.00O tons.
 This state of affairs,' says Sir Ce- | cil, ''is undoubtedly serious, though l it is true that British vessels do more | actual trade, i. e., carry more cargo | and bring more wealth to the port, | than German vessels"
 Of course British shipping is stilI-I greatly in excess of that of, Germany. 1 The total shipping of Antwerp last | year amounted to 7,O56 vessels with 1 a volume of 14,146, s1e tons, of which | s,852 vessels of 6,1TS,231 tons were | British, while the Germans accounted | for 1,7o5 vessels of 4,51o,522 tons.
 One of the causes of the decline of ] British shipping was the transfer of some of the Red Star liners from the British to the Belgian flag.