we must
reduce
expanses.
Siaallit bein
the government
office, or
in
the depart-
ment
of education
or in the judieiiry,
or
in
the sanitary
department,
or perhaps-
the police are
overpaid; will attention
to
any of these
help
us 2ut?
No,
we would
simply
be "cutting off
the
nose
to
spite
the face’’ to use slanz.
Then
it must
be
that
we
are
financially
unprepared
for
civil government,
and shou!d
live within
our means.
LOCAL
The
s.
s
‘‘Guiana’’ on her
way
to New
York is due
at
'rederiksted
ac
noon
on
Saturday.
The
sloop Mizpah sailed
for St.
Thom-
as yesterday
with mails.
The
show
at St. Mary’s
Hall last night
was
a
very
fine
one
and
deserved
a
larger
attendance.
Rairny
veither
and
the
influer.za
were
probably
resvonsible
for
the abssnce
of many
pa‘rons
of
the
hall.
Mr. Piaskett
will hold
his
lecturss
on
spiritualism
in
the
Unicn
Hall
from
tonight.
We beg to remind
our readers
that the
very
fine
entertainment
given
by
the
Amateur
Club of
this
town in St. John’s
School
House
.last
Wednesday
night will
Le repeated
this
evening
for the
benefit
of St. John’s
Chureh.
_
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STAION.
London, April Tth.—Thomas
Newman
yesterday
establiched
what is
claimed
to
be
a world’s record,
in the semwi-finals
the
professional
biiliard
championship
of England,
hy scoring
three
suecessive,
breaks
of 542,
Tus,
830.
The
brveak
of
850
is deseribed
as
the highest
ever
scor-
ed
in
a
championshinp
match,
ithe
pre-
vious
best
being
785
made
bv William
S mith agaiust
C.
Faliziner
in
1929
New York, April Tth.—lT'he
suzar
mar-
ket
was firm and
unchanged
at 5 11/16¢,
for
Cuba’s,
cost
and
freight,
equal
to
7.47 for centrifugal and
Porto
Rico’s
at
the
same
level.
There
were
sales
of
22,000
bags
of
Cuba’s
ard
500
bags of
Porto
Rieo’s raw sugar.
Futures
opened
steadier
on
covering
and
trade
buying,
and aftar
selling
one
1o
two
points
net
higher, prices
eased
off
undsr
scattered
licuidations
for over the week
end.
linal
prices
were
unchanged
to
two
pcints
jower on active
positions.
Closing, May
$5.76,
July
$5.97,
September
$6.11.
Tne
market
tor
refined
was
firmer
and unchanged
to ten points higher,
with
tine
granuiated
listed
now
at
9.10
to
9.25,
with a
continual
good
inquiry
re-
ported.
Dusiness
in
refined futures
con-
sisted of two lots June delivery at 39.30.
The market closed
not nnchanged.
271
¢ R
A lIC
London, April Bth.—Troublesome
days
|
are
in
prospect
for
Mr.
Bonar
Law’s
|
“tranquility’’ Govt
on
the
evz
of
the
|
-eopening of Parliament,
which
will
re-
. ssemble
tomorrow.
This
session
vill
not
be
concluded
until
August,
witha
|
brief
rest
at
Whitsuntide.
Even
sup-
|
porters
of
the
Govt.
do
not
deny that
|
tb~
Cabinet,
with th
' delicate
Ruhrsitua-
tion
hanging
like
tae
sword
of Damo-
cles
over thdr heads
and
faced
at
home
with
budget
difficulties
and
awkward
|
housing
an<d
agriculture
problems,
are
in
uncomfortable
seats.
Thus
far
the
|
Govt. has averaged
a
wmajority
of 96in
|
the
voting.
To
this
resuit
the National
|
Liberals
contributed
subsrantialiy,
giv-
|
ing
perhaps
. xice
as
much
support
to
the Cabinet
as
*id the opposition
Y.abour.
!
The
Liberal
r.union,
still
hangs
fire,
|
Mr. Asquith’s last
move
in
rejecting
the
|
idea ofa consuliively
committee,
which
|
should
evolve
a
commpon
line
of
|
action
for the two Liberal
groups
in
the
|
House
of
Commons,
and
in
refuosing
|
to appear
upon
the {same
platform
with
|
Mr. Lloyd George
at
Leeds,
has
disap-
|
pointed
the
iriends
of rhe hoped-for
com-
bination.
It is restrained
by
'‘domestic
!
influences’’ and
by
a Little koot of
politi-
cians
who ceontroi
the
party organiza
ion,
but
there
is also distrust,
and
it is
|
nted
that if Mr. Lloyd George
became
eof
the
leaders
of the party,
he wou'
range
the
new
party
with
the
progressive
|
Unienists
and
there
would
be
another
coalition.
The
philosophic
members
of
|
bith groups
are
content
to
await
devel-
|
opments,
convineed
that
reunion
will
|
come
naturaliv
wnen
an
issue
arises
which genuinely divided all
th2
Liberals
|
fiom the supporters
of
“I{r. Bonar
Law,
|
While gil these
moven,ents
are
proceed-
|
ing behind
the
~= ges,
the Labour
Party
|
has
qade
a brave
show
in
the
House
®f
|
Commons,
and
according
to
observers,
|
has justified its title as
the official opposi-
|
tion.
Some
sectinns
of the Labour
Mem-
|
bers
are inclined
to
be noisy,
but
on
the
|
whole
the nembers
have
shown
consid-
erable
pariiamentary
skill
and
bhuve
adopted
ihemselves
to novel
suggestions
under
the
shrewd
guidance
of
Mr.
J.
|
Ramsay
MaeDonuald.
Mr. MacDonald
hes
|
difficulties, as
his party
18 not
homogene-
ous,
but
by
strength
he
has
kept
his
|
followers together
ana
his authority
has
|
not
been
seriously
challenged.
At
the
|
reopenitg
of
Parliament
the
deepest
interes:
is
manifested
throughout
the |
country
in the future stand
of the Libei-
als
and
Mr.
Chamberlain’s
section
of
|
the Conservative
party.
The first
knot-
ty probiem
1o be faced by
the Govt. isin
connection
with
the
agricultural
situa-
tion,
which,
since
the
adjournment
of
Parliament,
has
been
greatly agaeravated
by strikes of
farm
labourers
over
wages.
The
initial
debate
on the
subject, it§is
expected,
will take
place
on
Wednesday
when
the
strong
_agricultural
section
headed
by Colonel Pretyman
wiil demand
a
specific statement
from the
Govt.
as
a
mark
as
to what
it it tends
to do for the
betterment
of the
sitvation.
This
seec-
tion is preyared
to demana
that the Govt.
eract
into '‘an the
recommendations
just
published
of Mr.
Bonar
Law’s
agricul-
tural
tribural.
This
at present
is an
un-
pleasant
situation
since
the
tribunal’s
recommendations
are distinctly prot-etion
and
while they
are said
to coincide
with
the
ideas
of
the
majority
of
the
Con-
servative
party,
vetitis
admitied
that
the
passage
of
protection
laws
at
this
stage
would
arouse
a tremendous
outcry
and
increase
the Govt’s.
opposition
from
Labour and
Liberals.
Kingston,
Jea.,
April 9th. The
west-
ern
commercial
section
of
Portantonic
was swept
by
a great
fire
on
Saturday
morning,
wiping
out
nnrmerous
small
wholesale
business
and
houses
of
tha
two
room
and
shack
variety.
The
fie
started
in
a bakery,
through
a
man
go-
ing
to
extract
gasoline
from
a
drum.
LLoss
estimated
at
seventy
thousand
pounds.
San
Juan,
P.
K.
April 9th.—Secretary
Denby,
wh) sailed
from
here Saturday
niche,
was
extensively
entertained
to-
gether
with Governor
Towner.
On
Fri-
dayv,
after
the
inauguration
ceremonies
there
was
a luncheon
at
the Palace
Hotel
and
a2fterwards
an informal
reception
at
the
Goverror’'s
palace.
In
the
evening
a
dinaer
at
the
Condado
Hotel
and
a
ball
at
the Perto
Rico
Casino
in honour
of
the
Governor
and
Secraetary
Denby.
On
Satmrday
a
tou® of
the
island
was
made,
stopping
for
lunch
at
Mr.
Gior-
geltis
country
house
in
Barrauquitas,
where
two
hundred
covers
were
laid.
In
the
evening
there
was
a big ball
at
the Union Club.
Constantinople,
April Bth.—The
reply
of the larkish
Govt.
to the invitation
of
the
Allies
f{or
Turkey
to
attend
the
session
of *he
Near
Kast
peace
confer-
ence
10 be
resunied
shortly
at
Lausanne,
reached
Cepsinntinople
today
frem
An-
gora
and
wiil immediately
be
conveyed
to
the
representive
of
the
Allics
hero,
T 2 ncte
deelares
the
Turkish
counter-
Lrojosals contain
no substantial
modifica-
tion of the territoral
and
other
ciauses
of
the
draft
treaty
which
the powers
can-
not
equitable
accept.
It
suppests
cer-
tain
reservations
on economic
aod
finan-
cral
questions
and
on
the
ecapitulanions
cluuses
of
thwe
treaty
generally.
How-
cver,
the note
1s
coiched
ina
friendly
spirit and
reeiprocates
the desire of
the
Ailied
powers
for
the
suceess
of
the
1 ausanne
conference.
Boston,
April Bth.—Jay
Gould,
play-
ing
for the Philad:lphia
Raequet
Club,
yesterday
won
the National
court
tennis
chaiamonship
for
the
sixteenth
conse-
cutive
year.
He
defeated
C.
Suydam
Cutting,
of New York,
on
the courts
of
the
Boston
Tennis
and
Raequct
Club
6-2, 6-5, 6-2.