proved by
a
steady
growth from year
to
year.
With
all best
wishzs
and
kindest
re-
gards,
:
lam,
Faithfully yours,
HENRY H. HOUGH,
Governor of the Virgin Island.
Re membzr
What Takes Place
On Sunday
Afterncon.
A Woo‘ball contest
betweer
the Drecad-
nought
and Athletic Clubs
will be played
on Sunday
afternoon
at
4.30
o’clock
on
the Parade
Ground.
All interested
per-
sons
are invited
to
witness
this contest.
—Com.
TELEGRANMS.
ST.
CROIX STATION.
Halifax,
N.
S.,
June
26th.—All
the
passengers
and
mails
were
landed
from
the R.
M
S.
P.
steamer
Caraquet
late
on
Monday evening.
A part
of
the
cargo
has
#1:0 becn
salved
acd
the work of re-
moving
this is slow proceeding.
A high
wind pravails
and
a hcavy
sea
is running
ard
it
is
feared
the
ship will
prove
a
tctal loss.
Three
of
the
holes
are filled
with water and the
fires
are
now extin-
guished.
The
Caraquet
stranded
during
a heavy
mist
under
ordinary speed
and
it is believed much of her bottom
is pune-
tured
by
the
coral
reefs
twelve
miles
{rom the island,
The Captain and
a
por-
tion of the
crew
are standing
by the ship
and assisting
in the
salvage
op
“ations.
London,
June
25th.—Roberts
Smillie,
the former miners
leader,
lcok
his
seat
in the House of Commons
today
as
rep-
resentative
for
Morpeth.
He
was greet-
ed by the Labourites,
who wore red flow-
ers in their buttonholes,
roses,
carnations
ar d Gladioluses.
Conservatives
protested
against
bringing
such
quantities
of flow-
ers
into the House,
but
the
speaker
said
he
was
powerless
to
intervene,
There
were noisy
scenes
for
a consideravie
pe-
riod and
angry
words
betw
en
the
Con-
servatives
and Labourites.
Toronto,
Ont.,
June
25th.—Ontario,
from Toronto Westward,
saifered
severe-
ly tonight in a storm
which
swept
across
tha
country
from
Northwest
to
South-
east, leaving a trail of wrecked buildings,
broken
telephone
jand
telegraph
poles
and levelled trees
in its wake for a widch
of nearly fifty miles.
Owing
to the
des-
truction
of
lines
of communiecation,
de-
tails of
the
damage
are
meag
e, but re.
ports
reaching
the
city
about
midnight
indicated
that
the
loss
would
run
into
mnillions of
dollars
with
the added
possi-
bility of loss of life.
New York, June
25th. —7 persons
were
®
Liiled
and
83
injured
today
when
two
wooden carriages
plunged
from
a Brook-
®yn elevated
struciure
into the
Boroughs
busiest
traflic
intersection.
A
two-car
truin, well filled with an early
afternoon
ST
£nHOlx
Y. S
|
|
erowd of women, children
and a few men,
'
junped
the
rails,
ripped
through
the
rotten
~uard
beams,
tottered
on the edge
~
of the structure
while
hundreds
of pass-
|
ersby
stood
spellbound
in terror,
and fell
%
to the
pavement,
a
mass
of
splintered
.
debris.
Within
a
few
minutes
adoz"n
|
pieces
of fire apparatus
and police patrals
|
had broken
their way
throuzh
a
cordon
|
of several
hundred
bystanders.
Ambu-
!
lances
arrived
as the
firemen
fought
<o
|
choke off the
flames, «*heir
work
inter-
-
rurted
intermittently
14
fear
of injuring
|
women
begging
to be exiricated.
{
Ottawa,
June
25th.—The
Premier
stu-
i
ted in the House
of Commons
this
after-
i
noon
that
the
Canadinn
authorities
had
|
invited
the United States
Government
to
|
send
oificials to
Ottawa,
after
the
close
|
of the present
session
of
Pa.liament,
to
.
confer
on
further
cooperation
betweeu
|
the
two
Governments
in regard
to the
.
shipment
of
liquor
across
the
border.
'
'The Premier
said that the Canadian
Gov-
.
ernment
had
received
a communication
.
from
the
United
States
authorities
ask-
'
ing if it were possible
for
Canada
to
as-
'
sist
in preventing
the ex_ort
o’ liquor to
|
the United States.
The
reply
woich
had
gone
to the United
States
was
a statement
.
of the
law as
it at
present
exits.
Noth-
|
ing had
been
sent
forward
as
to the
Gov-
ernment’s
policy in the matter of further
endeavouring
1o
cooperate
with
the
American
Govarnmznt,
S»
far
as
the
poliey of the
Canadian
Government
was
concerned,
we have every
desire
to
coop-
erate
with
the American
authorities,
ss
we
would hope for them
to cooperate
with
us in sceuring
the
observance
of our
law.
London,
June
26th.-—Mr.
Baldwin
an-
nounced
in the
House
of
Commons
this
afternoon
that the
Government
had
de-
cided
to
establish
a
home
defence
air
force
sufficiently
stiong
to
defend
the
country
adequately
from attack
from the
strongest
air force,
within
striking
dis-
tance
Moscow,
June
26th,—The
Supreme
Court
had decid:d
to set Archbishop
Tik-
hon
free from
custody,
pending
his trial
on the charge
of resisting
the Soviet
au-
thorities,
it was announced
today,
Denver.
June
206:h.
- President
lur-
ding
served
notice,
in an
address
here
y -sterday
that the
Government
was
de-
termined
toenforee
the
Prohibition
iaw
even if the burden
of enforcement
contin-
ues
to be increasingly
thrown
upon
it by
the
varicus
states.
He voiced
the
con-
vietion,
not only that
prohibition ameunsd-
ment
will not ba repealed,
but
tha
what-
ever change
way
be made
in the Volsted
Act
‘‘willrepresent
the sincere
purpose
of
effective
enforcement
rather
than
moderation
of the geueral
policy,”” strik-
ing straight
out to
those
who
vislate
the
law,
The
President
said
the
issue
s
fast enming
to be lecognized,
not
as
one
between
the
wets
and
drys,
but
as
one
of whethar
the laws of *'this country
cua
b and
will be enforeed.”
St,
Pauls,
Minn., June 26th—Nexr'y
a
score
of deaths
and
proparty
damage
re-
resulted
from
Sunday’s
storms
in
the
Northwest,reports
last night revealed. Six
persons
perished
when
a toraado
swept
Western
Bowman
and
Fastern
Adams
Counties,
in North
Dakota
on
Sunday
night.
12 persons
were
seriously
hurt,
or.e probably fatally, and five slightly in-
jured
in
this
storm.
Several
other
deaths
were
reported
from
drowning,
electrocutions
and
accidents,
all
attri-
buted
to the
storms.,
Heavy
rainstorms
early vesterday
added
to the damage.
A
large number
of
buildings
were
demo-
lished
and
many farm
avimals
were kill-
ed
in the North
Dakota
storm.
|
London,
June
26th.—Myr.
Mellon, Uni-
ted
States
Secretary
of
the Treasury,
~
will probably
be
consulted
by
British
~
officials
upon
his
arrival
here
with re-
~gard
to
alieged
indigritics
foreed
upon
.
DBritish
subjects
landinz
at
Ellis
Island
.~
New York,
the
House
of
Commons
was
"~
informed
yvesterday
by
Mr.
Renald
Me-
.
neil Under Secretary
for Foreign
Aftairs.
.
Tne subject
was b ouglt
up
by Vi count
I
Curzen,
Conservaiive
menber
tcor
tle
.
~South
Division of
Battersee,
who
called
|
attention
to the case
on
an
unnamdd
British
n.erczntile
captzin
who
was
made
to
land
at
Eliis
Istand
on
April
|
<Bth
last,
placed
in
a
wiie
cage
wiih
-
thinyy
fereigners
and
afterwards
foreed
to
strip
for
examinaticn,
although
his
passport
was
in per‘ect
erder and
he had
been
toid
by
the
United
States
Consul
'
that
there
would be
no difficulty.
Loncor,
Jure
26:h.—Tle
Canadian
}
High Commissioner
publiely
invited
the
'
Duke and Duichess
of York
to visit Can-
|
ada vesterday
at the
opening ®
the
Im-
;
perial
Kducation
Conference.
Mr. Lar-
|
kin
seconding
a
vote
of
thanks to the
.
Duke
for performing
the opening
cere-
.
wony, said,
“"may
1
take
this opportuni-
|ty of expressing
the hope
that His Royal
-
Hizhness
will be able
before long to dis-
'
play his interest
in Canadian
.yfairs
by
i
visiting
the dominion,
and
beihg
a
peo-
|
ple entirely
averse
to separation
of hus-
.
band
and
wite I can
assuvie
him Lis
wel-
.
come
will be
warmer
if |lis
bride
accom-
|
panies
him.
|
New York,
June
26th.—The
early raw
|
sugar
market
was
easy
and piices
wero
E
Izswer
with
Cebas
now
quoied
at b 7/3
|
cents
e-st
and
freight
equal
to 7.66 for
|
centrifugal.
The
continued
weakness
in
|
the
{futures
mzket
led
to
more
liberal
'
offerinns
from operators,
with sales
e
|
ported
of
10,000
bags
of
Cubas
sflcat
|
aund
21 000
of
Phitivpines
due
to arive
|
in July.
The
raw
futurcs
market
was
i
easier
under
rerewed
liguidation
and
.
selling,
said
to
be
for Japanese
account
.
prompted
by
the
weakness
in the
Lon-
|
cdon
market.
Prices
at
midd:y
were
.
abcut
48
points
lewer.
There
were
no
|
chan_ex
it lefincd,
with
prices
listed
at
|
9.5
G4O for fine yranulated,
kut
sen-
|
liment
wos
unseitled
«y the action of the
!
cpet
wavket and
the
demand
was
less
ac-
"
tive.
Refinad futures
were nominal.