source from which
he
can
get informa-
Alon.:
i v
S
o
.
:
-2nd
Membear for Christiansted
Country
District (B2rg):
Isay we
can
get
vau-
able-infor nation
from
the ~plan,
but
I
‘d> not know whether
we
as
legislators
are qualified
to
go
into
details
on tech-
nical matters.
.~ The:Viee-Chairman:
Porsonally,
are
‘yousatisfied?
¥
2nd Member-for Christiansted
Country
Distriet (Berg):
-Yes,
Fam.
'
j
~
To be continerd.
ro
o R
.
e
i
We hava
b2en
asked
to
mention
that
e
acerts
will
bz
given -by
the Native
B-ass
Band tomorrow
afternosn
and
the
Industrial
Bind
1n the evening,
=
.The
Esxp:zriment
Station
has
just
re-
ceived from the States
a
thorouzhbrad
bull
ealf
with
the
view
to
eventually
improving
the
breed
of
cattle.
The
animalis understend
to
b 2 a
tine speci-
men
and
biz
for his
age.
West
End
News
refers
to
him as giving “plenty
of milk and
excellent
meat.”” As 8091
as
waean
spare
the
time
we
shall
en-
deavor
to
get
a
glimpse
at
him
when
being milked.
@il
Two
hydroplanes
arrived here yester-
day afternoon
and left again
at 7 o’clock
this morning.
-e
:
The
Industrial
Band
played
in
the
bandstand
last
night.
'
The
two
guns
are
now on
board
the
iighter leaving onlv
the parts,
ete.-to
be
taken
in.
It is understood
that
the work
willbe completed
and
that
the ships
will
sail on Wednesdy
next week.
The
s.
s.
"‘Catherinz’’ is
due
on
schoa- -
dule tim>, having
36 tons
of cargo
for
this
island.
Correspondence
Churistiansted,
St, Croix, V.
L.
.-
.
January
25,
1924,
The Editor, St
Croix Avis,
Dear -\ir. Editor:
In today’s
Tribune
it is
proposed
to
name
the
public
cistera
after
ex- -
Governor.
Hough.
As far as
investiga-
.
tion--shows
Dr.-D. C.
Canegata,
elected
member
of -the Cdonidl Council
for Chris-
tiansted
-town,: was
the. propanent-and
originator
of the
.scheme
to
provide
a
water
supply for this
town.
It
is
cus-
tomary and very American to use in these
instances
the
name of the -financier
as in
the gase
of public danationsby Cirnegie,
Rockfeller and Mergan. The name.l
am
about
to
prepose
may be
somewhat
un-..
usual especially
in these
islands
where
we shear.
so much
-of.''navy
-appropri--
-
ations”,-hutif we are desirous-
ofgiving .
-
5T
oLy LV R
this
child
its lightful name,
then
call it
AMERICAN‘T’A_XPA-YER.
>
= T by
:
.
H. BERG.
tElected Member, Country I)ist.
eC—
TR
S—— ——een
G
G
Landslide
in St. Kitts
i
1S itys
St. Kitts, Jan. 24th.-~A
landslide
ap-
parently
of considerable
aimensions
took
place at*MountMisserv
vesterday.
Th2
inhabitdnts
at Sandy
Point
were alarm-
ed by rumbiing noises
at
11.30 and again
at 12 o’cloek and
Some
time laterin
the
day
when
the
méuntain
was
clear
it
could
be seen from
the
public
road
that
there
had been
a landslide
at
Mowsnt
Mis-
sery,
apparently
the'southern
face
of the
pcak
breakinz
aw=v into the ¢rator.
.-
TELEGRAMS.
-
‘ST.: CROIX STATION.
London;
Jan.
23rd.—The
Cabinet
ap-
pointments
of
Mr.
Ramsay
Me Donald
that attract
most
attention
are
those
of
Viscount
Chelmsford
as
First
Lord
of
the
Admiralty
and
Mr.
John Wheatley
as
Minister of “Health,
The
namingof
Lord
Chelmsford
comes
as
a complete
surprise;
one
Conservative
newsbaper
calls
it.
a
'‘great:
shoek,””
for
nobody
has guessed.
that'he
had
any
atliia
ons
with
Labour
and:th2.
date
of }is con-
version
is
quite sunknown.
Th:
Vis-
eount
is
prominent
as
a
former
Vce
roy of
India
who
introduced
there
cer-
tain
administrativa
refoerms
which
dis-
pleased
the
Conservatives
at
home.
He
also
has
been
Governor.
of Queznsland,
New
South
Wales,
and
has
taken
a
conspicuous
part
in
educational
werk,
Mr. Wheatley’s
inclusion
in
the
Minis-
try
is
generally
regarded
as
a
‘‘sop”’
to
the® Glasgow
extremists,
to
wiich
group
he belongs.
Irorn
in
humble
circumstanc:s,
Mr:.
Wheatley
worked
22 years.in
the coal
mines.. He
is
now
a publisher
in
Glasgow
and
considered
the
most
intellectual
of
the Ciyde-side
Sncialists..
As .Minister
of
Health
he
will
be
responsible
for
the
burning
question
of
rents
and
housing,
con-
cerning
which the
Glasgow.
continent
has
been much
disturbed.
His appoint-
ment
was recommended
yesterday
b7 his
fellow M Ps.
from his
Fome
city..
Par-
liamentary seats must
be found for three
of the new-Ministers
who are
not
mem-
bers of ‘the -Commons,
namely,
Arthur-
Henderson,
Secretary
of State
for
Home
-
Affairs, Sir Sydmey Olivier, Secretary of-
-for India and Brig. General
Caris-
-
topher Thompson,
Air Minister.
How--
ever it is expected
that the new
Head of
India Office will-be:made
a Pegr and thus
become
one of the Government
represen-
tatives in the Heuse of Lords.
Theigis
also
a possibility that General Thompson
will receivea Peerage.
Whetaer
all the
-
Ministers whose appointments
'wete
an-
-
nounced-will belong-to the Cabiget
is as”
‘vet unknown,
for althéugh' some
officcs
always carry cabinet rank.-others
arve
: t
the diseretion of the Premier.
It
is
un-
derstood,
however,
that
the
new
Pre
mier
contemplates
a large
<abinet,-
in-
‘tending to-delegate
a great
deal of .the
work to Committees
of
Ministers. Des-
pite the fact
that tha seals
of office
were
rot
exchanged
yesterday
between
_the
outgoing
and
incoming
-Ministers,
- the
Daily
Express
says
-Arthur
Hendérson
‘has
alredady
taken
-aver:
his duties ps
tlome Seeretary
and ils dewotihg' himsell
to the railway strike crisis. . It is-under-
stoed
that
Mr. Macbonald
will hold:
his
first cabinet
meeting
this
atiernoon.
Omagh,
Irelaad
Jan,
23vd—"The
year
1923
was the wettest
in
"a centuarv,
ac
cording
to
records
kept
ar
lLenfel,
the
residence
of C01..J..8.
Buchanan.
Iti
esiimated
that
more than
56,000 -tapns
o/
water,
56.11
ineches,
fell
on rach
statu»
acie.
The
number of rainy
daysin th:
year
was 271.
Castletown
shed
recovds
shows
that
the precipitation
thereabouts
was
8.9
inches
above
that
of 1922 and
10.1 tnches
higher'than
the
average for
the preceding
ten years.
‘
Lyons France,
Jan.
23rd—An
automo-
bile propelled
by gas,
geacrated
from the
combustion
of eharcoal,”
was
given
whai
was pronouncedas
a successiul
test
here
yesterday
in the presence
ofa largs
num
ber of government
officials and
technicat
experts.
-
Ihe nach
ne traveled
60 miles
on
33
jounds
of charccal,
costing
25
cents,
or less
thon ovefouith
the
co-t ol
gasojine.
The eharcoal
gas
1s generated
in
a
compartment
built into: the. rear of
the body-of the car.
The process
is that
of an Alsation
engineer.
;
New Yk, Jan.
23rd-Raw
sugar
ad-’
vanced
4 cent
today
on
sates
of
10,000
bags
of Cuba's,
for first
half ‘February
shipment,
at 6.63 duy
paid.
: No othey
business
was
reported;,
Active -Caban
and
Eiropean
buying,
piompted
by the
firmness
of
the
spet marker,
the price
ruling abroad
and
a
more
ac¢uve
‘inquivy’
for refined
sugar,
accounted
for a
sharp
advance
In the raw sugar
futures
mark-’
et.
Final
pric:s
were at about
the best:
of
the
day
and
from
five to 16
points’
above
the
previcus
close,
Although
better
inquiry
w2s
reporied
for relined-
sugar,
pric
s renibed
unchangedat
825
to 8.60 for tin~ granuia.ed.
Refined
fut-
ures
were
nominal.
:
:
Liverpool,
Jan. 23rd.~The
railway
strike has crzated
a serious
coal shortage
here,
both for ship bunkering
and indus-
trial and
domesric
purposes.
Unless “in-
creased
coal supplies are available
by‘the
end. of
the week
thereis danger of a’
partial holding up 5f shipping.
=~ °
~
Washington,
Jan.
23rd.—Orders
~for
the removal'of
all mipes and obstructions
from the port of Frontera,
Puer o Mexico
and Vera Cruz,
were issued
today
by the
revolutionary
authorities
‘at Vera
Cruz
the
State
Department
w:s adyised. by..
Contstl Wood st Vera Cruz:
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