Aceording
to
the
2ad
Member
for
Christiansted
Town (Uanegata)
the Con-
mittee recommends
a
tax
of one percent
on
real
property
and
eliminating
per-
<onal
property
instead
of
the
Govern-
mont’s
recommendation;
a
tax
of
one
pereent
on
real
property
and
(he
same
on
personal
would
bring
$3.000
more
than the present
system,
I would like to
see
an
analysis.
[ wish
to
draw
atten-
tion
to the
fact
that
a valuation
of Frs,
250
is placed
on
cane
land,
Ers.
125
bn
pasture
land
and
Frs.
50
on
bush
land.
The principle
of
personzal
property
can-
not be deviated
from by
the Government
of the Virgin Is ands.
Personal
property
receives
the
sanie
protection
as
real
pro-
perty
and
on
ithat
statement
rests
the
docision,
not on'y
of
the preseat
adinin-
istration,
but the
vast
administration
al-
1.
The
(ne percent
tax
piaced
on
per-
sonal
property
is
a
fur egualization
of
taxafion,
‘
To be cotineld
:
:
s
fAJUAL
As far
as
we
can
understand,
the
fol-
lowing
gentlemen
have
Dbeen
nominted
for membership
in the
Coicnial
Courncil:
Dr.
D.
C.
Cavegata
for
Christiansted
Town:
Messrs.
H. Berg,
O.
C.
Granady.
and
H. Jessen
for Christiansied
Country
District:
Messre.
F. Coulter,
A. M. Gold-
en,
and
D. H. Jackson
for
Frederiksted
Town.
Dr. Canegata
is
unopposed
and
his election
wi!l
be
the
first in which
a
member
has been
unopposed
on
two con-
secutive
occasions.
At St.
Mary’s
Hall
last
evenin'y
was
sereened
the
7 reel
drama
Hearts
o,
The
flills
which
turned
out
interesting;
he
.ttendancee
was fairly good.
The
U.
S. €.
Grebe
arrived
here
at
1
p.
w. yesterday
from
St. Thomas
bring-
ino mails
and
passenwers.
She
roeturned
iv the afiernvon,
takisg
a
party
of
mar-
ines.
Mr. and Mrs.
Lentz and
iniant
and
. F.
L. Me Daniel
2ad family.
The Factory
Sugar
Price
was fixed on Monday
at
o§
Ibs.
sugar
to
100 Ibs.
eancs
39,11
cents
per
100
Ibs. and
6 tbs.
sugar
to 100 Ibs.
canes
42,67
cents
per
100 Ibs.
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.
New York,
May 4th.—The
raw sugar
market
was upsettled
again
today by the
sharp
break in {utures and operators
were
offering
Cubas
at
5} cents,
cost
and
freioht,
equal
to
7.28
for centrifugal,
e
but no sales.
were
reported.
There
was
another
decline in
raw
sugar
jutures at
e
the cpening,
with active positions
show-
ing deciines
of 30
to
33 poirts
under
an
.ccumulation
of overnizht selling orders,
4«
a result
of yesterday’s
sharp
decline,
and continued
pecr
consuming
demand.
ST RO
2 NI
S
There
was covering at
the
lower prices,
however,
and
raihes
of
3
o
1V points
folluwed, thyilzh
tiae
toae
of
the market
was
unsetti=i.
Tne market
e
refinad
was easy
and
unchanged,
to
20
poiafs
lower,
with fine granulated
ranging
fron
|
9.0 Jtolo
15 and basiness
stiii light,
|
Moseow,
May dik.—ll members
of th»
Moscow
housing
¢opmmission
have
be=n
‘
executed
by
shooting,
aceording
to
an
oifizial
annouacement
made
vesterdav.
]
he
men
were convicted
of
beithery
and
corruption
on
April Ith
and
wzre pat
to death
by
a deing sguad
on
Wednesday
night,
the
execative
commitiee
of
the
Soviet havine rerusad
o aceord
clemney.
Oitawa,
May 3th.
Lae
House
of Com-
mons
today passad®h
biti whieh
will prac-
tieaily limit Chinese
immizration
to
mev-
caaats
and
stadenis.
Mr.
Stewart,
act-
ing minister,
intimated
shat
a Canacian
otficial would
be
stativi2a
in
Caina
and
anyone
seeging
atmission
to
Canzada
would
be required
to
eonvinee
that
oifl
cint
of
bis
bona
files
as
a marechant
in
tae import or
export
trade
with
China.
Peddlers,
trucksters,
laundrymen
and
s
9
forth would
not
bhe admitred,
Lausanne,
May
4th.—[he
Near
[East
paace
conference
has
azain
reached
a
deadlock
over
th2 question
of
protection
of foreigners
in
Turkey.
Ismet
Pasha,
head of the ‘Turkish
delegation,
has
ri-
fused
even
to discuss
the
amendad
text
of the provision
in
this
connection,
pro-
posed
by the
Aliies
to
replace
the
text
which
was accepted
by [smet
Pasha
atcor
the adjournment
of
the
first
session
of
the
conference
in February.
The Allies
do nor consid>r
themselves
hhund
by the
¢
text framed
in
February
beeaase
it was
-
accepted
after
the
Turky
had
refused
to sign
the
treaty.
The
Allies
insisied
'
in today's
discussion
that
arrests,
seiz-
.
ures
and
domiciiiary
searches
affzeting
'
foreigners
be carvied
out ouly
when
con-
sented
to
previously
by
the foreign
ad-
vizers.,
Ismet
insisted
that there
shoald
be
nc
revision
of
the
compromise
text
|
acsreed
upon
in ¥ebraary
which provided
that the adviszrs
could
be
notifiad
ati-v
.
the
arrests
ware
made.
Ismet
refused
.
to
discuss
any
oxcept
this
compromise
text, insisting that
if the
Allies
v-badi -
ted
the
accord
reachred
in
the
elosing
|
hours
o
the pravious
conferene2
and
il
|
it were again
found that
a
peace
agre--
.
ment
was
impossibie,
the
World
wouid
.
know that the rupture
bhad
been
caused
'
by the unecompromising
attitud:
of
the
|
Allies.
The
delegates
left
the
confer-
|
ence
pessimistie
over
the
deadiock,
us
|
the question
is
rezardad
as
one
of
ihe
-
most
important
before
the
conferance,
§
Paris,
May
4th.—-The
Foreign
Oifize
.
has prepared
a
note
for
transmission
to
.
Washington,
reflecting
the
sentiment
of
i
Frenci
steamship
operators
again;r
the
United
States
ruling
making
iligual
the transporiation
ot liguor
in
ih:
tecri-
torial waters
of the
Uaited
States
Tae
note,
it
is
reported,
express:s
sarprise
|
4t
the interpretation
as
maie
by
the
United States
Supreme
Court
and
indi-
cates
thatat
ail the nations
applied their
local laws
to {oreign vessels
ocean
navi-
gation
wou!d
soon
cease.
An
Interna-
tionil
conference
of
steaimnship
opera-
tives is forecast
as
a
means
of
reaching
a settiement
of the question.
Paris,
May
sth.—The
Frencbh
athletie
federation
today after
a
{inal discussion
has
decided
to
probibit
the
halding
of
the
remainder
of the
Internavonal
Uni-
versity championsnip
games,
if
Charles
Paddock.
rhe
United
Staies
sprinter
con-
tinues
to comp=te
in
them.
It
was
an-
nounhced
by
the
federation,
however,
that it would permit
Paddock
to
give
ex-
hinvitions.
On
beine
informed
of
the
d>eizion
of the fed ration
the organizers
of
the
championship
zames
whien
are
in progress
a-
the
Port
D’Ore Sradium,
deelared
that
Paddoes
would
run
as hal
been
urianved,
not\\'ithst‘_xmii'!-,:
the
fedl-
cration’s
decision.
Paddock
compete|
today
and
won
t
e
semi-finals
in the
1)
me:re
dash,
his
time
being
19
3/5
sec-
onds,
Then
again
runcing agatnst
tim
with nobo
v o urge
him to
gather speed
by competition,
he
broke
the
World’s
record
for the
70 metre
dash.
His
timae
was
>4 seconds
or four fifths of a s2cond,
better
than
the
previous
record
held
by
Swed=n,
Lendon,
My
sth.—Sir
William
Rob-
ertcon
Nicoll,
Scottish
Non-econtormist
divine
and roander
of tha
British
we kly
a Non-conforau=t
organ,
died
last
night
at
Hempstead.
He
only resigned
active
editorship oi the
weekly
last
week,
hav-
ing served
in that capacit,
since
lis fivst
izsue
in
18885,
FHe
had
beon
o 0 10 differ-
ent
healtn
for
som2
L=,
Otrawa,
May 4ih.—'1
think
it
is
for
the
Dritizsh Goveroment
(o
deiermine
its
own policy and
for
us
(o exlress
no opin-
jon conecerning.
it'’,
said
Mr. King,
the
Preniier,
10 the
House
of
{.ommons
this
afternoon
in answer
to a
question
by Mr.,
Woodsworth,
[aboay
miaaboe
fop
‘Wingn-
peg
centre,
regarding
the
vote
oi
the
British Paviiament
dor
¢
naval
base
at
at
Singapore.
Mr.
Woodsworth
asked
whether
in view of the
vote
of
SLO,OOO,
000 doilars
by
the
fHouse
of
Commons
at
Westminsier
for a
naval
base
at
Singa-
pore
«ud
the comments
in
the
Imperisl
Parlinmient
th:t
this
sigoified
strained
or
Dossibly
s.raiced,
relations
between
Grest
Bricun and
Japan,
the
Dominion
Government
had
scgquiesced
in
the pol-
iey of tne
Lapecial
Govern
nent,
NETW
Y\)KK. :v'll'i\‘ h
Flour,
(Biended
Clears,
.
Lawrenrce
Brand)
Jdaty
paie
pr.ocrl. $5.10
Meal, Kiledried
per
100
; cunds $2.15.
New Season’s
Pork
per barrel
$37.00.
Heavy
Mess
Povk
por
bri. $274.
Sugar—Crys
ais
maxitwutn
per
100 lbs.
$3 03
noa inal,
Mclasse:
Supar
39
1 0 guotation.
Cotton,
Middiing, Upicud,
at
Liverpcol.
per lb. 14 79
LYo
Exchange.
New
Yok
and
Lond a,
6)
days’ sight
$4.59%