LOCAL
‘
We have
becen
asked
to mentien
that
|
the Native Brass
Band
will give
a eon-
',
cert
on
the wharf tonight.
‘
A
public
missionary
wmeeting
will
be
|
held
at
Friedensthal
Moravian
Churen,
!
this
town,
at
7.30
on Sunday
evening.
|
Speakers
will
be
announced
tomorrow.
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All are invited.
!
It is regretted
to learn
that
an accident
|
yesteriay
befell
Mr.
kKdgar
W.
Meyer,
|
Chairman
of the Road Commission,
while
|
zoing through
one of the upper
stories
of
|
Government
House
where
some
repairs
i
are
being
made,
1t
appears
that
the
flooring having
been
removed
in
some
places,
Mr. Meyer
stepp.d
on
the lower
casing
wbich
is
only
very light
wood-
work and rotten
at
that,
and it gave
way
;
precipitating
hi'n
o
the
floor
below,
a
|
fall
of
some
16
{2c”.
He
sustained
in-
|
juries
to
the
head.
and
was
rather
bruised
and shaken,
but,
it is understood,
was
not serioasiy
hurt,
|
During the
abaence.
of
Lt
J.
C.
Geb-
hard
C B U. U. 5. N,.ohashort
va-
cation,
Mr.
Edgar
W.
Meyer,
Chairman
of
the Road
Commission,
will discharge
the
duties
of Asst,
Public
Works
Ofii-
cer,
1t
Ils stated.
R pair of the King
Street
road is
pro-
ceeding
nicely.,
Already
one block from
Prince’s
to King 'ross
Sts.
has
been
laid
over.
‘the road rolle
locally nicknamed
“*Martin Luther’” because
it stood
so long
one
place
it was thought
*‘itcouldn’t do
otherwise’”,
is beinr
employed with good
effect
in this work,
The sloop
Mizpah with maiis
from St.
Teomas
arrived
during
the night,
The
U.S.
8.
Grebe did not arrive yes-
terday
hut
is looked
ior
today.
Capt.
and
Mrs. R.
H.
Jeschke,
Lt.
Gebhard
and Mr. and
Mrs. Twiford
are
among
the
passgngers
to
embark
on her.
Report
says
that Prof.
Harold J.
Bene-
die’, son
in-law
of
Hon,
R.
L. Merwin,
and
urniil reeently
Principal
of the Theo-
dore Roosevelt private
Grammar
School,
Frederiksted,
is the
appointed
designate
for
tne
office
of
Assistant
Director
of
Kducation
vice Mr. Arthur E.
Lindborg.
Mr. and Mrs. Benedict
are
on their wed-
ding tour and
on their
return
will take
up residence
at No. 53 King St.,it is said.
The
show
last
night
was
not
as well
|
attended
as expected
but
was
a highly
entertaining
one.
The
answer
to
the
questibn
of
what
is
stronger
than love
was duty, to all appearances,
A false
report
nos
smugglers
at
Salt
River
bay
put
the
whole
prohibition
s
i3l
AVS
machinery
in m~tion the other night,
but
after
the
rural
neighbourho»d
had
been
aroused
and
eifort
made
to putout
to
sea,
it proved
that
the
boais
seen
were
simplv
trawlers,
The
men
were
out
turiling,
and
had
no
nighteaps
with
them.
Correspondence
Juli de 26th.
Dean
Misia Editah.
Wz
make
Mr.
Chabort
rite
in
de
Tribune
dat
Mr. Mulls:
¢oing
de work
iln
Govanent
House?
Taint
Mistah
Mu'la
doing
it,
tis
Mr.
Alfred
Sima:ans—ds
wideawake
workman.
As cose
Mr.
Mul-
ia eould
do such
work,
but he
day
on
de
wars—he
ain been
on dis job in de house
at all.
Mr. Simmans
shud
get
de
credit
in dis caso.
Tanking
you foo
space
Mistah
Editah,
Youse
WILLY FAIRPLAY.
WANTED TOKNOW.
Will.
Mr.
Olaf
Larsen
-inform
us
thyough
the
newspapors
at
what
time
~
have
we mertioned
to him
rhat the
chal-
|
lenge published
a few
days
azo from
the
-
Alggt F.
B. €.
was
not approvad
by
us.
i
Thanking you sir we remain,
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MEMBERSOFTHE
A. F.
B
C.
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TELEGRAMS.
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SI. CROIX STATION.
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Londen,
Jnly
2hd.—lthe
secrecy
|
agreed
uzon
by the
British
and
Frenceh
"
(Jovernmen's
concerning
the
reparations
.
documents
forwarded
to ine
Allies is
ba-
ing closely maintained
and it is 2xpected
'
that another
ten days
will elapse
before
.
any
reely
is
received
from
the French
|
(Qovernment,
owing
to
the
delay
in the
'
meeting
of M. Poineare
and
M.
Theunis
I
to consult
over
the
Britisa
drafr
note
to
'
Germany.
It bhad
b2en
arranzed
to dis-
g
cuss
the Ruhr
uestion
in
the
House
of
~
Commons
on
Lnursday,
whnen
the
For-
|
eign
Otfice
estimates
came
up
for
con-
sideration,
but
the
Governmeaat,
in the
belief that
such
discussion
at
the
pre-
sent
tnoment
would not
be helptul to the
delicate negntiatious,
has
decided
to post-
pone
the debate
indefinitely.
Berlin,
July
23rd.—-Ordinary
wisdom
would
seem
to
supgest
that
the
best
thing for the
Germans
to do in the
pres-
ent situation
is to meddle
the
least
possi-
ble
in
current
Anglo-French
corversa-
tions,
is the advice Theodore
Woiife gives
today
in the
Tagebiatt,
Officials
and
political circles
appear
to
sbhare
his
con-
viction,
as German
interest
in
the
fate
of
the
British
not 2 may
be
said
to be
.
wholly passive.
‘the newspapers
are
con-
fining themselvas
to a reproduction of the
London
and
Paris
editorial comment
on
the note.
St.
Johns,
N. F. July
23rd. —This
fore-
noon Sir Richard Squires
tendered
to the
Governor
his resignotion
as
Premier
and
Colonial Secretary
an<d
advised
7is
Ex-
celleney
to cali
on the Hon.
W. R.
War-
ren,
K-
C.
to form
a
miristry.
'li is
un-
derstond
that Sir
Rietard
alizged
as his
reascen
for resigning
host
le
crliicisms
of
the ccnducet
of the
Department
of
Agri-
culture
and insistent
»jar.y denan:s,
{for
his
dismissal
from
he
Cabinei.
The
Squires
Government
has neld power since
1919,
being
sustainec
a-
a gzaneral
elec-
tion held
last
Mav and
hal
a maj
ity o 3
ten
members
in a iegisiature
9f tal-ty
six
elecied
mon,
fLoadon,
July 23:d
-~ )ne
thausand
doek
workers,
participating:
1y
the
oiofficial
strike,
who
started
n archinz
las:
nigh:
from London,
reached
[ibury this
morn
ing,
as
the workers
tuere
were
& gning
on at the docks.
Th»
mrehers
|ersua-
ded several
hundred
of
tiz
"iibu y men
to join the strike and
wo
X
was
¢
apped
on
two
peninsular
and
oizaial
tiners,
two cian liners,
two
New
Zealand
boais
and several
small
vessels,
Paris,
July
23rd.—Ali
records
mado
hitherto
wi h
a
heliconter
were
broken
this morning when .
Pescara.
the Mrencn
inventor
made
a
il:ignt
o
530 motersin
the circle
ten
meaoters
in
diamoter
from
which
he
arose.,
Laier
Fescara
mude
a flight in
a
straizht
line of
450
rmeters.
He
was forced
to desc:nd
because
of the
dust
which
his
propellers
raised.
On
Monday morning Pescara
will try oefore
offirials
of
the
Aczrociab
D¢
France
to
make
a circular fl zit of a kilomoater.
Otta'va,
July Z3rd.—Sunday
next, July
299th,
wi'l be nbserved
in Canada
as Peace
Sunday.
The
League
of
Nations Socieiy
in Canada
has
received
a
large
number
of requests
for literature
durinz
tue past
week,
so that there
is
no
doubt
that the
League’s
work will be
deait
with
quite
extensively
in the
pulpis.
London,
Julv
23rd. —The
contii.uation
of
the
dockers
strike
led
to
what
wus
almost
a
unigoe
incrient
in the
Listory
of trades
unionism,
The
sirike
las
npot
the sauetion
of the
ofiiciul
union
.eaders
and
a
meeting
was
cal ed
yesteday
in
the east
end of Londoa
o
enable
Zrnest
Bervin,
Secretary
of
ithe
Dock
VWorkers
Union, and Harry Goslingz,
leader
of the
transport
workers,
to
explain
their
atiie
tude
in
refusing
to sanction
the
strike.
Fiva thousand
workers
iespondec
to the
call.
They
marched
to
the
renc¢ozvous
with bands
and
bans:rs.
crowdnz
the
hall where
the meetins
was
held
to over-
flowing.
When
Mr. Bevin
and
Mr. G_s-
ling
ascended
the
platform.
they
were
received
with
silenee,
buat
befor.
they
could
eommeance
to
s;eak,
the
storm
broke.
'The entire assemblage
bur.t ino
hooing, which
was interspersed
with calls
such
as ‘‘traitors’’, ‘‘seabs’
and
‘‘blood-
suckers’’.
Then
one
of
the
unofiici¥
leaders
arose
and invited
the audi
nee to®
show
its contempt
and
loss
of coniidence
in Bevin and Gosling
by leaving
the hal.