78tH YEAR.
CHRISTIANSTED.
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U.
S.
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THURSDAY.
3rp
JANUARY
1924
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TELEGRA MS.
ST. CROIX
STATION.
London,
Dec.
29th.—The
possibility
of
a
general
police
strike
throughout
England
is
alarming
the
authorities.
A
massmecting
of
five
thousand
police-
men,
representing
all districts
of Eag-
land, will be held
in tiie
Albert Hall on
January
iifteenth to discuss
the proposed
redue
ion of wages.
New
York,
Dee.
23th.—Raw
sugar
was quiet, with
no fresh
business
r
port-
od.
The
underton:
was
easier,
owing
to ‘nereasing
¢ polizs, with Cubas
off2red
for promp
sh pm2lt
at
5} cent ¢i: and
freignt,
equa:
w
7.03
for
cen
rifiuaals,
Und:r
general
selling
declines.
After
opeuing two to six points
lower, the
mar-
ket
encountered
stop
loss
orders,
based
on the easier
tone in spots,
which carried
January
down
to 5.07 and
March
to
4.49
with final priees
at the boitom
and
11
to
13 points
net lower.
The only feature
in
refined sugar
was
the
announcement
by
one refiner
that while their
list price
re-
mained
unchanged
at
8 9)
they
would
take business
at 8.80.
Other
refiners
still
quoted from 8 80 to 8.90 for fine granula-
ted.
Refined futnres
nomlnal.
Constantinople,
Deec.
30th-—Confirma-
tion was reeceived
today of
the siaking of
the United States Shipping
Board
steam-
er Conejos
in the Black Sea.
All on board
were loss.
Berne,
Dec.
29th—Avalanches
are
crashing
Jdown
the
passes
of
the
Alps
with
greater
frequency
than
at
any
time
within
the
last
ten
years.
Many
buildings ghave ~been
destroyed
and
in
some
cases
whole
families
have
beer
puried
while asleep.
The
forests
"are
sufferio
considerably.
Publication.
IT
is hereby brought
to
public
no-
tice that the Government
has this
date authorized
Reverend
EI.ISHA
C. 8. ROBINSON,
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1923.
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