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11A To Correspondant '‘Nestune’: If cu wil furrish your name, not necessarily tor insertion 1n the vaper. vour com- nunicauon received vesterday will be vibiished tn the ""Avis’’ for what it muay b worth, The Red Cross Seventh Aanual Enrol ment opens tomorrow, While it is a fucet that we are all more or less poor and titnes ure hard, the goud work of the Ited Cioss on the island is one of the tilogs we will alvays Le able to [ind s me contvibution towasrd, and it is hoped thal our more forfunawe feliow citizens will make this drive as successfui as thielr mivaus will allow, The sloop Mizpah with Bt. Thomss mails and passenge s ailed from this port vesterday atterncon. Ac ivi ies at the resorvair site Ire pro- ceed:ng. It is a pleasan' wilk to the spos and it will b 2 fountin eresting to noce the stages of the work. The ag~nts advise ‘hit the s s, '‘Pa- ria'’' will not ¢!t he2r2 on har wivty Nov York as scieduled for the 23rd instan . St. Thonas News Ore of the largest green turtles evor caugi:t in these waters can be seen at Carirage and weichs in the neighbour- hood of 350 lbs. T'he most remarkable part of the cateh is that the net wi b which this turtle was caught is very small. and as far as is known was mad. to ca‘ch small turtle. This monster moi- sures 4 ft. Bin. from tip to tip, and is 3 ft. wide., The shell is 3 ft. 8 In. }ing and 3 ft 4 in. wide. Neck. 224 in in eircumference. —Thz Bualletin 7th M. Messrs. €. H Cooper and G. M. M woro, repre enta iv2s of he Co noiroller G on- eral of the United states arcivel hora Jlast week for the purprse of asesrtamn ing hw the firane»s of the islands ar> haniied. with particular relersaco co thoe Fedoral appropriaiim mad: by Comnzress for the Virzin Islands, The Comprroller Goneral of th> Ui ted States 1s th> Chiaf fiseal o1 ial of the Faderal Govornveat, whos» dury it 18 to determine that all moaey appro- priated by Coincress is expandad in ac- eordance witn tne laws governinz suen appropriations. Messrs. Coaner and Moore in fulitll- ment of their mission made a complere investication of the Book keeping and Audiling aepartments of the municipah- tv, and {rom what we have been able to learn from unoffizial sources, fouad everything in order, which 1s very gra- t:iiylng as it coulirms the pubhic e nfi- &l ol b ..o ot management of =1 (131 ' V 5 afiairs bv the Hon. Government Secre- tary and his cavable book keeper, Mr. L. Lafranque.—l'he Bullztin, Bth May. Fortv six teachers in St. Thomais and nine frein St. John sat at the annoal teachers’ Examination held during the Easter vacation. Good grades were made by many. The hizhest average was ve- ceived by Miss Jane Tuitt with 949;. Miss Bertha Boschulte was a close see- ond with 9277, Both of these girls are cadet Teachers at the present time an‘ will graduate from the Senior High School this year. The Bulletin, 9th May. On the last trip of the U. 8. S. Grebe to St. John Lieut. Johnson, Public Works Officer and Mr. Lindborg decidad upon constructing a well at the B:njamin Franklin School. thid. TELEGRAMS. Sl CROIX STATION. Du»'in, May 10 h —Mr. Joseph Me- Grath, ex-Min:ster of Commerce, and Mr. Daniel MceCarthy, ex Government Wuip in the Da'e Eiremann, who resign- ed their posts during the recent army crisig, announced lasc night the forma- tion ofa new L’ail group whose policy wiil b 2 comple.e iad-pendene», terii.ov- ial unity and cconomice progres:. Ex- plining their reason for going intodefin- ite opposition, they said they were dis- satistied over the BEx:cu:ive’s attitude wi h regard to lhe army, thay relt the Govi. was disianelined to make the most of the Anglo Irish Treaty, and was guil- ty of unwarcanted deiay in prossing for tie boandary ¢ ymmission. The d-obate inthe D iiover h 2 Auzly)-American Li- guor Trea y, was gquited as showing the Gov’s, 'slackness in foreign affairs The new part announced its 42 ermina- ti o to ipsist on hoaorable fuifiiment of erticle 1 of the Anglo-Irish Treaty pro- vi ling for the settlement of the bound- avy between Nocthern and SHuthorn dre- fand, Beriin, May 10th.—\ll memhers of the Russian Soviet Govt, Crmmearciil Delo- gaiion. who were arrested in the recont raid by police on the headgaarters of the delegation here, bhave been released, ac- ¢ rding to the Vossiche Z ituoy. Paris, May Llth. —[he adherents of M Poinca-e concede that the retipns in the eleettons up to an early hour tads mrea- ing, althoush incomplete, a considerabie gaiy for the Lettr Boe. This they attri- bated to diseonten: over ineroosed taxa- tion. Th2 Comrmumsts have bheld their own, but the Royaiis:s fared ba lly, Paris, May 11 h,—Toe National Bl hods a strong majornty in iue depart ments of Manche Kt Miselle and Vospes, according ro advices trom the provinces. lo three disirices 10 Paris the National Bl e also 1s ia the majority, Paris, May 11th. —Accirding to the fi st information reaching the Ministry of the latcrin the list in the Meuse depart- ment heat| by Andre Maginet, Min- ister of War, wis eiected in its entire- ty tolay© Thas hst in the Eure-et-Loire, headzd by airice Maunoury, ex Minis- ter of ihe Qnterior, was defeated by the hst healed oy Mauarice Violette, Socialist whica ohrained an absolute majority. Londos My 10th.—The mateb between the tourinz South Africans and Derby was drawn. The former ra) up to a score of 161 for seven wickets and de- clared Derby made 723 runs with the loss of five wickets. S'. Liicia, lay 10th, —At a meeting of the CHrmmtree of the Agricultural and Commercial Society held today in reyrard to the giestion of suzar preference the followiniz resnlution was passed Ba it resolved (hat a teiegram be sent to the Associated West Indian Chamberof Com- merce sta:inz tha! this Sceiety is in com- plete avcord with the resolution passed by the council of the Chamber of Com- merce in Barbados on the 9th inst and lends its suppore to any measure deemed necessary in tne circumstances. An‘igua, May 10th.—Mr. A. P. Cow- ley late Attorney Maginley estates and C -airman agricaltural and Commercial Sociery, died here this morning C rdova, Alaska May lith—Major I'rederick M .rtin and his mechanie, Stff S rzan: Harvey, who have b-en wissing sinc2 Aoril 30th. when they left Chignik on their round-the-world flizht are sa‘e at Port Molier, Alaska. A radio message was received here from Major Martin th’s morning. The plane struck a mountaiy near Port Moller an hour and a half after leaving Chignik, according to Major Martin's message. Although the ship was completely wreeked, neither of the aviitors was hurt, he said. Port Moiler 13 119 miles west of Chignik. Banukok, Siam May 10th - Another suceessial Jaup on ius flight from Paris to Fok o were made today by Lieut- Pel- lotier Doisy, the Freuch aviator., Set- ting out from Ragoon, whenee he had firwn from Caicuita yesterday, after a briet delay 1o the laiter city ¢to make a {2 v repairs to his machine, the flver reached bßangkok satewy this as ernoon. Waushington, May Illih.—lhe lax re- dicaon bill was passed on Saturday by tu: Senate It provides for a2O percent cat 1n Ineome lax payable this year and petmen nt revisieo downward of prac- tically cvery ftederal t-x. Washington, May Ilih.—The Immi- graiton Bill, as it bas beea finally agreed to1) the eonierence commitiee of the two Houses contsins a provision under which any person born in the Dominion of Canada, and his wite or minor chil- dien accompanying bhim or following hirm can erter the Ilnited States with- out reseicdtons. Such persons are in the non quuta list under the bi.l, Paris May lith.—At the request of the Prime Minister of Great Britain, M. Peipcare has consented to advunce