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NOTICE. ACCORD!N(} to paragraph 14 of Roed Ordinance of 4 June 1884. The Inspection of the genervai annusl repairs of the public roads with bridges culvers side walls. water-cours: s, hand rails etc.. ete. shall commence after *he 15 February, All Roadholders are thevefore request- e to have their respective allotments in good efficient order by that date. The repairs are now being carried on in a very inefficiernt manner and not ac- 4 cording to the road regulations, the trenches are not dug dut. or cleaned properly, the 10adway is too flat and hac not sufficien! ecrow to shoot off the water, anl the road sides in many places are higher than the ceiire of the roadway. The road mus: have a good high erown so as to shoo' off the water quickly and keep the roadway clean. The trenches must be dug out and cleaned out proper ly and the water from same must not be blocked off from its natural course but must have a good outlet so that it may not soften or effect the road bed. ~ No stones larger than one aod a half inch must be used in the repairs and the boundary posts on each allotment must be plainly marked at each end so as to distinguis’ it at Inspection, no material *of a soft natur« must be used in the erpairs. It is therefore incumbent o1 each road- hoider to carry his obligations as pre- scribed by the Road Ordipance, if not, the defects found by the 13spection will be han@ed to the Government for further steps to be taken. The roads must be kept up to the requirement of mndern traffic, and it pught to be the duty of every loyal eiti- zen to do his part in this respect. Good and efficient roads are the first step forward in good Government and Civilizatior: on modern lines. For the Road Commission F. LUNNEY, Chairman. St. Croix;, V-1 U--S.-A-22 Jan. 1921. I RS L R R L Successiul week for the Red Cross. s The total number of new members | ecured by the Red Cross during the ast week is 1,097, of whom 1,062 are | \nnual Members, 31 Contributing, 1 ustaining, and 3 Life. The member- hip by districts is Christiansted Town | 92, Chr’sted Country District 252, Fred- | riksted Town 291, Fred’ksted Country - istrict 132. Saturday saw the biggest _ nrollment since the first day, 231 new ers being enrolled : SR NN F iN 3 YocedlD BEG{'.\]_\HNG dan. 2s Dl HARK wiil be in Christians:»d tour days each week: three days will be oven for private practice, TWIESDAYS - WED JESDAYS and THURSDAYS Officc, Company Street. opp. Apothe- cary. The Roll Cali will bz extendad tili af- ter the first of ine month, to vzcmir all those to join who have expressed ihe desire to do so afrer pavilay. If vou are not a member yat, it i' noi toolate. Juin, and help uvs to reach the 1.500) mark. LOCAL. S S. '‘Guiana’” will sail from Nev York oo the 28th. omitting, Dominica, St. Lucia, and Dem>rara. S. S. ‘“Tupper” of the Raporel Line, sailed from New York on the 19th inst. The Vigilant arrived here "Saturday night with the weekend St. Thomas, and some Erglish mails. The Creole was expected also but had to return to St. Thomas owing to the heavy winds which damaged her sails. The Virginia also pressed by tha ad- verse weatner arrived at Frederiksted only some time last night and is advised as leaving again at 9 this morning. T'he attention of readers is directed to the complete programme for tonight’s show at the theatre where a splendid entertainment awaiis its patrons. ‘‘lhe Man Beneath’’ is represented as well worth seeing. ' TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. Londco, Jan. 19th.—The leading Lon- doi: papers publish interesting eriti- cisms this morning of the appoint- ment of Mr. Winston Churehill to the Colonial Office. The Chronicle, the chief Coalition organ, repels the insinuations already levelled from some quarters that Mr. Churchill’s appointment means reckless military adveniures in the man- dated territories and colonial possessions. The paper adds, that a change which would remove the great self-governing dominions from the sphere of the Colo- .nial Oifice is not only one which the dominions desire, but one which will free the Colonial Office {romn the compli- cations of separate tasks and allow it to concentrate its efforts on the more . hom- ogeneous business which properly be- long to it. ‘The Morning Post, of high toryisen, which in spite of the faet that Mr. Cnurchill did brilliant work as its cirrespondent during the Scutn Afvican war, has long displayed oxirame hositlity to him. savs it would be ungracicus to now recall the blundsrs which would lony ago have ended the career of any other p:litician and wishes him well, de- claring that it is no czflaction upon. him- salf that tha Peanalr sed3m ' (o nave o sidered political exigancies in fillins tno «slice. The Ministér wil start with a areat opporiunity, the Post adds, for the self-governing colonies are now in fact partners in a vast but Jdimly realizad enterprise of daveloping a eommeoa in- heritance for tha eommon good. Th Daily Telegranh discusses the charaze: of Mr. Chuichill in a generil mann:- remarkinz that he not only admires <. empir- but undersiands 1t “and is ther»- fore unlikely to treat the jominioas with the hauznty patronag: anl uasym- pathetie alootiness which in (h )ast nade Downin Street a term of reproach, Mr. Churchill it thinks s likely to foiow in the footsteps of Mr. Chimberiain, who broke definitely with the bur:au- cratic tradition in admitiing that the dominions are somewha: disposed to break lonse from the olonial G2 and deal only w~ith the Premier. {he dele- graph merely observes (hat while ihe Colonial Office may be short of som: of its functions, it will have sufficient ve sponsibility in any case. Belfast, Jan. 19th. —Rival claims al- ready have arisen b2tween Beifast and Armagh as to the szat of the new [Ul- ster Parliamznt A mecting was (~day callad to advance the claims of Armagh and to send a memorial to (b King and the leading Statesmen. London, Jan. 19th. —=Tiu-: Commis in invescigating the British S»uch African Company’s claim in connection wicth ‘he administration of Southern Rhodesis nas awarded the company the sum of £4,435,225 in settlement. Cork, Jan. 19th. -A profoundly pes- simistic view of the situation in Ireland 1s taken by Bishop Cohalan of Cork, in a stat’ment roday. Survaying the sit- uation from every angle, he said he saw no prospect of peace. Prolonged re- pression might result in a sort of paci- fication, but only by driving the dis- content underground. A settlement was hopeless is the opinion of th2 Bishos so long as the Government interpreted every move of the Irish tovrard peace as a sign of weakness. It was impos- sible to make the Cork pzople responsi- ble for ambushes, as Major General Strickland contended. The ambush gang o erated as a flying coium, of whose movements the people of Cork were com- pletely ignorant. : ~ Mexico City, Jan. 19th. —=More tha: 100 persons were drowned and more har 200 injured in a disaster yesterday a: Pachuca when two dams above the city broke and torrents of water swept through the lower section of this big