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we must reduce expanses. Siaallit bein the government office, or in the depart- ment of education or in the judieiiry, or in the sanitary department, or perhaps- the police are overpaid; will attention to any of these help us 2ut? No, we would simply be "cutting off the nose to spite the face’’ to use slanz. Then it must be that we are financially unprepared for civil government, and shou!d live within our means. LOCAL The s. s ‘‘Guiana’’ on her way to New York is due at 'rederiksted ac noon on Saturday. The sloop Mizpah sailed for St. Thom- as yesterday with mails. The show at St. Mary’s Hall last night was a very fine one and deserved a larger attendance. Rairny veither and the influer.za were probably resvonsible for the abssnce of many pa‘rons of the hall. Mr. Piaskett will hold his lecturss on spiritualism in the Unicn Hall from tonight. We beg to remind our readers that the very fine entertainment given by the Amateur Club of this town in St. John’s School House .last Wednesday night will Le repeated this evening for the benefit of St. John’s Chureh. _ TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STAION. London, April Tth.—Thomas Newman yesterday establiched what is claimed to be a world’s record, in the semwi-finals the professional biiliard championship of England, hy scoring three suecessive, breaks of 542, Tus, 830. The brveak of 850 is deseribed as the highest ever scor- ed in a championshinp match, ithe pre- vious best being 785 made bv William S mith agaiust C. Faliziner in 1929 New York, April Tth.—lT'he suzar mar- ket was firm and unchanged at 5 11/16¢, for Cuba’s, cost and freight, equal to 7.47 for centrifugal and Porto Rico’s at the same level. There were sales of 22,000 bags of Cuba’s ard 500 bags of Porto Rieo’s raw sugar. Futures opened steadier on covering and trade buying, and aftar selling one 1o two points net higher, prices eased off undsr scattered licuidations for over the week end. linal prices were unchanged to two pcints jower on active positions. Closing, May $5.76, July $5.97, September $6.11. Tne market tor refined was firmer and unchanged to ten points higher, with tine granuiated listed now at 9.10 to 9.25, with a continual good inquiry re- ported. Dusiness in refined futures con- sisted of two lots June delivery at 39.30. The market closed not nnchanged. 271 ¢ R A lIC London, April Bth.—Troublesome days | are in prospect for Mr. Bonar Law’s | “tranquility’’ Govt on the evz of the | -eopening of Parliament, which will re- . ssemble tomorrow. This session vill not be concluded until August, witha | brief rest at Whitsuntide. Even sup- | porters of the Govt. do not deny that | tb~ Cabinet, with th ' delicate Ruhrsitua- tion hanging like tae sword of Damo- cles over thdr heads and faced at home with budget difficulties and awkward | housing an<d agriculture problems, are in uncomfortable seats. Thus far the | Govt. has averaged a wmajority of 96in | the voting. To this resuit the National | Liberals contributed subsrantialiy, giv- | ing perhaps . xice as much support to the Cabinet as *id the opposition Y.abour. ! The Liberal r.union, still hangs fire, | Mr. Asquith’s last move in rejecting the | idea ofa consuliively committee, which | should evolve a commpon line of | action for the two Liberal groups in the | House of Commons, and in refuosing | to appear upon the {same platform with | Mr. Lloyd George at Leeds, has disap- | pointed the iriends of rhe hoped-for com- bination. It is restrained by '‘domestic ! influences’’ and by a Little koot of politi- cians who ceontroi the party organiza ion, but there is also distrust, and it is | nted that if Mr. Lloyd George became eof the leaders of the party, he wou' range the new party with the progressive | Unienists and there would be another coalition. The philosophic members of | bith groups are content to await devel- | opments, convineed that reunion will | come naturaliv wnen an issue arises which genuinely divided all th2 Liberals | fiom the supporters of “I{r. Bonar Law, | While gil these moven,ents are proceed- | ing behind the ~= ges, the Labour Party | has qade a brave show in the House ®f | Commons, and according to observers, | has justified its title as the official opposi- | tion. Some sectinns of the Labour Mem- | bers are inclined to be noisy, but on the | whole the nembers have shown consid- erable pariiamentary skill and bhuve adopted ihemselves to novel suggestions under the shrewd guidance of Mr. J. | Ramsay MaeDonuald. Mr. MacDonald hes | difficulties, as his party 18 not homogene- ous, but by strength he has kept his | followers together ana his authority has | not been seriously challenged. At the | reopenitg of Parliament the deepest interes: is manifested throughout the | country in the future stand of the Libei- als and Mr. Chamberlain’s section of | the Conservative party. The first knot- ty probiem 1o be faced by the Govt. isin connection with the agricultural situa- tion, which, since the adjournment of Parliament, has been greatly agaeravated by strikes of farm labourers over wages. The initial debate on the subject, it§is expected, will take place on Wednesday when the strong _agricultural section headed by Colonel Pretyman wiil demand a specific statement from the Govt. as a mark as to what it it tends to do for the betterment of the sitvation. This seec- tion is preyared to demana that the Govt. eract into '‘an the recommendations just published of Mr. Bonar Law’s agricul- tural tribural. This at present is an un- pleasant situation since the tribunal’s recommendations are distinctly prot-etion and while they are said to coincide with the ideas of the majority of the Con- servative party, vetitis admitied that the passage of protection laws at this stage would arouse a tremendous outcry and increase the Govt’s. opposition from Labour and Liberals. Kingston, Jea., April 9th. The west- ern commercial section of Portantonic was swept by a great fire on Saturday morning, wiping out nnrmerous small wholesale business and houses of tha two room and shack variety. The fie started in a bakery, through a man go- ing to extract gasoline from a drum. LLoss estimated at seventy thousand pounds. San Juan, P. K. April 9th.—Secretary Denby, wh) sailed from here Saturday niche, was extensively entertained to- gether with Governor Towner. On Fri- dayv, after the inauguration ceremonies there was a luncheon at the Palace Hotel and a2fterwards an informal reception at the Goverror’'s palace. In the evening a dinaer at the Condado Hotel and a ball at the Perto Rico Casino in honour of the Governor and Secraetary Denby. On Satmrday a tou® of the island was made, stopping for lunch at Mr. Gior- geltis country house in Barrauquitas, where two hundred covers were laid. In the evening there was a big ball at the Union Club. Constantinople, April Bth.—The reply of the larkish Govt. to the invitation of the Allies f{or Turkey to attend the session of *he Near Kast peace confer- ence 10 be resunied shortly at Lausanne, reached Cepsinntinople today frem An- gora and wiil immediately be conveyed to the representive of the Allics hero, T 2 ncte deelares the Turkish counter- Lrojosals contain no substantial modifica- tion of the territoral and other ciauses of the draft treaty which the powers can- not equitable accept. It suppests cer- tain reservations on economic aod finan- cral questions and on the ecapitulanions cluuses of thwe treaty generally. How- cver, the note 1s coiched ina friendly spirit and reeiprocates the desire of the Ailied powers for the suceess of the 1 ausanne conference. Boston, April Bth.—Jay Gould, play- ing for the Philad:lphia Raequet Club, yesterday won the National court tennis chaiamonship for the sixteenth conse- cutive year. He defeated C. Suydam Cutting, of New York, on the courts of the Boston Tennis and Raequct Club 6-2, 6-5, 6-2.