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proved by a steady growth from year to year. With all best wishzs and kindest re- gards, : lam, Faithfully yours, HENRY H. HOUGH, Governor of the Virgin Island. Re membzr What Takes Place On Sunday Afterncon. A Woo‘ball contest betweer the Drecad- nought and Athletic Clubs will be played on Sunday afternoon at 4.30 o’clock on the Parade Ground. All interested per- sons are invited to witness this contest. —Com. TELEGRANMS. ST. CROIX STATION. Halifax, N. S., June 26th.—All the passengers and mails were landed from the R. M S. P. steamer Caraquet late on Monday evening. A part of the cargo has #1:0 becn salved acd the work of re- moving this is slow proceeding. A high wind pravails and a hcavy sea is running ard it is feared the ship will prove a tctal loss. Three of the holes are filled with water and the fires are now extin- guished. The Caraquet stranded during a heavy mist under ordinary speed and it is believed much of her bottom is pune- tured by the coral reefs twelve miles {rom the island, The Captain and a por- tion of the crew are standing by the ship and assisting in the salvage op “ations. London, June 25th.—Roberts Smillie, the former miners leader, lcok his seat in the House of Commons today as rep- resentative for Morpeth. He was greet- ed by the Labourites, who wore red flow- ers in their buttonholes, roses, carnations ar d Gladioluses. Conservatives protested against bringing such quantities of flow- ers into the House, but the speaker said he was powerless to intervene, There were noisy scenes for a consideravie pe- riod and angry words betw en the Con- servatives and Labourites. Toronto, Ont., June 25th.—Ontario, from Toronto Westward, saifered severe- ly tonight in a storm which swept across tha country from Northwest to South- east, leaving a trail of wrecked buildings, broken telephone jand telegraph poles and levelled trees in its wake for a widch of nearly fifty miles. Owing to the des- truction of lines of communiecation, de- tails of the damage are meag e, but re. ports reaching the city about midnight indicated that the loss would run into mnillions of dollars with the added possi- bility of loss of life. New York, June 25th. —7 persons were ® Liiled and 83 injured today when two wooden carriages plunged from a Brook- ®yn elevated struciure into the Boroughs busiest traflic intersection. A two-car truin, well filled with an early afternoon ST £nHOlx Y. S | | erowd of women, children and a few men, ' junped the rails, ripped through the rotten ~uard beams, tottered on the edge ~ of the structure while hundreds of pass- | ersby stood spellbound in terror, and fell % to the pavement, a mass of splintered . debris. Within a few minutes adoz"n | pieces of fire apparatus and police patrals | had broken their way throuzh a cordon | of several hundred bystanders. Ambu- ! lances arrived as the firemen fought <o | choke off the flames, «*heir work inter- - rurted intermittently 14 fear of injuring | women begging to be exiricated. { Ottawa, June 25th.—The Premier stu- i ted in the House of Commons this after- i noon that the Canadinn authorities had | invited the United States Government to | send oificials to Ottawa, after the close | of the present session of Pa.liament, to . confer on further cooperation betweeu | the two Governments in regard to the . shipment of liquor across the border. ' 'The Premier said that the Canadian Gov- . ernment had received a communication . from the United States authorities ask- ' ing if it were possible for Canada to as- ' sist in preventing the ex_ort o’ liquor to | the United States. The reply woich had gone to the United States was a statement . of the law as it at present exits. Noth- | ing had been sent forward as to the Gov- ernment’s policy in the matter of further endeavouring 1o cooperate with the American Govarnmznt, S» far as the poliey of the Canadian Government was concerned, we have every desire to coop- erate with the American authorities, ss we would hope for them to cooperate with us in sceuring the observance of our law. London, June 26th.-—Mr. Baldwin an- nounced in the House of Commons this afternoon that the Government had de- cided to establish a home defence air force sufficiently stiong to defend the country adequately from attack from the strongest air force, within striking dis- tance Moscow, June 26th,—The Supreme Court had decid:d to set Archbishop Tik- hon free from custody, pending his trial on the charge of resisting the Soviet au- thorities, it was announced today, Denver. June 206:h. - President lur- ding served notice, in an address here y -sterday that the Government was de- termined toenforee the Prohibition iaw even if the burden of enforcement contin- ues to be increasingly thrown upon it by the varicus states. He voiced the con- vietion, not only that prohibition ameunsd- ment will not ba repealed, but tha what- ever change way be made in the Volsted Act ‘‘willrepresent the sincere purpose of effective enforcement rather than moderation of the geueral policy,”” strik- ing straight out to those who vislate the law, The President said the issue s fast enming to be lecognized, not as one between the wets and drys, but as one of whethar the laws of *'this country cua b and will be enforeed.” St, Pauls, Minn., June 26th—Nexr'y a score of deaths and proparty damage re- resulted from Sunday’s storms in the Northwest,reports last night revealed. Six persons perished when a toraado swept Western Bowman and Fastern Adams Counties, in North Dakota on Sunday night. 12 persons were seriously hurt, or.e probably fatally, and five slightly in- jured in this storm. Several other deaths were reported from drowning, electrocutions and accidents, all attri- buted to the storms., Heavy rainstorms early vesterday added to the damage. A large number of buildings were demo- lished and many farm avimals were kill- ed in the North Dakota storm. | London, June 26th.—Myr. Mellon, Uni- ted States Secretary of the Treasury, ~ will probably be consulted by British ~ officials upon his arrival here with re- ~gard to alieged indigritics foreed upon . DBritish subjects landinz at Ellis Island .~ New York, the House of Commons was "~ informed yvesterday by Mr. Renald Me- . neil Under Secretary for Foreign Aftairs. . Tne subject was b ouglt up by Vi count I Curzen, Conservaiive menber tcor tle . ~South Division of Battersee, who called | attention to the case on an unnamdd British n.erczntile captzin who was made to land at Eliis Istand on April | <Bth last, placed in a wiie cage wiih - thinyy fereigners and afterwards foreed to strip for examinaticn, although his passport was in per‘ect erder and he had been toid by the United States Consul ' that there would be no difficulty. Loncor, Jure 26:h.—Tle Canadian } High Commissioner publiely invited the ' Duke and Duichess of York to visit Can- | ada vesterday at the opening ® the Im- ; perial Kducation Conference. Mr. Lar- | kin seconding a vote of thanks to the . Duke for performing the opening cere- . wony, said, “"may 1 take this opportuni- |ty of expressing the hope that His Royal - Hizhness will be able before long to dis- ' play his interest in Canadian .yfairs by i visiting the dominion, and beihg a peo- | ple entirely averse to separation of hus- . band and wite I can assuvie him Lis wel- . come will be warmer if |lis bride accom- | panies him. | New York, June 26th.—The early raw | sugar market was easy and piices wero E Izswer with Cebas now quoied at b 7/3 | cents e-st and freight equal to 7.66 for | centrifugal. The continued weakness in | the {futures mzket led to more liberal ' offerinns from operators, with sales e | ported of 10,000 bags of Cubas sflcat | aund 21 000 of Phitivpines due to arive | in July. The raw futurcs market was i easier under rerewed liguidation and . selling, said to be for Japanese account . prompted by the weakness in the Lon- | cdon market. Prices at midd:y were . abcut 48 points lewer. There were no | chan_ex it lefincd, with prices listed at | 9.5 G4O for fine yranulated, kut sen- | liment wos unseitled «y the action of the ! cpet wavket and the demand was less ac- " tive. Refinad futures were nominal.