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P ho AN 1S meeting remaining ip force and effect. The item ‘‘fresh fish’’ will theretore be rectified accordingly. LOCAL. The Vixen arrived here yesterday with His Excellency the Governor who attended the meeting of the Council, returning again at 5.40 p. m The new serial started last night was very entertaining. It is understood that the noa-arrival of the continuation of the Midnight Man accounts for the open- ing of the new serial. ) ik R The Council meeting was attended by all the members so far as we gather. The Ist bill on the order of the day was passed and the 2nd after detailed dis- cussion was withdrawn. The attend- ance of spectators was eagre. Read- ers will be enabled to fnllow the pro- ceedings of the meeting as published in a couple of days, and, there ore, no re- sume will be given here as time and gpace will hardly permit. Ne " T ~ Correspondence To the Editor of the ''St. Crotx Avis’. Dear Mr. Editor,—A drama entitled “The Heart of Humanity’’ exhibited in the Apollo Theatre, St. Thomas. Tuesday evening Feh. Bth. was well received by the large audience tha' thronged the Theatre in that island. The *‘St. Thomas Mail - Notes”’ of Feb. 10th has given 2 lengthy account of this very interesting picture, which deals with the world ~ar, It would be a great treat to the public Lere to-see this excelient druma, and we call Mr. Svendsen’s attention to this fact, with the hope that t e Christian- sted Theatre may be the means of bring- ing before lovers of.fine plays “‘The Heart of Humanity”’. 'This picture could be shown on one of the nights not used for the serials. : MOVIE ADMIRERS. of the Food Gommission, Sirs: —As Representatives of the Fish- ermen’s Organisaticn of this town we denounce the reduetion on the prce of fish as an abuse 'of the power and autho- rity vested in oyou without first consult- ing us on the cost of producing fish as it was ‘done:before. L ‘We willhave you to know that fishery is slm industry and not an imported ar- ticle, e - You are ignorant and know nothing about it. We consider it as an unwar- JOTICEF. «S, S. “PARIMA” Jected te ~-'" fpom New York on yUIANA” ! from New York on S.S. “KORONA” has been withdrawn. SEALED Proposals will be received at ¥ the office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General until 430 p. m., March 1, 1921, for carrying the United States mails, for the term from April 1, 1921, to June 30, 1924, on the following- described froute by the schedule stat-d, or such other schedule of like running time as the Postmaster General may pre- scribe, in safe and suitable steamboats or other power boats: From San Juan, Porto Rico, by Char- lotte Amalie to Christiansted, V. 1., 107 miles and back, twice a week, by a schedule satisfactory to the department, in connection with mail steamers at San Juan. Blanks for submitting bids, and elucid- ations, will be furnished by the post- - masters on the route, at whose offices may be seen copies of the department’s advertisement covering all details.-Advt. DISEASES DANGEROUS TO PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, .B A- - the month of January 1921, the following diseases of interest to the public have occurred: : In Saint Croizx. Dysentery, entamebic.......... . 3 P ... T .8 Sehtasomiams .... L. ...... 2 T 4 Tuberculosis, pu1m0nary........ 3 Tuberculosis acute; general....... 1 Hoakworni disease. ... .. .. ... 1 In St. Thomas.— St. John. & Muws ... o ... ....4 | Tuberculosis pulmonary.... ... . 2 T. ] | HARDY V. HUGHENS. | Chief Sanitation Officer. FD]TORIAL.’ After setting' up Mr. Tutein’s letter ppearing in this issue, and after print- ng ad on the 4th page we were inform- | ~d officially by the Food Commission | ‘bat the altered prices of fish as publish- d should not have so appeared there avingbeen no action in regard to -this | rticle, the prices fixed at previous - rantable liberty to interfere with a thing you know nothing of. Now we challenge any -member to prove that a single article of material used for fishing has been reduced in vrice. Now we absolutely rgi@ge to change the erice until the cost iR aterial goes down. Moreover we charge you with selfish motives as you have move than once changad the price of the botter quality which you prefer and could bet- ter afford to pay for, but the poorer qu.lity that the poor can barely buy ynu have never made the slightest attempt to change. Now we have declared a tie up until Friday, 18th instant. > As we have no intention to starve our- selves or the public if immediate measures are not taken we shall consider the no-_ s tice in Friday’s Avis as null and void® and shall continue to sell our fish at usual price until materials go down. ; PHILIP K. G. TUTEIN, THORVALD SLATER, 5 Fishermen Leaders. February 14th 1921. TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. ; Cape Town, Feby. Bth. -Miners in the - g Rand Distriet have struck and their caution on the eve of the election came as ! a thunderbolt. Belief is expressed that ; the strike is a pqlitical move designed to consolidate the ganks of labour. There ; have been predictions that the Labour- | ites would capture QO‘seats in Parlia- ment. New York, Feby.‘ch.——ngnty—six deaths, in a total of 125 ca of ence- phalities lethargi a, common wn as sleeping sickness have bee ported here since January Ist the h k 2com- missioner announced last night. New York, Feb. 9th. Radio warning of the danger of typhus, together with or- der to clean ship ani make a careful ex- amination of steerage passengers were flashed to passenger liners h:ading for New York last night. Representatives of steamship companies here also cabled their -home -offices, =Cvices, advising them of the situation brought on by the * discovery last-week of scveral cases of typhus- among imuigrants. London, Feby. ‘Bth.—3Sugzar in stock on the sth. inst was 204,000 tons. Last year 51,000 tons. Montreal, F:b. 9th.—The .'Montreal Star’’ last pight carried the cable under date of London. The British Foreign . Office on Monday ~made a gesture of tremendous significance when . it- sum- moned to its office in Whitehall every correspondent representing an American newspap-r or n2ws service and .utter- ed through the lips of one of the of most important figures in Anglo-Ameri- can relations today 4 warning that “"We are treading a path leading. to war’’. The Conference had been carefully ar-