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year. . Change~ for the day were'in the smallest fractions and the number of gains slightly exceeded the number »f losses, l.argest net gains were made in steels, railroads, equipments, and certain specialities. Motors, rubber, leather and | shipp'ng shares were firm groups, rails | did better. : * : TELEGRAMS. 2 ST. CROIX STATION. Honoulu, Jany. 27th. Five of the sev- en sugar plantations in the island of Oahu arc being held u Dby a strike of the | Japanese and Philippino workers, which | the planters are lesisting. . L ; Lo don, Jany. 27th—Captain Edwards | has heep appointed senior trfe commis- sioner at Montreal, to suecceed M¥ A. T. | Milne, who has been appoimted “ommer- | cial Secretary to the British Legation at ~Havana; . - -aha s Rl ' -London, Janwary 27th.— The influenza whichis spreading here has taken an un- usuallyseévere form, an outstanding fea- ture being the suddenness of the attack with a rapid variation of temperature and severe ‘headaches. S Copenhagen, Jan, 27th. l.ettish troops have captured Guazn, the last town in Esthon a occupied by the Bolsheviki and have reached the Lettish Russian frontier in many places, acecording to a Lettish official report. Much war material and two hund-ed prisoners were capiured and the fighting couatinues along the whoe froni. Tae Bolsaz2viki,” who arz retreating eastward, had many detach- - ments anrihilated io the recent fighting. Rome. Jan. 27th.——Friendly relations with Jugo-Slavia are desirable, but will not go so far as to call for a sacrifice of national interests in the Adriatic, says the "‘Giorrale D’ltalia’’, which, further declares ti.at the Italian evaeauaticn of the Adria:ic Coast and rhe re-establish- men: there of Slav forces in a stra‘egic position would be dangerous to Italy. Paris, Jen. 27th.—President Poincare, accompanicd by M. Millerand, left for Belgium today fgr the purpose of pre- senting wa- cros&!s to the cities of Fur ness, Nieuvort, Dixmude and Ypres. .Vienua, Jan. 27th. Grave aglarm is be- ing caused by the spread of epi demics in ¥astern Europe. Influenza of a virulert form is increasing in :this city and at Budapest, and reparts from Eastern Si.esia and Slovakia state that the plaguc is deveioping. rapidly.. At Tescherr people are falling stricken in the streets; ‘three_members-of the Diet being among the victims, and many governmen: offices are closed. ‘Spotted feve, is alsy spreading alarmingly in the Ukraine, Bessarabia and Poland. London, Jany.’ 27th.--Mr. = Barnes, . Minister without portfolio, has resigned from rne vabinet. The significance of his resignation lies ‘in the fact thatitis the final withdrawal of labour from the Coalition Government. ‘Tne Food Min- ST. CRU I BV |'S istty comes to an end.- within a few moaths, and it is leported that Mr. Rob- erts, theonly important laboury member nov’ in the Government, will follow Mr. Ba.nes. Vienna,Jan. 27th.—It is officially re- ported that a British credit of one thou- sard million crowns has been negotiated by the Austrian republic for the purchase of raw materials. ; London, Jan. 27th.--Mr. Hughes, the Premier, speaking at Melbourne yester- day, aceording toa Central News message from Sydney, said ‘“The néxt war will pmso- bal:ly break out in the Pacific, and we must pe ready with a sufficiently numerous array to say thus far and no rurther We 4re hedged 'n by nations wh.ch lust after this country’’. _ Budapest, Jan. 27th.—Count. Appony is preparing Hungary’s answer to the terms of peace submitted at Neuilly by the Peace Conference. He says many of the clauses are impossible of fulfil- ment and that there are sixty absurdities in the preposed Treaty. . A Halifax, N. S.,Jany. 27th—Major Nos- worthy, Inspector of thé For!ign Depart- ment of the Bank of M~2ntrea!, has left for the West Incdies where he will meet Mr. Hewitt, the General Manager of the Co.onial Bank, to discuss the banking recuirements necessary to meet Canada’s increasing business with the West Indies. He will visit the principal points in the West Indiss in the courde #f his mission, Paris, Jany. 27th.—M. Albert Thomas, the Labour Leader, was' unanimously elected "vrector General of the intefna- tional Labour Organization at today’s session cf the governing body here. This aciion ratifies the provisional nomination of M. Thomas for office, mzde at the Labour Conference a: Washingtun in Ncvember last. . - , ! New York, Jan. 23th.—Exchange rates agiin reached a low level .today, when de nand bills, in. pounds ster ing dropped to 3.53% having droppeu in tie first hglf hoir, as iow as 3.524. Fraacs reached at the rate of 13.12 to the collar, while lires and marks weré correspondingly lover. - i W antigua, Jan. 30th.—Mr. H. B. Jarvis, manager of Bermuda, died here this morning. : - NEW YORK, Jan. 28th 1920. . Rlour, Blenced Clear St. Lawience [-rand f T e eBT) Menl, Kilndried per 100 tbs $3.57 Nev Season’s Pork per brl. $46.00 . Heavy Mess Pork perbbl. $44.00 Sugar---Crystals (Confirmed by Brokers) . per 100 lbs. $7.28. Moasses 80° test pr 150:-1bs. rio quotation Cotton, Middling Upiand, at I.iverpool per oA < N 0 1 0 0 d. wxchange, New York and London, 60 Ao days’ sight $3.504 Eichange New York and London, 'sight - $3.51 - LONDON, Jan. 28th 1919. Sugar-Demerara Crystals duty paid price. fixed by the Roydl Commission per ewts e K 106s. 6d. -108 s. od. Muscovado, 89° - basis, floating terms in bond, Ditto duty paid. 975. 6d. - 955. od. German Beet 88°/. f.o.b. no further sales " during the war ¢ ; White Java sugar cif U. Kingdom cif without engagement. 9. 36. White Java Sugar, cif Uunited King- dom if arrives before 27th December 85/ Denierara Rum, per gal. nominal. Trinidad Cocoa, Good Middling Red per cwt 128s. od. 130s. od. - Cotto Medium Fine Sea Island, at Li erpool nominal per Ib. . Bank of . England rate of ‘Discount per cent. 6. _ \ Consols 51¢ - . ~ Thtee per cent rentes in Paris Fgs. 59.00. ‘AIprices subject to correction. | - PORTO RICO’S NEWCROP. o The first new erop ‘of Porto Rico sugars . for the current year was shipped by the | two factories at Ponce; namely, Merce- dita and Aguirre, as we' learn from the “"Porto Rico Progress”’ of January 2nd. . These two factories were not held up by - the railroad strike and hence got tne lead . in shipment, Central Mercedit shipped . 6,000 bags to New Orleans on Sunday, ~ December 28th, while Aguirre ‘and Mer- | cedita loaded 27,000 bags on the Stean- | ship'Montuso, - which sailed for New Or- | - leans” on Wedneaday nioht, Dep. 214: ® | Os these 27,000 bags 15,000 were from . Aguirree and 12000 from Mercedita. the sripments reaching about 5000 tons. A . portion of the first shipment from Mer- . cediya was white, washed, sugar and + packed in pockets of 125 pourds each. A year ago Guanica Central was the first . in the field. shipping about 2,000 tons on | December 24th. It is expecteéd tiat Por- | to Rico will have all of its factories at ' . work soon and the shipments from them ~‘“*o the United States «ill ‘become quite | “large. Romana Centralin Santo Domin- . “10sent some cane to Porto. Rico, which ' enabled the Guanica Central tostart ear- | lier thar: otherwise. The railvoad strike . bas delay¢d Guznica some three weeks. - | Louisiana Planter, Jap. 17th. ' I 4 ~ NORTEERN i “a - Assurance Compaiy , -Lo e ; - “Limited | OF LONDON - Agent for Frederiksted’s Distric ' M. K. ARMSTRONG. | Ageni for Christiansted’s Distric ' Policies are not subject to averave