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the whole council. It is sheer nonsense to suppose that it Mr. Berg gets into the Council he will be endowed with the special influence to mould the other sev- enteen men to vote his way of thinking so he could get more salary; for that matter what prevents him doing so now’ if he kas such power? Perhaps this writer thinks Mr. Berg is drawing on the power of Ka the Egyvotian soul-dou- ble which being is aceredited with ability to kili persons without getting near them. It does not take this power to refute “‘lndependent Voter's’’ absurdity in the first place. Obviously if one member could exercise such weight of influence ali eould exercise it for their own particu- lar ends, and there would be so much per- sonal legisiation that it would be unsafe to have any council at ail. The S. S. ““Guiana’’ from New York is due at Fraderiksted at 2 o’clock this afternoon. Sloop Mizpah with mails arrived from St. Thomas last evening and States mail by the Guiana is locked tor by five p. m. today. 59 head of horned cattle were shipped on the Vigilant to P. R. yesterday. The arcest of Jeremiah Wilbekin by the Government Attorney yesterday jaf- ternoon created quite a sensation on the wharf. Wilbekin will seek legal redress, it is understood. TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. New York, April 30th.—The raw sugar market was unsettled today by the sharp deciine, but there were no sales reported a d prices were more or less nominal. Cuvas were offered at 6} ceats, cost and freight, equai to 3.05 for centrifugal. Tnere was ag-harp decline in raw sugar futures, under heavy liquidation, prompt- ed by the continued talk of a buyers srrike. Stop loss orders were uacovered oa the dechne. which carried active p rsitions 28 (0 44 points beiow the close oi last week, but after their execution there was a sharp rally on covering and trade buying and prices regained 25 te 30 points of the early loss, but eased off asa:n and at midday were 27 to 28 points net lower, with the undertone nervous and unsettled. The market for refined sugar was easier and prices unchanged to 10 points lower and with fine gracula- r-d now ranging from 10.00 to 10.15, blt trading was light. Refined futures w 're nom nal. . Washington, April 30th.—Intoxicating liquors, € ven under seal, cannot lawfully e b: brought into the United 3tates on for- eizn ships within three miles of the < rores of the United States, the Supreme C urt held today in a decision which de- ¢ ared, however, that ocutside the three S .EF 013 1 mile limit United States vessels ecan le- gally sell intoxicating liquors to passen- gers. The right . foreign ships todo so had not bi(en guestionad. New York, April 30th.--Passenger liners now running airectly between New York and points in Europe, may change their schedules and make Halifay a port of cail, it developed today, after the Supreme Courts ruling permitting United States vessels to sell liquor beyond the three mile li:nit was made public. The plan of stopping at Halitax had been dis- cussed before, when it appeaved likeiy that Attorney Genera! Dougherty’s rul- ing was likely to remove the richt of United States vessels to seil liquor. 1t cropped up again "oday at a hurried meeting of the othichals ¢! foreign and Uuited States shippine lines at the office of the Cunard line this afterpoon. It was agreed that the Suireme Courts rul- ing was a victory for the United States owners, inasmuch as it plac-d tneir ships on an equal basis witn those of foreign lines. KForeign ships, under the ruling must be actually "‘dry’’ when they come inside the three mile limit. It was point- ed out at the meeting that United States liners could stop at Halifrax on the out- hound trip and stcek with liquor, either calling at Hailifax to land the surpluson the way back, or sailing direct to Ne. York and disposing of the liquor on board before arrival. London, April 30th.—The convention ander which Admiral Chester and his as- sociates are granted develepment corces- sions in Apratolia, has been signed at An- gora, the Turkish nationalist capital, says an llixchange Telegraph despatch from Constantinopie today. Lausanne, April 30th.—An official pro- test against Russia being arbitrarily kept out of the conf{erence was sent to the East Peace (Conference today by M. Vor- ovsky, the Soviet representative here,. He declared such a decision was in di- rect violation of the terms of the inviia- tion sent to Russia by Great Britain, France and luwaly, preceding the first f.ausannve conference on Novewmber ldth 1922. Calais, Maine. April ao:h. —The inter- national bridee over the bt. Croix river at Baring, five miles from here, was ear- riedaway tonight Ly the rusa of waler in the river. Traffic has been suspended, St. John, N.8., April 30th.—¥loods caused by the torrential rain of Satnrday, Sunday aud today did damage zbout tne provinee estimated at much more than $1,000,000. ‘lhe greatest loss was the Canadian Yacific railway, whose service in the province is pavalyzed. Lumber companies are also heavy losers through escaping logs, caused by breaking booms, and at Milltown. on the St. Croix river, the cotton mili suffered damage estinma- ted at about $200,000. The water wus reperted to be still rising tonight at many places and still greaier damage is teared. Amherst, N. S. April 30th.—The break- water was undermined at Port Greville by the freshest caused by the melting snow and heavy rains of yesterday and the lighthouse slid into the channel. The lighthouse was unoccupied at the time. North Sydney, April 30th.—An im- penetrable barrier of gulf and coast ice has been flung across Cabot Strait, the ceniral entrance to the gulf of St. Law- rence, and estimates of reports of gener- ai conditious, received here, are that it will be five days at least before naviga- tion is opened through this gateway to Quebee and Montreal. The other en- trances, the straits of Belle Isle and the straits of Capso are also closed, owing to the great field of ice that lies in the gulf to the North and is pressing for exit through Caltot Strait, Conditions pre- valent at Cabot Strait are said to be ex- ceptional. From the gulf a heavy North- east gale is aiding the currents to tlrow a big jam into the Cabot and from the Atlantic, South and Southeast gales are driving drift pans and small bergs against the shores of Newfoundiand. On the one side practieally the whele weight of what ice is leit in tle gulf is exerting pressure cutward and on the other a mass ol pans of heavy ice, ranging up to thirty feet in thickness on wn average, 1s being torced wards. Washingion, April coth. —What is said to be an unpreccdented compliment has been paid (o the Solicitor General by the bar of Eaglaud, in 2iving m permission to argue a case betore the Privy Courneil next July. No foreizn WArrister, it was said at the dep.rtuent of Justice, has ever been permitted to present a case beiore the Privy Council, where litigants are represented only by British barris- ters. Mr. Beck is Solietior Geneiral of the United States aund was recently call- ed to the bar oty Masters of Grey’s Inn Beuch. Loodon, April 20th, Leeds defeated Hull by a sevie of 28 103, in the final of the Northern rugby union cup games ut Wakeficld on Saiurday atiernoon Dublin, April 30th. —NMiss Brodrick, gister of ihe mar' o Mideton, was shot in the ey on saturday by tioops whil: bicyeling near Sneem County Kerry. Th2 troops challenged her and ordered her to hait, but she ignored the order ard loercased ber speed, whereupon they fired. Iris said thet Miss drodrick h: d been aciivelv conperating witi: the |- regviiars in Kerry., Her brother, the Earl of Midieton, is a prominent Con- gervative and a former nianister, hod- ing at varions times the office of S -cre- iary for War, Secietary for Ind a and other imporitant posts, FOUR SALE. Six New Cotion YeitMatiresses y\pply to Sy SEBAS:IAN FORBEs, Christianssed.