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. u ' Christiansted Theatrs. No Show Thursday. Or THE > -FOR ST. CROIX. (Continued from yesterday’'s Avis.) The Vice-Chairman remarked: [ am sure that Honorable Members will agree wiih me that the discussion on this ‘matter has beepn sufficiently pro- tracted. I will now put to the vote whether the Amendment should be fur- thered. : [t was put to the vote and unanimous- ly carried that the Amendment be furth ered. It was also put to the vote and carried that a committee of H members be ap- pointed to receive and report on the Amendment. : Ihe Vice. Chairman remarked: Ac- cording to the Rules of Business a recess of five ininutes musi be given belore the committee is appointed. The Vice-Chairman gave a recess of five minutes, After recess the Council reassembied and the Vice-Chairman asked members to prepare their voting tickets for a com- mittee of five to receive and report on Biil No. 47. Ist Member for Frederiksted Country District (Andersen) would like to know ° whether the member to serve on the Educational Board of Review should not be elected first ? The Vice-Chairman answered: - That will come up after. . » 12 voting tickets were handed in for a commitiee ¢1 5 members to recerve and report on Biil No. 47. Elected. were: Ist Member for Chris- tiansted Country Distret (Stakemann) with 11 votes, 2nd Appointed NMember (Noll) with 10 votes, 2nd Member for Christiansted Town (Canegata) with 9 votes, Ist Appointed. Member (Hender- sen with 7 votes, ~ 2 . Ist Member for Frederiksted Country District {Andersen) and 2nd Member for said istriet (M. M. Skeoch) received 6 votes respectively, bth Appointed Mem- ber (i.unney) with b votes, Ist Member for Frederiksted §Town (Coulter) and 4th Appointed Member (Blackwood) received2 votes respectively and 4th Mewnber fer Christiansted Coun- try District (Ramsay) and 3rd Appoint- ed Member (Armstrong) one vote respec- tively. » : Members Andersen and M. M. Skeoch ST CRULX A YIS had a tie vote and therefore a new free voting had to take place. -9 voting tickets were handed in. = Elected was:. Ist Member for Fred- eriksted Country District (Andersen) with b votes. : ; sth Appointed Member (Lunney) re ceived 3 votes, and 2nd Member . for Frederiksted Country ~Distriet (M. M. Skeoch) received1 vote. The Vice-Chairman remarked: Re- garding the question. of the member to serve on the Educational Board of Re- view,; I will ask membersto give their consent to bring the matter on the Order of the Day today. . - - ~ The consent was given. : = The Viee Chairman then asked mem- bers to preparé their voting tickets for the election'of a member to serve on the Kducational Board of Review. 12 voting tickets were handed in.” Elected was: Ist Member for Chris- tiansted Country District (Stakemani) with 10 votes. : Ist Member for Frederiksted Country District (F. Andersen) and 2nd Member -for said District (M. M. Skeoch) received 1 vote respectively. ; The Vice-Chai.man remarked: ,Before the meeting is closed I wish to ask mem- bers to remain as there¢ is a private mat- - ter which [ would like to put before the Couneil. ~ 'The -audience retired and the doors . were closed, and the matter was dis- . cussed. ; At 5.30 p. m . the doors ware opened and there being no further busiiess be- - fore the House the Vice-Chairman de- clared the meeting closed. : The permission aecorded the Sanita- ~ tion Service to give a cine exhibition at - the theatre rhis evening as advertised . having been withdrawn, it is requested to announce ‘that the show -has been postponed until further. f The schooner Creole arrived here last i night with St. Thomas, and New York . mail by the s. s, Martha Washington via St. Thomas. : ‘ ‘ CORRECTIONS. [n yesterday’s issue, item relative to ~ advertisement for post. office guarters, ' the lines mentioned -below are hereby ' corrected as follovs w, , f 9th. line, 1200; instead of 1290; ‘ 11th. line, lessor; instead of lesser; . 21st. line, September 30, 1920; instead . of 1900. - : L Frederiksted, St. Croix, V.LU.S., B . Sept. 7th 1920, 3 The ‘*Virginiaarrived Saturday even- | ing at 6.30 o’clock with a few packages . general cargo, 43 bags mail and the fol- | lowing passeugers: . ‘ : From Porto Rico:—Mr. M. G. Cerame. From St. Thomas:- Beatrice | ewis, Mr. Christian Simmons &son, Miss Rosa Buntin. = : o> She saiied Sunday at 6 p. m. with the following passengers: - 2 e e For San Juan:—Grav Gravesen, Johan- na Forbes, Rev. Jos. Daily, Rev. Franc's Claire, Jos. D. Capell, Carmen Maduro, Frank Coulter, Sydney. Coulter, . Vanda Shepherd. | : = tor St. Thomas: -Mrs. Edina Daniel, Consul C. H.. Payne, Alexander Phillips, Wilferd Petersen, Samuel Brown, Esau Prentice. Elisa Sewer, Mary Francis, Daisy Sewer, Herman Lorand, Bishop Colmore, Mergaret Benjamin, Mrs. Elisa Vass, James Pembl~ton, William Pren-* tice, Geo. Broocks. - The “‘Korona” arrived Sunday mid- night from New York via St Thomas with about 30 bags mail, 2,597 packages. Owing to the celebration of -‘‘l.abor Day’’, the unloading had to be postponed until this morning, and at this titne of writing is still being carried on. A MUCH-NEEDED-WARNING.-Some clergymen in the Church of England (says M. 8., in the Protestant Alliance magazine) arc teaching the ‘‘Real Pre- sence,’’-that is, the bread and wine be- ing changed inwo flesh and blood after the eclergyman has pronounced asentence over them ; ana they keep what bread is not used at their '‘celebration’’ ina 1- ceptacle with a light always burning be- fore it. This idolatrv, as the keeping of" the light always burning is a token that they worshipand pray beforeit. Through- vut the Old and New Testaments we reid how God hates idolatry, and, tried by the guide we possess, the Word of God——the Bible, to teach the ‘‘real Pre- sence’’ is contrary to God’s commands. Speaking to an ex-priest of the Church of Rome (a young man converted by the Scriptures), I asked him how many priests themselves believed in the doctrine of "‘real Presence’’, and he said ninety per cent. did not believe it '—Communicated. TELEGRAMS. . ; ST. CROIX STATION. london Sept. Ist.—The ‘‘Evening News’’ asserts tonight the triple alliance oi labour of the railway men, trans- porters and-miners, wil[ not avopt medi- tion’ between\the miners and the Govern- ment. On the contrary the newspaper say the railwdymen and transport work- ers have pledge full and active support to the miners should a strike be decided upon at tomorrow’s conferemce of dele- gates of the three unions. Vancouver, B. C., Sept. Ist.—That a plan to nverthrow the British monarchy and establish a republic in Great Britain was hatehed during the war, is the state- mevt made by Dr. Ellis Powell of the London Financial News, a mémber of the Imperial Press varty, which left