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that itls our duty to pass the present law. I advocate that members vote for the bill. (7o be continued.) LOCAL. The s. s. ""W. M. Tupper’’ left New York Friday, 22nd inst., having 110 tons of eargo for Christiansted and 55 tons for Frederiksted. The next sailing will be the s. s. ‘‘Pulwico’ on August 12th. The show last night was fine, and well attended. : & The tender Lilac sailed yesterday. The Creole left for St. Thomas with mails at 4 00 a. m. today. , To the Edtor of the Avis, .oy If Hiiton and Evelyn Dawson who murdered their brother Charles Dawson were true followers of the Seventh-Day Adventist Chureh, they never wou'd have committed that awful crime. I have been acquainted with ‘‘Sam- uel Dawson’’ and his household for the last seven years, being rastor of the Virgin Islands uotil the arrival of El- der D. C. Babecoek, I tfound him te be s good christian man. If they had listened to the advice of their father, they might have escaped ail that troable that they brought upon themseive: and others. Nadab and Adihr were wicked men, but Aaron was a reliable servant of God. : I Remain Sir, Respectfually yours, ' K. HALL Pastor of the S. D. A. Church. TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. Tokio, July 21st.—The Japanese cabi- net, the ‘‘Nichi Schimbun’’ says today, has decided to partieipate in the proposed Washington conference with general programme of not discussing questions affecting sovereign rights of participants and also not to discuss the Shaunting jand Yap question which it holds have been decided by the Paris peace conierence. A delegation of peers, representing all the parties, visited foreign minister Ueh- ida today and guestioned him concerning the conference, according to the Yomiuri Shimbun. Viscount Uchida expounded his views with relation to the con ‘erence and the Anglo-Japanes alliance, says the newspaper, and that aithough the ques- tions of Shanting and Siberia were pop- ularly supposed to be included, among ‘those to be discussed by the conierence and might be so included these matters had in faet been decided at the Paris con- ference. 5 5. RO LA A YLD Washinzton, Juiy 21st. -Tne Republi- can Protectiva Tariff Bill, estimated by Chairmsn Fordney to raise around five huandred miilib)n dollars in revenue annu- ally, was passed tonight by the House by a vote of 289 to 127. Oils, hides, leathers, and aspha&s«tood up against a determined ficht to tax them and re- mained on the free list. The Longworth dye embargo was thrown out, 209 to 193. London, July 21st.—With the import- ant railway jurction point of Eskishehr _in their hands the Greeks are conduct- ing a rapid pursuit of the Turkish ‘Nafionalists dislodged from that city and other points aloag the front in Asia Minor, it is announced, in a des patch from the Greek Foreign Minister at Athens. received here, today. KEski- shehr, it is officially announged was oc cupied by the Greeks at gp. m. on Tuesday, after a severe struggle. King Constantine, whose departure for the front was announced from Sowrda yes- terday, has taken up his headquarters at Ushwa with the general staff. Houston, Texas., July 2lst.—Twenty persons, mostly children, were drowned while bathing 1n the Gulf near Palacios late today. All are said to have been delegated to the Baptist Yo iz People’s Union Convention at Palacios. A mes- sage just received in Houston states that fifteen bodies have been taken from the Gulf and brought back to Palacios, acd that the dead will number twenly or more. The excursionists were in bath ing and were caught 1n a sirong uander- tow and swept out into deen water. London, July 21st.—Wahiie a formal re ply of Premier Briard of Frauce to Earl Curzon’s proposal for an immediate Su- preme Council meeting has pot yet been received, it w s learnea in official circies late this aiternson that a verbal answer has ben given to the British Charge De Affair at Paris, in which the krench re- iterate that their desi.e for postponenent of the meeting until late in August. Meanwhile, it was added, the despatch cf further troopks ftor the pacificaiion of Silesia is necessary. . Car's, July 21st.—1i'he Belgiar Govt. has instructed Baror DegCartier De Mar- chienne, Belgian Ambassador to the Uni- ted States,to pres nt strongly the reasons why Belgium shouid varticipate in the Conference of disarmament in Washing- ton, according (o Mr. Puttmans, corres- pondent in Brussels of the lero De Paris, Mr. Puttmans declared that the selgian sensibilities have been somewhat huri hy Mr. Harding’s phrase in his 2all ior the conference, the ''Principal Aliied and Associated Powers’’, which the Belgians consider reduces Belgium to a lower rank than that which the correspondent says Belgium feels it has artained by its part in the war. London, Juiy 21st.—The following lis the first seiection for the fourth cricket matct beginning Saturday. Tennyson (Captain) Douglas, Fender, Mead, Hearn , Brown, Durston, Streadwich, Marriott, Woolley. Marriotti a Cantab, fine bow- ler and fielder but not a good batter. Woolley is in good form and took 8 for 22 tolay. London, July 21st.-~The 3King and Queen today gave a garden party at Buck- ingham Palace to some 4,000 guests. The spacious lawns presented a brilliant scene. All the members of the Royal Family were present. The funetion was attend- ed by the various foreign Ambassadors and Ministers, the Dominion Premiers, Indian notables, m:mbers of the Govt. and others. The King 'and Queen shook hands with some 2,000 of their guests The lawn party was to some extenta substitute for the .court which the King and Queen were unable to hold this year and the formal presentations are equi- valent to the usual presentations at court London, July 2ist.-——Mr. Lloyd George declared in the House of Commons today that it was essential for the Govt. to pro- ceed wlth its poliey of replacing obsolete ships of the Navy, Mr. Lloyd George said, the Govt. in replacing obsolete ships noither committed itself to, nor contemp'at>d any building programme in answer to that of any other Power. As a result of candid discussions with the principal Naval Powers, the Premier declared, it might be possible to avoid anything in the nature of competgive building, but he said i* would be a derelic- tion of duty on the part of the Admiralty to allow the efficiepcy in training or morale of the Roval Navy to deteriora.e from negleet and (o provide with mater- ial equal to the best and in which full confidence could be had. NEwW YORK, July 22nd. 1921. Flour, Blended Clears St. Lawience ['rand pr. bri. $9.00. Meal, Kilndried per 100 tbs $1.95 New Season’s Pork per bril. $37.00 Heavy Mess Pork per bbi. $24.00 : Sugar---Crystals maximum per itu lbs. $4.61 Molasses Sugar 89° test, no quotatiun, Cotton, Middiing Upiand, a2t i.iverpool per th. 8 28-100¢. wxchanee, New York and iondon, 60 : days’ sizht $3.56% vixchange New York and London, sight 3 H 9 LONDON, July: 22nd 1921 Sugar, Demerara Crystats, per cwe. 435, —dls ** Musecavado per ewi. 365. 6 - 455.6. German Bicel 88 ¢ I.¢.D. 1o Buun s White Java sugar cif United Kingdom 21s. June shipments. Denierala Run, per gai. noninal, Trinidad Cocoa, Good Middiing ied no- minal per ewt 565. 58:. numinal. Cotic good Medium West Indian tea Island per ih. 28d. nominal. Bank oif England rate of iJiscount per cent. bs. Consols 48]1. Three per eant rents {in Paris Fes. 56.50.