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following. . .His Honour, Colin Rees- Davies, Chief Justiee of Bermuda to be ‘a Knight Bachelor and Mr. Percival Stevens, A. M.1. C. E. Inspector of mines forTrinidad in 1919, to be a Com- panion -of the Imperial Service Order. Berlin, June 4th.—The Minister of the “Reichswehr, receiving in the presence ~of President Ebert the Generals of the Imperial Reichswehr, said he recognized the diffieulty fur the majority of the officers, brought up in the principles of the former regime, to conform to the new ideas, but he added that all officers, particularly the military chiefs, should be ready in all circumstances to ca:rry out towards the State the duties they un- derstood when accepting office, ard that the army should bhelongto all, and not to a party He ficther deeclared that for the rreservation of order, to which army was subordinate, the maintenance of an effective force of two hundred thousand men was necessary, and that the question would be décided it Spa, but the conference could only take place if interior order was maintained in Ger- many. General Von Seckt, in the name of the other Generals, declared their fi- delity to the constitution and asked that the ecivil authorities should have confi- dence in the Generals, whose aim was the rehabiliation and liberation of their counitry-by order and labour. Paris, June 4th.—The Hungarian treaty was signed todav at the Grand Trianon, in-the presence of all the plen- ipotentiaries of the Allies. After the Hungarian delegates had taken their places, M. Millerand declared that the treaty was identical with that handed them on the sixth May and he invited the plenipotentiaries to affix their sign: - tures thereto. The delegates then sign- ed the treaty, the plenipotentiaries fol- lowing in turn, and the ceremony then terminated. The King of Greece was present. Rome, June 4th. —The Press learned that, on the initiative of Italy, the chief of the allied Governments, with the ex- eeption of Japan, who is not interested, will meet probably at Brussels on the eighteen inst. for a conference, before proceeding to Spa on the twenty-first. Rome, June 4th.—The Stefani News Agency announces that Count Sforza, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, will leave for London tomorrow, for the purpose of explaining to the British Government the views of his Government on the question of repara- tions, previous to the reunion at Spa. Paris, June 4th.—The conference of Ambassadors this morning examined the reply to be made to a protest by Germany again;t the decision of the commission of delimitation at Eupen- and Malmly, rela- tivetothe railway line. =~ ' Vienna, June 4th.—General Lutgedorg, charged with assassination for having ordered the execution of three soldiers in August 1914 without a trial, has been 1. C bt rx. aAaViS acquitted of that charge, but was sen- tenced to close arrest for six months for violence. Rome, June 4th.——The Stefani News Agency denies a repnrt that the Govt. is negotiating for a loan of thirty milliards of lire with the United States, upon the cession of the tobacco monopoly, and that®a ‘delegate had been sent to the (Tnited States for the purpose. Buda Pesth, June 4th.—At the moment of the sigifature of the Hungerian treaty at Paris today, the stores closed their doors, tramways and railways ceased running, work was suspended in all es- tablishments and bells were tolled by all the churches. No other incidents mark- ed the event. NEW YORK. June 3rd 1920 Flour, Wencad Cleaxs St. Lawrence Isrand . pr. brl $13.75 Meal, Kilndried per 100 tbs $4.60 New Season’s Pork.per brl. $42.00 Heavy Mess Pork per bbl. $42.00 Sugar---Crystals maximum spot per 100 lbs $20.57. Molasses Sugar 89° test, no quotation. Cotton, Middling Upland, at Liverpool per I|b. 27 44--100 d. Exchange, New Yark and London, 60 ~days’ sight $3.87% Exchange New York and London, sight : $3.92 : LONDON, suwie Ord 1520, Sugar-Demerara Crystals, (free of Govt. trol) duty paid per-ewt. 1455. od. 150s. od. Sugar Muscovado, (free of Govt. control price for May) duty paid per ewt. 1425. 9d. (German Beet 88°/. f.o.b. no sales. White Java sugar eif United Kingdom 115s. od.—os. od. Demerara Rum, per gal. nominal. Trinidad Cocoa, Good Middling Red per cwt. 130s. od. 1355. od. Cotton, MediumFine Sea Island, at Liv- erpool per lb. nominal Bank of England rate of Discount per cent. 7. Consols 47 . Three per cent rentes in Paris Fes. 56.75. Moscovado Govt. controlled prices for June duty paid 1375. 9d. Moscovado free of Govt. control duty paid 110 s. od. 120s. od. Trustee: ‘‘We’'re thinking of putting up a nice motto over your desk to en- courage .the children. How would ‘Knowledge is wealth’ do?”’ Teacher: ‘‘Not at:-all. The children know what my salary is.””’—Barbados Globe. PAYING CALLS IN RUSSIA. Town life in Ruassia is as different as can be from life in the country districts. One curious custom is the after-dinner call. People do not call on their friends at tea time, as we do over here, but after dinner at night, or even after the theatre, paying calls at midnight being quite the thing to do. The Russ‘an din- ner always begins with a sideboard course of cold meats, hors d’ceuvres, ete.: that 1s to say, the dishes are laid out on the sideboard and the guests help them- selves before sitting down to partake of the regular meal. It is from this cus- tom that we derive the term ‘‘service a la Russe,”” as applied to dinners at which the carrying is done from the sideboard. —lbid. CURIOUS SCHOOLS. In St. Petersburg there is an institu- tion where young men training for ser- vice as police make a special study of the tools used by pro‘essional thieves. There is a class devoted solely to the study of forgery, with perticular refer- ence to the the falsifying of sisnatures on passports. At Monte Carlo a school for croupiers is conducted. During the summer months aspirants for the office of croupier learn the operations of the gaming-tables. Each rupil must, from time to time, while others are impersonating players and making wagers, conduct the game and learn how instantly to pay out the win- ning stakes. Six months’ tuition is gen- erally necessary. In Brussels there is a school for the in- struction of grave-diggers. Aili candi- dates for appointment as sextons through- out Belgium must pass an examination at this school before they can obtain em- ployment as grave-diggers. —lbid. TRAFFIC IN HUMAN HAIR. The trade in human hair is a big iails- try. Italians easily take the lead in tl.is traffic, the main source of their supply being obtained from the peasant women of Italy, Dalmatia and Switzerland. Several times a year these human-hair merchants send their agents around to collect supplies, which are usually im- mense, for hair-growing is cultivated on a very large scale by these women, and yields a good remuneration to the pro- ducer. Two crops of hair a year, and looking none the worse for the loss is not extraordinary among these peasant women, Half the hair at the back of the head is shorn off, the remaining half being drawn over the exposed part and dressed in such a manner as only to be detected on very close scrutiny and by those experienced in the trade.—lbid. WANTED. One Upright Piano in good condition is wanted. Apply to K. KNUDSEN. Castle Coakley.