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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1919.

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FAMOUS FRENCH” ̈ AYIATOR KILLED.

LONDON, Nov. 13.

LowDos, Nov. 19. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam

"A telegram from Paris states that Navigation Company have declared the famous avintor, Captain Lagarde, a dividend of six and a half per cent. has been killed. He was caught in on the Deferred stock, with a borusun eddy and fell, being crushed by of five per cent, making a total of his machine. fifteen per cent on Deferred stock for the year.

THE DUMA AND EQUAL CIVIL FIGHTS.

SCOTTISH LETTER

(From Our Own Corespondent).

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE RUBBER POSITION.

SEK) DIRECTING.

The eating convened for Bård alt, was, in consequance of the pumbers who desired to attend, held at Carbon-aire Hotel instead of at the London Chamber of Com merce Notice was given that Mr. Ta Owen will more

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That the Committsa so elected shall meet

at the beginning of each week and fix the minimum price at which the standard pro- duce of the companies shall be offered during the week.

That the brokers of the combined com- panies shall be instructed that none of the produce is to be sold at less than the limits stated.

Lane,

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& Co.

XMAS

EDINBURGH, October 21. SCOTEINE NAVAL BASER The visit of the Prime Minister and his colleagues to the Scottish East Coast has broughs into great prominenos the immens developmen's which saw at present being mide in the coast defences of Butland

That a general meeting of suprasentatives val atstions ara being pursued signites of the plantation compai be convened at The speed at which activities at the Senttiak atragetic scheme of great importance. an early date to elect a Committee. Not long are many of these stations were desolate spots, without inhabitanta, Now there is a wireless station at Kirk wall, a fiant bara at Scapa Flow, secondary bass at Cromarty, a submarine base Dundee, and a gtbab £3,000,000 ara-nal and dockyard ab Romyth. Great extensions are being made on the original Roth plan, and already the main basina well as the subuazine basins could be gut into use in the event of the outbreak of hostilities. A more convenient site A St. Petersburg telegram states has bon cbe en for the oil tanks of that the Den rejected by 133 votes she Forth, and it has been decided LONDON, Nov. 18.

to incronse the oil storage capacity of the to-02 a motion by the Constitutional base by some thounds of tons. The up The musichall" orchestras dispute Democrats to confer equal civil rights at Rosy is being carried on day of disposal of all siiveries of rubber by Mr. W...de Bois Maclaren will move:- anddeners of all this activity is remarkablel

That this meeting declares its approval has been settled. The question of

upon persons of all classes in Russin. the employment of non-unionists basThe Democrats urged that so long 38.

and night, and is expected that, on the

me as of inscription salos under central actival of a pege amount of machinery and plant the work will be eren mors strenu-control, fixing a minimum price, and ad been referred to Sir George Askwith, the Jawa did not enjoy full citizen-ously frauod. A wirelona station is to be. Fjourns. for a month to await the nation of} {

erected at Cromarty, The recent cruise the Rubber Growers Association. of H.M.S. Hermes, the parent ship of the Naval Flying Corps als portends much; a temporary areoplane station is being ssected at Fort Georga instead of Cromarty, and in all probability ons will shortly be erected as Dundee.

THE MUSICĦALL ORCHESTRAS' DISPUTE SETTLED.

of the Board of Trade.

BRITISH SUPER-DREAD- NOUGHT LAUNCHED.

li LONDON, Nov. 13. The super.Dreadnought Benbow was Launched by Lady Randolph Charchill ab Glasgow. The vessel is of..25,000 tone, 31 knot and the will oarry tea 13.5 ghas.

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THE NEW ZEALAND STRIKE.

LONDON, Nov. 13.

A telegram from Wellington states ́that six of the strike leaders have becn charged with using seditious language. Bail was refused.{

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LONDON, Nov. 13. The death is announced of Lady -Strathcona

TASMANIAN SPRAKER DEAD.

LONDON, Nov. 13.

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LONDON, Nov. 19.

ship Russia could not become a State. The opponents of the motion argued that its adoption" would be' u provocation to mischief and would, destroy peasant, proprietorship, and declared that it was peculiarly in- opportune in view of the increasing racial strife.

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IRISH HOME RULE.

"HALL CAINE AND GILFILLAN..

The contenary of the birth of the Rer George Gain, the famous divine and littersteur, is being celebrated in Dundee. In a letter of apology for absence, Mr, Hall Caine mys that Gliɓllan's distinguished encouragement did much to determine the course of his capoer, when he was begin- ning to write. He rent a poem to Gillan. and the reply made him feel as if he was PROVINCES TO STAND OR FALL walking on stars and all the future seamed to be shining with the colours of sunriso, TOGETHER.

Perhaps the years that had intervened had cooled that ardour, for he was cot quite auro, as he was then, that literary cele brity or notoriety was the way to happiness, content, or a quiet life.

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bination must bind themastres cot to offer That the companies joining this com- their rubber at prices below the minimum zed by the Committee for a term be be

It will be open to anyone to mpre amendments.

1913

MAIL DAY- NOVEMBER 21er

CUMSHAW TEA

Delivered to any

Arthur A. Biamana presided, and is supported on the platform by Sir William "Hood" Trenches," Mr. W. F Bois Maclaren, Mr. L. T. Boustand, Sir John Anderson. Mr. Keith F. Arbuthnot Mr. T. C. Owan, and others. It was K VBLY representative meeting, and thongh osten Address in the United sibly gathering of rubber directors,

in included me, as of the Ronse," many well known Fea, men, produce brokeist manufacturers, and even dealing interests. | As one account has in everybody seemed to be present, with the ception of Mr. Erary body himself, and

ingly he was Reks

not even represented, an

The Chairman, in his opening

dvelt strongly on the need for con, ink- tion. He was severe on the apparen nothing policy of the Rubber Growart, And Association, and said if he had in any small

way e atributed to spending up the Association he would dis s. proud and happy man.

Mr. T. 0. Owen then moved the rosolu on standing in his name, sad said that

Kingdom.

5 Catty Chests $10.

10 Catty Chests $17.50.

Loyoos, Nov. 13. Mr. Dillon, Nationalist M.P., speaking at Plymouth, deplored the LOUIS STEVENSON'S FIRST WIFE. tendency towards a split between 1. An admirable monograph by Lord the Liberals and the Labourites. Is Guthrie on Dummy, the Nurse of Robert Louis Stevenson: Tribute to the

in his opinion any attempt artificially to THE PRICE. YLUDES FREIGHT

... DUTY & LELIVERY." meant that there would be great Memory of Alison Canningham," there is held up the price of rubber would and in danger ahead for both. He raiter told the origin of Stevenson's well-known disaster. He did not make it clear that a phrase about her,ray Srst wils." To'laxed price could he worked. After bin nted that the exclusion of any part boken how he came (to call me hie Brst resolution had been seconded the order on the agenda paper was altered, and instead. ut Ulster would defeat the whole wife and his old nurse. Well, when of de ser resolution beir aunted Mr. he was a boy, I went up with him one day Herbert Wright moved an amendment object of Home Rule. All the pro-te the Waverley Station to meet his father

which was seconded by Mr. Maclaren, vinces would have to stand or fall and mother coming from London, and together.

there on the platform was the xuld minister the fron Parish. He kent Lou, and said to him, Te'll be thinkin' o marrying anon, Louis?! Says Lou with a very grave face, I'm married already. Oh,' says the minister, who is the leddy? This is hor, said Lon, pointing to met "So aver LONDON, Nov. 12. - after that, the and minister of the Trou used to ask Lou how he was getting on Renter's correspondent at Cleve- w his wife." land (Ohio) telegraphs "that twenty-

A telegram from Hobart states that SEVERE WEATHER IN AMERICA. Speaker Davies of the Tasmanian Hose of Representatives is dead,

-THE LIBERAL LAND POLICY.

Mr. Herbert Wright's amandment was : opinion that some combination among -“That this meeting of directors is of the sellers be effected and that a recommen. dation to this effect be forwarded to the committee of the Rabber Growers' Asso- ciation already appointed to report on the subject." He invited the meeting to vote not upon the one question of whe ber there should be combination. Two of the prime factors of genomic situation were in favour of the producers-although there Mi -spsinst them-

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LONDON, Nov. 12. The National Liberal Club enter -tailed the Land Enquiry Committee to a banquet. Mr. Lloyd George, pre- alding, paid a tribute to the compilere of the greatest work, on the Land System ever published," and said that the Tories at first, in a panic, started shelling out alternative programme, but the reactionaries controlling the party

- now ordered" that the Liberal Land

policy should be ridiculed.

4 When the Dokes begin to laugh, every snob in the Tary Party who wishes to pass me a swell imitates the i vacant laughter. The Tories admitted that there were scores of thousands of houses in which the Dukes would refuse

to stable their horses, and food regair. ed by hundreds and thousands of families was trampled upon for sport. -Yet their only answer was the buffoon. eries of Mr. F. E. Smith," That wa not an answer to the Liberals, who dis- seminate the facts of the Land system

GREECE AND TURKEY.

ARBITRATION AGREED TO,

LONDON, Nov. 12. The Greek and Turkish peace dele- gates have initialled a compromise

Graphic" pablications, replied with.an emphatià negative in a lecture which he delivered to the London Robert Burns Olub. The convivial songs of Barna, he said, with their references to the barley bree" and so on, had made such an impres sion on their southern friends that the mors ignorant of them thought that the only products of Scotland were whisky and Highland soldiers, But the dranken Scot, he contended, it not a myth, was a accident. He admitted that the accidents were often serivar ones, but the reason for that was that the Scot, when he did drink, drank as he worked, with enthusiasm, he had a reputation for thoroughness, and he drank up to it.

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"Mr.WP. de Bois Maclaren resonded the amendment remarking that is "had" been felt that the market had been left at the mancy of dealers too long. Only this week a director of one of the largest firms readily sell at 2a. per lb., but will hide its of subber manufacturer said to aim, tims for a better market, and will probably "There is no over-production at present.rosct to a loan on its produce rather than The low prices which obtain are not dun to | ineur an immediate loss.. Seventy-fre pat that cause at a Then what was the cant. of the Eastern plantation companim cause ? It was to be found in the absence are to-day to this position, and it, an la of combination. A well thought out schams probable, they would adopt this policy. of standardisation must go with any scheme sven as a temporary palliativa, the price for selling rubber, and should be of plantation rubber is more likely ma

integral part of it. Some had felt impatient

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DISASTROUS GALE IN

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because the Rubber Growers Association had been slow, but more schemes were hart than helped by hab

A "Rubber Bank shou'd be callet into A QUESTION OF TASTE.” The question propounded at the Church Mr. E. EL.

break up without arriving atment of competent man familiar with the agricultural classes to ask for baths corne definite concision

plantation rubber and with banking sd- Six Ernest Birch said if there was to be ministrative ability. when they do not want bathe ?" is (remarka a Boottish correspondent) a partial recombination there must be one head to it fatation the saying that one half of the one association which stood out pre world does not know how the other half eminently without any suspicion of haringft is understood the Standard Qualifies lives. An expression of opinion as to the private interests or ates to grind. What Committee of the Rubber Growers! habits and tastes of the upper classes of he thought to be the mort serious defect sodat, under, the chairmanship of Mr. Soci by one of the lower stratum was in the formation of the Rabber Growers Herbert Weights will shortly for Its

by given at a rocant social gathering of a Association was that its council was not report Recommendations will be made carter's trade socisty, with regard to selected from men of equal independancewe ballere, for the grading of plantation LONDON, NOV, 19. which the parveyor had been given carte-that was of and who had nothing to do rabber into three classes, and it is hoped Many disasters, rays a telegram from blanche. When the stage of the entree was except forward the interests of the pros that the better Jamifcation which this will reached, one banqueter was puzzled at the dacars of rubber. The Association should bring about will no doubt do something to Renter's Ottawa correspondent, bave item on the menc card game pic. Be stand to rubber as the M.C.C. to cricket or maintain steady prices, and prevent dis

pates and uncertainty as to quality and been caused by a gale over the Lakes.whispered to his neighbour, Josk, whit the Jockey Clab to racing.

That whit The Chairman, in ending the discussion, value, athing is gem pis?" the gentry at in the shooting season, was regretted that no member of that venerable the reply. Gie me gem pie," was the and august body, the Bubber Growers mandate addressed to the waiter. It was Association, had risen to give them an brought. The guest eyed it dabiously, samurance of its intention. another sense, that of gemell, was also On Mr. Wright's amendment being put brought into requisition. Will I bring to the mosting it was carried with practical you exaca, sir?" asked the serviber respect- | unanimity, "only 14 of those present, inclus.. I at an agency, sad émerge, parified · and tally Now" was the response, bringing the chairman, voting against it. me chloride of lims!"

The most serious accident was that to a cargo steamer, which capsized in Lake Huron, the crew of 20 perishing,

to the people who will register their THE CABINET AND LARKIN:

decision at the General Election. He

was not disconcerted by the results of.

LONDON, Nov. 12

the bye-elections. The Imprisonment | It is understood, that the Cabinet of Larkin was probably the chief exyesterday considered the conviction of planation of the results. There had Larkin, and it is generally believed *been no time to submit the Liberal land that the strike leader will be released

policy at the bye-elections, but within

a fortnight the Liberal land campaign would sweep the country, leading Arresistibly to victory:

ANOTHER OFFER OF LAND.

The Directors of the Ironworks at

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PEKING, Nov. 18. The President has asked the

SHEEP COUKTEY. Flame of the heather dying, Fires of the bracken Lt.

Winds of October sighing

Over the gold of it.

Clouds on the hilltop trailing,

Shadows caught in the glow; Whaups to the moorland wailing

Sorrows neguessed of men, Grey, moor gathered beside us,"

· Blue moor masting the sky; High poaks sat to guide us, Low hills letting us by. Rough-topped grey walls creeping

Out to the grey sky-line;" Woods, and within them sleeping

Tasselled and storm-tossed pine.

Bradford have offered Mr. Lloyd George" Foreign political advisers to revise Tracks in the heath around un

government upon the commission appointed under the Camo Russian Treaty to determine the boundarya

A PROPOSED OLMALETA

Many articles appese in a special planta tion number of the Indes Rubber Journal, An exhaustiva car by Mr. de Bois Maclaren states, there is no doubt bist the rabber plantation industry will soon Bur mount most of ita troubles without the d

strengthened by the tribulation which it has undergone. The result of his survey. inThere are no over supplies of rubber at present; there will be no coormous over production from Eastern Pr

be great rib on the contrary there will, in future, incet probably

rubber

A morrespondent maken in The Times communication, in which he outlines a scheme by which; with sufficient capital, and without, ras he thinks, much risk the prica of rubber could be kept at Gdy which would, tide over the present letter in the same as Mr. Wm.

ment famine,

In trying time for the good rdantation con panisz, though discouraging the supply Duman thinks those responsible for the of wild rubber. Els premises are probably management and control of rubber estates face the fact that applies of plantation rubber must be placed on the The world' present consumption of rab. bar may be taken at approximately 120,000 market at costamaller than have ruled of tons. Of this quailty Tie than one-half late if the industry is to survive. The chief is at present obtainable from plantation factors which bear on the cost of producing sources, and the balanca most be provided plantation rubber are, in my opinion: by wild rubber. The great bulk of the Sull and climate, labour sonditions, or

primio kon, management, Viewing former costs at present from 2s. 6d. to 2% KARMANDY

correct

per Th. to put upon the London market, Fouth of the industry,

the highest heighta

but will eventuals, production increases have not yet been attained, but he baBarvas, and relativa expenses

jdiminish, cost from will considerable are in posuere Is, to la.. 6d. sa mugh average, Wild should arrive rubber cut from Ink Sue (for)

proportion only) to from 25. great bulk and there is no malarial diminution in these

price no

the draft Constitution.

Only the sheep hare blod r 400 acres of land in Leeds and Brad-

Luk Ching Cheong, formerly Chi-Nothing to bind or bound us ford in order to disprove the statementness Minister at St. Petersburg, has Have the wild akles of God f. that urban land was wilfully withheld been nominated to represent the

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