Daily British Whig (1850), 30 Apr 1914, p. 10

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Tones and invigorates the who! Bervous system, makes new Biood in old Yeine, Oures Nervous Drebility, Mentol and Brain Worry, De: . dency, Lows of Energy. Palpitation the Heart, Failing Memory. Price $1 per box six for 85. Gue will please, siz will . Bald by al} drageisis or mailed in plain phy. on reesipt of a sified Free. THE WW L (Fermenty ee er mn. ---- { For Sale | $1,500 For tarm of 40 acres good ' outbuildings and land; seven miles from Kingston. W. H. Godwin & Sen B® Brock St. Phone 424 Real Estate Fire Insurance, >r Wests Prerhotine, INANAIAY MATTERS] Tr U.S. HAS THE LARGEST ISVESK. MENT IN MEXI160 Total of That Country Placed at 775.000 New York, April 29. The estim- ated amount of money invested in México totals | which $793,187,240 represents Mexi- {for foreign capital. very general opinion the greater part the share of that country in Mexican $1,067,775,000. poor second 'tn the list, being dow next with $143,446,900, and af oth- er countries are grouped together and stand for $118,636,38). 1 The largest single ftem.is raflway | stocks and bouds, which show a total jof $1,026,625,100, of which $664,- 1840.600 was contributed by the Unit- ed States, Great Britain being down for $168,917,800, which is more than $30,000,000 in excess of Mexican capital so invested. Oaly about 20 per cent. of the money invesied in railways in Mexico belongs to Mexi- cans 3 British investors lead in three lines, viz, National bonds, timber lands and electrical rails and power. The figures for national bonds are: Held by English, $67,000,000; by French, $60,000,000; by Americans, $52,000,000; by Mexicans, $21,000, 000. The American capital invested in mines and smelters is $250,000,000, or' about three-quar- ters of all the money so placed in Mexico. Much has been said about British capital {invested in oil, but it is only $10,000,000, whereas the Am erican inyvestinents 1000. | ] S-------- ' Will Gige You CH.R. Decrease Langer FIRST CLASS Montreal, April 29 -- Traffic edrn- The Style and Fitting will be Faultless Way company for the third: week in April were $2,100,000, as against $2,685,000 for the corresponding week last year, a decrease of $5685,- 000 or twenty-two per cent.. This is the largest percentage shown since the third week in Feb- ruary For a time it seemed as though C.P.R. earnings had taken a definite turn for the bette, but the showing | made so far this month has heen dis- apponting. The decrease of twenty- | lwo per cent. for the third week of April compares with declines of four- teen aud fifteen per cent. for the first | THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA INCORPORATED 1869 Capital Paid Up . Reserve Funds ily SAVINGS DEPARTM NT Accounts may be opened " with an initial deposit of Ome Dollar. laterest is credited half yearly. An account in the names of two JOI A UNT mewbers of u family will be fonnd convenient. Either person(or the survivor) may operate the account, KINGSTON BRANCH, . E. E. NEWMAN, Manager. $11,660,000 13.599:000 Rn RII oY 6% First Mortgage Bonds PARTICULARS ON REQUEST & Co. Cawthra Mulock 12 King Street Bast . - . . Toronto A le At tars our Income im, INCREASE Y During the past few weeks the priv. e investors and financial institutions * in Canada have invested in. 'ions of dollars in Municipal Deben- tures and other high grade securities. Many Kingston investors have taken advantage of the attractive interest yields as évidenced by the large orders for Boads and Debentures, filled through our Kingston office during the past few weeks. : Surplus funds are piling up ail over the world, owing to the general slack. | euwing of trade: Thege funds are going into Bonds and the CTSA ed demand will likely cause an advance in prices. Municipal, Pub. ke Utility and Industrial Bonds are still cheap. We advise that you BUY NOW. Publie Utility Bonds yield about Municipal Bonds yield about 5% % 514 % Industrial Bonds, yield about 6% Safe and saleable. Comsult us before investing, F. B. McCURDY & CO. © 7" 8688 BROCK PHONE 1238 Members Montreal Stock Exchange. H. W. NBLLES, Manager. Town of Estevan, Sask. 5', Waterworks, Sewers, High School Debentures, payable at the Bahk of British North America, Estevan, Sask Annual interest coupons attached. Denominations $1,000 and odd amounts. Legal Opinion : Thomson, Tilley & Johnston. POPULATION 3,800 Assessed Value for Taxation....$4,086,000 Net Debentuve Debt. ............. 213,609 € A Town well favored in Joestion, natural reseurces and +allwa facilities. The surrounding country is fine, Jewel wheat land, an 1s plentifully supplied Wi conl. PRICE: Rate to yield 8% Write for full particulars. ; A. E. AMES & 60. Union Bank Building, Torents Setabiishes a American Investments in $1,057. $2.434.24€.920, of can capital, leaving $1,640,069,180 Contrary to the' of this is ownéd in the United States, investinents being put ut the sum of' British capitel is a uly for $521,202,.800. France cones nearly | re;ch $15.000,-| ings for the Canadian Pacific Rail-| decrease { THE DAILY. BRITISH A ---- : . Atlartic to safeguard vessels, AA a AEA itor and second weeks of the month. The Lirgest percentage decrease shown vel this year was one of twenty-six per cent. for the first week in Febru ary, and the smallest 12.8 per cent for the last ten days of March of Grand Trunk Decreases {, Montreal, April 29. |gross earnings for the third week of {April were $893,502, a decrease of | $86,846, or {eight per cent Telephone Financing April 29.--The ! Boston, entire $30.000,000 cent notes or six operating {panies of Béll's system have all been sold by bankers who, purchased ih {sold by bankers who purchased the {issue. The $2,500,000 Cleveland { Telephone Co., motes have not as yet ibeéen formally approved by Ohio com {mission which has jurisdiction in the matter, but with this technical excep tion this financing has been fully cleared up It will be nearly two years at téast according to «the present plans of {President Vail, before American { Telephone and its subsidiaries are | again obliged to enter the money {markets com- Reorganize Wabash Road St. Louis, April 29 Plans for the {reorganization of the Wabash rail iroad, now in the hands of a receiver, (are completed, but will not be made jpublic until May 1 This became known hiere yesterday when Winslow Pierce, chairman of the bondholders' committee, appear ed before an informal meeting of the Missouri Public Service commission , The plans will be submitted to the commission for approval on May 1 May | B.C. Copper Shares { Toronto, April 29.-- There were 444,047 out of 591,000 shares of {British Columbia Copper |stock deposited in favor of the con {cern as the Canada Copper corpora- tion. The new shares will be ex {changed one for each share of the jold company. An issue.of $1,000,000 new debenture bonds, six per cent esavertibles, has been authorized for the new company, and has been un [i ten Changes in Slater Control { Montreal, April 29.-- There has {been a change of control of the Slat- ier Shoe company, control passing {from interests connected with Cor- {poration Agencies, limited, to a local | French-Canadian group prominent in Grand Trusky slightly in- excess of | twenty-year five per| right to company | ine SN "SENECA" AMONG ICEBERGS. . Following the Titanic jsaster, the United States nut in commission several vessels to patrol pa The picture shows the "Seneca" between two icebepgs (owe M of feet above the ocean and right in the track of passenger -- vessels. The report was sent ull surrounding vessels, thus removing the likelihood ¢f another disaster, 1S NOT A TRIBUNAL | -- -- [THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE O} { THE PRIVY COUNCIL | | The Committee is Merely a mittee of Advice For the | eign -- Subscriptions For Wiiter Galdos. » Com- Sovr- Aged Until now the judicial the Privy Council has been popu | regarded as the highest tribun lal of the British empire higher even than the! houge of lords In a remarkable decision just given by the committee in question, in the case of the appeal of Channing Ar nold, the Anglo-American editor of the Burmah Critic, from a conviction of defamation of character by the chief court of Lower Burmah, this general view is repudiated The committee disclaims the of being. a tribunal It is merely a committee of advice for the sover eign The sovereign declines to in tervene in the. courts of administer the law in his name, un less it can be shown that there ha been interference elementary rights of the accused, as to have placed him outside of the pale or regular law, or if there ha been a violation of the natural prin ciples of justice, namifest as to convince the crown that the appellant has not had a fair trial The sovereign, to whom every one |of his nearly 400,000,000 subjects, | both in the United Kingdom and in oversea dependencies, has 'the appeal from the supreme courts, as a last and final resort, does not enter.sme the question of guilt or innocence, -but 'only as to whether there has been a fair trial, such as very citizen, no matter how humble, is entitled to the throne can be made. The judicial committee of the PTivy Council, on 'which the colonial and Indian judiciary are represented, | larly idea such an | ris as to whether there is any ground or not for interference by the crown Thus, in the appeal by Channing Arnold front the supreme courts of India to the throne, the lords of the judicial committee of the Privy Council "humbly advised" the king that the appellant had had a fair trial by jury and that there was no reason for the sovereign to interfere They did not enter into the question guilty or innocent ¢f the criminal If bel imputed to him {the leather trade. The capital will be redueed from $800,000 to $200, {000 and will consist of @ommon stock | only. The president is M. La Gauth | {ier and the general manager, Frank | | Boyd Financial Notes U.S. May dividend disbursements {estimated at $114,780,000. | | A mortgage of $565,000 has been | obtained by the New York Sun on its | {property at the southeast corner of | Nassau and Frankfort streets. The | mortgage was recorded yesterday in | the registrar's office It had been obtained from the Mutual Life Insur- ance company The enormous sum of $150,000, {000 was the aggregate loss sustained {by the United States in meat animals {as the result of disease and exposure (in 1913, according to estimates by the department of agriculture Between Saturday's quotations and the mighest prices since January, 1413, there is a discrepancy of no less an amount than $272,000,000 Of this large sum C.P.R. is the out- standing feature, with a loss of $214,000,000, with BrazWian .second |at $26,000,000 C.P.R. has had $10 clipped off the iprice of its shares during the past week, Brazil Traction $6, Barcelona Traction $3, and Mackay $5, and of the more purely Canadian issues Nova Scotia Steel Is some $8 a share lower, Rogers common $8, Toronto Railway and General Electric $3 each, while DomginioN Canners com- mon stock has had the extraordinary fall of.sixteen points. i pr t------ Witness for Gunmen Found New York, April 30.--William FE. Bur well, one of the witnesses who testified for the gunman slayers of the gambler Herman Rosenthal in their eleventh hour plea for a mew trial, has been found in Derby, Conn, and brought here last night, and taken to District : Attorney itman's home. The pro- | secutor has reason to believe, it 18 said, that there was a plot to aid, he- vides the gunmen, Charles Becker, the former police lieutenant, who is to be | tried again next month, as the insti- gator of Roseathal murder. | To the man who is always waiting | for something to tufh up, success is {always just around the corner of the Pr mittee of the Privy Council have the | | ilige of In making this report to the sover the lords of the judicial com following to say concerning the priv the press, which is worthy of being noted: "Their lordships | regret to find that there appears on | one side of this case the time-worn | fallacy that some kind of privilege | attaches to the professien of the press, as disjinguished from the mem- | bers of the public The freedom of the journalist is an ordinary part of the freedom of the subject, and to whatever lengths the subject in general may go, so also may the journalist. But his privilege is no other and no higher The responsibilities which attach to his power of a conscientious make him more careful But the range of his assertions, of his e¢riticisms, .or of his comments, is as wide as, but no wider than, that that of any other subject. ' No privi- lege attaches to his position, At the same time the committee condemns the equally 'false and dan- gerous doctrine that some privilege or protection attaches to the public acts of a judge, which exempts him, in. regard to others, from free and adverse comment, He is not above criticism. His conduct and utter- ances may demand it. Freedom would be seriously impaired if the judicial tribunals were outside the range of such tomment > If I call attention to these expres- sions of opinion on the part of the lords of the judicial committee of the Privy Council, it is becausé-Wwhile it disclaims the idea of being a tribun al, it nevertheless. constitutes the highest and most authoritative ex- pression of law in the whole British empire With regard to Channing Arnold, he is a son of the late Sir Edwin Arnold, author of "The Light of Asia," hy his second wife, Frances Channing, of Boston, daughter of the Rev. William Heflry Channing, of that city. Channing Arnold is there- fore a nephew of Lord Channing, the "only American-born citizen who has ever heen created a British peer of the r1ealm---of course after being duly naturalized as an Englishman. Caod luck is often a manufactured next street. cat J article, - committee | justice that | with the | so demonstratively | is there merely for the object of ad- | vising the sovereign in such matters | as to whether Channing Arnold was | in the dissemination of | printed matter may, and in the case | journalist do, | WHIG, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1014. Med Arts of the ring hundreds by wireless to NP i in MANUEL 'PORT DENIED | Ex-King of Portugal Not Separation, | com ine, April 20. Officials of the { gregation of the Sacraments deny the report that Manuel ex- King of Portugal, and his " wife | Princess Augustine ' | Hohenzollery, have both applied to |e vatican for ap annulment ~ of their marriage Cardinal Gasparri: | & wember of the Congregation of | the Sacraments, says that if such an application had been impending the riembers of the fongregation would have been notified of it gt their meeting last Saturday The story was that the f Seeking | | | | marrtage has been kept very quiet because the: kaiser, as the head of the house of Hohenzollen did not | Wish. any scandal It was said, the | quest of the kaiser arranged the matter should congregation of the Sacraments in stead of the Tribunal of the Rota The king was married at { ingent on September 5 Ja a fortnight bride became very ii] and was taken to a hospital. Her husband' remain | ed with her until she For this reason Vatican at the re Sigmar recovered THE TA-TAO DANCE. | Difficult for Partner to Keep Straight Face During Gyrations April 30 Do you to- the common question now | | | | | | i | i | London, tao?" is on the tongues of he The new dance is the the tango It isaf'hinese: it is over 2,000 vears old" it has SIX movements and is "mainly a rythmatic" dance The dancers dance with their hands and arms as well as with their feet This waving and undulating of arms and hands makes the dance both a areat novelty and also a those who are not naturally fai Many cut a ridiculous in it, I one movement the lady fashionable successor of grace figure down in front of her. The ordina.y male being may mot unnaturally feel he is making a fool of himself Possibly one of the most difficult { things about the ta-tao will be for | the lady to keep a straight face dur- I { ing this movenrent. WHH'S NEWSPAPERMAN Cleveland Suffragist Wields snake Because 'Article Offensive Cleveiand, April 30.-- True to her de- {claration thal women can protect | themselves if equal suffrage is given them, Mrs. 8. P. Burstein horsewhip | ped twos newspaper men who, she be | lieved, were responsible for an article at which she took ofience Mrs. Burstein did mot call on any { male member oi hei family, but start ed out alone to administer chastise ment. She did not return home until she had wielded a blacksnake on the two who, she s, criticized her un { fairly oo \' poem publis in the issue of April 24th, of the » Voice, a news | paper published here, Mra. believed referred to her It ed names Burstein mention Lack of Boat Houses Since the military authorities have prohibited the erection of boat houses on their property and as the C. P. 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