» Broken

weekend. ANNOUNCEMENTS, COMING EVENTS,

MEETINGS ETCS.

"Dance in l. O_ O. Ii‘. Hall io- "iiiii- a1zo-2-4-1i. ifiiussepiirtuutlng done at. 193 iii-libero btrcci. aoos-z-a-si.

"Come lii the closing of Whist Vernon l-lsll, Monday,

iiid Dance iii iiiiiilrv isiii.

"A Diincc Will bé 5c ' "Rustico Rink

llild Bfliltiip

b5. iJiliVPS ni A .5tli. Hours 12

‘iiiocko i M. our, 5 Iiililey,

“laiiflital by ‘Saturday,

_.

i. Film)‘ Dress

. Suturdny, pgb, 7_ Pflus MW Prizes. Admission l5

'1- Also race. cents,

"llesri 13 reakers oi Charlotteuwn, iver Royals at Hunttr

n-illllllcj- p M" iviiisiii. Feb. t alter game.

"Moi t. w“ I "lg llc

“w. Flllill

"Com i, llllion lung '39. Stanley,

Sh W’ team y, aw

Milton

‘I by The

80 Dairying

n ' ill. 1 p, m_ idshmiifilders and ' ~ 5- McEwen,

‘ "The N

About

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ll Ti remagii-izrlill be s

5 A litvlnlly’ Darling» a“: With nub.

Shaft Disables ~ CraftFor Week

iCa-nsdlsn Prose) HALIFAX, N- 5., Feb. 8-hour:- lnsry survey before the shipping board freighter Eiilngham entered unlock this evening after being lowed to port from mid-Atlantic by United States Coast Guard Cutters, ridiculed s broken tl-ll shell; Wll thl rily damage suffered by the 8,000 in ship which drifted for I W003 store the cutter Mojave took her iitcw on January 20. The Tampa miieved her sister shlp on January b, and completed the tow shwtLy ieiore noon today. It was believed ha); none of the Eifingharnb $800,000 uigo would have to be moved to per- mit installation oi a. new pl pellet shalt. Shipping men expected the ireighter would be able to continue her ioyssc to European ports this

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will be held in verncn iii". February 16th, r\cd_

k tonight at B o'- mévNurth Rustico vs Oyster Bed

wgxqiiii-ifiiiii: vilr Sprlnghlll coal at isou. iiiiirsdiiy and Friday. no-

“Bordon Linc Club loading hogs,

s’. ‘itanley Wednesday, between Sea View and

"Piiiiiry Sale in ladies of 5t. Peters

-_._.. shinning Club will thvli- Annual Meeting in Ives

Yr "brim-w 6th. n. no. “lii Aiinear, Secretary.

the Hockey match at Wednesday night, g;

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limusl meeting oi the Stan- M

I", lmile Hall, Stan

3045-l-3l-libb. s-o-l-‘l-o-el __.__

i’ Qiwow Dramatic Dresent their

‘its Hnii, m - Good speclaltltsisfy vevemn"

RlERGHANT

m,“ vioum and lllalliel. snvy l" “flu” m "u-fi: nun-vi “m?” “m” “Isl-nu... W", ,1 disorder and h." w," o“ u!” will ‘n! all ’ d‘ r salad III.

fiplngflaflsnil- Two Coats.

Tqil

.q ~\...)

3100-24-31.

Special lunch 9100-2-84).

3130

3127-24-2!

lbsny,» mursdsy, to 3. 3071-24141

3134-4-11 aid 0f P. E. I.

February 7th, at ‘illi-i-l-ll.

Carnival. Albany

8183-2!

4th. Skits 1nd Si”

3111-24-21.

dz Pest-den H - Hornets. 8110-24-11

00-. will be hsld icy. ‘mudsy, Fill attendance

Flt-Ions request- Sec’y.

oily.

Btti-y." in the

aiil-i-l-Si hockey msgch qt

.. "k Wednesday night Isb.‘ Tin, "m" Bordrn and Iistiequs.

llptdll l0 ills Guardian) wnlnmwmu. N. 2-. Heb.

"W" "W! 100 Wm deed and more

ons of tho moot terrible earthquakes that ever struck New Zealand. It be- Iln on North Islsnd early yester- i ill! 1119191118. brindibl stone and brick buildinss looming about tho heads of their occupants and pedes- trians in the streets and setting fire to hundreds oi frame structures. ‘rhein the wsisr supply, wrecked by the shocks, gays out and the firemen wfio helpless in a series of shocks. The seaport of Napier was mid waste. 111a flourishing town of Hastings, twelve miles away. was devastated and the buildings tumbled down by the dozen in the town-oi wslroa. The shocks were still continuing to- day and the population was stunned and helpless in the face oii the dis- aster. Oil tanks exploded and spread flaming horror throughout Nspier- In that city alone the dead were estim- ated at 100 and the injured at 1,000. What the tragic total would be from all time imms and other settlements in the Hawks Bey district it was impossible to foretell.

" mp3 tome" sci-leis] I

As the houses bogsn , g hun- dreds oi’ occupants ran in terror to the streets, and when the streets be- came ' because oi falling build- ings they sought shelter in parked automobiles. Then in several places walls tipped over crazlly to crush on the cars killing n1 those within.

Shocks Continuing

The Commander Veronica who or- gsnlsed the first rellsi party shortly after the first quake struck yester- day morning, radioed that the shocks were continuing and that the peo-

Tllree Killed In

Train Collision

(Canadian Press) SALT LAKE CITY. Feb. {L-Thrco

3- Trhrootownsworo inruins today.

lien 1.000 iniured as the result or

The Peop

EW ZEALANDERS (FERROR STRICKEN BYi EARTHQUAKE

Three Towns In Ruins, More Than. 100 Killed And 1,000 Injuredj-Shocks Continuing While People Stunned By Greatest Disaster Which Ever Befell Country. '

Dle ‘in the devastated district were stunned by this greatest disaster

early reports oi casualties were ex-

count could be made immediately.

Bluff Hill, s. cliii on the outskirts of Napier fell in upon itself carrying with it the houses along its slopes; Fires broke out simultaneously in msny places, but the quake had wrecked a. water supply system and firemen were ‘powerless to cope with the conilagratlon.

LATER.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Feb. 4-At least: five towns lii the I-Iawkes Bay province of North Island lay broken and burning today, while the earth still rocked with the continu- ing shocks cf the earthquake that; brought wholesale death and deso- lation to a peaceful countryside. There were known to be 125 dead in Napier and Hastings and the final figure, it was feared, would be sev- eral times that number. In Napier alone there were 1,000 injured. The quake began yesterday morning and its violence brought public buildings,

_ housesuhospltnls,_st9rgs_and homes.

upon the unsuspqating occupants. Fire followed in the two largest towns and there was horror in the deathstrewn streets as men, women and children. panic-stricken, ran screaming to the shore or to the open country. '

A great cloud of dust and smoke hung like a. pail over the scenes oi terror and through the choking fog licked red flames of an oil fed fire. At Napier, capital oi the province, which has o. population oi 20,000. Bluff Hill, which stands high above the city collapsed and toppled into the sea. Stone and brick buildings fell with a continuous roar like that. oi an artillery’ barrage-

o

0ft’ On Flight

iCanadlan Press) ‘WINNIPDG. Mun" F‘eb.. Ii-Fuv- ored by clear skies and a brisk tail

ni..i were killed and another serious- ly injured in a collision between) a Denver and s. Rio Gronde western. passenger train and a truck loaded’ with dynamite which blew up herel this afternoon.

Bennett Home

(Called-Ian Press) OTTAWA, Ebb. s-Premier R- B- Bennott returned from Wushlnlli/flll shortly after noon tsda-y- The Prime Minister. who sbflii yesterday in "W York wss accompanied by W- D- Msrrldge, K. C. of this city. Sever- al poi-sons were on the station pist- form when Mr Bennett arrived. in- cluding his sister Miss Mildred Ben- nett, m. Hon. su- oeorre rsrley and n. n. Hldow. r-presentinr Bir- Wiii- iinn cur-r. British aish Omnmilsiw- or.

llAs ‘I0 lXPI-AIN l!!! WIVES (Csnsdlsu Press)

nnooxi-YN. Rb- l-iisiiicilii" onthoportoillrmmselsioghto turn over all her savings w her hus- band lee him to romorutrsts that he had no such dlmeultlse with hi! ll! other wives, upon which she glvs him the opportunity to 1W9“ m“ intmotlng statement in court-

"ma: County L. O. L. meets on

or tn: McLean "i shots cftcr Don't m':s t“ iilllfl-‘l-B-fll

Lyon lodge Room Uigg on ‘rhurs- dsy. February 6th, 103i, at l0 A- N- Georgs Doshsixy, County Master. - 3097-2-34!-

u published report thnt anonymous letters had been received by DBIISHI priests, threatening the wholesale de~ perilous and our education has been' struction oi churches _ ' and district. was made today by Chief i verge of famine. They do not know of Police Trudcl. He blamed poor.how to help themselves having lost heating installations ior the recent‘ their faith and confidence in their outbreak oi church flrcs in the prov- lnce.

ment caused the death today of Hen- rl Cresle, a rich peasant. small village oi Bonnes les Mimoall.

ssoooo), mostly in gold coins. distributed paper money-

stsrvod to death. i-fe subslsted only on dried eggs.

wind. the Wlunipcg-St. Paul sir mail plane with pilot A. E. Jarvis at the controls took to the sir at". 0.30 s. ln. forging the inst. link in an sir mail chain siretchlng from the barrens oi Canada's arctic to equa- torial South America. The insuguriili flight yesterday was abandoned on account of fog. l I

‘Repo rt Denied

' wilnirulhlhmvross l QUEBEC Quc. Feb. IL-Dcilial of'

in this city

PEABANT WORTH 800.000. CIIIEFLY m com conis. mes mo»: snnvsrlou

PARIS, Deb. tl-Undemourish- in the

Crests left 1,500,000 francs (about lie

Physicians said the old peasant

potatoes and dry beans.

t.

7}?’

which ever befell New Zesland. All

liwted to be exceeded as no accurate

llilg up s. golf ball’ may be s. short road to blindness. said Miss Mary ltlcClella-nd, field secretary of the Canadian National Institute ior the Blind. addressing a woman's Miss McClelland referred to certain types oi balls which used to con- "tsin sn acid. she also spoke of pea shooters. non guns and pointed toys ss dangerous to the eyesight of children.

'- on the steamship Oroposa. which

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le

I CHARLOTTETO, CANADA, WEDNED. FEBRUARY

.2.

4-

Queen Marie

And Daughter

their own country, where district. ‘.

they are

i..-

FLORES RELIGIOUS INTOL- ERANCE 1N HIS COUNTRY

...._.._.

government alone will yield no pan- acea for all the ills oi Indlh. Rabin- draneth Tangorc, India's great man of lettprs, declared today on his re- tum from a tour oi the west. "Before accepting self-govern- ment," the poet summed up, India must first attain to s. rational men- tality and must make the social changes which nrl the demands of humanity and the times."

Although he is a poct and muster oi all the east/s wealth oi lmsgcly, Tagore spoke in essentially practical terms oi his Mother Country. Religious conflicts, poverty. pestil- ence and industrial backwardness he cited as thl main drawbacks of In-

lllzed country which had failed to

"It. is strange/i he said. “that this evil should not have been banished by our people in their struggle to be free. In Russia religious conflicts are hi. an end. Kemal Pasha nus subdued the religious frenzy which, for long. ran like a skein through the puILtlcs of Turkey ‘and even in Ireland the Catholics and Protezst- ants havo submerged their differ- enccs to a great clnree.“

'l‘lic man wlio won the Nobel Prize

' ior lltcraturc 17 years ago iound that. Judgmgyjt and gympgphgijg under-

India's ngrlcuitral population had re-

_- mnluccl stationary for s centurygee; ms), they can WW5] Willi ""7 - while Russia had educated and im- ‘gggul-mce ‘m; confidence,

proved her Asiatic population as well] as hci- people in Europe. - '

"Pestilence and poverty, c mmunsP strife and industrial backwsrdness, i said he. "make our path nurrow and)

meagre. Our )0 ople are living on the ‘

very humanity.

MONTREAL, Que, Feb. SL-Cut-

club.

8-

KINGITON Jamaica Fob The Prlaoa at also aal his brother. Prince amine

substratum-summon.

This iihotosrlrii ‘"5" Queen Marlo of Boumnnla and her 7 ,- lifllllii. who have established s. residence at Predesl, near Sinaia, in

Rational Mentality Required Ere India Accepts Autonomy

BABINDIANATI trillions: us!

BOMBAY. Indill.’ Feb. 3-46“:-

dla. He iound in India the only clv- i

banish religious intolerance. .1

enloyinr the winter sports of the

Eiisis HEARD IN ii ETA I l BY lliliilililil

Every Assistance And Courtesy Shown To Applicants By Visit-

i ing Officials.

Coincident with the sittings in Charlottetown this week of the Pen- sions Tribunal, sittings in other parts icf Canada are being held. the itin- erary being somewhat in the manner oi’ the sittings oi n circuit. court, but iwithoui; the rigid formality attend- ‘lng upon cases at law. In fut, it is this absence of undue formality, and ,-the evident desire oi all the officials oi the ‘Tribunal to assist the des- crying applicant in every wa-y possi- ble, that most impresses the spectat- br. Each cnse is Irena-d in the iuucst ,detall, and considered upon its in- dlvldual merits. The presiding oiil- ‘ccrs at the Charlottetown proceed- ings are two soldiers of distinguished -war service. both ct‘ them well known in this Provulce, to whose

standing the returned mcn naturally

The sittings oi the Tribunal oorn~ menced about the nilddle of October and will continue until March 3i. The method or conducting the itin- erary, ss explained to s. Guardian

representative by the presiding oifl- essnry in preparing and submitting the evidence at. the various sittings In this connection it may be said that the capable manner in which Mr. Norman W. lawtiler. pensions advocate for this Province. is performing his duties, hss been _ favorably commented upon by cthq eight members function in ipnsldim officials.

cor-s. ls ns follows. There are nine members oi the'Trlbunsl, one of whom Lieut. Col. Thomas Morrison V.D.. the chairman. is Fesizllit per- manently at Ottawa, though he ls available, if required. to preside at sittings in nny of th-e Provinces. The

IIWDI of two in four separate tri- bunal districts. The lisstsrn distlht prulded over by Col. I... H. MIA? Ksnslc. 13.5.0" V.D., and Ool. N. P. Mlolmd. M. C., A. D. 0.. ex-

J.'!'.I.Oofl0nl.O.l.E..ahdOol. J.I.Orovc)qtsndsirom'i‘reotou wolttohrtktbmbiltlsstindlsd- ilqthohflercloh-c. ‘Ilisdifl-iot ha casrnansiyoly nlrNIflD,Il tbesloaistlflckly populated and thsrohalugomnmlrofsruist- msnts in that section. ‘has mid-

Deer, Alberto; while the western dis-

Cozist. This is the arrangement. but the personnel of the tribunals func- tlonlng in the various districts is in- terchsngcsbie.

at Ottawa. The for hearing at any particular session are Pivillred by the chleif pensions advocate and his staff at Ottawa. in conjunction with sions advocate of the particular dis- trict concerned. ‘This arrangement facilitates the work of the tribunal and savu loss oi time.

theflrstoiltskind tobeheldwiil not by any means be the last. Sitt- ings. st intervals yet to be decided upon. will continue until au the tends Inna Trenton. Ont, to Oapli oases are heard. Breton. The central distria (Gsl. lhersareintloevloinltyoi I00 op- plieatkios, twenty-two oi’ which an

Misinte

(Canadian Press)

UITAWA, Ont, Rb. 3—Dism.isslng tho application of the Nova Scotla Legislative committee for an order, declaring that the Canadian railways had misinterpreted the 1922 instruc- tions oi the Board of Railway Cdm- mlssloners in respect oi rates on grain and its Products for domestic consumption, Hon. H. A. Mc Keown, Chief Commissioner, and Commissioner T. i‘ C. Norris to- dsy delivered a decision, the effect of which is to refuse what amounted to a request for lower rates on these commodities. The bosrd. however, being of the opinion that s) reduction in rates would be to the advantage of all concerned, intimates that an application for

be worthy of consideration.

Local Council Of

Women Protest

.EDMON'$N. Alta. Feb. 3-0331 The Canadian Press)—St'rongly pro- testing the action of the city coun- ull in failing to appoint women to civic ‘board for i931, the Local Coun- cil of Women passed a resolution to be sent to tn. city hall calling the mutter to the attention of the mayor and council. A letter had been sent

mltting the names of the officers oi the Local Council of Women.

A feminine correspondent of the’ locsl press writes:

"It is only a few short months ago that a. reel furore oi congratulations s took place and compliments were showered on the five distinguished Alberm women who were successful in establishing the fact. that. women are persons. And futher satisfaction was expressed when the legislature, to clinch matters and place some- thing t-"ngible on tho st9""4\s r - i

l 4 v 4' - .

and Capt. 'McKle) takes in Porth Arthur and extends west to Red trlct iCOl. C. W. Peck, V. 0., D. S.

0., imd Capt. E. C. Msc-Kenzio) ex- tznds from Red Deer to the Pacific

The itinerary oi sll the tribunal bodies is set down by the chair-man cases to come up

the district pen-

A great deal of legsl work is nec-

district

the

The present itinerary, while it is

In this Province

. ' l

1922 Instructions‘

Commissioners Deliver Decision

With Regard To Rates On

l Grain And Its Products For Domestic Consumption.

was the transportation commission of ths Maritime Board oi Trade and certain dslrymen of Oiiecly, P. E. I. In his judgement the Chief Cour missioner makes it pronouncement l5 made upon fairness or the scu- vmbleness of the present rates, or the propriety of s. change in these rates st the present time The application was based up- | on what was claimed to be on er- roneous interpretation by the rall- wsy companies oi the judgment of 1922 relative to freight tolls gener- ally. It was contended by the Marl- tlmers that under s. proper construc- tion of this judgment the existing arbitraries applicable to other com- modities should be applied to the clrrisse oi grain and flour to the such s. reduction framed in conlorm- {maritime ports. Arbltrsrles are rules lty with customary procedure wculdithst are fixed without reference t0 lmileage.

eleven dog derbies in five years, Emil St. Godard seems likely to make it an even dozen tomorrow by taking the second annual Ottawa internat- ional. Wlth two thirds of the one hundred mile grind completed the Fmonarch of mush" to the city hall by the secretary sub ‘leads the twelve drivers competing in

the classic and gives every evidence oi maintaining his advantage. The great threat to his capturing the Chateau Laurler gold challenge cup and the $1,000 first: prize for the sec-

fellow Manltobsn. from Flln Hon, northern mining town, who covered the 33 l-3 mile course in the second stage oi the derby today in the best time of any riders. After n’ thrilling duel with Mrs. E. R. Kicker of Poland Springs, Maine, Russick led home the pack in three hours. eight minutes and four seconds and slid by the on- ly woman entrant into second place, six minutes and 53 seconds behind the young master from the Pas.

tored mail. hesr applications. which are inside, to the Pensions Board. and through the Board to the Tribunal. Pmvislon for appeal has been made by the alp- polntment Court, oi which Mr. Justice llynd- msii, a former Prince Edward 1s- lander, is chairman.

w operation throughout all the Provin- ces oi the Canadian Legion. attendance of ofiicisls oi the legion is welcomed at the proceedings and it is dslrcble that they have first hand knowledge of the evidence sub- mitted and of the Pl eedlngs in each case.

with Colonel N. P. Maelnod. is pire- siding at the sessions in Charlotte- tow-rnlsabmtherofhtsjormA. MacKenzie. Charlottetown, provin- cisl manager oi the Decathlon Lilo Assurance Company, He went over- seas in Nlcrch. Min the 25th Battalion. Later he was transferred to the General Staff, wider Gcnerll Tur- ner. in fiance, and after two yes-n’ service was sent as second in com- mand oi s Canadian expeditionary force oi officers and N. C. 0's to Northern Russia, where he arrived ill October, 101B, and when he ll- Ileted in rcorganlslng the White Italian Amw, whim was engaged in demllto ccnillfi with the Bol- shevists, crsitinuml fifii-lfll in Russia tor ovu- s. yur. Ho was in command,

II

siacrlmn

rpreted

Asoscisted with the Nova Scotlsns

clear that no the

St. Coda rd Leads DogDerby

(Canadian Periods) OTTAWA, Ont... Feb. 3.—Winner of

from the Pas

ecutlve year is “Shorty" Russick,

The ‘Pribunal does not

of n Pensions Appeal

Members of the Tklbunal speak armly oi the assistance and co-

The

Colonel L. H. Macifcnzic. who,

i015. ss Adjutant

Canadian

Colonel Mackenzie sow

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