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from Teoudas says: = | Rakors, quan Joey 'were a a Great Britain, or granted an audience by Lord Curzon. Sibor Governments wm ol But the real sensation of the day ye was the appearance of: Ramsay Mac- "With the appointment of Frank| Donald at his desk in the Foreign 'Hodges, secretary of the Miners' Fed-| Office at 10 o'clock sharp. This may tion, as Civil Lord of the Admir-'not sound astonishing, but constitutes -- and Harry Gosling, president of | a revolution in Whitehall's working 'the National Transport Workers' As-| hours, as no Foreign Ministers ever on, as Minister of Transport, have turned -up for work before y MacDonald has filled the im-| eleven. portany posts of his Government. Al-| MacDonald has ordered all Foreign though most of the members of tic! Office personages to be on the job at new Ministry are inexperienced, quite 10, even the highest permanent offi- & number, like Viscount Chelmsfor' and none of these latter have Lord Parmoor, John R. Clynes a: ea in the habit of appearing before Arthur Henderson have been in pre- eleven-thirty. . vious Governments. MacDonald made it clear on Thurs- A great help to the Ministers and day to callers that writing notes to a sign that nothing extremely revolu-! France will be discontinued. Future tionary in administrative practice is] negotiations, he said, will be made ~ contemplated, is seen in the appoint- | through Ambassadors, or when neces- ments by the Ministers as their pri- | sary, by personal interviews between vate secretaries, Premier MacDonald | chiefs of state. has named Sir Ronald Waterhouse, The Russian envoy was asked about and Robert Gowers, who filled a simi-| Russia's willingness to acknowledge lar. position with the late Andrew, Russia's pre-war debt to Britain, and Bonar Law, and C. P. Duff, who was| MacDonald. received a favorable re- private secretary to David Lloyd ply. But the Russians want recogni- George. tion first and debt negotiations after James O'Grady has accepted the wards, while some of the right wing post of thé First British Ambassador | Labor leaders are anxious to get the to Soviet Russia. Premier MacDonald debts admitted before O'Grady is sent received at the Foreign Office, Chris-|to Moscow. DEADLOCK IN BRITISH her requirements. As a consequence, it was sald, the surplus investment ac. RAILWAY STRIKE count of the United States will re- ceive less opportunity than before for Strike Pay About £7,000 Per | work in Canada; but it will still loan Day--Next Move Up to |more to that country than Canada will Cov. ent: loan to American industries. er DEBI A despatch from London says:--A "deadlock has been reached in the, CANADA'S NET strike of the Associated Society of | STILL ON THE VASE Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. he managers of the railways an-| . . ro'inced that they would not reply to Public Accounts Show Big a 'citer sent them by J. Bromley, sec-| Addition in Fiscal Year re avy of the Associated Society, in- . forming them that he regretted that Ending Last March. 1*~ strike must continue. A despatch from Ottawa says:-- us ire is a fundamental difference, Public accounts for the fiscal year 04 a montha mativay arabes ve |Cnded the 81st of last March have srding the finding of the Wages| oon finally completed, nd elon W Board, from which the managers re-| BF ute 8 Suid ug are Liwa z fused to depart, alt] Ir they 'assert the drafts upon the exchequer of the that they would consider cases of in-| Ssnsdian National Railway and the dividual hardship among the men if orcas as ven Sood the: strike were called off. Ne oP "Tem waif to be CORT the. As buoyantly and totalled $394,614,900, ciated Society about £7, 2 dail 0, while the total outlays on consolidated th rid d ™h Y {and capital accounts were $346,665, pay oT Ra i ie umemers wh 616. This left a favorable balance of TSHoOAL aliovt heir Shu soat, Dus i 348, ,049, B40" About 83 millions were believed | advance wever, to the railways a age ly {a:sevars drain UPON | and merchant marine--seventy-seven a do ars millions to the former and six mil- "of the National Union of Railw: {lions to the latter. As the increase of Shat Toitad Deon Toa ued ay | debt was $31,641,067, about fifty mil- ei] ct aren om Se yore lions came out of revenue. Pp Eth TT ; a The increase in the net debt in the Tethers < had Sig ui ig ned fiscal year was $31,641,065. The total "Mie next step io be taker in. the is now $2,458,776,868. The gross debt e will be oh by the A Nabos] Stond at $3,924,199,398, ch is. a or ster. Tom. Shaw. yw the Trades| decrease of ten and a half millions. * Union "Gon ' mediati Revenues increased by over twelve ton. gress's lating com-|,,q a half millions, while expendi- tures decreased by $15,266,958. The increases in expenditure were $2,644, 886 in the interest on the public debt and ($410,746 on agriculture. There were reductions of over three millions in pensions, seven millions in: public works, $822,000 in post office, $462,- 888 in soldiers' settlement, ard $4, 416,169 in - soldiers' re-establishment, while miscellaneous reductions were over eight and a half millions Increases in revenue were inainly $12,869,824 in Customs, $093,210 'in excise, and $32,826,280 in inland rev- enue. Business taves fell off $9,784, 205, and income $18,972,816. Over 56 millions have so far been collected on income. nese fms nan. Canada Able to Finance : Bulk of Her Requirements A despatch from New York says:-- The fact that Canada was able to ab- 'sorb without foreign assistance the Government financing of 1928 "and the latest big Issue of $50,000,000 of Canadian National Railways bonds fnterpreted by New York bond dealers as an event of more than pasa- _ ing significance. It shows, they sug- gested, that Canada has grown in financial importance to a point where she can in future finance the bulk of Dominion News in Brief Halifax, N.8.---Six large trans- | being secured from Saskatchewan and nic. f) , carrying a total| the Feldspar from Ontario. 'barrels of Nova Scotia ap-| (Calgary, Alta--This city claims his port recently for the With these ship- the grand total for the present ' geason up to January 5 is ought to 836,219 barrels. Quebec, Que.--Navigation of the, 8. nee river is expected to open rly in the month. of 'April. Accord to preliminary schedules fusued the various steamship companies | ting between Canadian Atlantic| h# ts and Europe, 192 ships will viii "during 1924. ricton, N.B--Five new com- Ancorporation "in the The est of the Apanies is the Edward Sinclair o! » of Newcastle, with Ceapital lock of that it is Canada's leading sunshine city. The record for sunshine for the fall was as follows: September, 195 hours or an average of 6% hours daily; October, 228 hours or 71-8 hours daily average; November, 166 hours or 51-5 hours daily. Regina, Sask.--The Indians of: the three prairie provinces in 1923 season harvested the greatest crop 'in their history, Josording. to the annual re-'§1, the superintendent of Indien ort ot In the three provi [Indians harvested r.| Wheat, 574,282 bush "162,304 bushels of 'potatoes and 10,000 bushels of other 'vegetables. They summerfallowed | 20,000 "acres of land; broke 6,808 acres; put up 57,000 tons of hay ond 9/516 of green feed. i: LORD New British Labor Cabinet. A despatch from London. says:-- The new Labor Cabinet as officially announced, follows: Ramsay MacDonald--Premier Secretary for Foreign Affairs. John Robert Clynes--Lord Privy Seal and Deputy Leader in the House of Commons. Lord Parmoor--Lord President of the Council. Viscount Haldane--Lord Chancellor. Philip Snowden--Chancellor of the Exchequer. Arthur Henderson--Secretary for Home Affairs. J. H. Thomas--Secretary for the Col- onies. Stephen Walsh--Secretary for War. 8ir Sydney Olivier--Head of the In- dian Office. Brig.-Gen. Christopher Thompson-- Air Minister. Viscount Chelmsford--First Lord of the Admiralty. Sydney Webb--President of the Board of Trade. John Wheatley---Minister of Health. Noel Buxton--Minister of Agricul- ture. : William Scotland. C. P. Trevelyan--President of the Board of 'Education. Thomas Shaw--Minister of Labor. Vernon Hartshorn--Postmaster-Gen- eral. and Adamson--Secretary for . HALDANE PHILIP SNOWDEN J. ©. WEDGWOOD WM. ADAMSON JOHN WHEATLEY RAMSAY MACDONALD SIR s. OLIVER LORD CHELMSFORD THOMAS SHAW V. HART3HORN 10%. Manitoba oats--No. 3 CW, ac; No. 1 extra feed, 4! ; ani' oba bacidy_ Nominal, "All the above track, ey Lae. 0 A STEPHEN WALSH HENDERSON F. W. owe 95 to 30c; twins, 20 pe 80 to 82. LORD PARMOOR C. P. TREVELYAN Col. Josiah "'Wedgwood--Chancellor of - the Duchy of Lancaster. F. = W. Jowett--Commissioner of; Works, ------------ London Death Notices Show Many Live Lug, A despatch "from London Ba: That London's climate, for all its op, is conducive to longevity cannot be gainsaid in the face of statistics p telegraph to the larger - _ing Joins, 'This service is > great importance to the 1g industry, as-even the in- land fisherman will appreciate how useless would the line-fish- ing vessels be without a supply of bait or advice as to where Bait might be secured, sented in: the deaths: tolamn of "the| London Times. Of twenty-seven per- sons whose death notices appeared on oneiday, the aggregate age was 1,992 years, or an average of 78 years. Six- teen of these were more than 70, in- cluding twelve 80 years old or more, two of 96 and one 91. ming Yukon is Warmest Section of Canada mann British Private "Bank. nk to be' Merged A despatch' {roms 1 London says:-- Drummond's, the most aristocratic of all British private banks, figured in the news this month, when it was an nounced that the Royal Bank of Scot- 35 land 'would take it over soon. 3 A despatch from Dawson City, Y. Ts i "| says:--The 1 mildest winter 1 Li agi. of the oldest inhabitan the thermometer zero daily ase Januaries twiéen 40 and 70 below. temperatures have prevailed in the Yukon and' parts of Alaska since early last summer. when. it. ran itl prov tr tings, as well as currency. says that one of the early Princes of Wales was refused advances by Drum- mond's 'unless he had the consent of his 'father, the King, because the bank 'officials thought he was too extrava- 3 ank | statement of its assets and Habilities. = gant. Coutts' Bi then came for- and the Prince all he wanted, and as a result the latter transferred his account as soon as he came to the throne and could do as he ' pleased with his banking account. 'Business has been carried on upon the :same site, in: the mow historic building at Charing Cross; ever since the bank's founding. - members of the old iis rion Perth still 'will control it and it will retain its Individual : was only last year that for the first time in its long history it published a gn has ji launched here EE ee wwnslied here {victims and. their 'relatives, and to ob- récognition of: