American Mail.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7846, 25 May 1904, Page 8

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Tl f n > UC.KL^D, May 23. _ Ihe fo lowing items of news arc s\ O e anSier b rya:iheAmCriCan

ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION Tl, <;♦ t S?' LOUIS ' Aprii: 23. has cost the various State Governments, exhibitors, andconcesSanres more than 50,000,000 dollars. One distinguished victor went so far as to say on the opening day that °, «Xg O, sitions at Chicago, "Paris, and Buffalo were mere hints of the glories O f the Louisiana Purchase ...\posxtion. The grounds cover two sqtare miles, but every part of them is easy of access. An intramural railway, covering- fourteen miles of track, whisks visitors to any sec-. turn quickly. There aro many kinds of devices for transportation, and the results are gratifying. Prominent features are tho Cascade Gardens, the Colonnade of States, and tiie Festival Hall Gardens. With" cascades, statuary, and elaborate architectural features, they extend half a mile east' and west. They form f,he most ambitious scheme of lormal gardening ever undertaken at an exposition or anywhere else. The * estiva! Hall is 200' feet in diameter and 200 feet high. No previous exposition has displayed such a wealth of statuary. The electrical "display is equally remarkable.

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. ! . . , • WASHINGTON, April 23. It is becoming evident that Judge Parker, of New York, is to be tho standard-bearer of the Democratic Party during the approaching Presidential campaign. Mr William Randolph Hearst, owner and proprietor of the San Francisco Examiner, and of yellow journals in a number of American cities, gave the American public quite a scare by boomirig-him-self tremendously as a candidate. Of course, the danger of Hearst's candidacy is not yet over, as tho National Convention meets in St. Louis early in July, and not; until that is over can it bo definitely known wKo will be named by the Democrats. However, the Democrats of the great State of New York have instructed their seventy-eight delegates to St. Louis to vote for Jijdgc Parker's nomination, and only one State (Ka»fias) has instructed its delegates to vote for Hearst, while many localities are to send delegate es not definitely instructed for "any candidate. In the speeches at the Democratic Convention in Now York there were bitter denunciations of the administration of the Republican Party in both State and national affairs. The convention declared foo a government of laws, not of men ; no usurpation, no executive encroachments on legislative or judieal departments ; for opposition to trusts and other combinations tliat oppress tEe people and stiff* healthy, industrial competition; for a check on ' extravagance in . public expenditure, that tihejbwrden pjS the people's taxae may be lightened ; for a reasonable revision of the tariff, the maintenance of State rights and hpme.rule ; honesty in the public service; and the impartial maintenance. of the rights of labour and capital. ,

PANAMA CANAL. WASHINGTON, April 23. The State Department has been notined of the conclusion in Paris of the contract for the sale. to the United states Government by the Panama Canal Company of all its franchises and property on ' the' Isthmus. The money for the property will be paid over by the Secretary of the Treasury. It is understood that Secretary Hay will pay the State of Panama the 10,000 : 000 dollars to which it has become entitled. ' ■

_ Later despatches from Paris' show that the practical conclusion in Paris of the operations involved in the payment and transfer of 40.000,000 dollars had to be arranged so as not to disarrange the money market of either country. The amount will be divided into instalments, leaving America at intervals. Moreover; tho bulk of the money will come from (he Treasury, without drawing on the banks. Tho final payment i* to be actually made in Paris, instead of in the United States, to prevent possible claimants from ty-' mg up the money after it passed out of the hands of the United States and before it would be turned over to the Banquet of France. All litigation is to be avoided. Mr J. Pierpont Morgan is attending to the details of the tranaction, though it is said, with little or no profit to himself.