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GOVERNOR-GENERAL OPENS FIRST SESSION I, WO S CHUB H INPUNTS
,• s OF CANADA'S FIFTEENTH PARLIAMENT
i ereer5I5 OP SPEScft ;PROM THE THRONE ment • entered into with the British
IIis Excellent said : Government hoe already been instru-
mental in stimulating immigration
"Honorable Members of the Senate: from Great Britain.
"Members of the House of Com -
"While it is of importance to attract
mons new settlers, it is equally, if not more
"It gives me pleasure to welcome important,to assist those who are al -
you important duties in this
to yourready established on the land by re -
first session. of the'fifteenth Perlia -'during the cost of agricultural pro-
duction. To this end a measure will
be introduced offering wide facilities
for rural credits.
"My Ministers are of the opinion
that a general increase in the customs
tariff would prove detrimental to the
country's continued porsperity and
prejudicial to national, unity. Our
trade within the Empire should be
encouraged by all means consistent
with our national welfare. In this
connection a trade agreement entered
into with the British West Indies, Ber,
"Canada has been signally honored media, British Guiana and British
by the selection of a member of its Honduras will be submitted for your
Government as president of the sixth approval.
assembly of ea
the League of Nations.; "The Board of Railway 'Commis-
g
"I congratulate you on the growing sioners has been instructed to include
prosperity of this favored land. In in the general rate investigation now
the opinion of my Ministers the im- inprogress a special inquiry into the
proved conditions warrant further causes of diversion of Canadian grain
substantial reductions in taxation, and other products through other than
"Every effort will be made further Canadian ports.
to ` reduce expenditures. To aid in
the reductten of expendttu-•:a in ad-
ministration certain : of the depart-
ments of the public service wrl be way,
consolidated with others and Govern- "A Royal Commission to inquire
meat services more effectively co- fully into the claims that the rights
ordinated. of the Maritime Provinces; in regard
"An agreement has been made be- to the operation of the Intorcoionial
tween the Government and the rail- Railway have not been observed.
road companiesproviding a larger "A bill to provide for the transfer
measure of co-operation in immigra- to the. Province of Alberta its natural
tion activities in the British Isles and resources, and :a bill amending the Do -
on the Continent of Europe. An agree- minion Elections Act"
Ment of Canada.
"Since our heat meeting the Empire
has been called on to lament the de-
mise of Queen Alexandra. In our
Dominion the memory of the late
Queen: will ever be, held in affeetion-
ate remembrance. At the earliest op-
portunity a resolution will be submit-
ted to you expressing the ,deep sym-
pathy of the Parliament and people
of Canada with His Majesty the King
and other members of the Royal Fam-
ily in their bereavement.
"My" Government proposes to sub-
mit provisions for the completion
forthwith of the. Hudson Bay Rail-
COAiL CONTESTANTS
MARX TIME AGAIN
Conference Has Been Fruitless
of Results and End of Strike
is Uncertain.
A despatch from New York says:-
Anthracite miners and operators,
deadlocked in their attempt to nego-
tiate a new wage contract and end the
bard coal strike, are apparently wait-
ing far something to turn up or for
one or the other side to break up their
joint conference.
CARDINAL MERCIER'S
CONDITION IS SERIOUS -
Belgian Prelate Troubled With
Persistent Heart Weakness
Following Operation.
A despatch from Brussels says: -
Cardinal Mercier's condition is regard -
Curious Scenes in Flooded
Areas of England -Seine is
Subsiding.
Wargrave, Berkshire, England, Jan.
10. -Punts were employed to trans-
port worshippers to church sevices in
the flooded area of the Thames Val-
ley to -day.
The vicar of one clench near here
made the arrangements himself for.
punts to ply between the homes of the
parishioners and the church, which.
were entirely surrounded by water.
He communicated with all the mem-
bers of his flock, and they were eager
to undertake the Sabbath voyage.
The floods have given rise to many
curious scenes. Boys are getting good
catches of fish in the main streets of
some towns, while in the country di's
triets people are hunting rabbits from
boats, the animals having taken re-
fuge from the water in the tops of
the hedges.
Sea gulls are swimming over the
Chertsey golf links and it is a not un-
common sight to .see swans placidly
floating through the streets of the
flooded villages.
At Pangbourne is an inn through
which a large 'stream is flowing, the
water entering the 'back door and
pouring out the front.
The floods are falling at all points,
the average drop to -day being three
inches.
Paris, Jan. 10. -Under the influence
of bright, cold weather, the Seine
River and its affluents and other
rivers which are out of - their banks, '
continued to fall' to -day. The waters
of the Seine dropped perceptibly hour
by hour.
Moet of the snow on the hills, the
melting of which, together with heavy
rains for many days, caused thefloods,
has now disappeared, and fear of any
serious catastrophe is said to be de-
finitely past.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
OPENS SEVENTH YEAR
Greatest Event of 1926 Will
be the Entrance of Germany.
Geneva, Jan. 10. --The seventh year
ed as very serious, owing to petsistent of the existence of the League of Na-
heart weakness and unsatisfactory tions began to -day, and the League
nutrition. It is declaredby the attend anniversary finds all -League circles
ing physicians that, although there i$ convinced that the Geneva organize -
no imurediate danger, it is feared the tion has definitely and safely embark
Cardetbl may gradually waste awala ed on a usseful career of international
The Auxiliary Bishops of MaIines co-operation destined to be helpful'
•To observers it appeared to be an and Brussels have addressed a letter to mankind.
endurance test for the negotiators, to the people of their dioceses, saying: The future activities of the League
aside from the ability of the idle men' "The health of our beloved Cardinal will give first place to disarmament
and the coal compunies to hold out Archbishop is not improving; his studies, while the proposed economic
indefinitely. weakness is becoming accentuated. He conference is expected to have a pro -
The negotiators cleared the table . askedthat extreme unction be admin- found effect on international relations,
Thursday of all pending proposed : istered, and this request was complied ' especially the problem of equitable dis-
peace plans and other matters vital to (with," tribution of raw material, which has
ending the controversy, and returned The ,latest official bulletin issued • become such a burning topic ,on both
to a desultory discussion of the 'says that the Cardinal's condition le sides of the Atlantic, --
various ideas that *had already been i stationary and that he is still very 1 The greatest single event in . 1926
advanced by either side. weak. will be the entrance into the League
When evening began to fedi Chair -of Germany, which will have a 'per-
MOVEMENT
man Alvan Markle, the neutral mem- ALL GR.AINmanent seat on the Council. Germany
ber of the. conference, suggested ad- l WILL BE TO PACIFIC is likely to have an important influ-
journment, and as there was nothing! ence on the new Orientation of League
before the conferees that looked like Lake Port Terminals Congest- activities, particularly in the direction
a starting point toward a settlement ed and Railways Refuse ;so
reduction of armaments, believed
the six miners and six operators again I so necessary to relieve the economic
filed out of the Union League Clete! Transportation. land financial burdens of Europe.
where the meetings are being held. Winnipeg, Man,, Jan. 10. -Lake' •
-
port terminals are plugged with grain.;THREE PRIZES TAKEN
. - No further movement eastward will BY CANADIAN POULTRY
--- he accepted by railways. Grain en!
ARSENIC POISONING route will fill the available space re-
IN IMPORTED APPLES mainin . Grain is dribblin g by rail Mario Farmers Win at Medi -
g.
eastward in larger quantities than 1 son Square. Garden Ex -
Attention Again Called to: other years because of tidewater de- hibition.
mend but the maximum that can be
Danger by British Officials. expected togo from lake terminals b New York, Jan. 10. -Canada took,
Ade,spatch from London says:- train until avigation opens will be three prizes at the Madison Square
British officials for the second time 10,000,000 bushels, grain men assert. (Garden poultry show, which closed on
In recent weeks have called attention Old Country commitments meantime, l Saturday. Hon John Martin, Min-
after the storage at Atlantic tidewater+ ister of Agriculture for Ontario, was
to the danger of arsenic poisoning and Buffalo are exhausted must move among the guests on the closing clay,
from imported apples. out via Vancouver. Western route Theawards to Canadians were as
The Middlesex County Council has cargo space offerings, exporters as- follows:
distributed a leaflet to dealers refer- serf, are equal to the demands,. Pigeons, Jacobins, ied, young cock
ring to the recent announcement of -1, (Stafford Watson, West Toronto,
the Minister of Health that certainPrince of Wales is Licensed Ont. Jacobin, A.O.C., or stock hen -
imported apples have been found to 1, Stafford Watson, Jacobin, A.O.C.
contain arsenic on the skin surface. As Medical Practitioner stock, young hen -1, Herbert D. Sher-
The leaflet paints out that, in • spite •-A. despatch from London says :- wood, Tillsonburg, Ont,
of recent precautions, quantities of The Prince of Wales recently became The third World Poultry Congress
dangerously contaminated apples are licensed to practice 'medicine, mid- will be held in Ottawa in August,
still on sale, and warns the public wifery and surgery, when he was in 1927, it was announced to -night 11
against eating the skins. Fruit deal- vested at York House with the unique the United Stater' comniittse. of the
ers are also warned to investigate distinctior of an honorary diploma of congress. Besides Canada and the
their stocks and to give instructions the "A re ient and Honorable Society' UniL•ed States, forty cernIxies are CN -
regarding washing and brushing of ^ pethecaries." FIe is the only hon- petted to have' exhibits at the con-
apples. orary member. grecs.
MUTT AND JEFF -By Bud Fisher.
��JeFF,LET'S GO ME•OUNO
To See The Tomas AV
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NAP wA5 A GRE
GENERAL AND r•
WANT to see HIS
'ToMt3:
Prof. Adam Shortt
Canada will be represented on the
Preparatory:• economic ooeirerence
which 1e to be held in Geneva shoetiy
by Professor Aden Shontt, one tine
professor at Queen's University,• and•
more lately of Ottawa.
CORNWALL GIRL LOSES
LIFE WHILE COASTING.
Eight -Year -O -h Boy SIides to
Death in the Riviere Rouge.
Cornwall, Jan. 10. -Coasting on her
sleigh through the gap between the
river bank and the ice, Bessie Beau -
claire, five-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs, Patrick Beattclaire of East
Cornwall, was drowned -in the St.
Lawrence River within a short dis-
tance of her home yesterday evening.
With several playmates, Bessie had
spent - the afternoon coasting down
the river bank onto the ice. While
she was home to supper, the water
rose and the ice became separated TORONTO.
froni the bank, leaving a few feet of Man. wheat-No.TOROTORO1 North.,$1. 6;
open water.
After supper, the child returned'to No. 2 North., $1.78; No. 8 North.,
WORLD -EXPORT TRADE IN IRON AND STEEL
TO ►y.• DOMINATED BY GIAfTIC TRUST
A despatch from London says -
Tho organization of the German iron
and steel industry into a trust through
the forthcoming combination of prin-
cipal Ruhr firms is being, c-oselyy fol-
lowed by the same industry in this
country -an interest which is intensi-
fied by indications from the ,United
States that the new monopoly is 1i"lce:y
to be partly financed with American
money.
The principal impression of indus-
trial authorities here is that the suc-
cessful conclusion and operation of the
German trust is almost certain to lead
to similar action by iron and steel
manufacturers in other European
countries, including Great Britain,
When this is achieved, the correspon-
dent is authoritatively informed, the,
next step will be an attempt to reach
an agreement between these national
trusts regarding European, if -not
world export trade' in iron and steel.
According to the information here,
the new German trust when organ-
ized -will control forty per cent. of the
Iran and steel output of that country.
This is without the Krupps, which ore
definitely understood to have refused
to enter the combine, although the
firm will co=operate .fully with it re-
garding output and prices.
The Krupps, it is -understood, are
unwilling to join the combine because
unwilling to sink the name of the fat
mous firm in the new trust, partly for
sentimental reasons and partly on ac-
count of the trade value of the name.
The organizers, of the combine plan
to reduce manufacturing costs one
dollar a ton, which in the present days
of small markets and fierce coonpetl-
tionewilI be a valuable gain, In addi-
tion, the trust will be able to stabilize'
price by limiting the' output to the
demand.
Iron and steel circles admit the ad-
vantages under which the German
trust wee be able to do business, and
for ;that reason prophesy that it is only
a question of time, before firms in other
European steel -producing countries;
take similar steps toward a worldng
agreement, if not complete unification•
regarding prices and output.
When that time comes -when there
is but one central iron- and steel organ-
ization in every European emus -Ley -it
is anticipated that strenuous efforts
will be made to frame an agreement
;regarding prices and, output between
the various national combines for
European and perhaps world trade.
That is the present ideal of a large
section of the industry, both in Great
Britain and Germany. During the last
year there have been a number of
conferences between representatives
of the heavy industry of those two
countries regarding the possibility of
an Anglo -German < agreement. The
initiative, it is said here, came from
Germany.`
British industrialists, however, so
far, have taken the stand, first, that
it is impossible to make such an ar-
rangement until the iron and steel
industries of the countries concerned
have become trusts, or at least started
to operate under a close working
agreement; and second, that it .would
be difficult, -if not 'impossible, to arrive
at a satisfactory agreement which
does not include all European iron and
steel producing countries.
'RUSSIA TO EXPLORE
DESERT ARCTIC ISLE
LeninLand May Serve for
Aerial and Wireless Bases
Between Europe and Asia.
THE MARKETS
the hill with her' sleigh, having no $1.70
Icrtowledge of the existence of the
gap. On the first trip down the sleigh feed, 48%c.
shot off the bank into the icy water, Ani, corn, track, Toronto -No. 2
carrying the little girl with, it. Both yellow, 93e.
went some distance under the ice, and leal'ifeed-Del.. Montreal freight's,
it was not until after an hour's aux_ bags included: Bran, per ton, $30.25
thus search that thechild's distracted to 031.25; shorts, per ton, $32.25 to
father saw the body, entangled in the $33 25; middlings, $39:25 to 040.25;
e beneath the ice. The ice
good feed Roux, per bag, $2.80.
g p , Ont. oats -44 to 46e, Le.* shipping
sleigh rope
had to be chopped through before the points,
body could be recovered. Ont. good milling wheat -$L48 to
Montreal, Tan. 10. -Emile Narieel, $1.50, f.o.b, shipping points, according
to freights.
Barley -Malting -65 to 670.
Buckwheat -No. 3, 70c.
Rye -No. 2, 90c,
wen through ice uv ere Man. flour -First pat., $9,30, To -
Rouge at Labelle on Saturday after- route; do, second pat., 38.80..
noon. The two girls were saved by Ont. flour -Toronto, 90 per cent.
an older brother, skating near by, who -pat., per barrel,• in carrots, Toronto,
fished them out of the water with a 36.60; seaboard, in bulk, 36.60.
Man. oats- No. 2 CW, nominal;
No. 3, 5234c; No, 1 feed, 51c; No. 2
8 years of age, was drowned, and his
two sisters had a narrow escape when
the sled on which- they were sliding
t tl h theof the
Riviere
branch from a tree.
Butter and Creain Valuable, Lard -Pure tierces, 18 to 181,x0;
Says Speaker About Diet tubs, 18% to 19c; pails, 19 to 19%c;
Straw-Carlots, per ton, 39 to $9.50.
Screening -Standard, recleaned, f.
o.b. bay ports, per ton,' 320.
prints, 20 to 2034c; shortening, tierces,
A despatch front London says:- 1834 to 14c; .tubs, 14 to 1434e; pails,
Ida as a food is an enemy of brain 1434`to 15c; Weeks, 15% to 16c.
workers, according to Charles E. Cheese -New, -large, 22 to 2234c
Iiecht, Honorary Secretary of the twins, 2234 to 23c; triplets, 24c;
Food Education- Society,speaking at Stiltons, 25c. Old, large, 28e; twins,
p g 29c; triplets, 30c.
University College here an the subject • Butter -Finest 'creamery "prints,
of diet. While cheese, butter and 47c; No. 1 creamery, 46c; No. 2, 44
cream are valuable foods; milk,' he to 45c. Dairy prints, 41 to 42c.
said, was . good for babies, but not Eggs -Fresh extras, in cartons,
for mon. • 54c; fresh extras, loose, 52c; fresh
firsts, 50e; storage extras 45c• stor-
Increase Shown in Travel age firsts, 42c; storage seconds, 84
e, sec
Ile, 300; hens, over 4 to 5 lbs., 24 to
'A despatch from Prescott says:- 25c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 22c; roosters, 180;
A -tremendous increase in travel lie- ducklings, 5 abs. and up, 30 to' 32c;
:ween Canada and the United. States turkeys, 35c; geese, 22 to 25c,
from this port is shown by the follow- rBmes15 ttan5 -cand=picked, Ib., 6c;
ing figures seri 1924 a total of 170,980 i P Maple produce. -Syrup, yr imp.
Between Canada and U.S. Dressed poultry=Chickens;' spring,
the ei r f this l $2.40; 5 1 ti 2 30 per'
persons crossed rive from r gal,
. ; per -ga 1n, p
port, In 1925 a tote' of 206,202 cross- ( gal.; maple sugar, 18., 25 to 26c.
ed -an increase of approximately
86,000. Traffic across the St. Law-
rence here is as heavy at present as
on many days in mid -summer.
Sir Hugh John Macdonald
Resumes Duties at Court
A despatch from Winnipeg says: -
Magistrate Sir Ilugh'John M icdenald,
who had been confined to hishome
with a cold during the past week, has00111, 8eJ,OJ per Darrel.
resumed his defies at, the City PoHeavy steers, choice, 38' to $8.50;
Police do, good, $7.50 to 7,75; buteber
Court.' He showed no ill-effects from steers, choice, 37 to $8; do, good,
the illness, and plunged into the work, 46 to $6.65; butcher heifers; choice,
with his accustomed vigor. 36.75 to 37.50; do, -geed, 36,75
Honey -50 -Ib. tins, 11% to 12c per
lb.; 10 -Ib. tins, 11% to 12c; 5 -Ib. tins,
12 to 12%c; 234 -Ib. tins, 14 to 144c.
Smoked meats --Hems, med., 26 to
28c; cooked Kama, 40 to 42c; smoked
Polls, 22c; cottage, 23 to 25c; break-
Y,ast bacon, 32 to 36o; special brand
breakfast' bacon, 88 th 39c; backs,
boneless, 80 to 37e.
Cured meats -Long clew: bacon, 50
to 70 lbs., $22; 70 to 90 90 lbs., 320.50;
20 lbs. and up •$19,50; lightweight
rolls, in barrels, 343.50; heavyweight
to $6.25; ; do, med., $5 to $5.50; do,
coin., 34.50 to 34.75; butcher cows,
choice, $5 to 35.25; do, fair to good,
$4 to $4,50; butcher bulls, good, 34.50
to 35.75; bolognas, $3.25 to 33.50;
canners and mutters, $2.25 to $3;
springers, choice,. 390 to 3110; good
milch cows, $75 to 385; medium cows,
$45 to 360; feeders, good, $5.75 to
36.50; do, fair,' $4.50 to 35; stockers,
good, $4.75 to 35.50; do, fair, 34 to
$4.60; calves, choice,.313 to 313.50;
do, geei, $11 to 312; do, grassers,
35 to 35.25; good light sheep, $6.50 to
$7.50; heavies and -bucks, $4,50 to
35.50; good lambs, $14.50 to$15; do,
Med., $12.50 to 313.50; do, bucks, $10
to $11; do, culls, 011 to 312; hogs,
thick smooths, fed and watered,
313.10; do, f.o.b., 312.50; do, country
points, 312.25; do, off cars, 313.50;
select premium, 32.57.
MONTREAL.
Oats, No. 2 CW, 64e; do, No. 8,
61c; do, extra No, 1 feed, 58e; do,. No.
2 local white,56c. Fleur, spring
wheat pats.firsts, $9.30; seconds,
38.80; strong bakers, $8,40 to 08.60.
Rolled oats, bag 90 lbs„ $3.40 to $3.50.
Bran, 380.25 to 301.25. Shorts, 332.25
to $33.25. Middlings, 339.25 to 340.25.
Hay, No. 2, per: ton, car lots, 314.80.
Cheese,• finest wests, 201,4 'to 21c;
Butter, No. 1 pasteurized, 423% to
42%. Eggs, storage extras, 44' to
45c; storage firsts, 40c; storage sec-
onds, 38 to 35e; fresh extras, 52c;
fresh fleets, 47c. Potatoes, per bag,
car lots, Quebec, 03 to $3.25.
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Woman,Murdered on
Lonely Farm Near Manotick
A despatch from Ottawa says :-
Murdered by an unknown assailant as,
she was about toput a batch of bis-
cuits into the oven to bake, Miss Mary
Klfayle, aged 70 years, was found
dying in her lonely farm home near
Manotick, fifteenmiles from here. he
died on her way to hospital without
regaining consciousness.
.Napoleon Pelletier of Manotick, al-
leged to have been in Miss Kilfoye's
employ, was arrested in Ottawa.
'A later despatch from Ottawa
says: -Police report- that Napoleon
Pelletier, 21 -year-old farm helper and
lumber -jack, has confessed that he
killed Miss Mary Kilfoyre, the aged
woman who was found in a dying con-
dition in her farm home near -Mane -
tick Station.
When Pelletier appeared before
Magistrate,Joyn Thursday afternoon,
he signed a written confession sub-:
stantially the same as given out by the
police officers. He wasremanded fort
a week. 1
In his, signed statement, Pelletier
says the aged woman three, a hammer
at hint, before he struck her with the
axe, and that he struck her only once,
He put the rope around the neck with.
the idea of stepping the flow of blood.
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A,despatch front Leningrad says:-
A Russianexpedition of exploration
is to start shortly for the little known
and remote desert island of Nicholas
IS. Land in the Arctic Ocean, recently
rechristened Lenin Land. ' Announce-
ment of
nnounce-mentof this expedition has called pub-
lic attention to the fact that there are
at least 27 Russian scientific expedi-
tions now et work in various piliece of
the Soviet's territory, warlcing"to add
to the world's lchowledge ooT geo-
graphy, archaeology, ethnology and
other sciences.
About, 900 miles south of the North
Pole, Lenin Land, a huge island, was
discovered bye the Russian" explorer
Vilkinsky in, 1913: It has never been
explored nor properly charted. : Its
shores, which are believed to extend
forinto the Arctic Ocean, have never
been established.
Great importance is attached to this
expedition, because it is believed • the
island may serve as a base for aerial
and wireless oontmunication between
Europe and . Asia. Owing- to' its ex-
treme northern location, Russian
scientists believe it offers an excellent
spot for observations of meteorolog-
ical conditions .and the movement of
the polar ice..
British Royalty Shies .
at Marlborough House
A despatch from London says: -
None of the royal family seems to
want to live at Marlborough House,
the city home of the late Queen Alex-
andra. There was an effort to set it
aside for the Duke and Duchess of
-Yorke and den it was suggested to
the Prince of Wales that it would be
a fitting plate for, the heir to . the
throne to live.
But the old palace is "too red
plushy" for the younger generation, of
Windsors. And they have been rather
frank in saying so. It was done over
in Victorian days to conform with
the taste of Queen Victoria, and is a
good deal of a museum. Those were
the days of collectors. Gifts of every
sort Were herded together in houses,.
with the result that Marlborough
House has much of the look of a cur-
iosity shop, with a sombre background
of dark wood and heavy draperies.
The Prince of Wales prefers York
House, which is very simply furbished,
and now affords sufficient toom for
his entertaining, as he has recently
taken over :a suite in St. James'
Palace.
Ex -Kaiser's Film Greeted
With Jeers in Britain
A despatch from London says: -
Sentiment against a film depicting the
former Kaiser in the military splendor
of pre-war days and in exile in Hoorn
is spreading through the country fol-
lowing its recent angry reception by
war veterans at Sheffield. Several
London theatres which .billed it have
announced its withdrawal.
The film was produced by William
himself from his own scenaria. At
Northampton on Thursday the ap-
pearance of the film was greeted with
cries of"Take it off, it's a disgrace'"
One theatre manager received an
anonymous letter saying: "If you put
the Kaiser Bill on the screen to -night
it will be riddled with bullets,"
The organist at a Leeds theatre
during the filum on Thursday turned
the wrath of the audience into merri-
ment by playing "Show Me th'e Way
to Go Home."
Prince George Plays Heroic
Part in Hongkong Fire
A despatch from Hongkong says: -
Prince. George, youngest son of the
British sovereign, did heroic work dur-
ing a fire in the hotel: Hongkong
shortly after the New Year had been
ushered in.
Despite effortsof firemen, troops,
bluejackets and volunteers; the hotel
was wrecked, with damage estimated
at $3,000,000.
The Prince, who is on a tour of
naval duty in Eestern waters, was
among the units landed from the bat-
tleship Hawkins to assist the fire bri-
gades.
The hotel was full of guests when
the flames were discovered, and many
escaped scantily clad. The fire, of un-
determined origin, burned for several
hours, doing extensive damage, and
the hotel roof collapsed at about' amen.
two lives were Iost, •
Weather Records Were
Smashed in 1925
A despatch ":from Maws says:--`
During 1925 several weather records
were broken in the Ottawa district,
The coldest weather ever recorded
was experienced on January 19, when
the mercury fell to 36 degrees below
zero. The month of July was the
coolest July since 1891. August was
the driest August since 1809, receiving
only 1.04 inches of rain, while Sep-
tember was the wettest September on
record, receiving 6.12 inches of •rain.,
The month of Octoberwas the coldest
October ever recorded since reeords
were first started at the Experimental
Farnt, 86 years ago,
The mean temperature foto 1925 was
41.3.degrees, beingslightly.below.the
average of 41,9 degrees.
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