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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1894-06-27, Page 4The Marcn Mews Resor ►,, 41140 a raseSs 11.2S iu .A,dwgraCA, W1urAlit1:SJ.►.9•T# TiUAI:I 27111, la0i, 'CIaTGs' .i'ilpizr ZS Ui•' P. The returns tell the tale. The fight irhrOnglltut the indole 1'rovir:cc was plrob;L 1y the Most stem (Willg the last twenty years. The Conservative • fatty Was compelled to .tight against ' great odds -officials, money, pr•u,uised patronasge enol the like. In West Huron the ponservatives were handicapped in Slot bavlea. a cauaclic�ate in the field. False Patrons knifed Their own Isglrsinee• by the Most miserable deception known in the • annals of llattaadiau politics. In the town of Clinton the majority for Gari`ow was 100. Foe weeks his party' heelers here worked like demons and claimed 200 majority yesterday. Money flowed frou} the party fund and there was • no trouble, it is said, in securing slims ranging from +$1 to $15. This was one means of demonstrating the pure quality of the "Uhristia.u" Mowat Government. • 141r . (arrow's Irlajority in the whole Riding was about 107. South Huron has expressed limited faith in its old love and elect- ed Mr. 1\I.. Y. Masses), a new man, to support the, Mowat Guv- ernrncut. His rnaj,}urity over 111r. Weitmiiller is SIX'1'Eti:N. Here, as in other Hidings, Mr. Wuisuriller had to tight ttgaiust great odds, but the figures demonstrate his great popular- ity. East Huron rejected a Reforest Patron and re-elected Mr. Gibson, a straight supporter of the Mowat Government. In the Province of Ontario Mr. Meredith has,inuch reason to be proud of the manly fight he made. A POLITICAL MA.V SPEAKS. As an evidence of how England her- self is affected by her Markets being thrown open to the world, wemay quote a recent speech of Mr. Haslam, M. P., of Vancouver, -a practical tradesman. He said: "We all look upon Great Britain as the centre, and the best and cheapest place lathe world, for the manufacture of iron and steel and their products. A person would naturally think that. a country like Great Britain, with its wealth and all its other advantages, would be able to supply even its oWn market with those goods. I know that it is not table, I know that it does not do so. I import a good deal and when I can do it I aur loyal enough to Great Britain and her institutions to import from there. Last summer I wanted a small quantity of steel rails, only a little over a hundred tons, and I sent to London for ;.thein. They were brought there and ghipped to me, and what were they when I got them ? They were German rails, ,rnanufaLctur- ed by Krupp in Germany, with Krupp's stamp and name on them. If tree trade had all the advantages that the hon. gentlemen opposite claim that it has, could that condition of things ex- ist? I do not believe that it possibly could. They may have some means of arriving at their conclusions that. is al- together foreign to roe, though, from a business point of view, 1 must confess 'I cannot understand it." If such happens in England,. whose industries have been established by five centuries of protection, what would happen to Canada under the system the Grits advocate? Only this, that our industrial. life would be wiped out, THE SENTIMENT IN ENGLAND. •;;C',ri. rpitap , t 4$04. ,P#01QTJQR. Abe: 19110wluR epeecb by the Hop; LIi n rier Made 114 the Douse of 0941.- Merle in 18701 wasgtloted by Dr, Mentes due,. 4.144 in the Iatise of Comtt100 the other day. • "\Vhatseny hon. friend bits said as to my protective proclivities is perfectly true, and I do not deny that I have been a protectionist, which I am still It is asserted by many, and as- sumed by others that free trade is a LiberLtl principle, and protection a Conservative principle. 1 beg to dis- sent from this doctrine. "If I were in Great Britain I would avow free trade ; But I am a Canadian, boric and resistant here, and I think that we) require protection. I consider, however, that the present ttp`itf affords sufficient p}otection. "It may be said then this was not the real opject in view; but I care little for the motive -I only regard the results. We have at the present titue a 17S per cent tariff', whie 1,.is protec- tion for Canadian manufacturers against foreign competition. But that is not all. Against the English com- petitor he has the difference of freight in his favor, and against the Auierieau competitor he has the difference in the price of labour. "We have within ourselves the ability to create an industry. If it'be shown that we cannot maintain it, unless by h•gislation, either in the way of premium or prohibitory tariff, then I should be reatcly to take that into consideration." This is a pretty strong utterance ; Mr. Laurier even states that ho would go so far as to prohibit iintlortations iu order to keep our industries. Our read- ers will understand that Mr. Laurier would still be a protectionist were it not that he has to have a party cry to try to get into power on. Those indeed who know the Liberal leader intimate- ly, say that at heart he is still a strong protectionist. In'a speech in London on the even- ing of the 8th of June, Lord Salisbury said "that among the many prob- lems that were pressing for so- lution the labor problem was, perhaps, the most • conspicuous. It was causing general uneasiness and anxiety. While the population of the "country grew constantly, the means of employment did not increase with equal rapidity. The tariff wall which separated Great Britain from almost every other civilized nation was rendering the ghances of. self-support fewer than ever. The resulting diffi- culties were largely new ones, and it would not be surprising to learn that the legislative machinery hitherto used bad become inaulequate." The fact is that England finds her- self shut out from every other market in the world, while the products of every other country are brought to her shores free, and deprive her own sons of work. Lord Salisbury's hint that the legislative machinery up to the present adoped is inadequate is a pretty strong, hint that what England wants is a tariff that will protect her own labor. It will come lust as sure as it has come to every other country except England. As Lord Salisbury declared a year or so ago, "Our pres- ent system of admitting the products of foreign labor to drive our own labor- ing men out of employment is a noble system, but it isn't business." And t•he noble lord. might have added, "And this is a business age." NO MONOPOLIES. The Hon. John Haggart, Minister of Railways and Canals, on the 9th inst. addressed his constituents at Frank - town. We notice that Mr. Hogg/sit in dealing with the question of the tariff made an important announce- nient as to the policy of the Govern- ment.) Ile declared: "The Gnverulment have made the most careful inquiries as to the effect of the tariff. Where they have learned that any combine was formed between manufacturers for the purpose of increasing prices, they. have lowered the duties as in the case of lumber in the Province of Manitoba and the Territories. They will not tolerate these com- bines for the purpose named, and if it is shown in the future that such com- bines are formed with that purpose in view this Government will kill those combines at the very first opportunity. Tho design of the Government is by their tariff to keep the home market for. the producers so long as they do not abuse the privileges given then', but, if they do attempt to abuse the privileges given them they might as well understand at once that the Government will not tolerate any such conduct. I speak as a member of that Government and I have no hesitation in telling you that we are bound to • have keen coMpetition and the lowest po9sible prices to the consumers." POINTS AND 7'IIEIR DATES. .;...0.08'sgfut THE BATTLE IS UYER AND NOWAT IS AEAIN ELECTED Constitueney. lConservative. Liberal, Independent, Patrons. Addington Reid allida ....: Qlgonia, E 'Hearst FHarewel . Algoma, W savage Connive. Brant, N *\Vuod Brant, S a►Hardy.. , Brockville Jelly *Dana. , .... . Brace, N McIntosh .... ldlcCouuel., Brace, S *Truax Bruce, C. Dacl: Cardwell "Little..,.. , . • • • ......... Carleton Honk, • Duiferin Dundas Durham, E Durham, W Elgin. E login, W. Essex, N Essex, S Frontenance Glengarry Gteeuville Grey, C Grey, N April 17. -Mr. Martin, M. P., (Free Trader), who only a few days before voted for the removal of every vertigo of protection, objects vigorously to a slight reduction in the glutton duties for the encouragement of Australian and Canadian trade. April 17th. -Mr. Gilmour (Liberal). says the United States have never showiis any particular desire to trade with us. . April 17th. -The Grits denounce the duty upon apples. April 20th. -Mr. John Charlton, M. P., objects to the duty on fruit. So does Sir Richard Cartwright. Mr. Charlton also objects to the duty of 2k cents per Ib. (25 p. c.) on dried apples. 20th -Mr. Mills thinks that oranges, lemons, etc., should be made free for for the agriculturists. He forgets that town people use 100 lemons a4nd granges where the farmer uses ane. April 20th. -Mr. Charlton urges free peaches in the interests of the canning factories. Forgets the growers of peaches. April 215h. -Mr. Davies. M. P., (Free Trader), states the case of the fertilizer manufacturers. who are complaining against the lowering of the tariff on fertilizers. Mr. Borden, M. P., helps. Mr. Davies. April 27th. -Sir Richard Cartwright, thefriend of the farmer, objects to the duty en French oils for the making of salads and such other toothsome dishes. April 27th, --Mr. D. C. Fraser, (Grit Free Trader), admits to the House that he is a rneusher of the 8 p. c. glass com- bine, but pretests that he don't like combines. May lst.-Mr. Charlton asks for more protection on canned goods (two Canning factories in his constituency.) May 1st. -Mr. McMullen, M. P., in the interests of the poor farther, ob- s cis to the duty upon roofing slate. May 9th. -Mr. Edgar, M. P., and Sir Richard Cartwright, wants the tax taken off English linen collars in the inter est of the farmer. May loth. -Mr. McMullen and Mr. Casey, M. P's., object to the duties on velveteen in the interests of the poor. May 10th. -James McMullen, M. P., storms against the Government for let- ting the twine for poor fishermen in free. At which his Grit colleagues from Nova Scotia have symptoms of heart failure. May 1001. -John Charlton, M. P., urges the Finance Minister to wipe out the duty of three cents per ib. on wools such as are grown in Canada. He says we raise more of this wool than is re- quired, and consequently it is no pro- tection. Refuses to apply the same logic to canned fruit and vegetables, because there are two canning factories in his county. May 10th. -Hon. Mr. Mills says he does not `believe in agricultural protec- tion. May 10th, -Mr. John Charlton, M.P., objects to the protection of one cent per pound to the mackerel fishermen, and declares that the fish duties are useless and mischievous. May loth. -Hon. Mr. Mills objects to the duties on oysters in t•he shell, be- cause they are the diet of the poor and the farmers. May 10th. --Mr., Casey, M. P., (Free Trader), urges the importance of the flax fibre industry and thinks it should be protected. May 11th, -Sir Richard Cartwright takes the agricultural implement manufacturers to itis bosom, and thinks theydo not get protection enough uner the circumstances. May 12th. -Sir Richard Cartwright finds fault because the Canadian Post Office authorities refused to carry free thousands of copies of Henry George's works which had been fratnk- ed-ihto Canada by American politicians to help the Grit party. May 18th. -Sir Richard Cartwright declares that the taking off of the salt duties was unjust treatment for the salt manufactured. Harr *Whitney. f Campbell, t"Fallis *}raid *Brower McCall Grey, S Haldinlaud Ilalton Hamilton, E Hamilton, \W Hastings, N }listings, \V Hastings, E Huron, E. Gallagher..., *Bush .. .. • *Rieke Pesci • *Kerns .. *Wood Lockhart .. Dance ~McNeish , McKee *Balfour Lacey rlopkino, Kitchen Buphapau•,.. Hartman .... *Cleland MrKechnie. , "Baxter Huwt.an.l ... "%Iiddleton *G ib Ion \'ermilyea . , 'Gibson Huron,S iWeismilier,., *McLean.•... Huron, ti' "(Jarrow Kent, E . Ferguson, tic. Kent, \1' !Clancy *Verdi) Kingston 'Smythe Harty . Lain bton, E I \leCornilel:.. Larnbton, \\' Mackenzie.... Lanark, N ;*Preston..... Caldwell Lanark, S "ilathesou.. , Clarke Leeds *Beatty Lennox '*Heachamt.., Symington... Lincoln '*Hiscott..... 'Tlionpeou London a.... *Meredith .. Hobbs Itliddleoez, E. Jackson. Middlesex, N *Taylor • Middlesex, W. . , . I Leitch *Ross Motck � . . *Harcourt .. , *McNan; litcn Valens *McDonald .tells *Kidd *Dynes Fox W ilio Buchanan.,, Fo: d *Wintermute Dodson ;11oOillivray.. *McPherson Fox Gamey Metcalfe *211e\i.:hul Senn Smith Hancock ...... Haggerty . *13igga.• Graham *McLaren Milne Conti oliy - "McCallum„ curd .. Ferguson Wilson 13risco Muskoka '"Langford ... Cockburn..... Nipissing Longlirin....'Fournier Norfolk, N "Carpenter .. Norfolk, 8 I 'Charlton.. Northumberland, E ?*Willoughby. Webb No-tiluntberland, W !Mitchell *Field . Kirk Ontario, N 'Gtendinniug.. • Chapple. Ontario, 8 •Miller *Dryden {*Bronson *O'Keefe, . •Mowot OttawaMcVeity... €Dttrocher, . Oxford, N Oxford, 8 I *McKay Parry Sound I*Beatty Sharpe Peel 'Crawford .... *Smith Perth, N I*Magwood....McPherson... Perth, 8 i Ballantyne.. Peterboru', E !Lancaster.... Blrzard Peterhoro', W (Winch *Stratton..., Prescott *Evanturel . Prince Edward ;Gibson Renfrew, N 'Shaw.. • •. • . Renfrew; S i . .. , . . Russell ' Tytler Simcoe, F *Miscampbell Sitncoe, C ^' Thompson .. Simcoe, W Duff. 'McIntyre .. Beck *Shove Alexander Crawford Dalton Cruse Ewing • Horstman Nancokvill Weiderholt '311eNeili Cross Wilson I*Caren Barr *Cam phell ...1 . I Rebillard , ...' . Rothwell Harvey I --;Lawson *Paton. i i*Coutts *Currie (Bennett I Stormont Fulton lfack. I Toronto, F *Ryerson.,... (Armstrong... Toronto, W *Crawford ... Lindsey... Toronto, N *Mailer Tait Toronto, S *Bowland ...Moss Victoria, N *Carnegie, . , Victoria. 8 Bryens.. , ... *McKay Waterloo, N .,... *Robertson... Gardiner Waterloo, S ., . *Moore , Welland McCleary.... *German .... ....... Wellington, E 'Ilatnpton. , .. *Craig Wellington, 8 I *Morrie Wellington, NAllan. Wentworth, N *Flatt Wentworth, 8 !Wilson *Avr•rey. York, E 'Ryckmaa.... *Richardson.. York, N 1 "Davis. Hutchison York, W *St. John.. . Hill. Thurston Campbell Snoemaker Sipes Park 'Derby *Tucker Nicholson We 1,.ave Mantes. ,We have °ream Ground Deiaiues. We have. usiins. We have lovely , Japn onie Cloths. We have Mack Silk Grenadines. We have Satin Check Muslims. We have' Black Wool Grenadines. We have Crea Crepon. We have Black Ground. Dela .nes. We have Beautiful Pine- apple Tissue. We have nice soft Lawnettes. -W e have beautiful fine Pongees. We have those fine Cream Cashmeres. Choice Crean, Bengaline, Lawn, Piques, Ging- , hams, Prints, Hot weather Blouses and Waists, Thi. Hosiery, Warm Day Corsets. All here. The ninnes marked thu (5) are the successful candidates. An analysis of the list shows that the Government captured 42 s"ats, the Opposition 20, In dependents 2, and the Patrons 14 seats, with incomplete returns and several Ridings to hear from. The result goes to sliEw that the government has receiv- ed a severe shaking up if Patron ancj,Independent members prove true to their professions. IT IS PROUD 70 BL' REMINDED. The Montreal Herald is a strong Grit sheet. It is all the while crying out for a change of commercial policy for the Dominion. It should be remem- bered this is only its political opinion. When it cones to deal with trade and finance it has adifferent tune, Here is how it expresses its pride at our successful meeting of the financial storm. "The address of Sir Donald Smith, the president of the bank, is a masterly review of the financial situation, and it is gratifying to be reminded by him, that during the year of depression, the Dominion of Canada, when compared with •other countries, enjoyed a very remarkable prosperity." It will be noticed that the terra used "reminded" is evidence that the herald quite agrees with Sir Donald. Smith, --- In fact it means that the Heraticl knew it before. -Then let it say so when it talks politics. The truth is that the Herald, like every other great junrnel, when it has not its political cap on, recognizes that Canada's fiscal system has done more than ever will be realized in preventing our people being ruined in the general financial and commercial gloom that has been :abroad in so many other countr•ie3. CURRENT TOPIC'S. County President Gaunt and the Grits lied Mr. Janes Connolly out of many votes. Those who so disgraced themselves will in future be judged by their past record. A despatch to the Toronto papers says that Mr. Dalton McCarthy, M.P,, accepted an invitation 'to a Patron of Industry Picnic, and then passed hrough upon a palace car and didn't get off although there was a brass hand to meet him. The despatch de- clares that the Patrons hacl neglected to pay the Patron lawyer a retaining fee, and hence tits failure to turn up. It is very funny to see tine Patrons hacking up Mr. McCarthy. All he has • ever done for farmers is to fleece them with law costs, and that good and hard. • County President Gaunt has well earned the leadership of the dark -lan- tern Gritbrigade in West Huron. He loves darkness rather than light. The contract for a 12 -foot .statue of Sir John Macdonald, to be erected in Kingston, Ont., has been let to Mr. George E. Wade, the English sculptor. The figure is to be completed and ready for unveiling on October 1st, next. The unveiling will be with'military honors, and non-political. The pedestal will be about 15 feet high, so that the figure, which will be in full robes, will be most imposing. The statue is a far simile of that to he raised at Montreal, and be- fore being shipped will be approved by the Baroness Macdonald and Sir Charles Tupper in London. Mr. Wade has made figures of Gladstone, the Duke of Clarence and others. • For several days the Globe broke out in many spots with the following in prominent type :-"Look out for Roor- ba.hs. No charge that can be sustain- ed is held until the last days of the cat npaiggn." The (dote wits not aware that the words would place the Grit party of West Huron in such all awkward posi- tion. The Grits reserved several Roor- bachs until the last days of the cam- paign in the hope of capturing the Grit Patron vote. They captured the Grit County President who proved himself a stronger Grit than anything else. What do Conservative Patrons think of the county president? DOMINION DAY IN CLiNTON.-The parade committee are hard at work get- ting everything in readiness for the morning of the 2nd, when, weather permitting, the grandest parade ever attempted in Western On- tario will be presented to the people of Clinton and all those who come in to see it. The cos- tumes and uniforms have been ordered from a professional costumer in Toron- to and there will be about 75 horses mounted by horsemen and horsewomen in the costumes of different nations. Parties having horses or saddles that they wish to place at the disposal of the committee would confer a favor,by leaving word with either Gen.. F. Emerson or H. B. Combe. In the evening It grand bicycle parade will take •place, the wheels will, he beauti- fully decorated. All owners of wheels aro invited to take part. GILROY & WISEMAN. w. THE BEST IN THE WORLD, Cornbe's Instant Headache Powders, 15e .A .EGX COMPP'S BAKING POWDER, made fresh every week. . 2543 7''l:JET L.A . �.�0.8-'IOJ.at1 iS.il19 YrOn l3ood 5 IP 0r $1. (Pure I'a,ris Green. in Ib 'Tins TANGLEFOOT and FLY PADS. We carry the largest stock in Huron. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. We do n.ot hold ourselves responsible Jor utterances 0/ correspondents or opinions expressed under the head. -Ed. NSW'S-RECOIWD. To the Editor of The News-itecord. DEAR SIR :-A letter appeared in THE NEW -RECORD of May 30th, signed by Jno. E. Tom, I. P. S. West Huron. This letter he claimed was to explain the Porter's Hill School difficulty. As I am the teacher of this school at present this letter has drawn me into the_ conflict. I feel reluctant to com- mence any newspaper controversy but on the other hand I feel it my duty to defend myself against the ungentle- manly attack which the Inspector has nettle upon my work. in this letter he stated that the pupils sat for over two hours in the room without any ventila- tion save that afforded by a girl put- ting a book under a window for a short time. In another part of this letter he stated that the windows were so open that the wind blew the leaves of the books when lying on the desks. Now, although these statements are contradictory, neither of them is true. The school -room which is occupied is ventilated; as :follows : A square pipe made of boards six inches wide and covered on the inside with an iron grating, communicates with the out- side air and is always open, and is'on a level with the floor. Between this room and the unoccupied room there is another opening two feet square. It is also near the floor. The air hi the unoccupied room is allnost as pure as that outside for there is a window -pane 'broken on opposite sides of the room. There is also a door between the two rooms which is opened when required. In the ceiling there is an opening 9 inches by four inches which is never closed as the bell rope passes through it. There is also a trap door in the ceiling which is opened when required. When Mr.' Tom visited the school the pipes, six inches square,' the open- ing between the rooms two feet square, the opening four inches by nine inches in the ceiling were open all the time and the door between the rooms was opened and closed as necessity demand- ed. At the recess I opened all the windows in the room. When the Inspector visited the school there were 09 pupils present and there were seats for 74 pupils. The in- stances tri which three pupils sat at one desk occurred 10 this way : Two little girls who were starting to school, one of them for her first day and the other her second day, wished to sit with their older sisters and I allowed them to do so until they became ac- cestorssed to school life. This is quite customary in rutal schools. He also stated that the pupils get very little teaching. I have labored earnestly and faithfully since 1 began teaching this •school, as the ratepayers of this section well know. If the In- spector possessed the amount of pru- dence which he ought to possess he would have adhered to his subject, two teachers, and paused before mak- ing any such uncalled statement. Since I have started to write I have thonght it proper to informs the teach- ers and rate payers of the the county how the Inspector has treated me since I came to this school. But be- fore doing this I wish to state I am a stranger in this community.. Mr. Tom visited this school on A pril 18th. He entered the school without rapping. 13e began by telling me to proceed with my regular forenoon work. I did so. I did my work honestly and answered all questions asked. Mr. tom gave no work to any pupil in the school. After remaining a half day he left. His next move was to send in a report of his inspection. In this report be filled in all the blanks, as to progress and stand- ingof pupils examined. I looked upon this as spiteful and intended to in- timidate me aur I was only a teacher and he was Jno. E. Tom, I. P. S., West Huron. 1 procured a copy of this report. I stated the circumstances attending its fabrication and mailed it to the Minis- ter of Education. I also charged Mr. Tom with neglect of duty, stating that Mr. Tom had never examined a class in history in any school' in which I had taught and that I had taught in one school for six consecutive years. This was mailed to the Minis-. ter on May 11th. On May 22nd Mr. Tom again made his appearance at the school, but he rapped this time and ' gave work. being careful to take two classes in History. I leave the teach- ers and ratepayers of the connty to conjecture what made him make the second visit. Now in order that the ratepayers may have an idea of the amount of inspection the classes re- ceived at the'last visit I shall append a table showing , classes and subjects taken : Class. Subject taken. V Arithmetic, Sr. IV Arith., B. History, Lite- ture, Grammar. Jr. IV Arith., C. History. Sr. III Spelling. Jr. III .Arithmetic. Sr. II Spelling. Jr. II Nothing. Pt. II Work by teacher. Pt. I ., . Now it is quite evident that the In- spector is not in a position to state, in the public press, that the children get very little teaching. He should sit down and take the Second Reader and read the fable entitled "The .Boys and the Frogs," then meditate upon the same and goyern himself accordingly. Now the conduct of the Inspector should suggest two questions to the minds of the thoughtful rate payer, viz: Should an inspector • who could stoop to fill in that • report retain •the confi- dence of the rate -payers of West Huron and is the expense of paying such a man a just use of the finances of.the county, when the report which he sends to a Trustee Board is not to be depended, on. Thanking you for your valuable space I am, yours &c., JOSN BEATTY, Teacher S. S. No. 5, Goderich Tp. News N CB• The Spanish Parliament has adjourn- ed for it week as a mark of, respect to President Carnot's memory. The town of Keighley, Kansas, was almost wiped out by a cyclone Monday night. Many people are said to have been killed. Up to Monday night 231) bodies had been recovered from the Albion mine in Wales, where Ole explosion took place on Saturday. Caleb E. Healy, the inventor of the Healy motor, was drowned by the cap- sizing of a boat in Lake 85. Clair dur- ing Sunday afternoon's storm. At Montreal Monday, Joseph Pomin- ville, a bookkeeper employed by the Sun Life Insurance Company, was sentenced to four years in the peniten- tiary for the larceny of $1,568. ; The writ for West Hastings has been issued. Nomination will take place July 4; polling, if any, a week later. Mr Corby will doubtless be returned by acclamation. Santo, the assassin of President Carnot, had the stiletto with which he killed his victim, concealed in a huneh of flowers which he carried in hie"' hand. The sinking of the tug J. D. Nichol, ndar New York, caused the death of 38 persons, as far as can be ascertained. Three of the bodies have been washed ashore. Waterloo Chronicle :-"A farmer s up before %ur local magistrate the other day for weighing himself with a load of hay and fined $1 and costs. The difference in weight in the load was 250 pounds. Truly a big hay- seed." Last week Brussels Gun Club had a match to decide who was to become the possessor of the silver cup present- ed by T. Jones, of Leadbury. Each man had a chance at 40 birds and some excellent work was done, as the follow- ing will show :-D. C. Ross, 33 ; Jas, Irwin, 30 ; J. T. Ross, 30 ; W. M. Sinclair, 30; J. l'3allant ne, 20; Dr. McNaught on, 28; Jas. ,Tones, 28; Jno. Hewitt, 28; A. C. Danes, 28 ; R. Watt 10. D. C. Ross is consequently the winner of the cup.