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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1896-08-19, Page 5The Huron News -Record. STTpP.LEIVCNT'_ VOL. XVIII CLINTON, ONT., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19. r Wood I'uip Tiles. A new phase of Wood -Pulp industry is developed in the manufacture of paper tiles for rooting purposes, which are known to the trade as Norway tiles, They are pronounced superior in quality, appearance and price, and the insurance companies appear favorably disposed to staunp the tiles as a very dt•sirable and safe roofing material. Some of the qualities presented by this new factor in the line of buildings are its light weight, exceeding hard- ness, a nun-eonduc•tur of beat and soured, and sufficient elasticity to meet all the requireteents. It is urged that the diffieulty of procuring perfect- ly square stone blocks, except at, high rates, is thus overcome, for the pulp blocks, being cast, in a aware mould, are necessarily uniform, differ. ing from the stone and brick which ahsorh Yo rnucb heat in the summer. It is claimed that the new material prevents dampness, which is usually experienced in the case of sG,ue.- Manitoulin Expositor. N. orris. COUNCIL. --The council met pursuant to adjournment in the Town Hall Aug. 3rd. Members all present, the Reeve in chair. Minutes of previous meeting t ead and confirmed. The Treasurer presented his half -'early statement as requited by Sec. 2o1, of the Municipal Act. Moved by Wrn. Ishister, seconded by Jas. Bowman, that the said state- ment he accepted as sat.iefactory,-c•ar- t ied. Moved by Win. Ishister, second- ed by Geo. Kirkby, that Chas. McCrea, of Belgrave, he appointed arbitrator to act in formation of proposed Union S S. in place of Mr. Irwin, the latter hav- ing removed from this locality, -car- ried. Moved by Jas. Bowman, seconded by Thos. Code, that the Reeve and Treasurer be authorized to borrow one thousand dollars to meet current ex- ppenses,-carried. On motion on Jas. Bowman, seconded by Thos. Code the following accounts were ordered to be paid : E. Lenin, grading and building culvert on south bo,andary, $30; Wm. Riley. gravellingon E. houn.lar•y, $59.75; Gen, McSpadden, gravelling on E. boundary, $30; R. Burns. spreading gravel on E. honndar y, $1.75 ; J. Bolger, spreading gravel on E. boundary. $3.50; Sellars & Bell. ditch and culvert, $38.90 ; John Platen. grading un sideline, $20; Geo. White, gravellingon 6th con. line, $18.75; Jas. Scott, spreading gravel, $2.50; Chas. Taylor, ditch and pipe, $4.60; T. Healy, plank 50 its.; Jun. Mc- Millan, lutnber, $13.791 T. Laadltw, services as fence -viewer, $4 :R. Catcliff, drain. $7.50; Chas. Maguire, approach to bridge, $11 ; A.. Campbell, scraper. 75 eta.; R. Ockr•idge, right of way and approach to Ard's bridge, $13.75; Mun- icipal World Register Book, $2.75; Jas. Jackson, repairing bridge and culvert, $3.50 ; Jacob Miller, gravelling; on west boundary, $79.32 ; Jas. Gollev, spreading gravel on west boundary, $4.37 ; A. Carter, tile, 51 cts ; W. ,lark - son, ditch, $20.30; John D. Miller, gravelling, on north boundary, $25; T. H. Taylor, cedar for culvert, $16,80; C. Moffatt, culvert on north boundary, $1.50; R. Jameson, part payment on Ruttan's bridge, $150 ; Jas. Jackson, damage to horse by breaking through bridge, $10; for gravel, --A. Adams, $5.04; J. King, $3.78; Wm. Souch, '38.55: Jas. Shurt ie, $5.25; G. Maxwell, $4.65; E. Irwin, $5.10; Win. Shedden, $5.80: D. Farquharson, $5.60; S. Walk- er, $4.85; C. McDonald, $7.15; Wrn. Shoidrie, $4.15; Geo. Jackson, $1.80; R. Skelton, $2.10; A. Butler, $3.60; W. C. Wilson, $3.40; J. Golley, $18.90; Geo. Kirkhy,$1.85; Win. McArter, $1.- 75;Jobn Barr, $4.30; Geo. Pollard, $3.22; E. Bosmsn, $2.05. On motion of Thos. Code, seconded by Jas. Bowman, the council then adjourned to meet again on the 24th August. W. CLARK Mrs. Charles Hurton, of Hamilton, bas, with several other Canadians, fal- len heir to an Irish estate valued at about a million dollars. Goderlch Tow/ship. Connell met on August 8nt. Minutes of last meeting read arid passed. Moved by Jas. Con- nolly, seconded by Thos. Churchill, that the following rates on all real rateable property and taxable income In the township: For coun- ty purposes. 1 7/10 mills on the $; for township nurnoses, 2 2/10 mills on the $ • for special school. I mill on thn $ ; also the amount required for the several trustees for their respective RecnonR be levied on same property, and that a by-law bo passed confirming the same. Moved by Chas. Williams, seconded by Jas. Johnston, that the following accounts he paid: Sthr, minting, $1.80; ,Judge's Appeal Conrt 88.50; Mrs. McCrea. indigent, 815. Ad- jouruedto meet on first. Monday in September. NIXON STURDY, Clerk. Canada Gains. -- RICH OOLD TERRITORY TRANSFERRED FROM ALASKA TO THE DOMINION. Port Townsend, Wash., Aug. 12. -The richest gold ',lacer minor of Alaska has been trans- ferred to Canadian territory, and miners are now paying tax to British authorities. The territory in question is from throe to night miles in width and embraces the rich placer claims on Glacier and Miller Creeks, which heretofore wore supposed to he in Alaska territory. The transfer of territory is the result of re -surveys recently made. Port Townsend, Wash.. Aug. 12.-r'aptatln Wm. Moore. Canadian mn.Il carrier between Victoria and Fort Cudahy, E.N,T., has ,just re- turned from taking the first mail to the Yukon minora on British territory. Errors in the old survey were discovered last autumn, and during the winter Prof. Oglebe. who now has charge of a corps of British engineers. engaged in locating the boundary between the two countries• made the corrections. transferring a strip of territory from three to seven miles wide from Alaska to Canada. Over 200 miners were afi'ected. Moore says there can be no doubt as to the cor- rectness of the now survey. All of folder and Glacier creeks and parts of several other streams. rich in gold digging, are new claimed ny the British authorities. It appears that the miners concluded that the United States Government did not care enough for the terri- tory to establish a Government fort. inasmuch as Prof. ()glebe was permitted to locate such boundary lines as he choose without the assls- tsnce or prosodce of American officials. and no Werth were made to prevent the police from enforcing their regulations over that nortion of Alaska territory, Oglehe Rending his field notes and observations to Ottawa in charge of his Ron. He told Moore ho would remain in F wt. Cudahy until the arrival of American surveyors and check his work if they desired. The British Empire. Kingston Whig. A correspondent has compiled for UR the fol- lowing array of facts to illustrate the vastness of the British empire: Half the ships in the world are British. The best of them can bo converted Into ships of war in 48 hours. We have a million of soldiers in IndiaSome of thein have been brought to Malta, AR the sun rises. the British drum beat fol- lows it round the world. We can travel entirely around the world without leaving the British empire. The British navy is as large•as that of France, Germany and Russia combined. There aro 400,000,000 of people in the British empire It is said that our Queen would have to live another 70 years to enable her to Roo them all pass before her nightand day for all that time. She is the greatest Mahornmedan ruler in the world. God Save the Queen is sung in twenty lan- guages. The total valve of the United Kingdom Is now said to he $50.000,000.000. Added to this, several thousand millions are invested nut of this country. We own one-fourth of the railways in the United States. And half of the railways in Rooth America. We own the largest part of North America, that is, Canada. Olive Schreiner, authoress of An African Farm, says that. If any hig misfortune were to hap pen to England, 60.000.000 of English-speaking people In other countries would leap to their feet.. There are 1,000 miles of tramways in the Brit- ish Isles. Croesus, of ancient times, possessed about tour millions of our money. Neither of the ancient empires, like that of Persia,Greece nor Rome, were equal in size and wealth to the British Empire of to -day. London is as large as New York, Paris and Berlin combined. It Is 90 miles In circumference. There are as many inhabitants as there are in S wed en. Each morning there are as many men go into London on business as there were who fought In Waterloo in 1815, It costs five millions a year to provide their dinner. Eleven millions a year are spent upon charit- able objects. There are 88 hospitals. Mullah Reza, who on the afternoon of May 1 assassinated Nazr-Ed Deena Shah of Persia, was hanged for his crime at Teheran, WHOLE NO. 926 The Interior Portfolio. Friction continues over the subject of the awarding of the Interior port- folio, and Mr. Laurier seems to he as far as ever from perfecting his minis- try, says the Mail and Empire. The spectacle of a cabinet, incomplete at, its formation and for a month and more afterwards, is entirely novel. Wp have had prolonged Ministerial vacan- cies before now -that is to say, vacan- cies caused by death or by appointment to other offices -but this is the first time that a Cabinet has assumed power and has had to declare one of the de- partmental heads to he wanting. It is a question whether the creation of an incomplete Adnrioistr•ation is constitu- tional. A premier might, in taking Office, declare it to be his intention to reduce the number of his collealrnes, and for this purpose he might place two or three departments under the control of one man until the necessary repealing legisbition was passed. But it. is clear that where there is on in- tention to reduce the personnel and the Cabinet offices yet remain unfill- ed, a doubtful and dangerous preced- ent is ser. We might: have, were this thing allowable, a little oligarchy ruling during the entire inter- val between election and the meet- ing of Parliament, and perhaps con- tinuing its reign for a long time after- wards. If one depat tment can he without a chief, why not half a dozen? As there has been a tremendous rush for offices, statesmen falling over one another in their ea;erness to secure portfolios, it is morally certain that the vacancy is the result of a conflict of opiuiou touching the planner of filling it. There is reason to believe that, it was determined upon as a species of fraud upon Quebec during the pendency ef the Ministerial ns. The Manitoba Li here Is did great service to Mr. Laurier in the West. They poured their notledu•tione upon Rome and up- on the French-Canadians in good style, and held up Roman Catholics generally to the contempt and hatred of Chris- tians of other faiths. Mr. Laurier owes them something. But it would have been manifestly unwise to pay them their price before the Ministerial elections had been held in Quebec. Now that the Qnelhec difficulty is over, it new trouble has evidently presented itself. We all know what the Liberal policy with regard to Manitoba is. As uutluaed by Messrs. Tette, Laurier and Geoffrion, it contemplates clerical Sep- arate schools, granted either by the Local or Federal Legislatures, 'With this policy patent to all, one would al- most expect that the ManitobaLiberals would decline to enter the Cabinet. But such is not the position. As as nett ter of fact, they are all trying to get in, ie- gaidless entirely of gees' ions of prin- ciple Or of policy. Mr. Joe Martin is quite ready to coerce on the, Geoffrion principle at, the rate of $7,000 per an- num. So is Mr. Greenway, and so is that wordy Protestant whoesnipaigned ill Heldiniand a year or so ago -Mr. Clifford Sifton, It. seems that a large salary has a very mollifying effect upon Liberalism. All the old principles and all the old speeches can he retracted tor $7,000 it year, provided, of course, "conciliation" is tried in advance of action. The secret of the Interior va- cancy is the eagerness on the part of so many Public school champions to help the Separate school catoipeign for a consideration. Great, indeed, is hum• hug. The Pngngement• ring belonging to Mrs. William J. Brynn, which she lost in a carriage in Pittsburg, Pa., has been found by a vehicle cleaner at the stables of the Pittsburg Transfer Com- pany. The ring was a plain gold band, with a ruby setting. On the inside was the following inscription : "From Will to Mamie, June 4, 1880." It was bent, as if it had been trampled upon, and was broken. The police will forward it to Mrs. Bryan in New York. Queer llir. Glen. Our esteemed contemporary, Francis Wayland Glen, sometime Canadian Grit M. P., and now bowling Yankee advocate of the annexation of Canada to the United States, says the Hamil- ton Spectator, is a most amusip l son. In a late Issue of the Newt Sun Mr. Glen has a two column article on Canada and annexation thereof (a marked copy of which he sent THE NEws-RECORD) in which he says some things would Dot say. Hisideawell-posted is that i man the United States were to withdraw certain "privileges" which Canada now enjoys because of the good nature of that dedr old chap, Uncle Sam, this unfortunate country would be com- pelled to make application for annex- ation to the United States. Mr. Glen describes one of these priv- ileges in these words: We allow Canadians to land all kinds of merchandise at our Atlantic and Pacific ports and ship it in bond to any pant of Canada, And Mr. Glen proposes to take away that priviThge. That is, he proposes to deprive American ships, American ports American the loge business they now railways enjoy in the carrying of goods to Canada 1 He would ruin this country by forcing it to use its own ports and railways for the reception and t.ranspot tation of its own goods! There ate several other similar points in Mr. Glen's letter, W t,Nnk it would ething for Canada if Mr. Ge an len good his wayabout these matters. Were Uncle am to inaugurate a policy of non -intercourse with Canada it would probably he the very best thing that ever happened this country. We have been depending entirely too mach upon the United States, and unnecessarily so, for there is nothing the United States does for us that we cannot do better for ourselves. Mr. Glen's policy would create a feeling of self -depend- ence in Canada which would wake for this country's good. Come on with your coercion, Mr. Glen, so soon as it may be quite convenient, and the result wit) make you think that you didn't get, very well acquainted with the `an- adian people when you were e - senting" some of them in the Ca house of commons. News Notes. Two sunstrokes, one fatal, took place in Montreal. The son, of $100,000 gold was shipped to Canada from New York. Arrangements for holding the militia camps are now well under way. Ex -Mayor W. G. Smith, of Guelph, Ont., died suddenly of apoplexy, aged 49 years. Mr. Robert Dickson, of Brantford, had his a ,pine broken a"d his head seri- ously hurt by jumping off it moving train. Mr. Crozier, an actor in the Novelty Theatre, London, was fatally stabbed in a scene in the play, "Sins of a Night." Martin O'Horo, who shot his son in a quarrel in Fitzroy, and was knocked down by another son, died in the hos- pital at Ottawa. Conservatives of Queen's and Sun- bury have nominated Mr. R. D. Wil- mot to oppose Mr. Blair, Minister of Railway and Canals. Li Hung Chang, the great Chinaman, who is on a visit to England will re- turn by way of Canada. He will be the guest of the Dominion Govern- ment. t out for assail from Owen Sound on Wednes- day. A hig storm came up and they were probably drowned. Afor farm abrers are plications he ngprecei ed by the C. Pi R.authori- ties at Winnipeg. It is estimated that between 2,000 and 3,000 ruenifiel be re- quired,