The Clinton News Record, 1923-9-6, Page 3Canada from Coist to Coast
11111i/ex, N,S,s--A member of the
Federal laitlieries Dept. hae been it
to Yarr000tat and Shelboarae coonties
to oanatiet a further irsquiry in regard
to thai adaisability of chaagiug the
lobster fishing season. The question of
ehaaging the season so that fishing
may be permitted in the winter or fall
has boon conatimtly raised and it is
confidently expected that a settlement
will soon be made.
St. John; N.B.—The Canadian Indes
pendent Oil Co, which have two large
oil tanks a coatenay Bayaare now
ereetiog P-dditiODAi tardiS, one large
one with capacity of 167,000 gallona
for fuel oil and aour small ones'each
with a capacity of 40,000 gallone for
gasoline and lubricating oils.
Quebec, Que.—What is considered
an important departure in marine aPs
fairs is the'departure of a coastwise
vessel whieh took a large cargo and a
number of ,passengers for Newfound-
land, The pretant, trip is more in the
nature of an experiment to determine
the peasibilities of a trade between
Quebec Montreal, and tbe west' coast
of Newfoundland. There is at present
no line of Vessels engaged in thie trade
and the provincial government is said
to be- keenly interested in the result.of
the venture,
Ottawa, Ont—The Soldier Settle -
meat Board has compiled crop produc-
tion reports on 18,216 ^soldier- settlers'
farms feta the season of 1922. They
show a total of field, orchaad and gar-
den crops aniounting%to 815,966,203.
Eighty-one per cent. of ,the settles
had a farm garden, 79 per cent. had
milch cows, 43 per cent. brood sows
and '77 per cent. poultry. They ac,
,zounted in the year for the -raising of
7,594,018 bushels of wheat and 6,-
00,731 bushels of oats. '
Winnipeg, Man.—What is conceded
to be,the largeet other 'e sten in the
Wiruiipeg sthek yard e wet sold during
last week, The animal weighed, 3,170
pounds and sold for 1260, the higheet
price broaglit at local yards ainee the
war, The animal, whieh came from a
Wainwright, Alberta, ranch stood six
feet at the withers and is destined, for
a while at least, to be a aide show at-
traetion.
Regina! Sask.—It is eatiinated by
the Provincial Government that Sas-
katchewan has 12,332,000 aceee devot-
ed to wheat this year and 6,098,000
iteres to oats. Other leading crops are
as follows; barley, 617,000 acres; rye,
878,000 acres; flax, 461,000 urea; and
hay and clover 270,000 acres,
Calgary, Alta,—They came to holi-
day and they stayed to work.. Tourists
arom the United States registeringmt
the Calgary auto camp have purchas-
ed lands in Alberta and are remaining
to engage in farming. Twelve holi-
daymakers in the past month purchas-
ed farms in the province and one
booght four for himself And his eons.
So far 4,600 tourists have registered
at the civic auto camp, many of them
arriving via the new Banff -Winder -
Field, B.C.—Having completed one
of the most spectacular crossings of the
aaockiea, oecupyiag 26 days, an expe-
dition organized by the Apalacian
Mountain Club of the,,United States
have arrived at Jasper Park, Thaex-
pedition headed by Pearl Peabody of
Bostonleft this point journeyipg with
Rack train of sixty-five horses across'
the highest passes o'f the Reekies,
through 250 miles of mountain terria
tory selddin traversed and never. be-
fore by any expedition ;of this kind.
There are nine men andeight woinen
in the expedition.
U.S. Secretary to Visit Canada
'Secretary of State Hughes, of West-
ingten, a visitor ,to Canada for the
neetinge of the Canadian Bar Aseocia.-
i011 in Montreal early" in September,
will be one of the guests of honor
.tt a bariquet tendered by the Govern -
Prince of Wales Seeks
Quiet Holiday in Alberta
A despatch fame London says :—An
official sbatemeet about the Prince of
Wales' tour says His Royal Highness'
plans are now complete. He will em-
bark on the Empress of France on
September 5. On reaching Canada he
. will proceed direct to his rat 13. in
Alberta, where he will -reside during
his whole stay in Canada. He is due
back in London on October 20. '
All statements published about the
Prince's accePtance of public engage-
ments while in. the Dominion are with-
out exception incorrect. His Royal
Highness has not accepted nor will
he accept any public engagement of
any kind in connection with his com-
ing Canadian tour,
In the first Phiee' he will not ap-
pear in Canada, as the Prince of
Wales but as the 'Duke of Cornwall.
In the second place he is not in any
sense -making ae official tour but is
merely going as a private gentleman
to epend a quiet holiday on his estate.
ONE WEEK'S FIRES
DESTROYS 56 YEARS
Forests of Ontario Will be De-
pleted in Twenty Years,
Says Robson Black.
• A despatch from Port Arthur, Ont..,
says:—!Forest fires in Ontario during
the past summer have destroyed five
to ten times the amount of timber put
to use by all the mills in the province,"
declared Robson Black, manager of
the Canadian Forestry Association,
who is at the head of the lakes arrang-
ing details oa a three months' coir
Taiga in Northern Ontario in the ha
terests of fire prevention.
Mr. Black states he had the report
of one company . that lost 3500,000
cords of pulpwood due directly to
carelessness of prospectors setting out
fires in the woods. One other com-
pany lost fifty million feet Of pine.
Perhaps the most serious loss of any
WAS that in which an ,Ontario firm
lost io one -week's time enough pine to
keep the company's mill going for
fifty-six years.
"We have come to the point where
we have got to face the cold facts With
regard to forest fire prevention.- At
the present, vote 'of ...waste the forests
of Ontario will be depleted in twenty
years," said Mr. Black 9! fires con-
tinue at the rate*of this summer, On-
tario is going to face a large exodus
of population attached to the wood
esers. It will, mean that scene of
towns in the province will cease to
exist as towns which are now'depend-
ent on the product of the forest for
existence."
, •
Count Yamamoto succeeds
Late Baron Kato as Premier
'A despatch from Tokio says:—
Count Gonabel Yamamoto has been ap-
pointed Premier of Japan, to succeed
the lito Baron Kato. The appointment
followed a summone to ..court by
Prince Regent 1-lirchito; who
acted upon the advice of the
Genre, or elder statesman, The
new Premier is progressing toward
the formation of a Chbinet which is
expected to be completed soon,
A monster electric light giving 60,-
000 candle pewee is used in motion
picture maldng.
NEW PROPOSAL TO A VOID HARD COAL
STRIKE HAS THREEFOLD BASIS
• A despatch from liarrisbarg, Pa., necessary for the rendering or prompt
says :—Cloveemor Pinchot has submit,
"ted to representatives of the anthaa-I
s cite linalera and oPetatoas:hi jointi
conference, a proposed basis ef settle-,
meat; providing for a 10 per vent.
crease in pay, recognition of the.,
eight-hour day for all employees, and
full, recognition of tae -olden by the
operators, without the check -off, but
with the 'right to have a union repre-
sentative present when the men are
paid. I
The three main points of the scheme
• '
of settlement were set forth 00 foil
lows ;
(1) Reeogniton of the basic eight-
hour day for all employees. If.longer
hours are necessary Lit certaia times,'
or in certain occupations, the overtime,
be paid for at the eight-hour rate.
(2) A unifoani increase of 10 por
cent. to all employees, this iaceease to
take effect September 1, I
(8) Full recognition of -the tmion
by the opeaatort, without the check -
oft, but'with the right to have a union
representative present when the Men
are paid.
.A, fourth point proposed complete
vbcognition of the principle of eollec-
.-
tive bargaining,
The Governor also saggeated that,
.'as a method oa settling differencoo in
ape of ditingreement between names
mid operators, each side telect 1 01011
agreeable to both to attend and take
part in discaseions, but without a
Tete, and not as an umpire 05 -referee,
xt then Unable te'agree, he proposed
tile diffeeences bo referred to the Coas
I/Ilia/on Board, "which will be pros
added with whathver equipniont 10
derasioas. ,
,In opening his addiess the Governor.
eaid:
ieme justification for proposing a
basis Upon whicb I believe this etaike
can he prevented, with justice to all
pal 10S, le ree o ,
"First that this controveesy has
continued tartil a chalice of agreement
by direct negotiations by the miners
and operators has been lost,
"Second, thet the interest of the
miners, the operats and the public
all require thatthis controversy shall
be settled witheat 8 strike.
"Third, that the public is entitled to
a voice in the discussion,and the
rights of the people ,generally deserve
consideration, at least, as much aio
thcae of the miners and operators."
lle declared he based his proposals
Upon information assembled "..rom OD-
crators miners and Government ex-
perts, with the belief that they afford
is basis Tor' settlement aeasonable and
j mat
1•10.1 -hen outlined his plan for a set-
tlement, adding, that he did not regard
the question oa the open dr elosed shop
tie at issue ili the controversy,
After expressing the opinion that
an agreement on the terins suggested
should cover a term of one year, Gov.
eraoa Pinchot, aiseussed the wage
miettion it detail -
"The whole body of wage rates in
the anthracite field," he said, "is anti-
quated) haphazard and ,aoiley-eumbed
with inequality. 10 needs revision. I
suggest that the Antliaacite
tion Board bo authoalzed by the Joint
Wage Seale Committees to undertake
and complete within a year iathormigh
tevisiot."
CANADIAN M.P.P. BIDS
BRITONS EMIGRATE
Mrs. Mary Ellen Smith, of firi.
bah Columbia, on Visit to.
' London.
A desnatha from Leaden says
;—
Among may distidguishea visitors to
London is Mao, Mary Ellen Smith,
"Our Mara Enema she is called in
British Cplombia, win; fdaims to be the
first woman in the world to take her
liusbaud's seat in Parliament. This
happened during the war, when ala.
Sinith, the Financial Minister in the
Government of British Colombia, died
and bis wife, contesting his eeat in
Vancouver, entered Parliament by a
majority of more than 3,000 over her
aearest opponent..
Mrs. Smith is over hero on a anis-
sion from the Canadian Governmeat
to persuade more Britons to emigrate
to that Dominiori. "Canada," she says,
"is the gem in the British crown,
When I SOS the teeming millions hero
who seem to lead aimless aives I want
to tell them of the land a promise
beyond the seas and to remind them
that in Canada, which at present has
a population of only nine millions,
there is room for one hundred and
fifty millions." ,
For several years Mrs. Smith has
represented Vancouver in the British
Columbia House of Commons. In 1921
she was given a seat in the Cabinet as
Minister of Education, which position
she held for a year before resigning,
thus, becoming the first woman to be
O Cabinet IVIinister.. She had better
luck than some of her colleagues, for
every measure that she advocated be-
came law,
The last time aMary Ellen" visited
this country was in 1911, but she does
not seem to have found as much im-
provement, this tirne as she had ex-
pected. Englishwomen, she thinks, do
not co -Operate enough.
There appears," she says
"too
mica of the 'we can leave it, to
George' eort of feeling among them.
While some things have improved in
the country in others there has been a
complete standstill.
'Women, in rny opinion," she added,
"are resting too much on their oars
at the present time and are too satis-
fied with what they have achieved to
achieve more. This is a great pity."
The Canadian woman M.P. is an
energetic speaker, and While here she
will -address meetings in several:cities.
Smee her arrival she has been asked
if she will allow herself to be nomin-
ated for a Britislaconstituency, but it
is unlikely she will accede to this" re-
quest. In her own words, she would
vather "stay and blaze the trail in
Canadathanstart afresh here." She
will, however, meet Britain's three
women Members of Parliament—lkidy
Astor, Mrs. Wnotringham and Mrs.
Philipeon—and discuss international
questions of particular interest to wo-
men y'rith them. Her plans also include
visits to several European countries,
in each of which she intends to "boost"
Canada.
U.S. Government DiSpiiys
.-,
rrieneny Attitudee
A despatch from Washington
says:—The purpose of the visit of
Secretary of State Hughes to Canada
ie described at the White' House as "a
manifestation of the friendly attitude
of this Government toward Canada."
A high offichtlsaid it was- in accord -
0051e with the action of the late Presi--
dent in stopping at Vancouver, and
that it was deeme1 fitting from time
to time to give evidence of the frieridly
feeling of this Covernment toward the
people of the Dominion.
Anzac Teachers Take Posts
in Canadian Schools
A despatch from Vancouver, PC,
says:—A number of school teachers
have arrived here on the steamer
Makura from New Zealand and Aus-
tralia to take up positions 'in Cm-
adian sabools with the opening of the
neat term.
Sir Edmund Walker
President of the Canadian Bank or
Commerce, which has, taken over the
Bank of Hamiltom
1JURY GIVES VERDICT
IN WAWA DISASTER
Advised Government Super-
vision as Protection
• Against Fire.
A despathh from Huntsville says:—
The following verdict Was reached by
the jurors empanelled to inquire into
the death of Miss Annie Leigh, OVe of
the victims of the disastrous fire at
Wawa:
"That Annie Leigh came to her
death accidentally at the Wawa Hotel,
Muskoka, On August 19, while en-
deavoring to escape from the burning
building,"
The jury deprecated the absence of
systematic inspection of public build-
ings for the purpose of testing fire-
fighting appliances, and also made a
number of recomMendations.
The jury foliar' that "there being at
present no proper System of Govern-
ment supervision, inspection be en-
forced to provide for adequate fire -
escapes, efficient fire -fighting equip -
meat, the organization of a watchihan
service, and for is general alarm ays-
tem, either by means of a power -house
whistle or for electric gongs within
the buildings, or for both. It further
recommended that all elmmtor or hoist
shafts in such buildings be of fire-
proof construction, and that in the
case of the building of new hotels or
lodging -houses construction of a fire -
retarding nature be used withM rea-
son, and that where Possible segregat-
ed units be erected, inateaa of one
large building."
President of the Bank of Hamilton
Mr. CYrus, A. Birge, of Hamilton,
president of the Bank of Hamilton,
which ts being merged with the Cana-
dian Bank of Cbminerce.
Estimates of 31,000,000 of terri-
torial revenue for the province of
New Brunswick in 1.922 will be fully
realized by the end of the fiscal year
on October FIst, according to a State-
ment made by the 'Minister of Lands
and Mines. The Minister further
stated that indications point to a busy
season in the woods during the com-
ing fall and winter.
MARIE, PILLAR OF THE
“urru: EN1ENTE"
Puts One Daughter on Throne
atgrAlotheie,Thusr;iurAcapuretiabe
s.tirrieaBel"
cIt for
A despatch from Paris says:—
While iso still refuses to be awayecl
from his stand in the Ruhr by British
statesrnea, Premier Poincare cold not
resist the determined appeals ef a we -
man in the interest of her children.
While Prime IVIlaister 13a3dwia and
Lora Curzon continuo thole unavailing
effoats to induce a chaage in French
policy on reparatiens, Queen Marie oa
Roumania, the most aiplornaig sovea-
eign in Europe, Lae auceeeded in a
few minutes' eonversation in inducing
M, Poineare to depart from his Policy
of 'neutrality in regerd to Greece,
where her daughter now reigns next
to her husband, George II.
Careful manoeuvring by this wise
woman diplometiet has at lett borne
fruit in the announcement that France
is, about to, recognize the sovereigns
now watching over the destinies of
Greece.
• The persuasive powers of this wo-
man, of whom it is said that she has a
stronger will than any king, are in-
deed extraordinary. She has played
no small part in the restoration of
equilibrium to central Europe and tbe
Balkans, and apart from her cam-
paign to getRounsania into the war on
the side of the Allies, though her hus-
band was a member of the Hohen-
zollern family, she crowned all pre
-
mos achievements by marrying off
her two daughters to Greek and Serb-
ian moiarchs. • She is now planning a
marriage between her youngest
daughter and the ICing of Bulgaria.
To -day she is consideredone oa.the
pillars of the Little Entente—that bloc
of nations resolved to keep and en-
force pease in the Balkans and central
E
Queen Marie also is famous as an
author and playwright, her best
known play being "The White Lily,"
which is ROW being produced at the
Paris Opera, interpreted Loie
er. The Romnanian Queen is a mem-
ber of several European academies,
notably the French Academy of Pol-
itical and Moral Science, where her
enntributione 85e eagerly received and
usually approved.
,
British Treasury Discards
the Historic Quill Pen
A despatch from London says:: --
Quill pens are at last succumbing to
the march of progress here, as the
Treasury has decided th dispense with
them in Southwark County Court,' al-
most their last stronghold. One of the
chief reasons for their passing ie that
,few workmen know the alit of. their
manufacture.
, Philip Cooper, 'head of the London
firm 'whose predecessors supplied his
Majesty's stationery office with quills
for about 100 years, predicts that the
industry will he extinct in a fety'years.
As the decades have passed, 10 18 stet -
_ed, parents are more „and more de-
clining to apprentice their sons to this
trade, believing that the resources of
invention would doom it. •
All quills used to come'from Ras-
sia) and later from Germany, but the
war stopped importation. One of the
finest -writing styles in the world is
said to be the Hudson Barquill, whose
texture is harder than the ordinary
goose quill, with a black leather in-
stead of white. Lord Beaconsfield used
the Hudson Baypaoduct when he was
Prime Minister. But Queen Victoria
favored the lowly goose.
That a much larger quantity of pulp
wood is being worked up in Canada
than in former years is evident from
a comparison of the fighres for 1922,
as compared with those for 1921. In
1922 the total cut of pulp wood was
8,923,940 cords, of which 74.2 per cent.
was used at home, and 25.8 per cent.,
or 1,011,332 cords were exported to
the United States. In 1921 of a total
cut of 8,273,131 cords, only 67 per
cent. -was used in Caloada and 33 per
cent, exported to the United States.
TORONTO WELCOMES THE t..ONIDON SCOTTISH .
Toronto haa 8. wenn welcome f or the men, of the /so/1(ton Scottith, who au, now en:camped at tho Canadian
NS -teasel lexataition °llamas. Tao L Widen Scottisb la the parent regiment or the 7611i. Highlanaeta, who aasisted
In tto official w0ic0o 11 ono picture tile 11)011 8.551 theran Bata up at the city Hall, and In the ether Mayor Maguire
exteraling the Weleoine to Celonel CI OWee, D.5.0., 1110 tear commandthlr, '
Y1 ^
Weekly Market Repor
Manitelm wheat --No. 1 Northern
$1.27.
Marlitoba barley—Nominal,
All the above, track, bay ports,
Am, coen--No. 2 yellow, $1„.03,
Barley—Nominal.
Boeksvheat—No, a, aonsinal.
Peas—No. 2, nominal.
Pepa—No. 2, nomiimi,
Montreal freight,
huge incloded; Bran, per ten, $25 to
826; ehorte, per ton, 327 to 329; mid-
dlings, 383 to 336; good feed floue,
32,15 to 32.25.
Ont. waeat—No. 2 white, eon -anal,
Ont. No. 2 white mita—Nominal,
Ont. corns -Nominal,
Ont, flour ---Ninety per cent. pat, in
jute bags, Montreal, prompt shipment,
$4,50 to 84.60; aaironto basis, 34.40 00
34,150; bulk seaboard, 34.40
Man, f1our--1s0 pats, in cotton
sacks, 36.90 per bbia. arid pats., 36.85,
allay—Extra No 2 timothy, per ton,
tiack; Toronto, 315; No, 8 timothy,
313; mixed, 312.50 to $13,50.
Straw—Car lots, per ton, traela Te -
ren to, 39.50.
Cheetio--New, large, 24% to 25e;
twins, 25 to 26e; triplete, 26 to 27e;
Stilton, 20 to 27e. Old Stilton.% 33e;
twine, 83% to 34e. New Zealand, old
ebeeee, 31 to 82e:
liuttea—Flet creamery prints, 37
to 39e; ordinary creamery, 35 to 36c;
No. 2, 33 to 34e.
Eggs—Extras, In cartons, 41 to
42c; oxtails, 39 to 40e; firsts, 34 to
35e; seconds, 27 to 28e,
Live- poultry --Spring chickens, 3
lbs. and over 36e; chickens, 2 to 3
30c; hens, over 5 lbe., 205; do, 4 to 5
lbs., 22c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 17e; roosters,
15c; ducklings, over 5 lbs., 22c; do, 4
to 5 lbs., 20e; turkeys, young, 101b,,
and -up, 25e. •
Dressed poultry—Spring chickens,
3 lbs. and over, 38e; chickens, 2 to a
lbs., 35c; hens, oyer 5 lbs., 80e; do, 4
to 5 lba., 28e; do, 13 to 4 lbs., 205;
roosters, 18e; ducklings, over 5 lbs„
28c- do 4 to 5 lbs.'25e turIceye
youpg, 10 lbs, and up, fi0e.
Beans--Cenadifin, hand-picked, /b.,
:0 prsnies 6 /20
Maple products—Syrup, per imp.
gal., $2.50; per- 5 -gal. tin, $2.40 per
gal.; maple sugar, lb., 25e.
Honey -604h. tins', 11 to 12cpa
lb.; 104b. tins, 11 to 120; 541o. tin, 12
to 13e; 2% -lb. this,- 12 th 14c; comb
honey, per doz., $3.75 to 34; No. 2,
$8.26 to $8.50. ,
Smoked Mee —Hama, med., 27 to
200; cooked Lame, 48 to 404; SMO4ed
Z'OnS, 22 to 24e; cottage rolls, 23 to
26e; breakfast 3,sicp 90 th fass; epee
chi/ brava breakaaet bacon, 34 to Bac;
back, bonelese, 32 to 138s,
Cured meate—Long clear loner), 50
to 70 lbs., 318; 70 to 90 l3)a,, $1740;
90 lbs, aad up, 46.60; lightweight
rolls, in barrels, 336; haaaYwele0
relit, 33a.
Lara—Pure tierce, 104 th 15%cj
tubs, 16 to 1648e; pails, 161a th 17e;
prints, 18e, Shortening, tier, 14 to
14355c; tubs, 1414 to 14%cl Pails, 1431
05 laa'ae; Prints', 17 to 17%e.
Choice heavY Mama, 37 th 38.25;
butcher ethers, choice, 36 to 36.70;
ao, good, 35.50 to 36; do, mede 35 to
35.50; do, coma 34 th 35; buteher
heifers, choice, 36,25 to 36,75; do,
med. $5.50 to 36.25; de, corn., 34 to
, uteher cows, ,choice, 34.50 to
35.26s do, raed,, 33 to 34; canners and
cutters, 31,25 to 32; feeding steers,
good, 35 to 36; do, fair, 34 to 35;
ethelsers, good, 34,50 to 35.26; do, fair,
33 th 74; milker's, sariagers'mica, 380
to 3100; ehlv, choice,
ee, 310.50 th $12;
Go, med., $8 th 310; do, come 34 to 37;
larnbs, ewes, 312; do, bucks , 312 to
312.50; sheep, choice, light,' $0 to
36.50; do choice, heavy, $4 to 35; do,
I culls and bucks, 32.75 to 33.50; hogs,
fed and watered, 310,85; do, f.o.b.,
1310.23; do, country points, 39.85,
Hog quotations ere based on the
price of thick, smooth hogs, seld on a
graded basis. Select premium, 90 cents.
MONTREAL.
(ben, Am.e.No. 2 yellow, 31.04%.
Oats, No. 2 CW, 59%0; No. 13 CW..•
-5184c; extra No, 1 feed, 5738c; No. 8
local white, 551/2e. Flour, Man. spring
wheat pats., lets, 36.90; do, 2nds,
$6.40; do, strong balcers $6,20; winter
Pats, choice, $5.75 05'35.85. . Rolled
oats bag, 90 lbs., 33.25, Bran, 328.25,
Shoits, 381.25, Middlings, 386.25. Hay,
No. 2, per ton, car lots, 315.
Cheese, finest easterms, 2488.a, But-
ter, chomeet creamery, 34%e. Eggs,
selected 380
Commercial cows, 38; good butcher
hiefers, $5; con), dairy bulls, 32.25 to
32.50; calves, grassers, $9 to 34,25;
do, sucker, 36.50 to $9; good average
quality lambs, 310.25 M 11.25; do,
real geed, $11.50; hogs oyernment
graded selects, 311.82%; ungraded
lots of suitable weight, 310.75; sows
$7 to 37.50.
Six Nations Chief. hi London
Chief Dealcateh, of Brantford, Ont.,
chief a the Six Ntaions Indians,
caught by the photographer in Lan -
011 his, Way to Westminster Abbey
th attend the memorial service held
for the late President Harding.
Vessels Under 250 Tons
Cannot Carry Liquor
A despatch from Ottawa says:—
Hon. Jacques Bureau states that an
order has been issued directing that
rio clearance papers should be issued
to vessels under 250 Mns which are
carrying liquor to a foreign port. This
order applies only' to liquor in bond,
the Minister stated, as the Depart-
ment of •Cuethons ,has no control over
duty-paid liquors. The purpose of this
order is to fix a standard of veseels to
which clearance papersanay be grant-
ed. Ittahe past, it is ' etatei, very
small boats, hven rowboats, have taken
out papers to: the transport of liquor
to ports E.) which it would ,be impos-
sible for them to navigate.
The moder 13 expected to pet an er
to thit practice and to limit the iltam
a cleartmee papeas to vessels oaPabkl
of makine a 1 ona fide voyage.
Work Begun on Parliament
House for New Capital City
A despateh from Melbourne Aus-
tralia, says :—The building of a pro-
visional Parliament 'House at the new
Federal Capital of Canberra has been
definitely begun. Ilon. P. 0, Stewart,
Minister of Works and Railways,
turned the 'that sod, ancl, made a
speech, in which he said the work
would be apeeded up so that the next
Parliament might assemble there. The
new city, lie said,' would be a garden
city, rather thee a monumental one -
The 'number of tourists from the
liniMcl States entering the Provinee
of New Brunswick this year 18 reports
ed to be far lo excees of the number
in preceding; years, largely clue to the
fact that the rulo of the road in the
province hae been ehanged and that
the reeds have been considerably
improved, ,
Natural Resources
Bulletin
The Natural Resources Intel-
ligence Service of the Depart-
ment of the Interior at Ottawa
says• ;
In Ontario twenty-one differ-
ent species of wood are cut in
the forests. These are spruce,
white pine, hemlock, cedar, bal-
sam, red pMe, 'brach, jackpine,
tamarack, maple, basswood,
elm, poplar, ash, beech, oak,
cherry, chestnut, butternut,
hickory and walnut. Over one-
half the cut of white pine pro-
duced in Canada is taken from
Ontario's forests. This is the
most valuable of the softwoods
species, the output of the pro-
vince in 1920 being valued at
nearly fifteen million dollars.
It will eurprise many Ontario
people to learn that 1,288;000
board feet of oak was cut in the
province in' 1920; also 631,000
feet of chestnut, 164,000 feet of
cherry ancl 13,000 feet of
walnut.
Huge Fortune; Spent to
Recover Sunken. Treasure
A despatch from .Paris says :—Re-
ports that divers are about to begin
operations in aa attempt to discove
tho exact emplacement of the liner
Egypt, sunk ,off the French coaet last
year, and M recover precious gold that
went down with the ship have prompt-
ed a French newspaper to recapitulate
the many treasures hidden away deep
down in the sea. Although it is
possible to estimate the amount of
gold lost in Mach circumstances, there
, are other things, of which the average
person is unaware, hurled In ,I)avy
Jones's locker in futile effortto re-
-cover which huge fortunes have been
spent.
I One of the most precious gems ever
lost Res several -fathoms deep off the
Brittany coast, consigned to the sea
when two boate came into collision in
1909. Known as the Blue Diamond of
the Red Sultan'it was once the pro-
perty of Marie Antoinette, -aud °there
before her, who similarly met tragic
fate, The last owner was drowned
when the gem wee lost.
i It was first the Property of Abdul
Harald, who acquhaed it during the
French Reaolution. Although this
stone is not lilthly th claim any further
, victims, it certainly has ruined many
fortunes, as It is estimated that
searehes instituted to recover it a1-.
ready have cost close to 50,000,000
francs.
Heatla Retail Merchatits
An experimental shipment of tea- Mr, Z, A, Baailshis 'Winnipeg, atho
oral thousand cattes of peaches(' Wee hat. inat beon.eaeated Patera:teat tlfq
made to Great Beitain last inotth by Retail iliferchatnte,' Aelsechitien of
the OirtatiO Department of Agrictil- Canada for 0 esatmd tem 00r. Base,
tare, ' Large, well -foamed peticliee of field ha's, givea pta1 attenitie1l. to thO
good quality were seleeted for title Ihx'll)llerosi of tobtall, Illorallatilt and
ehipment, whIeli is expeeted to be Om' One ext tho iordeni 150 moYeteents 1004.- ,
aorertualer of a considerable deeeittp-ing to titer iinveotelneeet, of man
inent in. Canadian export trade, 10054 tfortSlItaatte •
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