The canadian gleaner, 21 février 1901, jeudi 21 février 1901

[" SEED Ennadiau Glexuer HUNTINGDON, Q., Fan, $1, 1901 NOTES OF THE WEEK \u2014 The legislature met at Quebec on Thursday.Thespeech, read by Chiel \u201c Justice Casault, the lieut.-governor being ill, was & non-commital document, its only announcement of interest being that a school-book was now ready for free distribution in the French schools.On Monday the address was passed.Mr Flynn consoled himself by the reflection that if the Conservatives were defeated in the fall, their opponents were adopting their policy.A conference of delegates from the various provinces washeld at Ottawa last week to form an association to fight tuberculosis.Lord Minto presided at the opening meeting.There was agreement among the doctors that consumption is increasing in Canada, and that it is the cause of more deaths than any other disease.The suggestions for the mitigation, {not the stamping out of the disease, were indefinite.Assuming the disease is spread by infection, it was urged that patients be placed in hospitals specially fitted for its treatment, that the public be instructed to avoid the presence of consumptives, and that experiments be made as to the effect of climateand locality in their cure.Dr Roddick declared many healthy people contracted the disease from sleeping in railway berths that had been occupied by consumptives.The fact that a large proportion of the immigrants who come from Russia and Central Europe are affected by tuberculosis was made the ground for a request that such persons be not allowed to land.The conference avoided any deliverance on the moot point whether eating the beef or drinking the milk of cattle affected by tuberculosis will convey the disease.Mr Me- Crae of Guelph was emphatic and positive that the tuberculin test isa humbug and injures the cattle.On the other hand, Mr Edwards, M.P., who is as large a breeder as the Guelph farmer, declared his experi- | ence with the test had been satisfactory.He went on to say thatcalves raised from diseased mothers had, under treatment, proved free from the disease in 5 cases out of 6, Absolute separation was most desirable, but even without this, clean stables, with plenty of sunlight and fresh air and great attention to thecleanliness of the animals had brought about the desired results.He added that the tuberculin test had been used in all stages without any injurious results at all, and he was satiefled as to its absolute reliability.Manitoba is making a railway deal that is going to affect it for better or worse.The Northern Pacific branches in Manitoba bavenot been paying,and the company wants to get rid of them to the province.TheC.P.R.offered to take over thelines on what looks like favorable terms, but the Manitobans distrust that big monopoly, and accepted the offer of Mac- kensie & Mann, which involves a Yearly outlay of a sum that capitalised amounts to nearly 18 million dollars.As Manitoba is in a bad way financially, it must assume this obligation in the expectation that the federal government will come to its relief.The inducement that caused the acceptance of Mackenzie & Mann's offer is low freight rates, ten cents per bushel of wheat from Winnipeg to lake Superior being promised.The deal is regarded with much doubt, and it is feared Manitoba instead of being dominated by one great company will now bave two masters.Mackensie & Mann are the representatives of the company that expects to parallel the C.P.R.by à line that will ran north of it, touching Prince Albert and Edmonton.The nuisance of! mutilated coins has become so annoying to business men in the cities that there is a gen- oral movement towards remedying it.A member asked the finance-minister # the government, seeing it could do \u201c so witBout loss, would not call these coins in and give new ones in ez- change.Mr Fielding\u2019s answer was, that the government had no power to do so, and be recommended that mutilated coins should be refused by everybody.Thisanswer is not satisfactory.So long as these coins are im existence, their holders will endeavor to pass them and the evil be perpetuated indefinitely.Were they got rid of by summary exchange, there would be a chance in the future of the universal refusal of bored and otherwise mutilated coins.There is @ stringent law against delaciog coins, but like a great many other laws is never enforced.A few years 289, when it was the fashion toshave one side of a coin and sograve & monogram on it, the governmen never prosecuted the jewelers who did the work.The government bas been wiakiag ab the defacing of the cotes La A of the sommtey or & gresmation, and fl it bas not the power lb should got is to collect these coins and replace them by legal money.It speaks well for the energy of the people of Ontario that whes they suffer from a grievance they do not sit tamely under it, but agitate forre- form.Their administration of law is better than it is with us, yet far from satisiactory, and there is a demand, the government cannot resist, to simplify the procedure, so that costs will be lessened and cases be decided more promptly.The lawyers bave taken alarm at the and a deputation waited on the at- torney-general and the premier to ask that their interests be considered in the proposed changes.One plea was, that lawyers\u2019 earnings are small and Mr Strathy alleged tbat in a county he knew there were 50 lawyers who did not make a $1000 a year each.The argument was lame, for it showed law costs that particular county at least $50,000 a year, and the smallness of the salaries was due to the excessive number of lawyers among whom the sum is divided.Another member of the deputation asked for favorableconsideration, he- cause of the honesty of the legal profession.In 21 years\u2019 experience as a bencher he had only known 6 men to be struck off the rolls.\u201cThink of the rascals you didn\u2019t strike off\u201d exclaimed Premier Ross.If lawyers would look at the matter aright, they would see that reforms in the administration of justice are really in their interest.Take as proof of this our own district.Under an inefficient judge, the delays and costs have reached a point that frighten people from going to law.Lawyers may become indignant as they please at the Gleaner, but were the courts reformed, they would get more todo.When the Conservatives were in office, the Liberals invented the name \u201c\u2018reptile press\u201d for those newspapers which received government patronage.We are sorry to say the reptile press still exists, another instance of the readiness with which the Liberals at Ottawa adopt practices which they denounced while in opposition.For the 12 months ending June last, the Montreal Herald was paid $25, 124 for advertising and printing.The Lower Province organs ranged from $2663 to $13,236.The Halifax paper that abused the Gleaner so rabidly last summer got 86735 as its share.The list shows the number of papers that support the government for revenue.The government organs are exulting over the opening of great smelt- fog works in Cape Breton, and tell us that facilities are so great that steel can be turned out for $6 a ton less than anywhere else.That being #0, will they tell us why the farmers of the Dominion should be taxed to pay the company a bonus on every ton produced?It is discouraging to see bow many there are who want & bonus from the government for every undertaking, no matter how profitable.There is going to bea demand made for aid to establish converting works to treat silver lead ore.The promoters invite subecrip- tions, on the assurance that they can produce lead at a lower price than can be done elsewhere, yot they want a bounty.Instead of being a profit to the country, Canada\u2019s deposits of minerals are really a loss to the general body of taxpayers, who pay the bounties but get no share of the profits.The Witness favors the movement afoot in political circles toask Premier Parent to increase the English-speak- ing representation in bis cabinet by appointing Mr Weir a minister without portfolio.Looking at the record of the gentleman proposed for the honor, we fail to see that the minority would be benefited.Since Confederation a succession of members bave got into the cabinet on the score of representing the minority, but we fail to recall one whostood up on the floor of the house for the reforms in law necessary for the son- tinued existence of the minority in the rural parts.They got the office, and the minority were none the better.As for Mr Weir, he ia one of those su: perior beings who, as occasion requires, ie ready to assure the French Canadians be is no fanatic and that their treatment of the minority is perfectly satislactory to bim.Mr Parent will do welltoleavehbiscahinet asitis.If any change is made, it should be in the direction of reducing its numbers.It must be discouraging to the gen: tlemen who want to fasten a stand.ing-army on Canada to see how decisively those who joined the contingents refused to serve another twelve-month.Even theStrathoonas, with the enemy within two days\u2019 march of Cape Town, turned a deal- ear to the entrenty to stay and help.À year's experience in the glorious British army and of the companionship of Tommy Atkins was quite enough for them.It is stated the regiment raised to garrison Halifax has refused to re-eniiet.Their year ie about up and they wast to go home.They, at least, have not the sxcnes of the bardehips and dangers of war for Alnir desire to be relieved.cease to talkabout Canada\u2019s creating either a naval or military force.À erash among tbe produce-buyers of Montreal is not improbable.The downward tendency in cheese continues, making a bluelookout for the holders of high-priced goods.Added to this is the collapse of the mining- venture io which Chisholm managed to interest 50 many of the cheese and butter-men, who loss what they subscribed.The produce trade bas bad maby sharp lessons as to the foolishness of buying in expectation of a rise, but the sharpest of all they are now learning.\u2018The retail merchants of Montreal are asking the legislature to pass an act giving power to the city council to impose a special tax of not over ten per cent.on the real estate of departmental stores.The retailers are being pushed to the wall by the big stores, and endeavor to strike back in this way.The departmental store is the development of the principle at work in every line of businees, and we fear the worthy storekeepers who are fighting against them are resisting the inevitable.The big concerns, which buy in quantities no retailer could venture on, and sell for cash, have an advantage that no special tax can overcome.It is not merely the city retailer whoisaffected by the departmental store.At the express offices in this villageit is astonishing to see the number of parcels from Eaton of Toronto and after that great house from Simpeon.Somehow, the Montreal big stores have so far failed to capture the country mail-order trade.Whatis seen here, is to be seen atevery country exprees office, and isagrowing menace to the village storekeeper.The universal adoption of the cash system would enable the ordinary merchant to sell cheaper and leave less inducement to his customers to buy in Toronto or Montreal, but they seem unable to get out of the rut which is so serious a drag on their prosperity.The auditor general's report gives a specimen of the frauds perpetrated upon the people under the name of subsidies.To help to build a bridge across the Richelieu the Dominion government promised a bonus of 15 per cent.on its cost.When the bridge was finished the company sent ina demand for $31.528, they alleging it had cost $210.000.The auditor re fused to pass their account until reported on by an engineer.One was certified it had coset only $98,000.Instead of paying the $81,528 demanded, the government only gave $14,725.Thisisnot all.The Quebec legislature gave $50.000 towards the bridge,and Sorel $25,000,s0 that bad the Dominion government paid what was asked the company would not only have got the bridge for nothing, but had a surplus of $8000 to divide among its partners.The preliminary objections in the Judge Archibald, who is expected to give his decision this week.Mr La- fleur, one of our few French Protestant lawyers, made a strong point when he showed the pretension of the Church of Rome to regulate marriages in this province was not founded on its laws, but on alleged decrees which no statyte recognized.The Palladium gives an interesting summary of the results of the late census so far as regards Franklin since the former enumeration, the town of Burke has lost 186 in population, Chateauguay $43, Constable 178, Westville 189,and Fort Coving.ton no less than 864.In all the southern towns there have been large gains, duo to their development by the railways which pow traverse them and the revival of the iron and charcoal industries.The town of Malone gained 1018.\u2018The population of the village has risen in the ten years from 4A89 to 5083.On the other band the village of Fort Cov- ington bas fallen from 870 to 889 and Chateaugay village from 1172 to 978, Saranes village bas jumped from 768 to 3504.Considering that of these 2594 à large proportion are crease is hardly to be envied, The troubles in Spain have been temporarily pmothered by declaring martial law.! 8p ns have been arrested withont process of law and bayonet and sword used un mercifully when a crowd began to gather.The press is gagged and every line prepared for the papers has to be bbl 0 # pensor.The testing le, that reproseire many ures will only make the inevitable outbreak the more severe.Of the war there is little to be said.After getting across into CapeColony DeWet was assailed by Gol.Plumer and forced to retreat with loss of part of his ammunition train.Apparently DeWet bas sioes penetrated farther into the colony and been joined by several small parties of Boers.Kitchener Is endeavoring to sent, who, afterexamining the bridge .Delpit case have been argued before Robert county.In the ten years that elapsed consumptives seeking health, ita in: |\u2019 an Gen.Smith-Dorrien had an encounter with Botha, which ended in the Boers being driven off, with a loss of 34 killed and 53 wounded on the British side.The Boer loss is unknown.\u2018The Chinese having refused to yield to the terms dictated to them by the Powers, Gen.Waldersee proceeded to organise an expedition into the interior.This so frightened theChinese court that it yielded.ORMSTOWN The circumstance tbat among the few who received titles at New Year\u2014 the last conferred a the Queen\u2014was Hiram Maxim,recalls to the memories of old residents that be was a sojourner in Ormstown for a while.Amoog those who have a distinct recollection of bim is Mr Alex.A.An- derson, the well-known commercial d traveller.It was at noon on a sum- mer-day in 1862 that a young man came walking into the village, and addressed a sroup of whom James McNown, James ith, and Mr Anderson survive.His appearance bespoke *\u2018the skedaddler\u2019 and he frankly told them they were having a scrap where be lived and as he bad no haud in bringing it on he thought he would come over to Canada until it was over.He was a painter by trade and asked fora job.Mr McNown took bim to dinner and afterwards set him to work.Subsequently he worked for Lunan & Brown in Hun- tingdon and McDowell of 8t Chrysos- tome.He was a quaint, humorous lad, exceedingly bright and well- informed, and a After pe: returned to Brooklyn, N.Y., and be- gon his career as an inventor, taking out numerous patents.The invention which brought him wealth and honor was the Maxim gun, and it is for this he was knighted.Altho\u2019 à representative American, he had no objection to being enrolled among the British nobility as Sir Hiram Maxim.In the Ormatown curling club John Gibson and F.Rapley were finals for the Lockerby curling blocks.John Gibson won by one shot, so he now holds them.Epidemics still exist in this village and vicinity.Measles are in several families.The temperance hotel has proaper- ed beyond expectation.Mr James Lockerby keepe the house foranother year.Interested parties are well eatisfied, and repairs on outbuildings are designed for the coming summer, also, another storey on the hotel, The Heather curling club of Montreal were defeated bere on Saturday in the match for the Quebec challenge cup.Following are the scores and players: ORMBTOWN HEATHER John Gibson P.A.Small Geo.E.Baird R.Thompson F.Rapley N.K.McDonald M.Mulvanie J.H.Smith Skip\u201427 Skip\u201413 Dr McCormick D.McCallum R.Smith D.W.Ross.W.jr.J.L.G.McGerrigle A.K.Hotehiason W.G.McGerrigle W.B.Hutchinson Skip-10 Skip\u201421 44 84 Majority for Ormstown, 19 shots The Lacbine curling club is next on the list: to play for the cup.Mr James Cottingham has added to his celebrated herd of Ayrahires on Riverside farm, a fine young imported Ayrshire bull calf, Lord Nelson, of Ste Annes, sired by Lord Neleon of Burnbead, a bull of great breeding and for which $210 was paid for when a call.His dam is the $400 cow Heather Honey, both being sold at Burnbead sale, Dam of calf, Polly of Mauchline, bred by Robt.Wallage of Auchenbain, and\u201d imported by Reford, along with otber 18 head, and considered by all that have seen them, to be one of the best in the lot.She was sired by Sir Thomas, a bull that bred well and wag sold by Mr Wallace for a large price to gn to Japan.This is the third bull MrCottingbam hashought from Ste Annes.HOWICK \u2018 The Hon Sydney Fisher's state ment, that Howick bad not sufficient Secommadaty n for the visitors at- ending the Dairymen's ation, reated no little indignation here.as Howick has 9 capacious hotels, which can supply meals the quality of which is in proportion to what is paid for them.Howick has entertained men of the highest standing in the country in the past and is still competent to do so.I! the word agcommo- dation refers to the liquor business in connection with the hotels.no one will deny that they are no better here than elsewbere.but Mr Fisher and his coll es are respops ble mainly te tho Tone, 8 iain sod his «PIAINY m and theOttawa Govern t that the country does not want the continuation of the liquor trafic.Mr Fisher and his friends muet just submit to Apjgances they are perpetuating, and which they haze paper to remove, Mr Ness has sold one of his horses, A dark brown stallion, rising 4 years he d.tp 4.L.Wright of Salisbury, Desautels propert; building a oo ed for some time that Mr Lalonde war coming to Howick, having sold » hjeinees in Chrysostome, i i The report, given in last week's interesting to this town, for the increase ol capital from two to four million paper.of the annual meet ontreal Cotton company, dollars means much.Tho at full liberty to build at any other polat which would facilitate ita usiness operations, it lies with the population of this town toencon extensive mills in Val connecting itself entire eld b, rots up and ruled in our communit ing the past year.The want of work thi past y winter (caused by the anta tic attitude of a discontinue its buildi until a more peacefu should be arrived at, great many with scant face a od of 8 ord in a week there will be a large We are sure the labor class will we) come this, and that they will not submit to be further led astray by a few them for the sake of a party pull, which, as dem es, who mislea has been very forcibly ehewn, turned to no one\u2019s advantage, Our newl going in io istration, a bureau of patron that all employes of the corporation are to be pkoi out from the Liberal ranks, under the principle that to the *\u2018victor belongs the spoils.\u201d Retributive justice, however, will some day come down on somebody\u2019s cranioms with a kerplunk that wiil knock their narrow-mindedness into smash and shake the vapidness out of them.Complaints are made tbat in a certain would-be bigh-toned quarter of our town, the householders own ferocious dogs, each vieing who will be possessor of the largest and most savage brute, They have, we presume, a right to keep these dogs on their own property, but we must strongly protest, in the name of several residents in tbe locality, that these animals should not be allowed to run at large in the streets, to the great annoyance and danger of the public.Some residents in the neigh- rhood dare not go outin the evenings from fear of being attacked by these brutes.The Rev W.T.King of Portland officiated at 8t Mark\u2019s church on Sunday.It is said thathe will fill the vacancy caused by Rev Mr Beattio\u2019s retirement.The last few days have been comparatively mild, which bas afforded some relief to the coal scuttle, the saw buck, and the housekeeper\u2019s wallet, A lively amoking concert was held in the ¥.A.A.A.club rooms Saturday evening, which was pleasantly passed in songs, recitations, plano and phonograph music.Death carried away at Coteau Landing, Sunday forenoon, Geo Gauthier, mail-carrier, who for a number of years was, before the railways, purveyor of the only means of communication between (Coteau and the sonth shore.Wilfrid Girard, who works in the cotton factory, lelt here Baturday with Celia Benoit, daughter of a Bellerive hotel-keeper, for Montreal to get married.Arrived in the city they went to the Jacques Cartier hotel, when Girard took the clerk into bis confidence and asked him to belo them to married right away.i Itho late, they Lg to feta pense an e house of Rev L.Massiotte, 5 French Protestant minister, he tied the knot.Should the decision in the Delpit case be that it is no marriage, this one will also be null, for both Girard and Mise Benoit are Catholics.COVEY HILL T™® WAR A patriotic entertainment held in the town hall, Havelook, on Thursday of last week.There %as a large ga ng, the object to welcome back one of hore A brrk age op ar, Private Me- ugplin of the sepopd pontingent, B battery.Phone ver à pod program which included a epeech from the Rev Mr Hapghtan, some \u2018habitant English\u2019 A $ Sweet, and recita- es t m\u2014\u2014\u2014 lope hy .Young.The chier he prssentation a ares tn Brive 4 oree to Private claughlie, contalniog 81.While returning thanks Mr Mo.ughlin related some of his experiences in the South African campaign.Altho he book part ln several engage- mepts, gn © DATTOW espapes, once hema gti Yue 5 b Qader jm, came home practjeal withopt a scar.His furlough hav! og expired he has yl ed to joiaton Vo re- P ish h 201 $14 4 tr FRATKIAN ENTRY og sick with wing to so many grip and the continued stormy weather, Mr L.A, Edwards had to close mT his singing school.Sve MARTIN v Mr Wells is holding special The storms of last week rendered \u20ac byt the meetin ave not the roads almost impracticable for Peet tate on apétiint ig [ld beavy loads, and unless we get a big causes as closed the si ng school.thaw shortly the village will suffer No mail reached Franklin from the om a scarcity of fire wood, for little east from® Wednesday of last week ad come jp gioge this month began.until Monday.In ho And \u2018Neagle fever are Mailing Victims thronah the pariah.4 e have an a7sra hie la w à week.young an ol .we had 4 funerals of young persons d tomorrow apes Hover, will be at of Mere Manrice Hebert, who died Yesterday from eb \u2014_\u2014 Sy CHRYSOSTOME b ha Quite a e ] to the wife of Dr Falton In Li ne Rd ee 2 STAN rofeedr 4rpald of lyn college, Near qe * Despite the bed\u201d oat \"ah À ; 2e, the measuring social a ot Vite Wediteadd, Vx, » poder ref LRT yan ideal one.x ch à purpose.réa Forte rtion of our laboring class) compelled the company to dinposition a on and so left a means to ; months enforced idleness.The works, however, are to be re-opened ehortly,and with.DR Of men employed on the new buildings.elected town council is r innovations with a vengeance.After the introduction of a \u201ccabivet\u201d in our municipal admin.bas been created which, by the tenor of its composition.means that Conservative taxes will bedaly accepted.but ug § little over | J towards Paving sn Soy have bought for their Bend Hops work, TROUT RIVER The debate of the Trout river club, beld at tbe residence of Thos.Stark on Tuesday evening, on resolved, that the Boers were justified in declaring war against Great Britain, proved to be the most interesting of season.The affirmative leader, Peter Elder, as well as the negative leader, Jas.B.Cooper, gave some strong arguments for and against.They were well supported by 8 speakers on each side.vote being taken, it decided the affirmative had put up the best argument.On this occasion our rage young speakers deserve credit for the the company to extend its already ble wor in = iscordant element, which bas i ur- able way which they handled, their subject.At the next meeting of the pronouncing competition will be held to compete for the prises oflered by Rev A.Rowat.KELSO Owing to the unfavorable weather, Prof, Arnold of Roslyn college, Montreal, did not lecture bere Friday evening.He conducted the regular service Sabbath and preached a practical sermon.The roads in many sections are too high and narrow for teaming.ce has been taken out of the same place, in Gavin\u2019s mill pond, 8 times during the winter; the 2od and 3rd times the quality was excellent.DUNDEE .The school commissioners visited the schools Inst week.and were much pleased with the work of the teachers and the progress made.They found the attendance at several rather small, but it could be accounted for, to a certain degree, by sickness and the cold, stormy weather existing at the time of their visit.Several persons from here had to go to Albany last week to give evidence in order to find out if a bill can be found against Wm.Gratton of Fort Covington, in the Chinese emuggling case.It is not supposed that the government would have done anything further in the case but for a Malone newspaper implicating \u201ca Fort Covington lawyer.\u201d As there ia only one who claims the title of lawyer in the Fort there could be no doubt who was meant, and this man of law protested in a way that caused the powers to reopen the case.This will transfer some money out of the state into a number of pockets for very little end.MILK SHIPPERS AND THE RAIL- - WAY COMPANIES.According to previous arrangement representatives of the Milk Shippers\u2019 association and of the C.P.R.and G.T.held a conference in Montreal on Monday at the Windsor hotel, at which matters such as better service, increased facilities, and lower rates were discussed.The C.P.R.was represented by C.E.E.Ussher, the G.T.by G.T.Bell.The association was represented by M.Smith, Lachute, W.H.Trenhoim, Richmond, W.Graham, Como, and H.8.Tannabill of Trout river.AN points in question weré thoroughly discussed and the meeting proved the most favorable opportunity yet given to the shippers to present their side of the question.Another meeting will be held ahout the 1st March, when it is hoped definite conclusions will be reached.Both companies agreed to grant convention ticket rates to dairymen attending the annual meeting on 5th March.CIRCUIT COURT, VALLEYFIELD Angus McIntosh va Angus McGillis, McIntosh sues for $199 damages under the following circumstances: let, During July the defendant maliciously, and without any reason, accused the plaintiff of conspiring with John Duckett to burn the property of a man called Cameron, a rer in the vicinity of Dundee.9.That this accusation was made directly to Cameron by the defendant, 8, That the plaintin in consequence was threatened with a criminal suit, and was obliged to go to Montreal to the advocates of Cameron, and was on the point of being arrested.4, That this accusation spread\u2019 among their mutual acquaintances and created doubts injurious to the character of the plaintiff who han been profoundly humiliated and men.to hat his re b » 1bat his reputation has suffered because there were between him and Cameron, at the time of the accusation, pauges for enmity.8, For all these reasons the plaintiff has suffered incalculable damage, which, however, he reduces to $199.which the defendant owes him and refuses to pay bim.By bis motion the defendant aske that the case be dismissed for the fol- owing reasons; 1, Because the writ and declaration do not contain a statement of the causes of the demand.2.Because it is not stated in the declaration in what year McGillis ac- meed Mclotosh of conspiring with Rockatt to have Jameron\u2019s property urned.3, Because it is not alleged when, where.and bow theacensation was made to Cameron.4, Because i pe plaintiff does nat state in what incalculable damages consist, which he says he has suffered.5, Be- panse the objeat ofthe nit is described irregular, the plaintiff only pleading mental distress and that he has suffered incalculable damage; insufficient allegations, and not such as can be met by defendant.6, Because Radio irregnlarition create & pre- The court declared that some of the preceding reasons were well founded, and dismissed McIntosh\u2019s action with costs io favor of McGillis.Sera, Jo Le nn Fin, VAL 0 nd, tates that total receipts were 347,893.which with interest ropght amount up to $842,135.je amoput op hand at present is, in ronnd npmhers, 270.100.There ag expended 972.870, ot which 1,090 was given Sqn tae WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.London, Feb.18.\u2014Gen.Kitchoner, telegraphing from De Aar, Cape Colony, under Saturday's date, says: \u201cDewet\u2019s force crossed the railway at Basrtmon\u2019s Siding north of here before daylight, Feb.15, closely followed by Plumer, Crabbe and armor- trains.They the while crossing.A= Boers, however, cut the lines north and south of the place of crossing.We captured over 20 wagons, many of which were loaded with ammunition, and also a maxim, 20 prisoners and over one hundred horses.The troops are still in close pursuit.\u2019 Fifth Victorian Contingent.Melbourne, Feb.18.\u2014Fhe fifth Vie- torian contingent, 1,250 men all told, sailed for South Africa on Friday.Will Be Sunk in the Sea.Lorenzo Marquez, Feb.16.\u2014The ammunition, guns and shells surrendered by the Boers to the Portuguese at Komatipoort will be sunk at sea.Escaped Boer Prisoners.St.Petersburg, Feb.18.\u2014Five Boer prisoners who escaped from the Island of Ceylon have arrived at a Crimean port on board the Russian steamer to which they swam while in the harbor of Colombo.Among them is a nephew of President Steyn, and a brother-in-law of Gen.Botha, the Boer commander-in-chief.- TO END BY JULY 1.One of Gen.Buller\u2019s Brigade Commanders as a Prophet.London, Feb.18\u2014One of Gen.Buller\u2019's brigade commanders in the Natal campaign asserts with an air of confidence that hostilities will be at an end by July 1, and that the final skirmishes will occur in the Standerton district.This forecast may not be more trustworthy than scores of guesses which have preced- od it, but a spirit of optimism now prevails among British officers here, and the end of the war is currently believed to be in sight.They explain that Gen.Kitchener been massing his infantry along the lines of communication and organizing two large mounted forces, with a flying system of transport for following Botha and Dewet.Time has been required for the various concentrations and equipments, but mobile columns are now available for beating wide districts and driving the game before them.General French is clearing the eastern district of the Transvaal, and forcing Botha's scattered commandoes back upon the Swaziland frontier, and Gen.Kitchener himself is at De Aar directing the series of large mounted columns in pursuit of Dewet.French's operations, while not decisive, are most harassing, for he has caplured a portion of an ammunition convoy and droves of cattle and many horses, and in clearing the country he has cut a wide swath from Belfast to Ermelo.Dewet, with Plumer\u2019s Australain bushmen close behind him, has struck the railway north of De Aar, and lost a portion of his ammunition and supplies.His object in invading Cape Colony has probably been to attempt to concentrate Hertzog's, Kritzinger's and his own forces, and instigate a general uprising emong the Dutch by the capture of some important stronghold on the lines of communication.Kitchener is where he can mass his mounted forces and the col- onfal defence troops, and set one column after another in motion against Dewet.Old soldiers here do not believe that the Boers will escape, but Dewet is a wily fox.About 1,200 troops, including drafts of mounted infantry and yeo- maury, embarked at Southampton Saturday for South Africa.The reinforcements from England and the colonies will number 80,000 by the end of April.Broke Through French's Cordons.London, Feb.18.\u2014Despatches from Pretoria announce that the Carolina commando has broken through Gen.French's cordon westward.THE NATAL INVASION Made Concessions by Britain te the Beers Impestible\u2014Mr, Chamberlain's Warm Speech in the House.London, Feb.19.\u2014The first division in the first Parliament of King Edward VII, which took place yesterday, resuited in cutting down to 43 the Government's normal majority of 180.The interest caused by this unexpected event was heightened by Mr.Winston Spencer Churchill's first speech at Westminster, and by Mr.Chamberiain\u2019s heated defence of his own policy.Mr.Churchill in the course of his remarks said that the war in South Africa had been carried on with unusual humanity, and he closed with the declaration of his belief that at no distant date there would be an \u2018\u2018Anglicized, loyal, peaceful and prosperous Transvaal.\u2019\u2019 Sir Robert Reid, Radical member for Dumfrieaburghs, argued that all this could be accomplished without unnecessary severity, and without withholding terms.Mr.Chamberlain, springing to his feet, stigmatized the speech of Sir Robert Reid, as \u2018\u2018devoted to abuse of British officers and the policy of Ministers, and to praise the enemies of Great Britain.\u201d He denied that Possible.pe \u2018 honor was at any time possible ore or after the fall Pretorip.\u201cThe policy of HM ui! jesty's Government,\u201d he declared, \u201chas not varied.Before the invasion of Natal we would have accepted the mast moderate concessions, but from the moment the invasion occurred, and the Doers had fired the first shot, the Government determined that not one shred of the independence which the Boers had abused, should ever again be conceded to them.\u2019 The Conservatives, cheering furi- Qualy, or to their feet from the overnmen nches at \\ .tion and made the Éhamber ring again and again.\u2018 \u201cThe Government,\u201d continued Mr.Chamberlain, \u201cchallenged the Opposition at the general elections on the issue of annexation.We challenge you again.(Renewed cheering.) Tonight\u2019 six pro-Boers have spoken and not a single Liberal Imperinlist.* Sir Robert Reid objected to the term \u2018\u2019pro-Boers,\u2018\u2019 but Mr.Chamberlain stuck to his gune.Questions in the House m yesterday regarding the war ja South Africa did little toward really Sniighiening the situation, The Eecritary of State for War gave the increasing aumber of cases of Com- this asser.|.the Government that the occupation of tho Pekin-Shan-Hai-Kwan Railroad was only temporary, and that the railroad and materials would be restored at the end of the occupation.Russia's assurances respecting the railroads were most categorical.Their occupation was purely temporary.Lord Cranborne added: \u2018I am bound to say that in all our dealings with the Russian Government in this matter we have been received in the most friendly way.We have no complaint whatever to make against the Government of the Czar.\u2019 Kruger at Last Sees It.Amsterdam, Feb.19.\u2014President Kruger has written a letter to the Antwerp Transvaal and Orange Free State Ambulance Committee, thanking it enthusiastically for assistance rendered in what for the first time Mr.Kruger calls the \u2018hopeless struggle of the Boers for their independence and their rights.\u201d Madrid, Feb.18.\u2014The condition of affairs in Spain is more grave than at any moment during the war with the United States.The extremity of the danger by which the Queen Ite gent is confronted may best be ap preciated by the fact that she consented to invest Gen.Weyler with powers that are virtually those of a dictator.It iw universally believed here that she is about to leave Spain and to take the road of exile in the hope of her son from collapse, the regency until his majority being undertaken by his aunt, the Infanta Isabella, acting in conjunction with Gen.Woy- ler, who would rule without any regard for Parliamentary forms of Government.The Azcarraga Minis try handed its resignations to the Quecn Regent on Saturday.thereby of saving the throne Carrie and Her Crusaders.Topeka, Kan., Feb.18.\u2014At 6 o'clock Saturday evening, Mrs.Nation, followed by 500 men and women, raided and completely demolished one joint and destroyed a lot of saloon furniture stored in a cold storage plant, into which they had broken.During the day Mrs.Nation was arrested three different times, on charges preferred by the proprietor of the cold storage plant.She was released each time.All Dealings Broken Off.London, Feb.18.-\u2014\u2018The Danish Government,\u2019 says the Copenhagen correspondent of The Daily Mail.\u2018has suddenly broken off all dealings with the United States regarding the sale of the Danish West Ine dies.This is due to a satisfactory offer made by the Danish East Asian Steamship Company to assist, and in the future to administer the islands.The American Government has been notified as to this decis- fon.\u201d \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 The Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar has signallized his accession to the throne by proclaiming a comprehensive amnesty, including political offences.William Northcote, who was sentenced on Friday to 14 years in the Kingston Penitentiary, has confessed to setting fire to several stores in Peterboro., With the exception of the mother, the entire Turner family of Shaftes- bury, Vt., has been wiped out by the measels.Eight died in a month, John Turner, the last victim, was buried Saturday.The Presbyterian Church at Georgetown was on Saturday de stroyed by fire.The loss will be pretty well covered by the insurance, which is $6,000 on the church and $1,500 on contents.A case of smallpox has been discovered in Toronto, at 78 Concord avenue.The patient is Mr.Eager, and he is supposed to have contracted the disease in the neighborhood of Winnipeg, where he was two weeks, ago.There were 193 delegates at the Conservative convention for Peel at Brampton on Saturday and Mr.Samuel Charters, editor of The Conservator, was unanimously chosen candidate for the Provincial elections, The Ottawa members of \u2018D\u2019 Come pany, R.C.R., first Canadien con tingent, will celebrate the first anniversary of Cronje\u2019s capture Feb.88, by holding a dinner, Comrades from Toronto, Montreal and Quebec have been invited.The Baker Dlock, occupied by J.J.Kerr, dry goods; Hall & Stuart, tails ors, and H.Kellar, saddlery, Nay.lor\u2019s Opera House, at Deseronto, asd contents were totally destroyed by fire on Sunday.The amount of loss and insurance not yet ascertained.The Liberals of Prince Edward County met in convention at Picton on Saturday for the purpose of se lecting a candidate for the Provincial House.The contest was Le tween Mayor Clapp and QG.Nelson Rose, and Mayor Clapp received the nomination.Victoria, B.C., Feb, 10.\u2014Splendid progress was made yesterday by the men who are searching for the bode les of the unfortunate men killed by the explosion at the Union mines, Fires have been put out, and the ine speotors have penetrated thr No.5 mine to No.6, expelling gas as they proceeded, and at last re ports were within one hundred yards of where they expect to find the first : bodies.Experts will not express an opine ion as to the cause of the accident, matter King and Queen Return te Londga, d .nd Gon RA Ar net to town.The carnival fetes in Madrid have passod without disorder.¢ ita meeting Mon fu \u201d cr Council toa hee 0) 9 schoal pupils in the city sh be» vaccinated a» a precautionary measure, Major Septimus Denison, the Case lan officer Who Was an À.D.C.to Roberts in South Africa land, arrived in Toronto on International Limited Monday §t H Gol.George Donieus or, Col.George T, at a; am.¥ 9 DOMINION PARLIAMENT Ottawa.Feb.19.\u2014From the fact that Monday is one of the days upon which precedence is given to pri vate members, the Ministers were kept busy for tho first half hour yesterday in answering questions upon various subjects connected with the administration of public affaire.Bir Charles Hibbert Tupper made à Vigorous apesch in support of a motion for papers in connection with the consideration of Government telo- graph lines in the Klondike and At- lin districts, which was replied to with equal vigor by Mr.Tarte.Mr.Clarke also brought up the question of pay of men of '\u2018C' Battery who served in South Africa.Sir Louis Davies laid upon the table an order in Council respecting the issue of licenses to United States fishing vessels under tho modus viv- endl.Mr.Blair also laid upon the table the report of the Department of Railways and Canals.Some score of questions upon the order paper were replied to by Min- fisters.Mr.Clare After Aliens Mr.Clare (South Waterloo) intro duced a bill to restrict the importation and employment of aliens.Its object is that prosecution, which has now to be taken by the Government, may be commenced by anyone laying an information, that the uct may be enforced by two justices of the peace, and that the municipality should have a share of the fine.Questions und Answers.Sir Wilfrid Laurier, replying to Mr.Dourassa, said the Canadian Government or any of its members had not been consulted by the DBrit- ish Government on the South African question since the 1st June last, and no opinion or suggestion had been made by the Canadian Government to the Dritish Government on the matter.Hon.Dr.Borden told Mr.Bourassa that certain Canadian officers were to be engaged in recruiting the Baden-Powell Police Force.They would not be paid by the Canadian Government, and there was no salary attaching to the work.Mr.Lariviere was informed that a petition had been received by the Postmaster-General from the letter carriers of Winnipeg, and it was now under consideration.Mr.Sifton told Mr.Lariviere that the question of reducing the rate of interest on the unpaid belance of the loans and advances made to the settlers of Manitoba in 1876 is under consideration.Hon.Charles Fitzpatrick, in answering a question, said it had not been the policy of the Government to give the cost of raw material and binder twine manufactured by the Government until such time as the product had been marketed for tho season.Mr.Blair told Mr.Monk that the total amount contributed by the present Government to the reconstruction of Lhe Victoria Dridgo was $62,500, and there was nothing in the conditions of any grants or are rangements made between the Government and the G.T.R.which restricts the latter from making its shipping port at Portland.Mr.Taylor learned that the Paris Exhibition up to date had cost $286,165, of which $10,641 had been refunded by the British Commission on account of over charge for space.The Pay of C Battery.Mr.E.F.Clarke moved for all papers respecting the pay of the men of C Battery, and any part of the pay deducted from them or any of them.Mr.Clarke in speaking to his motion said that as far as he could learn from interviews which they had had with him, a large percentage of the nen of the Battery assigned their pay before leaving Canada to relatives or friends.The men who did do received the full pay to which they were entitled.But the men who did not make such an arrangement did not reccive their full pay.Hon.Mr.Dorden replied that the Government has no authority to pay the men more than 75c a day.And we may not be able to ignore the fact that the men who have already received more money than they were authorized to receive, that one-third of the battery, who assigned their pay should return to the treasury the money which they have improperly received.Mr.E.F.Clarke\u2014Do I understand the hon.gentleman to say that the Imperial pay of five shillings a day was in addition to the Rhodesian pay?Hon.Dr.Borden replied that it was not.But it Was paid as Imperial pay, under Imperial warrant, Mr.Borden, the Opposition leader, could not understand how the pay provided by the Rhodesian Government could be regarded as Imperial pay.The words \u2018Imperial pay\u2019 were employed in the statute in cone tradistinction to the pay of the Canadian Government.It seemed to him that the Rhodesian and Canadian pay could be most properly regarded alike, in contradistinction to the pay of the Imperial Government.Ho ended by saying the House would still consider the mat- Borden said it was the evident spirit of the Canadian law that the men should receive 75e a day, and no more.He looked at the five shillings a day they had been pald as Imperial pay at Rhodesian rates.Tho return will be Lrought down.The Yukon Telegraph.8ir Cbarles Hibbert Tupper moved for a return of all reports relating to Mr.Charleson\u2019s telegraph cone struction work in the Yukon.In de- ing so he explained that the work in question covered an expenditure of about £300,000, Mr, Tarte promised to bring the pepers down.Migher Tariff Adveented.On the Premier's motion to ad joern, Mr.Maclean called attention to the despttches in Tho New York Tribune of yesterday, referring to the imposition by Russia of spocial duties against United States pro- ucts, Hp suggested that tho only { hich w \u2018tould gottle our increlioss \u2018with ne United States was by following Rurain's example; by imposing tariff for tariff wo would bring the Americana to time, If we do not de that the boundary tion would be settled, as the merican Senate attempted to settle the Nicaragua Canal question the other day, by an act of their own.Canada afforded the Americans their best ret, and it war only Pr touching r pockets with a high tarifl the hoor questipgs cold De Wr es Waites cast À 19 wap question could be dismissed adjourn, and, furtier, a question should be THE NEWS FROM CHINA.Von Waldersee Planning a Military Expedition, Supposedly to Sian Fu, for SO Days.Pekin, Feb.17.\u2014A fow days ago Count Von Waldersce wrote to the generals under his supervision, notifying them to have all their avail able troops ready in two wocks for an expedition lasting 80 days.Today Gen.Chaflee and Gen.Voyron, the French commander, received letters asking for their co-operation, and expressing a desire to know what forces they can spare.In commencing his letter to Gen.Chaffee, Count Von Waldersee : \u201cOwing to the unsatisfactory na- tugp of the negotiations for peace, ang also to circumstances rendering such a course desirable, it will probably be nocessary to resume military operations on a large scale, especially toward the west.\u2019 It is not thought likely that Gen.Chaffee will agree to such a plan without instructions from Washington.The French commander, however, is expected to do so.Count Von Waldersce\u2019s plans contemplate offering the command of the expedition in the first instance to Sir Alfred Gasalee, the British commander, but it is belicved that, in view of his recent illness, Gen.Gasalee will inform Count Von Wal- dersee that he is unable to accept the command.In that event it will be offered to Gen.Voyron, provided the French fall in with the agreement, which Count Von Waldersee believes will be the case.Such an offer to Gen.Voyron would have the eflect, it is thought, of overcoming the differences which have existed between the French and Germans, because it would be a demonstration of Count Von Waldersee's confidence in the military ability of the French contingent.Ere long an announcement is exe pected that the destination of the proposed expedition is Sian Fu, The foreign envoys believe its objuct to be to compel the Chinese to accept the terms of the powers.Ejght Boxers Beheaded.Shanghai, Feb.16.\u2014The officers of Chang Chi Tung, the Viceroy of Hankow, have tried and beheaded eight alleged Boxer leaders.Man Blown a Hundred Feet.Montreal, Feb.18.\u2014A despatch from Grand Mere, Que., says: A Great Northern Railway locomotive boiler exploded here Friday about noon.Engineer Roberge received a compound fracture of the right ankle, several cuts about the body, and was seriously burned by steam.Fireman Carrier was blown from the engine cab and landed one hundred feet away.He remained conscious until late in the afternoon, when he died whije being placed in the train for Quebec, where both men lived.ere King Edward\u2019s Trip.London, Feb.18\u2014Thé Pall Mall Gazette on Saturday afternoon said it understood King Edward will leave London privately on Monday to Sait the Dowager Empress Frederick.London, Feb.19\u2014There is considerable interest in the outcome of the tariff difficulties between the United States and Russia.The advocates of a change in the Dritish fiscal system hope to find in them some support of their contention that retaliatory duties should be ime posed on countries taxing British products.The St.James\u2019 Gazette says: \u2018Some Americans, including Secretary Gage, appear to think the United States have the monopoly of the protection policy, but they have been sharply reminded by Russia that two can play at the game of hostile tariffs, as the import of Russian suger is a trifle compared with the exports to Russia.The present game of retaliation is one in which Russia holds the best cards.Therefore she will win most of the tricks.\u201d The St.Petersburg correspondent of The Times, who describes the action of M.De Witte in raising the duty on all the principal imports from the United States as a \u2018\u2018re prisal strikingly disproportionate to America\u2019s duty on suger,\u201d says: \u2018\u2018If any official negotiations have bon going on, they must have been entirely conducted in Washington.Russians here have been taken by surprise, and the Russian papers, which are always well disposed toward the United States, express great regret at the \u2018unfortunate incident\u2019: and hope that some amicable arrangement may be reached,\u2019 Severe Check on Trade.New York, Feb.19.\u2014Regarding the effects of the American discriminating tariff against sugar imported from Russia, and the Russian retaliatory excess duty of 80 per cent.on American iron manufactures, Charles Strong Guthrto, President of tho American Steel Hoop Company, a corporation with a capigal of $33,- 000,000, said: \u2018The tari Russia imposes upon steel and iron imports is already the highest in the world.If this additional duty is imposed upon products it docs not seem possible Lhat our trade in steel and iron with Russians can continue.\u201d Count Cassini, the Russian Ambassador, is quoted in a Washington despatch to The Herald as saying of the present American-Russian tariff situation: \u2018Russia does not want nor has she any intention of engaging in a tariff war with the United States.Tho application of maximum rates to American cast iron and steel manufactures, machinery and tools was not dictated by any desire to embark upon a policy of vengeance because of the decision of the Secretary of tho Treasury to collect tho countervailing duty on Russian sugar.I am sure that Gave ernment que Rush} people re Sieh deeply hat it was necessary to impose the maximum rates,\u201d A special despatch from Pretoria says the Boers at Klip river on Feb, 18 derailed a train containing Gen.Kitchener's baggage.The train was preceded by another on which the commander-in-chiel was a parsenger.An armored train drove ol the Doers but the latter srsured the contents of the sraia devalied.- = Le PISASTER IN BRITISH COLUMBIA \u2019 y.Guy Pot 16+-Ab eleven o'clock, an explosion tok inthe Welliagton coal mine and it.is believed all at work in it have been killed.After the explosion the mine took fire.Vancouver, B.C., Feb, 18.\u2014A tole gram from Union, B.C., late Satur day afternoon, says: All hope has long since boen given up that any of the men in shaft No.6 still live, and fire hose streams are pouring into No.6 gutter, constructed for carrying the water into an