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CCESSFUL MEETING\nMilled Under New and\nUnparalleled Methods\nPRONOUNCED by all leading balers the STRONGEST and\nBEST in the market.\nProduces 30 POUNDS MORE BREAD per barrel of 196 lbs,\nthan any other Manitoba Flour-\nFrom actual tests excels in quality for P-retry, Cakee, etc.\nAss your grocer for OGILVIE'S NEW FLOUR.\nBags sewn with Rfd, White and Blue Twine.\nHON. THEO. DAVIE EXPLAINS THE\nGOVERNMENT'S POLICY AT LENGTH.\nG. M. LEISHMAN, VICTORIA, AGENT FOR BRITISH COLUMBIA\nDAVID SPENCER\n: : : CRESCENT : : :\nAn Exhaustive Statement of the Government's Aims and Purposes\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdThe Past\nand tho Present What Has Been\nDone to Devolope the Country \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd The\nCredit of the Province Abroad -Mineral Eights in tho Hallway Bolt- Settlement of the Country\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdTho Crofter\nScheme \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd Redistribution at Next Session of the House\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdLogger's Interests.\nNew Goods for Xmas Just Received\nLadies' Fancy Embroidered Silk Handkerchiefs, loo., 2.\">o., 37^0., 50c. to SI.\nLadies' Gauze Silk Embroidered Handkerchiefs, (French), 50c. to SI.\nLadies' White Lace Trimmed Handkerc' iefs, for evening wear, 51) and 7-\">c. each.\nLadies' White Hem-Stitched Lawn Handkerchiefs, $1.25, J1.60 and 42 per dozen.\nGents' Initial -Silk Handkerchiefs, 37-i, ,\">0 and 75cts. each\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdchoice.\nGents' Black Silk Handkerchiefs, $1, $1.25 and $1.50 each.\nGents' Fancy Silk Handkerchiefs, from 2.\"ic. each to SI\ufffd\ufffd\ufffda great bargiin.\nGents' Hem-Stitched Silk Handkerchiefs, 50c, 7~>c. and $1 each.\nFeather Boas, $1, $1.75 to $3.7'> and $4.75.\nFur Storm Collars, Capes and MuITb. Real Bear Boas and Muff*.\nBoys' Cloth Suits $1.75, $2.00 and $4.50.\nAll the above are special importations, and are marked at such ridiculous low prices\nthat all MUST BE SATISFIED if ihey examine aud compare the goods.\nD. SPENCER,\n811-6m PROPRIETOR.\nSELLING AT COST\nFOR 30 DAYS ::\nrimmed\nLadies' Felt and\nChildren's Millinery\n-Jackets, Children's\nSuits, Ready Made Dresses, Ladies'\nCashmere Wrappers, Waterproof-*-,\nWinter DreS3 Goods and Cloakings.\nHats, Ladies' and\nladies' Sealette and Beaver\nackets and Cloaks, Boys'\nFJ an nel and\niilii'ellits.\nBlack, i^avy,\nO'Shanters.\n(J.\nBy Express:\nCream and Fawn Wool. Tarn\nfj. S. STANNARD & CO.\nVICTORIA CRESCENT\nIN TBE NEW YEAH OF 1892 OUR POET APPEARED\nShortly after, pressure of busiuess compelled us to put an\napron on his noble person, and set him to work weighing Currants and Deckajuie Tea.\nThis compelled silence, (which doubtlees accounts for the vacant\nLaureateship), ia becoming painful to behold, and we shall start him\non an \"Ode to the New Year;\" in the meantime he is knee-deep in\nGroceries, and says that Prices are Right, and Quality the Bert.\nW. T. HEDDLE & CO.\nTelephone 110 ' B-U-8m COB, MILTON AND ALBERT STREETS\nHOLIDAY GOODS\nFOR YOUNG AND OLD\nRICH AND POOR : :\nAt COUNTER'S VictoMjtoeiit Jewellry Store\nFancy Goods, Silver Ware, Jewellry, Clocks and\nWatches, the Largest Stock yet.\nCOME AND EXAMINE GOODS AND PRICES\nX M. R. COUNTER\n^PRICE'S\nThe only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdNo Ammonia; No Alum.\nUsed in Millions of Homes\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd40 Years the Standard\nConsidering the condition of the weather\nand the short notice given, Mr. Davie's\nmeetiug in the Opera House last night, was\na great success. It had not been his intention to address a puhlic meetiug on this occasion. On Friday afternoou ho received a\nmessage asking him to visit Cowichan and\ndecided to go there yesterday morning. Before leaving, however, a number of his\nfriends prevailed upon him to address a\nmeeting in the Opera House last night.\nNotwithstanding that ouly a few hours'\nnotice was given aud a heavy rain prevailed\nall the evemug there was a good attendance\nat the meeting. The premier was enthusiastically received and the best of order prevailed throughout. His explanation of the\nGovernment policy and the measures in contemplation for the next session were re-\nceivtd with general approval.\nShortly after the hour appointed, order\nwas called and Mayor Haslam moved to the\nchair. His worship in a few terse remarks\nintroduced the premier.\nMr. Davie\nUpon coming forward said he was pleased\nto have an opportunity to explain a few\nmatters in reference to the policy of iiis\nGovernment. When he arrived in the city\nlie had not intended to hold a public meeting. He had i-iinply como tu attend the\npoultry show. Ou account of its being in\nprogre\ufffd\ufffds uutil last uight and the faot that\nto-uight might practically be considered\nChristmas eve, he did not consider it, an opportune lime for political meetings. However a number of his friends had pressed\nhim to address the electors before returning to Victoria, and upon leaving for Cowichan t lis moruing he had promised to return if they telephoned him to do so. Later\non in the day lie received a message saying\nthat arrangements had been made for a\nmeeting, and handbills were issued announcing it. He hoped this would not bo the\nlast meeting he would have an opportunity\nto address in this city. He was always\nready to give up his time for the benefit of\nthe electors. He regretted that he had not\nhad more time for preparation, as he would\nhave been able to have gone into details and\nmany matters of more direot interest to this\ncommunity. He did not intend to enter\nupon those subjects that had already had\ntheir quietus ou the mainland, such as thu\nParliament buildiuga aud the redistribution\nmatter. These questions he had gone over\nthoroughly on the mainland, and as he said\nbefore, he was satisfied they had received\ntheir quietus there. A number of ill-advised\ngentlemen on the mainland had circulated a\npetitiou asking the Governor-General of\nCauada to veto the act providing for the\nconstruction of the Parliament buildings,\naud had gone so fur as to agitate for - -|*.ini\ntion of the mainland from the island. To\nfurther this project a convention was called\nat Kamloops for the purpoae of inciting\nthe people of the maiuland t\ufffd\ufffd rise in a body\nand declare for separation. Island constituencies were not asked to participate in\nthis convention. He was pleased to\nbe able to say, however, that\nthe people of the mainland resented the\nmovement, and that in only a few instances\nwere delegates appointed. The solid ]men\nof the c mmunity refused to take any part\nin the matter whatever, and the few who\nattended the convention were tho dissappoint-\ned oneB who had tried to stir up an ill-\nfeeling between tho two sections of the\nProvince. The advocates of the scheme had\nsince found out the woeful blunder they had\nmade and the misguided attempts of these\nmin iu this direction had ended iu a graud\nfiasco. There vas little further to be said\nou these issues.\nThe redistribution bill, whioh could not\nbe introduced at tne last session, will be\nbrought in uext and will lm as just a measure\naB il is in the power of the Government to\nmake it.\nReferring to the condition of I ho Province\nhe said that before auy thing could he done\nthe Government had to establish tho credit\nof tho country in as to enable them to borrow money on advantagi ous tHrms. A few\nyears ago the Government wanted a small\nloan of S'10,000 anil employed a broker to\nnegotiate it, for ih\"m. After endeavoring\nto obtain tho money required from aeveral\nsources tho Governm* nt wero compelled to\naccept a loan from Sir James l'uuglas at 8\nper cent, interest aud had to pay the broker\nii per cent, for obtaining it. A short time\nafterwards the Government had to raise\nsome more money and a second loan was\nfloated at Ii per cent. Unable to borrow\nmouey for the purpose the Government\ncould not place the advantages of the\ncountry before the outside world. It was\ntherefore neoet*s*ry to establish our orid.it so\nas to place this Province on us good\na footing as any other country.\nIn order to assist the development of our\nresouaces the Beaven administration passed\nwhat is known as the Clements Act which\nhe considered went too far,but was intended\nto Induct settlers lo comehere. Then what\nis known as the Settlements Act was passed\nto promote the construction of the Island\nrailroad. Government lands were thrown\nopen for settlement at one dollar per acre\nand a big monopoly had been given. While\nthere was no doubt that very large grantB\nhad been given in the past, this had to be\ndone to encourage the development and\nopening up of the country. The island rail-\nTHE ELITE PHOTO STUDIO\nHas removed from the old place to the\nroad cost about $3,000,000, io aid of which\n; a subsidy of $700,000 was granted by the\nj Dominion Government. Although the com-\ni pany received a large grant of laud from\nthe Government they c juld have purchased\nit at the time for one dollar per acre which | DISAFFECTION\namount would have been comparatively\nj small to the country. The ob?ect of the\nGovernment was to redeem the country so\naa to induce settlement. What now might\nI bo considered huge grants had to be given\nby former governments in order to get rail-\nj roads built and the country opened up.\nRecently the Kootenay road h il been\nbuilt and the \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd (Forte of the Government\nwere be ng directed to secure every possible\nmeans of opening up iho country, Tim\nGovernment had auicueded in ledeemiug\ntho credit of the country far beyond the\nmost sanguine expectations of any of its\nmembers. Our three pjr cent, bonds stand\nsecond against all other countries in the\nworld. These thiDgs having been accomplished, a new era now dawns upon the\nprovince with which the present Government has to deal. The past is a dead issue\nwhich it would be well to bury.\nA question had arisen lately as to whether\nihe Eaquimalt k Nanaimo Riilway Company were entitled to the precious met\nals contained in the lands secured by\nthem from the < lovernment. To his mind\nthere was not the slightest doubt as to\nwho was entitled to the minerals in\nquestion. The Government of the Dominion of Canada had denied a similar right to\nthis province on a former occasion aud the\nprovinoe came out of the fight victorious.\nHaving this in view he had submitted\nthe carfe to ihe Supreme Court and\nhad no doubt as to the result.\nWhile it might be deoided that the\nbaser metals passed with the grant it will\nbe found jjthat the precious metals belong\nto the Crown, and will pass to the free\nminer whenever he desires to become\npossessed of them.\nBeing now in a position to take every advantage of our opportunities it was the duty\nof the present government to develop the\nresources of the country and find employment for the people who desire to make\ntheir homes here. To advance this object,\nsome time ago an act was passed for tho\npurpose of futhering the development of\nthe deep sea fisheries on the strength of an\noffer made by tho Imperial Government to\nadvance the Govironient of British Columbia a loan of \ufffd\ufffd150,000, partof the conditions\nof which were that Crofter fishermen would\nbe brought out and placed on our northern\nsea coast for the purpose of carrying on\nthe fishing industry. A strong oompany waB said to be ready to enter upon\nthe development of the fisheries on the condition that these people should be brought\nout, and representations were made to\nthe Government of this province that other\nlines of trade would also be introduced in\nconnection with the development 'of the\nfisheries, The Government readily brought\nin an act to enable these negotiations to be\nentered into but it afterwards turned out\nthat the Imperial Government wanted to\nseleot the fishermen and send to this country t^iose persona who were of very little\nuse to auy country. As soon as this was\ndiscoi tf-ed an order-in-eouncil was at once\npassed that the proper immigrants should\nbe selected by the Government of thia province, which proposition was refused by the\nImperial authorities and so the matter had\ndropped.\nThe development of our trade relations\nwith the Australian colonies was a matter\nof the greatest importance to this Province\nat the present time. One of the chief products from that couniry, an article which\ncould not be piofitably raised in British\nColumbia, namely, sheep, might be imported\nwith advantage. While he maintained that\nthe Proviuce Bhould be self-supporting as\nfar aB possible, one could not deny the fact\nthat sheep cannot be raised here profitably.\nOn the mainland they destroyed the pasturage to such an extent that laBt session\nthe Government had to pass an act to pre\nvent it. At present most of our mutton is\nimported from Oregon, where is a great area\nof pasture for Bheep raising. If we get a\nmarket iu Australia for our products in\nexchange for sheep, it would be of great\nbenefit to the Province.\nThe coal trade was our most important\nindustry. At present our market waB confined intirely to the Pacific Coast. Nanaimo\nis the chief coal producing centre of the Province. Were it not for the coal minea of Nanaimo and Wellington, Britiah Columbia would\nbe in a very backward state indeed. The coal\ntrade makes more than three fourths of our\nexport trade, for which San Francisco and\nthe local trade are about our only markets.\nIt might bo said that none of\nthe ooal from here reaches the interior\noracrosBthemountaius. Amongst the various\nprovincial enterprises which the Government\nhas decided to assist iB ihe railroad from\nSpence's Bridge to N'icola, which tiaverBes\na country containing vas*. coal fields, ami\nwill open up a coal trado on the mainland,\nand which will nut in any way come into\nmpctition with the Nanaimo coal. Wlu'h\nthese new fi> Ids were opened up an extern\nfive trade would bo done with the east, and\nemployment would be furnished to many\nhundreds of people.\nAnother railway enterprise assisted by\nthe Government was the road from Nakusp\nto Slocan, which was intended to prevent\nthe trade of the upper country from being\ndrained to the Bouth, to the harm of the\ncities of our own Province. Thus il waa that\nthe Government had aided these roads by\nliberal gran's Afier tho House had risen\nearly I his year the necessity for completing\nthe Slocan r*ad earlier than was contemplated in the act became impressed upou the\nGovernment, and it was decided to assist in\nrushing it through aB rapidly aB possible,\nconsequently the track waa completed to\nSlooan Lake early in December. As a matter of fact, the Government had mado a\nbetter arrangement in the interest of the\ncountry thau the act had authorized them\nto do, but as this had to come before the\nHouso at the next session, it was not necessary at this time to go into the ma'ter any\nfurther. The opening of the great mineral\nbelts of the country through which this road\npasses would be of great benefit to the provinoe.\nThe lumber trade would in the near\nfuture be a great source of wealth to the\nProvinoe. The prospects of trade with\nIMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.\nRIFE AMONG THE\nGOVERNMENT'S SUPPORTERS.\nRadical and Conservative Newspapers\nThink \ufffd\ufffd10,000 a Year too Much to Pay\nthe Ruling King of Saxe Cobourg\nGotha Merely to Retain His Connection With the British Royal Family\nIrish Leaders Want a General Pardon\nGranted to Their Fellow Countrymen\nIn Gaol Large Silver Shipments to\nIndia Continue A Party Formed to\nResist the Agitation for Chnrch Dis-\nestablishment.\nand meant to scatter their propaganda in\nconjunction with their Purchase Defence\ninsmute He declined to give the party',\nnumerical strength, although declaring\nthat they i\ndaily.\nhough\nreceiving new\niaring\nmembers\n, Australia were very bright. Although the\nd, near the Nanaimo Opera House. market wa9 now duU ^ pricea oou*fo not\nbe obtained to make the manufacture of\nlumber profitable, there must soon be a\n(Continued on page tour.)\nBest Photos in the City.\nCloudy days preferred for sittings.\nS-ll 8m\nLondon, Dec. 23.-[Special]\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdBefore the\nthe House of Commons adjourned last evening, the Government whips were informed\nhy representatives of both the Liberals and\nRadicals that if the closure should not be\napplied strongly after the recess to the debate on the Parish Councils' Bill, the members of the majority would take matters into\ntheir own hands. Discontent over the misconduct of busiuess prevails among all the\nGovernment supporters.\nOn January 1st men from all sections of\nthe majoiity will meet at the National\nLiberal Club to discuss the difficulties of\nthe situation. It is now seen that the\nweakness of Mr. -Mellor, chairman of the\ncommittee of the whole House, in permitting a number of amendments to be irregularly debated is not the sole cause of the\nConservative obstructionists. For some\nreason the government have fought the\nobstructive policy of the minority\nonly loosely and half heartedly.\nTho unionists say the reason for this\nis that the miniatera are riding for\na fall as they desire an early dis\nsolution. If Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues have any such intention they are likely\nto be thwarted by their party, who will not\npermit a policy of this sort to mature. One\nof the main objects of the tneeliog at the\nNational Liberal Club,in fact is understood,\nis the announcement of the demand that the\nGovernment carry out beforo dissolution the\nprincipal measures introduced in the Newcastle platform. Nor will they tolerate any undue prolongation of the\nsession. The report that (he Cabinet iB considering the expediency of a two year session to save the necessity of the Queen's\nspeech is not agreeable to Government\nmembers. What they insist upon is a summary disposition of the bills before the\nHouse, and the prorogation of the House.\nWhatever Mr. Gladstone's plans may he in\nthe matter, he will be forced in view of\noverwhelming party feeling to accede to the\ndemand.\nThe Duke of Edinburg, despite his\nacceptance of the throne of Saxe-\nCobourg Gotha is to draw (.'10,000\nannually from the British exchequer. When\nMr. Gladstone announced this article to the\nHouse he threw down a bone of contention\nbetween the government and the Radioals.\nThat this proposal would arouse Mr. Labouchere and hia colleagues waa certain and\na hot debate enaued. Mr. Labouchere will\nnot let the subject drop. He has given\nnotice already ot a motion to the effect that\nas the Duke of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, as a\nprince of the German federation derives his\nwhole annuity fiom tie Imperial revenues,\nthey should be stopped. The government\nrushed to smother debate on this question\nMr. Labouchere will renew the matter during the discussion of the estimates. The\nproposal to vote \ufffd\ufffd10,000 annually to the\nDuke of Edinburgh is considered by Mr.\nLabouchere and colleagues to be carrying\nthe agreement of the Nationalists to support the Government's deference to a mere\ntitle a little too far. The Duke's income is\ndrawn chiefly from the pockets of the British taxpayer. His wife's dower is known\naccurately to be more than i'*2O,000 annually. The duke is not liked by the classes\nin Great Britain and is utterly unknown to\nthe masses. Even Conservative newspapera\nsay that 1*10,000 will be a heavy price to pay\nmerely to keep up the duke's British connections, lor which nobody except the royal\nfamily cares. The Standard deplores the\nwhole arrangement. In a leader on the subject, it says: \"If Germany should be at war\nwiih England, the duke ought to command\nthe German Meet, as a sovereign is not subject to English law, even when residing in\nEngland, i,s has been fhown by tho case of\nthe Sultnn of Johore. He, therefore,\nshould n**t enjoy appanage as a British\nprince. If it is true that the duke wants\nmoney because his predecessors wasted the\nSaxe-Cobourg Gotha property, let him ask\nfor 110,000 yearly from his ovvn subjeo's,\nThe Irish leaden **i*e privately urging the\nohief ex* cutive lo allow the preceden s *t\nla'.t Christmas, when the Donegal pria n ers\nwere released, and to remit sentences on\nIrishmen now imprisoned for treason and felony. The chief secretary for Ireland appealed\nto his colleagues for their consent to this\nproposal as tin- as it concerned several cases,\nbur Mr. Asquith, the Hone Secretary refused on the ground that the recent outrages of dynamiters in Dublin was proof of\nthe inelliciency of the pardoning polioy,\nThe relations betwi en the chief secretary\nfor Ireland and the Homo Secretary have\nboon straineel almost to the breaking point.\nAnglo Indian representatives confidently\npredict that a duty ou silver Imported iuto\niudia will *ie introduced at the beginning of\nthe next financial year. The continuance\nof large silver shipments to India is attributed partly to the demand for metal to\nsupply the requirements of the natives for\nornaments but principally to speculate.\nNatives iu India expect that the heavy duty\nwill be fixed causing the value to rise,\nand therefore are purchasing their supplies\nin advance.\nIn view of the agitation for church disestablishment, a parliamentary church party\nhas beeu formed, its object being to organize\nin a coalition all members of the House of\nCommons who oppose disestablishment,\nSir F. B. Powell, who is most conspicuous\nin the undertaking, said yesterday that the\nexecutive committee will contain two Liberals, although the generality of members\nwill be Conservatives. The party was\nreoeiving already ample funds, he said,\nEvidence Now Complete.\nLONDON. Dec. 23.-A despatch from Mad-\nrid to the Central News say. that the arrest\nof Jose Codina, who has confessed that he\nwas the author of the bomb explosion in the\nLyceum theatre at Barcelona, has afforded\nrelief to workingmen, who are now less paralysed by police via.is to their homes.\nHundreds of families are in great distress,\nlacking the necessaries of life, owing to the\nwhole-sale arrest of men who were suspected\nof being implicated in anarchy. Of the men\nin custody, a soapmaker named Marilo Cer-\nvelo, has confessed that he a sis ted Pallas\nin his attempt to assassinate General Martinez de Campos at Barcelona. He also says\nthat he acted as confederate to Codina in\nplanning and causing the exp'oeion in the\nLyceum theatre. The police believe that\nthe exidence they have ae ure.l as to anarchist plots in Barcelona is now complete.\nBeihcl Wants to Know.\nLondon, Dec. 23.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdIn the House of Commons to-day, Commander George R. Bethel,\nretired, who was a member of the Challenger expedition, questioned Sir William\nHarcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer,\nregarding the statement that England's\nposition in the Mediterranean was secured\nby possessing a preponderance of ten to nineteen first-class battleships, and whether this\npreponderance existed in the Mediterranean.\nHe further asked if it was not a fact that\nfour out os these nineteen British battleships were on December 19th, at Aroasa\nbay, 600 miles from Gibraltar, while Bix\nothers that have not been completed were\nlying at the Portsmouth and Chatham dock\nyards. Were any steps, he continued, being\ntaken to strengthen the British naval f jroe\nin the Mediterranean? The Chancellor of\nthe Exchequer replied that the question of\nhow the ships of England should be distributed was one for the Admiralty to\ndecide. It would injure the public confidence, if he exactly stated what the plans\nof the Admiralty were.\nGive the Police Trouble.\nParis, Dec. 23.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdThe police continue to\nreceive a large number of suspicious looking\npackages, supposed by their finders to be\ninfernal machines. These pickages are\neither fouud in the streets or \"are addressed\nto individuals. Most of them on examination prove to be harmless and are evidently\nintended to make people be ieve that the\naiarchis's are still actively at work. Some\nof the packages, however, are really dangerous. For instance, one found a few days\nago on the window sill of the mairie of the\nthirteenth arrondisement was found to contain a quantity of blasting powder and\nseventy revolver cartridges. The fuze had\nbeen attached to the package, but it had,\nowing to some defect, in the arrangement,\nburned out without ciusing an explosion.\nOn the package were inscribed the words,\n\"death to the bourgersie!\" August Vaillant, the anarchist under arrest for causing\nthe explosion in the Chamber of Deputies,\nwhich crime he has confessed, haB received\ndonations amounting to 3,000 francs since\nhe was lodged in prison.\nThe Fighting at Massowah.\nRome, Dec. 23.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdAfter the adjournment\not the Chamber of Deputies, the representative of lhe United Press had au interview\nwith general Mocenni, in regard to the fight\nwith the dervishes inland from Massowah,\nthe Italian poit on the Red Sea. General\nMocenni said that the native scouts\nwarned commander Arimondi several days\nago that the dervishes were preparing to\nconcentrate their forces aud make an attack on Agordat. It was their intention\nto attack the place at midnight and take it\nby surprise. General Mocenni was of\ncourse informed of the reports of the scouts\nand he at once telegraphed to MasBowah\nasking for details aa to how the Italians\nwere prepared to meet the threatened attack. He received imformation tbat the\nItalian force was 1,400 strong with\neight pieces of artillery. The\ntroops included five Soudanese\ncontingents. Commander Arimondi prudently left two companies to hold Fort Agordat when he went to give battle to the\ndervishes. When questioned as to the names\nof those killed, General Mocenni Eaid that\nhe would retain them for the present in order that they might be verified, He added\nthat he would warn the families of those reported to have been killed and further said\nthat he feared the lo-s in dead waa larger\nthan at first report* d. The feature of the\nbattle was lhe fighting done by former\nSoudanese slaves who had been liberated by\n' he, Italians, These ex-sDves, General Mocenni said, had fought fiercely againBt their\nformer oppressors. They are largely Arabs\nand the Italians have always respected their\nreligious faith and have erected mosques for\nthem in their camps. The last is the third\ndefeat the dervishes have sustained in battles in which the natives fought, and their\nbravery ought, General Mocenni says, to\nraise their prestige in the eyes t f Europeans.\nLate this evening it was learned that\nthree Italian officers and more than 100\nsoldiers of the ltulian army were killed in\nthe battle with iho dervishes. Most of the\nsoldiers who were killed wire natives.\nAmong those wl o were shot dead on the\nfield was Hamed All, one of the commanders\nof the dervishes in the battle at Metammeh\nin January, 1S85.\nGeneral Baratieri, the governor of Italy's\nRed Sea colony, told the United Press correspondent to-night that he would start for\nMassowah to-morrow. Although he does\nnot expect to have any more trouble with\nthe dervishes in the near future, he pointed\nout the necessity of occupying Kassala at\nonce.\nLONDON, Dec. 28.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdThe Rome correspondent of the Central News telegraphs concerning the conflict between dervishes and\nItalian troops. There were three distinct\nengagements, one at Agordat, another at\nSorobanti, and the third at Biscia. The\nItalias were everywhere successful.\nThe Telegram job plant is now in position to do all kinds of job printing on the\nshortest notice. We have a large stock ot\nall kinds of papers on hand aud will guarantee to suit our customers in stock and work- ml\n0 .\nmlmtim.\nVOL. 6, NO. 39\nNANAIMO, B. C, SUNDAY DECEMBER 24, 1893.\nOgilvie's\nFlour\nA SI CCESSFDL MEETING\nPRICE, 5 CENTS.\nMilled Under New and\nUnparalleled Methods\nPRONOUNCED by all leading baker a the STRONGEST and\nBEST in the market.\nProduces 30 POUNDS MORE BREAD per bat-rel of 196 lbs.\nthan any other Manitoba Flour.\nFrom actual tests excels in quality for Pastry, Cakee, etc.\nAsk your grocer for OGILVIE'S NEW FLOUR.\nBags sewn with Rpd, White and Blue Twine.\nJHON. THEO. DAVIE EXPLAINS THE\nGOVERNMENT'S POLICY AT LENGTH.\nC. M. LEISHMAN, VICTORIA, ACENT FOR BRITISH COLUMBIA\nS-ll-3ni\nDAVID SPENCER\n: : : CRESCENT : : :\nNew Goods for Xmas Just Received\nLadies' Fancy Embroidered Silk Handkerchiefs, 15c, 25c, ,'i7ic., 50c. to $1.\nLadies' Gauze Silk Embroidered Handkerchiefs, (French), 50c. to \ufffd\ufffd1.\nLadies' White Lace Trimmed Handkerc' iefs, for evening wear, 50 and 75c. each.\nLadies' White Hem-Stitched Lawn Handkerchiefs, $1.25, 81.50 and *5>2 per dozen.\nGents' Initial Silk Handkerchiefs, 37J, 50 and 75cts. each\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdchoice.\nGents' Black Silk Handkerchiefs, $1, $1.25 and SI.50 each.\nGents' Fancy Silk Handkerchiefs, from 25c. each to SI\ufffd\ufffd\ufffda great bargain.\nGents' Hem-Stitched Silk Handkerchiefs, 50c, 75c. and SI each.\nFeather Boas, SI, $1.75 to $3.75 and $4.75.\nFur Storm Collars, Capes and Muffs. Real Bear Boas and Muff*.\nBoys' Cloth Suits $1.75, $2.00 and $4.50.\nAll the above are special importations, and are marked at such ridiculous low prices\nthat all MUST BE SATISFIED if ihey examine and compare the goods.\nD. SPENCER,\nAn Exhaustive Statement of the Government's Alms and Purposes\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdThe Past\nand tho Present\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdWhat Has Been\nDone to Develope tho Country\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdThe\nCredit of tho Province Abroad\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdMineral Rights in the Railway Bolt\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd Settlement of tho Country Tho Crofter\nScheme \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd Redistribution at Next Session of the House\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdLogger's Interests,\nS-ll-Hm\nPROPRIETOR\nSELLING AT COST\nFOR\nDAYS : :\nLadies' Felt and 'rimmed Hats, Ladies' and\nChildren's Millinery, Ladies' Sealette and Beaver\n.lackets, Children's -laekets and Cloaks, Boys'\nSuits, Ready Made Dresses, Ladips' Flannel and\nCashmere Wrappers, Waterpronfr, CJnibreJlas,\nWinter Dress Goods and Cloakings. By Express:\nBlack, i^avy, Cream and Fawn Wool. Tarn\nO'Shanters.\nS-ll tt\n=J. S. STANNARD & CO.\nVICTORIA CRESCENT\nIN TBE NEW YEAR OF 1892 OUR POET APPEARED\nShortly after, pressure of busiuess compelled us to put an\napron on his noble person, and set him to work weighing Currants and Deckajuie Tea.\nThis compelled silence, (which doubtless accounts for the vacant\nLaureateship), is becoming* painful to behold, and we shall start him\non an \"Ode to the New Year;\" in the meantime he is knee-deep in\nGroceries, and says that Pricea are Right, and Quality the Bert\nTelephone 110\nW. T. HEDDLE & CO.\nS-11-liiii\nCOR. MILTON AND ALBERT STREETS\nHOLIDAY GOODS\nFOR YOUNG AND OLD\nRICH AND POOR\nAt COUNTER'S Victoria Crescent Jewellry Store\nFancy Goods, Silver Ware, Jewellry, Clocks and\nWatches, the Largest Stock yet.\nCOMB AND EXAMINE GOODS AND PRICES\nX M. R. COUNTER\nat\nS-U-liiu\nD*PRICE'S\nPowder\nThe only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder.-No Ammonia; No Alum.\nUsed in Millions of Homes\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd40 Years the Standard\nConsidering the condition of the weather\nand the short notice given, Mr. Davie's\nmeeting in the Opera House last night, wai*\na great success. It had not been his intention to address a public meeting on this occasion. On Friday afternoon he received a\nmessage asking him to visit Cowichan and\ndecided to go there yesterday morning. Before leaving, however, a number of his\nfriendB prevailed upon him to address a\nmeeting in the Opera House last night.\nNotwithstanding that only a few hours'\nnotice was given and a heavy rain prevailed\nall the evening there was a good attendance\nat the meeting. The premier was enthusiastically received and the best of order prevailed throughout. His explanation of the\nGovernment policy and the measures in contemplation for the next session were received with general approval.\nShortly after the hour appointed, order\nwas called and Mayor Haslam moved to the\nchair. His worship in a few terse remarks\nintroduced the premier.\nMr. Davie\nUpon coming forward said he was pleased\nto have an opportunity to explain a few\nmatters in reference to the policy of his\nGovernment. When he arrived in the city\nhe had not intended to hold a public meeting. He had i-imply come tu attend the\npoultry show. On accouut of its being in\nprogress uutil last night and the fact that\nto-night might practically be considered\nChristmas eve, he did not consider it an opportune time for political meetings. However a number of his friends had pressed\nhim to address the electors before returning to Victoria, and upon 1* aving for Cowichan lli s moruing he had promised to return if they telephoned him to do so. Later\non in the day he received a message saying\nthat arrangements had been made for a\nmeeting, and handbills were issued announcing it. He hoped this would not be the\nlast meeting he would have an opportunity\nto address iu this city. He was always\nready to give up his time for the benefit of\nthe electors. He regretted that he had not\nhad more time for preparation, as he would\nhave been able to have gune into details and\nmany matters of more direct interest to this\ncommunity. He did not intend to enter\nupon those subjects that had already had\ntheir quietus on the mainland, such as the\nParliament buildiugs and the redistribution\nmatter. These questions he had gone over\nthoroughly on the mainland, aud as he said\nbefore, he was satisfied they had received\ntheir quietus there. A number of ill-advised\ngentlemen on the mainland li'id circulated a\npetition asking the Governor-General of\nCanada to veto the act providing for the\nconstruction of the Parliament buildings,\naud had gone so fur as to agitate for separation of the mainland from the island. To\nfurther this project a convention was called\nat Kamloops for the purpose of inciting\nthe people ol the maiuland te rise in a body\nand declare for separation. Island constituencies were not asked to participate in\nthis convention. He was pleased to\nbe able to say, however, that\nthe people of the mainland resen'.ed the\nmovement, and that in only a few instances\nwere delegates appointed. The solid *,meu\nof the c inmunity refused to take auy part\nin the matter whatever, and the few who\nattended theconveution were the disappointed ones who had tried to stir up an ill-\nfeeling between the two sections of the\nProviuce, The advocates of the scheme had\nsince found out the woeful blunder they had\nmade and the misguided attempts of these\ntni n iu this direction had ended ina grand\nfiasco. There was little further to be said\non these issues.\nThe redistribution bill, which could not\nbe introduced at tne last session, will be\nbrought in next and will he us just a measure\nas it is in the power of the Government to\nmake it.\nReferring to the condition of the Province\nhe said that before anything could be done\nthe Government hud to establish the credit\nof the country in aB to enable them to borrow muney on advantageous terms. A few\nyears ago the Government wanted a small\nloan of ,*?,'i0,000 aud employed a broker lo\nnegotiate it for lii-m. After endeavoring\nto obtain the money required from several\nsources the Government were compelled to\naccept a loan from Sir James Douglas at 8\nper cent, interest aud had to pay tho broker\nf> per cent, for obmining it. A short time\nafterwards the Government had to raise\nBorne more money and a second loan was\nfloated at fi per cent. Unable to borrow\nmoDey for tho purpose the Government\ncould not place the advantages of the\ncountry before the outside world. It was\ntherefore necessary to establish our cridit so\naa to place this Prov ince on as good\na footing as any other country.\nIn order to assist the development of our\nresouaces the Heaven administration passed\nwhat is known as the Clements Act which\nhe considered went too fur,but was intended\ni to induct Bottlers lo comehore. Then what\nis known as the Settlements Act was passed\nto promote the construction of the Island\nrailroad. Government lands wore thrown\nopen for settlement at one dollar per acre\nand a big monopoly had beeuiriven. While\nthere was no doubt that very large grants\nhad been given in the past, this had to be\ndoue to encourage the development and\nopening up of the country. The island rail-\n| road cost about \ufffd\ufffd3,000,000, in aid o f which\n, a subsidy of \ufffd\ufffd700,000 was granted by the\ni nonunion Government. Although the com-\nI pany received a large grant of laud from\nthe Government they could have purchased\nit at the time for one dollar per acre which\namount would have been comparatively\nj small to the country. The ob?ect of the\nGovernment was to redeem the country so\naa to induce settlement. What now might\n| be considered huge grants had to be given\nj by former goverumenta in order to get rail-\nroads built and the country opened up.\nRecently the Kootenay road h d been\nbuilt and the i ti'.irta of the Government\nI were be'ng directed to secure every possible\nmeans of opening up the uouuiry. Tne\nGovernment had succeeded in ledeemiug\nthe credit of the country far beyond the\nmost sanguine expectations of any of its\nmembers. Our three par cent, bonds stand\nsecond against all other countries in the\nworld. These things having been accomplished, a new era now dawns upon the\nprovince with which the present Government has lo deal. The past is a dead is.su*;\nwhich it would be well to bury.\nA question bud arisen lately as to whether\nihe E-quimalt k Nanaimo R\ufffd\ufffdilway Company were entitled to the precious met\nals contained in the lauds secured by\nthem from the Government. To his mind\nthere was not the slightest doubt as to\nwho waa entitled to the minerals in\nquestion. The Government of the Dominion of Canada had denied a similar right to\nthis province ou a former occasion and the\nprovince came out of the fight victorious.\nHaving this iu view he had submitted\nthe case to the Supreme Court, and\nhad no doubt as to the result.\nWhile It might be decided that the\nbaser metala passed with the grant it will\nbe found jjthat the precious metala belong\nto the Crown, and will pass to the free\nminer whenever he deBires to become\nof them.\nIMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.fe=.^rS^rfi-\ninBUiute. He declined to sivt tk\ufffd\ufffd \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd..,\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd*.\nnumerical strength, althom I I P -y\nthat tiro., \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd oicnougii declaring\nth,U they were receiving new member!\nDISAFFECTION RIFE AMONG THE\nGOVERNMENTS SUPPORTERS.\nRadical and Conservative Newspapers\nThink \ufffd\ufffd10,000 a Year too Mnob to Pay\nthe Ruling King of Saxe Cobourg\nGotha Merely to Retain His Connection With the British Royal Family\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nIrish Leaders Want a General Pardon\nGranted to Their Fellow Countrymen\nIn Gaol Large Silver Shipments to\nIndia Continue A Party Formed to\nResist the Agitation for Church Disestablishment.\nTHE ELITE PHOTO STUDIO\nHas removed from the old place to the\nnew stand, near Ihe Nanaimo Opera House.\nBest Photos in the City.\nCloudy days preferred for sittings.\nS-ll 8m\nBeing now in a position to take every advantage of our opportunities it was the duty\nof the present government to develop the\nresources of the country and find employ\nment for the people who desire to make\ntheir homes here. To advance this objci,\nsome time ago an act was passed for the\npurpose of futhering the development nf\nthe deep sea fisheries on the strength of an\noffer made by the Imperial Government to\nadvance the Goviromeut of British Columbia a loan of \ufffd\ufffd150,000, part of the conditions\nof which were that Crofter fishermen would\nbe brought out and placed ou our northern\nBea coast for the purpose of carrying on\nthe fishing industry. A strong company was said to be ready to enter upon\nthe development of the fisheries ou the con-\ndilion that these people should be brought\nout, and representations were made to\nthe Government of this province that other\nlineB of trade would alao be introduced in\nconnection with the development 'of the\nfisheries. The Government readily brought\nin au act to enable these negotiations to be\nentered into but it afterwards turned out\nthat the Imperial Government wanted to\nseleot the fishermen and send to this country jhpso persons who were of very little\nuse to any country. As soon as this was\ndiBcoie~\"!d an order-in-eouncil was at once\npassed that the proper immigrants should\nbe selected by the Government of this province, which proposition waa refused by the\nImperial authorities and so the matter had\ndropped.\nThe development of our trade relations\nwith ihe Australian colonies was a matter\nof the greatest importance to this Province\nat the present time. Oue of the chief pro-\nduels from that country, an article which\ncould not be piofitably raised in British\nColumbia, namely, sheep, might be imported\nwith advantage. While he maintained that\nthe Province should be Belf-supporting as\nfar as possible, one could not deny the fact\nthat sheep cannot be raised here profitably.\nOn the mainland they destroyed the pasturage to such an extent that last session\nthe Government had to paBS an act to prevent it. At present most of our mutton ia\nimported from Oregon, where is a great area\nof pasture for sheep raising. If we get a\nmarket in Australia for our products in\nexchange for sheep, it would be of great\nbenefit to the Proviuce.\nThe coal trade was our most important\nindustry. At present our market waa confined intirely to the Pacific Coast. Nanaimo\nis the chief coal producing centra of the Province Were it nolforthecoal mines of Nanaimo and Wellington, British Columbia would\nbe in a very backward state indeed. The coal\ntrade makes more than three fourths of our\nexport trade, for which San Francisco and\nthe local trade are about our only markets.\nIt might bo said that none of\nthe ooal from here reaches tho interior\noracross the mountains. Amongst the various\nprovincial enterprises Which the Government\nhas decided to assist is ihe railroad from\nSpence's Bridge to Nicola, which naverses\na country containing vas, ooal fields, and\nwill open up a coal trade on the mainland,\nand which will not in any way con.e into\ncompetition wiih the Nanaimo coal. When\nthese new fields were opened up un nxten\nsive trade would bo done with the east, and\nemployment would be furnished to many\nhundreds of people.\nAnother i ail way enterprise assisted by\nthe Government was the road from Nakusp\nto Slooan, which was intended to prevent\nthe trade of the upper country from being\ndrained to the south, to the harm of the\ncities of our own Province. Thus il was that\nthe Government had aided these roads by\nliberal gran's Afier the House had risen\nearly I his year the necessity for completing\nthe Slocan pad earlier than waa contemplated in the act became impreBBed upou the\nGovernment, and it was decided to assist in\nrushing it through as rapidly as possible,\nconsequently the track was completed to\nSlooan Lake early in December. As a matter of fact, the Government had made a\nbetter arrangement in the iutereBt of the\ncountry than the aot had authorized them\nto do, hut as thiB had to come before the\nHouse at the next session, it waB not necessary at thia time to go into the ma' ter any\nfurther. The opening of the great mineral\nbelts of the country through which thia road\npasses would be of great benefit to the province.\nThe lumber trade would in tho near\nfuture be a great source of wealth to the\nProvince. The prospects of trade with\nAustralia were very bright. Although the\nmarket was now dull and prices could not\nbe obtained to make the manufacture of\nlumber profitable, there must Boon be a\n(Continued on page tour.)\nLondon, Dec. 23.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd[Special]\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdBefore the\nthe House of Commons adjourned last evening, the Government whips were informed\nby representatives of both the Liberals and\nRadicals that if the closure should not be\napplied strongly after the receBB to the debate on the Parish Councils' Bill, the mem-\nbets of the majority would take matters into\ntheir own hands. Discontent over the misconduct of busiuess prevails among all the\nGovernment supporters.\nOn January 1st men from, all sections of\nthe majoiity will meet at the National\nLiberal Club to discuss the difficulties of\nthe situation. It is now seen that the\nweakness of Mr. Mellor, chairman of the\ncommittee of the whole House, in permitting a number of amendments to be irregularly debated is not the sole cause of the\nConservative obstructionists. For some\nreaaon the government have fought the\nobstructive policy of the minority\nonly loosely and half heartedly.\nThe unioniata say the reason for thia\nthat the ministers are riding (or\nfall as they desire an early dis\naolution. If Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues have any such intention they are likely\nto be thwarted by their party, who will not\npermit a policy of this sort to mature. One\nof the main objects of the meeting at the\nNational Liberal Club,in fact is understood,\nis the announcement of the demand that the\nGovernment carry out before dissolution the\nprincipal measures introduced in the Newcastle platform. Nor will they tolerate any undue prolongation of the\nsession. The report that (he Cabinet is considering th'e expediency of a two year session to save the necessity of the Queen's\nspeech is not agreeable to Government\nmembers. What they insist upon is a summary disposition of the bills before the\nHouse, and the prorogation of the House.\nWhatever Mr. Gladstone's plans may be in\nthe matter, he will be forced in view of\noverwhelming party feeling to accede to the\ndemand.\nThe Duke of Edinburg, despite his\nacceptance of the throne of Saxe-\nCobourg Gotha is to draw 1111,000\nannually from the British exchequer. When\nMr. Gladstone announced this article to the\nHouse he threw down a bone of contention\nbetween the government and the Radicals.\nThat this proposal would arouse Mr. Labouchere and hiB colleagues was certain and\na hot debate ensued. Mr. Labouchere will\nnot let the subject drop. He has given\nnotice already ol a motion to the effect that\nas the Duke of Suxe Cobourg Gotha, as a\nprince of the German federation derives his\nwhole annuity fom tie Imperial revenues,\nthey should be stopped. The government\nrushed to smother debate on this question\nMr. Labouchere will renew the matter during the discussion of the estimates. The\nproposal to vote i'lO.CKlO annually to the\nDuke of Edinburgh is considered by Mr.\nLabouchere and colleagues to be carrying\nthe agreement of the Nationalists to support the Government's deference to a mere\ntitle a littlo too far. The Duke's income is\ndrawn chiefly from the pockets of the British taxpayer. His wife's dower is known\naccurately to be more than \ufffd\ufffd20,000 annually. The duke is not liked by the classes\nin Great Britain and is utterly unknown to\nthe masses. Even Conservative newspapers\nsay that fill,(XX) will be a heavy price topay\nmerely to keep up the duke's British connections, lor which nobody except the royal\nfamily cares. The Standard deplores the\nwhole arrangement. In a leader on the aub-\nject, it Bays: \"If Germany should be at war\nwiih England, the duke ought to command\nthe German fleet, as a sovereign is not sub-\njoct to English law, even when residing in\nEngland, \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd,s has beeu i-hown by the case of\n[ the Sulliui of Johore, He, therefore,\nshould n*'l enjoy appanage as a British\nprince. If it is true that the duke wants\nmoney because his predecessors wasted the\nSaxe-Cobourg Gotha property, let him ask\nfor C10,000 yearly from his own subject*.\nThe Irish leaders \"i*e privately urging Ihe\nohief executive to allow the precedes a a\nlast Christmas, when the Donegal pris n ers\nwere released, and to remit sentences on\nIrishmen now imprisoned for treason and felony. The chief secretary for Ireland appealed\nto his colleagues for their consent to thiB\nproposal as far as it concerned several cases,\nbui Mr. ABquith, the Hone Secretary refused on the ground that the recent outrages of dynamitera in Dublin was proof of\nthe inefficiency of the pardoning policy.\nThe relations betwieu the ohief aecretary\nfor Ireland and the Home Secretary have\nbeen strained almost to the breaking point.\nAnglo Indian representatives confidently\npredict that a duty ou silver imported iuto\nIndia will *ie introduced at the beginning of\nthe next financial year. The continuance\nof large silver ahipmenta to India is attributed partly to the demand for metal to\nsupply the requirementa of the natives for\nornamei'is but principally to speculate.\nNatives iu India expect that the heavy duty\nwill be fixed cm sir,, the value to rise,\nand therefore are purchasing their supplies\nin advance.\nIn view of the agitation for church disestablishment, a parliamentary church party\nhaa been formed, its object being to organize\nin a coalition all members of the House of\nCommons who oppose disestablishment.\nSir F. B. Powell, who ia most conspicuous\nin the undertaking, said yesterday that the\nexecutive committee will contain two Liberals, although the generality of members\nwill be Conservatives. The party was\nreoeiving already ample funds, he said,\nEvidence Now Complete.\nLondon. Dec. 23.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdA despatch from Madrid to the Central News says that the arrest\nof Jose Codina, who has confessed that he\nwaB the author of the bomb explosion in the\nLyceum theatre at Barcelona, has afforded\nrelief to workingmen, who are now less paralysed by police visits to their homes.\nHundreds of families are in great distress,\nlackiDg the necessaries of life, owing to the\nwholesale arrest of men who were suspected\nof being implicated in anarchy. Of the men\nin custody, a soapmaker named Marilo Cer-\nvelo, has confessed that he a sisted Pallas\nin hia attempt to assassinate General Martinez de Campoa at Barcelona. He also Bays\nthat he acted as confederate to Codina in\nplanning and causing the exp osion in the\nLyceum theatre. The police believe that\nthe exidence they have se ured us to anarchist plots in Barcelona is now complete.\nBethel Wants to Know.\nLondon, Dec. 23.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdIn the House of Commons to-day, Commander George R. Bethel,\nretired, who was a member of the Challenger expedition, questioned Sir William\nHarcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer,\nregarding the statement that England's\nposition in the Mediterranean was secured\nby possessing a preponderance of ten to nineteen first-class battleships, and whether thia\npreponderance exiBted in the Mediterranean.\nHe further asked if it was not a fact that\nfour out os these nineteen British battleships were on December 19th, at Aroasa\nbay, 600 mileB from Gibraltar, while six\nothers that have not been completed were\nlying at the Portsmouth and Chatham dock\nyards. Were any steps, he continued, being\ntaken to strengthen the British naval farce\nin the Mediterranean? The Chancellor of\nthe Exchequer replied that the question of\nhow the ships of England should be distributed waa one for the Admiralty to\ndecide. It would injure the public confidence, if he exactly stated what the plana\nof the Admiralty were.\nGive the Police Trouble.\nPaws, Dec. 23.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdThe police continue to\nreceive a large number of suspicious looking\npackagts, supposed by their finders to be\ninfernal machines. These pickages are\neither found in the streets or are addressed\nto individuals. Most of them on examination prove to be harmless and are evidently\niniended to make people be ieve that the\nanarchis1 s are still actively at work. Some\nof the packages, however, are really dangerous. For instance, one found a few days\nago on the window sill of the limine of the\nthirteenth arroudisement was found to contain a quantity of blasting powder and\nseventy revolver cartridges. The fuze had\nbeen attached to the package, but it had,\nowing to some defect^ in the arrangement,\nburned out without causing an explosion.\nOn the package were inscribed the words,\n\"death to the bourgersie!\" Auj*uut Vaillant, the anarchist under arrest for causing\nthe explosion in the Chamber of Deputies,\nwhich crime he haa confeaaed, haa received\ndonations amounting to 3,000 francs since\nhe waa lodged in prison.\nThe Fighting at Massowah.\nRome, Dec. 23.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdAfter the adjournment\not the Chamber of Deputies, the representative of lhe United Press had au interview\nwith general Mocenni, in regard to the fight\nwith the dervishes inland from Mussowah,\nthe Itulian poit on the Red Sea. General\nMocenni aaid that Ihe native scouts\nwarned commander Arimondi several daya\nago that the dervishes were preparing to\nconcentrate their forces and make an attack on Agordat. It was their intention\nto attack the place at midnight aid take it\nby surprise. General Mocenni waa of\ncourse informed of the reports of the scouts\nand he at once telegraphed to Massowah\nasking for details as to how the Italians\nwere prepared to meet the threatened attack. He received imformation that the\nItalian force was 1,400 strons; with\neight pieces of artillery. The\ntroops included five Soudanese\ncontingents. Comrr.ander Arimondi prudently left two companies to hold Fort Agordat vv hen he went to give battle to the\nderviBhes. When questioned as to the names\nof those killed, General Mocenni said that\nhe would retain them for the present in order that they might be verified, He added\nthat he would warn the families of those reported to have been killed and further said\nIhat he feared the lo - in dead was larger\nthan at first report- d. The feature of the\nbattle was lhe fighting doue by former\nSoudanese slaveB who had been liberated by\n' he, Italians. These ex-slives, General Mocenni said, had fought fiercely against their\nformer oppressors. They are largely Arabs\nand the Italians have always reBpected their\nreligious faith and have erected mosques for\nthem in their camps. The last is the third\ndefeat the derviBhes have sustained in battles in which the natives fought, and their\nbravery ought, General Mocenni says, to\nraise their prestige in the eyea i f Europeans.\nLate this evening it was learned that\nthree Italian officers and more than 100\nsoldiers of the linlian army were killed in\nthe battle with ihe dervishes. Most of the\nsoldiers who were killed wire natives.\nAmong those wl o were shot dead ou the\nfield was darned AM, one of the commanders\nof the dervishes in the battle at Metammeh\nin January, 1SS>5.\nGeneral Baratieri, the governor of Italy's\nRed Sea colony, told the United Press correspondent tonight that he would start for\nMassowah to-morrow. Although he does\nnot expect to have any more trouble with\nthe dervishes in the near future, he pointed\nout the necessity of occupying Kassala at\nonce.\nLondon, Dec. 23.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdThe Rome correspondent of the Central News telegraphs concerning the conflict between dervishes and\nItalian troop9. There were three distinct\nengagements, one at Agordat, another at\nScrobanti, and the third at Biscia. The\nItalias were everywhere successful.\nTiik Telsdram job plaut is now in position to do all kinds of job printing on the\nshorteat notice. We have a large atock ol\nall kinds of papers on hand and will guarantee to suit our customers in stock and work- ***\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nNAN AIM- , B. C, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1893.\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd ' \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd _, nrv, mwillj \" dunce ; while one of their number, crowned\nCHRISTMAS IN \"YE OLDEN I I -\ufffd\ufffd^ ,,,tl.afox-S skin,the tail down his back.\n\"If EW of our readers who have known\ntj '' merrie England \" in the middle years\nof the present century\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdand, for the matter\nof that, few of their immediate succe3sors in\nthis perhaps more prosaic age\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdcan contemplate the present season without taming\nback in fondest memory te those good old\ndays so well remembered, or so often heard\nof, when the festive season was celebrated\nin a manner worthy of the oldest traditions,\natnl ntirth and jollity universally prevailed.\nIn those days\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdthey were well within the\nlifetime of many of us, and come within the\npersonal experience and recollection of not\na few\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdit was deemed a not unworthy celebration of this greatest of Christian festivals\nthat high and low, rich and poor, \"one with\nanother,\" should indulge in what would mayhap seem to us, after the lapse of three or\nfour decades of matter-of-fact progress, a\nrather extravagant round of festivities in\nhonor of the season.\nEngland is perhaps merry England still,\nand there, as in some parts of our own\ncountry, Christmas is even yet a period of\ndelightful excitement, in which that home\nfeeling is aroused which holds so powerful a\nplace in the Anglo-Saxon breast; but she\nknows no such Christmas to-day as was\nknown \"to them of old time,\" and it is\nmore than probable that, as the world grows\nolder (we cannot l>* ing ourselves to say wiser\nin this regard), she will lose much that is\nyet dear to the mass of her inhabitants, and\nwhich awakens at this season the strongest\nand most heartfelt associations.\nLet us imagine ourselves for the nonce in\nsome rural district in England at Christmas\ntime about the year '50. We arc spending\nthe cheerful season at the house of a friend,\none of the old county aristocracy, who is\ndignified, \" as all his fathers were,\" by the\nsimple but expressive title of \"the squire.\"\nWe have come down on Christmas Eve with\nour host's son, an old chum, in one of those\npu blic conveyances on which the elder\nMr. Weller delighted to handle the ribbons;\na coach crowded with passengers bound to\nthe mansions of relatives or friends, and\nladen down with hampers of game aud\nbaskets uiul boxes of delicacies destined to\nbear their part in the festivities of the succeeding day and week. We arrive in time\nto witness the sports in the servants' hall\nconsisting of such rare old games as hood-\nman blind, shoe the wild mare, hot cockles,\nbob apple, snap dragon, etc., und afterwards\nsit over the Yule-log in the great old-fashioned hall, to accommodate which the ordinary grate has been removed, and listen to\nthe singing and telling of titles, with which\nit h s been the lime honored custom to while\naway the night preceding Christmas Day.\nThen followed a supper of such royal go d\ncheer as to render tbe hearty appetite with\nwhich we have been fortified by our drive\nthrough the crisp December evening a thing\nnunc essary, und then, a harper having been\nbrought from the servants' hall, where he\nhas been kept going all evening, we indulge\nin an old country dunce with such zest as to\nleave us at bed-time in high good humor\nwith ourselves and the world at large. We\nare conducted to our bed-ohamber with all\nproper ceremony, but have Bcarcely settled\ndown between the sheets when the waits\nfrom a neighboring village take up their\nplaces under our window und sing us the\nglad, old songs of Christmas-tide which our\nfathers before us and their fathers before\nthein have listened with joy unspeakable as\neach succeeding festival hus come nnd gone,\nThe waits move on, and as their voices become softer and softer, and gradually die\naway, we sink to sleep\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdto dream, perchance,\nof shepherds watching their Hock- by nigh!\nin far-off Bethlehem nf Judeaon that great\nfirst Christmas Eve.\nWe are aroused betimes in the 'morning\nby youthful voices singing u carol at each\nbed-room door, and hasten, on our host's\ninvitation, to a amall chapel in u'n old wing\nof the house, where the squire is wont lo\nhold service on all Sundays and saints' days\nthroughout the year, und win re we have\nfamily prayers and a carol of the squi e's\nown composition ; theive to the dining hall\nand to breakfast : then for a run through\nthe grounds, and then In servile ut lhe\nneighboring village churoh. The squire is\nparticular to have his whole household al\nchurch on Christmas Day. ami we make u\nformidable array us we move up the aisle to\nthe family pew and surrounding Beats, The\nservice is of the ulil-fusliinlieil type, the\nsinging is hearty, although the choir, in\nwhich every rustic who can sing strives to\ntake a leading part, is responsible for some\nlittle eccentricities which would probably be\nthought strange in these days of musical culture ; the sermon is not unlike many we hear\nnowadays, and exhorts us in effect to feast\nand make merry on the great anniversary\nadvice which, it is safe to say, everyone\nhastens to follow. The old folks gather in\nthe churchyard with shaking of the hands\nand hearty greetings; the children run round\nrepeating rhymes of the olden time; the\npeople remove their hats as the .squire comes\nup and invites them right and left to visit,'\nthe Hall and partake of his Christmas cheer.\nThrough the crowd we pass, on our homeward way, and hear ever und anon the blessings of the honest poor bestowed on our\nhost's silvered head in token that, amid all\nhis own pleasures at this season, he has not\nforgotten the greatest of Christian virtues.\nWe have not been long at home when a\nmotley group of country lads, fantastically\ndecorated, appear before the dom-, followed\nby a large number of villagers and peasants,\nand accompanied by musicians, to whose\nmusic the roystercrs execute a whimsical\ncapers around and rattles the original of\nwhat has been corrupted into the Christmas\nbox of the present day, a receptacle for\nmonetary donations. The party are entertained to \" beef and brawn and stout, home\nbrewed,\" and a right merry afternoon is\nspent.\nIn the evening we proceed with our Christina- dinner, which we discuss at length and\nwith a heartiness which does credit to the\ngood things provided. The parson says a\nlong, well-worded grace of the old-fashioned\nschool, and then the butler, amid a hush of\nexpectation, brings in a large silver dish\ncontaining an enormous pig's head, decorated\nwith rosemary and attended on either side\nby a servant with a large wax light. This\ndish is deposited with great formality at tbe\nhevd of the table, our college chum sings an\nOxford carol on the subject, and wc are reminded th it the whole is intended to represent the bringing in of the boar's head, a\nlish at one time served up with great pomp\nand the Bound of minstrelsy and song at the\ntables of the older families on Christmas\nDay. Course after course is served, and at\nlast the great \"wassail bowl\" is produced\nand we drink a \"meiry Christinas\" to al.\nTin ladies retire, and anon wc join them in\nthe drawing-room. The great hall is given\nover to the youngsters, who indulge ill all\nkinds of merry antics, in which they are\nassisted by some of the older ones, and make\nthe old walls fairly ring with merriment ;\nwhile we oldsters sit in state over the drawing-room file listening to old legends and\ntales told by the parson and our host. At\ntimes, and not at all unwelcomely, we are\ninterrupted by the merry ones from the hall,\nwho burst in on us with various fantastic\ndisplays, noticeably a masquerade under the\ndirection of a certain Lord of Misrule, to\nwin se misgoverninent the squire lends his\nhearty concurrence as according with the\ntraditions which be loves to follow. The\nmasquerade ends with a dance of all the\ncharacters, in which ancient Father Christmas walks a minuet with stately Dame\nMince Pie, and the medley of costumes suggests the idea that the whole band of family\nportraits have come down from their frames,\nlike another collection of Lord Kuddigore's\nancestors iu the lute operatic production, to\njoin in the seasonable sports which in their\nday and generation they loved so well.\nThus steals the evening on to long past bedtime, and thus passes away at length a\nChristmas of the good old days.\nWe fancy wc hear y u exclaim, oh reader\nof the practical nowaday period, \"Thank\ngoodness this sort of thing is ull over and\ndone with '.\" But is it at all ki certain that\nwe are improving ourselves and our generation by growing away from such Christinas\nfestivities as these our squire, for instance,\nwas won't to encourage 1 Nay, rather is it\nnot more than likely that, if we bud more of\nthe old-iime festivity of (Ihristmas und other\nperiods, we should hear less of troubles between landlord and tenant, agrarian outrages, family dissension und disunion and\nthe thousand and one class und household\nevils which are apparent in this more advanced generation 1 Wc have it on tbe\nauthority of a great writer of the good old\nday- nolle other than the creator of Rip\nVan Winkle und Dicdricb van Knickerbocker, to whom we arc indebted for the\nbest of our ideas on this subject\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdthat there\nLIFE\nTHE OLD RELIABLE\nIssues Policies on all the Latest\nPlans at Greatly Reduced\n. . Rates . .\nThe Results under our : : :\nLife Rate\nEndowment Policies\nHave never been equalled by\nany other Company\nABSOLUTE SECURITY\nPolicies Nonforfeitable, Unconditional and\n: Uncuitestable :\nLoans Advanced on Policies\nFor full particulars write\nGEO. D. SCOTT\nManager for B. C.\nOffice-Hastings St., VANCOUVER\n8-11-tf\nJohn PARKIN\nDEALER IN :\nCITY AUCTION BOOMS\nH. FORESTER ft Co.,\n(The Oldest \"flatablished Auctioneers in the Oi'y.)\nSales of Live and Deal Stock, Furniture, Merchandise aud\nReal Estate, conducted either at the Auction ' ooms, or at owners' residence in any part of the City or Province.\nNew and Secoad-BLand Furniture Bought ami Sold.\nBEAL ESTATE.\nCall and see our Register of Desi able Properties for Sale or Rent.\nAGENCIES:\nlioyal Exchange (ol London) Fire Insurance Co.\nNew Zealand Marine Insurance Co.\nDay, Son & Ilewett (London), Cattle Foods aud Medici;, *s\n8 11 3m\n*.nn<\n80\nTIME TABLE No. 19,\nTo take effeot at 8:00 a in. on Thursday, Ootober\n12th, 180a. Trains run on Pacific\nStandard Time,\na\na-'\nS*s\no\n* co ec n \ufffd\ufffd \ufffd\ufffd -m H H f.\n?.*\n. o o -s \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd,-r-> ==\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd=-:\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd: 5 *\"-*5*i 2 i\n\ufffd\ufffd *>.= i fl \ufffd\ufffd J \ufffd\ufffd \ufffd\ufffd> a a -3 a\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd5 S sSS &3 S j\ufffd\ufffd a a 13n c =:\n;- = r3 ; :;io;o; a -3\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd tSSiisii*5. :S| *.*?\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdo;a iu,l-a|l!t\"l \"^flS853 \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd? jJi\nWinter Specialties !\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nFor Sale at the NANAIMO PHARMACY\nW. \ufffd\ufffd. McCARTNEY, Uauager\nW. Clark's Balsam of Honey, a most efftcac'oug remedy for Oraghs, Colds, &c.\nFor lanj,'-standing Uolds, Weak Lungs, and th\ufffd\ufffd aft^r effec a of l>i (Jrippe, use our\nEmulsion of Cod Liver OU with Jamaica Rum,\nFor Bronchial Irritation and Maladies of the Throat, so prevalent at thia seavn, our\nBronchial Tablets will give immediate relief. Try them\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdonly 24; per box.\nRose Glycerine Lotion, an exquisite toilet preparation for Ohapprd Face and\nHands or any llou^hnesn of the Skin,\nTHE NANAIMO PHARMACY, 44 Commercial Street\ns-iM2m Night Telephone 115\nS-z>< Z Z I .-.\nt -W \ufffd\ufffd mn \" **\n*M ii ii 09 \ufffd\ufffd <\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd*\n5 1\n^ffl\ufffd\ufffd*^\ufffd\ufffd6ia\ufffd\ufffdoi6o6 6'--|Hifi \ufffd\ufffd\nTelephone 21\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd -\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd-\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nETC., ETC., ETC.\nNo. 26 Commercial Street\nNANAIMO, B. C. HI Ita\njames McGregor,\nDEALER IN\nON SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS\nRet -rn Tu-keta will be issued between all points\nf jv a mre nnd a quarter, g iod for return not later\nthan Monday.\nReturn Ti'itets for one and a half ordinary fare\nmay be purchased daily to all points, good for seven\ndays, Including day of issue.\nNo Return Tickets issued for a tare and a quarter\nwhere the single fare is twenty-five cents.\nThrough ratea between Victoria and Comox.\nMileage and Commutation Ticket cm be ohtame '\non application to the Ticket Agent, Victoria Station\nA. DUNSMUIR, JOSEPH HUNTER,\nPresident. Gen. Sup\nH. K. PRIOR,\n8-11-tf General Freight and I'aaaenger Afent.\nUnion Steamship Comfy\nOf B. 0., Limited\n[I..S.I\nClothing. Bents' Furnishings, Underwear, Hats, Caps, Etc.\nODDFELLOWS' NEW BUILDING, COMMERCIAL STREET,\nisr^.isr^.i]^o, IB. o.\n8 116m\n: : LENZ & LBISER : :\nWHOLESALE : DRY : GOODS\nuch that commends itself to people \"t\nwell-regulated minds in these very Christ-\ninn- associations and festivities from which\nwe are so palpably drifting away. \"It is,\"\nsays he, \"abeaut'ful arrangement, derived\nfrom days of yore, thai this festival, which\nc memorates the announcement of the\nreligion of jii-;m*i' and love, lias been made\nthe season of gathering together of family\nconnections and drawing closer again those\nbands of kindred hearts which the cares and\npleasures and Borrows of the world are con-\ntiinmlly operating to cast loose : of calling\nhack the children of'a family, who have\nlaunched forth m life widely asunder, once\nmore to assemble about the paternal hearth\nthai i-allying-placc of the affections, there to\ngrow young and loving again among the endearing mementos of childhood, Amid the\ngeneral call to happiness, the bur-t'e of the\nspirits, the stir of the affections, which prevail at this period, what bosom can remain\ninsensible? It is, indeed, the season of regenerated feeling the .season for kindling,\nnot merely the fire of hospitality in the hall,\nInn ihe genial flame of ohariiy in the heart.\nThe preparations making ou every si.le for\nthe social hoard that is again to unite friends\nand kindred, the presents of good cheer\npassing anil repassing; the evergreen distributed about houses and chui'clics, emblems of peace and gladness ; all these have\nthe most pleasing effect in producing fond\nassociations and kindling benevolent sympa\ntliies. Even the sound of the waits, rude\nas may be their minstrelsy, breaks upon the\nmid-watches of a winter night with the\neffect of perfect harmony. As I have been\nawakened by them in that still and solemn\nhour 'when deep sleep falleth upon man,' I\nhave listened with a hushed delight, and,\nconnecting them with the sacred and joyous\noccasion, have almost fancied them into another celestial choir, announcing peace and\ngoodwill to mankind.\"\n \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd^ >\nDid You See It ?\n\"Hello, John, what kind of a chair have\nyou there?\" \"Why, have you not seen\nthem? Thia is one of 1). C. McKenzie'a new\nrattan chairs.\" \"And what do you think\nof them?\" \"Well, I think they are the\nfinest I ever saw.\" \"And do you think it is\na good place to get furniture?\" \"Certainly\nit is, you ( ught to see his bedroom Buitea,\nand sideboards. Oo in and look at, them.\"\n\"1 will before Christmas as I want to furnish some rooms Good-*\"\"e.\"\nB. DKWUNBY.\nCANADA.\nPROVINOE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nTo Our faithful the Members rlecteil to serve in Ihe\nLegislative Assembly of Our Province of Hritish\nColumbia at Our City of Victoria\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdOrkktinq.\nA PROCLAMATION\nTHEOPORE DAVIE \\TT7nKREAS We are d\ufffd\ufffdir-\nAttorney-General J ' * ous and resolved, as\nscon as may be, to meet Our people of Our Province\nof British Columbia, and to have their advice in our\nLegislature;\nNOW know VE. that for divers causes and consld*\nerattens, and taking Into consideration the ease and\nconvenience of Our loving subjects, Vv*s have thought\nfit, by and with the advice of our Executive Council\nof the Provinoe of British Columbia, to hereby convoke, and by these presents enjoin you, and each of\nyon, that on Thursday, the Eighteenth day of the\nmonth of January, oik* thousand eight hundred and\nninety tour, you meet I's in Our said Legislature or\nParliament of our said Province, at our City of\nVictoria, FOR TIIK DISPATCH OF BUSINE88, to\ntreat, do, or act, and conclude upon tho*se things\nwhich in our Legislature of the Provinoe of British\nColumbia, by the Common Counoil of Oursaid Province maj, b) the favor of God, be ordained,\ni\\ TKsrninNT WfiKRBOP, We have caused these\nOur Letters to be made Patent and the Great\nSeal of the said Province lobe hereunto affixed:\nWitness, the Honorable EtHUR DSWDKKY,\nLieutenant-Governor of Om* said Provinoe of\nBritish Columbia, in Our City of Victoria, in\nOur said Province, the Fourteenth da) of\nDecember, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety three, and in\nthe fifty-seventh year of Our reign.\n9-ll-3m\nLARGEST STOOK IN THE PROVINCE\nH.\\ Command,\nJAMES BAKER,\nProvincial Secretary.\nTurner, Beeton & Co.\nCOMMISSION MERCHANTS\nAND IMPORTERS. \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd . .\nH. 0. Beeton & Co., 33 Finnbury Circus, London\nIndents executed for any kind of European or Canadian Goods\nAGENTS XVOTl\nGuardian 'ssu-ance Co.\nNorth British and Mercantile Assurance Co.\nLa Foncier (-Warine) Insurance Co , of Paris\nYIOTOhIA, IB. C-\nHead OtFiee and Wharf, Vancouver, B.C.\nVancouver to Nanalmo-SS. \" CUTCH\nleave* C.P.R. Wharf daily (Sundays excepted)at 1:15\np.m. Cargo at Union SS. Co.'a wharf until 11 a.m.\nNanaimo to Vancouver.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdSS. \" CUTCH \"\nbuvev daily (Monday* exoepted) at 8 a.m.\nVancouver & Northern Logging Camps\nand Settlements.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdSS. COMOX leaves Company's Wharf every Monday at 11 noon, for Northern point* as far as Shoal Kav, Thurlow Inland, returning via t^uathiaskis Cove, Seymour Narrows\nevery other trip. Every otber Monday tbe vesne\nproceeds aB far North a* Port Neville.\nMOODYVILLE FERRY.\nLiave M< odyville\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd8, 11.45 a.m.; 2:30, 4:8u p.m\nVancouver\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd10:16 a.m., 1:15, M:30, 6 p.m.\nSteamers and Scownal\\va* s available for Kxcunuons,\nTowing and Freighting Business. Storage \"Accommodation on Company's Wharf.\nW F. TOPPING, Manager.\nW, B. DENNI^ON, Agent, Nanaimo, B. 0.\nTelephone 13. 8-11 tf\nS-ll 6m\nQPPENHEIMER gROS,\n-PIONEER-\nNOTICE.\nTENDERS FOR JAIL SUPPLIES.\nrpENDERH un* invited !\ufffd\ufffd the undersigned up to\n'- Priday, the 29th day of December, 1898, at 12\no'olook noon (or supplying the Nanaimo Ooal during\nthe year 1894, with the following articles, viz: Meet'\nper lb, bread peril., vegetables per lb, tea per lb,\nooffee (roasted) per lb, pearl barley per lb, rice, per\nlb, sugar per lb, Boap per lb, soda per lb: salt per lb,\npepper corns, blaoklng per dozen, blaoklead, bath-\nliriek, white wash brashes, candles (Price's) per lb,\noatmeal per lb, matches, corn brooms per dozen,\neoal oil per **ii<**, scrubbing brushes, serge uliiri**,\nhiekory shirts, merino undershlrte and drawers, mole-\nBklnpants, woolen soota perdozen, brogans(nailed)\nper pair, cloth caps per dozen, blankets, 8} points,\nper pair, blue Jumpers, lime per bbl.\nsamples must aooompany each tender.\nThe lowest or any tender not neoessarlly 'accepted,\nThe Contractor to deliver supplies at either old or\nnew prlsion aa required.\nM. BRAY, Government Aitent.\nNanaimo, Dec. l(i, 181)8.\n17-12 til\nImporters: and: Wholesale: Grocers\n100 and 102 POWELL STREET\nVANCOUVER, B.C.\nMAINLAND AND MAM)\nSTEAM NAVIGATION (JOT\nSteamer \"CITY OF NANAIMO.\"\n(W. ROGERS, Mamtkr.)\nTIME TABLE, No. 1.\nTo take effect on Monday, Feb, 1st, 1892.\nUAVBB YOK\nWestminster Vancouver, MondayB, 6 a.m,\nVancouver Nanaimo, Mondays, 1:3d p n.\nNanaimo Vaneouver, Tuesdays, 7 a.m.\nViim ouver Westminster, Tuesdays, noon\nWestminster Nanaimo, Wednesdays, 7 a.m.\nNanaimo Vancouver, Thursd ys, 7 am.\nVancouver Natmimo, Thursdays, 1:80 p.m.\nNanaimo Vancouver, Fridays, 7 a.m.\nVaneouver Nanaimo, Fridays, 1:30 p.m.\nNaMtimo Vancouver, Saturdays, 7 a.m.\nVancouver Westminster, Saturdays, 11 a.m.\nFARE~-~ $1.00.\n8-1112m L. ROGERS, Purser.\nNANAIMO\nS-ll-tf\nGEO. GASSADAY & GO.\nMANUKACrUHEKH OK\nDoors, t* ashes,\nMoulding*-, Shingles,\nDressed Lumber, Turnings,\nAND ALL DESeRlllUOMK or\nBUILDING MATERIALS.\nYard and Office opposite Hogon's Moro,\nNear Neweankle Town .ite.\nD. L. GOW, Agont.\nNanaimo, Out. Sth, 1808. S-ll llni\nSUBSCRIBERS\nNot receiving their paper\nregularly, will confer a\nfavor by reporting the\nmatter at this olliee.\nTHE CITY TEA COMPANY'S STORE\nVICTORIA CRB3BNT\nImporters and Dealers in the\nCHOICE BUTTER A SPECIALTY.\nMcADIE BLOCK.\n18-11 tf\na\nFrasor Street, near Bastion St. Bridge.\nNANAIMO, B. C\n4 GKN0Y (Tf1 TIIK RUOGR AND NKW HOWE*\n_l\\ Safety Pneumatic Tire bimcles. Sample Machines \" ill be on vievv lor a few days. A fnl! line of\nrepairing material on hand, and repairs promptly\nmade\nR. J. WENBORN, Proprietor\nhii tiin\nC. H. PEAKSON'S\nCtiHIERCIAL ST. FRUIT STORE\nAlways on hand, a full aiBOltment of\nCanadian and California Fruits\nAlso, a full line ot DoineBtie and Imported\nCIGARS & TOBACCO s.*' 8m\nTABLE\nShowing the Dates and Places ot Courts\ni of Assize, Nisi Prlus, and Oyer and\nsjj^U Terminer for the Year 1893.\nFALL ASSIZES.\nON TUK MAINLAND.\nKiohfleld Monday 11th Sc]itcmlier\nL'lirrtcm Wednesday 27th September\nKamloops Monday 2nd October\njetton Monday Hill Oeloher\nNew Weutminater.... Wedinwday Slh Novum**\nVancouver Wedmmlny 16th November\nON TANI'orVKK ISLAND.\nVictoria Monday 27th November\nNanaiiuo .Tuesday Bth December\n8-11 tf\nThe Telegram Job Dopartmont turn\nout line printing socond to none. NAJNAlMO, B. 0., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1893.\nDANGER IN WETTING. s\nA Movement la Favor of Vertical Script\nBacked by the Highest Medical Authorities\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdResults of Extensive Experiments\nWith School Children.\nThe method of writing taught in modern schools nnd practiced by 99 people\nout of every 100 haa been declared dangerous and imh(*;ilthful by extorts. By\nthe time the next generation matures it\nwill probably have been wiped out. The\nscript then will be vertical instead of\nslanting, and writers will sit square and\nupright before their work instead of sideways and stooped, as at present.\nThe idea of this prospective reform originated in Germany and overspreads\nEngland while reaching this conn try.\nThe following resolution was adopted\nnot long ago by the international congress of school hygiene in London by a\nvote of 229 against 1:\nWhereas, The cyclonic advantages of vortical writing have been clearly shown and established both by medical investigation and\npractical experience, and\nWhereas, Its Introducl inn obviates those pernicious positions uf the body which entail rachitic diseases nnd myopia.\nResolved, That we recommend the Introduction of vertical writing in the eckuols of the\npeople.\nThe effect of so serious an action in a\ncountry esteeming propet physical conditions as England esteems them ia\nreadily to be imagined.\nThe corresponding movement in the\nUnited States is led by Dr. Burnham ot\nClark university. His investigations\nhave brought the conviction that the ordinary position in writing is among the\nforemost conditions of school life and\nmethods of training which must be\nchanged in the interest of health. Ths\nvertical script, therefore, is strongly\nrecommended. From 80 to 90 per cent\nof lateral curvature of the spine is found\nto be caused iu school life, the curvature\nin a large per cent of these cases being\ntoward the right side, as a result of a\ndefective position in writing, and the\neyes at the same time are seriously injured by this slanted writing.\nThe practical advance of the newly\napproved system in this country is illustrated in the Worcester normal school\nand the Workingmen's school at Fifty-\nfourth street in this city, directed by\nProfessor Adler, where the vertical\nwriting is used in the lower grades and\nnow carried on to the fourth aud fifth\ngrades.\nTho observations of foreign physicians\nshowing that the prevalence of myopia\nand spinal curvature is regularly increased in tho advance through the\nschool grades are supplemented in this\ncountry by work on novel lines. An energetic course followed by Dr. Shaw of\nthe University of the City of Now York\nhas given additional proof thai the cause\nof the difficulty istobeattribi-.nl to tiio\ndesk.* which are generally in use, and\nmore especially to the bad position in\nwriting, the opinion being held witli apparent unanimity by investigators in\nthis country as well as abroad that all\nbut two positions to be taken iu the\nschool practice of writing are improper.\nOne judged to be correct is the oblurao\ncentral position and the oilier the\nstraight centre.] position, between which\nin reference to final choice the controversy in Germany is said to be fierce.\nThe advocates of reform observe that\nthe child writes vertically when he first\ngoes to school, and that the teacher has\nto work for the slant. The vertical writing and the central position at the desk\nare alike naturally indicated. At this\nBtage the controversy has led to the conclusion that the height of the desk anil\nthat of the seat must bo equally adapted\nto the growth of the pupil. In some of\nthe progressive schools, as Felix Adler's\naud at South Orange, N. J., adjustable\nseats are being used.\nThe point iu Dr. Shaw's recent experiments, made with the aid of several assistants on more than 1,1100 pupils in the\nNew York and suburban schools, has\nbeen to see whether, with the paper directly in front of the pupil and with tho\neyes closed, there could be any tendency\ntoward vertical writing. The pupils\nwere first requested to take the customary position in writing, and to write in\nthe ordinary manner the sentence, \"John\nis Hying his paper kite.\" This form of\nexercise was selected on account of the\nnumber of long letters which it contains,\nand as being one also that is easy for the\nchild to remember. After having thus\nwritten the sentence, the pupil was iii-\nrectod to take the straight central position, dip his pen in the ink and with his\neyes (dosed to write the same again.\nThe dosing of the eyes was to eliminate from the child's mind the consciousness of the slant. The angle of slant in\nall the long letters in the test papers was\ncarefully measured, the angle of slant in\nthe usual writing in each case being alio\nfound with the same precision. The\nmeasurements and the calculations ran\nup to 8,600 items, and among other issues\nof the work was the invention by a lady\nof a machine for making the measurements.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdNew York Press.\nClub Itul\" In New Vork.\nI was somewhat shocked last week\nwhile sitting in the Knickerbocker club,\nwhere I was busily engaged in alternately gazing on those tiresome wall paper\nbouquets and garlands and in keeping\nup a desultory conversation with the\nonly two men of my acquaintance left\nin town, to see a man whom we all\nknew nod to us as he passed the club\nwindow, although accompanied by his\nwife. This is certainly very bad form.\nA man should show more deference to\nnia wife than to any other woman. Of\ncourse he knew better than to bow.\nOne ia supposed never to recognize a\nwoman acquaintance from a club win*\ndow. Otherwise we approved of him-\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nVogu**\nWfr'\nEXPERTS SAY THAT SLANTING SCRIPT\nCAUSES DISEASE.\n\"I am afraid of waking baby, tor poof\nRobert has walked the floor every nigh*\nwith him for the last three^jveeks.\"\n\"How dreadful I And has the baby learned\nto talk yet?\"\n\"No. Bat ha haa learned to saiiM\"\nUfa.\nMm Suilmi Train\nMm\n9 I '\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd'- ft ^ss^ H \/\n\"Wow, Teddy, mind mamma, and dont\nyou go out. But if you should go out, put\non your overcoat. \ufffd\ufffd\ufffdHarper's liozac i\nro^.\nAutumn Coat, and CapM.\nTailors are making coats for th. autumn\nof smooth or of fleecy cloth, single breasted\nand close fitted to the waist line, then extending half way to the knee, with much\nfullness in the lower part of the back, say*\nHarper's Bazar. By way of ornament\nmany of these coats have the waist nearly\ncovered with a short, clos* Hungarian\njacket of velvet, open in front without revers, but trimmed across with branda-\nbourgs or rows of braid. Brown, red, blu\ufffd\ufffd\nand black are the colors of such coat*.\nCapes will continue in favor and will b\ufffd\ufffd\nof varied lengths\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdshort capes for young\nWomen, longer capes to th. hip. for the\nmiddle aged, with still longer oirculars foi\nthe elderly.\nThe Vatl.an.\nThe ancient palace of the popes of Home\nm the nn.t magnifloent building of th.\nkind m the world. It stands on th. right\nbank of the Tiber, on a hill called the Vati-\neanus, because th. Latin* formerly worshiped Vaticinium, an ancient oracular\ndeity at that place. Exactly when the\nbuilding was oommenced no oue knows.\nCharlemange is known to have inhabited\nIt over 1,000 years ago. The present extent of the building U enormous. The\nlength of the status museum aluus to over\na hi i W. \t\nBow It ThML\nTommy had taken his fin* mat bath, and,\nto tell the uuth, wa. uut very mnoh pleasnd\nwith it.\n\" Why didnt you Ilka IK TonUBlT'aakad\nhi.i mother.\n\"I got some of the water in my\n\"What did it taste like.\"\n\"Well,\" said Tommy, \"I gnaw II\nlike a malted saltcellar.\"\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdHarpsrt Baaaa,\nA luminohs buoy is a reeent French Invention. The light Is produced by phosphide of saloium and is visible for five\nmiles.\nNoise\nWill\nTell\nWc hav\ufffd\ufffd been for several\nrpasotifl\nMaking a Noise!!\nTo get the con hina'fon\nwe are now able to\nOUT-ZETIEIR\nWe could at wiy time gei\nHue SHo\ufffd\ufffds at high oo\ufffd\ufffdt,\niron* Shoew at medium cottt, poor Sh >es at low cost.\nWe now havi-\nFlno Quality, Stylish Designs, Durability\nand Cheapness Combined.\nWHITFIELD'S SHOE STORE\n30 VICTORIA CRHSCENT\nCOAL\nThe New Vaneouver Coal Mining and Land Company\n(FORMERLY THE VANCOUVER COAL COMPANY)\n: T: ARE IHE LAEGEST COAL PRODUCEFS ON TEE PACIFIC COAST\nNanaimo Coal Southfield Coal\n(Used$Principally for Gas and Domestic Purposes) (Steam Fuel)\nNew : Wellington : Coal\n(House and Steam Fuel)\n^ These Coals are Mined by this Company only and by Union Labor ^\nTHE NANAIMOHCOAL gives afcjlarge percentage of gas, a high illuminating power, unequalled by any other Bituminous Gas Coals in the world, and j. superior\nqnality of Coke\nTHE \"80UTHFIELD COAL is now used by all the leading steamship lines on'the Pacific\nTHE NEW WELLINGTON COAL, which was recently introduced, has already become the favorite fuel for all kinds of domestic purposes. It is a clean, hard coal,\nstakes a bright and cheerful fire jand its lasting qualities make it the moBt economical fuel in the market.\nThe | several mines of the Company are connected with their wharves at Nanaimo and Departure Bay, where ships of-the largest tonnage are loaded at all stages of the tide.\nSpeoial despatch is given to Mail and Ocean Steamers.\n7-ll-lt\nSAMUEL M. ROBINS, Superintendent\nVANCOUVER FURNITURE WAREHOUSE\n: ESTABLI8HEDE1875\nTOHN HILBERT\nIMPORTER OF AND DEALER IN\nFurniture, Carpets, PeddiDgard General FousefupnishiDg Goods\nFUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER\nGraduate of Clark's Oriental, Kureka and United StateB\nColleges of Embalming\nStock Complete. Telephones-Office, 30; Residence, 101. P. O. Box 16\nill 12m\n3, 5 AND 7 BASTION STREET, NANAIMO, B.C.\nA. R. Johnston & Co.\nCommission Merchants\nAgents PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP COMPANY\nSTEAMER EMPIRE\nSTEAMER JOAN\nM. & N. S. N. COMPANY\nIMPORTERS AND DEAIBS IN\t\nPORTLAND CEMENT GOLDEN GATE PLASTER\nASTRAL COAL OIL PEARL COAL OIL\nALIPHENE COAL OIL GASOLINE OIL\nSKIDEGATE OIL, REFINED\nWith a General Line of\nIF^A-RIMI PEODTJOE\nTHB TRADE SUPPLIED :\nCONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED\n8-11.12\nJ. H. PLEACE\n-GENERAL\nHARDWARE\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd STORE\nLargest Stock\nA Full Assortment Constantly on Hand\nPrices Rig-lit : Terms Cash\n8-11-tf\nVICTORIA CRESCENT, NANAIMO, B.C.\nCITY MARKET\nHEMANS & WAMSLEY.\nWholesale and Retail Butchers\nCommercial Street, Nanaimo\nMeats delivered In city and distriot free\nof charge.\nP. O. Box 227. 7-1112ui Telephone's.\nGEOBGE BEVILOCKWAY,\nCor. Bastion and Commercial Sts.\nNANAIMO, B. C.\nKeeps constantly In Stook the Finest\nAssortment of\nDRY COODS, GROCERIES,\nProvisions, Guns, Rifles, etc.\n' The Hiuheet Prire paid lor Fun 0( all kinds \"ffil\nS-ll 12m\nW. A. WOOD,\nTICKET AGENT,\nNorthern Pacific Railway\nQUICKEST AND BEST ROUTE FOR\nPOINTS IN MONTANA. DAKOTA\nAND ALL EASTERN\nCITIES.\nOffice: E. & N. Railway Depot\nNANAIMO. 16-11 lm\nc. c. Mckenzie,\nLand Agent, Conveyancer and Accountant.\nOFFICK\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdFront Street, Nanaimo.\nTown Lots and Farms (or Sale. Moner to Loan oa\nMortal* at iow rates.\nAjfent for the Vititi'd Tire Insurance Co., of Man-\noheiter, Hnifland. S-ll 18m\nWE ARE NOW ON TOP +\n-t-\n^TTID BOTTlSriD TO LEAD\nOUR PRICES ARE AT THE BOTTOM -I-\nJ\ufffd\ufffd.TTTD BOT7N\"D TO STA5T TKEIRIE\n\"We have auctioned ofl the whole of our old stock\nand are now opening up a complete new stock of\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd -*\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd*\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd- \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nBOOTS and SHOES\nOf every description, at prices tbat dety competition\n59 Oases now being opened up, end New Goods -will continue to arrive daily from now till Christmas\nWE WILL SELL FOR CASH\nAND AT ONE PRICE ONLY\nA FINE LINE OF RUBBER BOOTS TO SELECT FROM\nThe price will be the same whether you take one pair or fifty\nAll goods have been made at our special order : : : :\nRICHARD HILBERT !',tr:Z:rrr\"r{ THE LION HOUSE NANAIMO, B. C. 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Nanaimo, B.C.\nW. J. OaI.I A'lllF.R.\nEditor and Manager. P. 0. Box 2M.\nTelephone. - - 48.\nSUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, ISO:*.\nA MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL.\nThe \"merrie'' season of Christmas is\nonce more upon us, and in company with all\nright-minded people in Christian lands the\nworld over, we wish our friends arid neighbors\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdand our enemies, for the matter of\nthat (if, as the lawyers say, any suoh there\nbe)\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdall the compliments that are properly\nand commonly indulged in at this time of\nthe year.\nA right merry Christmas to you and yours,\ndear reader! Can we not take it for granted\nthat you respond, in a similarly hearty manner, \"The same to you, and many of them?''\nAnd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdno matter what your political, religious or national predilections may be\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdwe\nshould be loth to think that you wish us\nanything but well in return. For ourselves,\nwe are cont nt, at this season of \"peace\nand goodwill toward men\"\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdor \"peace to\nmen of goodwill,\" as our non-Protestant\nbrethren have it, which after all is much\nthe same thing, though perhaps not quite\nso comprehensive\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdto forget all old differences and prejudices and wish everyone all\nthe joys which the great Christian festival\ncan bring with it. We will not even exclude\nthose who have wantonly attempted lo do\nus injury. All have our best wishes at this\nseason. We wish even our enemies a be:ter\nframe of mind, a disposition more in keeping with the season, a nature that will\nenable them to appreciate the hallowed\nthoughts and memories which surround this\ngreatest anniversary in the world's history,\nBut for you, our kind and thoughtful\nfriends, who have helped us along the rugged paths wh'eh murk the newspaper man's\ncourse through life,who have paid promptly\nin full as often as called upon, and some,\ntimes even before you have been asked\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdfor\nyou we have an especial good wish at thia\ncheerful season, a little \" something warm,\nwith an extra spoonful of sugar in it,\"\nwhich cannot altogether be expressed in\nwords, but bubbles up from the hidden\ndepths of a not ungraetful heart whenever,\nwhich is almost always, we have you in\nmind. You know what we mean, and we\nneed only say: May Christmas \"bring you\ngenuine pence of mind, the happiness which\nis never altogether wanting, but at this\nseason is espec:ally present to those who\n\"weary not in well doing.\" Rest not yel\nform your good works, which are really the\nwell-spring of your peace and contentment.\nThe poor are ever at your doors To them\nthe season is apt to bring bitter repinings,\nwhen unmarked by * nything that savors ,*f\nthe comforts of life, (lo forth and give them\na word of comfort and goodwill\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdof course,\nif you have nothing else at your disposal :\nbut something substantial to boot, if such\nbe within your power, It is at such seasons\nas these that we are spe ially reminded \"f\nthe old proverb with reference to \"gifts of\napples to owners of orchards.\" People who\nneed least arc apt to receive most, at this\ntime of p esent-giving * ami our charitably-\ndisposed readers would he exercising a high\nChristian giacc if they could only lie induced to he a little less ln\\ is'*i in their gifts\nto those of their own class, mid a shade\nmore mindful of their less foitunate brethren who really cannot sec anything to be\nmerry about, ev u at Christmas time, with\na wasted floUT-burrel and an empty purse.\nTRACT'S CONTRADICTION OF\nGLADSTONE.\nAccording to General Tracy, the United\nStatea Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Gladstone\nmuBt he very far in error as to the strength\nof the Britiah navy, as compared with the\ncombined navies of France and Russia. Mr.\nGladstone in Mb speech in opposition to\nLord George Hamilton's motion said that\nGreat Britain had in battleships 557,000\ntons of fighting material, against France\nand Russia's combined 318,000 tons. General Tracy says that in two years from now\nFrance and Russia will have 50 modern\nbattleships of 440,000 tons displacement,\nagainst Eogland's 31 of 140,000 tons. It is\nplain that either Gladstone or General\nTracy must he misrepresenting matters very\ngrossly, in fact lying; and as Gladstone was\nspeaking in the presence of hostile critics,\nwho knew aB much about the matter as he\ndid, and who would not have failed to contradict him if he had spoken falsely, and\nexposed uhe falsehood, it iB easy to guesa\nwho it is that in this matter has been draw\ning the longbow. We take the telegram re\nporting General Tracy's words just as we\nfind it. It may be that he has been\nmisreported by New York newspaper men,\nbut that is their affair. If he has spoken\nas represented, in the face of Mr. Gladstone's statement, than all that can be said\nis that he haB been guilty of a piece of gross\nimpertinence. It would better become Gen.\nTracy to confine his attention to the American navy, and never mind the British. We\nhave no very exalted opinion of Mr. Gladstone, either as a statesman or a man. We\nthink that in both respects he haB been\naltogether over praised and over estimated;\nhut when it comes to the assertion of a fact\nwith which he must, be well acquainted, we\nwould take hia word in preference to that of\nany American politician. Gen. Tracy in\nhis remarks regarding the navies of Great\nBritain, France, and Russia, simply exhibits the UBual American jealousy of the\npower firat mentioned. When the Americans speak, as they often do, in terms of\ndepreciation of Great Britain's military or\nnaval strength, as compared with that of\nthe other great European powers or any of\nthem, it is impossible to avoid the idea that\nwith them \"the wish ia father to the\nthought.\"\nAt the by-election in the Accrington division of Lancashire, held on Thursday, Mr.\nLeese, the Gladstonian candidate, was\nelected hy 25S majority over Mr. Hodge,the\nConservative candidate. At the general\nelection Mr. Leese had a majority over Mr.\nHodge of 447 in the same constituency. The\nresult shows a fall of nearly one-half in the\nmajority of the Gladstonian candidate. The\nchances are that the Conservatives will win\nthe Beat next election by a small majority.\nGladstonanism is fast becoming unpopular\niu England, whatever it may be in Wales\nand Scotland. We think that after the\nnext election Gladstone will be no longer\npremier. He haa in fact been so too long\nalready, and the English people know it\nAnother term of Gladstone's premiership\nwould probably disrupt the Uuited King\ndom, and ruin the empire.\nThe British workmen, m&ny of whom find it\nhard to get employment at wages on which\nit is possible to maintain themselves and\ntheir families, are beginning to become disgusted with the free trade policy of the\nGovernment, which not only refuses to give\nthe British workman any protection, but\neven goes the length of giving Government\ncontracts to foreigners, because contracts\ncan often be let in France, Belgium or Germany at lower rates than in Great Britain.,\nAt a meeting of the unemployed at Tower\nHill on Thursday, Williams, one of their\nleaders, Baid that the boilers of British gunboats were being made in France, and that\nan order for 200,000 swords and bayonets\nhad been placed iu Germany. Such state-\nmints have been made befi.re, and it has\nbeen further alleged that the bayonets supplied hy German contractors would bend\nlike hoop iron and that the swords would\nnot cut\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdthat both were alike ueeless for\nfighting purposes and that it was nothing\nshort of murder to put them in the hands of\nour soldiers. Williams further declared\nthat the general postoiiice had given an order to Siemens of Berlin, to lay a cable from\nLiverpooltoNewYorkata cost of \ufffd\ufffd'200,000,-\n000, aud that the London school board had\nits printing done abroad. If Mr. Gladstone's Government permits such thinga to\nbe done under pretence of free trade and\neconomy, when British workmen arc starving for want of employment, their heartlesB\nami unpitriotic conduct could not be denounced by Mr. Williams or any one else iu\nlanguage too Btrong. Such things have\nbeen done hefore in England under the influence of free trade doctrinaires, but if it Iiiib\nbeen done now when thousands of men are\nidle and all but starving Mr. Gladstone's\nGovernment will not escape the censure it\ndeaerves.\nWays and Means committee was June 1st\nnext. With this in view every wholesale\ndealer is aiming to have as small a quautity\nas possible on hand of foreign bituminous\ncoal when the change takes place. There\nwill be strong opposition, however, from\nsome interested sections against chaDging\nthe present coal tariff,\n(Continued from pajje one.)\nchange and with it British Columbia would\nbecome the market for all those countries\nacrosB the Pacific requiring lumber. At the\npresent time most of the lumber uaed in\nEurope and Australia is taken from the\nBaltic. It is of inferior quality to ours aud\nit would only be a matter of a short time\nwhen the attention of these countries\nwould be directed to the Province of British Columbia. In the c.mp\nof Australia, the distance to the Baltic\nprovinces is over 11,000 miles as against\n0,000 to British Columbia, so that it will\nbe only a short time when we will have\nto furnish this moat important market\nwith our lumber. As Boon as the lumber\nindustry began to properly develop it\nwould furii'sh employment, to a large additional population. Complaint had been\nmade that there was not au official log\nsealer and that under existing arrangements\nloggers could not get f^ir treatment from the\nmill owners. Hence the Government had\npassed an act to appoint an official Bcaler\nbut afierwsidB upon making further enquiries it was found that it could not be put\ninto practical * peration, and if enforced\nwould produce most mischi-jvous results.\nAn act of this kind could not be\nworked unleaa both partieB were bound by\nit and obliged to accept the measurements\nof the official sciler. A new act\nwould he introduced at the next\nsession providing for compulsory\nscaling and the appointment of all\nnecessary officials to carry it out. Some\ntime ago the Government had brought in an\nact providing for a proper survey of the\nProvince. Under this authority the\nministry deeded to find out all\nabout this vast country, and were\ncaming surveys to be made as rapidly as\npossible. In the meantime the general\nsales of lands had been stopped. The large\nand rich traot of country known as the Chaco\nValley had since been discovered and would\nshortly be thrown open to settlement. A\nlarge tract of valuable agricultural land had\nalBo been discovered on the north end of\nVancouver Island, which in the near future\nwould be the scene of a thriving community.\n[Notf. \ufffd\ufffd\ufffdThe balance of Mr. Davie's interesting addreBS will be oontinued in our\nnext issue, together with a report of the\nremarka of other speaker's and tho Premier s\nreply.]\nA FEW FIGURES.\nNanaimo's Coal and General Shipping\nBusiness Up to Date.\nThose who have an interest tu the shipping business of Nanaimo will peruse the following table of the shipping of the port\nout-ward and inward, for each month of the\npast year, with some attention. The figures\nare compiled up to tho 21st inst., and represent very approximately within a few\nhundred tonB, which may be entered or\ncleared between now and the end of the\nyear, the shipping business registered at the\ncustoms house for the past twelve months.\nThk Tki.f.hram ia indebted io the kindness\nof the local customs officials for the figures\nhere set forth\nENTKRF.I) INWARD\nNo. OK WITH CARUO\nVRSSRI.S TONS KKU.\nJanuary,\nFebruary,\nMarch,\nApril,\nMay,\nJune,\nJuly,\nAugust,\nSept.\nOotober,\nNovember 47 4,214\nDeo, (.Slat) 88 2,4(13\n0,707\n4,982\n;i.67S\n1,882\n2,409\n4,(199\n4711\n6,<*,31\n4,844\n4,44s\nIN BALLAST\nTUNS KKU.\n20,** 00\n17. mill\n30,97f.\n32,420\n30,887\n15,970\n25,074\n20,540\n22,7(1'\n17,533\n20,931\n10,349\nSO. OK\nVKSSKI.S\nTotal 40,433 Total 485,048\nENTERED OUTWARDS\nWITH CAlttlO IN BALLAST\nTONS KRli TO.XS KKU.\nJanuary. 59. 32,748\nA despatch from Pernambuco says: Captain Baker who left New York in command\nof thu new Brazilian steamer Nictheroy, has\nbeen superseded by Captain Alvaro Nunez,\nformerly commander of the Brazilian warship Republica. The changes is not well\nreceived by the Americana on board, but\nit is believed most of the expert men, especially the rapid-tire gunners, will con'iuue in\ntho service. Late to-day Captain Nunez\nshipped sixty new men and sent several of\ntho New York crew ashore. The reBi, of i he\nBeamen shipped at New York were compelled to Bail in spite of protests and the\nstrike for higher \ufffd\ufffdageB. There waa serious\ndisturbance ou board the Nictheroy. Several men who desired to leave the ship engaged in the struggle with the remainder of\nthe crew, and a number were finally clapped\nin irona aud confined below decks. The Associated Presa correspondent on board the\nNictheroy has learned that her consort, the\nAmerica, haa arrived at Maranhao and is\nexpected here to-day or to-morrow, when\nboth vessels will probably sail southwards.\nFebruary\nMarch,\nApril,\nMay,\nJune,\nJuly,\nAugust,\nSept.\nOctober,\nNovember, 44\nDec. (21st) 37\n1,248\n37,728\n211,010\n33,12li\n40,782\n28,390\n83,1)08\n45 24,971\n6 20,270\n 28,023\n 25,027\n022\n416\n050\n1,705\n1 229\n287\n195\n128\n0114\n128\n02\n93\nTotal 18(1,027 Total 8588\nIt will be aeon that the outward going\ntonnage, with cargo, exceeds the inward\nhound with cargo, by 11,5005 tons. The inward bound tonnage in ballast is 281,386\nions great) r than the outward bound. Few\nt-liipa leave Nanaimo in ballast.\nFollowing is set nut a statement of the\nquantity, destination and value of coal ex\npirted from Nanaimo duiiiig each thteu\nmon'hs of thn year ueaily ended, from\nJanuary 1st, ISII3:\nllltsr ,|l AIIIK.lt. TORS, TALI K.\n it States 171,802 | 847,669\nJ,pa* 7ou U.800\nHawaiian Islands S.108 12,432\nJ. W. Harrison writes as follows relative\nto the present condition of the San Fran-\noisco coal trade: \"Since the last Australian\nmail there have been the following arrivals\nfrom Newcastle, N.S.W.: Westgate, 2,704\ntons; Lucipara, 2,850 tons, total, 5,534\ntonB. The light arrivals for t he past thirty\ndayB, and the Bmall quantity that can possibly arrive from Australia during the next\nsixty days, enables holders to maintain full\nfigureB. The market generally is in an unsettled condition, as competition is very\nsharp among the jobbers, who all appear\nBolicitous to reduce their stocks, fearing to\nhave too much on hand lest it should in\nthe near future prove a non-dutiable article.\nIt is generally believed that the duty will\nbe taken off, but there is much uncertainty\nas to the time selected for its taking effect,\nwhich for the moment embarrasses everyone\nin the trade. The last time named by the\nTotal 175,700 \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd? 682,701\nSBCOMi ,|l ARTKK.\nUnited States 901,:i2o | 786,888\nHawaiian Islands 1,304 6.2IU\nTotal 20*1,024 8 770,599\nTHIRD itfCAKTKK.\nUnited Slates 1:,3,I96\nHawaiian Islands 8,7dii\n594,207\n13,303\nTotal 156,926 8 007,0311 \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nOCTOBBII.\nOreat Britain 530 8 2,144\nUnited States Colombia 1.528 4,202\nUnited States 00 450 2*22,086\nHawaiian Islands 3,105 0,991)\nMexico 1,650 4,554\nTotal 67,275 t 242,984\nNOVBMHKK.\nUnited States\t\nHawaiian iBlands\t\nChile\t\n42,1141\n2,624\n706\n100,633\n1,8000\n2,8.0\nTotal 40,170 $ 182,141)\nTotal Coal Exports to December.. .1*84,004 82,470,453\nIt will be seen from the above table that\nhy far the greater output of the local collieries goes to the United States. The coal\nexporls to Hawaii are a significant item, aud\ntho figureB given for each quarter and the\nlast two months s^em to point to a growing\ntrade in that direction.\nNext followB the statement of tho value\nof dutiable and free goods imported, the\nfigures given being for each three months of\nthe year, except from October 1st to date,\nthe returns for which period have not yet\nbeen completed:\nINSURANCE\nMARCUS WOLFE\nREAL ESTATE\nFI3ST-AJTSTOI^L ^^-d G-BNEEAL C01&iyLTS>ST02nd Panoy Decorative Painting,\nHours :l In 12 in., 1 to 5 and 7 to 10 p.m., Fri-\nda\\n and Saturday*. O, ly 2f cenu per hour.\nStudio in the Y.M.C.A. Block. 17-11 tf\nDR. W. J. CURRY,\nIDEHSTTIST.\nGreen's Block, noar Post Offlee,\nNANAIMO. B. C. -11 12m\nOft. hall\nRESIDENT DENTIST.\nmEETH EXTRACTED ENTIRELY WITHOUT\nJL pain with \" Laughing t.is.\"\nOFFICE\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdCommercial Street,\nOdd Fellows' Nuw Block |up stairs).\nNANAIMO B. C. S-ll 3m\nWe have them now, Yes,\nA full stock of the\nLATEST IMPROVED TRUSSES\nAir and Water Pad,\nElastic and Spring.\n: : AND FOB SPONGES : :\nWe Iiiitc the Largest Line in the City.\nCOMPOUNDING PRESCRIPTIONS OUR\nSPECIALTY.\nUse our Balsamic Elixir\nFor Coughs and Colds.\n811 12m E. PIMBURY & Co,\nXmas Fruits\nCandies\nAND\nNovelties\nAND\nAT\nCHEAP\nFRESH\nOCEANIC STEAMSHIP CO'Y.\nPROM SAN FRANCISCO\nFor HONOLULU,\nAPIA,\nSAMOA,\nAUCKLAND,\nNEW ZEALAND,\nAnd SYDNEY, N.S.W\nMISS LILLIE IZEN'S\nStore next to Opera House,\nCHURCH STREET.\nCIGARS BY THE BOX A SPECIALTY.\n1-12 lm\nFOUND.\nON VICTORIA CRE8CENT\nNext door to International Hotel,\nMeLeod The Tailor\nWith a Large New and\nWell Selected Stock of\nFALL AND WINTER SUITINGS\nOvercoatings and Trouserings\nWhich he is making up in\nFirst-Class Style, at Prices\nto Suit the Times : : : :\nGIVE HIM A CALL\n7-12 3ui\nFOR HONOLULU\nSS. AUSTRALIA,\n(\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd,1,(101) tons.)\nSaturday, November 25th, 1893,\nAt 2 p.m.\nFor APIA, SAMOA, AUCKLAND, NEW\nZEALAND AND SIDNEY,\nSS. ALAMEDA,\nThursday, December 14th, 1893t\nFor freight or passage apply to District Agents,\nH. FORESTER it Co., Nanaimo.\nPassengers booked through from Nanaimo\n18-11 tf\nESQUIMALT & NANAIMO RAILWAY\nSTEAMER\nJOAN\nJ. E. BUTLER, Master.\nOn and alter March 22nd^.S93.\nThe Steamer JOAN will s\ufffd\ufffdil as follows,\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdailing at Way Port* aB Freight\nand Pawen^ers may offer:\nLean' Victoria, Tuesday, 6 a.m.\n\ufffd\ufffdt Nanaimo for Comox, Wednetday, 7 a.m.\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdt Cnm x for Valdez Island, every alternate\nThursday, 7 a.m., (returning Hame day),\nn Comox for Nanaimo, Friday, 7 a.m.\nii Nannimo for Victoria, Saturday, 7 a.m.' 1\nFor freight or state rooms apply on board, or at the\nCompany's ticket office, Vicfcoria Station, Store street.\nS-ll lilm\n^^Compliments of the Season to All=\nTHE BOXT-THE BOX\nWILL NOW BE FOUND ON COMMERCIAL ST,\nOPPOSITE PIMBURY'S DRUG STORE.\nWe have a large stock of Gents' and Youths' Hats, C-cloves,\nTies, Silk Handkerchiefs, Caps, Braces. Also, Boys' Jersey and\nTweotl Suits, which are suitable for Xmas & New Years' Presents.\nT. Lu Browne & Co.\n8-11-3m\nFor FINE FOOTWEAR\nLADIES' AND GENTS'\nDANCING -- SLIPPERS\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd ALSO\t\nStaple Boots and Shoes\nRubber Goods and Over-gaiters\nGo to\nORR & RENDELL\nCOMMERCIAL STREET\nODD-FELLOWS' BLOCK\nA. E. Planta & Co.\nReal Estate Brokers\nInsurance and Commission Agents]\n46 Commercial Street, Nanaimo, B. C.\nP. O. Box 167\nX-U-lim\nTelephone 2\nDon't Think About It\nBUT ACT AT ONCE\nBefore you purchase your\nA Timely Bargain in within your reach if youl\nwill immediately visit our Store, Everything!\ngoes at the lowest possible price : :\nFALL SUIT\nOVERCOAT OR PANTS\nOnme in aud see how fair we will treat you I\nHow well we will please you, and\nHow much we will save for you,\nMORGAN & COMERFORD\nLeading: Tailors\n47 Commercial Street\nti-ll-12m \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nNANAIMO, B. C, SUNDAY, DECEMBER. 24. 1893.\nMfot \ufffd\ufffdw\\i SdrgttHML\nWELLINGTON\nBRANCH OFFICE\nOver C. Gribble's Barber *fc hop.\nOrders for Subscriptions, Advertising\nand Job Printing promptly attended to.\nAgent can be found at office from 4 to\n6 p.m., and from 7 to 9 p.m. each day.\nA. V. WILDMAN,\nAgent.\nWELLINGTON ITEMS.\nThe following promotions were announced\nat the examinations of the East Wellington\npublic schnol on Thursday last. Senior\ndivision\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdJ. Pearsall,teacher. From junior\nfifth to senior filth\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdWymond Walkem,\nBertha Cameron, Roderick Cameron, Story\nBurns, George Horth. Junior fourth to\nsenior fourth\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdFlorence Hillifr, Willie\nWi'ddingtun, Evoiyn Shikespeare, Robert\nMcNiven. Senior third to junior fourth \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nAnnie II inn, Joseph Sanderson. Junior\nthird to sciiir fourth\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdLoo Wiiddingtin,\nOrville Randall, Willie McNiven, Willie\nWhyte, George Ross, V Cassie Morrison.\nSenior second to junior third\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdJennie\nBurns, Nellie Drew, Lence Drew.\nJunior divjnior, MiBs Smith, teacher.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nFrom junior second lo senior second\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdJohn\nBurns, Rachael Daniels, James Ross, Ma-\nlerie Fontaine, Lillie McFarlane. Seond\nprimer to junior second\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdWillie Cope, Ira\nWestwood, Jnhn Kane, Mnggie Kane.\nFirst to second primer\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdBertie Morrison,\nBeatrice Waddington, Freddie Hughes.\nChart to first primer\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdNellin Bowatter, Caroline Bowalter, Willie Grant, Sissie Morris,\nPolly Scott, Oeorge Whyte, Noah Horth.\nVyvyan Walkem carried off the prize in the\nspelling contest, and Roderick Cameron the\none for writing contest.\nFOE\nSALE\nEZXIT 30 T>^TST&\nBEFORE TAKING INVENTORY OF STOCK\nThe Wanderers Win.\nThe Victoria Wanderers team won the\nfootball match with the Wellington United\nat Wellington yesterday, thus giining the\nfirst tie for the British Columbia Challenge\ncup. The Wanderers arrived from Viotoria\non the noon train. They appeared to be in\nsplendid form, and it was plainly seen that\nthe United would have a hard fight if they\nwon. The match was called on time, and\nthe teams fao -d each other for the fray as\nfollows : Wanderers\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdBoyd, goal; Donaldson and Hook, backs; Deckers, Nevin and\nBlackburn, half-backs; Peden, Johnson,\nKenward, Beggs and McCann, forwards.\nWellington\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdR, White, goal; A. Johncoo,\nR. Ktakt'ly, backs; R. Simpson, R. Robs, J.\nBlackall, half-backs; A. Lundy, centre; J.\nIrwin, J. Richards, right; J. J. Mitchell,\nR, Fisher, left.\nDuring the first half the attack of the\nVictoria forwards waB sharp and keen, the\ndribbling being careful and fast, and passing\nclean and well limed. Four goals were\ndained rapidly by the Wanderers during the\nfirst half, aud the chances for the Wellington team began to look very slim. The\nsecond half witnessed a veritable battle of\ngiants, Ihe Wellington team shaking off\ntheir apathy and meeting their opponents\nwith a grim earnestness and determination\nthat was gocd to see. Back and forth the\nleather went, until the Wellington boys had\nscored three goals. The Wanderers added\none more to their tally before time was\ncalled, after a titanic struggle, and so were\ndeclared winners by five goals to three.\nAfter the match was ended the Wellington United Football Club tendered a b*n-\n(]uet to the Victoria Wanderers at the Wellington Hotel. A pleasant time was spent\nover the festive board and in the evening\nspeeches and singing filled up the hours\npleasantly.\nChristmas Cheer.\nMessrs. Hull BrQS, & Co. have a magnificent assortment of Christmas meats and\nprovisions on exhibition at their premises\non the CreBcent. All day yesterday the\nstore was thmngel with purchasers and\nthose desirous of inspecting the exhibition\nof good things. A notable feature of the\nBhop is a fine hog, scaling dressed about 510\npounds. There is a large t|uantity of tastefully dressed poultry on view, which is\nfrom Smith's Falls, Ont. A seoond consignment is expected for New Year's, and\nwill undoubtedly have a ready pale. The\nwhole of the meat in the store is from the\nfirm's well-known Alberta ranches, and in\nappearance is a positive treat to the lovers\nof good things. Hull Bros, have had a busy\ntime this t ihri'tmastide and their well-earned\nreputation as purveyors has been justly sustained, as the city's gourmands will readily\ntestify.\nThe linn has branches at Calgary, Kamloops, Nanaimo and quite a few other places\nbesideB, while their immense cattle ranges\nextend over some hundre'da of square miles\nof country in the Okanagan valleys and the\nbroad plains of the Northwest. \"Hull's outfit\" is quite a watchword among plainsmen\nand those who know the language of the\nprairies. Onihe coast ,.im iu the cities,\nthe name of the firm, Hull Brothers k Company is iu houses, hotels and rooiiurauU a\ntrue synonym of high quality, low prices\nand a liberal system of doing business.\nm\t\nProvincial Police Court,\nIn thn Provincial Police Court yesterday\nbefore Meters, Bate and Planta, J, i's ,\nElpas Kyyra, a Finn, was charged on the information of the worn'ii Christine, with\nassaulting her on the previous day at the\nnew townsite, Wellington. Defendant consented to be tried summarily ride Summary Trials Act. The defendant pleadod\nnot guilty in the first place but withdrew it\nand substituted a plea of guilty. He. was\nconvioted and sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labor, and lo pay a\ntine of $80 (including costs); iu default of\npayment to be imprisoned for another six\nmoi ths.\n, *\t\nThe Gilded Quarter Game.\nF. R. 1'remblay was arrested in Vancouver on Friday lor passing gilded quarters\nas SIO gold pieces. He claimed to have\nbeen agate keeper at the Chicago fair and\nto be on his way to San Francisco. At the\npolice court yesterday morning he was remanded. He is of pleasing address and\npapers on him show that he had once been a\nschool teacher in Ohio.\noil % Goods Ming, aad Millinery\n15 PER CENT. DISCOUNT ON COOTS AND SHOES\nEveryone is invited to attend the Concert to be given in our store on the afternoon of the 22nd of December by the Richardson\nOrchestra, cf Victoria, from 3 unt 1 5 o'clock, when samples of OUR NEW TAMILKANDE TEA will be distributed\n:e. coons: 8c co., Wellington\nTHE TERMINAL CITY.\nMu-\nA Budget of Whiskey-born Crimes\nnicipal Politics Quiet.\nVani'oi'yek, B.C. Dec. 23.-[Special]\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdThe\nIndian who murdered his klootchman at\nHowe Sound on Wednesday was arrested\nthis morning at Moody ville. He came down\nbrick, SKS.OOO; Gibson block, brick three,\nstorey, $12,000; A. R. Johnston, frame two.\nstorey, $11,000; new gaol, three-storey\nbrick, \ufffd\ufffd17,000; Salvatiou Army Barra-ks,\nbrick two-storey and basement, $f),000;\nBooth, two-Btorey brick, $4,000; J. H.\nPleace, two storey frame, $,'1,000; Young,\ntwo storey frame, $3,000; Gibbs, brick two-\nstorey, $3,000; J J. Honeyman, two-storey\nfrom Howe Sound in a canoe and proceeded ' frame cottage, $2,000; J. J. Honeyman,\ntwo-storey frame cottage, $1,100; D L.\nGow, frame house, two-storey, $2,100;\nto get loaded up to the eave trough of his\nbonnet with some tillicumB. In his inebriety\nhe became confidingly veracious, and provincial officer John Calbick got wind of his\nstory and arrested him, but not without a\nstruggle.\nA most horrible sight was witnessed on\nCarrall street last night. An Indian named\nOld Tom and his klootchman were both\ndrunk. Tom said that being drunk she\nmight lose her clothes, so he stripped her\ncompletely naked and started to drag her\nalong by her hair. An officer waB finally\ngot and arrested him. Tom got a month at\nthe police court levee this morning.\nEverything is quiet in municipal political\ncircles, but Aid. Towler and Collins are\nworking hard though unostentatiously.\nThe World's poor children's fund amounting to $122 was distributed this afternoon.\nPollard, frame two-storey, $1,500; A,\nHaslam, two two-storey frame houses,\n$1,500 each. Besides these a great\nmany houses have besn erected\nby parties in different parts of the town, of\nall sizes and shapes. In fact about three\ntimes the number mentioned have been\nbuilt or are in course of erection this year\nwhich goes a long way towards showing\nthat Nanaimo in time will be a big city, and\nas the class of buildings go on improving as\nthey are doing now a handsome city too.\nIt is sincerely hoped that the day is not far\ndistant when the unsightly excrescences on\nCommercial street will be pulled down and\nbuildings more suitable to the standing\nof the town and its business needs be\nerected.\nThe Tklkijkam is indebted to Messrs.\nKelly and Honeyman, architects for tho\nLegal and Government offices will be approximate values of the house mentioned,\nclosed until Wednesday morning. ,\t\nWord has been brought down from the PBOVINCIAL NEWS.\nNorth that whiskey peddling to Indians and j \t\nothers is being pushed vigorously by three I The Mainland Teachers' Institute meets\nsloops. Serious riots have resulted at some in Vancouver on January 8th and 9th.\nof the In.-iian villages. It is reported that a drunken fight occurred\nat Port Neville a few days ago. Several\npeople are Baid to have been seriously injured.\nThe Vancouver Pioneer Sooiety at its last\nmeeting, adopted a constitution and by-laws.\n! A large increase in membership was reported.\nI The case against Arthur Carruthers for\n: the killing of Wee Don at Victoria upon\n) which the jury disagreed recently, has been\nlooks like adjourned to the next assizes.\nDaniel R. i oung, builder; Albert F.\nGriffiths, bookkeeper, and William R, Robertson, accountant, all of Vancouver, give\nA Brief Resume of Building Progress for I n.otioe in,th? Provincial Gazette of associate Past Year, tion as the Boston Bar Gold Mining Com-\n. I pany, limited liability, with a stated capital\nThe work done during the present year j of $50,000 in $10 shares. Their principal\nby architects and builders has been consid- object is to carry on mining operations at\nerable and though at present it is impossible . Boston Bar, on the Fraeei river,\nto give the exact numbers and details of the ' A fisherman named Mclver has given in-\nbuildings erected during the year, yet a few formation to the Vancouver police that, j\nof the principal ones will be enumerated. while entering Burrard inlet on Monday\nmorning, he saw a man's body Boating in i\nihe water. After going through the pockets\n\"f i h<* dead man to see if theri w.n any\nMclver let the body go. I\nHe had a cargo of cod, he said, and was j\nafraid if ho took the body iuto the boat he\nwould be unable to dispose of his fish.\nRumors as to the British Pacific Railway\nenterprise have beeu rife in Victoria for *\ufffd\ufffdcv-\neradays. It is said that R. P. R*t,het will\nrenew the contract wi'h Fnnk Rtkeman i\nA Christmas Weather Report.\nClinton, B.C., Dec. 23.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd[Special]\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdSix\np.m., cloudy and hazy; barometer 20:17;\nindications of snow and cloudy weather.\nBABKEBVUAE, B.C., Dec. 23\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd[Special]\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nFive p.m., clear; growing colder to-day;\nthermometer 28, min. IS.\nSoda CbbKK, B.C., Dec. 23.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd[Special]\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nFive p.m., cloudy and mild\nsnow; 20 above zero.\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd, \ufffd\ufffd. ,\nNANAIMO IS GROWING.\nZHIJSrjDSIGMEiT ^ND POBESIGHT\nBoth are valuable to us. The past for what it has taught us, and the\nfuture for what it has in store. Modern methods that smack of primitive\nhonesty. No retrogression, but a steady, onward march in the van of the\ncolumn. The experience of to-day turned into a source of profit to-morrow\nA continual evolution in keeping up with the times. Forecasting the future'\nFeeling the popular pulse. These are some of the things that have brought\nus in good luck, and made our Groceries, Provisions, Hats, Caps, Boots Shoes\nand Dry Goods so popular\nAny rooster can crow, but it takes money to do it in this space Why\nshould we spend it in spreading false reports. We don't! We want you to\ntry our goods, such as Fine New Currants, Raisins, Peels, Nuts, Cakes, Figs\nDried Fruits, etc., etc., for Xmas trade. We know the result will be beneficial\nto us both. Try us.\nWALTER JONES & Co.,\n8-ll-6m\n\"VT-EILXilJSrG-TOKr, B. O-\nWy\nThe Yorktown Won.\njHlNOTON, Dee. 23.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdLetters receive\nAltogether this year has lieen a memorable\none in the quilding line, so many tine brick\nbuildings having b-en erected, amongst\nwhich the new Presbyterian church holds a i S. \"I.!?. .!\"\nconspicuous place. There is no necessity to\ndescribe this building, which is just finished,\nas it. has already been fully dealt wil h.\nNevertheless it stands prominent as the\nlargost and most solidly built chuich in\ntown. The new tire hall also is another\nbuilding equally Bolid, and of equally as\nhigh a grade of architectural merit. This\nbuilding, with its prominent tower, occupying as it does a very conspicuous place at\nthe corner of Victoria and Nicol Btreets can\nbe discerned from all parts of the town.\nThe Gibson bloek, and the Fnr Press block\nare two more great additions to the\nbeauty of the town, both buildings luving\nimposing fronts well finished and tilling positions in the town where the need of such\nbuilding-) has been long felt and where it is\nhoped fellows to themselves will Boon ap\nor grant an extension of time. The contract ,\nI will expire at noon on Saturday, December\nI 30, and it is said as well that two or three,\n! independent parties aie nailing for lhe latt >\nj hour to submit counter propositions. Col. I\n' A. J. K ineliusexpreBsedthelieliefthatFrank '\nBakeman would keep the contract to have a\nconstruction company orgai ized with $500,-\n000 worth of stock 'aken and $100,000 cash\ndeposited by Dec. 30th. The bond put up\nby Bakeman calls for the commeucement of\nconstruction by August 1st, 1894, but it is\npear. Mayor Haslam's house on the corner probable that if he fails in getting the com-\nof Wallace street and Comox road is a sue- j PauJ' together and new people take up the\ncessful design for a purpose, nnd though ' mftt,e<' >h\ufffd\ufffdt they will deposit afresh bond\nof frame construe!ion, is one of the hand- and that Mr. Bakeman will be permitted to\nBoniest dwellings in town, its position giving ! withdraw his.\nit a magnificent view whilst its size gives it In connec ion wiih the predicted unusu-\na most imposing appearance. The frame ally high tide, T. C. Mendenlmll, Buperin-\nblock of uew stores on the corner of Com- i tendenl of the United States geodetic sur-\nniTcial and Bastion streets is another of the vey, writes to a Seattle paper: According\npresent year's buildings and has made a to our prediction tables for the Pacific coast\ngreat improvement in the appearance of the tides, the highest lide ot the year may be\nstreet a in thai locality, taking the place as expected about 7:30 a. m. on December\nit does of what last year was an unsightly i 25th. This tide is predicted to be six inches\nvacant lot, an eyesore to all. This building ' hudier than any predicted tide of last year,\nc ititiios the roomiest and most convenient The range between this high water and the\nat the navy department from Callao tell of\nsome interesting target matches between\nthe U.S.S. Yorktown and H.M.S. Hya-\ncinthe, with six-inch guns, and between\nteams from these two vessels, with rifles.\nIn the rifle match the British team won by\n24 points. The Englishmen used Martini-\nHenry rifles and the Americans used\nSpring-fields. The teams were composed\nprincipally of officers. The distances in the\nsix-inch gun match were 1,100 and 1,200\nyards. The target used was 20 feet in\nheight, five feet submerged and fifteen\nabove water. Of twelve shots fired, the\nYorktown placed eight ou tlu centre vertical line of the target and two directly at the\njuxtaposition of the vertical and horizontal\ndiameters. The match was won by the\nYorktown by fifteen points.\nArmed Tramp Fighters.\nSa* Francisco, Dec. 23.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdC. F. Crocker,\nvice-president of the Southern Pacific, denies the published statement that the directors of the company have determined to put\narmed men on their freight trains. He says\nthe company has not determined what\ncourse to pursue in combatting the tramp\nnuisance, It is believed liere, however,\nthat the Pinker on agency has perfected\narrangements to put gnn-fich'prs on the\nSou'h\"rn Pacific trains, not only in California hut in Anzma, New Mexico, Texas and\nclear through to New Oileins Armed men\nwere recently put on trains pulling out of\nPortland, Or., out after a few days were\ntaken off. About that t*me William Pinker!.*n wus iu Saxi Franciaco.\nPROVINCIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE\n14th DbcbMBKE, 1893.\nThe I'ublic Offices of the Provincial Government will be closed on Monday the 2,*)th,\naud Tuesday the 26th in\ufffd\ufffdtant, aud on Monday the 1st and Tuesday the 2nd day of\nJanuary, 1894\nBy Command,\nJAMES BAKER,\nProvincial Secretary.\n23 12-td.\nw\n<\nD\nQ=\nOVERCOATS! OVERCOATS I OVERCOATS!\nMEN'S, YOUTHS' and BOYS'\nOVERCOATS & MACKINTOSHES |\nTHOS. L. DAVIES,\nMASONIC BUILDING. COMMERCIAL STREET.\nAT COST! AT COST!\nAT COST!\n6-12 6m\n>\nw\n$5 Reward\nIt having come to the knowledge of the publishers of THil\nDAILY TELEGRAM that copies\nof this journal are being repeatedly stolen from the doors of\nsubscribers the aboye reward\nwill be paid to any person or persons who will give information\nthat will lead to the conviction of\nany one found stealing copies of\nTHE DAILY TELEGRAM left at\nthe residences and business\nplaces of our subscribers.\nTelegram Printing Co.\nW. J. Gallagher,\nManager.\n-THE-\nThe business of the Victoria Chemical\nCompany is for the future to be carried on\nby a limited liability company of tl.at name\nThe memorandum of association has just\nbeen published in the provincial Gazette\nby J, XV. Fisher, J. A. Hall, Frederick\nMoore and Walter Morris, all of that city.\nThe capital stock will be $100,000 in 2,000\n..ares of j?50 each.\nstore s in town, whilst the spacious edicts\nupstairs have already fouud many tenants.\nTwo handsome frame houses occupied by\nMessrs. Young and Pleace were erected last\nsummer on Hecate street; both of these fine\nroomy residences are handsomely finished and add a great deal to the\nlocality in which they are placed.\nThe Salvation Army Barracks is\nnearly completed now and already has a\nmost stnkingappearance. It has a capacity\nample for the needs of the sect who have\nhad it raised. The new gaol, a three-story\nbrick building on tho Departure Bay road,\niB also nearly completed and will be a great\nimprovement on the time-honored establishment iu which at present the provincial police are lodged. Another fine building that\nhas gone up during the present year iB that\nn-oupied by Mr. Booth on Fitzwilliam\nstreet, a finely finished two-story brick\nbuilding surrounded by handsome lawns,\nand adding by its presence to the value of\nthe neighboring property. The following is\na list of some of the erections in Nanaimo\nduring the present year with the names of\ntheir owners and their approximate values\nPresbyterian church, $17,000; Fire Hall,\n\",300; Mayor Haslam, frame two-storey\npreceding low water occur ing at about midnight on December 24th, is predicted to be\nabout 10.3 feet. In these predictions, of\ncourse, the effect of winds and earthquakes\nis to be taken into account. If the high\ntide spoken of really eventuates, it will make\nits appearance in Nanaimo between 8.-30 and\n9:30 o'clock Christmas morning.\nA provincial contemporary at intervals\nduring our winter season and worst of\nweather, repeats some Borry joke about\nItalian skies or roses blooming in our front\ngardens. A paragraph to latter effect has\njust been quoted io the Manitoba^;-! e. Press,\nas other similar ones have been. It is evidently taken as more or less Serious Distinct harm is thus done to our province,\nmany would-be settlers iu which are disheartened iu finding realities so different\nfrom the statements boastfully spread over\nthe land aB to our climate, etc. It is of\ncourse misleading uonseuse to talk of roses\nin our front gardens in winter, where anything of the kind there to be seen is either\nan undeveloped bud or withering blossom\ntouched by light frost. The effect of such\nexaggerated statements is to make newcomers sceptical about any and everything that\nis published concerning the province and its\nHotel Wilson\nWALTER WILSON, PROPRIETOR.\nNanaimo, B.C.\nWell lighted\nSample Rooms\nFree.\nS-ll-l'2ra\nhouse, .?8,000; Fret Press block, three-storey possibilities.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd Nttvs-Atlr, rtiser.\nEDWARD W. BICKLE\nNotary Public\nConveyancer, &c.\nAGENCY OF TIIK\nEquitable Life\nAssurance Society\n120 BROADWAY' NEW YORK\nWELLINGTON, B.C.\nSASH AND DOOR FACTORY\nA. HASLAM, Prop.\nOffice: Mill Street, Nanaimo, B. C.\nP. O. Box :\ufffd\ufffd. Telephone Call 1!).\nA COM PI ETK 8TOCK ol*\nRonifli and Dressed Lumber\nAlways on hana. ajbo\nShingles, Laths,\nPickets, Doors,\nWindows, Blinds.\nAll kinds of Wood finishing furnished.\nCEDAR. WHITE PINE. REDWOOD.\nSTEAMER \"BSTELLB\"\nHarbor anil outside Towing done nt\nreasonable rates. S-ll-tf\nWellington..\nFurniture Store\nFor the next 30 days I will\nrun a Special Cash Sale of\nFurniture, Carpets, Hardware, Crockery and Glassware, at prices never heard\nof before in Wellington.\nIt will pay you to call and\nsee me.\nJ. A. THOMPSON\nVictoria Avenue\nWELLINGTON\n!)-12 lm\nWELLINGTON LIFER f STABLES\nWELLINGTON, B.C.\nloW Kilpatrick\nTEAMSTER\nAND DRAYMAN\nFirst-Class Single and Double Turnouts\nAT REASONABLE RATES\nOoal, Wood and Lumber Hauling\nPromptly Attended to\nTERMS CASH\n8-11-tt\nTHE DAILY TELEGRAM, the only\nMorning Paper in Nanaimo. Large cir\nfiliation in the City and District. 6\nNANAIMO, B. C. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1893.\nReminiscences of Nanaimo's Old Days.\niNK ne\n(Contributed )\n:ed not wonder that those who\nVictoria, to which they resorted for trade,\namusement and immoral gains.\nAmongst our most welcome and frequent\nvisitors in those early days were tne British\nships of war, which patro'led these inland\nwaters for repressing chiefly the lawlessness\n0.,..\nouly in the last few years have \"e-1 0f these Indian freebooters and for the pro-\ncome residents of our thriving and progres-1 te(,tjou Gf the sparse white population up biul\nvn should find it difficult to pictur\nsive towr\n; down the coast. The gunboats (Jrappler and\nS1VD tv.,\ufffd\ufffd. , , \ufffd\ufffd *\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nbv any representation they may have Haa f porwarfl ma.dc Nanaimo their chief rendez-\nniade to them, the aetual aspeot, condition , yaatt an(i more than once very severe meas-\nui.l surroundings of this eity some thirty ures j^^ to he dealt out to ditt'erent Indian\nyeara ago, seeing that those of us who cast vjjiagea whoSe predatory habits had led\nin their lot with the handful of whites at j fawn into the commission of acts which had\nthat time living chiefly along what wa tow\ncall Front and Commercial streets, overlook\ntog the water, find it hard to recall the state\nofthinga which then existed. Bven with\nthe aid of some old photo or view one may\nchance upon, only a faint impression rema'ns\nof what then met the eye ; though, like the\ntime honored old bastion, certain prominent persons of distinct individuality and\nimportance,-'strutting their little hour upon\nthe stage\" of what seemed all the world to\nu.s, live Still in our mind's eye, not the least\n,\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd LceaWe of whom being the dear old doctor\nwho gave his name to our Mt. Benson, so conspicuous a landmark and favorite resort of\nthose of our citizens who \"fain would\nclimb nor fear to fall.\" The doctor had\nentered tbe H. B. Co. 's service anon after he\nhad taken his M.D. degree at the university.\nOur present Primate of All England.theArch-\nbishop of Canterbury, is a near relative, the\nBensons being an old Whitby family of considerable local distinction.\nDr. Benson was attached to Sir John\nFranklin's Arctic expedition, aud after a\nvariety of almost romantic adventures, was\nsent by the company to this place. Here\nwas gathered a small body of miners,\nchiefly from Great Britain, who had been\nsent out to Vancouver Island to develop the\nnewly-found coal deposits at Fort Rupert\nand Nanaimo. It is well known that, so far\nas our \"black diamond\" interests are concerned in this district, we are indebted to\none of the old Indians of this locality for\nsuch discovery, who was afterwards known\nby the soubriquet of \"Coal Tyee.\" Now\nthe worthy doctor, though well enough\nequipped for the exercise of his professional\nduties, had altogether lost then hia first love\nfor the medical service, and turned with\navidity to other pursuits nunc congenial to\nhis new-formed tastes He preferred to be\npig-raiser, butcher, farmer, boat-builder or\ntrader, to amputating limbs\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdsome excised\nmembers of which, such as finger joints, having been seen thrown carelessly around his\noffice\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdor to administeiing pills and potions;\nhis favorite resource being two immense\nbags or sacks of salts and senna, which did\nduty for all sorts of ailments and seemed to\nhave as bauov an effect on his\nhappy\nansacked the\npatients as though lie bad\nwhole British Pbarmraopo'ia to find a special\nremedy for their complaints. Yet a kindlier\nheart never beat in a human breast, and so,\nin spite of all his funny, queer ways and\nnotions, he always remained a prime favorite with us all, who enjoyed so many a\nhearty laugh at hia eccentricities and appearance. Sad to say, after his return home, his\nmind was found to be shattered, yet assiduously ministered to by those from whom he\nto be put down with a high hand.\nWe had at that time a regular .lingo\nof a stipendiary magistrate--who had commanded bis own steamer i i the Crimean war\nand had had tho honor of transporting the\nlink*' of Cambridge to Balaclava. For him\nwas built the red-brick mansion across tbe\nravine\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdlooked upon in those days as quite\npalatial\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdand there he love 1 io dispense a\nlavish hospitality and at times hold high\nrevelry. Through bis quondam Filend the\nDuke he at length succeeded in obtaining\nthe appointment of High Commissioner at\nthe Seychelle Islands, where be afterwards\ndied.\nWhole shoals of Englishmen, many of\nthem of excellent birth, bad co,ne out to this\ncolony, attracted by the tidings of gold-\ngold everywhere; some uhno t imagining it\nwas to be picked up oa the streets. Needless to say, they soon awuko from their\ndreams of sudden richness, disposed of their\ncostly ou'fits, ofti-n for a mere pittance, and\nwere to be found every win re roughing it\nand making shift to live from band to mouth\nby all kinds of expedients whilst wailing for\nsomething to turn up, or untli the timely remittance from home set them for awhile again\non their feet and by which many returned\nto their native shore, \" sadder and wiser \"\nmen. Many also went ut erly to the dogs,\nand those times contain the record of scores\nof noble fellows who became utter wrecks,\nsinking at last into a dishonored grave,\n\" unwept, un-annealed and unsung.\"\nWe had therefore a certain amount of\nwhat may be termed \"society\" men, and as\nour shipping increased and business improved, we were comparatively quite a gay\ncommunity. Picnics in the summer season\nwere organized on quite a grand scale, and\nthe officers of Her Majesty's navy contributed no small part to our joyous expeditions and were always ready to make themselves the very pleasant est of good fellows.\nMore than once the flagship of the ration\nwas seen anchored in our harbor, when the\nmusic of her band stirrtd our loyal breasts,\nwhilst good cheer was being dispensed on\nboard to such as had the honor of b ing\nasked to dine with the admiral.\nFrom the first Nanaimo possessed a loyal\nEnglish population, and the Queen's Birthday was always a gila time, and all who\nwore Her Majesty's livery received so much\nattention that both' officers and men constantly declared they were never so happy\nas when on duty in these waters.\nNeed we add that Christmas-tide found\nour whole population ready to welcome with\na free and open hand all comers; and though\nwe bad not the choice of supply now so\nostentatiously displayed on every hand, the\nhad so long been severed, wbo loved him to ; famed \" roast beef and plum pudding of old\n., j England\" stood us in good stead, and tlure\n. , .. . was none so poor that they failed on this\nThe time of our arriv.l at Nanaimo * J\n, , . , ., I day to legale them elves af er the n\nepoch in its early history. ,**,. \ufffd\ufffd \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd, ,\nmarked\nwas the day of transition\nTbe Hudson Bay\nCompany hail so'd out ita interests here to\nthe Vancouver Land and ('mil Company.\nCaptain Nicol had been sent out from England to manage the new enterprise, and the\nsomewhat primitive arrangements andmodtts\noperandi oi the former controlling power underwent important modifications, and a considerable addition was quickly made to the\npopulation, seeing that the works were now-\nbeing carried on in a more business-like\nway. The ravine at that time might be\nsaid to bound and mark the settled part of\nthe townsite. Beyond, looking toward\nMount Benson, the country was a wilderness, with a few shanties scattered through,\nout. We had to get through the country by\nrough trails, and after some Few horses had\nbeen imported, riding parties were the order\nof the day aod were a most attractive form oF\nrecreation for those accustomed at home to\nsuch exercise. To illustrate the savage state\noF tbe country dist riots at that time, we may\nmention bow, during the terribly severe\nwinter .season of ISIi'2 '.I, wolves in great\npacks came down from their mountain resorts\nmaking night hideous by their imcssanl\nhowlings, and approached as nigh as the\nravine, where several were shut by those\nwhose premises they had incautiously invaded. Also, in the spring of that year, a\ngreat band of elk were found in the neighborhood of Chase river, the antlers of one of\ntheir number then captured being sold by\nthe w.iiter for $20 to the captain of a vessel\nproceed ng to Australia.\nThe Indians on either side of the town\nwere as thick as bees and very savage. The\nNanaimo tribe orderly occupied the south\nside of the Bastion, while a whole congerie\nof natives of mixed nationality were camped\non the Newcastle townsite and along the\nmill-stream. At that time in winter they\nlived in the keekwolley places i. i., under\nground, with the roof cons' ruoted after native\nfashion, the descent being made by a notched\npole\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdwhich were regular sweating denswhen\nat all crowded, as was usual at their great\nfeasts, when a grand cultus potlach of iotas,\nnative and European, took place, with the\nnoisiest accompaniments and anything but\nto our minds refined exhibitions. Then, from\ntbe north, whole fleets of natives swept\ndown the coast in canoes of enormous proportions, their favorite rendezvous being\nlanner\nof *'ye days of yore.\" Turkeys wc despised,\nand after such substantial fare as is here set\ndown, not a man could be found who had\nany inclination left to \"gobble her.\"\nA Wee, Kerry Baby.\nAll our young folks are, beyond a doubt,\nfond of looking at pictures aud would not\nthink their column very interesting unless\nthere were pretty illustrations in it each\nweek. Here is one of a dear, dimpled\nnaughty baby. A baby who is not always\nJUST OLD ENOUGH FOR MISCHIEF,\ncrying, I am sure, nor a baby who is bad\ntempered, but a saucy, merry, mischievous,\nwee thing, old euough to toddle about,\nto creep under tables and pull heartily at\ntable coverings, curtains, and all such offending articles her small mightineaa\nthinks in the way. What a world ot fun\nlurks in the dimpled facel Many of yoa\nhave just such another little darling in\nyour home and will think thia racy much\nlike \"our baby.\"\n *\nThe Title Prince of W\ufffd\ufffd1m.\nThe title Prince of Wales is not inherited\nIt is specially cnnfenwl on eaob heir appnr\nent to the crown of Omn.1 Britain and Inland. Thus, the pre\ufffd\ufffdein t>~iroi ol the title\nwas born Duke of CSS.' ^LV -s S\ufffd\ufffd5>0*)\n-Harper's linear.\nThe Little Bird ami th<< Split Pea.\nHindoo children are entertained in tbe\nnursery by a story which is very similar to\nthe old Saxon tale of \"The Woman Who\nFound the Silver Penny.\"\n\"Once upon a time,\" says the black nurse\nto the black baby far away in the jungles,\n\"a little bird mi its way through the woods\npicked up u big pea, and took itto the mill\nto be split. As it happened, one-half of\nthe pea stuck in the mill handle, and the\nmiller could not get, it out and gave upthe\nattempt for a bud job.\"\nNow come the adventures of the little\nbird iu his wonderful perseverance to recover the lost portion of the pea.\nFirst be went to a carpenter and asked\nhim to cut the mill handle, hut the carpenter resented the idea of cutting a mill handle for the sake of half a pea.\nThen he went to the king and begged\nhim to chide the carpenter, but his majesty\nrefused to blame an honest workman for\nso trivial a matter.\nNothing daunted, the little bird went to\nthe queen aud bade her speak to the king,\nbut the queen declined to Bjieak to the king\nabout such a trille as half a pea.\nSo the little bird went to the snake and\nbade tbe reptile bite the queen, but the\nsnake refused the temptation of even so\ndainty a morsel for the recovery of half a\npea.\nThe little bird flew to tho stick and requested the stick to beat the snake, but\nthe stick did not consider the action justifiable for the sake of half a pea.\nThen the little bird bugged the fire to\nburn the stick, but the fire declined to be\nso cruel for the sake of a pea, much more\nfor the half one.\nThe sea was next appealed to and asked\nto quench the fire, but with the same result, and the elephant was asked to drink\nup the sea, and the bhaunr, a tangled creeping plant, was asked to snare the elephant,\nand the mouse was asked to gnaw the\nbhaunr, but they all declined, because bAlf\na lien was not worth the trouble.\nBut when tbe little bird asks the cat to\neat the mouse, pussy thought less of the\nhalf pea than of the rare meal in prospect,\nand at once decided to comply with the\nlittle bird's request. In an instant the\nmouse, to escape the threatened doom, ran\nto gnaw the bhaunr, and the creeping plant\nagreed to snare the elephant, and so on\nthrough all the creatures, and even to the\nking and queen and carpenter, until at bust\nthe little bird recovered his piece of pea and\nwent ou his way rejoicing.\nNow this Hindoo' nursery tale has two\nmorals. The first is that great perservauce\nalwayssucceeds in the long ruu. Thesecond\nis that sometimes the object sought is not\nworth the very extraordinary etlorU that\nare put forth to attain It,\nYou may have in your\nminds' eye something you\n'purpose giving for a\nXmas Present. If you\njcall and examine our\nmaDy lines suitable as\n'such, we know you will\nbe pleased. If you have\n| not decided, come, and\ni we feel certain we can\nassist you and save you\n' money. Remember, a\nUseful Present is the\nmost lasting. Our Store\nis Brim Full of such.\nCorreot Haai-ulinc Attire.\nShirtings will be severely plain. The\ncorrect thing for evening dress will be plain\nwhite lineu, with preferably two studs, although no objection is raised to wearing\nthree. In collars there is little change, tbe\nturned over points being still most desirable. A new shape just put ou the market\nis quite high, with the points slightly\nturned aud but little Space between. In\ncuffs square ends only are permissible.\nThere has been a marked tendency of late\nyears to discard the broadcloth for dress\nsuits, and this is still noticeable, worsteds\nand vicunas being the most popular materials. But broadcloth will always be\nworn, especially by mature men. The dress\ncoat will have slightly longer tails, the\nwaistcoat will be cut more V shaped than\nformerly, and the trousers of course will\nbe slightly snugger in fit than those worn\nduring the day. Silk waistcoats will be\npopular.\nTrousers will have a Blight spring this\nseason, but whether they will be well received remains to lie seen. The authority\non which these statements are made concedes, in the New York Herald, that individual tastes are likely to govern these\nmatters to a great extent, and with regard\nto the size certainly a man's lens have something to do with it. But for the. average\nwell dressed man trousers w-ill be IU inches\nwide at the knee and 17>j at the bottom.\nFor the pattern Btrlp-38 are always in style,\ngray colors predominating, and a check, if\nIt be very small, is not undesirable.\nMew Om.. Requisite.\nVisitor\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdWhy do you have that dog\nsitting on your writing desk?\nClerk\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdI havo mislaid my sponge, bo I\nam getting him to lick my postage\nitainps for me.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd Sobreniesa.\nADVERTISE\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdIN THK \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nDaily\nTelegram\nWK. I1AVK THE\nCIRCULATION\nWHICH IS WHAT YOU I'AY POK\nDresses,\nGloves,\nFancy & Plain Shawls,\nSilk Handkerchiefs,\nLawn Handkerchiefs,\nFancy Work,\nLadies' Ties,\nLadies' & Gents' Umbrellas,\nGents' Ties, the Latest Out,\n(Two in a Box )\nGentV Gloves,\nSilk aud Linen Handkerchiefs,\n(ienCb' Jap. Silk Handkerchiefs,\n25 cents each.\nWe have just passed\ninto stock another consignment of Glasgow\nGoods. These go at Sale\nPrices.\nSee our lines of Ladies'\nGloves at 25 cts., worth\ndouble the money '\nWE SELL ONLY FOR CASH.\nStanley House\nJ. M. DONALDSON\nPRACTICAL\nBlacksmith and Carriage Builder.\nAll Work Guarantood\nSPFfilAUATlENTION PAID TO HORSE-SHOEINC.\nBastion street, Nanaimo \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd n i-.m\nWhen you go to Westminster\nStop at the\nCENTRAL\nBILL and JACK will always be on\nhand to glTo yon a cordial\nweloomo 8-11\nFIRST-CASS\nTO ORDER\nAT J. R. MATS\nFROM $20.\nPants, $6\nSATISFACTION GUARANTEED.\nRuns Palatial Sleepiug and Tourist Cars\nThrough to Montreal and\nSt. Paul Daily.\nConnections madowithall Atlantic Steamship Lines\nRESTAURANT\nOYSTER AND IHOP HOUSE.\nOPEN DAY AND NIGHT.\nPirst-claes Dining Parlors have\nbeen fitted upstairs.\nOysters Raw Pan Roast\nFancy Roast\nPlain Poast Milk Stew\nDry Stew\nNew York Box Stew\nOyster Loaves Fried\nSteaks Chops Fish\nGame in Season\nALL WHITE HELP EMPLOYED.\nRUNNING HOTEL WILSON DINIKC ROOM.\nW.H.PHILPOTT,PBOP.\nKeep\nyour Eye\non it\nThe Scotch Bakery's good\nBread. It is the best in\ntown\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdwill bar none.\nWILSON & McFARLANE.\ns-U-3m\nTHE crescent hotel\nVICTORIA CRESCENT.\nJAS. BENNETT, - Proprietor\nmHE BOARDING AND LODGING DEPART-\n1 mentB are unsurpassed by any in the City, anil\nwill Rooommodats a large cumber ol mieBta. lhe\nliar ii supplied with the Finest llraiuis of Wines,\nLiquors anil Uigurs in the market.\nOnly White Help Employed.\nS-ll Mm\nTHE CENTRA! HOTEL\nCommorclal Street, Nanaimo.\n1 Rooms, Wholesome Fooil, Courteous Attention\nAnd Prices Reasonable.\nmHE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS ON SALE\nX. at thin hotel are always ol superior quality.\nGive the Central a call.\nJOHN A. THOMPSON,\n.1. R. McDONALD, Proprietor.\nMan\ufffd\ufffdK-r. 8-ll-12m\nNEW BUTCHER SHOP.\nCOSMOPOLITAN MARKLT\nCOMMhKCUI. BTRERT\nNext door to ttie Central Hot.'i, Nana mo, B.C,\nE. QUENNELL\nHAVING OPENED A.* ABOVE, WILL KEEP\nconstantly on hand an assortment of Meat**\nand Vegetables, and hopen to rcoeire a continuance\nof *ihe patronaKe so liberally bestowed in the past\nMeata, etc., deliyered to a 1 parta of the city free ot\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdbarge. 8-ll-12m\nGEO. MARSH,\nFISH AND POULTRY\nMARKET\nCOMMISSION MLIKMNT.\nNANAIMO, B. C.\nIMPORTANT NOTICE.\nNEW - CLOG - SHOP\nVICTORIA ROAD, opp. Pridoaux St\nFirst-daes Material and Workmanship Guaranteed.\nAlso, Boots aud Shoos Neatly Repaired.\n8-11 8m\n$5 to $10\nLe^s th n A\ufffd\ufffd y Other Boute.\nSteamship Lines\nTOJtPAN, CHISaND AUSTRALIA.\nThe following are sailings from\nVan ouv- r, mjbect to i hatige\nund i divi *ua) postponement -\nTO JAPAN AND CHINA\nEmpress oi Japan - - - Nov. 13\nEmpress of China - - - Dec. 11\nEmpress of li.dia - - Jan. 8,'94\nTO AUSTRALIA\n\"Warrimco Nov. 16\nArawa Deo. 16\nFor further information apply to\nW. B. DENNISON,\nGEO. McL. BROWN, Agent.\nDist. Pass. Agent,\nVancouver, B.C.\nNan*imo .\nRestauFant\nIn connection\nwith\nNANAIMO HOTEL\nOpen Day and Night\nWnlte Labor Only employed\nNative and Olympian\n: : : OYSTERS\nIn Any Style\nThe only Restaurant in town that puts up\nME\ufffd\ufffdLS AT US CENTS\nAnd upwards at all hours of the day and night\n1M1 tf\nK. C. McDONALD\nManufacturer and Dealt r in all iiiiJs of\nCarriages, Express Wagons, Buggies, Sleighs, Etc\nH* rae-shoeiiiK 4 General Blucksmiihing,\nCarriage, Sign and Ornain ntal Painting.\nTRIMMING AND REPAIRING.\nCHAPEL ST.,\nNANAIMO. B. C S11-12M\nNANAIMO\nSteam Garriase Works\nRALPH CRAIG, Proprietor.\n: : GENERAL : :\nBlacksmithing & Carriage Building\nWACONS AND FARM IMPLEMENTS\nMado to Order and Repaired.\nJUL I 3ST E3 Tl S '\nAU6EB - DHUiLING - MACHINES\nHade to Ordor on Short Notloo.\nSHIPSMITHING A SPECIALTY\nWORKS-BASTION ST. BRIDGE\n8-11 6m\nPERSONS DESIRINQ TO KNOW\nThe Whereabouts of Chas. MeCutcheoQ\nWill find him at No. 53 Comox-\nRoad, at corner of Public Park.\nHe keeps a line of the best\nQROOCRIE8\nIn town, which he sells cheap for*,\ncash. If you want a fair deal givt>i\nhim a call.\nSUBSCRIBE\nKOR THK\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdTfllfifl'\nNanaimo'* Live Dally\nDelivered to any part of the cityj\nfor 25 centa per week, in\nadvance, or $1.00\nper month! NAJVA1M0, B. (J., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1893.\nyou've juBt answered the bell to, to step\nin here. I hope you've no objection.\nBliss?\" with a hard smile at Laura.\nThis was too much for the servant.\n\"But there is objections, Mr. Who-\never-you-are\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdvery much objections;\nand like your inipereuce It-giving orders\nbefore a lady's face to show that fell6r\nin here I My mistress wouldn't let me\nhave him into the kitchen, beg her ever\nso hard, just for five minutes by the\nclock; and do you think I'm going to\nbrim: him into the drawing-room to\nplease you?\"\n\"Who is the person?\" asked Laura in\na faint but firm voice.\n\"Why, it's that unpleasant 'D 1*32,'\nmiss, \"replied the maid; \"and which I've\nt *ld him as it ain't no good his foller-\ning me, for mother won't hear of me\nmarrying a policeman.\"\n\"That will do, Sarah. The officer can\nwait in the hall, while I speak a few\nwords with this person.\"\nThe maid withdrew, \"all of a tremble,\"\nas she expressed it to the cook, aod\napproached the detective.\n\"What do you want to do with met\"\nshe asked.\n\"Well, miss,\" eaid the detective oom-\nfortably, \"I'm just going to take you\nto Marylebone Lane police station,\nwhere you'll be looked after for\nthe night till you see the magistrate in\nthe morning, and don't you ask me any\nmore questions, for I mustn't answer\nthem.\"\nShe uttered no protest, no word, bat\nstood there oold and white, as it turned\nto marble.\nMr. Joseph Shorter went to the door\nand gave a low whistle. It was answered immediately; \"D 932\" made his appearance.\nLaura's eyes tornsd to the constable,\nand she shuddered as at the approach of\ndeath.\n\"Now miss,\" said the detective, \"yoa\nmust come along with us; my business\nis to walk you through the streets, il\nyou come quietly, I don't want to do\nanything unpleasant.\"\n\"Do with nn* as you please.\"\nHer voice had a muffled sound; shs\nappeared helpless and hopeless.\n\"There are folks as prefer to ride,\nmiss,\" suggested Mr. Shorter; \"and\nthere's no particular harm in that, as\nI can see. Would you like the maid to\nfetch you a cab?\"\n\"Thank you, do as you think best,\"she\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdreplied.\nThere came the sound of hurrying\nfeet, the voice of Muriel O'Connor asking eagerly for Mr. Donovan.\nHe had left the house\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdtaken his portmanteau and gone away soon after she\nhad herself departed. Muriel was in\ndespair. She rushed into the drawing-\nroom with Cecil Chester's despatch-box,\nand came face to face with the officers\nof the law.\n\"The thief doth fear each bush an\nofficer,\" and Muriel O'Connor felt and\nlooked the guiltiest of women thus, as\nshe supposed, caught rod-handed. It\nnaturally occurred to her that Chester\nhad set the telegraph in motion to secure\nher immediate arrest.\nShe did not even see Laura Kingdon\nin the first consternation of finding the\npolice waiting for her m her own drawing-room, nor was Laura's presence welcome when it was recognized. She ignored her absolutely, and began to pour\ninto the ears of the puzzled \"D982'a\nstatement of the motives tbat actuated\nher in borrowing the despatch-box. which\nshe set down upon the center-table, and\na disclaimer of any inteution to rob its\nowner, or to prejudice his rights in it.\nMuriel was so agitated and incoherent\nthat they could make nothing of what\nshe said, and the detective came to business brusquely;\n\"Don't know what you mean,\nma'am. I've nothing to do with your\nbox. Do you know this lady?\"\n\"Yes, 1 know her; she is Miss Laura\nKingdon.\"\n\"Ex\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdaotly! She lives here?\"\n\"She used to live here.\"\n\"Well, now I've got to find her another\nlodging. You may ask for her, ma'am,\nat Marylebone Lane till to-morrow\nmorning.\"\nMuriel became speechless. She stared\nat Laura's pale face.\n\"I am arrested,\" said Laura.\n\"You!\"\n\"That's the short of it, ma'am. Tbe\nrailway station affair.\"\n\"The what?\"\n\"The murder oo the Underground,\"\nsaid the detective, drawing Laura to the\ndoor.\n\"They charge me with killing Bolph\nKestrel,\" explained Laura.\nMuriel seized her arm:\n\"And you are going to prison\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdyou\nare going to be tried for tbe crime?\"\n\"How can I help myself?\"\n\"Tell them you are innocent.\"\n\/'I cannot tell them that.\"\n\"You do not mean that you actually\nkilled him, and not\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\"\n\"Hush! I will be answerable foi\nRalph Kestrel's death.\"\nThere was a serene heroism in the\ngirl's face as she lifted it to Muriel with\nthese words. The detective observed it,\nand began to feel a misgiving that some\nmistake had been made. His manner\nwas much more gentle and courteous as\nhe requested Laura to accompany him\nwithout further delay.\nLaura, forgetting for the moment the\ncrime of which she accepted accusation,\nand anxious to be reconciled to her\nwhilom friend, approached Muriel and\noffered to embrace her, saying:\n\"Do uot think hardly of mo, whatever\nhappens.\"\nBut Muriel recoiled from her fiercely.\n\"Think hardly of you! What can I\nthink but the worst? What do I know\nof you? Traitress! Murderess! Oo to\n, prison, to the scaffold! I will never\nlook upon your false face again!\"\nThen Laura broke into tears, and with\na choking \"(iod forgive you!\" allowed\n' herself to bo led away. And Muriel, left\nalone, paced wildly to and fro in the\ndrawing-room thinking of a dead lover\nand a presumedly false friend, to the exclusion of Dennis Donovan and of Cecil\nChester, whose despatch-box lay upon\nthe table.\nCHAPTER XXTT.\nA RECOGNITION.\nIn the darkness of the night, softly relieved by the myriad stars that spread\nover the heavens, the old brigantiiie the\nWanderer leit iter moorings.and dropped\ndown the river with the tide. Captain\nBen Dundas stood in the bow with the\npilot, wliu from time to time issued instructions to the boatswain or the man\nat the wheel.\nDorothy lay tossing restlessly in her\nberth in the Captain's cabin. She could\nnot sleep. The warm uight, the cramped proportions of tbe state-room, the\nsmell of tar. the constant rattle of ropes\nand chains, and tramp of sailor's feet on\nthe deck above, the shrill pipe of the\nboatswain'*-* whistle, the shriek of steam-\ntugs, the splash of the water against the\nsides of th-' ship, and, worse than all, a\nmore than suspicion of cockroaches,\nkept her wide awake.\nAt last she rose, dressed herself, and\nwent on deck. How lonely and dismal\nit seemed, even here in the Thames within hail of shore! What a melancholy\nprospect was in the long, weary voyage\nacross the Atlantic in this old vessel!\nHer mind reverted to the lot which\nwould have been hers if she had fled from\nher husband and become Ralph Kestrel's\nmistress. Ralph Kestrel had exercised\na powerful magnetic influence over her\nin his life. He had possessed that mysterious power of compelling her mind to\nobey his own even in separation, and it\nwas this control to which shelrid yielded\non the night of her brief and ill-fated\nflight from home. Since his death' she\nhad not fell that strange spell. That he\nno longer lived to torture her, Laura had\ncontrived to keep from her knowledge,\nand Dorothy sometimes had a dread of\nthat influence being renewed. But on\nthis night, as they drifted down between\nthe gloom-enveloped shores, with the\ndull, turgid waters all around them, she\nlooked for a return of Kestrel's fascination in vain.\nShe certainly loved him no more\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdif\nshe had ever really loved him. Her heart\nwas wholly with her husband, and save\nfor that sad, cold parting with Laura,\nshe would have fell happy in the prospect of a voyage* with him in spite of the\ndullness, the noises, smells, cockroaches,\nand other inconveniences. But Laura's\nstrange manner in leaving her, the absence of any reluctance to let her go\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nnay, the eagerness with which Laura had\nin the last momenta hastened her departure\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdweighed upon Dorothy's mind,\nand she crouched against the bulwarks\nunder the lee of the deck house, and\nconned overall possible things that could\nhave built up the barrier between Laura\nand herself. And as the black river-\ncraft glided past, and the shore-lights\nglimmered and faded, she thought once\nmore of that horrible dream whu h she\nhad recounted to Laura\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdthe dream in\nwhich Ralph Kestrel lay dead; and another vision rose with it in her memory\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffda vision of a fierce, vengeful face and\na gleaming dagger.\nAs this imago grew in vividness before\nher morbid fancy she was startled by\nthe aharp crack of a lucifer match close\nby, and, glancing round from hcvshelter\nbehind the deck-house, she beheld that\nvery face illumined in the bright Hame\nby which Dennis Donovan was in the\nact of lighting his pipe.\nBefore he thretvaway the match, Donovan raised it iu the still night air to\nsurvey the deck in his immediate neighbourhood. Dorothy shrank back unobserved, but not before she had seen and\nfully recognized the ferocious wild-beast\neyes of the assassin of Ralph Kestrel.\nAnd with this recognition came back\nall the circumstances of that night: the\ndeath-struggle, the mortal thrust of the\nknife, her face-to-face encounter with\nthe murderer, her flight, a pursuit, as\nshe supposed, and an escape which remained still vague and incomprehensible.\nDennis Donovan smoked on, in lonely\nmeditation, through the watches of the\nnight, and hour after hour did Dorothy\nDundas lie oro'iohed within a few yards\nof him watching, watching, ever with\nthe stealth an*\", constancy of Fate.\nMorning came, gray and yellow and\nred: the fresh brig nt morning, with a\nfaint fragrance of the sea. The Wanderer lay at anchor off Gravesend. Such I\nlight breeze as there was could render j\nher no service. Donovan went below\nand turned in when the stars had faded'\nont and daybreak gleamed upon the wet\ndecks; and Dorothy, shivering with,\nmore than the biting rawness of the'\nmorning air. crept to nerhusbimd's side, I\nand fell asleep in the grateful shelter of\ntheir cabin. |\nThey were still waiting for the wind\nwhen she woke again. The sun was\nhigh in the heavens, aud Captain Dundas\nstood by her bunk witii aome breakfast,\nand the morning's newspaper, which\nhad been brought oil: in a boat from the\nshore nnd had not yet boon op * i\" 1, the |\nCaptain not caring over-much to spell\nout matters that chiefly concerned lands-1\nmen.\n\"There little woman,\" said Dundas.\ndepotnting the coffee and sundries within\nens}' reach. \"It's 'most time yon roused\nUp and took in some cargo. We're still!\nlying off-shore, and if you'd like to send\na letter to sister Laura, now'syour time,\nfor we shan't sail until the wind changes, i\nHero's the Loudon newspaper, too, ne'\nyou may like to see. Anything else you\nwant, ti>ink you?\"\nAssured that the breakfast, the newspaper, and the other supplies were adequate, ho went on deck, and Dorothy,\nwith her thoughts bent upon her strange\nvigil of last night, absently sipped her\ncoffee and unfolded the Daily Telegram.\nWhat was this that caught her eye to\nlarge letters at the head of a column*?\n\"THE ASSASSINATION ON THE UN-\nDEROROUND RAILWAY.\nArkestof the Supposed McKHKUEse.\"\nHer eyes were instantly riveted to the\npage; she read on as follows:\n\"The police are still making investigations as to the murder of Mr. Ralph\nKestrel, who was discovered stabbed to\nthe heart on the platform of the Marylebone Station on the Underground Railway in the early hours of the 23rd inst.\nA clue to the assan-in wa3 subsequ ntly\nsupplied by a porter, who, when closing\nthe station for the night, saw c i hysterical woman leave the place. It was\nsupposed that the woman had fallen\nasleep on a bench, and, waking only\nwhen the lights had been turned out,\nbecame wildly excited. Efforts were\nmade to track this woman, and a man'\nwas told off to keep a special watch at\nthe scene of the crime, it being thought\nprobable that, with the strange persistence peculiar to criminals of thia class,\nshe would sooner or later be drawn back\nto the spot. This theory proved correct,\nshortly after eight o'clock last night, a\nyoung woman, alleged to lie tin- aame\nboth in feature and dress as the one\nwan ted,alighted from a westward bound\ntrain, and, after pausing to examine the\nspot where the murder took place, passed the barrier and walked in haste to a\nhouse situate in the vicinity of Regent's\nPark, where she was found in the very\nact of restoring to its place a knife or\ndagger of i iriental workmanship, and of\na pattern said to be precisely adapted to\nthe infliction of such n wound as that\nwhich proved fatal to the murdered man\nShe was at once arrested on suspicion,\nand will be brought up at Marylebone\npolice court to-day for preliminary eat\nanimation. The railway official's pre\nviOUS silence is accounted for by the fact\nthat while he was locking up on the\nnight of the murder he left the station-\ndoor for a few moments, while *\"j went\ninto the middle of the road to speak to\nhis father, who is night watchman of\nsome repairs which are going on there,\nand, fearing that if this were known he\nmight be discharged, he for some time\nmaintained silence. It only remains to\nadd that the suspected person is a young\nwoman of prepossessing appearance and\nsome cultivation. She has been living\nas companion to a lady named O'Connor.\nin whose house she was taken prisoner.\nHer name is Laura Kingdon.\"\nDorothy gave a great cry, and sprang\nup. Laura arrested! Mistaken for\nDorothy's self! Yielding herself up\nwithout a murmur to be tried, judged,\nconvicted, hanged for Dorothy's sake,\nbecause she, Laura, believed her sister\nguilty of shedding blood! It was too\nhorrible! That she believed Dorothy to\nbe guilty was clear from yest-rdny's\nstrange, cold parting\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdthe eagerness\nwith which she sent her sister from her,\nthousands of miles away. And, bad not\nthis newspaper fallen into Dorothy's\nhands. Laura would have borne shame,\nsuffering, even death, for love of her,\nto shield her, while the true culprit\nwas there, actually there on board that\nship, a refugee from justice!\nYes, Dorothy saw it all plainly now.\nThis man with the wild beast's eyes,\nwhom she had watched all through \"the\nnight, was tbe ferocious assailant whose\ncrime she had witnessed, and whom\nshe had confronted over the corpse of\nRalph Kestrel.\nHe must be seized at once. She would\ndrag him back to London, and herself\ntestify to Laura's innocence.\nShe gave scarcely a thought to the confession she would have to make of that\nnight's folly. To her husband, to the\njudge, to ihe whole world she would\ntell all. Her sister's life was at stake:\nthat sister who had been willing to sacrifice life itself for her. Dorothy could\nlove as well as Laura, and act as bravely\ntoo, when the occasion came.\nShe sent the sieward for Captain Dundas, and when ha came, gave him the\npaper to read, and told him all. Yes,\nall. Nor did she seek to extenuate her\nfault, or to find any excuse for her unfaithfulness. She released him from all\nmoral ties to her, and bade nun seek\nforgetfulness in some far-off land. She\nmust remain in England to vindicate her\nsister. *\nThe sailor listened very gravely to her\nstory, ajid at first seemed too much\nmoved\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdwe might almost aay appalled\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nto comment upon it. At Ii ngth he\nquestioned her about her intimacy with\nKestrel, and received her solemn assurance that the evil which hail beeu contemplated had not passed the limits of\nintention. In that faith he found some\ncomfort, and his benumbed energies\nawoke to action.\nCaptain Dundas issued orders that no\none was to be allowed to leave the ship\nduring his absence. Then the boat was\nlowered, and he took Dorothy ashore to\nthe nearest magistrate, which resulted\nin the return with them of three constables, furnished with handcuffs and a\nwarrant for the arrest, upon the deposition of Dorothy Dundas, of one Dennis\nDonovan.\nThe gentleman \"wanted\" was aroused\nfrom a heavy slumber by the strong arm\nof the law, and, though at first manifestly disconcerted, soon became amiably\namenable, and prepared himself to accompany his captors.\n\"It's a moightv mistake you're making, I can tell yez,\" said he in his jauntiest tone. \"Shure, it's the very best answer to tin* charge I've got, anyhow. It's\na beautiful alabi 1 cau prove, ami you'll\nfind I wasn't out of my bedou that uight\nat all, at ad.\"\nThey took him off the ship and back\nto London by the first train, and Dorothy\nDundas went with them to the rescue of\nher noble sister. Ker heart was full of\nhope and cllUKtenedjoy. Confession had\nswept away tin- lingering shadows which\nhad hung, dan; and chill, between her\nanil her liusban 1.\nAs he passed her over the side of the\nship, Ben Dundas folded his errant wife\nclosely to his breast, and whispered, as\nthe tears stood in his honest blue eyes:\n\"You're a brave lass, and I trust you,\nmy own u.-ar. sweet little Dorrie. Carry\nthis thing through, save Laura, and\nwe'll be bound up, you and I, faster\nthan ever for all our lives to come.\"\nMAHRER & Co.\nI\nWHOLESALE\nNANAIMO. B. C.\nBeg to recommend their Large and Assorted\nStock of\nMILWAUKEE BEER\nIAND CIGARS.\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdIUST AKIUVED PER\n\"Mar? Low\" & \"Americana\"\nA consignment of the finest\nGlenlivet 014 Scotch Whiskey\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd: afd : \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nMALIFAUD BRANDY\nItomtrford Ale - European Sherry - Port Wines\n8-11 Bin MAHRER & Co\n+ JOB f\nPRINTING\nThe season is dow approaching when every Merchant and Business Man will require a new stock of Office Stationery\nand other printed matter\nnn\nCHE _\nTHE SUN\nLife Assurance Coy\nOF CANADA\nNew Insurance, 1892-\n$8,566,457.10\nSurplus over Liabilities\n$307,428.77\nGives the Best Contract aid\nLoans Money on Policy\nafter two years\nCall and fee the Special Agent\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nL. W. FAUQUIER\nHotel Wilson, NANAIMO, B.C.\nLivery - Teaming - Express\nHAUBURTOTST. STABLE\nMosi Popular Place in Nanaimo lo Secure-\nDAILY TELEGRAM\nH^S THE\t\nBest Equipped\nJob Printing* Offlee\nIn the Province, and carries a large stock of all kinds of Paper\nand Cardboards. We can suit our customers with any\nclass of work they may desire, and we are in\na position to quote prices as low as\ncan be obtained in any otber part\nof the Province. Our plant is all new,\nand the type includes all the reweit designs of faces.\nA r*omforttl)le rouble Ciirriag-e.\nA Hanriaome Single Bug-yy.\nA Fine Saddle llorse.\nPrompt and Oareful Teaming.\nExpresn Van available at any lime\nAnd PRICKS ARK RIGHT.\nJ. H. COCKING,\nTelephone Oall, SS S-ll tl Proprietor.\nCHAPTER XXV.\nTHK INFERNAL MACHINE.\n-* \"Are you until 1 Will you not hear\nmo'; Will you not let nn* explain ?\"\nMuriel (\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd'Connor\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdor Mary Murdoch,\nthe daughter of Thomas Murdoch.as she\nhad avowed herself\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdslood before Cecil\nChester, wringing her hands in distress\nas she strove in vain to rtem the torrent\n(to hs oomxum)\nEUREKABOTTLire WORKS\nSODA WATER,\nLemonade, Ginger Ale. Sarsa-\nparilla, Champagne and\nOrange Cider, Iron\nPhosphates,\n&c, &c.\nBottler of different brands of l.a^er Beer,\nSteam Reer and Porter.\nWALLACE STREET, HANAIMO, B.C.\nP.O. BOX 79.\nLouis Lawrence, Prop.\nS-ll-12io\nWhy Purchase Interior Foreign Cigars\nwhen you can obtain a Superior Article for the same money from\nPHILIP CABLE,\nNanaimo Higar Fmtoby\nBASTION STREET,\nNANAIMO, B.C.\nNone but White L-vto*- employed\nS-ll 6m\nNOTICE.\n-VTOTIOK IS IIKKEUT fllVEN that al the next res-\n[\\j p'on of the Le^ialatui'e of Ihe I'ro* inoe of British Columbia, aoplii*ation will he nude fnr the passage\nof * private hill, authorising Ihe applicants to construct, operate and maintain a system nf railway,\ntramway or aerial tramway, to he operated by steaiii,\neleotrioity or irravit*, for the purpose of eon-reyln^\npaeeenjrerv, freight and ores from tome convenient\npoint near the h*ad of China Creek to some jioitit at\nor near the mouth of the aaid oieek, in Alberni district, and also to take and nee from China Creek, and\nite tributaries, ao muoh water of the said oreek and\ntri*liut*ries as may be nooessnry to obtain power for\nthe nuri*os> of ^ener-itinu* electricity to be uaed as a\nmo*ive power for the above mentioned system, or\nother works of the a plicnnta, or to lie supplied by\nthe applicant! to consumers as a motive powe- for any\npurpose to which electii'ity may lie applied or re-\nipiired for. With power ti the applicants to coi-\nstruet and maintain buildings, erections, raceways or\nother works in connection tiierewith for Improving or\nincreasing the water privilege. And also to euter\nin and expropriate lands for a aite for power house,\nrij-hl of way, and for dams, raceways, or such other\nworks as shall be neoessary Also, to erect, construct\nand maintain all necessary works, buildings, pipes,\npoles, wires, appliances or conveniences neoeiwar\\\nor proper for the irenenitini.' and transmitting of\nelectrlcllvor power\nBOOWKl.l, fi HIVING,\nSolicitors for Aj>pHcJUits.\nViotoria, B, 0., 1\" Nov. 1893. 19-11 tf\nOFFICE We can supply\nSTATIONERY Bill Heads, Letter\nHeads, Statements, Receipt Forms, Bank\nDrafts,Cheques, kc, bound, numbered, perforated, if desired, at the lowest prices.\nDAILY TELEGRAM, corner Commercial\nand Church streets.\nBUSINESS Neatly printed,\nCARDS either colored or\nplain, in the latest styles known to the\ntrade. XVe have a large stock of all grades\nof cardboards to select from, and can give\nyon any quality of stock. Prices for this\nclass of work have been put down as low as\ngood workmauship will permit. DAILY\nTELEGRAM, corner Commercial and\nChurch streets.\nVISITING In ladies and\nCARDS gents' siaes We\nhave a beautiful assortment of stock for this\nclass of work, and have also added a large\nvariety of script type specially for card\nwork. DAILY TELEGRAM, comer Commercial and Church streets.\nWEDDING As Boon us a young\nSTATIONERY lady has decided on\nthe day when that most interesting event\nshall take place, she should have her mamma call at once and order the invitation\ncards. We have just received direct from\none of the heet manufacturers in London a\nbeautiful selection of Wedding Cabinets,\nand with nur excellent facilities for neat\nprinting we can guarantee to give entire\nsatisfaction in this branch. DAILY TBLB-\nGRAM, corner Commercial and Chureh\nsweets.\nPBOGRAMM**D For Dance Pro-\nCARPS grammes and other\ncards ol this description we e*tr**el all others.\nWe can supply Invitation Cards, Programme Cards and Menu Cards to match.\nSee our selection before placing your order.\nDAILY TELKGRAM, corner Commercia\nand Church streets.\nINVITATION We have just re.\nOARDS ceived one of the\nbest selections of imported Cards, with Envelopes to match, ever brought into this\ncountry. We have some lines admirably\nsuited for private parties, with Menu Cards\nto match.\nCUSTOMS AND We are prepared\nOTHER FORMS to fill orders for all\nkinds of Blank Forms, wholesale and retail,\nat prices lower than can be obtained elsewhere. DAILY TELEGRAM, corner Commercial and Church streets.\nSHIP PING An immense stock\nTAGS of Shipping Tags,\ndirect from the manufacturers, at, eastern\nprices. DAILY TELEGRAM, corner Com-\nmereial and Church streets.\n\"HIP And others would\nBROKERS consult their inter\nest by calling at the DAILY TELEGRAM\nJob Printing Office for prices, kc, before\nordering elsewhere. Corner Commercial\nand Church streets.\nPOSTER We have, witb-\nWORK out exception, tbe\nbest seleotion of Poster type west of Toronto. We have letters from j- of an inch up\nto 20 inches. We ean print a bill *ta6 inehes\nup to 4x.S feet, or as much larger as may be\nrequired. Colored work a specialty. Prices\nsatisfactory. Call and see sizes of sheets and\ntype. DAILY TRLECRAM, corner Commercial and Church streets,\nBOOK We do not pie-\nPRIN PING tend to do work for\nthe bare wholesale price of the stock. Although we buy stoek direet from the mills\nwe expoct to get fair prices for all work\nturned out, and as we employ only the best\nworkmen we guarantee oar customers entire\nsatisfaction in all eases. We are at all times\nprepared to give estimates for all kinds of\nBook Printing and other work. DAILY\nTELEGRAM, corner of Commercial and\nChurch streets.\nTelegram Printing Co.\nW. J. GALLAGHER, Manager\nCOR. COMMERCIAL ANO CHURCH STREETS 8\nNANAIMO, B. C., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24. 1893.\n\ufffd\ufffdhe f ailg \ufffd\ufffdelegtm\nSUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1S93.\nTO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.\nMr JameB Burns has taken\nover the City Circulation of the\n\" Daily Telegram,\" and will cc\nfor and look after the delivery\nsame. Subscribers are\nnot to pay route boys. No\nmentswill be acknowledged\nless receipted for by Mr\nor at the Business Office. Subscribers not receiving their paper\nregularly will con er a favor by\nreporting the matter to Mr.\nBurns or at this offiice.\nTelegram Printing Co.,\nW J. Gallagher.\nManager.\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd?llect\nof\n-warned\npay-\nun-\nBurns,\nThe Windsor.\nHOLIDAY.\nMonday (to-morrow) being Christmas\nday and Tiik Telegram being desirous of\ngiviug its employes a thorough holiday,\nthere will be no issue of this paper until\nWednesday morning. In order to make up\nthe deticioncy in a measure, and also in\ncommemoration of the season, Tiik Tki.k-\nOKAM is this mornfag enlarged to six-column\nsize. In its columns will be found special\narticles appropriate to this time, some from\nthe pen of well-known townsmen, which\nfor that fact alone, apart from their literary\nmerit, should command the attention of\nreaders.\n \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\t\nSTREET GOSSIP.\nLittle Items of Interest to Every Reader\nof the Telegram.\nTry our famous eggnogg and Tom and\nJerry on Christmas at the Opera Bar.\nA turkey shoot will take place on Monday afternoon on the Caledonian grounds.\nThe regular meeting of the Citizens' Building Society is postponed till December 2!>th,\nat 8 p. m.\nA sporadic case on yellow fever in Mr.\nPiper's houBe oh Milton street is progressing\nfavorably.\nA, Cassell won a pair of \ufffd\ufffd10 pants yesterday in a fifty yard fooC race with D.\nRichards.\nA pigeon shooting match will be held at\nthe Quarter-Way House on Monday, commencing at ten o'clock.\nChristmas night will be specially celebrated by the Wallace street Methodist\nand St. Andrew's churches.\nThe letters of incorporation for the Wellington Loan society have been received by\nMessrs. Yarwood and Young.\nYoung men, old men, men of every race,\ncreed and color, will find a welcome at the\nY.M.C.A. rooms this afternoon.\nThe Christmas decoration in the churches\nwas going forward briskly yesterday afternoon in spite of the bad we*ther.\nBusiness is reported by merchants in\ntown as very dull for the season, but an improvement is looked for with the new year.\nOfficers for the ensuing term will be elected at a meeting of the Gospel Temperance\nUnion to be held in the Y. M. C. A. rooms\non Tuesday evening.\nMost of the stores in the oity presented a\nbusy appearance yesterday. With a few\nnotable exceptions, no attempt v\/as made at\nChristmas decoration.\nDr. Eberts of Wellington and Mr. Knight\nof Nanoose will probahly be candidates for\nthe representation of Nanaimo District in\nthe provincial Legislature.\nA cantata, the proceeds of which go to\npurchase an organ for the girls' school will\nbe given by the pupils of Miss Lawson's\nclass in the Opera House on Oan. 8th.\nDamon Lodge K. of P. will give a grand\nball in K. P. hall, Northfield to-morrow\nevening. A good time for which elaborate\npreparations have been made, is mured.\nA heavy rain storm commenced and lasted\nall day yesterday. A good deal of damage\nwas done to streets and roads by the\nquantity of water running over them. Most\nof the boatB arriving were delayed by the\ndirty weather experienced outside the\nharbor.\nThe Y. M. C. A. in Victoria has closed\nits doors for lack of funds. The institution\nis in debt, and has no revenue whatever,\nmembers being out of work and unable to\npay dues, and the business men of Victoria\nbeing altogether indifferent to iti existence.\nThe gymnasium outfit aud furnishingB will\nprobably be sold,\nOn Thursday afternoon the Northfield\npublic school, principal J. NorcroSB, closed\nfor the Christmas holidays. The children\neffectively rendered an attractive programme, and a few timely remarks were\nmade by Mr. Horrobin, secretary of the\nboard of trustees.\nThe story that Hugh Lynn, wanted for\nhis connection with the Savary island murder, has been located, iB denied by Provincial officer Calbick of Moodyville. Calbick\nthinks Lynn is in hiding among the Indians.\nThere are those in Nanaimo who are equally\nconfident that Lynn landed on this part of\nthe coast, and then found means to get out\nof the country.\nA distriot telegraph system has been\ntalked of considerably as being a great advantage to the town. The arrangement is\nto have boxes in different districts of the\ntown, eaoh box containing a dial and handle,\naround the dial being placed the names of\ndifferent popular wantB such aB dootor, express waggon, messenger, undertaker, eto.\nOn either one of these services being needed\nthe handle is tnrned to it on the dial. Simultaneously the number of the box and\nthe service wanted is given in the office by\na ticker.whereupontheBerviceis dispatched.\nThe system is in use in Vancouver and Viotoria and has proved very successful.\nWE ARE CLOSE ON IKZMAS\nWhat are you going to do about itr\n?\nHave you sele ted all tbe Presents you require? The newest things are those Initialed Cambric Handkerchiefs,\ndone up in half dozens in fancy boxes, at $.140 p<-r box\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdjust as nice a little Present as you can desire. Then we have an\nenormous stock of Silk Handkerchi-fs reduced away down. One line especially, at 25 cents, we are now selling 2 for 25\ncents. We are having an immense rush on Celluloid Leather and Oak Sets, Fancy Linens, Fans, Silk Hose, etc.\nOne of the most sensible Presents you can give a Lady is a couple of pairs of \"Bretagne\" Lacing Gloves, for which\nwe are Sole Agents here.\n. We have also a Splendid Assortment of Furs, which are having a rapid sale.\n.:. SLOAN& SCOTT\nDoric Lodge, No. 18, A. F. k A. M.,\nwith visiting brethren and members of\nAshlar Lodge, will attend divine service at\nthe Baptist church to-day at ten o'clock.\nIn the recent Poultry Show Mr. Dick's\nbuff Cochins which won the special prize in\nthe Asiatic class were erroneously reported\nas being sold to Mr. F. Cook. The sale did\nnot take place.\nCaptain Sabiston reported 1 he weather iu\nthe gulf yesterday as very bad, there being\na stiff gale from the south east. The tug\nTepic, towing a scow load of coal to Vancouver, put back on account of the heavy\naea running.\nSHIPPING.\nKOl'.KBT DUNSMTJIB AND SONS, IN TOUT.\nSp. C. F. Sargeant, sailed.\nBk. B. P. Cheney, Mosher, waiting to\nload.\nlik. Matilda, Swanson. waiting to load.\nSp. J. C. Potter, Meyers, waiting to load.\nSS. Costa Rica, Mclotyre, loading.\nSS. Empire, lessen, sails to-night.\nSS. City of Puebla, sailed.\nNEW VANOOUVER COAL 00,\nBk. General Fairchild, Ryder, loading.\nUF.NKRAL.\nSteamer Cutch arrived late last evening,\nnot having left Vancouver until 3 p.m.,\nowing to heavy freight. She had a rough\npassage and nearly all the passengers were\nsick.\nSchooner Diana, or Sea Lion\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdthe name\nby which Bhe is better known\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdhas left Victoria bound for the Japan coast on a sealing\nexpedition. Capt. A. Nelson, who was in\ncommand on the Diana's last voyage, ia\nagain her skipper, and has a crew of eighteen whites. The schooner Brenda sailed\nyesterday and the Agnes Macdonald, in\ncommand of Captain Cutler with a full\nwhite crew, will leave on Thursday next.\nThe Oscar and Hattie, Capt. Magneson, will\nalso be ready to sail in a few days, all bein g\nbound for the Japan coast.\nVictoria bark Thermopyln* has sailed\nfro ii Hongkong for Victoria.\nBritiah barks Archer and Martha Fuller\nare now due from Liverpool with large general cargoes for Victoria. British ships Ban-\nmore and Borrowdale have sailed from\nLiverpool for Victoria.\nShip Glory of the Seas has passed Victoria\nen route for Nanaimo to load coal for San\nFrancisco.\nH.M.S. Royal Arthur has sailed from\nEsquimau for the south.\nBritish ship Candida, for Liverpool with\nsalmon, haa been towed to sea from Victoria.\nBark Harold is taking on cargo at outer\nwharf, Vic'oria.\nThe steamer Cutch, Newcombe, master,\narrived last evening from Vancouver with\nthe following passengers and consignees:\nPassengers\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdF. Charman, S. R. Robb, Mr.\nMuir, W. McDonald, J. M. McDonald, J.\nE, McDonald, D. R. McDonald, M. McRae,\nJ. Izen, Mrs. J. Dick, Professor Herms, A.\nJ. Quintard, H. Blackwood, G. Stott, G. H.\nBindon, H. H. Bindon, E. Gowdy, V. M.\nRattenbury, J. R. Burton, G. 1). Scott, A.\nJ. Scott, Misa Lepage, G. T. Gregory, Mist\nIzen, Mr. Jenkins. Consignees\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdE. J.\nStevenson k Co., E. Pimbury & Co., E.\nGowdy, G. H. Frost, A. E. Planta, G.\nBevilockway, Hirst Bros , W. Jones k Co ,\n1). H. Smith, Chas. Taggatt, R. Craig, E\nXV. Bickle, J. M. Brown, A. R, Johnston *\nCo.,T. Cunningham, Dr. Lawrence, VV,\nJone.i k Co.\n \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd-\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\t\nCHURCHES TO-DAY.\nSt. Alban tho Martyr, Nicol and Victoria\nRoad. Sunday Dec. 24: Holy Eucharist !l;\nMatins, Litany and sermon 11; Children ,'f;\nFirst Evensong of Christmas with carols and\nsermon 7. At 4 p. m., \"The dream of\n(ierontius\"; \"Daya and moments quickly\nflying,\" and the \"Dies irae\" will close the\nAdvent season.\nChristmas day. Holy Eucharist 8 and 9.\nMatinH, carols and .sermon 11. Evensong t.\nSt. Paul's. Sunday, Dec. 24th; 4th Suu-\nday in Advent, Christmas Eve\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd11, matins,\nbaptisms, address; 2 p m., Sunday school;\n7 p.m., Evensong, anthem, sermon \"For\nunto us a Child is Born.\" Christmas Day\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\n11 a.m., morning prayer, short sermon.\nHoly Communion. Offertory in behalf of\nclergy widows' and orphans' fund unless\nspecified.\nPresbyterian Churoh\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdMorning, The\nLight of the World. Evening, The Church\nand the Rights of Man.\nBaptist church \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd Morning\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd \"Character\nbuilding.\" The Masonic fraternity are expect* d to attend this service. Evening\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\n\"Jesus Bom.'' Sunday achool 2 p.m. The\nSunday achool will have their Christmas\ntree on Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. The\npublic are invited. Admission 10 cents.\nWallace street Methodist church\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdMorning\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdChildren of the Sabbath school will\nlead the singing of Christmas hymns. Sermon, \"Good Tidings\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdthe Era of Joy.\"\nEvening\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdSpecial Christmas service of song:\nDoxology and Lord's Prayer; hymn, \"Hark,\nWhat Mean these Holy Voices;\" anthem,\n\"Herald Angels\" (Talbot), choir; \"Dream\nof Bethlehem (Rodney), Mra. Leighton;\nhymn, \"Brightest and Beat of the Sons of\nthe Morning;\" sermon, \"The Virgin Mary;\"\n\"The Star of Bethlehem,\" Mr. Wadsworth;\n\"Glory to God in the Highest,\" choir;\nhymn, \"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear.'\nPERSONALS.\nCaptain Sabiston is in town.\nF. XV. Teague has returned to Victoria.\nA. R. Johnson, returned from Victoria\nyesterday.\nMagnus Edgar of Gabriola Island is\nrecovering from his sickness.\nMr. Thos. Hewes, judge at the recent\npoultry show, left for Seattle yesterday.\nLieutenant-Governor Dewdney and Mrs.\nDewdney have returned to Victoria.\nMits Ethel Legage of Vancouver will\nspend the holiday with friends iu Nanaimo.\n(leo. D. and Arthur Scott came over last\nevening to spend Christmas with their\nparents.\nMeasrs, J. R. Burton, court stenographer,\nand S. R. Robb of the World, came over by\nthe Cutch last evening.\nF. M. Rattenbury, architect of the Provincial Government buildings at Victoria,\nwill be the guest of Rev. Robert R. Maitland for Christmas.\nCOMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON.\nMessrs. Sloan & Scott wish their many\ncustomers the compliments of the Season\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdA Merry Christmas and a Happy\nNew Year.\nA Nanaimo Man Injured.\nB-\\ . M. Muir of this city had a narrow es-\n\ufffd\ufffd pe from death just as the Cutch was leaving Vancouver yeBterday afternoon. He\nwas passing a young hotse that had just\nbeen put aboard and was very restlesa, and\njust at that moment the animal ahot out,\nviciously with both hind feet. Both hoofs\nstruck Mr. Muir on the fleshy part of the\nleg, knocking him down. It waa thought\nat first that hia leg \ufffd\ufffd as broken but fortunately this proved to be untrue. As it is\nthe limb is seriously bruised and he will be\nlame for some time.\nA Good Opportunity.\nIf you want to secure a useful Christmas\npresent you cannot do better than attend\nHarry Forester's auction sale on Saturday\nnext. Besides a number of articles suitable\nfor Cltristmas presents there will alao be\noffered, entirely without reserve, a piano by\nGordon, a Wanzer sewing machine, a fine\nblack walnut table, a Duchfss cooking\nrange and an exceptionally fine shot gun.\nAb Mr. Forester has received peremptory\ninstructions to close out. consignments at\nany cost it will be seen that this presents a\nsplendid opportunity to get a good bargains\nMake a note of this. 21 12-Dt\nA Fine Show.\nMe3srs. Hemana.and Wahnaley, the well\nknown butchers and meat dealers\nof Commercial street have on view a magnificent assortment of Christmaa meats. A\nfine display of sucking pigs, nicely trimmea\nand garnished is a notable feature of the\nstore together with a fine hog weighing\ndressed about 500 lb', and turkeya innumerable, besides the standard varieties of meats.\nAll day yesterday the eatablishmeut was doing a land office busiuess, and few passed by\nwithout pausing to contemplate the visible\nenterpris aud good judgment of ita proprietors.\nClosing Exercises.\nOn Friday afternoon the closing exercises\nof the Hare wood public achool, Misa Bryant,\nteacher, took place. A choice programme\nof muBio and recitations waa rendered by\nthe 8cholara. High school entrance certificates were gained by Alice Hilbert and Olive\nRandle, who also received each a handsome\nbook from the truatee8 and a workbasket\nfrom their teacher. Following is the prize\nlist: Junior Fifth\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdProficiency, Bella Leask,\nI; Maggie McLennan, 2. Fourth class\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdAnn\nCalvery, 1; Florence Randle, 2. Third\nclass\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdFlorence Mottishaw, 1; George H.\nCoulaon, 2. Second primer\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdWilaon McLennan, 1; Mary Randle, 2. First primer\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdNora V. Chapman, 1; Caroline Raudle, 2.\nPrizes for punctuality and regularity were\npresented to Ethel Cawthorne and George\nMottishaw, who, with Gertie, Mary and\nCaroline Randle have not missed half a\nday's attendance during the term.\nWhen you visit Vancouver do not forget\nto register at the Delmonico. Emerson\nleads all others aa a caterer. S-ll If\nThey are Here\nOur New Stock\n: OF :\nXmas Perfumes\nWe have given our HOLIDAY\nLINE*\", special attention this\nseason, and wc are now ready\nto fill orders : : : :\nOur Perfume Line includes:\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nBASKETS,\ndecorated and attractively put up\nSATIN-LINED BOXBS\nCUT GLASS BOTTLES\nHAND-PAINTED BOXES\nEtc, Etc.\nThese Goods are ifuaraiiteeil to give satisfaction\nKindly Call Early and Kxamine Sto*:k\nThe Crescent Pharmacy\nDBUGOIST 8-U-12m\nVictoria Crescent\nDon't Make Any Mistake.\nGo to D. C. McKenzie'a warerooma tor\nChristmas goods. He has his store full of\nthe best lines iu the market. Prices lower\nthan ever.\nTne Nanaimo Fire Department.\nDuring the last year there have only been\nthree tires and three false alarms, so that\nthe firemen have, beyond their practice, had\nvery little to do in their official capacity.\nThe fire department has an annual grant\nfrom the Government of $.\")00 which is used\nfor incidental expenses, such as janitor's\nwages and other udds and ends. When new\nhose or apparatus ia required the city supplies it, aa a rule, whilst during the present\nyear they have had presented to them by\nthe ladiea of Nanaimo, a hook and ladder\ntruck, aud an order haB been given for a\n1000 bell, which ia expected to be in posi-\ntinu early next year. A beltry iB also to be\nadded to the tower in the new building,\nwhich will be uaed for meetings by the first\nTuesday in January. Besides the new tire\nhall theie ia a hose house on the corner of\nDixon and Haliburton streets, whilst, the\nold hall on Commeicial street will probably\nbe used for the hook and Jadder and hose\nreels, as the loftier buildings are in that eud\nof the town. The fire department now has\nin hand the sum of ?4.'14, the proceeds of\npicnics, balls, etc., which may probabiy be\nused to renovate the old fire building. The\nNanaimo fire company holds the champion-\nahipofthe Pacifio coast, having competed\nin the Northwest Fire Association against\nand defeating all coineis, in hose reel, hook\nand ladder aud steamer drill.\nAll balrtneaded men hhould oall ou Jno.\nL. Pratt, general agent for Dr. White's\nNew Hair Grower Co. Pioneer barber\nshop. tf\nPosters\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdUrge or small\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdat Tiik Daily\nTelegram.\nA Christmas Greeting.\nAll folks who in Nanaimo dwell\nMust come to-day to see me sell.\nEverything sold without reserve;\nRemember, your patronage 1 deserve,\nReason being I give you \"snaps.\"\nYou may doubt the truth of this perhaps.\nConsult, however, your wife so true,\nHow many bargains both she and you\nRemoved from my store the other night.\nIt 'pon my word was hardly right.\nStill I am here to try and please\nThose people who on bargains ee'ze.\nMy friends, I wish you joys untold,\nA Merry Xmas to young and old.\nSigned at, my auction rooms, Bastion street,\nXmas, 1893. Harky Forester,\n23-12 2'. Auctioneer.\nThe TblSGRAM for fine job printing.\nWM. KEDDY'S\nZDZR^-X-IHSJ-Gk,\nLIVERY\nBoarding, Hacks and Sale Stables\nKirst Door Nortn Wilson Hotel.\nTelephone 60, HACKS IN CONNECTION.\nn-l-2 tt\nNANAIMO MEAT MARKET\nVictoria Orescent, Nanaimo, B.C.\nHULL BROS. & CO.* Proprietors.\nWholesale and Retail Buteheps\nDealers in all kinds of\nMEATS, VEGETABLES, ETC.\nHotels anil Shipping supplied at short notioe. Meats\ndelivered free of charge to any part of\nthe city or district.\nHull Bros. & Co., Victoria Crescent.\nBRANCH SHOPS AT NORTHFIELD AND WELLINGTON.\n8-U 12m\nGhas.Dempster&Co.\n(Successors to S. F. Scott)\nLOCAL AND PROVINCIAL\n: AUCTIONEERS :\nLand and Fire Insupanee Agents\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdALSO\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nGENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS\nCommercial Street : : Harvey's Old Stand\nA large list of Local Properties always\non hand.\nOutside Acreage on eaBy terms.\nCoal and Timber Lands at low figures.\nAuction Sales of Furniture and Stock\nconducted either at the Auction Rooms, or\nat owner's residence, in any part of the\nIsland.\nCash advanced on goods consigned for\nabsolute sale.\nSales held every Saturday evening at the\nAuction Rooms at 7:'1D o'clock.\n8-11 Dm\nSpectacle Wearers\nIf \\ou want suitable Glasses send for onr\nScientific Eye Test, sent postpaid\nto any address\nF. W. NOLTE & Co.\nONLY OPTICIANS OF B. C.\n37 Fort St S-ll-'im VICTORIA, B.C.\nUNION\n&\nBASTION STREET, NANAIMO.\nWe are prepared to provide our numerous\ncustomers, and the puplic in general, with\nthe Best Bread in the city.\nOur Cakes and Pies cannot be equalled.\nOur Restaurant is open any hour of the\nday or night, ileals, 25 cents. We expect\nthat by serving wholesome food, and by\nrendering courteous attention, to receive a\nfair share of the public patronage.\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdil-ll\nlm\nF. R0WB01 TOM & SONS\nGold Watches & Diamond Rings\nAND OTHER VALUABLE GOODS, SUITABLE\nFOR THE HOLIDAYS\nAT ROBERTS' JEWELRY STORE\nAlso, a full line of Clocks, Fnncy Goods, Spectacle*?, etc.\nA CALL IS SOLICITED. WATCHES AND JEWELRY REPAIRED.\n\"W~. Tl. IR O IB :e :r T s,\n13-1-2 lm Watchmaker and Jowoler, Groen Block, Nanaimo.\nTHE WEST END\nA Present Each for Our Customers Children\nDuring the Christmas Week we shall give to ea-h of our customers one (1) numbered ticket\nfor every dollar they spend in our store, which will entitle them to the present on the Christmas\nTree in our window bearing the corresponding number.\nThe presents will be distributed on Tuesday, December 2Gth, at 10 a.m.\nW. IEL S. IPIEDRIKIIIISrS\nSEE THE CHRISTMAS TREE IN OUR WINDOW.\nG. A. MeBain & Co.\n(ESTABLISHED 1888);\nReal Estate Brokers\nConveyancers\nNotaries Public, etc.\n811-U","attrs":{"lang":"en","ns":"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2009\/08\/skos-reference\/skos.html#note","classmap":"oc:AnnotationContainer"},"iri":"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2009\/08\/skos-reference\/skos.html#note","explain":"Simple Knowledge Organisation System; Notes are used to provide information relating to SKOS concepts. 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