"63937483-0c0d-4f6b-abb8-75ebd4e31d68"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "BC Historical Newspapers"@en . "2015-12-10"@en . "1893-12-16"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/paccannw/items/1.0221231/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " \D5\nOfficial Gazette\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDlw fMiik <&im,&foM.\nVol.1. NEW WESTMINSTEE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, DEC. 16, 1893. No. 14.\nBUSINESS OAItD?\nHOTELS, Etc.\nM\nF.ucnANT'S hotel,oornerof MoNeely\n'Oolumbla Streets. Best Wines\nonstantly on hand. JAS.\nand\nand Cigars kept c\nCASH, Proprietor\nMirnrMTANTS' EXCHANGE DINING\nEEOOMT Meals St all hours, dished up\nnanvstvle. Open flay and nil.'lit. Moderate\nB y\v k'moU'I'IMER. Manager.\ncharges.\npBOTTO HOXBL.\nand\n>(,TU1JTI>. HI\t\n, Propriet\nTlds House lias been\n\"SouiWv novated,old refurnished,\nth \"i.\" in' etor solicits a Bharepl public\nSnlgeMEALS. Scents. Whltecooks.\npatrons-\nC..H. SMAL1\n^.nirFN'S HOTEL, oorner Clement and\nPm-o Wines and Efquors, and onoloo brands\nof Cigars.\t\n,HH TELEGRAPH HOTEL. Front street,\n,m \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD the Ferry Landing. Npth-\nand olgars. Tole-\nHOGAN BROS.,\n. opposite to\nlngbutoholoestpfllquorf\nSane m., P. 0. Hex 80.\nProprietors,\t\n$1 per Tear!\nThe publishers of tho Pacific Canadian, in order to reach the people of this\nProvince, have decided to place the subscription price at the very low figure of\n$1.00 per year. This places the paper\nwithin the reach of all, even in hard\ntimes, and there is no other way that a\ndollar can bo invested to better advantage. In the family circle a healthy\nnewspaper is almost invaluable as an\neducator. Have the Canadian come to\nyour hearth and make the whole house\nglad. Try it for three mouths for\n35 cents.\nCITY AND DISTRICT.\nposite Bell-lrv-\nC^^^^^Socl-^rstrci,.,^,,\nJSa atVhtve waiters. The bar\nwill prime Wines, Liquors ii\nBRENDAN BROS.. Proprietors\nis stocked\nand Olgars.\nOnmnPNTAL HOTEL, corner Columbia\nOOinr.M i Ai. nu j I- Westminster.\nT7PHT HOTEL, Columbia Street, New\n. .E wMtolnster? The best $1.00 a day house\nK3?SI,3S: \"p.O .lUlOBEMt\nProprietor.\nD\nH\nOTEL DOUGLAS, corner of .Columbia\nandMcKen/.le Streets. New\nWestnilns-\nd European plan. Shaving\n renient\nlit.\nunder t&ma'nagemeiit of\nRestaurant open dayrand nig\nter. American aii'\nSirlor attached.\nWalker. Besianranuyv\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD 'rVTnT.MTF.\n|?oS^nTSSn^1P.^iSIIE'\nised. and theJHnmp t ^{Sadn. Banquets\nprovided at\nW\"ieB'ALTA0HS^\nill the luxuries of the\nCigars in the sample room\nProprietor.\nM\nDKAYINQ, Etc.\nA^ol^Ks.^U^hoWte\n\"Sm!d:Sand_special,^ention\n^n^enPng^iaV^ar,'..,,;;;;\nwood teamed to order.\nTelephone B8.\t\nExpress at all hours.\nP\nFOR SALE OR EXCHANGE\nEland-50 acres ple\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD^. bMaWie 800d\nwood and.oedar. J^^J^r**\nSUBSCRIBER.\nS,^fee'^ood:-AdreSs.\nOffice PttclBc Canadian\nPure^Bred Berkshire\nprices. APPlvteTHoMAgsHANNON\nCloverdale, B.C.\nXMAS.\n1893\nNew goods arriving dally at\nDon't place your orders before\nseeing our Stock.\nOpposite Masonic Block,\nNEW WESTMINSTER\nMainland Truck and Dray\nStables.\nNEW WESTMINSTER,\nGILLEY BROS.\nDraylng & Teaming Promptly\nAttended to.\nALDER AND FIR WOOD AND BARK\nALWAYS ON HAND.\nAgents for T. Ilombrough & Co.'s Brick,\nTile and Pottery Works.\nOrders received for Gilley & Rogers'Coal.\nJUST OPENED.\nThe new and Most Elegantly\nFurnished\nGUICHON :-:\n:-: HOTEL.\nSteam Radiators in- Ev'bby Room,\nTogether With Bath Accom-\n. ODATIONR, EXOELBNT FARE,\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDFine Seuvice.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nWe Lead, Others Follow.\nC. E. ROOS,\nThe cattle on the Delta are reported\nby Inspector Roper to bo entirely free\nfrom contagious diseases.\nThe Pacific oxpress on the C. P. R,\nThursday, was cancelled owing to snow\ntroubles In tho mountains.\nThe Westminster Fish Co. is obtaining\nsupplies of snow from North Bend. It\ncosts $30 a car laid down here.\nMb. F. R. Robinson, pork packer on\nFront street, reports several thefts of\nmeat from his promises. Ho proposes to\nput a stop to it.\nThe telephone cable across the Fraser\nriver has been successfully laid, and\nconnection completed on the other side.\nWestminster and Ladners can now communicate with each other viva voce.\nThe McGillivray Pipe Works on Lulu\nIsland, since re-opening a few weeks ago,\nhave shipped four ear-loads of steel\npipes to Ashcroft for the Horsefly Hydraulic Mining Co.\nThe Australian stoamerArawa brought\nover a large consignment of mutton for\na Vancouver firm. The meat was frozen\nof course, but looked prime, and consumers are well pleased with it. A\nquantity of it has been placed on this\nmarket. It sells at from 8c. by tho carouse to 12)<,c. for choice cuts.\nThe light snow fall of the beginning\nof the week did not stay long. A couple\nof davs of delightful weather for this\ntime of year followed, and yesterday\nmorning the city awoke to a fresh mantle of snow, which, however, was of\nshort duration, soon yielding to the\nsteady rain which fell during tho day.\nA pbivate wedding was conducted\nThursday evening, by Rev. J. H. Best,\nIn Sapperton, at the home of the bride's\nfather, Mr. Martin Emerson. Tho contracting parties wore Mr. Freeman Eddy\nwell known In .this city, and Miss Lottie\nRogers Emerson, third daughter of Mr.\nM. Emerson, Sapperton.\nMb. R. M. Pai.meb, of Hazelmere, has\nbeen appointed Inspector of Fruit Pests,\nin the room of Mr. Hutcherson, resigned.\nThe appointment Is an excellent one.\nMr. Palmer is not only a qualified inspector, but is also an enthusiastic believer In fruit culture in this Province.\nHe has had a large experience, and can\nbe counted upon to advance fruit interests whenever opportunity offers.\nMb. Thos. R. Patterson, of Cloverdale, returned this week from the Kootenay country, where he has been sinco\nlast May. He reports things very quiet\nthere, and is not at all infatuated with\nthe mining prospects. He prospected\nsome during tho summer, aud was latterly engaged on the Nakusp railway.\nHe thinks Nakusp and Three Forks are\nthe most promising points.\nAt 2 o'clock on Tuesday morning the\nFire Brigade was called from Box No. 9,\nat tho corner of Twelfth street and Fifth\navenue, to a house occupied by John\nRiley, a workman, who had a close call\nfor his life. Living alone and being a\nhoavy sleeper, ho did not wake up till\nthe (lames had taken complete possession\nof the building, and he had barely timo\nto mako his escape. Tho building and\ncontents wero a total loss. There was\nno insurance.\nIn the Coquitlam school house at Westminster Junction, on Wednesday ovon-\ning next, Mr. George B. Grey will deliver his highly entertaining illustratod\nlecture on \"Australia.\" Mr. Grey spent\nfour years on the island continent and\nhas a largo fund of information to draw\nfrom. The collection of stereoptican\nviews aro said to bo very fine. Tho proceeds of the lecture will bo applied to\nthe Sunday School library fund, In\nwhicli the peoplo of Coquitlam take\ngreat Interest, and the lecture is suro to\ndraw a crowded house.\nCabt. BitmoMAN, of Vancouvor, who\nowns property noar Clovordalo In Surrey, ana who, along with other parties\nin that vicinity, bollovos thero Is a prospect of coul In paying quantities being\nlound thoro, on Wednesday last procured\nthe services of a mineral expert, and\nproceeded to Clovordalo to investigate.\nThe ranches of Messrs. W. J. Robinson,\nA. A. Richmond. Jos. Shannon and Capt.\nBrldgman were examined, and It Is reported that satisfactory Indications wero\ndiscovered. Parties concerned propose\nentering Into a joint arrangement to sink\na shaft.\nThe Columbian last week announced\nMr. Calbeck, of Now Westminster, as a\nprobable candidate for municipal honors\nIn Ward 2 of Surrey. Mr. Douglas, a\nformer councillor, has also expressed his\nintention of being a candidate on the\napproaching occasion. Within tbe last\nfew days Mr. Jos. McDonald, tbe present\ncouncillor, has yielded to the solicitations\nof his.neighbors and will stand for reelection. Mr. McDonald Is an honest\nand painstaking representative, and has\nfaithfully and efficiently attended to his\nduties during tbo past year. Ho Is, besides, very popular in the Ward and is\nTnE Victoria Colonist publishes the foi-1\nlowing telegram, received in the regular!\npress dispatches: \"Windsor, Out., Dec.\n12.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDFive years ago an aged farmer of\nthis county named William llatton was\nmurdered for his money. A man named\nMacMahon was arrested, charged with\nthe crime, found guilty, sentenced to\ndeath; his sentence was afterwards commuted to Imprisonment for lifo. It is\nnow learned that MacMahon is innocent.\nA man going by the name of Kennedy\nand recently found guilty of manslaughter in British Columbia has eonfessod to\nbeing Hatton's murderer. Steps wiil at\nonce be taken to secure MacMabon's release.\" A later dispatch states that\nKennedy, alias Moars, is not the man\nwanted.\nTiik annual soiree In connection with\nChrist Church, Surrey, is announced for\nthe evening of Thursday. Dec. 21st, In\nthe Town Hall, Surrey Centre. Good\nentertainment will be provided, and the\nfeature of the evening will be Rev. Mr.\nGowan's eloquent lecture on \"Hawaii,\"\na subject which is just now exciting intense interest ou this continent.\nHow many small boys and girls will bo\nmado happy within tho next ton days by\na brand new pair of boots or shoes from\nSanta Claus. There is season to believe\nSanta obtains a largo share of bis supplies from Sinclair & Co., of this city,\nwho have a splendid stock of boots and\nshoes. Read their advertisement in this\nissue.\nOn Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Arthur\nW. Taylor, of Victoria, was united iu\nmarriage to Miss Frances E. Armstrong,\nof this city, daughter of the lato R. J.\nArmstrong. The services were celebrated by the Bishop of Westminster, assisted by Rov. H. Irwin. Mr. and Mrs.\nTaylor will reside In Victoria.\nThe Richmond cannery shipped two\ncar.loads of salmon to Toronto on Thursday, by C. P. R.\nSURREY COUNCIL.\nCLOVERDALE.\nCard of Thanks.\nThe Canadian Is requested to give expression to the oarnest thanks of the\nSisters of the Good Shepherd to the kind\nladies who so genorously exerted themselves in the work of tho recent Bazaar\nfor the orphans; and also to the charitable public who so generously patronized it. \t\nThe Mayoralty Election.\nOn Monday last the polling took place\nfor tho offico of Mavor of Westminster\nfor the. ensuing year. The vote was a\nsmall one, owing to many people boing\ndisfranchised for non-payment of taxes,\nbut nevertheless thero was quite a stir,\nand a good deal of interest was manifested. Thoro wero three candidates, as\nmentioned last week, and tho result\nwas the olection of Mr. Henry Hoy, tho\nfollowing being the vote by wards:\nHoy. Johnson. Sinclair.\nWard 1 -\none on the I members ol\n8, south of\n21\n12\n8\n49\n29\n27\n65\n27\n33\n55\n19\n39\n18\n55\n12\n208\n142\n119\nMajority for Hoy over' next highest\ncandidate\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD66.\nTIIE MARKET,\nManager, suro to be re-elected.\nNotwithstanding tbe cold and slushy\nweather, yesterday was a very satisfactory day at the market. Thero was an\nabundant supply of produce and a good\nattendance of purchasers. Prices sho v\nlittlo change, and tho following quotations areas nearly correct as can be arrived at:\nDucks, live, 50 to 60 cts.; Geese, live,\n81.25 to 81.50; Turkeys, 81.50 to 82.25;\nChickens, live, $4.50; dressed, 50 to 60\ncents; liye hens, 80 per doz.\nPork, whole, 8 cents; cuts, 9 to 11\ncents.\nBeef, fore-quarters, 5 conts; hind-quarters. 7 conts; cuts, 7 to 11 cents. It is\nhard to quote a fixed prico for beof. The\nfigures abovo given aro for fresh meats\nin prime condition. Stale hind-quarters\nhave been sold through the week as low\nas 5 conts. Tbo best price Is obtained\nduring the morning of market days.\nThero is a tendency to drop a cent in the\nafternoon, and after that it must simply\nbe sold at what it will bring. Parties\nintending to bring beof in might find it\nto their advantage to notify tho market\nclerk on Tuosday, and he could then bo\non the lookout for a eustomor in advance. Prices aro largely ruled by cattle\nfrom tho interior, which aro low just\nnow. At times It is vory easy to overdo\nthe market with local beef.\nMutton Is another item tbat it may bo\nwell to consider. Yesterday Australian\nmutton was offered on tho market with\ntbo home product. So far tbe competition does not appear to havo much\naffected tho local moat which Is still\nquoted at 9 cents by the carcase. The\nAustralian article brought an average of\n8% conts, but it has boen sold In Vancouver at 7 cents. Heretofore, tho market clerk has discouraged tho sale of\nforeign products on tbe market, which is\nessentially a farmers' market. It might\nbo well to establish somo rule in this regard. As supplies of Australian mutton\ncan only bo obtained periodically, tt Is\nnot likely that the regular current of\nthe local market will bo much affected\nexcept at stated times, unless of course\nunder a systom of cold storage, whon tho\neffoct might bo to seriously affect tbo\nhome producers of mutton.\nButter Is still quoted at SO to 60 conts\nper roll, but tho tono of tho markot Is\nstiffening. Eggs bring 45 to50 cents por\ndozen.\nDay continues at 813; oats, 835 to $27;\nwheat, 828 to $30. Peas, $30 but nothing\ndoing.\nRotates are still quoted at 814 to 818.\nTurnips, $9 to $10. Mangolds, $7. Whlto\ncarrots, $9. Red carrots, $12.50. Beets,\n1 cent per pound. Cabbage, 1 cont.\nParsnips, 1 cent. Onions, 1J4 conts.\nApples move slowly at $1 to $1.35.\nCranberries, 35 conts por gallon.\nCouncil met on Monday, Decombor4th.\nPresent: Tho Reeve (Mr. J. Armstrong),\nand Councillors Hothwell, Figg, McDonald and Stewart.\nMinutes of previous meeting were read\nand cou firmed.\nCommunications wero received from\nE. M. Wiltshire: Received.\nFrom A. Halgrew, re railway crossing\non Siinnyside road: Tbe Clerk was instructed to request the Railway Co. to\nmake this crossing and also\nline between sees. 33 and\nPort Kells.\nFrom .1. E. Murphy re Mr. Henderson's\nstatute labor in 1892: Statute labor to bo\nallowod.\nFrom E. J. Knigbt: Referred to tbe\nClerk.\nFrom Q, W. Canu, re dam in Clovor\nValley road ditch: Laid over.\nFrom .1. A. Forin, re lion Accord\nstatute labor tax: Tho Reeve was instructed to request Mr. Fortn to write\nMr. Munn in reference to this matter\nand requesting Immediate settlement.\nFrom Konnedy Bros, ro taxes due by\nthem: Referred to the Clerk.\nFrom M. Hayes, ro Kenned; Bros,\nstatute labour: Rocoivod.\nCoun. Bothwell reported that tho work\ndouo by the settlers on the Hjorth road,\nwest of tbe coast meridian, was not on\nthe road limits. Coun. Bothwell was requested to see If tho lino can bo locatod\nby next meeting.\nCoun. Stewart roportod that ho had\nlet by auction the work of cutting tho\nbrush on the Semtabmoo road to A.\nJohnson for $8.50, and the ditching on\nMcLellan road to J. Dunn for $5.50.\nCoun. McDonald reported tnat ho had\nlet contract for grading half mile, nine\nfeet wide, on the Johnson road north of\nYale road to P. Ryan for $50, and a contract for slashing and clearing a portion\nof the town-line, 16 feet wide and 40\nchf.ins long, to Geo. Chantler for $50.\nHo had also let thecorduroving of a part\nof the Hjorth road, by auction as follows: 24 rods at 80 cents, 17 rods at 82\ncents, and 5 rods at $1 per rod to J. H.\nPerkins; 27 rods at 95 conts por rod to\nW. C, Bourne; 5 rods at $1.25 and 5 rods\nat $1 por rod to J. Brodorlck: and 8 rods\nat $1 por rod to Bans Espeland.\nTbe following bills woro received aud\nordered paid: Dr. Boggs, $36.40; Capt.\nPittendrigh, $13; J. A. Forin, $15.60:\nJ. H Perkins, 840; A. Beverly, $50. J.\nM. Gellls, $6; J. Armstrong, $19; Geo.\nFigg, $15; A. Bamford, $8; J. Joitzuer,\n$9.50; A. Peschko, $5.50; W. B. Wilder,\n$11; W.cCobban, $2; G. Newman, $15;\nJas. Vreatt, $5; D. Johnson, $50; J.Johnston, $16; J. McMillan, $14.51.\nBills wore received from J. Mclsaac\nfor 11 days work, 822; Thos. Hewett, 11\ndays' work, $23; and Noil Mclsaac, 9\ndays' work, $18. Coun. Bothwell stated\nthat th/sse parties were not hired by the\nday but to lay 20J rods of corduroy for\nwhich they should not be paid more than\n$25 In all. It was decided not to entertain these bills.\nCoun. Stewart was empowered to lot\nwork to the amount of $200 on the McBride road, $300 on the Hookway road\nand $40 on the Blackie's spit road.\nThe Reeve was authorized to request\nMr. Peirson to audit the books and If bo\nis not available to enquire about another\nauditor.\nThe Election By-Law 1894 and tho\nHighway By-Law 1893 passed their final\nreadings.\nThe Collector reported that he had\npostponed the sale of land for taxes until\nSaturday, December 16, at South Westminster.\nThe Council then adjourned until Saturday, Dec. 30th, at 1 o'clock p.m.\nPROVINCIAL.\nMr. J. P. Planta is to be appointed\nstipendiary magistrate at Nanalmo.\nG. H. Williams, druggist, Kaslo, has\nassigned to William Carrington, of the\nsame placo.\nProvincial Constable Alexander Mc-\nKiniinn received the nomination for the\nposition of chief of the Nanaimo police.\nG. 0. Buchanan, of Nelson, bas announced his intention of contesting West\nfamily were afso down I Kootenay at the next election for a seat\nin tbo Legislative Assembly.\nCorrespondence Pacific Canadian.\nThe Nut-crack social promises to be\nquite an original entertainment, Prizes\ngiven for cracking nuts. The programme committee have attended to\nbusiness diligently, and a highly entertaining programme is in course of preparation.\nMr. Ducan MeKenzie, of Clover Valley, has beon seriously ill with la grippe,\nbut is believed to be convalescing. Other\nthe\nwith the disoaso\nThe sidewalk along King street is an\nimprovement tbat lias been earnestly desired for some time. The process of laying tbe planks was attended by many\nexpressions of approval.\nMrs. Preston and Mrs. Matliei'son, of\nSpokane Palls, nrs visiting with Mr. and\nMrs. J, 11. Starr.\nPlanks have boon laid on the Milton\nroad from the school to tbo top of the\nbill. For many weeks tlie road has been\nalmost impassable, and the sidewalk Is\nan Improvement that will be thoroughly\nappreciated by tho school children of\nClovor Valley.\nMr. Archie Murphy, of Clover Valley,\nhas beon stricken with tbo prevalent la\ngrippe Mrs. Murphy also suffered from\ntbe same malady, but is now much better.\nMr. T. R. Patterson, so favorably\nknown in this section of tbo Province,\nvisited old friends here on Wednesday.\nMr. Patterson has boen in the Kootenay\ncountry during tho summer.\nA soiree is to bo hold in tho Town Hall,\nSurrey Centre, ou tho 21st inst., in connection with Christ Church. Thoro is\nsuro to be a largo attendance.\nthe odd fellows' concebt.\nThero was a vory largs attendance at\nthe Odd Fellows' entertainment on Friday evening last. The commodious\nschool room, in which tho Lodge meets\nsinco the burning of tbe hall, was literally packed, many people being scarcely\nable to obtain standing room. The programme was gone through without a\nhitch, and many of the performers received enthusiastic encores. The entertainment, it is generally agreed, was the\nmost successful yet hold in Clovordalo.\nFollowing are tho numbers:\nOpening Odo.\nInstrumental Music\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMrs. Churchland\nand Messrs. Yeomans aud Altreo.\nSong\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDD. J. McLennan.\nRecitation\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDTbe Goat\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMiss Maggie\nSullivan.\nInstrumental Music\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDJohn Shortreed.\nRecitation\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMiss Richmond.\nSong\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMiss McDowell.\nInstrumental Music\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMrs. Churchland\nand Messrs. Yeomans and Altree.\nReading\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDT. Leith.\nInstrumental Music\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMr. Sidney Hayl-\nUsK**'\nRecitation\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMiss Mattlo McCallum.\nSong\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMisses Galbraith, MeKenzie and\nMurphy. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nInstrumental Music\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDJno. Shortreed.\nRecitation\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWm. McDonough\nHAZELMERE,\nCorrespondence of Pacific Canadian.\nTho late wintry weatb'or caused quite\na stir among tho ranchers in this vicinity\non account ot the early date on which\nthey had to commence feeding stock.\nNow that the snow and frost has gono,\ntho roads aro In a most despicable condition. The efforts of the Council apparently being directed toward their\nimprovement, a large amount of frosh\nearth having boen exeavalod and cast\ninto what might otherwise have furnished the settlors with a passable means\nof intercommunication through the wet\nseason, but now it will bo necessary to\ncarry a canoe, if ono expects to get ever\nsomo of the so-called roads.\nOur settlers appear to be going into\nthe pork raising industry more extensively every year, Mr. W. Kohart and\nMr. N. Kltznel having shipped several\nloads of line pork to Westminster and\nVancouvor quite recently, tbo latter\ngentleman having now a largo consignment roady for tho market. The land\nin this neighborhood producos very heavy\ncrops of clovor and poas, thus making it\na very profitable Industry.\nWe observe that quite a number of tho\nfarmors are doing considerable under\ndraining and fall ploughing.\nBy tho way, Mr. Editor, can you Inform mysolf and a number of othor\nsettlors bore If thoro Is In this \"Surrey\nof ours\" such an Individual as a health\nofficer. I am credibly Infonnod thoro is\nnone such. In view of the recent outbreak of contagious disoaso this Is rathor\na serious matter and a question that\naffects the well being of tho whole community. H.T.T.\nHazelmere, Doc. 10th, 1893.\nIt was known to a fow on Thursday\nevening that a number of convicts In the\nPenitentiary here had mado a break for\nliberty, which had beon unsuccessful,\nand that one of their number had beon\nwounded. No authoritative statement\nof the facts has yet been made, but It Is\nknown that the escape was attempted by\na gang of some 50 convicts from within\nthe walls, about live o'clock p.m., and\nthat thoy only desisted when lired upon\nby the guard. A convict named Kennedy,\nserving a life sentence for a murder committed at Golden, was shot in tbo log.\nThe others then submitted.\nFruit Orowers in Conference.\nAt a protracted meeting of the Board\nof Horticulture, In Victoria, attendod by\nMessrs. Trage, Cunningham, Oulson,\nHutcherson arid Anderson, Mr. Cunningham was appointed president and Mr. J.\nR. Anderson recommended for secretary-\ntreasurer. A large amount of other\nbusiness was also disposed of, tho following resolutions included:\n\"That tho attention of nursery men\nshould be particularly directed by letter\nto the provisions of rule No. 1, adopted\n26th October.\n\"That all the members of tho Board\nuse their influence in encouraging competent persons to enter into the business\nof clearing orchards of fruit pests, and\nthat all information and assistance be\ngiven such persons.\n\"That tho Government bo respectfully\naskod to havo a number of copies of tbe\n'Insect Supplement of the fourth annual\nreport of the Provincial Horticultural\nSociety' printed for gratuitous distribution.\n\"Tbat printed forms of notlcoand certificates be provided.\"\nTbe question of tbe appointment of an\ninspector of Fruit Pests having como up\nand thero being four candidates, it was\ndecided that thoy should be subjected to\nan examination as to thoir qualifications.\nThis was dono, with tho result tbat Mr.\nR. M. Palmer, of Hazelmere, was chosen\nand unanimously recommended'for tho\nposition.\nIt was further resolved \"That thu attention of all fruit doalors bo directed by\nletter to tho provisions of tho Act, and\nthey be asked to givo their assistance\nand co-operation.\"\nThe rules adopted at tho last mooting\nworo reconsidered and some alterations,\nadditions and corrections of palpable\nerrors wero mado. The names of the\nmembers of tbo Board and the Inspoctor\nwere also ordorod to bo prlntod with tho\namended rulos for general Information.\nIt was doclded that the office of tho\nBoard should bo In Victoria, but that tho\nmeetings should be bold In tho different\nparts of tho Provlnco alternately; the\nnext mooting will bo hold In Westminster.\nTho members of tho Board are very\noarnost In their determination to grapple\nwith the great and growing evils of fruit\nposts, which not only have already dono\nmuch injury, but which threaten to ou-\ntlre'.y dostroy tho fruit industry of Britisli Columbia, and anuounco that they\nwill enforce tho provisions of the Horticultural Act without fear or favor. Tho\nattention of tho public Is particularly directed to tbo resolution encouraging competent peoplo to engage in the business\nof exterminating orchard posts. The\nmembers of the Board believe It will\nprove a profitable undertaking to thoso\nwho go Into it intelligently.\nWork on the Stanley Park reservoir,\nVancouver, will be commonced shortly,\nwhich will relieve some of the prevailing\ndistress in tbo city.\nGeorge Hilton, a pioneer Nanalmoite,\ndied on Sunday afternoon. Ho was a\nnative of Cumberland, England, aged 60,\nand was known all over the Province.\nNo arrangement has yet boen made as\nto a renewal of work at the Northfield\nmine. A committee of miners is, however, engaged in drafting a possible scale\nof wages.\nA foreigner named John I.ohmnrk,\nwas on the 11th inst. sentenced at Nanainio to (i months' imprisonment and a\nfine of 8100 for stabbing a fellow country-^\nman In tho back,\nA lotter was read before tho Vancouvor Council from Jas. MacNelll, asking '\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD <\ntho city to provide work for tho unemployed, for the sake of suffering families,\nfor humanity sake, and for God's sake.\nTho funeral of Thomas Randle, who\ndiod at Vancouver from tho effects of an\noverdose of laudanum took placo on Saturday aftornoon. Tho deceased had only\n80 conts in cash when he diod.\nThe wrecked steamer State of Idaho is\nnow almost entirely under water at Buchanan's mill at Kaslo. Owing to the\nnon-arrival of necessary tackle, nothing\nis being done to haul her out of the\nwator.\nFor some time past Mrs. E. P. Flewel-\nllng, wife of tho rector ol St. Paul's\nChurch, Vancouver, has been in delicate\nhealth. Tho doctors having recommended change of climate sho will leave for\nHonolulu by the Arawa to-day.\nCapt. John Irving, commodore of tho\n0. P. N. Co's fleet, says tbat ho has not\nheard of tbe C. P. R. Co.'s intention tr\nplaco a steamer of its own on tbo Victoria-Vancouver route. Tho agreement\nbetween the two companies may expire\nat any timo on three months' notice\nbeing given.\nThe Rev. R. Small, a well known\nChurch of England minister, stationed\nin the Lytton district, is now under\nmedical treatment at Kamloops. He had\nhis feet so/erely frozen tbe other day,\nwhilst on mission work at Groat Bar.\nIt is feared that he may lose two of bis\ntoes.\nA man named Holmes has, accompanied by | his wife, levanted from\nNanaimo owing hundreds of dollarsj\nAmongst others dofrauded is a brother-\nin-law of his, named Allison, who kindly\nhelped Holmes to emigrate from Eng-atf'ty\nlaud when destitute and afterwards\nassisted him to the extent of a very considerable sum. Holmes was by trade a\nworking tailor.\nNavigation on the Columbia river\nclosed unexpectedly on Nov. 24th. On\nthat day the steamer Nelson made her\nfinal trip for this winter to Bonner's\nFerry. She managed to reach her destination, but got caught in the ice and\nwas delayed about 13 hours when re-*\nturning. Tbe sudden cold weather and\ntbe unexpected shut down on the importation of supplies will work a hardship on a number of merchants and\nforeigners who were depending on at\nleast one moro mouth in which to have\ntheir supplies shipped in.\nThe Revelstoke Lumber Company has\nobtained the contract for clearing two\nmiles of tho right of way on the Revel #**\nstoke & Arrow Lake railway bolow the)\nGreon Slide, and also for getting out\n10,000 ties for the samo railway. About\n40 men will be employed under Dan\nRobinson. The lumber company has\nalso a contract for tho now bridge over\nthe Illecillewaot, which will bo situated\nabout a quarter of a mile oast of the\npresent railway bridge. About 12 men\nwill be employed and Morgan David will\nbe in charge.\nFor somo timo past thero has been a\ntough gang of Incorriglbles amongst the\nboys attending tbo East End School, who\nhave given Principal Tom considerable\ntrouble. Window smashing aud smoking aro their favorite pastimes, while\ntho language somo of those shavers use\nwould shock a Whltechapel rough. On\nMonday they smashed a number of windows in the neighborhood of tho school\nand tho polico wero then callod In. Officer EUgh went up to tho school and\narrested about a dozen of the worst\nmembers of tho gang, somo of whom were\nnot mere than nine veins old, and sob-\nbod audibly whon brought under the\naustere glanco o' old John. Tho boys\nwere given a sovore lecture by Magistrate Jordon, Chlof McLaren, and Trus-*\ntee Brown, and told they would have to\npay for tho windows, whilo durance vile\nwas promised tbem If thoy did not mend\nthoir wavs.\nIn Vancouver on Monday, aftor the\ndockot was concluded at tho Polico Court,\na tall, wiry individual camo up to the\nMaglstrato and the Chlof and informod\nthem that liis lifo was being threatened\nby the Odd Follows, who bud already\nmado several attempts upon It. He gave\nbis name as William Flynn and said he\nwas a logger. Ho also askod that he\nmight have tho protection of the man-\nof-war. The medical examination subsequently mado proved tbo man to bo a\nlunatic, and a search was made for\nany concealod weapon. Flynn offered\na desperate resistance and the united\nefforts of threo of \"tho finest\" were re-*\nqnlred to hold him down. Ho was convoyed to the Wostmlnstor asylum In a\nback In the aftornoon, as his violent conduct would not permit him to bo taken\nby tram. Flynn has boon in the City\nseven years, and for somo timo past his\nconduct has given riso to suspicion as to\nhis sanity. NEW WESTMINSTER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, DEC. 16, 1893.\nPrices of . Few Autographs.\nSome prices on autograph letters are\nis foUows: From Charles Francis Adams,\n1859, 50 cents; long letter in Gurman by\nHans Christian Andersen at Copenhagen,\n$5; John Quincy Adams, 1841, |5; P. T.\nBarnum, 1867, 75 cents; Joseph Bonaparte, in regard to the sale of his diamonds and on political matters, dated at\nPhiladelphia, 1823, $4; Ole BuU, $4.50;\nPresident Cleveland, letter regarding\nMrs. Cleveland, 1890, $3; C. Corot, on\nart subjects, $3; Edward Eggleston, on\nBending copy of a novel, 75 cents; Nathaniel Hawthorne, Concord, 1862, $12.50;\nLeigh Hunt, three page letter on noto\npaper without date, $4; Jean Ingelow,\n$2.50; Washington Irving, $6.50; Andrew Jackson, $7.50; Louis XIII of\nFrance, signed document, $3; President\nMonroe, commission of a major in tho\narmy, on vellum and signed by J. C.\nCalhoun, $2.50; Joaquin Miller, autograph verse, $t; Marshal MacMahon, $3;\nOuida, $3; Ellen Terry, $1; President\nTyler, $2.50; Victoria, Duchess of Kent\nand mother of Queen Victoria, $3; Benjamin West, $10.\nAn order of arrest signed hy Robespierre, also signed by Couthon, is valued at $25; a salary advance agreement\nof Richard Brinsley Sheridan, $7.00:\nJonathan Swill, with seal of the deanery,\n$10; photograph of Theodore Thomas,\nsigned and dated, 75 cents.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDNew York\nTelegram,\t\nAmerican I.ATlty.\nSingularly enough it appears thatPoe,\nthe only absolutely distinct genius our\ncountry has yet produced, was incapable\nof humor and that even his levity was\nartificial Hawthorne, next to Poo in\noriginality and far above him in style,\nwas but meagerly equipped with smile\nprovoking material. Bryant, our greatest poet, maintained a lofty seriousness\nthroughout his work.\nIt may be sacrilege u> say so, bat the\ntruth is Lowell was the fonnder of our\nlevity. Hj never could be quite a reliably serious thinker, but could at any moment break off into f unmaking. Humor\nia good in a fresh and natural state, but\nso is a peach. Cut and dry either, and\nyou have a poor article for a regular diet.\nWo Americans have fed upon laughable\nthings until our faces show the wrinkles\nof a grin even when in solemnest repose.\nWe are never sure of one another, but\nmust wait awhile after each communication to find out whether or not it is a\njoke. The effect of highest sincerity\ncannot he reached in the midst of all this\nhurly burly of chaffing voices. How can\none be serious while everybody else is\ngrimacing.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDChautauquan.\nA DIPLOMATIC BOY.\nThere Wa. Jast One Han.\nThere ia a gallant congressman who\nonce had the reputation of sowing wild\noats broadcast. When he was first running for congress, many breezy stories\nwere told about him. At last he gave it\nout in tbe beat of his campaign that he\nwould speak shortly in defense of his\nmorals. It was a Populist district, and\nhe had a big audience. The speech every\none liked, but until the last sentence not\na word was spoken about the advertised\nsubject. At tbe last the candidate stuck\nhis hand under his desk and pulled out\nseveral boxes of imported cigars.\n\"Gentlemen,\" he cried, \"I am accused\nof haBjjjB certain bad habits. Particular\ninstances have been alleged in fact. $\nwish to make some one in this assemblage a present of a box of good cigars.\nIf there is any one here who has never\ndone what I have done, will he please\nstep up and take it?\" No one moved.\nFor a long time the big crowd kept silent. But an old Baptist minister in a\nfar back seat after awhile arose and\nsaid in a high,'squeaky voice, \"Colonel, I\ndont smoke.\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSan Franoisco Argonaut.\nDidn't Know Bit Own Child.\nAt Antietam, just after the artillery\nhad been sharply engaged, the Rockbridge (Va.) battery was rtanding waiting orders. General Lee rode by and\nstopped a moment. A dirty faced driver\nabout 17 said to him:\n\"Genyal, are you going to pat as in\nagain?\"\nThink of such a question from such a\nsource to the general of the army, especially when that general's name was Lee.\n\"Yes, my boy,\" the stately officer kindly answered; \"I have to put you in tigain.\nBut what is your name? Your face\nseems lumiliar somehow.\"\n\"I don't wonder you didn't know me,\nsir,\" laughed the lad; \"I'm so dirty, but\nTm Bob.\"\nIt was the general's youngest son,\nwhom he had thought safe at the Virginia Military institute. \"God bless you,\nmy son; do your dutyl\" and the general\nrode on.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWashington Post.\nThe Art of Uraceful Walking.\nIt would seem sometimes that the art\nof graceful walking might be numbered\namon^ the lost sciences, so few women\nmaster the accomplishment or even acquire any approach to perfection in this\nexercise, whic'.i is the foundation of all\nothers. Every one succeeds in propelling\nthemselves along by means of their feet,\nbut that is not true walking. An English authority says, \"The body should be\nheld erect, the shoulders down, chest\nextended and the leg movod from the\nhip, the whole figure above being immovable.\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDPhiladelphia Times,\nOverfastidion. Tn-' \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD,.\nMen overfastidions in their choice of\ntea have been victims of their too vivid\nimagiuati n One man objected to u\nbrand of tea pn hosed by Mb wife, pronouncing it ' ods,\" and accordingly\nselected a cho! s kin'' HU next cup of\ntea was pronornc\"\" .i'ect. The c'or\nwas good, and \"That's a enp '\" teu .or\nyou\" was said with emphasis as uo drank\nthe second cup made from t' ' . feeds\"\nhis wife had bought.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDGood .-lousokeep-\ning.\ni .\t\n.Times Have Changed.\nThieves who entered the house of the\npastor of St. James Methodist Episcopal\nchurch in Harlem stolo $800 worth of\nsilver. The surprise is uot that they stole\nit, but that the minister had it. Times\nhave changed since the apostolic itinerant said, \"Silver and gold have I none.\"\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDBrooklyn Eagle.\nHis Beformation Wa. Sudden and Many\nSided and Served Hi. Purpose.\nI have a little son 8 years old. He ia\nsmart and bright, and for mischievous-\nness I think can't be beaten. I was sitting in a room one day reading and\nsmoking, when he came sauntering up\nto me with the forefinger of his left hand\nin his mouth. I thought at the time\nthat there was something wrong, but\nsaid nothing with regard to the same.\n\"Pa,\" he Baid after awhile, \"I didn't\nget one demerit in school today.\"\n\"You didn't, Willie?\" I interrogated,\nthrowing a rather fierce look upon him.\n\"Well, I'm sure that's a good showing.\"\n\"Yes, and I carried a bucket of coal\nup for Kate after school,\" he went on,\nstill keeping that finger in his mouth.\n\"Why, you are getting very considerate,\" I returned.\n\"Yes, and I brushed your coat all oft\nnice and clean.\"\n\"No, Willie; you didn't do that?' I\nasked, looking frowningly at him, for I\nknew he had been up to something.\n\"Yes, I did, pa, and I lit the gas in\nma's room for her.\"\n\"Well, now.\"\n\"And I shined your best shoes until\nthey glitter like Sister Ella's looking\nglass.\"\n\"Is that bo? What elsohave you done?\"\n\"Well, I studied al? my lessons in\nschool, got out at the regular time, said\n'yes, sir,' to Uncle John aud helped the\nhostler around the stable.\"\n\"Why, what is the matter with you?\nAre you going to get sick!\"\n\"No, sir,\" he replied, twisting around\na trifle, \"but I'm going to be a better\nboy\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDat least for a while.\"\n\"You are? Well, I'm glad to hear\nti)at.\"\nThere was a short pause, and then he\nsaid: \"Here, pa, are two cigars for yon.\nI bought them with my own spending\nmoney. I'll buy yon a boxful when I\nget money enough.\"\nAt this juncture he placed both little\narms around my neck and sobbed aloud.\n\"Oh, pa,\" he asked, \"do you like yoar\nlittle boy?\"\n\"Why, of course I do,\" I replied, getting alarmed. \"Are you ill?'\n\"No, bnt I've got something to tell\nyou. Would you keep your little Willie\nfrom pain?\"\n\"Certainly I would. Tell me what is\nthe matter, my son?\"\n\"All right, pa, I will\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDdear, good, old\npa. This morning Billy Button, Tommy\nTodd and myself were playing ball, and\nI couldn't catch very well, so I went and\ngot your brand new stovepipe hat and\ncaught with that. Pa, that hat must be\nmade of awful poor stuli', for the first\nfly ball went clear through it, knocking\nthe roof out. But never mind, I'll buy\nyou another one,\" clasping me tighter as\nI essayed to rise, \"and one gooder'n that\ntool\"\nWhat could I do?\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDBoston Courier.\nPaderewskl as a Hard Worker.\nTo be a pet of the public sometimes\nhas its disadvantages. M. Paderewski,\nfor instance, keeps up his reputation only\nat the cost of tremendous efforts. To\nan interviewer for Black and White he\nhas confided the fact that he practices\nat the piano often for 15 or 18 hours a\ndoy. Once, in New York, he had to work\nup eight entirely distinct programmes in\nlittle over as many days, and then it was\na case of 17 hours' practice daily. One\nmust always be at it, he explains, to\nkeep the fingers right and the memory\nactive. The work is certainly tiring,\nand M. Paderewski considers that playing billiards\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDa game he is very fond of\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDhas saved his life by affording him the\nnecessary relief from his arduous work.\nThose crashing blows of his on the\npiano are not, as some might imagine,\nmade with the closed fist. Sometimes\nthey are done with the third finger stiffened out, sometimes with th \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD thumb\nsideways. He seems to see nothing wonderful in the effect produced, although\nhis hands are so delicate that an ordinarily firm shake makes him wince. It\nis true that he has a forearm such as a\nprofessional strong man might envy, so\nperfect is it in its muscular development.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDLondon Daily News.\nThought He Could Jump.\nA young man the other day got an umbrella where the bottle got the cork\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDin\nthe neck. This young man is one of\nthose feljows who can readily explain to\nyou that nothing that any one else can\ndo is really as difficult as it appears. He\njoined a local gymnasium not long ago,\nand after watchiug the members once or\ntwice gCing through their exercises camo\naway with the feeling that he was a full\nfledged athlete. Walking on East Court\nBtreet alongside of the jail, he'espied two\nwomen ahead of him walking abreast\nand carrying a basket of freshly washed\nclothes between them. The street being\nnarrow at this point, they took up the\nfull width. Tbe young man, being in a\nhurry, thought he could save time by\njumping over the basket, but his calculation was not acute enough, and he\nkicked some of the wash off. After\nwalking a few steps he turned around to\nascertain the result of his maneuver and\nwas just in time to see an umbrella\nhurled at him by the unerring aim of an\nenraged woman. He tried to dodge, but\nwas too slow.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDCincinnati Commercial\nGazette.\nAncient Stationers.\nIn mediaeval times the stationarios, or\nstationer, held official connection with a\nuniversity and sold at his stall, or station, the books written or copied by the\nlibrarius, or book writer. Such is tho\norigin of the modern term stationer, one\nwho now keeps for sale implements of\nsuch service, and not usually the productions of literary persons.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDHarper's\nBazar. \t\nA Lost Bride.\nAn absentminded groom in Rome, Ga.,\nforgot that he-was to be married the other day, aud whon tho time for tho ceremony arrived he was not preBent. An examination showed that he had overslept\nhimself. He apologized, but tho father\nof the bride reTuod to accept him as a\nson-in-law, and the engagement was\nbroken.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDDetroit Free Press. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD *\nMUNICIPALITY of COQUITLAM\nA BY-LAW\nTo define what shall be deemed\na lawful fence within the\nboundaries of the District.\nrniIE Beeve and Council of the District of\n_L Ooquitlam in Council assembled enacts\nas follows:\n(1.) A wire fence to constitute a logal fenco\nmust have a top rail and three wires. The\ntop mil must not bo less than three Inches\nin diameter at the small end, and either\nspiked with .six-inch spikes, or one Inch thick\ntrunnels, or the top rail may bo composed of\nlxti ineli boards securely nailed to side of\nposts within two incite, of top of posts. Tho\nposts must not he less than four Indies in\ndiiimeU-'r ut the smiill end, and be sunk not\nless than two and one half feet Into tlie\nirround. The fence to be not less than four\nfeet nine inches fl'on 1'ie frround to tlie top\nof the top rail. The poets to be not over ten\nfeet apart, the first tvlrc l>o be one foot from\nthe ground, the second t.vo feet from tiie\nffruund. and the third wire half-way between\nthe se\" ud wire am' the top rail.\n(2) For a hoard fence the posts shull be\nfour feet nine inches long from the surface\nof the ground, and sunk two and one-half\nfeet in the ground, and to be not moro than\nten feet apart; tlie hoards to be securely\nnailed to the face of the posts, wljth not less\nthan 8 penny nails; tlie boards to be what is\ntermed in mills us inch lumber, not less limn\nsix Inches wide, und distribution of hoards\nto conform with the l'rov. Statutes regarding fences. The posts to be not less than\nfour inches diameter.\n(:ij Por ll picket fonoo the posts shall be\nfour feet high above the ground, sunk two\nadd one-hair feet Into the ground, ami not\nmore than ten feet apart. Tlie pickets must\nnot be less than three-quarters ol an inch\nthick, and four feet nine Inches loin.\" rrom\nthe ground, und to be either sunk- six Inches\nInto the ground or securely mil led to two\nmils, one rail on top of post, and the other\none foot from ground.\n(4) A picket fence without posts shall consist of pickets of not less than three Indies\nin diameter at the small end, und sunk into\nthe ground uot less than two feet, and not\nmore than three lnohes apart, and to stand\nfour feet nine Indies from the surface of the\n(.'round, und lxil or 1x6 inch boards nailed\nwithin six Inches of the top of pickets with\nnot loss than s penny nails.\n(5) All snake or crooked fences to bo\ndeemed a lawful fonce shall be six rails (not\nless than four inches ut small end) high und\nthe rails are not to be over six Indies apart\nstaked and ridcred, either centre staked or\ncorner staked, and the stakes aro not to be\nless than two inches In diameter ut tho top\nend, und driven or sunk In the ground not\nless than nine inches. Tho rider must not to\nless than threo Inches In diameter at tho top\nend, and not more than twenty Inches from\ntop rail, the worm to be laid tor twelve foot\nrails must not be over sixteen feet from first\ncorner to second corner.\n(li) A double post fence straight must be\nmado with posts not less than four feet nine\nhigh, and sunk In the ground two feet six\ninches and securely fastened ut top of posts\neither with slats nulled across or tied with\nwire, and the rails are not to bo more than\nsix inches apart, and four feet uino inches\nhigh from ground to top of rail.\n(7) Chock und log fences shull bo of the\nsame dimensions as snake fences only without stukes und rider; but tho top log must\nbe securely spiked or trunneied with not less\nthan inch thick trunnels.\nThis By-Law shall take olfect on the first\nday of January, 18114.\nThis By-Law may he cited us the Coqultluni\nFence liy-Luw, 1608.\nReconsidered und finally passed nnd tho\nseal of the Corporation uttudiod this\nIn.s.l Eleventh day of November, 181)3,\nHop Lee's Laundry.\nThe above Is the popular Lunndry of the\nCity. Kates ure moderate, und the work\nis done in a satisfactory munner.\n762 COLUMBIA STREET.\nCABINET WORK.\nM. Jensen, .Shop 39 McKtnzio Street.\nOld Furniture repaired and made to look\nlike new. Furniture made to order.\nA call solicited. Carpenterwork promptly attended to.\nNOTICE.\nNOTICE is hereby given that application\nwill be made to the Parliament of Canada at its noxt Session, for an Act to Incorporate a Company to construct, maintain\nand operate a Canal or Navigation from\nsomo point on Burrurd Inlet in or near Port\nMoody in British Columbia, thonce in an\nEasterly direction to some point on Pitt\nRiver In Township 40 or In Township 0; und\nwith power to construct und operate nil\nwork's und structures necessary or proper\nin connection therewith; to ucquire by purchase, expropriation or otherwise hinds for\ntlie purposes of the Company und to dispose\nthereof, to churgo und collect tolls and dues,\nto build wharves und store or warehouses:\nto build or purchase Steamer or Sailing\nVessels, scows and barges, toreclulm binds\nund foreshores to construct and onerute telegraph or telephones und to do all other acts\nincidental or neoessary to tlie objects ubove\nmentioned.\nDated this Snd day of November 1803\nA. FERGUSON,\nSolicitor for the applicants.\nR. D. IRVINE,\nC. M. C.\nR. B. KELLY,\nReeve.\nNOTICE.\nThe above is u true copy of ti By-Law\npasssd by the Muidpal Council of tiie District of Coquitlam ou the ttth day of Nov.,\nA.D., 181)3, and all persons are hereby required\nto take notice that anyone desirous of applying to have such Iiy-Law ir any part thereof\nquashed, must make liis application for that\npurpose to the Supremo Court within one\nmonth next after tho publication of this\nJty-Law In tho llritish Columbia Gazette,\nor ho will bo too late to bo hoard In that\nbehalf,\nR. D. IRVINE, O.M.C.\nFor Extra Choice Fresh\nand Prepared Meats\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDTRY\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nCRAY BROS'\n-ON\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nCOLUMBIA STREET,\nOpposlto Reid & Currio's Foundry.\nFRESH MEATS\nOf all kinds on hand.\nA Gall Solicited.\nALEX.McRAE\nMERCHANT TAILOR,\nColumbia Street, New Westminster.\nTHE OLD RELIABLE HOUSE.\nGOOD STYLE,\nOOOD FIT,\nOOOD WOBK.\nOOOD FABRICS.\nThe Latest and Choicest Patterns In Switch\nand Knirllsh Tweeds, Etc., fur lull ami winter\nwear.\nOct PriccH!\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDCITY BREWERY-\nNew Westminster.\nE. J. NEWTON\nImporter and Manufacturer of\nHarness, Sales, Etc.\nThe product of this Brewery is second\nto none in the Province, and ranks\nfirst-class wherever known.\nOrders left atthe Merchants' Exouango\nor the llolbrook House will bo promptly\nattondncl to.\nJ. W- ANDEZEJEWSKI,\nJ . ' t-littM\nSATISFACTION GUARANTEED.\nSTOCK SADDLES A SPECIALTY.\n547 Front St., New Westminster,\nJ. HENLEY\nManufacturer of\nMineral Water,\nSyrups,\nEssences,\nEtc., Etc.\nFactory in rear of City Brewery.\nCunningham St., New Westminster, B.C.\nThe Western Fisheries & Traflini Co.\nLimited.\n(Successors to W. H. Vianen.)\nWHOLESALE AND EXPORT\nFISH AND GAME\nMERCHANTS.\nWHIPPING, HOTELS and FAMILIES sun-\nplied at lowest prices.\nAll kinds of FUHS and SKINS purchased;\nhighest prices given.\nWarehouse and Store\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDFront Street.\nTelephone No. 0.\nFreezer, Ice House, &c\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDLulu Island.\nP. O. Box 449.\nEVERYTHING AT COST FOR NEXT\n60 DAYS.\nLOOK AT PRICES.\nRare Chance to Purchasers.\nWe are giving up business in New\nWestminster and going into our\nnew store in Vancouver,\nand in order to avoide the great expense of moving, will sell\nout our present stock at great reduced prices to make room\nfor new goods, for the next sixty days\nOUR STOCK IS MADE UP OF THE FOLLOWING;\nGeneral Hardware, Nails, Stoves,\nSpades, Axes, Axes Handled,\nAxe Handles, Picks, Mattocks, Wedges, Cook\nStoves. Heating Stoves, Agate Ware,\nTin Ware, House\nFurnishings,\nWhite Lead, Etc., Etc.\nCunningham Hardware Co\nPITHER & LEISER\nVICTOKIA, B.C.\n(Successors to BOUCHERAT & Co.)\nIMPORTERS OF\nWINES, - LIQUORS - AND - CIGARS.\nSpecial Attention pen to the Mainland Trade.\nWho carries the largest and best selected stock\nof woollens in the city ?\nWhy,\nHIRD, THE TAILOR.\nHis goods are all new and of the latest design,\nand he\nGuarantees a Good Fit and Workmanship, or no sale.\nHis prices are very reasonable, being from 22.00\nup and you can depend on not getting shoddy goods\nas there is none in his shop.\nADDRESS;\nE. HIRD,\nLIBRARY BLOCK, NEXT THE POST OFFICE,\nNew Westminster, B. C.\nMEDICAL HALL.\nTHE LARGEST and\nTHE BEST STOCK OF\nDRUGS and\nSPECTACLES\nIN BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nD. S. CURTIS & Co., New Westminster.\nAlarm Clocks SI.25, former prico S2.00.\nSolid Silver, stem wind American Watch\n$8.00, former price 918.00. Men's Gold-\nFilled (guaranteed 15 year?) Waltham\nor. Elgin, $12.50, former prico S18.00.\nRolled <>old Chains (guaranteed 5 years)\n$2.00, former price $4.00.\n30 percent, d'ocounton silvornnd\nplot 0 goods.\nCALL AM) (JET PRICES.\nJOHN D.BENNETT,\nWatchmaker & Jeweler.\nVisitors and citizens to tho Exhibition will\nseo tho greatest attractions lu tho\nBOOT AND SHOE LINE\nEvor shown lu WESTMINSTER at tho\nToronto Shoe Store,\nWo have studlod tho wants of tho\npeoplo for a year, and we bellovo wo\nknow what thoy want, and havo tho\ngoods Solid, substantial lines from tho\nbost manufacturers In tho business.\nPrices to suit the times, and that means\nat ligures unknown In British Columbia\nbeforo our advent. Wo havo taken tho\nlead In that respect, and wo are going to\nkeep it.\nM. W. iMINTHORNE,\nDUPONT BLOCK. - - SIGN OF THf BIG BOOT. w\nNEW WESTMINSTER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, DEC. 16, 189 3.\nAll not Sold That Glitters\nColonkt: Mr. Valentino Webster, of tho\nCeylon Co-operativo Tea Gardens Co.,\nColomba. is spending a few days at Victoria In the course of a round-the-world\nbusiness tour. He was in South Africa,\nhis native land, one year ago, and knowing that country thorougly from end to\nend, he expresses surprise that any number of sensible men should look upon it\nas a desirable field for settlement. It\nhas, he says, no promise of a prosperous\nfuture, and the rush to Africa which the\npast few months have witnessed may be\nattributed mainly to the extensive advertising of \"cheap rates to the gold\nfields,\" by which rival steamship companies have deluded the not-too-well-\ninformed class, who are their principal\npatrons.\nNot only does it cost a great deal of\nmoney to get to South Africa, but living\nexpenses there are high, tho labor supply\nmore than equal to the demand, and the\nclimate and natural conditions very\nmuch against a foreignor. Of tho three\nseaports, Capetown has been quite dead\nfor years and now offors no inducement\nfor additional population; Port Elizabeth\nhas grown slightly during recent years,\nbut has reached its utmost rational development, and Durban is hopelessly\nstagnant. Inland, Klraberley tempts\nwith the glitter of its diamonds and\nJohannesburg charms with tho fame of\nits gold.\nThis of course brings the stranger to\nDutch territory, where no outsider\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nEnglishman, American or Canadian\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\ncan hopo to contend against tho laws\nwhicli the Dutch have made for tho\nboneDt of tho Dutch. It Is a paradise of\n\"old pioneers,\" and offices In thoUovern-\nmont, on tho railways, telegraphs, and\nIn all other departments of public business aro reserved for themsolvos or thoir\ndescendants.\nThere are no placer mines, aud tho\nquartz properties, tho magnitude of\nwhose exports has filled the world with\nwonder, are In the hands of vast corporations who work them systematically\nand scientifically. Men of all countries\naro received as free miners, but even If\nthey do possess a little capital they find\nit useless to them\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDsmall capital cannot\nsuccessfully battle against millions.\nWhite laborers aro not objected to at\nthe mines\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDtho only place where work is\nto be done\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDbut they must tako their\nchances with the native labor clement,\nnegroes who are used to the country and\nthe climate and are excellent workers.\nLast year all the stores were overstocked\nwith assistance, and Johannesburg was\nfilled with prospecting experts, who could\nnot secure employment for a song.\nIn farming operations the Dutch havo\nagain secured the upper hand, having\npossessed themsolvos of all the agricultural land, and cattle raising\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDtho industry for which tho best market is presented\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDis effectually disposed of by tho\nmultitudinous Insect plagues.\nCrow's Nest Pazs.\nHugh D. Lumsden, of Toronto, who\nhas had charge of one of tho C. P. R.\nparties surveying for the Crow's Nest\nPass route, has returned to Montreal,\nbis work for this season being completed.\nMr. Lumsden is a distinguished railway\nengineer in the service of the C.P.R. in\nthe Northwest, especially with the\nRegina and Prince Albert railway and\nthe Calgary and Edmonton railway.\nThese two Important linos were built by\nthe Big Four, Ross, Mackenzie, Holt and\nMann, under companies organized by\nthemselves; and the roads when finished\nwere turned ovor to the C.P.R. under a\nlong lease. Mr. Lumsdon was the chief\nengineer of construction on these roads,\nrepresenting both the C.P.R. and Ross &\nCo., and managed to give satisfaction to\nboth parties. During the present year\nhe has also been engineer ovor construction on the Soo Pacific from Moose Jaw,\nN.W.T., to the United States boundary.\nThe object of the Crow's Nest Pass survey, he said, is to find a satisfactory line\nfrom the Crow's Nest Pass westward\nthrough the Kootenay silver mining\ncountry to the main C.P.R. at somo point\nwest of tho Rockies. Tho C.P.R. now\ncontrols what was popularly known as\nthe Gait railway, running from Duumore\non the C.P.R. to the coal mining town of\nLethbrldgo; it also owns the lino extending from Calgary to Macleod, which\nruns about as far to tho southward as\nthe Gait road. In British Columbia it\nhas a water and rail route extending from\nRevelstoke to Nelson; aud other mineral\nroads running south from the main\nC.P.R. aro projected. The O.P.R. proposed new lino through the mountains\nby the Crow's Nest Pass will leave the\nmain C.l'.R. at Duumore; follow tho Gait\nline to Lethbridge; cross the country\nfrom Lethbridge to MacLeod, a link of\nabout 20 miles to bo here built; enter the\nmountains to tho Crow's Nest Pass and\nreach Nelson and other British Columbia\npoints by the most available route. The\ndevelopment of the silver region of British Columbia under tho proposed new\ntariff in the United States, which admits\nCanadian lead oro and galena free of\nduty, will no doubt, bo very great; and\nas tho United States lines into British\nColumbia aro already bidding for this\nmineral traffic, the C.P.R. may be expected to \"get a hustle on\" and proceed\nwith its Crow's Nest Pass road as early\nas possible in tho spring. Somo thirty\nor forty miles of the lino between MacLeod and the Pass are already graded.\nThe snows in early November brought\ntho work of the surveying parties In the\nKootcnay country to a standstill, and\nMr. Lumsden states that they were thon\nwithdrawn for tho winter. With the\nsecuring of tho Crow's Nost Pass tho\nC.P.R. has practically got control of all\nthe passes through the Rocky Mountains\nin Canadian territory; as the northern\nterminus of the Calgary and Edmonton\nrailway, which they aro operating, Is\nopposite to and controls the Yollowhead\nPass, tho only available pass that is not\nalready occupied.\nEurthguahes In Canada.\nThe shock of earthquake experienced\nin and around Montreal last week, probably the worst ever recorded In Canada,\nrecalls similar events in the past In tho\nDominion. In 1870 an earthquake shook\nMontreal and caused considerable alarm.\nOn Jan. 4, 1871, a shock was experienced\nat llawkosbury, on the Ottawa river,\nbut was not reported from any othor\nplace. Thoro was a more extensive\nearthquako on May 22, 1871, that prevailed from tho city of Quebec to the\nwestern part of Ontario, an oven moro\nsevere one than that nn Nov. 4, 1877.\nAt Montreal thore was only one distinct\nshock, preceded by tho usual rumbling\nnoise, and sufficiently severe to bo distinctly felt and to shake window sashes\nand other loose objocts, causing them to\nvibrato for several seconds. It sccmod\nto bo limited to the area along the river\nSt. Lawrence, extending from near\nThree.Rivers on tho east to Kingston on\nthe west, in a direction transverse to the\nSt. Lawrence, extending from Ottawa to\nthe southern part of New England. On\nAug. 21st, 1879, there was a shock which\nwas felt through Lower and Upper\nCanada. Another earthquake was experienced on Nov. 29th, 1880, and was\nfolt at Quebec and various places on the\nLower St. Lawrence and also at Ottawa.\nThere was a slight shock in April, 1880.\nOn May 31st, 1880, there was another.\nThis was an unusual period of tbe year,\nand was felt throughout the Province of\nQuebec. In 1882 an earthquake was experienced in the Lower Provinces, and\nin March, 1885, a shock was felt throughout tho Province of Quebec. In April of\nthe same year one was felt at Murray\nBay and in Vermont. In June, 1887,\nstill another was felt on the Lower St.\nLawrence and at Quebec. Earthquakes\nwere quite a feature in 1888, there being\nno less than four during that year. On\nJan. 11th the shock was felt throughout\nQuebec and Ontario; in February there\nwas a very slight shock; in July another,\nand still another iu November of the\nsamo yoar.\nBrazilian Affairs.\nMontevideo, Dec. 7.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDNews from Rio\ndo Janeiro Is that President Peixoto has\nImprisoned Baron do Santatecla and his\nson, and will hold them as hostages for\ntho rest of the prisoners now In tho\nhands of tho Federals. The Brazilian\nrebels of Rio do Sul aro besieging tho\ntown of Bago. General Isadora,recently\nmade a prisoner by tho Federals, was\nwounded lu thu arm, aud the insurgents\naro threatening to shoot him. Peixoto's\nMinister of War has telegraphed to\nGeneral Tavares, who captured Isadora,\nthat if tho lattor is shot he will immediately ordor tho execution of Colonel\nFaunda Tavares, a prisoner in Porto\nAlegro, capital of tho Stato of Rio\nGrande do Sul. Tho Castihllsta soldiers\nforming tho garrison of Santa Ana arc\nready to march to Uruguayana and join\nGeneral Hipollto and his forces.\nNew York, Doc. 7.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe Brazilian\ncruiser America, which sailed from New\nYork for Rio do Janeiro on the night of\nNovember 26, to fight tbe rebel Admiral\nMello's warships, is lying at Bridgetown,\nBarbadoes, so seriously disabled by tbe\nact of an unknown traitor among her\ncrow that she will probably bo unable to\ncontinue her voyage for several weeks.\nA cable mossage was receivod by Flint &\nCo. from tho West Indies, late yesterday\nafternoon, announcing that one of tho\nvessel's valves, among the most vulnerable parts of a steamship's machinery,\nhad been purposely broken by some unknown member of the crow. The cruiser\nNlctheroy, which sailed from St. Thomas\non Sunday, continued hor voyage from\nSt. Thomas alone. After considerable\ndelay tho Brazilian torpedo boat was\ntowed on her way to Brazil this morning.\nWashington, Dec. 7.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDTho Brazilian\nminister said to-day, with reference to\nMello's return to the mouth of the bay of\nRio: \"I suppose he has got tired waiting\nfor tho America and Nlctheroy outside\nand ran iu to got something to eat.\"\nCause of Professor Tyndall's Death.\nLondon, Doc. 7.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe Coroner's Jury,\nin tho case of Professor Tyndall, to-day\ngave a verdict to the effect that death\nresulted from an overdoso of chloral administered by his wife In mistake for\nj sulphate of magnesia.\nMrs. Tyndall testified at tho Inquest\nj that after he had taken the chloral, Pro-\n: lessor Tyndall jumped out of bed and\nI exclaimed: \"Get a stomach pump.\" Mrs.\n| Tyndall caused Dr. Winstanley to bo Immediately summoned and gavo her hus-\nbattd a mustard emetic. Ho was also\ngiven coffee. Ho became unconscious.\nDr. Winstanley did all ho could for htm\nand later in the day he regained his\nsenses and recognisca and spoke to the\ndoctor. The latter worked over him all\nday. Mrs.Tyndall gavo her husband the\nchloral at 8.30 o'clock in the morning\nand at 0.30 p.m. all was over. Dr. Winstanley testified that he had used an electric battery on Professor Tyndall. Had\nhis lungs not been disabled he might\nhave survived. Dr. Buzzard supported\nDr. Wiitsianley's testimony. He said\nthat Professor and Mrs. Tyndall were an\naffectionate and devoted couple and he\nwas satisfied that the doath of the Professor was purely accidental.\nLondon, Dec. 7.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe committee appointed by the Government to investigate\nthe action of the military called out to\nsuppress tho riotous coal miners at Lord\nMasham's Featherstone pit near Ponte-\nfract, reported to-day. Tho members of\nthe committee deplore the fact that no\nmagistrate met the troops at the Pontfl-\nfract station, when they left the train\nthero on August 7. It was also a mistake, they say, that the troops were so\ndivided that no one body was strong\nenough to overawe tho rioting strikers.\nIf a force of adequate strength had beon\nmarched into Poutefract they think tho\nnecessity of firing upon the rioters would\nhavo been obviated as the miners would\nnot have dared to defy a superior force.\nTho committee also urges that an inquiry\nbo made to ascertain whether soldiers\ncalled out to quell riots may not be\narmed with weapons less dangerous than\nrifles. The committee was composed of\nJustice liowen, Sir Albert Rollit, Progressive Conservative M.P for the Skip-\nton division of Yorkshire; and Richard\nllaldane, Liberal M.P. for Haddingtonshire. It was appointed by the Government at the instance of tho Radical and\nLabor members of Parliament, who were\ninsensed by what they considered the\nrecklessness of the troops In causing\nbloodshed and doath among the strikers.\nChicago, Ills., Doc. 7.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDDistress among\nthe unemployed is so great that every\nnight till I find lodgings on the cold floors\nof the corridors In the city hall. These\nare only a few of the great number who\nhave no place to sleep. Five hundred\nsleep in chairs lu the Pacific Garden\nMission, from 1400 to 101)0 find lodgings\non the stone floors In tho cells at the\npolice stations. Last night It was announced that eight churches would be\nthrown open to furnish lodgings for\nthoso who had no other. Cups of coffee\nand rolls will be given tho men In the\nmorning. This action was forced upon\nChristian peoplo by tho fact that for tho\nlast month unemployed and unsheltered\nlu thousands havo been crowding around\nengine rooms and other placos whero\nthero was heat aud shelter, begging for\na place whero thoy might bo protected\nfrom tho cold. Harry Monroe, superintendent of the Pacific Garden Mission,\nbrought theso facts to boar npon the\nchurchos with tho result as described.\nHawaiian Troubles.\nSan Francisco, Dec. 9.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe United\nPress correspondent at Honolulu,writing\nunder date November 22, per the brig VV.\nG. Irwin, which arrived late this afternoon, savs: No possible knowledge has\ntranspired as to Minister Willis' instructions or intended action. The general\nbelief is that he came expecting to restore the ex-Queen to the throne, either\ndirectly or by the Intervention of a\npopular vote. It is also believed that\nserious obstacles In tbe way of such a\ncourse havo caused delay and reference\nto Washington. Tho mystery and apprehension have produced a great disturbance and irritation of the public\nmind. The tension is greater than at\nany date since the Quoen was dethroned.\nThis is wearying, painful and distressing\nto all the public interests.\nAmong the obstacles to the restoration\nis tbe refusal of the Queen herself unless\nshe receives the strongest guarantees\nthat the United States forces will maintain her upon the throne, knowing that\nshe would otherwise be immediately\noverthrown and possibly dealt with\nseverely. Again some 1,500 rifles with\nammunition are in private hands, cltiofh\nAmericans, ready to remove hor at the\nearliest opportunity. Further, the Provisional Government aro determined to\nmaintain their position, yielding only to\nactual war made upon them by the\nsuperior forces of tho United States. It\nIs well known that Admiral Irwin and\nthe officers under him aro reluctant to\nmake war, probably Involving bloodshed\nupon tho American people of Honolulu,\ntheir own friends and dally associates.\nIf tho American Minister persists in tlie\nIntentions ascribed to him, he has a\ndifficult task and his own lifo as well as\nthat of the ex-Queen would be In the\ngreatest danger as soon as her Intentions\nbecame known.\nIn an interview on the 16th, Minister\nWillis said: \"The whole Hawaiian question is now in abeyance, and nothing\nthat the newspapers can say or do will\nalter the situation ono lota. I make this\nstatement on my own responsibility, and\nin the hope that it will allay the present\nexcitement. There is not the slightest\nnecessity for any one to stay out of bed\nat nights for fear of any trouble.fornone\nwill be permitted.\"\nOn the 18th the Minister said to a visitor to whom he refused an interview:\n\"When I am ready to carry into effect\nmy instructions I shall communicate\nthem to only two persons, one of whom\nwill be the head of the Provisional Government and the other the head of the\nformer Government.\" This was understood to mean that the Minister counted\nthe two persons of equal political importance.\nThe Queen's adherents are extremely\nhopeful and expectant; but in a state of\ngreat apprehension on account of the\nexcited and irritated condition of the\nAmerican party. The Queeu has, within a few hours, for the first time solicited\nprotection from the Provisional Government, and a police force has been stationed on her promises. Tho Government have Informally intimated to the\nAmerican minister that they are amply\nable to repress disorder and wish no\ntroops to be landed.\nThe Star sets forth its motive in\nattacking Wilson in the following\nlanguage: \"Charles B. Wilson, thief and\nparamour was the political lieutenant of\nthe Queen. In spite of his meagre intellect, aud the vice that festered iu\nhim, he had more to say about tho conduct of public affairs than had tho\ncabinet itself. He was the dual brute\npower behind the throne. To-day ho is\nnext to his ex-royal mistress, the foremost champion of the old order, and tomorrow, if some miracle or crime should\nplace Llliuokalani in power again, he\nwould attempt to dictate as of old to the\nChristian and civilized community of\nthose afflicted islands. It is a fair question to put beforo the world, whether a\nmonarchy, which had such a bar sinister\nas Wilson upon its coat of arms, not to\nspeak now of Its having been abolished,\ncould be decently revived.\"\nThe Annexation club have subscribed\ntho necessary funds for the defence of\nthe editor of tho Star. Should any of\nthe suits come to a trial a large amount\nof unsavory testimony has been secured\nto prove the facts alleged and tho inner\nlife of the court will bo extensively uncovered to public gaze.\nVictoria. B.C., Dec. 12.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe Australian liner Arawa arrived here at 8 a.m.\nto-day. Immediately upon entering the\nStraits she was boarded by the United\nPress representative who gleaned the\nfollowing: Queen Llliuokalani has not\nboen restored and there has been no\ntrouble at Honolulu. Such is tho news\nbrought by the steamship Arawa which\nrounded Race Rocks at 7 o'clock this\nmorning and was tied up at Victoria two\nhours later. She left Honolulu on .Monday, Dec. 4th, and was a fraction over\n7 days making tlie run.\nSeverely Reprimanded.\nWashington, D.C., Dec. 9.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDIn accordance with the findiflgs of the court-martial sentence which called for a public\nreprimand of Lieut. Edward I). Bostlck,\naccused of abusing a sentrv and giving\nthe countersign in a tono of voice loud\nenough to destroy Its secrecy, Secretary\nMcAdoo has issued the following severe\nreprimand: The sentence of tho court\nin this caso, though deemed a mild one\nfor the offence committed, has been approved, and In carrying into effect so\nmuch of the same as requires that the\nlieutenant should bo publicly reprimanded bv the honorable the secretary of the\nnavy, tho department deems it proper\nto call attention to the remarkable fact\nthat au officer of bis age, rank and experience iu tho service, covering a period\nof 23 years, should display such ignorance of the duties of a sentinel, such\nlack of respect for the sacredness of tlie\ncountersign, and such a thorough disregard of tho propertreatmeni of Inferiors,\ncharged with responsible duties. Of equal\nImportance with the prompt and unquestioning obedience to tlie orders of a\nsuperior Is the necessity for immediate\ncompliance with the orders uf an inferior,\nwho, while filling a position of trust\nwithout independent authority, has a\nmost delicate duty to perform in compelling tho compliance with orders by a\nsuperior in rank. It is accordingly enjoined upon Lieutenant Bostlck that In\nhis futuro contact with mon ho must\nnot fall to show himself a good example\nof subordination to the discipline of the\nservice.\nCorner of Columbia ft MoKensie Sts.,\nNEW WESTMINSTER.\nCAPITAL, all paid up, $12,000,000\nREST, - - - 6,000,000\nA Savings Bank\nDepartment\nHas been opened in connection with\nthis Branch.\nMerest Allowed at Current Rates.\nAt present three and one-half per c.nl.\nGEO. D. BRYMNER,\nManager.\nFimiture: and : itetaltii.\nE.\nF\nW.E.FALES.\nL\nE\nS\nTHE LEADING UNDERTAKER !\nOrSN \"?'.Y AND NIGHT.\nTelephone WO. Corner of\nP.O. Box 58. Agnes & MeKenzie Sts.\nCASH TALKS.\nWHEN YOU ARE BUYING\nCOOKING, \ Q\npj HEATING\n0 a month. Mr. Franklin spoke to tho motion at length, lie\nwent over his ground very thoroughly,\nand his criticism was clear, lucid, and\nseemed to carry with it a competent\nknowledge of the matters dealt with. In\n60inc twelve or thirteen specified Instances, lie explicitly accused the City\nEngineer of neglect and Incompetency,\nand In every instance appeared to fully\nmake out his case. Of course, tlie other\nside Is yet to be heard, but here Is where\nthe strange tiling comes iu: No member\nof tlie Council seconded Mr. Franklin's\nmotion, aud not. an alderman offered the\nslightest objection to tin' truth of his\nstatements. The spectators applauded,\nbut the representatives of the people\nwere silent, and In significant silence the\nmotion was permitted to drop. Does it\nmean that Aid. Franklin Is held iu contempt by his fellows on the Council\nBoard, or, does it mean that City Engineer Tracy stands so well in the good\ngraces of aldermen that they will not\naccuse whore they cannot defend? In\nOther words, is one man a fool, or has\ntho othor devolopeu from servant to\nmaster? Thore Is, of course, the other\nalternative\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthat aldermen were egrogi-\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDously Ignorant of the matters submitted.\nWe who live in this law-abiding and\ncontented land of Canada scarcely realize\nthe length to which lawlessness and absolute anarchy has developed In other\ncountries. It is only when the would-be\ndestroyers of all law and all order find\nopportunity to express their destructive\ninstincts by somo act of wanton ^barbar-\nity that shocks the civilized world that\nthe quiet-dwelling people of Canada get\na real, but transient, view of the desperate doctrines that are threatening society\nin Europe, and to a slightly less degree\nin the United States on this continent.\nThe explosion of a bomb in the French\nParliament a few days ago was an instance of this kind, of which particulars\nwill bo found in another column. The\nnows of the outrage has created alarm\nsouth of our border, where confederates\nof the European vipers lurk in all the\nlargo citlos and are easily encouraged to\nany villany.\nThe progress of tho good cause of freedom and liberty, has caused altogether\ntoo much leniency to be allowod the promulgators of vicious doctrines, and\nclassed as cranks, men find sympathy\nwho aro on every count entitled to be\nconsidered only as menacors of society\n;, nd tho laws for Its protection. There\nis a tendency In human nature to carry\nall things to extremes, and It may be\noven so with liberty. It sounds paradoxical but it is true, that liberty may\nbo the destroyer of liberty. The civilization that we who aro now living aro\nwont to boast of, is not by any means the\nfirst In the history of this earth wherein\nliberty was a human glory. The Ko-\npubllcs of our day are but a recast of\nRepublics that flourished centuries ago,\nand aro now but a record of ancient history. It was not barbarians from without but anarchy from iwithln that destroyed Roman freedom. It was not tho\nseverity, but the looseness, of the administration of the laws that caused tho\ndownfall. Tho destruction of great\ncivilizations Is a slow process working\nthrough tho centuries, and with all our\nconfidence iu the stability of our own,\nwho can say that tho growing manifestations of discontent and restlessness\nappearing amongst all the nations is not\na repetition of Influences that have undermined the mighty of the past, and\nswept away, with scarce a record left,\ncivilizations in kind with this of the\nnineteenth century, and in their day\ndeemed full as stable.\nWhether the hand of fato is upon us\nor not, one thing is certain, that a timo\nhas come in the progress of society whon\nall subverting influences should be met\nwith a firm and unyielding hand. Of\nthese the spread of doctrines of rank\nanarchy is at once the boldest, and tho\nleast entitled to lenient treatment. The\naims of the anarchists are avowedly the\noverthrow of organized society, and the\nmethods they resort to and endeavor In\novory way to encourage aro so recklessly\nbloodthirsty and so fiercely applied to\nthe severance of the ties that hold\nhumanity together, that the cranks, or\nmadmen, or human tigers, whichever\nthey be, are entitled to more consideration than rattlesnakes; and the law, representing society, should treat them\naccordingly. It is not enough to wait\ntill a shocking butchery is committed,\nand then put tbe law iu motion as\nagainst common offenders. The man who\navows anarchist opinions has already\ncommitted a crime, and whether It is\ntho result of a diseased intellect or a free\nwill tendency to viciousness, that man Is\na menace to the public well-being and\nmust bo treated as such, if gross outrages and wholesale murders are to bo\nprevented and the present order of\nsociety protected. Other manifestations\nof discontent with the existing order of\nthings are not so easy to deal witli, and\nthere are questions of rights and wrongs;\nbut it is not so with horrid, brutal\nanarchy, and if the nations permit themselves to be harrassed and threatened by\ndoctrines of that character, It Is but an\nindication that the process of decay Is\nfarther advanced than most people believe It to be.\nA Pointer for Davie.\nMontevideo, Dec. 13.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe result of\nthe recent election In this country has\njust been officially declared. The new\nChamber of Deputies will consist entirely\nof ihe nominees of the ofliical or admin-\n! Istrative party.\nThe above, including tho heading,\nwhich is the essential part, is from tlie\nj dally Columbian. We arc willing to admit\n1 thut that journal has more candor and\nforesight than we gave it credit for. For\nsonic months we have felt a growing\ni conviction that on the Mainland of II.C\ntiie next election would result In a complete clean-out of the Opposition party,\nand that none but candidates of the Government party would be elected. There\nwas a probability, however, that the\nIsland Opposition would carry a constituency or two, but wo bow to the\n| superior knowledge of our esteemed\ncotemporary, and not without regret\naccept the prospect Implied of a Legislature consisting of Ministerialists only.\n! The Canadian does not believe this\noutcome of the elections will be a good\nthing for the Province, and sincerely\nprays that the Columbian may bo mistaken In its estimate. A healthy and\nvigorous Opposition, we have all along\ni maintained, is a good thing for tho\ncountry.\nliini), the tailor.\nElsowherc in this issue will be found a\nreport of business transacted at a recent\nmeeting of the Hoard of Horticulture in\nVictoria. It is satisfactory to note that\nthe matter of fruit culture is receiving\nconstantly increasing attention in this\nProvince, and that those in authority\nare alive to tho largo interests at stake.\nIt may be possible to placo too high an\nestimate on tho importance of fruit\ngrowing, but to the writer of this article\nthere Is no Industry In British Columbia\nthat promises to bring wealth to the\nProvince to anywhere near tho samo\nextent as growing fruit for the wide and\nconstant market on tho othor side of tho\nmountains. If thoro is any product that\nthe soil and climate of Ii. C. Is adapted\nfor It Is fruit. Tho greater part of our\nlands, even in the agricultural districts,\nare not capable of producing paying\ncrops of roots or cereals. It is only In\ntho \"bottom\" lands and river flats that\ngrain and roots yield profitable returns,\naud as the oxtont of thoso favored soils is\nlimited, tho cultivators of them can safely\ncontinue in tho pursuits of ordinary farming and stock raising, the more especially as tho low lying lands are not usually\nesteemed favorable for fruit growing.\nHut tho higher land, comprising a huge\narea, is eminently fitted in soil and drainage for fruit growing, and for that only.\nUsually the land is heavily timbered,and\ncan only bo cleared at an expense so\ngreat as to render ordinary agriculture\nunprofitable, oven though other conditions wero favorable, which they often\nare not. On those lands ton acres In\nfruit trees well cared for would give tho\ncultivator a handsome living and \"money\nIn the bank,\" while a whole section\nIn grain would hardly pay for tho cultivation, to say nothing of first cost and\nonormous clearing expenditure. In hay\ntho high lands would no doubt give fair\nreturns, but in this crop tho oxtont of\nclearing required to comfortably maintain an ordinary family is so considerable as lo offer no encouragement to the\nordinary settler. Tho special advantage\nof fruit is the small area that is needed\nto secure a living income. Of course\nthero is the objection of having to wait\nfive or six years for returns, but even\nthat is better thau to waste capital and\nenergy in the struggle to make a farm,\nwait as long, and as like as not lose the\nwhole in the end, for tho heavily timbered land Is nothing but a burden to the\nsettler of average means.\nThere is, too, to be considered the fact\nthat the production of grain, roots, etc.,\nhas a local market only, and never can\nbe successfully shipped to outside points,\nso that from these sources the Provlnco\ncan hopo for no income, whilo on tho\npresent lines it is only a question of time\nwhon the prodrction will bo greater than\nthe consumption, and then our farmers\nmust suffer. With fruit growing all\nthis is the reverse. A settler to ten or\ntwenty or even forty acres, instead of to\na quarter section, growing products to\nsell abroad and bring money into tho\ncountry with which to buy tho grain and\nroots and meats of tho Province's agriculturists, puts a different face on tho\nmatter, aud opens a view of future prosperity decidedly cheering to contemplate.\nThere is no question but at the present\ntimo many B.C. settlers are burdened\nwith a surplus of land, which they aro\nnot able to clear and make use of and\nupon which thoy have to pay annual\ncharges and statute labor, often at considerable strain. Plenty of industrious\nsettlers who could handle twenty or\nthirty acres to profit and advantage, go\nbroke on a hundred and sixty. Unhappily there has been, and is yet, a\nprevtiling belief that land is wealth.\nUnder certain conditions It undoubtedly\nis, but those conditions do not attach to\nhardly-struggling B.C. settlers, to whom\nmuch land means poverty.\nTho remedy for ull the ills of settlers,\nif they can be made on(y to see it, is iu\nsmaller holdings and better cultivation,\nwith as rapid an extension of tho orchard\nas circumstances will permit. But tho\norchard must not be tho weedy, grass-\ngrown and wretchedly neglected thing It\nhas heretofore boon In this country, producing poor fruit and libelling tho fruit\nquality of the Province. Just as potatoes respond to judicious cultivation, so\ndo fruit trees and the crop they bear,\nand as well might one expect to grow\npotatoes successfully in a field overrun\nwith potatoe bugs as to grow fruit profitably in a neglected orchard Infested witli\nI slugs, caterpillars and aphis. In protecting against, and teaching how to\ncontend with, those insect pests, the\nHoard uf Horticulture can accomplish\nImmense good. The members of tho\nBoard, no one can doubt, realise tlie Importance uf tlie Interests they are trying\nto serve, and are keenly anxious to aid\nand encourage horticulture in every\npracticable way. They should be provided with liberal funds to push investigations, for It Is a fact that as yet all\nInsect destroying decoctions are more or\nless rxperinu'iitury, and nono of them\nare the successful remedies they are represented to be. There aro besides too\nmany remedies recommended, which only\nserve to confuse beginners. If wo woro\nto ollor a suggestion, wo would say to\nthe Board of Horticulture, offer a bonus,\nopon to the world, for the best and\ncheapest all-round spraying and washing\nmixture, and having reached conclusions,\nappoint a manufacturer who will be\nbound to supply it to customers at a fixed\nprice. The State of Washington Horticultural Society is workingon that basis,\nand with satisfactory results.\nANARCUISTS IN FRANCE.\nMore is likely to be known anent the\nPenitentiary scandal within a vory few\ndays. Tho result of Inspector Foster's\ninvestigation into the affairs of tho institution has not yot beon mado public,\nbut no doubt the dismissal of guard Pat.\nFlnnegan is only a mild sample of what\nis to follow. The reason Mr. Flnnegan\nwas discharged, it is thoroughly understood, was because he was too much Interested in Mr. Foster's movements whiif\nhere making the investigation. It bas\nbeon known for years that abuses of a\nmost serious nature occurred at tho Penitentiary, and it Is generally conceded\nthat Mr. Foster's visit will have tho\nultimate result of clearing up many\nmatters which should have been attended to long'ago. Iu regard to Finnogan's\naction, it is said that night and day he\ndogged Mr. Foster's footsteps, and his\nmovements woro so apparent that it did\nnot tako tho inspoctor long to discover\nwhat was in the wind. It may bo said,\nhowovor, that tho espionage was in the\ninterests of his superior officers.\nThe above appeared in Monday's Vancouver World ovor tho signature \"Saxon.\"\nSomething very similar was published in\ntho Columbian of this city a few days previously. Willie the Canadian has no\ndisposition to take part in tho troubles\nthat aro evidently tn progress lu the Penitentiary management, It seems only fair\nto stato that tho guard Flnnegan givos\nan unequivocal denial to tho charge of\nacting spy upon Mr. Foster. There aro\nusually two sides to every story, and as\nno authoritative statement has yot ap-\npoarod, Mr. Finnegan's denial is worthy\nof some consideration. Tho one fact that\nlooms up through the whole business is\nthat tho Penitontiary officials aro In a\nstate of insubordination, and the sooner\ntho Dominion authorities take hold of\ntho mattor in earnest and reach conclusions, the better; and If a public investigation Is held it will give much more\nsatisfaction to people horo than an examination sub rosa.\nA Bomb throicn in ihe French Chamber of\nDeputies.\nHon. Mackenzie Bowei.l, Minister of\nTrade and Commerce, returned by the\nsteamer Arawa from Australia, where\nho went in Soptembor last, with a view\nto advancing trade relations between\nthat country and Canada. The Arawa\narrived in Vancouver on Tuesday, and\nMr. Bowcll was interviewed by a News-\nAdvertiser representative. Tho hon.\ngentlemen spoko iu high torms of his\nreception and treatment by our cousins\nof the antipodes, who, indeed, have a\nwide reputation for generous hospitality.\nThe Canadian Mlnistor was banqueted\nand feted probably moro than he desired,\nfor he had a good deal of businoss to do,\nand a limited time at his disposal. Ho\nvisited tho principal citlos, which are\nvery much larger than those of Canada,\nand everywhere met with satisfactory\nencouragement in his mission. Mr.\nBowell believes tho prospects of largely\nIncreased trado aro very promising.\nBefoue the lato labor Conference at\nVictoria passes out of discussion, it may\nbowell to let It bo known that of the\nfour presumed delegates from this city,\nonly ono was duly delegated, and that\none, Mr. P. L. Mitchell, being appointed\nby unorganized labor, had no volco In\nthe proceedings. Of the othor threo, ono\nrepresented a non-existing Printers'\nUnion; another represented a non-existing Painters' Union; and the other represented a non-existing Bricklayers'\nUnion. It docs not appear that any of\nthe three attended the Conference upon\nother than individual authority. If this\nstatement Is wrong in any detail we aro\nopen to correction.\nAgriculture in Great Britain.\nLondon, Dec. 7.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDA congress opened in\nSt. .lames' Hall to-day under the auspices of the National Agricultural Union.\nThe Earl of Wluchelsoa presided. Among\nthose present were tlie Earl of Harrow-\nby, the Earl of Denbigh, Lord North,\nLord Radnor, and Oil member of tlie\nHouso of Commons. Tho Karl of Win-\nChelsea suid that the resolutions that\nwould be submitted to tlie Congress embodied a large number of suggestions\nthat had beenyecolved from representative agriculturists all over the world\nsince the lust congress was held. Tho\nnation was becoming more and more dependent upon food brought from foreign\ncountries. The consensus of public\nopinion was that the navy was inadequate to protect the food supply in the\nevent of war. One causo of the distress\nwas the fall In prices duetn foreign competition, lt was necessary for tho producers to combine and ask, not for protection, but for fair play. Tho Eurl\nmoved that all Interested In laud should\nsupport the Union. This was unanimously adopted.\nSir Richard Paget, M.P., moved the\nadoption of a resolution declaring that\nan excessive share of the public burdens\nwas borne by farm lands compared with\nother sources of income.\nSir Richard Paget's motion was curried.\nParis, Dec. 9.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWhile the Chamber of\nDeputies was in session this afternoon a\nstranger in tho gallery throw a dynamite\nbomb on the floor. As the bomb exploded pieces of metal wore thrown In every\ndirection. Deputy Lemlre and six other\nwere hit and seriously injured. M. Lemlre is said to be dying. The bomb\nburst noar the head of Lemiro and instantly killed an usherwho was standing\nnear. An Amorican lady In the gallery\nreceived a slight wound In the forehead,\nand two other ladlos in the lower gallery\nwere Injured. A man who was sitting\nnext the bomb thrower was wounded.\nAll the occupants of the chamber were\npanic-stricken. Bits of metal and horseshoe nails, which had evidently beon attached to tho bomb, were picked up all\novor the house. Order was finally restored and business resumed.\nParis, Dec. 10.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAugust Vaillant, alals\nMarechal, a resident of the suburb\nChoisey-Le-Roi, Is tho anarchist who\nthrew tho bomb in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday. He made a confession\nthis morning. All last ovening the\nofficials of the Perfocturo were verifying\nthe statements rtnd examining the names\nof suspects. The first name to challenge\nthoir attention was that of Vaillant.\nSeveral detectlvos said that this man\nhad long been known as an anarchist of\nthe extreme type, a ranter who had surpassed all his comrades recently In the\nviolence of his language. Upon searching tho records the officials found a full\nbiography of Vaillant, which justified\nall that the detectives had said of him.\nFour detectlvos thon went to the Hotel\nDieu and sought the bed on which Vaillant lay, suffering from many wounds.\nIn reply to their quostions ho said that\nhis name was Marechal, and that ho\nlived at Choisey-Le-Roi. When asked\nfor moro Information he pleaded that the\nshattered condition of his norvos incapacitated him for talking coherently.\nAt 9 o'clock tho Procureur of tho Republic and M. Leplne, tho Perfect of\nPolice, arrived at the Hotel Dieu. Aftor\nconferring with the dotectlves they went\nto Vaillant's bedside. The Procurer said\npositively: \"You are not Marechal, you\naro Augusta Vaillant.\" Vaillant started,\nhesitated a moment, then blurted out\npettishly: \"So I am. Yes, I am Auguste\nVaillant and I threw tho bomb, because\nI have had enough of this blood-sucking\nbourgeois society.\" He then told his story\nwith an air of bravado. He attended\nthe Chamber, he said, for the purpose of\nthrowing the bomb at M. Dupuy, the\nPresident of the House. A woman who\nsat next to him seeing him prepare to\nthrow the bomb tried to seize his arm.\nShe fainted in the attempt, but spoiled\nhis aim. The bomb struck the cornice of\nthe public gallery and exploded. Vaillant's injuries were so severe that he\nfell to tho floor. When the panic culminated in the Chamber, ho tried, as did\nmany others, to escape, but was prevented by tbe janitors, lu concluding\nj his confession Vaillant said: \"I am sorry\nI failed. I hopo others who will follow\nme will be more fortunate. Long live\nanarchy.\" When questioned in detail regarding his accomplices ho refused to\nspoak. Ho admitted that he mado tho\nbomb himself, llo took a small Iron\nsaucepan, Inserted In it a glass tube full\nof acid, and then filled up tho saucepan\nwith nails and bits of iron. He easily\ncarried tho bomb in one of his pockets.\nVaillant further described tho articles\nwhich might be found iu the apartment\nlast occupied by blm in Paris. This\napartment was in tho Hotel Do L'union,\nNo. 80, Ruo Laugere. where the prisonor was known as Marechal. Ho tried\nto frighten the police bv saying that\nthey would do well to handle the articles\nwith groat care lest thoy explode. The\ntrunk, he added, was especially dangerous. Vaillant gave this information\npiece-meal, interlarding his statement\nwith braggadocio and self-glorification.\nAfter M, Leplne, the Perfect, was dono\nwith Vaillant, ho took M. M. Rolllor\nand Meyerof the Police Department, and\ntho Examining Magistrate, M. Clement,\nto 80 Rue Laugere. Thero they learned\nthat Vaillant hud ongaged his room one\nweek ago. In It wero a quantity of\nnails and a bumb in the form of a large\nsaucepan. This bomb hud been made, it\nis thought, for uso in the Chamber of\nDeputies, but was discarded for the\nsmaller one on account of its i lumsiness,\nand tho difficulty of concealing it. Vaillant was among the spectators detained\nin the Chamber after the explosion. His\nright arm was shuttered, his nose wus\nblown off, and his nock and chest were\nlacerated. He still ..lifters much pain.\nVaillant will bo further examined tomorrow, lu the meantime the polico arc\nhard at work making inquiries and\nsearches,\nDeputy Leniier, who was badly injured by tbe explosion, was removed from\ntho Chamber to his home in the course of\nthe night. His physicians say that he is\nImproving, though at intervals ho is\nmotionless and speechless.\nThe woman who checked Vaillant's\narm when he threw the bomb was badly\nwounded on the faco and neck.\nOttawa, Dec. 13.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSir John Thompson\nand Sir C. H. Tupper returned to-night\nfrom Nova Scotia where they had been\nfor the past two weeks stumping tho\nProvince. Speaking to a correspondent Sir John Thompson said that the political outlook In tho Province was never\nbetter for the Government in his opinion\nthan it is to-day. On tho question of the\nTariff the Province was sound.\nBIRTH.\nIBLE\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDIn Surrey, on the\nwife of John Qiiible, of a\non the 14th Inst., the\nson.\n\"Assessment Act, 1888,\" & Amending Acts\nWestminster, New Westminster City\nand Vancouver City Electoral\nDistricts.\n\{OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the\nJ_> Court will sit as follows :\nFor tho Electoral Districts of Now Westminster City and Westminster:\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAt tlie\nCourt House, New Westminster, on Thursday, the -Stli day of Decembor, ut 10.110 a. m,\nFor the Eleotoral District of Vancouver\nCity :\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAt the Court House. Vancouver, on\nFriday, the 20th day of December, at 10.80a.m\nDated at Westminster, tlie Oth day of De-\ncomber, 1893.\nC. G. MAJOR,\nJudge of the Court of Uuvlslou and Appeal.\nQueonstown, Dec. 10.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDH. M. s. War-\nspite, the giiurdsliip of this harbor,while\nat torpedo practice out. at sea on Thursday, wus driven back by tho gale and\nanchored in tho ovening between Roche's\nPoint and Kinsule Head. At 10 o'clock\ntlie gule wus furious and tlie Warsplte's\nposition was so dangerous that the crow\nwere called to quarters. The ship rode\ntho gale until 2,80 o'clock in the morning) when all hands wero ordered to fish\nthe anchor, which had dragged. The\nship was perilously near tho rocks when\nthe anchor was lifted and the ship put\nout to sea again, with tho anchor hanging to 20 fathoms of cable. The War-\nspite behaved badly, rolled 12 hours in\ntho trough of tho sea, and was barely\nmanageable. Tho lower deck was flood-\nod and tho crow bocame excited.\nTho Orand Trunk Railway traffic earnings decreased 860,000 last woek.\nA semi-official estimate of the danger-\nanarchists In Paris and its suburbs placos\nthe number at six hundred.\nLondon, Dec. 13.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDRt. Hon. Geo. Shaw-\nLefebvre, first commissioner of works,\nwill bo asked by the Houso of Commons\nto erect a wire netting In front of the\nstrangers' gallery to prevent the throwing of bombs.\nLondon, Dec. 12,\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe St. James' Gazette says the Cabinet has deckled to\nstrengthed tho navy, but the details are\nnot yet settled. It is believed \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD8,000,000\n($40,000,000) will bo expended in tho construction of new ships. The programme,\nIt Is said, Includes the building of six or\nseven battleships. The Gazette further\nsays the concession was made to avert a\nCabinet crisis. Mr. Gladstone and others\nof tho Government aro opposed to it.\nLondon, Dec. 12.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDTho body of Seadoc\nOutriiin, Mr. Gladstone's valet and trusted factotum for twenty years, who mysteriously disappeared at the beginning\nof December, was found floating in tho\nThames to-day. It was taken Into tho\nTower nill mortuary, whore an inquest\nwill bo held. It Is surmised that Outram\ncommitted suicide. He loft Mr. Gladstone's Downing streot residence on the\nnight of November 30, ostensibly to moot\ntho young woman to whom ho was on-\ngaged to bo married. He did not meet\nher and was not afterwards seen by any\nof his acquaintances. It Is conjectured\nthat on that night or soon after he throw\nhimself Into the river.\nMUNICIPALITY of COQUITLAM\nA BY-LAW\nTo Establish and Open Up\ncertain Roads in the District\nof Coquitlam.\nWHEREAS it is nocessary to make and\nopen up certain new roads within tlie\nDistrict of Coquitlam ;\nBo it enacted therefore by the Reeve and\nConncil of the Corporation of tho District of\nCoquitlam as follows :\nThat from and after tbe passage of this\nBy-law the Council pursuant to the Municipal Act 1802 enter upon, expropriate, break\nup and use for roads and highways the lands\nmoro particularly described hereinafter, the\nsamo being within the jurisdiction of the\nCouncil, viz.:\nRoad No. I\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDLying, situate and being ou\nLot 231, Group 1, Now Westminster District, and more particularly described as\nfollows ;\nBeginning at tho eastern end of Road No. 0\nus described In tho Coquitlam Road By-law\nof 1H02. thence running in a north-easterly\ndirection along the north-westerly boundary\nof proposed dyko reservation to the intersection with the Coast Meridian. Said described line to be It)!'; feet rrom dyke resorve\nand to bo the centre of a 33 ft. roud.\nRoad No. 2\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDLying, situate aud being on\nSec. Sand (1. Township 40, and Lots 400. 404,\nand 371), Township 311, New Westminster District. More particularly described as follows :\nBeginning at a point on the westerly bank\nof the Pitt River and on the southern\nboundary of the N. E. h of Soc. 5, Township\n40, thence duo west to the easterly bank of\nthe Coquitlam River ; thence south-westerly\nalong said bank to tliu line between lots3tio\naud 404 ; thence south to the S. E. corner of\nLot 3R0 ; thence west to the east bank of tho\nCoqultlum River.\nSaid road to be 33 foet wide and said describod lino to bo the southorn boundary of\nsaid roud from point of commencement to\ntho H. E.corner ot but 470, Ihouce to terminal\npoint said described Hue to bo tho centre of\nroad.\nRoad No. II\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDLying, situate and being on\nLot 112, Group l, New Westminster District.\nMore particularly desert bed as follows i\nBeginning at thu N. W. corner of Lot 112.\nGroup 1, Now Westminster District; thence\nsouth along the west boundary of said Lot\n112 to the intersection with the Pipe Line ;\nthence west along pipe line Is ch. 83 links ;\nthence west 800 South 13 ch. 43 links to Pitt\nRiver Roud. Said described Hue to Do tbo\ncentre of a (JO ft, road.\nRoad No. 4\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDLying, situate and being ou\nLots 3110, 305, 304, Ml, 302, 301, 374 and 378.\nGroup 1, New Westminster District. More\nparticularly describod us follows :\nBeginning where the Austin roud leaves\nthu western bountlary of Lot No, 305 ; theuoe\nNorth to the Suuth-wust corner of Lot 303;\nthence East to the Soulli-eust corner of Lot\n871; Ihuncu North to tliu S. W, oorner of Lot\n372 ; thence Eust to N. E. corner of Lot 878.\nSaid described Hue to be the centre of a 00\nft. road.\nRoad No. .7\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDLying, situate und being in\nSec. 8, Township 40, Now Westminster Dls-\ni trict, and more puitleulurly described as\n. follows :\nBeginning at u point on the north bunk of\nNorili I'i tt Meudows slouch, whuro tho oast\nboundary of Section s ini.ersucts it; thuncu\nNorth uloiig suid east boundary to tliu N. E.\ncorner of suid Section 8 for a distance of 33\nch.; thence North 7\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Eastll ch. to intersection of Roud No.2 in Coquitlam Roud By-law\n18112.\nSaid described line to be tlie centre of a\nOil ft. road.\nRead. Ho. ti\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDLying, situate and being on\nLots483and464, Group 1, Nuw Westminster\nDistrict, and more particularly described as\nfollows;\nBeginning at a point whero the produced\neastern boundary of Lot No. 3711, Group 1.\nNuw Westminster District, intersects the\nNew Westminster and Pitt River Road ;\nthence North along suid bcurlug of tho eastern boundary of suid Lot 370 to the S. E. corner of said Lot 370 ; thonce in a North-easterly direction through Lots 403 und 404 to the\nNorth bouiulury of suid Lot 404.\nSuid described line to be tliu centre of a\n88 11. roud.\nRoad No. 7\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDLying, slluuto and being on\nLots No. 4U4, 371) and 380, Group 1, New Westminster District, and more particularly described us follows:\nBeginning at the point where Road No. 6\nOf this lly-luw Intursects the southern\nboundary of suid Lot 404. Group 1. Nuw\nWestminster District; tbenoe North-westerly to the point where the Southern boundary\nof Lot 380. Group 1. New Westminster District, meets the Eastern hank of the Ooquitlam River 1 thenoo west along Bald Southern\nbouiulury of Lut.3sll to u point ItiU ft. from\nthe Northerly boundary of the 0. P. Railroad ; thence westerly parallel with said\nNortherly boundary 01 ('\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD I', it. to the west-\nurn tiouiidury of suid Lot 880.\nSuid desorlbed lino to be the coutro of u\n88 ft. roud.\nThis By-law shull take effect on tlie lirst\nday or January, isoi.\nThis By-luw inuy be cited us tliu Ooquitlam\nRoad lly-luw 18113.\nRooonsldored and finally passed and the\nseal of the Corporation attached\nLL.S.f this Eleventh day of November, 18113.\nR. I). IRVINE.\n0. M. 0.\nR, B. KELLY,\nRuuve.\nNOTICE.\nThe above Is a true copy of a By-luw passed by the Municipal Council of tho District\nof Coqultluni on tliu lltli day of November.\n1803 A. D., und ull persons are hereby required to take notice that any one desirous\nof upplylng to have such By-law or any part\nthereof quashed, must make his application\nfor that purpose to the Supreme Court\nwithin one month next after the publication\nof this By-law In tho British Columbia Gazette, or he will bo too late to be heard In\nthat behalf.\nR. D.IRVINE. O.M.O, \m\nNEW WESTMINSTER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, DEC. 16, 1893.\n8HALL NOT DIE HOR THEE.\nFor thee I shall not die.\nWoman high of fame and nam*;\n; Foolish men thou mayest slay,\n, I and they are not the same.\nWhy should I expire\nFor the fire of an eye.\nBlonder waist or swanllke limb?\nIa't for them that I should die?\nThe round breasts, the fresh skin.\nCheeks crimson, hair so long aud riohi\nIndeed, Indeed, I shall not die.\nPlease God, not 1, for any such.\nThe golden hair, the forehead thin.\nThe chaste mbn, the gracious ease.\nThe rounded heel, the languid tone\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nFool* alone find death from these.\nThy sharp wit, thy perfect oalm.\nThy thin palm, like the sea fount\nI Thy white neck, thy bluo eye,\nI I shall not die for these alone.\nWoman, graceful as the swan,\nA wise man did nurture me;\nLittlo palm, white neck, bright eye,\n1 shall not dlo for ye.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDDouglas llydo In London Sun.\nAn Old Family.\nSeveral years ago there was on old\nfamily in Pennsylvania named Roth.\nIndeed the long line of Roths was about\nall the family had to Bhow by way of\ndistinction, and so muoh did they make\nof the long branches of the family tree\nand the Niagara of blue blood that had\nin centuries past coursed through their\nveins that people of the more rece-.t generations really began to think these\nRoths wore of some account.\nOne evening thero happened to be a\nparty in the littlo town of M , and\nbeside the great Roth family the guests\nnumbered among others young Dr.\nSharp. He was a popular and rising\nphysician and considered by matchmaking mammas a particularly desirable\ncatch.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Mrs. Roth had four marriageable\ndaughters, so at the first favorable opportunity she cornered the young doctor\nand sought to impress upon him the importance of her wonderful family.\n\"Why, doctor,\" she said, \"we all came\nover on the Mayflower, so I know you\nwill not think mo bold in asserting that\nthe Roths are really one of the first iaiu-\niliee.\"\n\"Pardon me,\" replied the young physician, \"but I have no hesitation in Baying that your family enjoys even a greats\ner distinction.\"\n\"Oh, doctor,\" gashed the old woman,\ngiving herself a congratulatory hug on\nher coming triumph, \"Indeed you flatter us.\"\n\"Not at all,\" he replied, \"for I know\nyon are the first family.\"\n\"Who told you that, dear doctorr\n\"The Bible,\" he replied reverently,\n\"for it says the Lord was Roth.\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDBoston Budget.\nCount D'Orsay and Lady Holland.\nA story going the rounds is one told of\nthe famons Count d'Orsay. On the occasion of his lirst visit to England, while\nhe was very young, very handsome and\nnot easily disconcerted, he chanced to be\nseated at dinner next to the brilliantand\nsingular Lady Holland.\nThat remarkable and many sided woman was in, as it happened, one of her\nimperious humors, and her young neighbor soon felt its weight. She dropped\nher napkin. The count picked it up gallantly. Then her fan, then lier fork, tilun\nher glass, and as often her neighbor\nstooped aud restored the lost article. At\nlast, however, tho patience of the youth\ngave way, and on her dropping lier napkin ugaiu he turned and ealietl one of\nthe footmen behind him. \"Put my plate\non the floor.\" said he. \"I will finish my\ndinner thore. It will bo so much more\nconvenient to my Lady Holland.\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDNew\nYork Times.\nTHE DOMINION.\nPort Arthur, Dec. 13.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDCharles W.\nHamilton, one of Port Arthur's most promising young business men, died suddenly yesterday of heart failure.\nTho Canadian Pacific Railway traffic\nreceipts for the weok ending December\n7th wero 8380,000, and for the same\nweek last year 9439,000.\nIt Is currently reported that Sir Leonard Tilloy will be re-appointed Lieutenant-Governor of NewBrunswick,although\nthe claims of Judge Palmer and Hon.Peter\nMitchell aro strongly advocated.\nWinnipeg, Doc. 12.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDT. Rutledge, a\nprominent farmer of Vlrden district,\ndied here in the hospital last night from\nthe effects of injuries received in a scuffle\na few weeks ago while coming down on\nthe train to Winnipeg.\nBrantford, Dec. 9.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDEdward Cameron,\nsu perintondont of the Six Nation Indians,\nhis mother, and Mrs. Edward Cameron,\nhave all been created chiefs of the Six\nNations. Both ladies were admitted to\ntho right of taking part in any council\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nan honor never beforo bestowed upon\nany member of the fair sex.\nKingston, Dec. 11.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDCharles Sangster,\nthe well-known Canadian poet, died here\non Saturday. Ho was born In this city\n71 years ago, and in 1849 became editor\nof the Amherstburg Courier, subsequent\nto which he joined the press of Kingston.\nHis reputation as a poet was considerable,\nand his writings as a wholo were well\nrocelved.\nToronto, Dec. 12.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMr. William H.\nRowland, ex-Mayor, and ono of the\nmost prominent citizens ot Toronto, died\nthis afternoon of pneumonia, resulting\nfrom an attack of tho grippe. Tho deceased was a son of Sir W. P. Rowland,\nex-Lloutonant-Governor of Ontario, and\nwell known in many parts of the United\nStates, particularly in regard to his connection with all kinds of philanthropise,\ntemperance and religious work.\nMontreal, Dec. 11.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDCharles Prendergast, 11 years of age, was playing in a\nsnow house yesterday, when it collapsed.\nHoro he remained for eight hours in the\nsnow, his companions having run away\nwhen the accident occurred. Upon being\ndiscovered and released the boy was\nfound to have sustained a broken leg I\nand other serious injuries. He was j\ntaken to the general hospital, whero he\ndied early this morning.\nOttawa, Dec. 11.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAt a meeting of the\nCabinet this afternoon, it was decided\nthat the law should be allowed to take\nits course in the case of Charles Luckev,\nnow in Brockville Jail, convicted of mur- j\nder and sentenced to be hanged on\nThursday, the 14th hist. Luckey was\ncharged with murdering his father,\nmother and sister near Smith's Palls and i\nafterwards setting fire to the building.\nHe was acquitted first on the charge of\nmurdering his father, but again on being <\nj arraigned on the charge of murdering\n1 his mother he was found guilty. The j\nj evidenco at both trials was practically\n! the same. At the last trial he gave [\nevidence in his own behalf and this is\n; what told against him, not so much for\nwhat he said as from the manner of saying it and his appearance in the box. Today his counsel appeared before the Hon. S\nMr. Oulmet, acting Minister of Justice, !\nand made a final appeal but it was of no i\navail.\nMr. Frlpp, the architect, has recently\nreturned from Kamloops, whore he has\nbeen inspecting the proposed site for tho\nOld Men's Institute about to be orected\nthero. An appropriation for the purpose\nhaving been made this year by the Government, Mr. Frlpp was instructed by\nMr. Gore, the Deputy Commissioner of\nLands and Works, to visit the spot,\nwhich he did, and in conjunction with\nseveral of tho principal local residents in\nthat neighborhood, examined the ground\nwhich includes 370 acres. There is an\norchard upon it, a good stream of water,\nand a magnificent view of the surrounding country, thus eminently qualifying\nthe site for the purpose intended. Mr.\nFripp having obtained the work, is at\npresent buisily engaged in preparing\nsketches, etc., which havo not yet been\nsubmitted to the Government.\nNew York, Dec. 11.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDInspector Byrnes\nhas been informed that local Anarchists,\nfired by the recent bold deeds of their\ncompatriots in France and Spain, are\nmeditating some deviltry, and has taken\nsteps to thwart their plans. Several notorious and desperate characters are being shadowed, with the hope of locating\nthe placo where tho explosives are said\nto bo stored. Tho police refuse to speak\non the subject, but it is learned, nevertheless, that within the next few hours\nevery known anarchist in tho metropolis\nwill bo under police surveillance and u\nspecial guard of detectives will be stationed at all public buildings.\nA Ring on His Hande.\n\"Is Harkins worrying over the fact\nthat Miss de Riche jilted him?\"\n\"No; but it annoys him exceedingly\nto think that the ring she gave back was\npurchased at her father's store and paid\nfor, too, by Jovel\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDHarper's Bazar.\nSEVENTH\nANNIVERSARY\n1 Bolt!\nWILL BE HELD\nTO-MORROW.\n11 A. M. REV. P. McF. McLEOD. late of\nSt. Andrews Church, Victoria.\n3 p. m. REV. A. B. BANKS, D. D., of\nEverett, Washington.\n7 v. i. REV. P. McF. McLEOD.\nThe Faet Remains.\nMiss Azure Hughes\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDI emphatically\ndeny that the educated woman is\nashamed to admit her age.\nOiglamps\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDBut all the same I notice\nshe doesn't put her college year after her\nname.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDVogue. _\nOn Tuesday\nTHE ANNUAL\nSOCIAI\nWILL HE HELD,\nWhen the above mentioned speakers,\ntogether with Revs. Lorimer, Weir,\nand others, will be present.\nTea From 6 to 7:30 p, m.\nAdmission, - 25 cents.\nBoots months, but did not think she was at all\n; fond of him.\nQuestioned by tho girl's father, Wilk-\ni Inson said that a week ago last Sunday\nj he and Isabel had quarrelled, but that a\ni few days later they had made up again.\nMary, the youiiKer sister of the deceased, said she believed that Isabel was\n; very much attached to Wilkinson. The\nj only conclusion it is possible to come to\nfrom the evidence is that the unhappy\n. child in u. moment of despair, caused by\nthe receipt of her lover's letter, decided\nto at once put an end to her existence,\nhurried oft to a druggist, purchased the\n1 poison, and drank a fatal dose without ever truiy realizing what sho was\ndoing.\nDr. Praeger's post mortem examina-\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD tion proved that her death was duo to\n| the effects of an irritant poison,appareut-\nI ly ursenous acid, the principal ingredient\nin Rough ou Rats.\nThe jury returned a verdict: \"We lind\nthat the deceased Isabel Johnson came\nto her deatii bv her own hand by taking\npoison, Rough on Rats, during a moment\nof temporary Insanity.\" Tlie following\nrider was added: \"We recommend that\ntho attention of the Provincial Legislature be drawn to the necessity of a restriction of the sale of this article, and\nthat none but druggists be allowed to\nsell it.\"\nThe peculiarity of ihe sad affair was\nthe remarkable composure of the young\ngirl who, though not quitn seventeen\nyears old, after she had once decided to\ntake her own life, and even after slut had\nswallowed tho fatal draught until she became sick, allowed nu word of what she\nhad done or her reason for so doing, to\nescape her lips, though at about four\no'clock in the morning, shortly before\nsho expired, she called to her sister as if\nto tell her sometblng, but was unable to\nmore than gasp out her name and then\nfell back in her bed exhausted, Tho\nparents of iho deceased girl aro terribly\ngrieved at the. tragic ending of a child\nwho had always been a dutiful and\naffectionate daughter. Tho father Is\nunable to give any explanation of his\ndaughter's action. The evening she\ntook the poison she prepared his lunch\nbasket as usual beforo ho went to the\nmine, ami appeared in her usual spirits.\nLondon, Dec. 14.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDRt. Hon. Sir John\nLubbock, Hart., F. R. S., member of the\nHouse of Commons for London University, president of the London branch of\ntho Imperial Federation League, to promote union in the empire for defence and\ncommercial union, as nearly as lt is\npracticable on tho basis of free trade\nthroughout the empire, tho first aim to\nbe the establishment of periodical con\nferences of the omplrc.\nCASH SALE\nof Wall Paper.\nTo make room for New Stock, we will give\nA Discount of 10 per cent\non all Cash Sales, for 30 days only.\nG. F. WELCH & SOX,\nCorner Agnes and 6th Streets, Westminster.\nBON MARCHE\nJUST OPENED OUT:\nPURE MERINO WOOL\nBLANKETS,\nIn White and Colors\nThese Goods are similar to those manufactured by the late\nNew Westminster Woollen Mills, and guaranteed all wool.\nH. B. SHADWELL & CO.,\n624 &, 626 Columbia Street. New Westminster.\nCampbell & Doherty,\nTHE NEW YORK TAILORS.\nNEW W-FSTMTUSTER, \"B. O.\nThe Cheapest & Largest Tailoring House\nin the Prorince, employing at present\n20 hands.\nWe make men's suits from $8 to $15 cheaper\nthan others, and yot malic more money than \"the old\ntime big profit,\" small business, slow coach Tailors.\nP. O. Box 405.\nTELEPHONE 7-4.\nAT PARNELL * CUNN'S\nthey are selling\n100 lb. Sacks Shorts, $1 25\n100 lb. Sacks Bran, 1 15\n90 lb. sacks rolled Oats, 3 60\n100 lb. sacks of Wheat, 1 5o\n6 lb. Boxes of Tea, 1 lo\n5o lb. mats China Rice, 1 85\nHungarian Flour, S4 70 per barrel\n9 tins Tomatoes, $1 00\n11 tins'Pease, $1 oo\n11 tins Corn, 1 oo\nCeylon Tea, 4o cents per lb\n13 lbs Currants, $1 oo\nAll other Groceries at very Lowest prices for Cash\nFREE DELIVERY TO ANY PART OF THE CITY.\nDon't forget the address:\nOpposite C. P: R. Station, Columbia St\nSoieiig New--Our List.\nAll Wool Business Suits S18. Old price $25.\nIrish Serge, heavy weight 820. \" \" Sho to 85\nFine Worsted Suits. $:;\"> to 835. \" \" J85 to 45\nAll Wool Pants, - $4.50. \" \" 88.50\nThe fact Is we would like to have a look at the\nman who sells cheaper than wo do.\nWaterproof Ulsters & Overcoats\nto order from $14 np.\nCloth sold by the yard. Suits cut and trimmed If\nyou want to make them at home.\nAn Immense stock of Beady Made\nclothing for Men and Hoys.\n.Samples and rules for self measurement sent on\napplication\nYon iiiTflnd us In the Cnrtls Block\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthe Store ilth the Granite Pillars.\nNEW WESTMINSTER, B.G.\nMANUFACTURERS OF\nTimber, Lumber, Shingles, Lath, Pickets, Doors,\nWindows, Frames, Mouldings, Honse Finish,\nMantels, School Seats and Desks,\nFruit and Salmon Boxes,\n&c, &c, &c.\nImporters of Plate, Sheet, and Fancy Glass\nLumber accurately Sawn,\nand\nOrders Promptly Filled.\nD. L YAL