http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0345746
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issued: 2017-03-07
issued: 1885-01-24
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note: Gomnmoul Gazottr THi B8|T'-^WH COLUMBIAN Every Wednesday & Saturday, & CO — BY — 0, ROBSON OFFICE, OOLUMBIA STREET. EHTIANOE TO EDITORIAL AND Busi hess Department throuok t. r. PiarionACo'I. Book & Stationery Stom. TRkHa»By Hall, |3»ye»n $1B0 forQmoi.i f 1 for 3 mos.; -isyable Id Advance.' DellrbreJ by Carrier or Agent' ll por quarter, pnyablo .quarterly to Carrier or Agent. AGENTS T. N. Hibien A Oo. •'• '' Viotoria. T. R. Pearion & Oo Yale. L. P. FISHER AtWertielag Agent, 21 MorclmtifB Exctiange, San Francieco, in nutboriscd to receive Advertisement* for thia paper. TUIC DA DEB may bu r.,iind on til J HNS rArCll Quo. P. RowellAOo.'i Newipaper Advertising Bureau(10 Spruce Bt.), where aiivertlilng contracts may be made for it In NEW YORK. Wxt §xitish (fotantbum. Saturday Morning, Jan. M, ISM. current Events and Opinions Just as tlie Republican party goes out of power the Washington monument . at Washington reaches its completion. This unspeakably hideous erection boasts that it is the highest structure in the world, though therer are on6 or two chimneys of chemical works in Euglimd which might dispute with it tlm palm of height as well as of beauty. If the Americans had tried to produce satire on their own ideas of art they could not have succeeded better. There is not such another piece or bad taste in the world. Tiie worst of it is that the monument mars, by its oppressive hideousness, the general aspect of a city which is fast growing in beauty as woll qs in social attractions of every kind,— The Week- It is surprising how many people get their ideas warped by not doing their own thinking. Tlio Dominion government declared that so far as their contract with the syndicate was . concerned, it ended, tvt Port Moody, consequently relinquishing to the province the whole of the land lying between that point and the Straits of Georgia. Immediately Mr. Smithe obtained that avowal from the federal authorities he opened communication with the syndicate, or interviewed * its…