http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0346494
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issued: 2017-03-07
issued: 1885-04-08
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note: GoTornmoot (tiuuii THE BRITISH COLUMBIAN —18 PUDLHHBD—— Kvcry Wednesday & Saturday, — BI — D. ROBSON & CO. OFFICE COLUMBIA STREET. ENTRANCE TO EDI- loniAUND Business Department through T. r. Pearson A GO'S. Book A Stationery Store. TEBMS-Uf Mall, $3 a your , $1 60 for 0 moa.t $1 lor it mm. i payable in Ailvnnco. Delivered bj Can lor or Agont, 91 per quarter, payable quarterly to Carrier or Agent. AGENTS T.K. Hibben & Co. Victoria. T. R. PEARSOH AGO •;■ ^ALE. TWC PAPER "liy b^.f"l.l.ml' i nio at .,..* . —- _.. acts, P. Howell *Co.'i Hewepnpei AilvortUiug liiiroiiii (10 Sprucu St.), where advii IUIiik contracts may be made for it In NEW VORK. Wat ftitteh dolumbimt. Weilueadny Homing. Aurll 8. MHB. current Events and Opinions. The Peabociy London Fund is doing a noblo work. Tlio trustees received from Mr. Peabody in all £500,000. They have spent since they commenced, 23 years ago, ,£l,- 170,000 in purchasing lands and erecting buildings. They have now over 10,000 rooms occupied byjnore than 18,000 working people. They have borrowed £400,000, of which £50,000 1ms been repaid. When the new buildings at' present in course of erection uro finished the Trust will have a net income of £39,000. The average income of each family occupying tlioso buildings is not quite six dollars a week. Tlio average weekly rent of each dwelling is a little over a dollar. This rent includes the free use of water,laundries, sculleries, and bathroom, Only 74 of the houses have as many as four apartments; 1,600 have three; more than 2,150 have two, and a little over 700 one. In these buildings the birth rates are higher and the death rates lower than in London generally. Tlie thing pays. Why could not other wealthy men follow suit? Such buildings are needed even in Canada, and a better plan for doing good could nob easily be thought of.— Globe. The British Columbian. VOLUME 27 NEW WESTMINSTER, B. 0., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1885. NUMBER 28 In lecturing at Toronto tbe Rev. Dr. Wild referred to tho pro…
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