http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0344188
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contributor: W. Blakemore
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1906-01-27
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note: FOR THE Native Sons Ball FEBRUARY 2, 1906 Get your DRESS SUIT from PEDEN 36 FORT STREET The Week TL Provincial Review and Magazine. NEW HOUSES for Sale 3 INSTALMENT PLAN A number ol new homes. Modern ln every respect. Easy monthly instalments. B. C. LAND* INVESTMENT AGENCY, Limited. 40 Government Street. Vol. III. No. 4. <aor~ii VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER, B. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1906. One Dollar Per Annum. -\ WRECK OF VALENCIA. [Dominion Government Cannot Afford Life Saving Stations—Nothing So Cheap as Human Life—Consider the Cost!! On the western slope of that Provinee which is a sea of mountains a fair land, a land of sunshine and flowers, of golden grain and luscious fruit, stretches out its welcoming 1 hand to the stranger, and sings its song of invitation and seduction to the sea-farer. Across the Sound is flung the island of the west, to extend a greeting still further over the blue waters of the Pacific, a veritable island of Avilion. "Set in summer sea," where many a storm-tossed and weather-beaten voyager would "healhim of his "grievous wound.' But the fair vision is a mirage, the siren song is of a . Circe, luring to destruction, for behind the rosy vision of beauteous life towers the grim shadow of the skeleton. With ruthless purpose and relentless grasp death seizes his victim snatehing them from the very lap of the bounteous earth whose rest they ', sought. This is the vision conjured I up by the wreck of the Valencia, a I catastrophe which for the tenth time has plunged the province into mourning, and should cause every Canadian to hang his head with shame. In features of disgrace and humiliation it far transcends all its predecessors. In face of its horrid record of selfishness, neglect, indifference and greed, their most appalling aspects are eclipsed. The daily press is flooded with encomiums for the tugs that were sent just a day too late, for vessels and and captains that undertook the "discomforts" of a night voyage and turned back as soon as th…
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