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i ir_T_v_T_-__-__rr_in.Y_7nrttT>, Kingsford Smith & Co. ij Stock and Gonoral AUCTIONEERS Commission and Real Estate Agents. 8M Qraaville, 'Vaacoaver. .__ Victoria Edition The Week a British Columbia Review, Published at Vietoria and Vaacoaver B. ©. Vol. V. No. 3 THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1908 There is a limit to all Judicial things and in all probabil- Vagaries. ity the limit of public pati ence with the vagaries of Mr. Justice Martin has about been reached. For more than a year he had pursued a line of conduct with respect to his official duties which most people regard as truculent and some as insubordinate. His action at all times has turned upon the subject of his relations to the Chief Justice. He has made himself a laughing-stock and has brought the judiciary, for whose honour he professes to be so jealous, into contempt, if not into disrepute. • Probably the matter does not present itself in this light to Mr. Justice Martin, and if tliere were finer phraseology in which The AVeek I could honestly state the case it would be I glad to do so, but in this matter the limit lof language, as well as of patience, has J been reached and the only thing left is to call a spade a spade. The Week has beforetime pointed out that in insisting Ion a technical exposition or construction of certain Court rules, Mr. Justice Martin was in reality airing his own dignity at the expense of the public interest. That interest lies in the prompt and economic administration of justice. Any line of j conduct which involves delay and increases [cost is inimical to the public interest. It I not only-renders the procuring of justice [more difficult but it tends to discourage the ■ poorer litigant from pursuing his legitimate rights and so plays into the hands lof the wealthier; if Mr. Justice Martin {has appreciated this important fact, he ■has ignored it. Litigation in this Province is costly enough under any circum- {stances and indeed it is not unlikely that la movement will be started looking for lthe simplification of its administration and [the cheapening of litigation, but this is I another story. The important matter at {present is that, not for the first time, Mr. {Justice Martin has disregarded the instructions of his Chief. He has elected to {appoint the sittings of the Admiralty j Court over which he presides at a time {when they would clash with his duties in {the Assize Court. The proceedings of the {Admiralty Court, though important, pos- Jsess no public interest except for the {parties concerned whilst the Common As- Isize touches the public at many points. {Litigants, witnesses and counsel who jour- lnied to .Nelson to attend the recently an- Inounced Assize had a fool's errand and I incurred some hundreds if not thousands of dollars of expense, all because Mr. Justice Martin differed from liis chief as to I where his duty lay. No one would object if he indulged his vagaries at his own expense so long as they did not affect the public. In fact, harmless individuals of I excellent character and kindly disposition 1 have been known to furnish endless amuse- Iment to the community in which they live I through the exercise of their idiocyncras- |ies; and this without protest even. The {Week does not advocate the limitation of IMr. Justice Martin's entertaining propen- Isities, but it does suggest that the public ■should not be required to "pay the piper," land it further most respectfully suggests Ithat the continued spectacle of a junior lJudge in contumacious defiance of his I^iief is derogatory to the dignity of the Ifjench and inimical to the public interest. iLTitherto Mr. Justice Martin has shielded {himself under the provisions, or liis interpretation of the provisions, of Rule 10. Iln the present case^ he cannot do so and {it will therefore be interesting to know {his line of defense. If he rests his case [on his previous argument the Minister of E DITORl AL Justice should have something to say on the subject. Fire Protection. The Week has always opposed the expenditure of additional money at Elk Lake on the ground set forth in Mr. Adams' Report, that it could not be regarded as a permanent source of supply, and further that it could not afford adequate protection against fire. This has always appeared to The Week to be an unsuperable objection. The ratepayers, by a doubtful majority of one vote, decided in favour of the expenditure and already a supplementary scheme is under consideration for utilizing salt water and installing an independent water system in the business district. This fully justifies the attitude of The AVeek and demonstrates that in order to place the Elk Lake scheme in a fair light for comparison with the other schemes suggested the cost of this supplementary system, some $250,000, should be added to Mr. Adams' estimate. The Week further stated on the highest authority that if the city adopted the Elk Lake scheme, even for two years, and relied on it alone, the fire insurance rates which had been raised 20 per cent, would be still further increased. It is now well known that such increase will take place unless the supplementary system now advocated is adopted. Meanwhile the Board of Trade is lining up for an application in favour of reduced rates, a perfectly reasonable proposition if fire protection had been improved, but one which is not likely to meet with any encouragement from the underwriters unless satisfactory guarantees can be given that some effective auxiliary system will be promptly installed. Since the city cannot retrace its steps it would undoubtedly be good policy to adopt the salt water system. When, later on, a gravity system for the whole city is adopted, the special mains laid for the salt water can be utilized and the pumping plant will be a stand-by in case of difficulty in the supply mains. It is no use crying over spilt milk, and the best way to deal with past mistakes is to rectify them, but every Victorian will be glad when the reproach of the present ridiculous arrangement has been removed. Pumping is surely an anachronism in a city at sea level with large water sheds at elevation within a few miles. Mr. J. A. Aikman is re- Baiting the garded with justice as a Police. successful Police Court lawyer. He handles many cases during the course of a year and into them all he puts every ounce of his energy and skill. Just what the shady gentry who are continually getting into trouble in Victoria would do without Mr. Aikman to defend them, one shudders to think. At times, however, the successful lawyer's zeal outruns his discretion, as during the past week, when he fell foul of Chief Lnngley and liis excellent corps of assistants. Even policemen are not infallible, and the most popular and successful Chief in the Province would be the first to admit that he has his failings, but among those failings no one has ventured to suggest that an attempt to manufacture evidence or hoodwink the Court should be included. It has been reserved for Mr. Aikman to originate the suggestion. Needless to say, it was warmly repudiated by Chief Langley and while it served its purpose of creating a little diversion it may not be amiss to suggest to Mr. Aikman that charges of this kind, unless proven, are apt to operate in the eccentric but effective manner of the boomerang. The annual meeting of the The Pacts Asiatic Exclusion League Of the Case, was held a few days ago in Seattle. It was attended by a large number of delegates from the leading cities in California, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Colorado and Mexico. There was only one exclusionist present from British Columbia, S. Gothard, and he was not a delegate. To the credit of the Vancouver Exclusion League be it said that they refused to send a representative for reasons which will hereafter appear. Mr. Gothard was sent by the Vancouver World, who put up $35.00 to pay his expenses. The reason that the Vancouver branch of the League refused to send a delegate is that they have at last realized that they were being made use of to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for American agitators, and Mr. Gothard went without tlieir endorsation. The Convention met and an effort was made by the Seattle ancl other del eg ,*;es to throw off the domination of the San Francisco clique which has hitherto ruled the League. In pursuance of this policy a Seattle man was elected president. Then the fun began, a whole day and a whole night session resulted in the opposition backing down and surrendering the organization to the San Francisco delegates. The latter then proceeded to nominate and ultimately to carry a complete slate of officers; they did more, they adopted a new title and now rejoice in the name of The North American Asiatic Exclusion League. The whole project is to organize an International movement. It originated in San Francisco and is headed by the most irreconcilable anarchists on the continent. A large fund has been raised, in fact, each delegate to the Seattle convention was allowed transportation and $25.00 a day for expenses. This shows that the League is in funds and that it has influential financial backing. The policy is unmistakable; it is to embroil all western America, including the United States, Mexico and Canada in an Asiatic quarrel. British Columbia members of the Exclusion League have been warned of this by The Week for six months; that tlie warning has not been unheaded is demonstrated by the attitude of the Vancouver League in refusing to send delegates to Seattle. This policy should bc persevered in; let Canadian exclusionists fight their own battle; to become embroiled with American agitators would not only serve no good purpose but would neutralize the effect of peaceful and constitutional action. Tlie logical conclusion of tlie course urged by the American League is that Canadians should appeal against tlieir own government to tliat of the United States. When once this is understood there is no danger that it will receive a moment's consideration and a recital of the above facts, for the accuracy of which The Week vouches, should go a long wny to determine the decision of all loyal Canadians. M<nnnnnnrre« m m-i ■ mm vvna ■o Stewart Williams R.CJtalM £ WILLIAMS & JANION AUCTIONEERS COMMISSION MO HAL CSTATI A6EHTS 11 FO«T ST. VICTORIA, B. C. %_9 fl HBMMW "» 0 so tit set Onb Dolla* Psk Aknu The editorial which ap- Fruit peared in a recent issue of Inspection. The Week on the subject of Fruit Inspection in Victoria has resulted in a chorus of endorsation from aggrieved purchasers, and a visit from the acting Fruit Inspector. The only dissentient voice was raised in the columns of the Colonist, which attacked The Week for making this onslaught, and charged it with being "unreasonable." If it be unreasonable to tell the truth in a matter affecting the public purse and the public health regardless of the consequences to individuals, then is the charge of the Colonist sustained, but sucli considerations have never influenced The Week and never will. The charge made was the result of personal investigation and the sacrifice of sundry dollars to purchase local grown apples, one-half of which was unfit for consumption. In each case the upper layers were large, rosy and attractive, underneath to the extent in some cases of two-thirds of the box the fruit was mean in size and of a quality unfit for consumption. But in truth the acting Fruit Inspector revealed a very interesting state of affairs for which he can hard- ly be held responsible. As the public is probably unaware of the marvellous system of fruit inspection which prevails, it may be as well to state the facts which are that fruit inspection in Victoria is in the hands of three responsible individuals. The one person who inspects a box of fruit as to its grading or can take any action with respect thereto is Mr. Maxwell, the Dominion Fruit Inspector, and his territory covers the whole of Vancouver Island and a large part of the Mainland. If he inspected a box and found the grading all right, though every apple may be infected ' with a pest, though the box may contain rotten fruit, he would be powerless to act—red tape ties him down to grading. Then along comes Mr. Wilkinson, the Provincial Fruit Inspector; his whole duty is to look out for pests. If the apples are free from "codlin moth," "or San Jose scale," or similar insects, he cannot even enter a protest though the apples may range in size from a gooseberry to a cocoa- nut, or though half of them may bo rotten. A third officer who could take action in respect to the condition of the fruit as to soundness, can hardly be held responsible at all, because it would be ridiculous to suppose that Dr. Robertson, the medical health officer, can be expected to go around looking for rotten fruit. If any comes under his notice he has the power to condemn it, and that is all that can bc said. Now was tliere ever such a ridiculous arrangement in a matter affecting public interest? The red tape regulations which divide the responsibility for one box of fruit among three men having nothing in common, and who in no case work together, effectually defeat the object of tlie inspection. Meanwhile, under the present arrangement, fruit of any grade loaded with pest or half-decayed, can be and is foisted on the innocent purchaser pretty much ou the same principle as the fastidious Englishman declined to save a drowning man because they had not been introduced. If after this the Colonist still thinks that the attitude of The Week is unreasonable, the latter has the consolation of knowing that the public will think otherwise. MM THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1908. The Merchants Bank Cana a Established 1864. Capital, fully paid $6,000,000 Reserve Funds 4,000,000 Head Office: Montreal Banking By Mail. Deposits and withdrawals can be made by mail; no delay, and will receive prompt attention. Savings Bank Department. Interest allowed quarterly at highest current rate. Victoria Branch: K. P. TAYLOR, Manager. phical work, entitled "The Will to Doubt," by Professor Alfred H. Lloyd, of the University of Michigan. Who Are Our Scholars? Owen Wister found himself the centre of a vigorous controversy as a result of his( address on American scholarship, delivered at Harvard a few weeks ago. It now appears, however, that the criticism directed at Mr. Wister was the. result of misrepresentation in a press despatch from Boston printed in a number of news papers, which said that Mr, Wister had declared that there were only three scholars in America. He actu ally mentioned forty-one American scholars. Since then, in defense of his assertions with regard to the position of the American scholar according to European standards, Mr. Wister has elaborated a list of the most eminent scholars in the world, in which he in eluded three Americans—Dr. Henry Charles Lea, author of "A History of the Inquisition," Professor Simon Newcomb, and Professor Maurice Bloomfield. Literary Notes. Some Promised Poetry. Pessimists about present-day literature will find food for thought in the list of books in poetry and belles-lettres announced for publication this Spring by the Macmillan Company. The list is specially remarkable as containing the names of four writers who stand at the head in Enlish poetry to-day, in addition to one great name from the past. The promise of hitherto unknown poems by Tennyson, as well as of a series of his own notes o his works, is perhaps of the greatest significance. Then ther is a new volume of poems by Alfred Noyes, generally held to be the. most promising of thc younger generation in England, and new dramas by Stephen Phillips and William Butler Yeats. Mr. Phillips has written a "Faust," which is to be produced in London by Mr. Beerbohm Tree, before the close of the present season. Mr. Yeats' new drama, "The Unicorn from the Stars," whicli he wrote in collaboration with Lady Gregory, ha_, already been played in Dublin, and will be published in a volume along with "Kathleen Ni Houlahan," and a' revised edition of "The Hour Glass." The American drama is represented in this list by Mr. Percy McKaye, with "The Scarecrow," the first prose drama from his hand to be published. Of books that may fairly lay claim to the title of literature, one of the most important in this list will doubt- ' less be Mr. Fielding Hal's "The Inward Light." Many readers will remember Mr. Hall's earlier book, "The Soul of a People," in which he gave a picture of Burma and the Burmese, done with such sympathy and perception as allied him with the late La_- cadio Hearn. His new book is defined as an attempt to determine the essential truth that underlies thc Eastern faith called Buddhism. Another work that will be accepted as literature is the third volume of the scries of Collected Essays by Frederic Harrison, of which two volumes have already been issued. Mr. Hamilton W. Mabie has edited a volume of twelve stories described as Types of the Best Fiction, which are to be published with thc title, "Famous Short Stories: English and American." A second volume of Professor Saints- btiry's brilliant "History of English Prosody" is also promised, and in the same li sf,orlckat? m s.slySshrdltiuu same list, for lack of a more convenient classification, may be included the first complete translation of the "Celebrated Crimes" of Alexandre Dumas. Ine loscly allied fields thc Macmillan Company offers such hooks as "Monuments of Christian Rome," by Professor A. L. Frothingham, of Princeton University; "Thc Evolution of Modern Orchestration," by Louis Adolphc Cocrne; and a new volume in the revised edition of Grove's famous "Dictionary of Music and Musicians." "The Will to Doubt." The Macmillan Company will publish this week an important philoso- STUART LAKE LAND DISTRICT. District of Omineca. TAKE NOTICE that George B. Watson, of Fort Steele, B.C., occupation Miner, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands:— Commencing at a post planted about 20 chains north of the north shore of Stuart Lake, about 29 miles west of Fort St. James; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated November 24th, 1907. Feb. 15 GEORGE B. WATSON STUART LAKE LAND DISTRICT. District of Omineca. TAKE NOTICE that George B. Watson, of Fort Steele, B.C., occupation Miner, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands:— Commencing at a post planted on the north side of Stuart Lake about 29 miles west of Fort St. James and on the eat line of my location No, 1; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence west SO chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more oi* less Dated November 24th, 1907. Feb. 15 GEORGE B. WATSON. STUART LAKE LAND DISTBICT. District of Omineca. TAKE NOTICE that George B. Watson, of Fort Steele, B.C., occupation Miner, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands:— Commencing at a post planted on the north side of Stuart Lake about 30 miles west of Fort St. James and at the northwest corner of my location No. 2; thence north 80 chains; thence east SO chains; thence south 80 chains; thence west 80 ehains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated November 24th, 1907. Feb. 15 GEORGE B. WATSON. STUART LAKE LAND DISTRICT. District of Omineca. TAKE NOTICE that George B. Watson, of Fort Steele, B.C., occupation Miner, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands:— Commencing at a post planted on the west bank of Tather River, about four miles up the river, above the Tather Indian Village, thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; more or less to river bank; thence following river' up stream to point of commencement and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated November 21st, 1907. Feb. 15 GEORGE B. WATSON. STUART LAKE LAND DISTRICT District of Omineca. TAKE NOTICE that George B. Watson, of Fort Steele, B.C., occupation Miner, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following de scribed lands:— Commencing at a post planted on the north shore of the north arm of Stuart Lake, about 6 miles easterly from the head of said arm; thence north 40 chains; thence west 160 chains; thence south 40 chains; more or less to Lake shore; thence east following shore line to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated November 26th, 1907. Fob. 15 GEORGE B. WATSON. Commencing at a post planted on the north side of Stuart Lake about 32 miles west of Fort St. James on the south line of timber licence staked in my name on October 26th, 1907; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence north 80 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated November 26th, 1907. Feb. 16 GEORGE B. WATSON. STUART LAKE LAND DISTRICT. District of Omineca. TAKE NOTICE that George B. Watson, of Fort Steele, B.C., occupation Miner, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands:— Commencing at a post planted on the north side of Stuart Lake, about three miles west of Fort St. James; thence north 40 chains; thence east 160 chains; thence south 40 chains; thence west 160 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated November 29th, 1907. Feb. 15 GEORGE B. WATSON. SKEENA LAND DISTRICT. District of Coast. . TAKE NOTICE that William Rose, of Ingersol, Ont., Merchant, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described land: Commencing at a post planted about two miles south of Refuge Bay, on the west coast of Porcher Island and at the northwest corner of lot 1282, Cassiar district; thence east 80 chains; thence north 20 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south following coast line to point of cammencement, containing 160 SLCT0S WILLIAM ROSS. Jan 11. A. O. Noake, Agent. SKEENA LAND DISTRICT. District of Coast. TAKE NOTICE that Arthur Noakes, of Viotoria, B.C., occupation Civil Engineer, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described land—on Porcher Island: Commencing at a post planted at the northwest corner of Lot 1292, about 2 miles distant and in a southeasterly direction from Jap Bay; thence north 40 chains; thence east 40 chains; thence south 40 chains; thence west 40 chains to point of commencement, containing 160 acres, more or less. Dated Dec. 20th, 1907. Jan. 18 ARTHUR NOAKES. STUART LAKE LAND DISTRICT. District of Omoneca. TAKE NOTICE that George B. Watson, of Fort Steele, B.C., occupation Prospector, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: Commencing at a post planted on the north side of Stuart Lake, about 32 miles west of Fort St. James, thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains, to place of commencement. Dated October 26th, 1907. Feb. 1 GEO. B. WATSON. STUART LAKE LAND DISTRICT. District of Omineca. TAKE NOTICE that George B. Watson of Fort Steele, B.C., occupation Prospector, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: Commencing at a post planted on the north side of Stuart Lake, about 33 miles west of Fort St. James and 15 chains north of the southwest corner of my application No. 1; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thenoe south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains to place of commencement. Dated October 26th, 1907. Feb. 1 GEORGE B. WATSON. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT District of Renfrew. TAKE NOTICE that Harvey Waters, of Victoria, B.C., occupation Timber Cruiser, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: Claim No. 7—Commencing at a post planted south five and one-half miles and east six miles of W. C. Nelson and H. Waters' post of their No. 1 claim on Cheewhat Lake; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains to point of commencement. H. WATERS. Located on 26th August, 1907. STUART LAKE LAND DISTRICT. District of Omineca. TAKE NOTICE that George B. Watson, of Fort Steele, B.C., occupation Miner, Intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands:— Commencing at a post planted on east bank of Sowchca Creek, about \_ mlles south of the south line of the Indian Reserve at the south end of Stuart Lake; thence east 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains to point of commencement and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated November 16th, 1907. Feb. 16 GEORGE B. WATSON. STUART LAKE LAND DISTRICT. District of Omineca. TAKE NOTICE that George B. 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I am now ready to fulfil any orders for all kinds of Banks, Stores, Offices, Churches, Barber Shops and Hotel Bar Fixtures and Furniture. 1000 •ruvUle Street 11 11 it 11 11 TJJTOOOTrn, B. O. _ LsOAXB, »re»rletor. Investigate the "Cushman" flarine flotorl As good as the best. Cheaper than the rest. BAXTER & JOHNSON 811 Government Street Victoria, B. C. THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1908 Correspondence. The Week accepts no responsibility tor the views expressed by Its correspondents. J The columns of The Week are open to everyone for the free expression of their opinion on all subjects which do riot Involve religious controversy. Communications will be Inserted ■whether signed by the real name of [the writer or a nom de plume, but the ■writer's name and address must be Igiven to the editor as an evidence of ■bona tides. In no case will lt be ■divulged without consent. Shall the Bank Act Be Revised? As everyone, in any way connected I with the business life of Canada, has been, more or less, affected by the I monetary stringency so generally felt during the past six months, I have no doubt that any discussion of our banking methods and the clauses of the Bank Act will prove interesting at I the present time. In the first place, why should Can- I ada be affected, to the extent that she lis, in consequence of a panic in New I York? It is not an answer to say that the I monetary stringency has been worldwide, and that all countries have been I seriously influenced by these condi- I tions. Such an answer does not touch |the root of the matter. The unscrupulous manipulations of Istock-jobbing capitalists on the New I York Stock Exchange—the exploitation of the savings or the wealth of [the people, till prices have no relation Ito values, resulted in a slump, which (rapidly became panic when it was I found that public confidence had been I so abused as to be at last completely I destroyed. The withdrawal of bank I deposits all over the country followed. People preferred to hoard their I money rather than leave it in the Ibanks. To meet these demands realizations became imperative, and every ■ attempt to realize securities accentu- lated the panic by still further con- [tributing to a steadily declining mar- Iket. Banking houses, unable to meet (demands upon them by borrowing ■abroad, and consequently being com- Ipelled to realize on their securities at ■prices infinitely below what they had Icost, were obliged to close their Idoors. The immense shipments of gold Ifrom London to New York, causing la steady and unprecedented rise in lthe discount rate of the Bank of Eng- lland, and the great continental banks, Iwas the result of the closing out of lthe foreign balances of American [houses, and also represented the pro- Iceeds of foreign loans to American Ibanks. Thus the fever of financial fear runs fits course and is gradually allayed, Ithen confidence begins to return, and (when the turning point is reached re- Icovery is rapid and conditions soon I become normal. That the currency laws of the Unit- led States are unscientific is generally (admitted, and even an improved and [ scientifically balanced currency will not do away with the cause of panics. It can only fortify the country against I their ultimate and at all times evil effects. The improvement of the currency regulations is a remedy, not a cure. The cure, and I believe there is I only one, is to regulate and control the stock exchange operations; and to declare certain classes of operations I not only illegal but criminal. There can be no interference with lthe legitimate fluctuations of the mar- Iket as regulated by demand and sup- Iply, or other natural conditions, but lall artificial manipulations, by means lof combinations, trickery or fraud, ■should be crushed out with an iron ■hand. This will, of course, be a difficult (undertaking, but not an impossible ■nne, in any country, except perhaps in pe United States, wher capital is all- Jpowerful and monopoly rampant, and IVvhere, unfortunately, the people are Inot interested in a proper and just ladministration of law. It goes without saying that Canada Imust, to a certain limited extent, bc [influenced by such conditions in the (United States, because of the intim- (ate commercial and financial relations between the two countries, but this influence is largely sympathetic. In reality, Canada is independent of American conditions, and when we see a money panic in New York having the effect of paralysing Canadian commerce and putting a stop to the natural and healthy expansion of Canadian trade, owing to the inability of the banks to meet the legitimate and reasonable business requirements of the people, an enquiry into the whole system of Canadian banking methods and practise becomes of the first importance. Consider for one moment the far- reaching and distressing effects upon the whole country when it is plunged into a condition of financial chaos, resulting from a partial collapse of the banking system. That recent events in New York did bring about a very grave state of things in Canada does not require to be argued. ■ If there had not been a partial breakdown in our banking system, there would have been no monetary stringency in Canada. The breakdown in our banking system is proved by the fact that practically all usual banking accommodation was discontinued for several months—during the panic—and only now, when the financial storm has spent its force, and conditions are slowly returning to the normal, are our banks beginning to assume their ordinary functions. It must not be supposed that this suggested enquiry will in any sense resolve itself into an attack upon the banks or the banking system of the country. The object of the enquiry would be to clearly understand the causes of the recent monetary stringency, in so far as Canada has been and is still affected by it; and to devise means by which the commercial and industrial interests of the Dominion can be secured against the loss, stagnation and distress which must otherwise result from the recurrence of the conditions we have just come through. While any drastic interference with the rights and privileges of the banks of Canada is not now advocated, it is essential at least that their methods should be clearly understood so that, if necessary, their policy may be judiciously controlled by the Government in the public interest. It is, of course, in every way desirable that any contemplated changes in the Bank Act shall interfere as little as possible with the powers now enjoyed by the banking corporations. The objects of the enquiry should be: 1. To protect the public interest. 2. To enlarge the scope and power of banks and to facilitate their operations. 3. To increase the banking capital of the country and the circulation of bank notes, so that the banks can meet the demands of the expanding trade of the country. To this end I submit the following suggestions for consideration and discussion: 1. That all chartered banks in Canada be compelled to call up the whole of their authorized capital, thus providing several millions of money to carry the increasing trade of the country. 2. That the organization of new banks be permitted with a minimum capitalization of $250,000—the whole to be paid up in full before the bank- is authorized to begin business. 3. That the banks collectively be compelled to insure their deposits by the payment to the Receiver-General of a tax computed on the sum total of the average deposits, and that the money so paid shall constitute "The Bank Depositors' Insurance Fund." 4. That the double liability of bank shareholders be abolished, because it is inexpedient and unnecessary. 5. That the chartered banks in Canada be not permitted to lend any part of their Canadian deposits outside of the Dominion, except when by special representations made to the Treasury Board, they are, by an order-in-coun- cil, permitted to do so for particular purposes and for limited periods. 6. That all chartered banks shall make a special monthly return to the Department of Finance, showing their total loans and total deposits in c.ieii province of Canada. 7. That the banks be authorized co issue notes against and equal to, but not in excess of the sum total oi their combined paid-up capital and reserve, subject to all of the regulations a'ov- eming the issue of bank notes. 8. That the following words bc eliminated from Clause No. 76, subsection 2, paragraph C, to wit: "Or upon the security of any goods, wares and merchandise"—because it is not e>; pedient to restrict the lending powers of a bank so long as its loans are secured by assets,* readily convertible into cash. 9. That the word "wholesale" be struck out of Clause No. 88—wherever it now appears—so that the clause may be enlarged to cover the requirements of all dealers and shippers whatsoever, and not limited in its application to wholesale dealers and shippers only. 10. That Clause No. 91, governing the rate of interest, be struck out, because it is ineffective and unscientific, and not in harmony with modern economic principles. 11. That an annual inspection of-the head offices of all chartered banks be undertaken by the Department of Finance. W. J. HOLT MURISON. that; I could even love your money apart from you." "Quite right, darling, I want you always to separate me and my money in your thoughts." Nodd—What does this money stringency mean, anyway? Todd—Why, the thing has simply spread from me to the whole country. —Life. "Robert, this spelling paper is very- poor," complained the small boy's teacher. "Nearly every wordi s marked wrong." "It wouldn't have been so bad," protested Robert; "but Annie corrected my paper, and she's mad at me, and for every little letter that I got wrong she crossed out the whole word."— Lippincott's. [ TRAVELLERS' GUIDE ] VICTORIA Our Store HAS A FINE LINE OF HIGH CLASS TOILET ARTICLES. We have just imported a fine assortment of French and English Hair Brushes. SEE THE NEW-SHAPED WHALEBONE BRUSH. USE BOWES* BUTTERMILK TOLIET LOTION FOR CHAPPED HANDS. Cyrus H. Bowes CHEMIST Qovernment Street, near Yates St. VICTORIA. B. C. STRAND HOTEL VICTORIA The home »t nil theatrical and r.ude-f lie artists while in tbe Capital city, abo of other kindred bohemiana. WRIQHT & FALCONER, Preprlotera. CAMBORNE The Eva Hotel CAMBORNE, B. C. Headquarters for mining men and commercial travellers. JOHN A. THEW, Proprietor. BANFF, ALTA Hotel King Edward Banff's Most Popular $2 a Dav Hotel. Close to Station and Sulphur Baths. N. K. LUXTON, Proprietor. PHOENIX. Had a Fellow. The effort of the Ladies' Home Journal to prod pastors and church members to greater effusiveness in welcoming strangers to public services may lead to overdoing hospitality in various ways. One of these ways was revealed to a warm-hearted Western pastor. Coming down from the pulpit after the evening sermon, he found a stranger in the person of a fair-haired Swede, and, greeting her with a cordial handclasp, said: "I am very glad to see you; I want you to feel at home here. I'd like to become acquainted with you. If you'll give your address I'll call and see you." "Thank you," she replied, "but I have a fellow."—Congregationalism BOND SIGN CO. VANCOUVER Signs ELECTRIC BOARD METAL BULLETIN GLASS COTTON SHOW CARD In up-to-date styles. Estimates and designs furnished. And So They Were Married. ! The Heiress—And would you love1 me if I lost all my money? | The Count (earnestly) — Dearest, in that case what else would there be for me to love? "But are you sure you love me quite apart from my money?" (More earnestly)—"Move than HOLLY TREES PrfcM fr-Mi lg mm* _» few, Mcording to rise Deane's Hotel PHOENIX, B. C. New Modern hot water system. Electric lighted. Tub aad showei baths and laundry ln connection. The miners' home. •< DANNY " DEANE. Proprietor ROSSLAND Hoffman House ROSSLAND, B. C. Rates $1.00 per day and up. Cafe in Connection. QREEN & SH1TH. Prop's. NELSON. HOTEL HUME NELSON, B. C, Leading Hotel of th* Kootenays. J. FRED HUME, - Proprietor. Silver King Hotel, NELSON, B. C. The home ot tbe Industrial Workers of the Kootenays. W. E. ricCandlish, Proprietor Royal Hotel NELSON, B. C. The Best Family Hotel in ths City. $1.80 a day. Mrs. Wm. Roberts, Proprietress Write ier iced Mi tret tste- JAY & CO. VICTORIA, B. C. KING WILLIAM IV. V. 0. P. The Very Oldest Scotch Whisky Procurable. This is a blend of the rarest selected old Scotch Whiskies to be found in Scotland. It is pronounced by experts to be singularly rich in those compound ethers—only developed in the finest spirits by great age—which impart the delicacy of flavor and constitute the elegance of bouquet so much prized by connoisseurs. To the gourmet it is offered as a substitute for the old liqueur Brandies shipped from Cognac prior to the destruction of the vineyards by phylloxera. Call for King William IV. V. 0. P. at any first- class hotel, bar, cafe or club. If your dealer cannot supply you for home use.jkindly telephone PITHER & LEISER Sole Agents for B. C. Corner Fort and Wharf Streets. BEDDING PLANTS Cheap Prices. Get our price list. Johnston's Seed Store City Market VICTORIA Victoria FRUIT and Farm Lands Write for "Home List" and information. R. S. DAY and BEAUMONT BOQGS Realty Broken. SQO POBT STBIET ll TIOTOBIA. TXOMAS OATTCBAXI. ■alitor aa* ••■•ral C.atraoWr. Tenders glvm an Brick, Ston* an Frame, Alteration.. Parquetry Fleorlni Oflce, Bank. 8t*r« and Baleen Fitting* Pll* Driving, Wharf.s and Dack Shed constructed and repaired. mm THE WEEK, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15, 1908 Incorporated IMS Capital. ISOO.MO.tl Capital increased ln 1*07 to ...ia.ooo.MMi Subscribed Capital. fliCttl Reserve . . IM.OOO Surplua, Jan. ,M, 1»67 . . $180,000 J. a. 1U.TUXS, Oan. ___*. ik closino up estates either as Executors or Assignees the Dominion Trust Co., Ltd., Is never Influenced by ulterior motives. Their entire ambition, effort, and energy ls directed towards securing the best possible returns for all concerned. Name this company executor in your will. Blank will forms furnished free of charge and stored In our safety deposit vaults, when we are made your executor. DOMINION TRUST CO., Limited. 338 Hastings St, West. Vancouver, B. C. The Week A Provincial Review and Uacaxlao, published every Saturday by "THE.1WEEK" PUBLISHING COMPANY, LIMITED. Published at VICTORIA and VANCOUVER Sltt Government Street..Victoria, B.C. ill Hasting* St Vancouvor, B.C. W. BLAKBMORE. .Manager and Editor Independence and Partizanship. Evidences are not wanting that the next few years are likely to witness a decided strengthening of the note of independence which has been recently heard in the Canadian press. I want to make it clear at the outset that by independence I do not mean a repudiation of party obligations, but the cultivation of a method of looking at public affairs in a manner which will not subordinate public interest to the exigencies of party. In this respect an evolution is taking place in popular sentiment. In the early days the only means of financing a newspaper was by drawing on the party funds. The system still survives, but it is neither as widespread nor as absolute as it was twenty years ago. With increased prosperity and the accumulation of wealth that large section of tbe community which is not hidebound in its political allegiance is rapidly increasing. The men who claim all the virtues for their own party and who ascribe all the vices to the oposition, are diminishing in number, although the race will not become extinct until the millenium dawns. This unreasoning defence of a party or of a government under all circumstances, cannot be justified upon any ground. To argue otherwise is to assert the infallibility of parties and governments. There is an old proverb which runs, "Faithful are the wounds of a friend," and on this principle it is difficult to understand why even a party organ should not offer fair criticism when it is deserved. It is impartiality which alone gives weight to criticism. The extremes to which newspapers have gone in upholding every action of the party they are associated with has not only weakened their influence, but strengthened the demand for a more independent note. Such an attitude is not inconsistent with strict party obligations. If a paper is anything more than a mere mouth organ, it must do something for itself. Whether it be a Conservative or a Liberal organ, it has behind it a great historic past, and it should have political convictions. Those convictions should be permanent, and if so the paper will remain faithful to its ideal. It will always be recognized as a Conservative or a Liberal paper; it will stand for the political principles with which in the main it is identified, and along those lines may become a leader of public opinion. But this does not preclude that lofty conception of its calling which will lead it to set principles before party and to refuse to sacrifice the former at the bidding of the latter. This is the difference between independence and partizanship; the one is receptive, the other is obstinate. The time comes in the history of every political newspaper when it has to decide between independence and partizanship. That period is reached when the government of the day is faithless to its pledges or violates principle. The servile press will continue to endorse and to flatter as usual, because it is servile. The party press, none the less anxious for the permanent success of its party, but alive also to its responsibilities to the public and its regard for principle, will not hesitate to censure its friends, not for their undoing, but for the upholding of the principles upon which the permanent influence of the party depends. There are papers in Canada to-day which have been strong enough and wise enough to adopt this attitude; their circulation is increasing and they are self-supporting. Such well-known papers as the Montreal Gazette, the Hamilton Spectator, the Toronto Daily News, and Saturday Night, whilst preserving their political complexion, have not hesitated to speak out very emphatically in denunciation of the policy of tlieir party. No one suspects them of weakening or charges them with infidelity, although professional politicians condemn their action as inconvenient; but the people applaud and frank criticism pays even from the standpoint of the party manager, whose unit of valuation is the vote. A political newspaper must in the main defend the party with which it is associated; that it should do so under all circumstances is a proposition which cannot be maintained, and if it could the greatest loser would be the party. X Social and * __ Personal. J Mr. Joseph Hunter was a passenger to the mainland on Sunday night. * * * Miss Ruby Fell entertained a few friends at dinner on Saturday evening last. * * st- Captain Rogers of Pier Island has been a visitor at the Balmoral during the week. * * * Miss Belle Roberts came down from Vancouver on Wednesday evening after attending the wedding of her friend, Miss Annie Spence, formerly of this city. * * * The last session of the Private Skating Club was held on Tuesday afternoon at the rink on Fort Street. Some of the skaters present were Miss Margaret Rickaby, Mr. Holmes, Miss Winona Troupe, Mr. H.arvey, Miss Mason, Miss Doris Mason, Mr. Troupe, Mr. J. Arbuckle, Mr. Fred. Rome, Mr. Stillwell, Miss Johnson, Miss Little, and Mr. W. Barton. * * * A wedding of interest to Victorians took place in New Westminster two weeks ago at Holy Trinity Cathedral between Mr. Gordon Corbould and Miss Maud Charleson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Charleson of Vancouver. The Rev. A. Shildrick officiated. Mr. Corbould is a brother- in-law of Mr. Ethelbert Scholefield, the Provincial Librarian, of this city. * * * All those attending the Fancy Dress Ball at thc Empress next week are requested to register their names and the character they represent in the book which will'bc provided specially for this object. * * * Mrs. 0. M. Jones, Fort Street, gave an impromptu dance on Friday (.veiling of last week. The supper table was superbly arranged with yellow daffodils. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Bodwell, Mr. and Mrs. Spring- hett, Justice and Mrs. Irving, Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie, Mrs. Fall, Mr. and Mrs. A. Crease, Mr. and Mrs. Prentice, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver, Dr. and Mrs. Helmcken, Dr. Hasell, Dr. and Mrs. Robertson, Dr. and Mrs. War- son, Colonel A. W. Jones. * * # Miss Tuck of Roccahella entertained a number of friends at tea on Saturday afternoon last. A profile guessing competition afforded a great deal of amusement; the prize for which was won by Miss Ethel Pitts, who guessed the greatest number correctly. Some of the invited guests were the Misses LeSueur, Mrs. Pearce, Miss Miles, Mrs. Peace, Miss Mackay, Miss G. Mackay, Miss Gillespie, Miss Keast, Miss Barbara Keast, Miss Rochester, Miss Monteith, Miss Tiny Monteith, Miss Little, Miss King, Miss Newcombe, Miss Blackwood, Miss Langley, Miss Perry, Miss Irving, Miss Genevieve Irving, Miss Phipps, Miss Barron, Miss Bullen, Miss Williams, Miss Mary Lawson, Miss W. Wilson, Miss Johnson, Miss Hanington, Miss Earle, Miss L. Earle, Miss Cann, Miss McKeown, Miss Angus, Miss Amy Angus, Miss Tilton, Miss Ethel Tilton, Miss Browne, Miss Fitzgibbons, Miss P. Drake, Miss Trenchard, Miss Day, Miss Griffiths, Miss Newton, Miss Child, Miss Helmcken, Miss V. Wilson, Miss Kitto, Miss Holmes, Miss Saunders and Mademoiselle Kerpez- dron.' * * * Mrs. H. Helmcken gave a very charming tea at the Empress last Tuesday. The decorations on the tea tables were most elaborate, being carried out in pale pink carnations and asparagus fern. Among the guests were: Mrs. Roy Troupe, Mrs. W. R. Higgins, Hon. J. S. Helmcken, Bishop Cridge, Chief Justice and Mrs. Hunter, Hon. D. M. Eberts, Miss Cridge, Attorney-General and Mrs. Bowser, Hon. Dr. Young, Premier and Mrs. McBride, Mrs. G. A. McTavish, Mrs. Bullen, Captain and Mrs. Troupe, Misses McTavish, Miss Bullen, Miss Troupe, Misses Helmcken.. Mrs. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Troupe, Mr. and Mrs. King, Mrs. McLagan, Mrs. Hobson, Mrs. and Miss Savage, Misses Leiser, Mrs. R. Jones.. Mrs. Lampman, Mrs. Laundy, Mrs. J. Harvey, Mrs. Blackwood and many others. * * * On Wednesday afternoon Mrs. F. Higgins was hostess at a tea given in the Empress. Among the guests were Mrs. J. R. Anderson, Mrs. Berkeley, Mrs. T. S. Gore, Mrs. W. S. Gore, Mrs. Beaven, Mrs. Laing, Mrs. Archer Martin, Mrs. Prior, Mrs. King, Mrs. J. H. Todd, Mrs. Atkins, Mrs. Worlock, Mrs. Troupe, Mrs. R. Dunsmuir, Miss Schubert, Mrs. B. Tye, Mrs. Luxton, Mrs. Freeman, Mrs. Little, Mrs. B. Heisterman, Mrs. Brett, Mrs. Ker, Mrs. G. Wilson, Mrs. McBride, Mrs. B. Wilson, Mrs. Lamp- man, Mrs. J. Wilson, Mrs. Blackwood, Mrs. Raymour, Mrs. Black- lock, Mrs. Rome, Mrs. C. Todd, Mrs. Morley, Mrs. McB. Smith, Mrs. Munn. Mrs. H. Heisterman, Mrs. H. Kent Mrs. Cleland, Mrs. Wolfenden, Mrs. Lugrin, Mrs. Shaw, Mrs. Richardson. Mrs. Courtney, Mrs. Rycot, Mrs. Ackman, Mrs, W. Higgins, Mrs. McTavish, and the Misses S. Blackwood, M. Lawson, Chute, Holmes Lugrin. * * * Mrs. Charles E. Pooley, Lampson street, gave an At Home in honour of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Charles Pooley, who is at present her guest. Among the guests were Mrs. Waghorn, Mrs. H. Pooley, Mrs. Punnett, Mrs. Pierce, Mrs. Tilton, Mrs. McCallum, Capt. and Mrs. Reed, Rear Admiral Fleet and Mrs. Fleet, Mr. and Mrs. McCallum, Mr. and Mrs. Bridgeman, Mrs. McGill, Mrs. McBride, Mrs. F. Pemberton, Mrs. Prothero, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. R. Robertson, Mrs. Herman Robertson. T. Barnard, Mr. Harold Robertson, Mrs. Luxton, Mr. R. Jones, Mr. Innes, Mrs. C. Gibson, Mrs. Worsfold, Mrs. Arundel, Mrs. Janion, Mrs. R. Janion. Mrs. Stevenson, Mrs. Hollyer, Mrs. V. Eliot, Mrs. A. Gillespie, Mrs.. Phillips, Mrs. George Gillespie, Mrs. Lampman, Mrs. J. Harvey, Mrs. Butchart, Mrs. T. S. Gore, Mrs. McKenzie, Mrs. Good, Mrs. S. Simpson, Mrs. O. M. Jones, Mrs. Talk, Mrs. Crowe-Baker, Mrs. R. Wilson, Mrs. Peters, Mrs. A. Crease and the Misses Tilton, E. Tilton, H. Peters, Pitts, Drake, Monteith, P. Irving, Baynes- Reed, Keast, Bell, Fosterfi Boulton Holmes, Butchart, Hanington, Clute and others. Notice. Do not forget the Charity Ball at the Empress on the 18th inst. That is Tuesday next. It will be the event of the season and everybody will bc there. If you admire youth, beauty and luxurious surroundings do not miss it. If you wish to aid St. Joseph's Hospital go for Charity's sake. "JEWELRY COSTUMING." The wonderful blending of tones this season in Precious and semi-precious Stones appeals forcibly to the choice dresser. In our immense stock she will appreciate at a glance the harmony between a Montana sapphire and a piece of electric blue velvet; she can readily recognize the fact that among garnets she is sure to find a match for her red gown; for her lavendar reception gown she will know the shade of amethyst to select, and for the Soft Neutral Tints of Evening Gowns | the gently tinted moonstone, pearl and diamond, pearl and tourmaline, with the lovely art finish, gold mount; Parisian pearl collars with brilliant-set bars or Parisian collars in irdescient beads or Baroque pearl will be revealed as eminently suitable. 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In no other way can you hear this entertainment in your home, except on the Victor and Berliner Gram-o-phone. The world's foremost -layers and singers make Victor \ Records only, and the Victor and Berliner Gram-o-phone \'*tJ$\ plays them as no other instrument can. v V*_» 9t\. explain the easy-payment plan. \ ^j,t?-<<>\. Write us on the coupon for catalogue fe. \ *_%> vV and full information. The Berliner Gram-o-pbom ^ Company of Canada, Ltd, mutual. You can always _— ^^ It tastes different tell an M. B. cigar jY|# L$« than others. Cigar Made by S. A. Bantly, Victoria, B. C. Union Made. Havana Filler. Two Sizes. Sold Everywhere. THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1908. VICTOBIA LAND DISTBICT. District of Goldstream. TAKE NOTICB that Frank Buffiing- ton Vrooman of Victoria, B.C., occupation Gentleman, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: Commencing at a post planted twenty chains north of the northeast corner of section 12, thence forty chains north, one hundred and twenty chains west, forty chains south and one hundred and twenty chains east to point of commencement. Dated 21st December, 1907. FRANK BUFFINGTON VBOOMAN, Jan 18 B. W. Wilkinson. VICTOBIA LAND DISTBICT. District of Goldstream. TAKE NOTICE that Frank Bufflngton Vrooman of Victoria, B.C., occupation Gentleman, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: Commencing at a post planted at the northwest corner of section 21, thence eighty chains east, eighty chains south, eighty chains west and eighty chains north to point of commencement. Dated 21st December, 1907. FBANK BUFFINGTON VBOOMAN, Jan 18 B. W. Wilkinson. VICTOBIA LAND DISTBICT. District of Goldstream. TAKE NOTICE that Frank Bufflngton Vrooman of Victoria, B.C., occupation Gentleman, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: Commencing at a post planted at the northeast corner of section 20, thence eighty chains west, eighty chains south, eighty chains east and eighty chains north to place of commencement. Dated 21st December, 1907. FBANK BUFFINGTON VBOOMAN, Jan 18 B. W. Wilkinson. VICTOBIA LAND DISTBICT. District of Benfrew. TAKE NOTICE that T. M. Baird and S. Wood of Victoria, occupation Timber Cruisers, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: Claim No. 1—Commencing at a post planted 80 chains west of southwest corner of Timber Limit No. 3193, thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence west 80 chains to point of commencement. Located 7th Dec, 1907. THOMAS MILEB BAIED. STANLEY WOOD. I Jan 18 VICTOBIA LAND DISTBICT. District of Benfrew. TAKE NOTICE that T. M. Baird and S. Wood of Victoria, occupation, Timber Cruisers, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: IClaim No. 2—Commencing* at a posl planted SO cliains west of southwest corner o£ Timber Limit No. 1311)3; thence north SO chains; thence west SU chains; thonce south 80 chains; thenco east SO chains to point of commencement. Located 7th December, 1.107. THOMAS MILLER BAIKI). STAN LEX WOOD. I.Ian 18 VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Renfrew. TAKE NOTICE that T. M. Baird and Js. Wood of Victoria, occupation Timber [Cruiser, intends to apply for a special ■timber licence over the following del-scribed lands: IClaim No. 3—Commencing at a post planted 80 chains west of southwest corner of Timber Limit No. 13193; thence east 160 chains; thence south 40 chains; thenee west 60 chains; thence north 40 chains to point of commencement. Located 7th December, 1907. THOMAS MILLER BAIED. STANLEY WOOD. VICTOBIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Benfrew. TAKE NOTICE that T. M. Baird and ■S. Wood of Victoria, occupation Timber ■Cruisers, intends to apply for a special ■timber licence over the following described lands: I Claim No. 6—Commencing at a post ■planted 40 chains west of the north-west corner of Timber Limit No. 18644, Ithence north 160 chains; thence east 40 Johalns; thence south 160 chains; thence |west 40 chains to point of commenee- nent. Located 8th December, 1907. THOMAS MILLER BAIED. STANLEY WOOD. Jan 18 VICTOBIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Benfrew. TAKE NOTICE that T. M. Baird and S. Wood of Victoria, occupation Timber Cruisers, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: Claim No. 6—Commencing at a post planted 40 chains west and 10 chains south of the southwest corner of timber limit No. 18646, thence west 40 chains; thence north 40 chainB; thence west 80 chains; thence south about 60 chains; thence easterly along shore 120 chains; thence north about 60 chains to point of commencement. Located 9th December, 1907. THOMAS MILLEB BAIBD. STANLEY WOOD. I Jan. 18 TAKE NOTICE that M. Brennan, of Ootso Lake, occupation Farmer, intends to apply for permission to lease the following described land: Commencing at a post marked M. B. Southeast Corner, situated about 40 chains north and 40 chains east of Lot 326, N.E. Cor.; thence 40 chains north; thence 40 chains west; thence 40 chains south; thence 60 chains east to point of commencemnent, containing 240 acres. Dated November 16, 1907. De. 14 MABK BEENNAN. Best Buy. BEST BUY IN VICTOBIA OF BUSINESS PROPERTY. WITH WATER FBONTAGE ON JAMES BAY. DISTBICT Ol CASSIAB. TAKE NOTICE that The Hidden Creek Mining Co., or Vancouver, occupation, , intends to apply for permission to lease the following described land, about 8 acres: Commencing at a post planted at the south east corner post of Lot 479; thence north one chain; thence southwesterly parallel to high water mark, about 30 chains to west boundary of Lot 479; thence south about one chain forty links to high water mark and thence along high water mark to point of commencement. Dated Nov. 26th, 1907. HIDDEN CBEEK MINING CO., Dec. 7 Per J. Herrick MacGregor. I Double Corner on Wharf and Government streets, with 100 fest water front nge on James Bay. This property has the Post Offlce to the North, the C. P. R. Hotel to the East, Parliament Buildings to the South, and a Steamship Company's wharf to the West of It. As an Hotel Site the situation of these lots is unrivaled ln the City of Victoria, hundred of thousands of dollars have been spent ln valuable improvements on all sides of them by the Provincial Government, the City Council and the C. P. R. Price $62,600. Easy terms can be arranged with deferred payments bearing interest at 7 per cent. For further particulars apply to A O. P. FEANCIS, Broker, 610 Pender Street, VANCOUVEB. B. C. SKEENA LAND DISTBICT. District of Coast. TAKE NOTICE that W. N. Campbell of Victoria, occupation Civil Engineer, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands: Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner of. lot 1294, (J.E. Cody) one mile west of Jap Inlet, Porcher Island, thence north 40 chains; thence west 40 chains; thence south 40 chains; thence east 40 chains, containing 160 acres. Dated Dec. 16th, 1907. W. N. CAMPBELL, Jan 18 J. J. Templeton, Agent. SKEENA LAND DISTBICT. District of Coast. TAKE NOTICE that J. J. Templeton of Victoria, occupation surveyor, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described land: Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner of lot 1293, M. S. McLeod, one-half mile west of Jap In- NEW WESTMINSTEE LAND DISTRICT District of Coast, Eange 1. TAKE NOTICE that Max. J. Cameron, of Vancouver, Merchant, Intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: No. 1—Commencing at a post planted about 6 miles from Eamsay Arm, on the main Quatham Elver, S. W. corner; thence east 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains to point of commencement. 20th December, 1907. No. 2—Commencing at a post planted about 6 miles from Bamsay Arm, on the main Quatham River; S. E. Corner; thence 160 chains N.; 40 chains W.; 160 chains south; 40 chains east to point of commencement. December 20th, 1907. No. 3—Commencing at a post planted about one chain distant and in an easterly direction from Quatham Elver, about seven miles east of Bamsay Arm, thence west 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains. 20th December, 1907. No. 4—Commencing at a post planted about one chain distant and in an easterly direction from Quatham Elver, about seven miles east of Eamsay Arm, thenee east 80 chains; thenoe north 80 chains; thenee west JO chains; thenee south 80 chains. 21st December, 1907. No. 6—Commencing at a post planted about 40 ehains distant and in an easterly direction from east bank of Quatham Elver, about eight and one-half miles east of Bamsay Arm; thenee west 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains. 21st December, 1907. No. 6—Commencing at a post planted about 40 ohains distant and in an easterly direction from east bank of Quatham Elver, about nine and one-half mlles east of Eamsay Arm; thence west 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thenee south 80 chains. 21st December, 1907. No. 7—Commencing at a post planted about 40 chains distant and in an east- Ma ha ann TIMBER MAPS Office Phone 1534: Residence 4-38. posted up to date eyery day ELECTRIC BLUE PRINTi, MAP CO. VICTORIA. B.C., CHANCERY CHAMBERS. SZ LANGLEY STftEET. BLUEPRINTING DRAUGHTING OFFICE. Complete set of Maps show/ny a// TIMBER LICENCES and other Lands taken up in Br itish Columbia. Blue Prints can be obtained at short notice. let Porcher Island, thenee south 20 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence north 20 chains; thence east 80 chains to point of commencement and containing 160 acres, more or less. Dated December 16th, 1907. Jan. 18 J. J. TEMPLETON. erly direction from east bank of Quatham Biver, about ten and one-half miles east of Eamsy Arm; thenee west 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains. 21st December, 1907. MAX. J. CAMEEON, Jan 18 L. W. Kingsley, Agent. ST. ANDREW'S COLLEGE TORONTO A Residential sail Day School lor Boys SKEENA LAND DISTBICT District of Coast. I TAKE NOTICE that William Croteau if Aldermere, B.C., occupation Farmer, ntends to apply for permission to pur- ihase the following described land: Commencing at a post planted at the outhwest corner; thence north 20 chains o McClure Lake; thence along McClure _ake in an east southerly direction 43 hains, more or less; thence west 40 hains to place of beginning and mak- ng 40 acres more or less, and known s the southwest fractional quarter sec- ion of 36, township 6, Range 6. Dated November 20, 1907. an. 18 WILLIAM CROTEAU. SKEENA LAND DISTBICT. I District of Coast. 1 TAKE NOTICE that Jennie Croteau f Aldermere, B.C., occupation house- fife, intends to apply for permission to mrchase the following described land: Commencing at a post planted at the outhwest corner; thence north 40 chs.; hence east 40 chains; thence south 40 ihalns; thence west 40 chains to place Jif beginning and known as the north- Ivest quarter section of 30, Tp. 6, Ege. p, and containing 160 acres, more or ess. Dated 23rd of November, 1907. Jan. 18 WILLIAM CBOTEAU. Handsome New Buildings. Larg* ■Athletic Field. Carelul Oversight in every Department. First Class Staff. Lower and Upper School. Boys prepared for the Universities and Business. Calendar sent on Request. Rev. D. Bruce Macdonald, M.A..LL.D- Principal Be-opens after Xmas on Jan. 8th, 1908. NEW WESTMINSTER LAND DISTBICT District of New Westminster. TAKE NOTICE that Harry McMicken Kesfer of Vancouver, occupation Broker, intends to apply for permission to lease the following described land: Commencing at a post planted on the N. E. Coast of Savary Island and about 26 chains from the easterly end of the Island, thence west 20 chains to low water mark; thence south 400 chains along low water mark; thence east 20 chains to high water mark; thence north 400 chains to point of commencement, and containing eight hundred acres, more or less. Dated Dee. 2nd, 1907. Dec 14 HARRY McMICKENKEEFER. NEW WESTMINSTEE LAND DISTRICT District of New Westminster. TAKE NOTICE that Frederick Patrick Sogers of Vancouver, occupation carpenter, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described land: Commencing at a post planted at the S. W. corner of Lot 1347, G. I., New Westminster district; thence west 20 chains; thence north 20 chains; thenee east 20 chains; thence south 20 ehains to point of commencement, containing 40 acres more or less. Dated November 26th, 1907. FREDERICK PATRICK BOGEBS. Dec.14 NEW WESTMINSTEE LAND DISTBICT District of Coast, Range 2. TAKE NOTICE that Ed. Brown, of Vancouver, B.C., Cruiser, intends to apply for a special timber license over the following described lands: No. 1—Commencing at a post planted on south shore of Burke Channel, about one mile west of Lot No. 241A; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thenee north 80 chains to shore line of Burke Channel; thence west along shore line 80 chains more or less, to point of commencement, and eontalnlng 610 acres, more or less. Dated December 16, 1907. No. 2—Commencing at a post planted on south shore of Burke Channel, about three miles west of Lot No.241 A; thence south 40 chains; thence east 160 chains; thence north 40 ehains more or less, to shore line of Burke Chanel; thence west along shore line 160 chains more or less to point of commencement and containing 640 aeres, more or less. Dated December 16th, 1907. No. 3—Commencing at a post planted about one mile south of Lot No. 241A, on bank of Newcomb River, Burke Channel, thence north 80 chains; thence west SO chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains to point of commencement and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated December 16th, 1907. No. 4—Commencing at a post planted about one mile south of lot No. 241A, Burke Channel, adjoining post of claim No. 3; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thenee west 80 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated December 16th, 1907. No. 6—Commencing at a post planted about 2 miles south of Lot No. 241A, Burke Channel, and one mile south of corner post of claim No. 3 and 4; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence west 80 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated December 16th, 1907. No. 6—Commencing at a post planted about 4 miles south of lot No. 241A. Burke Channel, and two miles south of S. W. corner of Claim No. 6; thence west 40 chains; thence north 160 chains; thence east 40 chains; thence south 160 chains to point of commencement and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated December 17th, 1907. No. 7—Commencing at a post planted about four and one-half miles south of lot No. 241A, Burke Channel; on a bank of a small river about one-half mile east of claim No. 6; thenco north SO chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence west 80 chains to point of commencement and containing 640 acres more or less. Dated December 17th, 1907. No. S—Commencing at a post planted about two miles east of claim No. 7, on north bank of unnamed river, emptying into Koeye Lake, south of Burke Channel, thence north 80 chfins; thence west SO chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east su chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres more or Dated December 17th, 1907. No. 9—Commencing at a post planted about one mile south of Claim No. 8, on north bank of small river emptying into Koeye Lake, south of Burke Channel', thence south 40 chains; thence west 160 chains; thence north 40 chains; thence east 160 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated December 17th, 1907. No. 10—Commencing at a post planted about one mile east of claim No. 9, on north bank of small river emptying into Koeye Lake, south of Burke Channel; thence north SO chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south SO chains; thence east SO chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated December 17th, 1907. No. 11—Commencing at a post planted about one mile east of Claim No. 9, and adjoining corner post of claim No. 10 on north bank of small river emptying Into Koeye Lake, south of Burke channel; thence west 80 chains; thence south SO chains; thence east 80 chains; thence north SO chains to point of commencement and containing 640 acres, more or Dated December 17, 1907. No. 12—Commencing at a post planted about 20 chains west of Claims No. 9 and 10, on south bank of small river emptying into Koeye Lake, south of Burke Channel, thence north 160 chains; thence east 4o chains; thence south 160 chains; thence west 40 chains to point of commencement, containing 640 acres more or less. Dated December 17, 1907. No. 13—Commencing at a post planted about one aud one-half miles south of the head of Koeye Lake, south of Burke Channel, thence east SO chains; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 ohains to shore line of Koeye Lake; thence south along shore line SO chains to point of commencement and containing 640 acres more or less. Dated December 18th, 1907. No. 14—Commencing at a post planted about one and one-half miles south of tlie head of Koeye Lake, south of Burke Channel, thence east SO chains; thence south SO chains; thence west 80 chains to shore of Koeye Lake, thence north along shore 80 ehains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres. Dated December 18th, 1907. No. 16—Commencing at a post planted about one-half mlle east from the foot of Koeye Lake, on the north shore of said lake; thence north 80 chains; thence east SO chains; thence soulh 80 chains; to shore of Koeye Lake; thence west along shore of said lake SO chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated December 18th, 1907. No. 10—Commencing at a post planted about two miles south of Lot 241A, Burke Channel, and about one mile south of corner post of claims No. 3 and .; thence north SO chains; thence west Su chains; thence south SO cliains; theuce east SO chains to point of commencement, containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated December 16th, 1907. No. 17—Commencing at a post planted about iwo miles south of Lot No. 2-I1A, Burke Channel, and one mile south of corner post of claims No. 3 and 4; thence east SO chains; thence .south SO chains; tiience west SO chains; thence north SO chains to point uf commencement, and .ontaining* 0*10 acres more or less. Dated December 16th, 1907. Jan. IS ED. BROWN. B.C. Timberl Maps of All Districts VANCOUVER MAP and BLUE-PRINT CO. Suite 20-21 Crowe and Wilson Chambers. VANCOUVER, B. C. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. Private Bills. The time limited by the rules of the house for the presentation of petitions for leave to introduce private bills expires on Monday, 27 January, 1908. Bills must be presented to the house by Thursday, 6th Tebruary, 1908. Reports on bills will not be received after Thursday, 13th February, 1908. Copies of the bill, petition and notices must be deposited with the undersigned, and the house fees paid, not later than Wednesday, 8th January, 1908. Dated this 2nd day of December, 1907. THORNTON FELL, Clerk of the Legislative Assembly. ft* sy& NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. Bridge, North Arm, Fraser River. Superstructure of Swing Span. NOTICE is hereby given that tho time for rocelving tenders for the Superstructure Metal for Swing Bridge, North Arm, Fraser River, has been extended up to and Including Friday, the 31st day of January, 1908. F. C. GAMBLE, Public Works Engineer. Lands and Works Department, Victoria, B.C., December 17th, 1907. Dec. 28 VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Rupert, Quatsino Sound. TAKE NOTICE that M. J. Kinney, of Portland, Ure., occupation Lumberman, intends 10 apply for permission to lease the following described land: Commencing at a post planted on the north line of Township 10, Rupert District, where the said line intersects the shore line of the east side of Marble Bay; thence northerly following the shore line a distance of about 200 chains to the northeast corner of lot 316. Staked the 16th day of December, 1907 M. J. KINNEY. Jan.4 Robert A. Grlerson, Agent. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Rupert, Quatsino Sound. TAKE NOTICE that The Quatsino Power and Puly Company, of Victoria, B.C., occupation, A Pulp Company, intends to apply for permission to lease the following described land: Commencing at a post planted on the north line of Township 10, Marble Cove, Kupert District, where the said line intersects the shore line on the east side of Marble Bay; thence southerly following the shore line a distance of about 120 chains to a point intersecting the moutii of Marble Creek. Staked the liiui day of December, 1907. THE QUATSINO POWER & PULP COMPANY. Jan.4 Robert A, Grlerson, Agent. VICTOBIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Kupert, Quatsino Sound. TAKE NOTICE that Enoch A. White, of Victoria, B.C., occupation Lumberman, intends to apply for permission to lease the following described foreshore: Commencing at a post planted at the northeast corner of an Indian Reserve at tlie head of Quatsino Narrows, Rupert District, thence southerly following the shore line a distance of about 160 chains to a point intersecting the mouth of Marble Creek, including small island on north line of section 10. ENOCH A. WHITE. Jan.4 Robert A Grlerson, Agent. DISTBICT OF CASSAIB. TAKE NOTICE that The Hidden Creek Mining Co., of Vancouver, occupation, , intends to apply for permission to lease the following described land, about 40 acres: Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner of Lot 479; thencs following high water mark south aud west to the southeast corner of Lot 108; thence east Ave chains; thence north and east following a line parallel to high water mark aboul 80 chains to a point 6 chains south of point of commencement and thence to said point of commencement. Dated Nov. 26th, 1907. HIDDEN CBEEK MINING CO., Dec. 7 Per J. Herrick MacGregor. TAKE NOTICB that George Young and Arthur Bell, of Victoria, B.C., Timber Dealers, intend to apply for ths rite to purchase the following described lands in Kildalla Bay, Rivers Inlet; commencing at ihis post planted on the east side of the Bay about one-third uf a mile from the point at the mouth of tht Bay, beiug the southwest corner post; ihunce east so chains; thence nortli 80 chains; thence wesl 90 chains to beaeh; thence south along beach lo point of commencement; containing 40 acres, mure or less. Staked Nov, 26, 1907. UEOilUK VuC.NU & ARTHUR BELL. Dec. 1 (Jeorge Young, Agent. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. Bridge, North Aim, Fraser Biver. Superstructure of Swing Span. SEALED TENDERS, superscribed "Tender for Superstructure Metal for Swing Bridge, North Arm, Fraser River," will be received by the Hon. the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works, Victoria, B.C., up to and Including Tuesday, the 31st of December, 1907, for manufacturing and delivering, f. 0. b., scow at Vancouver or New Westminster, all the metal work required for the superstructure of a steel swing span. Drawings, specifications, condition of contract and tender may be seen by Intending tenderers on and after Tuesday, the 26th of November, 1907, at the ofllce of the Public Works Engineer, Lands and Works Department, and at the offlce of the Provincial Timber In spector, Court House, Vancouver, B.C. Each tender must be accompanied by an accepted bank cheque or certlflcate of deposit on a chartered bank of Canada, made payable to the order of the Honourable the Chief Commissioner In the sum of two hundred and fifty ($260) dollars, which shall be forfeited if the party tendering decline or neglect to enter Into contract when called upon to do so. The cheques or certificates of deposit of successful tenderers will be returned to them upon the execution of the contract. The successful tenderer will be called upon to furnish a bond, himself and two securities, satisfactory to the Honourable tho Chief Commissioner, In the sum of {1,000 each, or to furnish a bond of a Guarantee Company satisfactory to the Honourable the Chief Commissioner in tlie sum of (3,000 for tho due fulfilment of the work contracted for. Upon the execution of the contract and a satisfactory bond being supplied, signed with the actual signatures of the tenderers und enclosed lu the envelopes furnished. Tlle lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. F. C. GAMBLE, Nov. 30 Public Works Engineer. NEW WESTMINSTER LAND DISTRICT. District of Now Westminster. TAKE NOTICE tllat Roman Z. Chandler, of Vancouver, B. C, occupation timber broker, Intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: No. 2—Commencing at a post planted at northwost corner of T. L. 1 SI87; thenco east 80 chains along the north line of T. L. 18187; thence nortli 80 chains along the west lino of T. L. 12602; thence east SO chnins along the north line of T. !.. 12502; theuce north 80 chains alonK the wost line of T. L. 12G03; thenco in a southwesterly course along tho lino of the Cuplhuio Water Reserve to place of commencement, and containing 640 acres of land, more or less. December 23, 1907. Jan 11. ROMAN Z. CHANDLER. THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1908. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Nootka. TAKE NOTICB that W. E. Simpson of Iowa Falls, Iowa, Banker, intends to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a special timber licence over the following described lands 30 days after date. , * No. 1—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W. No. 1, which is on the southeast bank of Upper Campbell Lake, where it cuts the C.P.R. line; thence east following the C.P.R. line 100 chains; north 80 chains; thence following shore line of said lake to point of commencement, containing 640 acres more or less. No. 3—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked WE..S., SW No. 3, which is 20 chains distant in a northerly direction from the south east corner of T. L. 14864 and three- quarters of a mile fro mUpper Campoell Lake; thence east 80 chains; north 80 chains', west 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 4—Commencing at a post Planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.b., SE No. 4, which is one mile distant in 'a northerly direction from Upper Campbell Lake, and one mile east of T L 14864, thence west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 6—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., SW No. 6, which ls one mile distant in a'northerly direction from Upper Campbell Lake, and one mile east of T. L. 14864; thence 80 chains north; 80 chains east; 80 chains south; 80 chains west to point of commencement. No. 6—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., SE No. 6, which ls situated on the north shore of Upper Campbell Lake, on the C.P.R. line; thenoe west 40 chains; north 160 chains; east 40 chains; south 160 chains to point of commencement. No, 7—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S E. No. 7, which is about four miles in a northwesterly direction from Crown Mountain; thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 8—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 8, which is flve miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain; thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. Staked Dec. 16th, 1907. No. 9—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 9, which is four miles distant in a northerly direction ti-om Crown Mountain; thence north 160 chains; west 40 chains; south 160 chains; east 40 chains to point of commencement. No. 10—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E., No. 10, which ls two miles distant in a northerly direction from where the C.P.R. line cuts the north shore of Upper Campbell Lake; thence west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 11—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E., No. 11, which Is flve and one-quarter miles distant in a northerly and westerly direction from where C.P.R. line cuts north shore of Upper Campbell Lake; thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. Staked Dec. 17, 1907, No. 32—Commencing at a post planted at the northwest corner marked W.E.S., N.W. No. 32, which ls six miles distant ln a northerly direction from Crown Mountain, and one-half mile south of Upper Salmon River, thence oast 80 chains; south 80 chains; west 80 chains, north 80 chains to point of commencement. 33. Commencing at a post planted at the north-west corner, marked "W. E. S., N.W., No. 33," which is five miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain; thence south &> chain3. east 8o chains, north 8o chains, west 8o chains to point of commencement. No. 34—Commencing at a post planted at the northeast corner No. 24, marked W.E.S., N.E. No. 34, which ls three miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain; thence south 80 chains, west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 35—Commencing at a post planted at the northeast corner No. 36, which is marked W.E.S., N.E. which ls flve miles distant ln a northerly direction from Crown Mountain; thence south 80 chains; west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains; to point of commencement. No. 36—Commencing at a post planted at the northeast corner marked W.E.S., N.E. No. 36, which ls six miles distant ln a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and one-half a mile south of Upper Salmon River; thence west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains; north 80 chains to point of commencement. Staked Dec. 20th, 1907. No. 37—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., No. 87, S.E., which ls flve miles distant ln a southwesterly direction from West Lake, Sayward District; thence west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 38—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W. No. 38, which is flve mlles distant ln a southwesterly direction from West Lake, Sayward District; thence east 80 chains; north 80 chainB; went., chalna; south 80 chatns to point of commencement. No. 39—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner, marked W.E.S., S.E., No. 39, which is three and one-half miles distant from the south end of West Lake, where lt Joins the line of Lot 110; thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 40—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W. No. 40, which ls throe and one-half miles ln a southwesterly direction from the south end of West Lake, where It Joins line of Block 110; thenee north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains; west 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 41—Commencing at a post ilanted at the southeast cor. marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 41, which Is four miles distant In an easterly direction from south end of West Lake, on line of Block 110; thence west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 42—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W. No. 42, which is four miles distant In an easterly direction from south end of West Lake, on line Block 110; thence east 80 chains; north 80 chains; west SO chains; soutl. 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 43—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S, S.E. No. 43, WiMch is one and one-half miles distant tin a westerly direction from the south end of West Lake, where it Joins the line of Block 110, thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east SO chains to point of commencement. No. 45—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S.. S.W. No. 45, which is one and one-half miles distant from the south end of West Lake, where it Joins the line of Block 110; thence north SO chains; east 80 chains', south 80 chains; west 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 46—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner which is marked W.E.S., S.W., No. 46, which is one mile distant and in a southeasterly direction from West Lake adjoining Block 110; thence north 160 chains; east 40 chains; south 160 chains; west 40 chains to point of commencement. No. 47—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.Sn S.W., No. 47, which Is two mlles northwesterly from south end of West lake, where it Joins the line of Block 110; thence north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains; west 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 48—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E., No. 48, which is two miles distant and in a northwesterly direction from the south end of West Lake, where it Joins line of Block 110; thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 49—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W. No. 49, which is three and one-half miles distant in an easterly direction from centre of shore line of West Lake, thence east 80 chains; north 80 chains; west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 60—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner, marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 50, which is three and one-half miles distant in an easterly direction from the centre of shore line on West Lake, thence west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 51—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 61, which is flve miles from the south end of West lake, where lt joins the line of Block 110; thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. Staked Dec. 16. 1907. No. 52—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner, marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 52, which is six miles westerly from the south end of West Lake where it joins line of Block 110; thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 53—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W. No. 53, which is six miles ln a westerly direction from the south end of West lake, where it joins line of Lot 110; thence north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains; west 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 64—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 54, which is two and one-half miles distant in an easterly direction from the north end of West lake, thence west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 55—Commencing at a post planted at the aquthwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W. No. 65, which is two and one-half miles distant westerly from the north end of West lake; thence east 100 chains; north 40 chains; west 40 chains; north 40 chains; west 60 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. Staked December 14th, 1907. W. E. SIMPSON, Jan. 11. Thos. S. McPherson, Agent. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Rupert. TAKE NOTICE that James Purdy Nelson, of Bellingham, Wash., U.S.A., occupation broker, intends to apply for a special timber license over the following described lands: Commencing at a post planted about 30 chains distant and in a southerly direction from the northwest corner of Lease No. 222; thence soutli 80 chairs; thence west 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains. JAMES PURDY NELSON. Dec. 24, 1907. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. Rupert District. TAKE NOTICE that James Hastle, of Victoria, B. C, Merchant, and James H. McLauchlan, of Victoria, B. C, Contractor, Intend to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: No. 3—Commencing at a post planted about 4 miles to the west of Robinson's Bight, on a small unnamed creek, being the northwest corner post; thence south 160 chains; thence east 40 chains; thence north 160 chains; thence west 40 chains to point of commencement. June 13, 1907. JAMES HASTIE, Jan 11. James H. McLauchlan. KOKSAILAH MINERAL CLAIM. Situated in the Victoria Mining Division of Helmcken District, on Koksailah Mountain, west of and adjoining "The Bluebell" mineral claim. Take Notice, that I, Lars Nicholas Anderson, of Victoria, B.C., Free Miner's Certificate No. B17380, intend 60 days from the date hereof, ot apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action under Section zy, must be commenced before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated at Victoria this 23rd day of January, A.D. 1908. LARS NICHOLAS ANDERSON. DISTRICT OP RUPERT. TAKE NOTICE I. T. S. McPherson, Agent of Victoria, B. C., intend to apply for a special timber license over the following described lands: No. 10—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner section 3, township 25, marked T. S. McP., No. 10, which is two and one-quarter miles northerly from west arm of Quatsino Sound, thence north SO chains; west 80 chains, south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. Dec. 19th, 1907. No. 11—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner of section 2, township 25, marked McP. _?., No. 11, which is two and one-quarter miles northerly from west Arm Quatsino Sound, thence east 160 chains; north 40 chains, west 160 chains; south 40 chs., to point of commencement. Geo. H. Jackson, Agent. Staked Dec. 19, 1907. No. 12—Commencing at a post planted one and one-half mile in a northwesterly direction from the west end of Nah-Wi-Ti Lake, and one-half mile west of S. E. Corner section 1, township 33, thence west 40 chains; thence north 160 chains; thence east 40 chains; thence south 160 chainB to point of commencement, containing 640 acres more or less. Staked Dec. 20, 1907. No. 13—Commencing at a post planted one mile In northwesterly direction from west end of Nah-Wi-Tl Lake, and at N. W. corner section 31, township 25, thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains', thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains to point of commencement. Staked Dec. 20, 1907. No. 14—Commencing at a post planted one mile from west end of Nah-Wi- Ti Lake in northerly direction, half mile north of N. W. corner section 32, township 25; thence south 80 chains; thence east following shore line 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains to point of commencement. Staked Dec. 20, 1907. No. 16—Commencing at a post planted one-half mile north of T. L. 13222, and at N. E. corner section 36, township 26, thence west 160 chains; thence south 40 chains; thence east 160 chains; thence north 40 chains to point of commencement. Staked Dec. 20, 1907. No. 17—Commencing at a post planted one-half mile north of T. L. 13222, of W. Corner section 31, township 19, thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence north 80 chains to point of commencement containing 640 acres, more or less. Staked Dec. 20, 1907. Jan. 11. T. S. McPHERSON. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Sayward. TAKE NOTICE that W. E. Simpson of Iowa Falls, Banker, intends to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a special timber licence over the following described lands thirty days after date. No. 12—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S. S.E. No. 12, which is seven and one-half miles distant and In a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and on the Bank of Upper Salmon River; thence north 40 chains; west 160 chains; south 40 chains; east 160 chains to point of commencement. No. 13—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner, marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 13, which is eight miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and one mile north of Upper Salmon River; thence west 80 chains north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 14—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W. No. 14, which is eight miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and one mile north of bank of Upper Salmon River; thence north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south SO chains; west 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 15—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner, marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 15, which is eight and one-half miles distant from Crown mountain and 15 chains west of Island Power Company's line near bank of Upper Salmon River; thence north 100 chains; west 64 chains; south 100 chains; east 64 chains to point of commencement. No. 16—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W. E. S., S.E. No. 16, which is nine miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and one and one-half miles north of stake 12, on the Bank of the Upper Salmon River; thence north 40 chains; west 160 chains; south 40 chains; east 160 chains to point of commencement. No. 17—Commenolng at a post planted at the southeast corner, marked W.E.S., S. E. No. 17, which Is nine and one-half miles distant In a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and two and one- half miles north of bank of Upper Salmon River; thence west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 18—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W. E. S., S.W., No. 18, which is nine and one-half miles in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and two and one- half miles north of Upper Salmon River, thence east 80 chains north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 19—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W. No. 19, which is ten and one-half miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and three miles northerly and westerly from post No. 12, on bank of Upper Salmon River; thence north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains; west 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 20—Commencing at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E., No. 20, which is ten and one-half miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and three miles northwesterly from stake 12, on the bank of the Upper Salmon River, thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 21—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 21, which is eleven and one- half miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and four miles In a northwesterly direction from stake 12, on the Bank of Upper Salmon River; thence north 80 chains', west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 22—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W. No. 22, which is eleven and one- half miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and four miles In a northwesterly direction from stake 12, on the Bank of the Upper Salmon River; thence north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains; west 80 chains to point of commencement. Staked Dec. 18th, 1907. No. 23—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W., No. 23, which is seven and one- half miles in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and on Bank of Upper Salmon River; thence north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south SO chains; west 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 24—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner No. 24, marked W.E.S., S.E., No. 24, which is eight and one-half miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and one mile north of the Upper Salmon River; thence west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 26—Commencing at a post planted at the northwest corner marked W.E.S., N.W., No. 26, which is seven and one- half miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and on'the Bank of the Upper Salmon River; thence south SO chains; thence east 80 chains; north 80 chains; west 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 26—Commencing at a post planted at the northeast corner marked W.E.S., N.E., No. 26, which is seven and one- half miles distant ln a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and on the bank of the Upper Salmon River; thence south SO chains; west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 27—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 27, which is seven and one- half miles distant in a northerly direc* tion from Crown Mountain and on the Bank of the Upper Salmon River; thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 28—Commencing at a post planted at the northeast corner which is marked W.E.S. N.E. No. 28, which is eight and one-quarter miles distant in a north* westerly direction from Crown Mountain, and on the south bank of Upper Salmon River; thence west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains; north 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 29—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 29, which is eight and one- quarter miles distant in a northwesterly direction from Crown Mountain and on bank of Upper Salmon River; thence west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 30—Commencing at a post planted at the northeast corner marked W.E.S., N.E. No. 30, which is ten miles distant in a northwesterly direction from Crown Mountain and on bank of Upper Salmon River; thence 80 chains south; 80 chains west; 80 chains north; 80 chains east to point of commencement. No. 31—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast cornei' marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 31, which is ten and one-half miles distant in a northwesterly direction from Crown Mountain and on the bank of the Upper Salmon River; thence 80 chains north; 80 chains west; 80 chains south, 80 chains east to point of commencement. Staked Dec. 19, 1907. W. E. SIMPSON. Jan. 11. Thomas S. McPherson, Agent. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Nootka. No. 2—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 2, situate on tlie west Bank Upper Campbell Lake, where the C.P.R. line cuts same; thence west 80 chains; north 120 chains; east 40 chains; souiii SO chains; east 40 chains; south 40 chains to point of commencement. Staked December 16th, 1907. WILLIAM E. SIMPSON, Jan. 11. T. S. McPherson, Agent. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Rupert. TAKE NOTICE that Francis Joseph Alma Green, of Quatsino, B. C, occupation Prospector, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following deacrlbed lands: Commencing at a post planted at the northwest corner of Lot 192, at the Narrows, Quatsino Sound, thence east about 35 chains to northeast corner of Lot 192; thence north about 120 chains to the southern boundary of the Indian reserve; thence west to the shore of Narrows; thence south along the shore to point of commencement; 640 acres, more or leas. Jan 11 FRANCIS JOSEPH ALMA GREEN. NEW WESTMINSTER LAND DISTRICT District of Coast, Range 2. TAKE NOTICE that George Young and Arthur Bell, of Victoria, B.C., timber dealers, Intend to apply for the right to purchase the following described lands ln Kildalla Bay, Rivers Inlet:—Commencing at a post planted on the east aide of the bay, about one- third of a mile from the point at the mouth of the bay, being the southwest corner post; thence east 20 chains; thence north 20 chains; thence west 20 chains to beach; thence south along beach to point of commencement; containing 40 acres, more or less. Staked November 25th, 1907. GEORGE YOUNG & ARTHUR BELL, Jan, 11 George Young, Agent. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Rupert. TAKE NOTICE, that I, Frank Kelly, of Victoria, B.C., timber cruiser, intend to apply for a special timber license over the following described lands: 1. Commencing at a post planted at southeast corner of Section 29, Township 32, Rupert District; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated Dec. 16, 1907. 2. Commencing at post planted about one-half mile west of southeast corner of Section 32, Township 32; thence west 40 chains; thence north 160 chains; thence east 40 chains; thence south 160 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less, Dated Dec. 16, 1907. 8. Commencing at a post planted at northwest corner of T. L. 16196, Section 6, Township 33; thence west 40 chains; thence north 160 chains; thence east 40 chains; thence south 160 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated Dec. 16, 1907. 4. Commencing at a post planted at northwest corner of T. L. 16196, Section 4, Township 33; thence east 40 chains; thence north 160 chains; thence west 40 ehains; thence south 160 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated Dec. 16, 1907. 5. Commencing at a post planted at northwest corner of T. L. 16186, Section 4, Township 83; thence west 40 chains; thence north 160 chains; thence east 40 chains; thence aouth 160 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or lesa. Dated Dec. 16, 1907. 6. Commencing at a poat planted at northwest corner of T. L. 16186, Sectlol 4, Township 33; thence west 40 chainl thence north 160 chains; thence east 4\ chains; thence south 160 chains to polil of commencement, and containing 64f acrea, more or leas. Dated Dec. 16, 1907. 6. Commencing at a post planted al northwest corner of T. L. 16186, Sectiol 3, Township 33; thence west 40 chainsl thence north 160 chains; thence east 4l chains; thence south 160 chains to poinl of commencement, and containing 64f acres, more or less. Dated Dec. 17, 1907. 7. Commencing at a post planted al northeast corner of T. L. 16186, Section 3, Township 33; thence west 40 chainsl thence north 160 chains; thence east 4a hains; thence south 160 chains to poinl of commencement, and containing 64(1 acres, more or leas. Dated Dec. 17, 1907. 8. Commencing at a poat planted atl northweat corner of T. L. 16194, Section] 2, Townahip 33; thence east 40 chains] thence north 160 chains; thence west 401 chains; thence south 160 chains to poind of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated Dec. 17, 1907. 9. Commencing at a post planted atl northeast corner of T. L. 16194, Section! 2, Township 33; thence west 40 chains;! thence north 160 chains; thence east 40| chains; thence south 160 chains to point! of commencement, and containing 6401 acrea, more or less. Dated Dec. 17, 1907. 10. Commencing at a poat planted atl northwest corner of T. L. 16195, Section! 1, Township 33; thence east 40 chalna;] thence north 160 chains; thence west 40l chaina; thence south 160 chains to point! of commencement, and containing 640| acrea, more or leas. Dated Dec. 17, 1907. FRANK KELLY. Jan 18. George H. Jackson, Agent. _t_\ SM NOTICE TO LOGGERS. Bridge, North Arm, Fraser River. Hlai. ALTERNATIVE sealed tenders, suJ peracribed "Tender for Piles, BrldgeJ North Arm, Fraser River," will be re*T ceived by the Honourable the Chief! Commissioner of Lands and Works] Victoria, B. C, up to and including! Tuesday, the 31st of December, 19071 for furnishing and delivering at thrf bridge site on the North Arm of tha Fraser River, on the line of the Ceme-J tery Road, fir and cedar piles. About six hundred (600) will be re-l quired, varying in length from twentjf (20) to forty-five (45) feet. They mustj be straight, sound, and not less than, ten (10 inches at the small end. No butts will be accepted. Further printed particulars can be ob-L talned on application to the under-| signed. Tenderers must state the price per) lineal foot for piles delivered. The successful tenderer will be furu-j ished with a list giving the number! of piles required and the length of eachj Each tender must be accompanied by an accepted bank cheque or certlflcate) of deposit on a chartered bank of Ca-j inula, made payable to the order of the Honourable the Chief Commissioner, iij the sum of two hundred and fifty dol-f lars ($250), which shall be forfeited if the party tendering decline or neglecd to enter into contract when called upuil to do so, or fail to complete the worl<f contracted for. The cheques or certi-l flcates of deposit of unsuccessful ten-l tenderers will be returned to them up-] on the execution of the contract. Tenders will not be considered unless] made out on the form supplied, signed, with the actual signatures of the tenJ derera, and enclosed in the envelope fur-] nlshed. ] The lowest or any tender not necea-l sarlly accepted. F. C. GAMBLE, Nov. 30 Public Works Engineer] VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. Rupert District. TAKE NOTICE that James Hastle, ofl Victoria, B.C., Merchant, and James H.I McLauchlan, of Victoria, B. C, Con-f tractor, intend to apply for a special! timber licence over the following de-r scribed lands: i No. 4—Commencing at a post plantedl about 4 mllea to the weat of Robinson's! Bight, on a small unnamed creek, being! the northeast corner post; thence west! 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thencel east 80 chains; thence north 80 chains'! to point of commencement. June 14, 1907. JAMES HASTIE, Jan 11. James H. McLauchlan. NEW WESTMINSTER LAND DIS-I TRICT. Diatrlct of New Weatmlnater. TAKE NOTICE that Roman Z. Chan-, dier, of Vancouver, B. C, ocupation I Broker, intends to apply for a special I timber licence over the following deacrlbed lands: No. 1—Commencing at a post plantedl ten chains south of the aoutheaat cor-1 ner of D. L. 1413; thence north 160 chains; thence east 40 chains; thence] south 160 chains; thence weat 40 chains ] to place of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. December 23, 1907. Jan 11. ROMAN Z. CHANDLER. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. Rupert District. TAKE NOTICE that James Hastle ofl Victoria, B. C, Merchant, and James I McLauchlan, of Victoria, B. C, Con-I tractor, Intend to apply for a speciall timber licence over the following described lands: No. 1—Commencing at a poat plantedl about 4 miles to the west of Roblnson'sl Bight, on a small unnamed creek, being! the southeast corner post; thence northl 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thencel south 80 chains; thence eaat 80 chainsl to point of commencement. June 11, 1907. JAMES HASTIE, Jan. 11. James H. McLauchlan. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. Rupert Diatrlct, TAKE NOTICE that James Hastle, Victoria, B. C, Merchant, and James __.. McLauchlan, of Victoria, B. C, con-L tractor, intend to apply for a apeclall licence over the following deacrlbed! lands: 1 No. 2—Commencing at a post plantedl about 4 miles to the west of Roblnaon'sl Bight on a small unnamed creek, being! the northeast corner post; thonce west I 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thencel east 80 chains; thence north 80 chainsl to point of commencement. June 12, 1907. JAMES HASTIE, Jan. 11. Jamea H. McLauchlan. THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1908. j?0<X>0-0-00-00<>00000000©000<>00<>^^ SOOOO'OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO'O'OOOO'^^ Dinnerware Newness Silverware Goodness OF MERIT—SURPASSING FAR ALL OUR PREVIOUS EFFORTS. Never in the history of this store's merchandising have we shown such a magnificent assortment of medium-priced Dinner Services as is now offered. We have spent much time in planni.ig this showing, and exercised the greatest care in selection, and the new creations in Dinner Ware just lately unpacked are, indeed, delightful. The ware in every case is much above the ordinary, and the decorations have been executed with such marvelous detail, these sets are genuinely fascinating. The decorations are sumptuous—the gold work being worthy of special note. We are greatly pleased with this new and' fine showing, and want you to see the offerings. Even you, with your intimate knowledge of wares and value, will be surprised at the superior character of the goods and the very special values offered. If you have longed for a pretty Dinner Service, "now" is your opportunity. Such pretty sets and such unusual values aren't common, by any means, and we advise ycu to see these at once. Come in and let us show you these. The salesmen are enthusiastic over them, and they'll be delghted to have the opportunity to show them. These handsome sets may be seen in our First Floor Showrooms, and at any time, but we advise an early visit, because the finest are sure to disappear very quickly. TEN ESPECIALLY GOOD VALUES FROM AMONG THE NEW LOT DINNER SERVICE—In semi-porcelain. A very neat and pretty floral decoration. 97 pieces. Special value at, per set $8.50 DINNER SERVICE—A "stock" pattern in a pretty blue rose decoration. There are 114 pieces in this set.' Matchings from stock at any time $13.50 DINNER SERVICE—One of the newest decorations. A tulip in blue with lots of gold as well. 96 pieces of newness for $14.00 DINNER SERVICE—In semi-porcelain, 96 pieces in a very pretty green and gold carnation decoration. Neat and pretty. Per set $14.00 DINNER SERVICE—A 105-piece set in semi-porcelain. A "stock" pattern which you can replenish at any time. Pretty apple blossom decoration. Price $15.00 DINNER SERVICE—Here is one of our daintiest sets. A pretty pink rose and wreath of gold make a pleasing decoration. Price $15.00 DINNER SERVICE—Here is one of our daintiest sets. A pretty pink rose and wreath of gold make a pleasing decoration. 102 pieces. Per set $18.00 DINNER SERVICE—Another 102-piece set in semi-porcelain. Dark green, orange and gold, make a very attractive decoration on this. Per set $20.00 DINNER SERVICE—Flown green, orange and gold on finest semi-porcelain makes this set a set worth special note. 102 pieces. Price, per set $20.00 DINNER SERVICE—A 107-piece service in light green and gold decoration. A really handsome style and excellent value at price marked. Per set $25.00 DINNER SERVICE—Another semi-porcelain set of 107 pieces. Flown blue and gold decoration. A set you'll be pleased with. Jer set $27.50 CHINA DINNERWARE AT THE PRICE OF COMMON CLAY. Direct from the famous Calsbad China Potteries we have received some excellent examples of the superior art and skill of the workers of this renowned pottery. The four sets here listed stand far above the ordinery sets usually sold at this figure in point of artistic merit and excellence of material. That Victorians appreciate their goodness is evidenced by the many sales since we have received them a short time since. We have still, however, a full range and advise that you see the dainty offerings soon. CHINA DINNER SERVICE-A new importation of famous "Carlsbad" china services discloses this excellent set. Clusters of pretty pink roses and heavy gold on fine china makes 115 pieces of niceness. Per set $50.00 CHINA DINNER SERVICE—Another of our new "Carlsbad" dinner services. This is another 115-piece set. Heavy gold border and dainty pink roses complete the decoration of this. Excellent value, at, per set $50.00 CHINA DINNER SERVICE—Still another set in "Carlsbad" china. This style has an exceptionally heavy gold border and a pretty and novel combination of roses, green leaves and gold. 119 pieces, at, per set $65.00 CHINA DINNER SERVICE—This is a very rich and handsome set and has been a favorite set with many. A heavy blue and gold band on an excellent china 's the secret of its popularity. 139 pieces for $90.00 Yes, especially worthy of mention are these few items picked from the hundreds of dainty pieces in our Silverware Department. In this department we stock an immense variety for the home. The newest and best creations from the world's best, makers are being constantly added and you'll always find in our silver offerings the very "latest" efforts. Quality here, as in all other departments of our business, is the first consideration. Not a single unworthy piece ever passes over our counter. Investigate our offerings! ROGERS' 1847 SILVERWARE The following lines of "Rogers 1847" Silver-, ware are put up in pretty plush lined boxes and are especially suitable for wedding gifts: PIE KNIVES, each, plain $2.50, gilt..$3.00 SOUP LADLES, plain or satin bowls $4.00 BERRY SPOONS, plain, $2.00, gilt..$2.50 AFTER DINNER COFFEE SPOONS, box six $2.00 OYSTER FORKS, plain or fancy, box six $3.00 CHILDREN'S SETS, of Knife, Fork and Spoon, plain patterns, set $1.75, fancy designs,, set $2.00 AVON SETS, 3 pieces, consisting of Sugar Shell, Butter Knife, and Cream Ladle,* set $3.50 BUTTER*KNIFE AND SUGAR SHELLS set, $1.00 and $1.75 SUGAR TONGS, several designs, each $1.75 BOUILLON SPOONS, set six $4.50 Gravy Ladles, Fruit Knives, Butter Knives, Cheese Scoops, and many other things. "MERIDEN" SILVERWARE SILVER PLATED TEA SERVICE, 4 pieces. Plain design or satin engraved $15.00 SUGAR BASINS AND CREAM JUGS to match, large choice, newest patterns. Pair $5.00, $6.00, $7.50, and $10.00 TOAST RACKS, each $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50 and $3.50 MARMALADE DISHES, in crystal, best quality silver plated frames, each $3.50, $4.00 and $5.00 In daintily decorated China Dishes, each $3.50 and $7.00 FRUIT STANDS, in crystal and decorated glass dishes, each $3.50, $4.00, $4.50, $5.00, $6.00 to $8.50 BUTTER DISHES, covered, in plain, engraved and satin finished styles, each $3*50, $4-50, $5.50, $7.00 and $10.00 CRUET STANDS, 3 bottles, breakfast size, in the very latest designs, each $2.00 and $5.00 CRUET STANDS, 2 bottles, each $2.00, $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 A FEW OF THE POPULAR PIECES IN SILVER-MOUNTED OAK Worthy of particular mention is our very fine stock of handsome silver-mounted Oak Goods. This handsome ware, always popular, is now more so than ever. Equally adapted for everyday use or "occasions." We have an excellent variety of these excellent pieces—Silverware department, first floor. Salad Bowls, each $10.00, $8.00 and ...$7.50 Dinner Gongs, each $6.00 Cigar Cabinets, each $9.00 Afternoon Tea Trays, each $20.00 to..$6.00 Butter Dishes, each $4.50, $4.00, $3.50, $3.00 Biscuit Jars, each $6.50, $6.00, $4.50, $4.00 and as low as $3.50 Liqueur Frames, 3 bottles, each $18.00, and as low as $8.50 Splendid Values in McLintock Quilts. DOWN FILLED QUILT, covered plain and printed sateen, 6 ft. x Price DOWN FILLED QUILT, covered plain and printed sateen, 6 ft. x Price DOWN FILLED QUILT, covered plain and printed sateen, with edge, 6 ft. x 5 ft. Price DOWN FILLED QUILT, covered with satin on one side and sateen on thc other, 6 ft. x 5 ft. Price $13.00 with j DOWN FILLED QUILT, covered with 5 ft. j Turkey Chintz, 6 ft. x 5 ft. Price ..$5.50 $6.50 , DOWN FILLED QUILT, covered with with * the choicest of the choice sateens in very 6 ft. artistic designs. Price $14.00 $8.00 I ALSO SOME BEAUTIFUL QUILTS, in with ', sateen and silk covers, at, each, $20, $25, frilled to $35.00 $9.50 : SMALL SIZES, for cradles and cribs, dainty, small patterns, 24x36 inches, 30x42 ! inches, 36x48 inches, 36x54 inches, at, each, $4, $5 and $6.oc- ggfgTgef * f TMOME.lhOTtL'ANO.ClUi-rURNISMtR'S'i VICTORIA'.* Bit. .' I S^oooooooooo-oo-oooooooooo-o©^ SSSoooooooo-oo-oo-ooooooooo-oooo^ At The Street Corner * By THB LODNOER The ceremony of giving royal assent to Bills in the local Legislature is not a very exhilarating function. Shorn of the trappings of State, it is almost a humdrum proceeding. When His Honour marches through the principal entrance and along the aisle of the Legislative Chamber to the throne, accompanied by his guard of honour in military dress, there is an air of old world pomp which reconciles the new world to the pageant. , When, on the other hand, His Honour, clad in ordinary morning dress land carrying his topper in his hand, 1 enters by a back door, quietly takes Ihis seat, and without a word listens Ito the monotonous drone of the clerk I reading the bills to be assented to, Igiving one gentle nod after each and la more pronounced one at the end of Khe affair, it savours of the perfunctory. This is just what happened on iTttesday afternoon, when eleven bills, lincluding the notorious Natal Act, rc- Iceived the royal assent through the Imedium of His Honour's nods. No Idoubt some ceremony is necessary, I but just why it should involve the attendance of His Honour in the House to nod, when he has to perform the far more important duty of signing each bill in the privacy of his own apartments, deponent knoweth not. From my eerie in the press gallery I witnessed a very pretty little comedy. Naturally, when the Lieutenant- Government entered the House everyone rose to his feet, except the member for Nanaimo—and the editor of the Colonist. The former was but following his own bad precedent; whether the latter was contaminated by the evil communication which corrupted good manners, or whether his erstwhile American citizenship imposed too great a strain upon his loyalty he alone knows, but he openly joined the rebellious Comrade and achieved the distinction which has already made the Socialists notorious. I noticed that the Lieutenant-Governor's secretary transfixed him with a piercing loow, which, however, had no effect but to cause him to look into his hat. It just occurs to me to say that as the issuance of tickets admitting strangers to the floor of the House is entirely within the province of the Speaker, of whose loyalty there is no doubt, it ought not to be too much to ask that gentleman to exercise his discretion to the exclusion of persons having no prescriptive right to the floor such as is enjoyed by a member, and who apparently knows as little of decent manners as the Socialists. I think the most amusing lounge I have indulged in this week was outside the vestibule of the Victoria Theatre on Wednesday morning. It was the occasion of the sale of tickets for the great and only Paderewski show. On the previous day Manager Denham had disposed of all the members' tickets, and there were some 300 left for the general public; a few of them were at $2, a few more at $3, and the balance at $4. For these 300 tickets there was a line of applicants stretching out from the vestibule along View Street and southward on Douglas as far as the stage entrance; and great was the disappointment when the supply of tickets was exhausted long before the tale end of the queue reached the box office. I know that Victoria is a musical city, but I am confident that not 10 per cent, and possibly not five per cent, of those who were purchasing tickets could, if they were blindfolded, tell the difference between the playing of Paderewski and that of the commonest piano thumper on the road. I am convinced, after sitting in the box oflice for an hour and listening to the conversation of the ticket purchasers, that the sole reason why they were willing to spend $4 on a ticket to hear Paderewski was simply because he is the fashion. Now, I do not want to depreciate his extraordinary talents, but I am going to give my readers a little bit of information on the authority of an eminent musician who has spent some years in Germany. He assures me that in that country of musicians, and in the most select musical circles, neither Paderewski nor Kubelik had any status, and that there are scores of players who are rated higher by the Conservatories. Unfortunately, however, they have not such long hair, nor are they as proficient in the art of advertising. I expect my musical colleague, Bohemian, will be down on me for saying this, but I would respectfully remind him that it is not an expression of opinion but a statement of fact. A knowledge of it may comfort those who do not hear Paderewski play on Friday night. It is astonishing to me how Manager Jamieson keeps up the quality of the entertainments at thc New Grand Theatre. Week succeeds week, but with tlle exception of an occasional poor turn, the general standard of excellence is the same, tl is safe to say that few vaudeville houses in the West get as good value for their mone;, as the New Grand, which accounts for its popularity. Judging from the advertisements, the Fancy Dress Ball at the Empress Hotel will be a popular affair. As it is for charity's sake, it is fitting that it should be as cosmopolitan as possible, and I am glad to learn that the tickets are being purchased by people in every rank and station; it will be essentially a function for the Hoi Polloi. There is little doubt that the accommodation of the hotel will be taxed to the utmost, and even if $3 is a little stiff, it includes a splendid supper, and all the profits will go to St. Joseph's Hospital. So, my merry Lounger, dig up! Not so much for the sake of the function as for the benefit of thc charity. In many Victoria gardens snowdrops are now in full bloom, and even crocuses arc peeping out. On Sunday afternoon, while strolling in the vicinity of Moss Street, I heard the bleating of lambs, the lirst of the season. Thc delightful weather o; the present week makes one believe that spring is here. For at least two months yet, Canada east of thc Rockies will be battling with ice and snow, and for two months after that may not have seen the last of the white coverlet. What is thc matter with Victoria? I want to make an appeal to the athletic authorities of Victoria. It is that they will agitate, in season and out of season, and will never let up until they have secured a central ground. Much could be said on this subject, and it can be better said in the sporting columns, but after close observation for two years, I am convinced that athletics will never be a success in the Capital City as long as the public have to travel to Oak Bay in order to see matches. The delay, the inconvenience, the uncertainty, and the impossibility of thc tramway coping with the traffic, bc they never so willing, is a determining factor in this matter. When the athletic grounds are more central, spectators will be counted by thousands instead of hundreds. Odri ft_rK^r_ THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1908. Staking the Mountain Echo. By Arthur P. Woollacott. MRS. WALTON thought that her niece's beauty was of the kind that an artist would have made use of in giving a soft yet generous touch to a primitive scene from one of the earlier pages of history. She admired the style, perhaps because she knew that it held many points of distinction in common with her own. The elder lady indeed, found a singular fascination in watching the play and luster of Eleanor's countenance and was in the habit of exciting her for her own aesthetic gratification. "Eleanor," she said, "I believe there is something of the savage in you after all." The younger lady nodded a solemn affirmative and put aside her volume. "Savages are victims of a limited horizon and hence lack appreciation. Consider what it is that lends so great a charm to the Oddyssey, the Earthly Paradise, and such twilight literature. To my mind the interest is always infinitely greater when the romance is brought to the very threshold of the present. Here we are, living in the Stone Age, with Drake, Vancouver, Quadra and a host of wild adventurous spirits flitting in the offing. It is the contrast I suppose that makes it so delightful." She nodded in the direction of the fleet of war-ships anchored in the bay. A soft, autumnal haze reduced the mountainous scenery to a glimpse of fairyland. In the west the wooded shore of Vancouver Island was a mere silhouette in Vandyke brown touched sharply into the warm tints of the sunset. Camp fires blazed along the beaches; launches were coming and going, and a large swarm of Indian canoes drifted among the ships imbibing twilight ideas of greatness. A number of gentlemen, including some officers from the ships, greeted the ladies from the promenade and passed on. "There is safety in numbers," Mrs. Walton commented, smiling at her niece's warmth of colour. "I envy you the romance that is brought to the very threshold of the present. It glorifies the future." They looked at each other and went into helpless laughter. "Thank heaven, they are occasionally gregarious," said Eleanor, with great relief. "This is the first whole day I've had to myself." Mrs. Walton, with a relish derived from her recollection of similar experiences, dilated at length on Eleanor's persecutors. During the recital the victim frowned stormily, laughed, sighed, and generally responded with such readiness to the descriptive touches that her aunt prolonged the torture and exaggerated for her own pleasure. "And you still persist in keeping me in the dark," she concluded. "Will you believe me when I say that the question interests me in a spectacular way only?" Mrs. Walton scoffed. "In a sense, yes," she conceded, recalling certain ludicrous complications. "But otherwise" —well, with all your coolness I know that there is a whirlwind of feeling lying dormant. But really, Eleanor, it is not right. Your attitude is a premium on presumption. I believe after all you are indifferent. I have my theory all the same, and it has been partially confirmed. When it became known that that mineral claim of yours in the mountains yonder had to be re-staked at once, how many of them, do you think, like chivalrous knights of old, volunteered to start off at an instant's notice?" Eleanor awoke from her seeming indifference, but with her customary wariness she avoided the pitfall. "How could you, aunty! You've placed me in a dilemma. It was my intention to employ Letherdale." "Well, it wasn't altogether my doing," her aunt said, with momentary compunction. "Both Mr. Twining and Dr. Lor- ing volunteered and start tomorrow morning—separately, of course." Mrs. Walton watched the effect of the announcement. Eleanor was lost in thought a moment. "It's too bad. It places me in an awkward position. I must forbid them," she said, with decision. "They will be justified in ignoring youi prohibition." lhe statement startled her and she turned to hide a rosy countenance. How to extricate herself and preserve her independence was the question that required prompt solution. "What did they—Mr. Twining say?" "He told me that he had instructed his architect to add a large conservatory to his house," the aunt returned, cooly inspecting her niece's features. "I believe I told him yesterday that I had a passion for orchids," Eleanor commented absently. "Dr. Loring said that immediate action is necessary to forestall claim-jumpers. He knows that Twining is going, but will go himself in any case to make sure. I think it very generous of him." "Very!" was the answer murmured with some asperity. "What a girl you are to sit there pondering a scruple with a fortune hanging in the balance," Mrs. Walton pursued with amazement. "Why, according to Letherdale's computation, there's a handsome fortune in sight, and lie said there would be a stampede the moment the fact became known." Eleanor, however, was not easily mollified. She remained silent and oblivious to her aunt's further remarks. Late in the evening she sprang from her chair and observing that Mrs. Walton had gone into the house, she put on her hat and a light cloak and walked rapidly to the village where, after some searching, she found Maquilla, the Indian guide. Some minutes later Maquilla began gathering together his poles, paddles and camping gear. Early next morning Letherdale heard the regular thudding of poles in the river bottom and went to the door of his cabin expecting that it was a messenger from Miss Newcombe with instructions to proceed to the Canyon in the interior of the island to re-stake her claim. It was too dark to distinguish objects clearly, especially under the shadows of the forest-clad shore. The canoe, with two polers, and someone sitting amidship passed up, a dim shadow in the gloom. Letherdale hailed it but received no answer, and he wondered, hoping that none of the crowd of unscrupulous prospectors had become aware of the fact that Eleanor's claim was practically at their mercy. Presently another canoe came up and Genelle, his colleague in the river business, swung lazily up to the landing and spread himself out comfortably in the stem-sheets under the shelter of his sombrero. Letherdale watched the smoke curling from a hole in his head-gear for a while, and then concluding that he was bursting with importance went down to interview him. "See here, Letherdale, jump in and come over. The Doc wants you." "Sure?" Genelle wiggled his pipe by way of affirmative. "Twining hired me this morning to take him to the Canyon as fast as I knew how. I suspected the Doctor would want you. There's some sort of race on. Both are going up to stake Miss Newcombe's diggins. You know what that means." The river-men crossed the straits to the Bay. Letherdale at once proceeded to the shack where the Doctor was engaged in biological experiments. In a few minutes the backwoodsman was making arrangements with a typical product of the west—a lithe graceful chap, with a gravely cheerful eye and a head eloquent of more than the average share of brains. There was a tenseness in his manner, and a concentrated decisive look in his expressive eyes that excited Letherdale's curiosity. On the verandah of a cabin near by, Tony Genelle and a capable looking fellow in knickerbockers, a soft fedora, a well-trimmed beard, with the manners of a penegrinating millionaire were discussing the details of a canoe trip to the Canyon. The man's voice was frank and hearty, but with a ring to it that made one think the speaker had a thing or two up his sleeve. Letherdale knew at once that the man was Twining and observed him with interest, and was not at all surprised that Miss Newcombe had shown her preference for him, for he was decidedly a likeable man in appearance and was, moreover, reputed to be wealthy. Loring proceeded to Constable Haddington's office for the necessary papers and Twining followed on his heels with an air of provoking nonchalance. Tony turned to Letherdale: "Say! Look at Twining's back, Bet he's the politest kind of devil. He's worrying the other. You can tell the way his back moves." Letherdale's attention was attracted by Mrs. Walton, who was coming from the government office, and began telling him breathlessly when within fifty paces, that Eleanor had mysteriously disappeared. "Mr. Letherdale, I really don't know what to make of it. She's such a daring girl, but eminently sensible. I see you smile, but of course you know her well." He thought that he knew her as well as anyone can be expected to know a woman in this world, for he had mothered her when her parents, former neighbors of his, died and left her on his hands. Since that time Eleanor had travelled extensively and was now not only accomplished, but exceptionally beautiful as well. Letherdale assured her that Miss Newcombe was well able to take care of herself. "Well, you are exasperating—really as bad as Constable Haddington, who looked at me in the same way, smiled his cool, ominiscient smile, and dismissed the matter with provoking indifference. What is one to do if one cannot depend on one's friends?" An hour later the two canoes were leisurely ascending a series of rapids en route to the interior of the Island. As there was nothing to be gained by racing up a succession of stiff rapids, the guides agreed during one of their portages to be loyal to each other until the ground was staked, after which each was at liberty to make the water fly. Twining chafed considerably at what he called Tony's blessed laziness. The canoes kept abreast like sections of a catmasan. Tony, however, was as touchy as a lord and as proud as most of them: "Say, boss!" he said, with incisive pathos, after Twining had been nibbling at him for about an hour, "Take it all in a lump or by the mile?" Twining wisely accepted him as an irreducible proposition and thereafter kept his peace. On the afternoon of the second day out they reached their destination, ancl spent the remainder of the day in blazing lines, planting stakes and in traversing the island. That night the parties pitched their camps on a level spot surrounded by a fringe of berry bushes overhanging the water and prepared for a good night's rest. The tug-of-war would begin with the first break of dawn. The Indians hated the spot for ,like many camping grounds on the coast, it had in earlier days been the scene of tribal conflicts. Late in the evening Genelle became troubled and uneasy in manner. Letherdale watched him closely until at length Tony called him aside and pointed to the further bank of the river, where in the intense shadows they saw what they thought was a woman's face, standing out like a ghostly blurr. It was gone in a flash. "Did you see that, Letherdale?" said Tony. "I've glimpsed it once or twice before." It was one of those mystifying appearances that impress one like the vague adumbrations of the seance room. "Prospectors sneaking past," Tony thought. "Couldn't have been. Well—there was one canoe ahead of us too. It may be Indians." The matter was dismissed. "Any more claims around. I want to stake one," said Genelle. "This island's the only outcropping. Low grade. Wasn't worth a grub-stake until the railway began to loom up. Now it means a fortune." "Who's going to get it, Twining or the Doctor?" Letherdale laughed. "Dunno! Eleanor's peculiar. Her dad and Loring's governor discovered it when they were partners. Both died before it was any- good to them. Canoe went to splinters in a log-jam—Newcombe was sucked under and drowned. Loring footed it thirty miles through the jungle nursing a broken leg right to my place—and died. The location was lost. I found it when Eleanor was in Europe. That was when she had just thrown over the Doctor in favour of the rich man. I wrote to Loring and he made me swear to leave him out of it." Genelle whistled: "So he's entitled to half and won't look at it!" "He's peculiar too. Bet he'd hammer me if I went and told Eleanor now. Say what in the deuce—" An avalanche of small pebbles rolled, down the opposite bank into the stream. "Otter," said Tony. "What would an otter be climbing that, bluff for?" Letherdale wanted to know. Genelle was about to take a pot shot in that direction, when the voices of Loring and Twining were heard, near the canoes in the heat of an altercation. Twining apparently was baiting the other into action of some sort: "Surely you'r game!" he was heard to say, with insulting sarcasm. Loring swung on his heel and returned to the camp-fire looking pale and preoccupied. For the next hour he was in a state of suppressed excitement and was plainly making a great effort to keep his temper down. Conversation was more or less difficult and was not pursued. Beetling cliffs surrounded the camp and the forks chroning and swirling on either side filled the air with endless uproar. The Indians of the party, wrapped im their blankets and with heads half hidden in the smoke of a communal pipe, were talking with mysterious solemnity among themselves. Twining was as indifferent and as placid as a man in church and at the moment was engaged in cleaning a revolver with all the leisurely care of a cow-puncher, while the firelight played over him in its own wild way, splashing him with the hues proper to a son of the wilderness. He suddenly threw up his head and looked enquiringly at Letherdale. Genelle and Loring did the same. It was necromantic, but Letherdale understood their movements when he heard what he thought was the river singing one of its impromptus. It suggested a woman's voice. The hour, the circumstances and the growing excitement incident to the race on the morrow had its effect on the men. Loring presently leaned forward from his place with a noticeable pallor and handed Letherdale an army revolver. "Try it," he said. Letherdale fired several shots at a bit of fungus standing out from the hole of a tree, and pronounced it as accurate as a rifle. The crack of the gun produced a remarkable effect. The singing sounds ceased, the result impressing Letherdale like a sudden silence. He felt queer as though he had unwillingly killed something. Twining bounded up and joined the group: "Target practice ?" he said, tossing cigars to the men. "I'll go you a bout, Loring," he added, swinging abruptly and facing him with a cold, steely glance. The Doctor met the challenge with a manner as suddenly resolute as that of Twining. "What's the matter with the lot of us chippin' in?" said Tony. Twining looked at him, studied him with the keen scrutiny of one whose purposes are definite, immutable. "You put up a couple of empty bottles on those stumps," he said incisively, dismissing Tony from his attention and stepping off a distance of twenty-five paces. The pair took their places at either end of the line. There was a personal element, a desperate sort of preoccupation in the manner of both that made Tony say, with a lot of the enthusiasm gone out of his face: "Holy Mackinaw! This looks darn like a dool!" At the same instant one of the Indians began telling Letherdale with much excitement that he had heard the men arranging to have some sort of scrimmage. "We fire when you count ten Letherdale!" "Ready?" said Twining in a voice that had the reckless mounting ring of a man who is being whirled into a galloping fit of intoxication. They turned their backs to each other. The Indians were piling armfuls of resinous branches on the fire which sent the flames into a towering blaze. (To be continued.) THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1908. Notes on Provincial News Out of Work. The meeting of unemployed held in the Athletic Club Rooms at Nanaimo on Monday night last, was an important one. It showed several things which may as well be recognized: First, that there are a large number of unemployed in the Coal City; next, 'that there is no immediate prospect of resumption of work at the mines; and, last, that work which these men might have done has been let to Japanese. It is gratifying to know that Comrade Hawthornthwaite was less extravagant in his utterances than usual; he was probably impressed by the gravity of the situation. The most practical outcome of the meeting was the receipt of a telegram from Premier McBride to the effect that public works would be started in the neighbourhood of Nanaimo which would relieve existing conditions. It is inconceivable that, with several hundred of our own countrymen out of employment, there should be any further hiring of Orientals. No railway company or contractor can afford so far to run counter to public sentiment, even if they were callous enough to ignore the appeal of work- 'meti of our own race. seems to have reached him this winter. They must have had a great time at Champagne Landing, wherever that may be. Jack Pringle tells of their Christmas feast, when the piece de resistance consisted of a dish of roast gophers stuffed with mice. On the bill of fare, amid many other delicacies, the following items figured: Bear steak, knuckle of lynx, leg of wolverine, owls' eyes poached o.' hard tack, scrambled weasles' brains, brazed mink hearts, muskrat pie, fricassee of otter, squaw berries, high balls and low balls. One thing can be said for Whitehorse—it is all alive. By the Hundred Thousands. The greatest herd of caribou ever reported in the Yukon is now moving southward across the head of Sixty- mile river, a hundred miles west of Dawson. Reports say the herd has been crossing there for nearly a hundred days, and it is estimated that 100,000 caribou have already crossed, with no end of the mammoth procession in sight. Coal and Coke Tax. The Fernie Free Press has a rabid land not very discriminating editorial lon the subject of the proposed coal land coke tax. Under .existing conditions, it may fairly be assumed that [the Free Press could hardly do othcr- Jwise than attack the proposal of the [Government, but no one can read the [editorial without a feeling of regret, if [not of sadness, that a paper which for I so many years enjoyed independence, [and was wont to discuss public questions in an intelligent manner, should [have sunk to the degrading position lof a corporation organ. It should ■surely be possible for a writer of aver- lage intelligence to advocate the in* Iterests of a corporation without ignor- ling those of the public. To fail in [this or tn deny its possibility is to ■abrogate the functions of a newspaper, To demonstrate its impossibility lis to remove any plea of justification ■for its existence. Too Partizan. In the same column in which the |01d Man of the Cranbrook Herald claims credit for running a decent Inewspapcr, and declares that the Her- lald has proved that this is a paying Ipolicy, he has a paragraph anent Dun- lean Ross' speech at Ottawa. In this ■paragraph the Old Man claims that iRoss showed up the hypocricy of the iMcBride Government on the Oriental {immigration question "in a concise nanner," also that he placed Mr. Bow- Iser, "whose legal firm acted as at- Itorneys for the Japanese Immigration ■Agency," in a very bad light indeed. Iln view of Mr. Bowser's emphatic ■denial of Duncan Ross' charges on ■the floor of the local Legislature, it [is a little difficult to harmonize this [paragraph with the Old Man's claim [to decency. It is easier to appreciate [the point of his concluding paragraph, Ithat "nothing under the heavens can prevent Duncan Ross being returned [at the next election." The Week [quite agrees with the prediction; the [prevention will not come from any- Ithing "under the heavens." Are We Suckers? Apropos of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, the Whitehorse Star comes out editorially in the following manner: "Seattle has always found Yukon- ers and Alaskans to be easy marks in the matter of disgorging money. Seattle has grown rich and affluent at the expense of Yukon and Alaska. The money has all gone one way— towards Seattle. Now a scheme is on foot to make a grand coup in 1909— make 'the big cleanup' at the expense of Yukon and Alaska, whose names are being traded on for that purpose. " 'The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition' is a rather 'sausagefied' name for a real estate boom, but that is all it is, and all the name is being used for, and it is not Alaska or Yukon real estate that is to be boomed either. "Both Alaska and Yukon have broad expanses of real estate which need booming, but it is not likely that either will find much recognition at Seattle, her own interests being paramount to anything outsiders may wish to exploit. "No one objects to Seattle having as many expositions and fairs as she desires, but she should rely on her own resources as bait for thc unwary and not on her efforts to play Alaska and Yukon as 'good things.' "There are a few people yet in the North who enjoy being patted on their backs and called gc . fellows', and that is what Seattle i" doing ih the matter of her hyphenated re. 1 estate promotion scheme. But the 'taffy' is too transparent, and very few Yukoners will be lured by it. "Seattle is playing the people of the North for suckers. Are we?" WEEK 17TH FEBRUARY. The New Grand SULLIVAN a COMIBINI, fr»»rl.tor«. Management *f MIT. J«_lieS-»N. CARLISLE'S DOG AND PONY CIRCUS Including "Tom," the World's Greatest Talking Pony. ALVA YORK English Singing Comedienne. SEYMOUR EMILIE HOWE and EDWARDS Comedy Sketch "The Arrival of Mr. Dooley." THE PIOTTES Character Singers "The Italian and His Sweetheart." EDDIE POWERS Blackface Comedian. THOS. J. PRICE, Song Illustrator "There's Another Picture in My Mama's Frame. NEW MOVING PICTURES "The Pearl Fisher." "The Exciting Ride." OUR OWN ORCHESTRA ' M. Nagel, Director. "IL BACIO." Nothing Like Contentment. The Whitehorse Weekly Star of January 24 is full of newsy items about the North country. It is full pf rejoicing because the lowest tem- berature that week was 25 degrees |)elow zero, whereas a ^ear ago 50 decrees below was reckoned to be "a liarbinger of spring." The content- Inent of spirit which pervades White- jbrse society is something to be Ifroud of and easily puts to shame the prowlers who enjoy perpetual sttm- Iner in Victoria. E. J. White, the Humourous "stroller" of the Star, relives the chestnut that last winter the [scientific research department of Washington, D.C., wrote asking him for information regarding ice-worms, [but no such cheering correspondence Free School Books. The Cranbrook Prospector is a strong supporter of the proposal th; t the Provincial Government should arrange for supplying free text books in the public schools of the Province. In an intelligent editorial on the subject the Prospector says that the children are called upon to provide themselves with too many books, that the books they get are ont fair value for the money paid, and that a Minister of Education of the ability of Dr. Young could undoubtedly devise a satisfactory method of overcoming the difficulty. This puts the case in a nutshell, and there is some reason to hope that friend Grace will not be disappointed. Pantage's Theatre JOHNSON STREET VICTORIA, B. C. 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It has his peculiarities down to a fine point, and gently reproduces one of them in the following paragraph: "While Duncan Ross was deprecating British Columbia anti-Asiatic legislation in Ottawa, his paper was whooping it up allee samce other British Columibans, in Greenwood. Duncan should havc used the wires to kill that little editorial endorsement of the Natal Act in last week's Times." T.ADIT8 SWEDISH GENTS MASSAGE Turkish Baths TIBBATOB TREATMENT HB. BJOBNFBLT, SWEDISH HASSEUB. Special Massage and Hometreat- ment by appointments. Room 2, Vernon Blk., Douglas St. Body Development. Hours 1 to 6. Phone 1629. Most Particular Smokers Experience little or no difficulty in finding a cigar or blend of smoking mixture that fits their taste. Our Manila or Havana Cigars can't be beaten. 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DEAN Adelphi Block - VICTORIA, B.C. ■MM wm mm THE WEEK, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15, 1908, Spo rting Comment. is up to the Island League to take Mr. and Mrs. David Alexander of the necessary steps to put a stop to Duncans are registered at the Bal- the practice, and I hope that this wil' * * * be done at the meeting this evening. Mr. and Mrs. H. Dallas Helmcken The local rugby team had an easy have taken quarters at the Empress victory over the Nanaimo players at Hotel for the remauider °f the Wmter- The first test match to select Oak Bay last Saturday. A win was Mrs p £>e jjoe Walker left dur- eleven players to represent the Van- expected, but it was hardly thought ing the week for the mainland. She couver Island Football Association that such a big score would be rolled expects to be away for several weeks, against the Mainland, was played at up. The game was a very poor ex- Mf A R Johnston and Mr. Frank Ladysmith last Saturday, and result- hibitton of the grand old game, net- Lloyd of Westholme were guests at ed in the selection of a team which ther side making any effort to exert the King Edward Hotel during the is expected to defeat the Mainland- themselves. week. ers, but at the same time ii might The Vancouver Rugby Union is Mr. Donald Fraser of the Cana- have been strengthened considerably, working itself into a fury over the al- dian 'Bank 0f Commerce has been The selection of the team has occa- leged treatment of Referee Tait at transferred to the New Westminster sioned considerable comment, some Nanaimo a couple of Saturdays ago. branch, of which is not of a very compli- It is claimed that the players from w- , . *. , mcntary nature to the committee, the. Coa. City treated him in a very J^?^ ^ she* hTbS From the twenty-two players who ungentlemanly manner and threaten- took part in the test match, the com- ed him with all kinds of dire wrongs, mittee had sufficient available mater- Nanaimo, on the other hand, claims ial to form a very strong combina- that he received proper treatment, but tion, but in some unaccountable man- even if he was called a few ungentle staying with her sister, Mrs. R. C. Furlonger. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ritchie are expected in Victoria very soon. They intend to spend the summer here with ned they have overlooked players manly names, it is hardly sufficient Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Flumerfelt. who should have had their place. for the Vancouver players to ask for Bradshaw in goal and Lorimer and the suspension of the whole Nanaimo Hewitt at full back make a very team. strong combination, while in the for- I was surprised to learn that the Belcher Avenue, ward line the team has one of the Victoria Cricket Club was in a bad best scoring aggregations that could state financially. It is well known be chosen, but the half-back division that the club is maintained by sub- * * * Miss McDonald of Winnipeg has returned to her home again. She has been the guest of Miss Arbuthnot, Lieut. Eaton of the Army Service Corps has arrived at Work Point , . , Barracks to take the place of Captain is weak, and it would not be surpris- scnptions collected from ex-players, Reecj w[10 js returning to England. ing if this division cost the Islanders but last season the collections were * * * the game. Johnston at centre half is not sufficient to cover the expenses. Miss Heneage, who is leaving Vic- the best that could be chosen, but I hope that some arrangements will toria next week to make her home on had Connors, of the Shearwater, been be made to get the club out of debt "">«*»! Island is giving a small fare- , it _,,,-, , _■ li l l Lt well tea this afternoon, in port, he would undoubtedly have before the commencement of the sea- * * * gained the place. But with the elec- son, as to start the season in debt One of the last social functions be- tion of Johnston we have no com- would be a hard blow to the team, fore the Lenten season which is be- plaint. At right half, however, Mc- The prospects for the season are verv ing looked forward to by Victorians v„ , . , . , ., , . , . , _ , ■ ■ j is the ball to be given by the Union Ktnley is a rank failure and is not bright as far as playing is concerned, ^-^ on t|le 2gtjj 0f t]jjs month, entitled to a position. After the ex- and it is expected that the team will * * * hibition he gave in the All-Island vs. be as strong as ever. I have to con- The engagement has been an- All-Mainland match of last season, it gratulate L. S. V. Yorke on his elec- £ou"cei. °.f Miss £ml,. ^Mc%: ?f , ... , a- ■ l c li l- r l ■ c _.i_ ' nt i_ u* • Bath, England, to Mr. Bird, of Smta should have been sufficient for thc tion as Captain of the Club. He is i_uia gask Miss Holley made many committee to realize that he was not an ardent lover of the game, and has friends here while on a visit to Brit- fit to fill the place, and another given already won his cap as a representa- ish Columbia about a year ago. an opportunity, and from those who tive of Canada in the international ,r „, , ... , , _ ,. ..."".. _ T j •_-. -a _ 1 -_i_ ..1 tt •_. j ___ _ j t Mr. Moorhead, late of the Canadian witnessed the game at Ladysmith, it match with the United States, and I Ban(. of commerce in Vancouver, is learned that other players gave a hope that he will be able to lead his spent the week-end in Victoria, before going on to Alberni on Monday far better exhibition than him. Har- team to the championship. Icy, at left half, is at the best an experiment. He has been playing on the forward line of one of the Mainland teams all season, and on his showing in one game, has been given his place on the All-Island team, ln place of these two players, Thackeray of the Y.M.C.A., and Dufty, of the Esquimalt teams, should have been selected. The former is one of the most consistent half-backs in the league, and it is certainly a hardship that he has been overlooked. Dufty, UMPIRE. night, where he has accepted a good billet. * * * Mr. Thornton of Thetis Island has been spending a few days in Victoria. ■ Miss Blakemore is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Vickers of Kamloops has been Mrs. Shirley Blakemore of Haro St., Victoria Social. visiting friends in the Capital. * * * Colonel Gregory was a passenger to Vancouver on Thursday morning. * * * Vancouver, * * * Mr. and Mrs. Crowe-Baker have returned after spending several months travelling in Europe. They Mr, and Mrs. E. B. Marvin have were the guests of Mrs. Herbert Ross on a trip to California. Miss Leigh Spencer of Vancouver on'his form this season,'is better tha'n is "altered aMhe Empress Hotel. McKinley; in fact, it is hardly possi- Mr A T parry of Cowichan Bay ble to choose a weaker half-back than is at the King Edward Hotel. McKinley. Outside of these positions in Vancouver for a few days before coming on to Victoria. * * **■-. The betrothal is announced between Amy Campbell (Maisie) Campbell- Johnston, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald C. Campbell-Johnston, duties. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lamb of So- the team is a strong one and should give the Mainlanders a hard run for a victory. But in the next test match it is hoped that a more careful selection is made than has been the case in this team. Now that the team has been selected it is impossible to change it, and whatever our com- mcnos have been in Victoria for a plaints, we hope that the Island team 'ew c'a--*'s' ^ will be returned victorious on the Mrs H,garn; MJffl NorrJe and Miss occasion of the first match in Van- Hadwen of Duncans were in town couver early next month. for the Paderewski concert on Fri- It is rather hard on a player to be ^ evening. ^ ^ ^ selected in the first twenty-two, and Mr and Mrs MauHce of Shaw. yet never be given his place in the nigangan Lake, have been guests at line-up by the press. This is exactly the Empress during the week. what happened to Peden, of the Bays, -— ■ — who was selected as goalkeeper for "B" team. Peden was chosen and made the trip to Ladysmilh and incidentally played a good game, but on every occasion when thc team appeared in the press credit was given to Dunn, of the Esquimalt team. It is very evident that it was a mistake the first time the teams appeared, but the committee should have seen that the error was corrected. I believe in giving credit to whom credit is due. A meting of the Vancouver Island League has been called for this evening, at the request of the Ladysmith club, to discuss the question of importing players from the Mainland. This matter was referred to last week, and I am pleased that the league is taking steps to prevent the rapid approach to professionalism. The Vancouver players arc already registering a kick about ex-Mainland- ers playing on the Island team, but until they show that these players have been coaxed to thc Island on the promise of good situations, it will be a hard matter to do anything. It Mrs. Arthur Crease entertained at and J. R. Armytage Moore, son of the an informal tea on Monday after- late Wm. Armytage Moore of Arn- lloc"1' * * * "• more, Co. Cavan, Ireland, and Mrs. Miss Fanny Devereux has returned Fl'ank Hardcastle, of Lancaster Gate, to Duncans to resume her school Londor.. OMINECA LAND DISTRICT. District of Coast. TAKE NOTICE that Marie Phllippi, of Omaha, occupation, Lady, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands: Commenolng at a post planted at the southwest corner of section 21, township 1, range 4, Poudrier Survey; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chatns; thence south 80 chains; thence west 80 chains to place of beginning, being said section 21. Dated January 15th, 1908. MAHIE PHILIPPI. Feb. 15 A. Olson, Agent. ANNOUNCEMENT Grand Fancy Dress Ball in aid of St. Joseph's Hospital, will be held in "^ THE EMPRESS HOTEL ON TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18TH, AT 8.30 Tickets are now on sale at M. W. Waitt & Co.'s, the J. M. Whitney Co.'s, C. E. Rcdfern's, Challoner & Mitchell's, The Victoria Book & Stationery Co.'s, T. N. 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CORNER FORT AND LANGLEY STREETS. t -rTrtfTT-mT. oTinnnnnnfSTnrTrj Kingsford Smith & Co. j| Stock and General AUCTIONEERS Commission and Real Estate Agents. MQ Granville, 'Vancouver. Vancouver Edition The Week » British Columbia Review, Published at Victoria and Vancouver B. ©. *) mmnnr t * innnrmt id «t »• * »c Stewart William R.CJsnlon ^ol. V. No. 3 THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1908 £ WILLIAMS & JANION £ AUCTIONEERS £ COMMISSION ANt W REAL ESTATE AGENYS jo |i FO«T ST. VICTORIA, S. C. Onb Dou_a* P«a Anno ^^^B The Week wonders whether _he Natal Act. the Times has altered its ^^^H opinion of Attorney-General I_Bowser and his legal attainments, or whether it still thinks that he is an in- iompetent, who knows nothing of Constitutional law and usage. If it were per- Jinissable The AVeek would further wonder Iwhether the views of the Times with respect to the McBride Administration have _een modified in consequence of the news .lashed over the wires from Ottawa as to the action of the Federal authorities with respect to the Bowser Bill. It is only a few short days since the public was told n precise terms that the Local Govern- nent was simply playing a game of bluff. Dhat the Bowser Bill was not worth the _aper it was written on. That the Government knew this and that they were imply playing with the House by forcing hrough a piece of legislation which they .new was valueless. It was represented hat the Bill would be ineffective even if (t were not disallowed, but that in any vent it was unconstitutional in vieAv of he treaty obligations of the British Government and the invariable attitude of jondon and Ottawa in respect to such .jgislation. By the irony of fate the Vic- joria Times, yesterday, had to publish a I.ispatch from Ottawa stating that the Sowser Bill, so far from being a nonentity, ad sufficient effect to necessitate an appeal to the courts on default of the federal Government to determine its val- Jity. A piece of legislation which could ot be brushed aside lightly and which ossessed sufficient status to justify an ppcal to the courts must be a very dif- jrent thing from that so graphically de- 3ribed by the Opposition press. Further, ; has been found sufficiently effective to revent the immigration of several Japs ^to the Province and so to raise in a ■jractical form the whole question as to diether British Columbia has a legal ight to prevent undesirable immigration. f Mr. Bowser's Bill effected no more than lis it would justify the action of the government to raise the question in such form that it will now have to be settled v the highest tribunal in the Empire is 0 mean achievement. The Federal Gov- I'nment has played ball with this great uestion of Oriental Immigration for ten ears ancl has effectually blocked the I'ishes of the people when any measure f redress has been passed by the local legislature. Whatever else results from Jr. Bowser's Act, this will no longer be .ossible. Once it is determined whether Ur Wilfrid Laurier's opinion, or the ad- rice of Mr. Chamberlain possesses the renter validity thc Province will know .hat to do. As matters stand now the IcBride Government has made good. It as again interpreted the wishes of the 'rovince and this time has forced the federal Government to abandon its atti- lide of unconditional veto and allow the (atter to go to the tribunal which knows (.thing of political influence, and which ill solve the question of the powers bf e Local Legislature in this connection, this is not statesmanship The AVeek I ould be glad to have a little enlighten- .ent on thc subject. At present it; would ipear that thc head of tlie Local Govern- bnt has for the second time scored against ie powers at Ottawa. EDITORIAL Now that Dr. McGuire's McGuire's position for an investigation jetition. into the conduct of the coal industry of the Province Ias been approved by the House it may ot be unprofitable to suggest several di- ■ctions in whicli investigation might with advantage be made. The first is as to the cost of fuel to the actual consumer. Upon this point the following facts may be of interest; they certainly furnish food for reflection and would appear to justify all that has been said about excessive charges: The cost of producing coal and putting it on board vessels at Nanaimo or Wellington, inclusive of all charges, does not exceed $2.50 a ton. Water transportation to Alctoria and Vancouver costs 50c per ton; handling and delivering within the city limits of either place costs well within a dollar, making a total cost of $4.00. The retail selling price is $7.50. This leaves a margin of $3.50 to be divided between the mine owner and the middle man, a sum which is nearly 100 per cent added to the actual cost. The Investigating Commission may well ask the question —Is this a fair price? Fernie coal costs not more than $2.00 per ton loaded and shipped at the mine. It retails in Fernie at $5.00 a ton. It retails in Nelson at $7.50 a ton; allowing $1.50 freight and $1.00 for distribution, the profit on Fernie coal sold in Nelson is $3.00 a ton, divided between the producer and middle man. It might be well in this case for the Commission to ascertain whether the Coal Company is content with a few cents per ton profit, which is all they can get, if they do not divide any portion of the middleman's profit, or whether there is an arrangement for rebate. Throughout the Kootenay there is an impression that the latter is the case and the statement has been made freely in the lobbies of the House during the last week. These are the two main sources of supply and against the above facts may be set this one—that today Vancouver Island coal is selling in San Francisco at $7.00 a ton, which is 50c less than at A7ictoria and Arancouver, with the disadvantage of 1,000 miles of difficult transportation. If one goes further afield it would look as if the Province is being even more unfairly treated than these figures would indicate. During the present winter coal has been selling at Saskatoon and Prince Albert, 1,000 miles from the point of production, at $7.00 a ton. It has been selling in AVinnipeg, nearly a thousand miles from Fernie, at $S.00 a ton. Allowing $-1.00 for transportation, $2.00 for cost of production and $1.00 for distribution in the case of AVinnipeg, the profit for both producer and middleman could not have exceeded $1.00 a ton. In Saskatoon and Prince Albert, it is probable that the transportation company made a special rate in order to insure fuel for those towns, but even then the profit would not exceed that of the AVinnipeg coal. If these facts are established, and they will be if the investigation is held, the Government of British Columbia will be forced to take one of two steps, either to demand 01 the Dominion Government some measure which will control the cost of fuel in the public interest, or they will have to operate their own coal areas. Further, the above facts taken in connection with others whicli have leaked out during the recent labour troubles would seem to indicate that the coal trade of this Province is in pretty much the same position as tlie lumber business of the Northwest, and that a combine exists for maintaining fictitious prices. If such a charge is established there will be no difficulty in dealing with it effectually. One other matter of importance remains to be covered. It is the question of dis crimination in favour of American as against Canadian consumers. On this point it will not be so easy to secure evidence, but it will not be impossible, and if a Dominion Commission is granted tliere is no reason why the American Government should not throw open their customs department and so settle a question whicli has been agitated for seven or eight years. Important evidence on this point could be obtained from Great Falls and Spokane. Dr. McGuire has been the means of setting in motion very important and powerful machinery; he has received the support of the McBride Administration; it remains to be seen how far the Dominion Government will allow it to operate. Last AVednesday Mr. Joseph Unstable Martin addressed a crowded As Water. meeting in the A. O. U. AV. Hall, A'ictoria. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Asiatic Exclusion League and was organized by Mr. John Jardine, M.P.P., its President. The speakers were Joseph Martin, J. H. Hawthornthwaite, John Staples, S. Perry Mills, J. C. Watters, John Kay and John Jardine. A movement supported by public men of this calibre cannot be pooh-poohed. Just how many of the audience were ardent exclusionists and how many went to witness the fun which Mr. Martin always makes, may be a matter of some doubt, but everybody had a good time; the hall was packed; the cheering was enthusiastic and Mr. Martin enjoyed himself most of all. The ex- Premier has lost none of his entertaining faculties, but a careful perusal of his address would indicate that his grip on logical reasoning is by no means secure. For instance, it would be difficult to find any speech in which so many contradictory statements were made. He claimed to have been a life-long Liberal, but admitted that at the last Provincial election he voted for a Conservative Government; then he declared that he was sorry he had done so. By way of rounding up his attitude towards the party with which he had been allied for so many years, ancl the one for which he voted a year ago, and possibly also through a desire to restore a consistent equilibrium, he expressed the hope that when the general election come along the people would throw Mr. McBride out of oflice ancl send seven Conservative members to Ottawa. It is to bc hoped that after this re-adjustment of his political horizon Mr. Martin's conscience is at peace. Mr. Martin's discussion of the Exclusion question was not very illuminating. It consisted mainly of an unreasoning attack upon Sir AVilfrid Laurier and Mr. McBride, with a side kick at the Hon. William Templeman. Of the latter gentleman ilr. Martin declared that "he knew nothing about public questions," a conclusion with which it: was only fair to say that Mr. Templeman knows nothing about politics, because he has said to himself, but. to deny him a knowledge of public questions after more than twenty years of public service is to deny him Ordinary intelligence and on that subject Mr. Martin is not authority. He declared that the only way to deal with this question was to pass the Natal Act and that Mr. McBride had deliberately allowed the House to go through that farce for the second or third time, knowing all the time that the Lieutenant-Governor would not assent to it. Yet at the very moment that Mr. Martin was given utterance to this picturesque phraseology, Ottawa was iu receipt of the latest edition of the Natal Act which had already received the assent of the Lieutenant-Governor. Of course, Mr. Martin's criticism was directed at the action of Mr. McBride last year, but there is not a scrap of evidence to show that his action has been any different this year. In fact the evidence is all the other way, since there is consistency in the course pursued by the Government who have repeated tlieir previous legislation. Mr. Martin reiterates the argument of the Liberal press that when His Honour reserved his assent last year Mr. McBride should have resigned, but he does not fortify the statement with any Constitutional precedent or authority. In seeking to make political capital for the party of his longer allegiance Mr. Martin enunciates a false proposition. He declares that the position brought about could have been correctly expressed by the Lieutenant-Governor in the following words: "I did not do it, I was told to do it, and I have the man right there who stands for it, attack him." The declaration of Mr. McBride is on record that he did not advise the Lieutenant-. Governor in the matter. There is also on record a telegram from Ottawa which can only be construed by any fair-minded man as a distinct suggestion to His Honour to withhold his assent. There is also on record the letter from His Honour explaining why he reserved his assent, in which he states distinctly that he did so because he conceived that the legislation was of a similar character to that which had been repeatedly disallowed at Ottawa. It should further be noted that in this letter no reference whatever is made to advice from the local Government. In order to secure the slightest sub-stratum of plausibility even, for his proposition Mr. Martin must establish that Mr. McBride is a liar, that the Lieutenant-Governor is a prevaricator and that the Hon. Mr. Scott is an ignoramus. In view of the political vagaries of the gentleman who makes the proposition this again is a large order. On the Exclusion question, strange to say, Mr. Martin does not look for salvation either from the Federal or Provincial Government; neither can do the right thing; in fact he makes it pretty clear that there is only one man in Canada who docs know how to settle the question. As a final illustration of the peculiar attitude of the "stormy petrel" take the following paragraph produced verbatim from his address: "The present ministry is about on its last legs and I would like to say this, both with regard to Mr. McBride and Sir AVilfrid Laurier's Governments, but I am sorry to say that they look to he pretty well installed in power, with a majority prepared to follow them and see them through." .lust how a ministry "011 irs last leis" can be "pretty well installed in power" may be clear to the mind of Mr. Joseph Martin, but to the average intellect it is as clear as "mud." Time was when thc speaker could have delivered an instructive and illuminating address upon the Constitutional aspects of a great question, but apparently that time has passed, and he has reached the stage when liis highest ambition seems to bc to tickle the cars of the groundlings. Instead of rising to the occasion he descended to the level of those who prefer sophistry to logic and prejudice to reason. The insincerity of the whole performance is demonstrated by the fact that for the Government which alone has had the courage to give legislative effect to the wishes of the Province and to its own declarations he had nothing hut condemnation. 'T~ THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1908. The Merchants Bank Cana a Established 1864. Capital, fully paid 16,004000 Reserve Funds 4,000,000 Head Office: Montreal Banking By Mail. Deposits and withdrawals can be made by mail; no delay, and will receive prompt attention. Savings Bank Department. Interest allowed quarterly at highest current rate. Victoria Branch: R. F. TAYLOR, Manager. phical work, entitled "The Will to' Doubt," by Professor Alfred H. Lloyd, of the University of Michigan. Who Are Our Scholars? Owen Wister found himself the centre of a vigorous controversy as a result of his address on American scholarship, delivered at Harvard a few weeks ago. It now appears, however, that the criticism directed at Mr. Wister was the result of misrepresentation in a press despatch from Boston printed in a number of newspapers, which said that Mr, Wister had declared that tliere were only three scholars in America. He actually mentioned forty-one American scholars. Since then, in defense of his assertions with regard to the position of the American scholar according to European standards, Mr. Wister has elaborated a list of the most eminent scholars in the world, in which he included three Americans—Dr. Henry Charles Lea, author of "A History of the Inquisition," Professor Simon Newcomb, and Professor Maurice Bloomfield. Commencing at a post planted on the north side of Stuart Lake about 32 miles west of Fort St. James on the south line of timber licence staked in my name on October 26th, 1907; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence north 80 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated November 26th, 1907. Feb. 15 GEORGE B. WATSON. Literary Notes. STUART LAKE LAND DISTRICT. District of Omineca. TAKE NOTICE that George B. Watson, of Fort Steele, B.C., occupation Miner, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands:— Commencing at a post planted on the north side of Stuart Lake, about three miles west of Fort St. James; thence north 40 chains; thence east 160 chains; thence south 40 chains; thence west 160 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated November 29th, 1907. Feb. IB GEORGE B. WATSON. The SILVER SPRING BREWERY, Ltd. BREWERS OP ENGLISH ALE AND STOUT The Highest Grade Malt and Hops Used in Manufacture. PHONE S»3- VICTORI/ Some Promised Poetry. Pessimists about present-day literature will find food for thought in the list of books in poetry and belles-lettres announced for publication this Spring by the Macmillan Company. The list is specially remarkable as containing the names of four writers who stand at the head in Enlish poetry to-day, in addition to one great name from the past. The promise of hitherto unknown poems by Tennyson, as well as of a series of his own notes o his works, is perhaps of the greatest significance. Then ther is a new volume of poems by Alfred Noyes, generally held to be the most promising of the younger generation in England, and new dramas by Stephen Phillips and William Butler Yeats. Mr. Phillips has written a "Faust," which is to be produced in London by Mr. Beerbohm Tree, before the close of the present season. Mr. Yeats' new drama, "The Unicorn from the Stars," which he wrote in collaboration with Lady Gregory, ha.-, already been played in Dublin, and will be published in a volume along with "Kathleen Ni Houlahan," and a revised edition of "The Hour Glass." The American drama is represented in this list by Mr. Percy McKaye, with "The Scarecrow," the lirst prose drama from his hand to be published. Of books that may fairly lay claim to thc title of literature, one of the most important in this list will doubtless be Mr. Fielding Hal's "The Inward Light." Many readers will remember Mr. Hall's earlier book, "The Soul of a People," in which he gave a picture of Burma and the Burmese, done with such sympathy and perception as allied him with the late Laf- cadio Hearn. His new book is de- lined as an attempt to determine the essential truth that underlies the Eastern faith called Buddhism. Another work that will bc accepted as literature is the third volume of the series of Collected Essays by Frederic Harrison, of which two volumes have already been issued. Mr. Hamilton W. Mabie has edited a volume of twelve stories described as Types of the Best Fiction, which are to be pub-1 lishcd with thc title, "Famous Short Stories: English and American." A second volume of Professor Saints- btiry's brilliant "History of English Prosody" is also promised, and in the same li sf,orlckat? m s.slySshrdltuiu same list, for lack of a more convenient classification, may bc included thc first complete translation of the "Celebrated Crimes" of Alexandre Dumas. Ine losely allied fields the Macmillan Company offers such books as "Monuments of Christian Rome," by Professor A. L. Frbthingham, of Princeton University; "The Evolution of Modern Orchestration," by Louis Adolphe Cocrne; and a new volume in the revised edition of Grove's famous "Dictionary of Music and Musicians." "The Will to Doubt." The Macmillan Company will publish this week an important philoso-l STUART LAKE LAND DISTRICT. District of Omineca. TAKE NOTICE that George B. Watson, of Fort Steele, B.C., occupation Miner, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands:— Commencing at a post planted about 20 chains north of the north shore of Stuart Lake, about 29 miles west of Fort St. James; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains', thence east 80 chains; to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated November 24th, 1907. Feb. 15 GEORGE B. WATSON. STUART LAKE LAND DISTRICT. District of Omineca. TAKE NOTICB that George B. Wat- .on, of Fort Steele, B.C., occupation Miner, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following de- icribed lands:— Commencing at a post planted on the north side of Stuart Lake about 29 miles west of Fort St. James and on the eat line of my location No. 1; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence west 80 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated November 24th, 1907. Feb. 15 GEORGE B. WATSON. STUART LAKE LAND DISTRICT. District of Omineca. TAKE NOTICE that George B. Watson, of Fort Steele, B.C., occupation Miner, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands:— Commencing at a post planted on the north side of Stuart Lake about 30 miles west of Fort St. James and at the northwest corner of my location No. 2; thence north 80 chains; thence east SO chains; thence south 80 chains; thence west 80 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated November 24th, 1907. Feb. 15 GEORGE B. WATSON. SKEENA LAND DISTRICT. District of Coast. TAKE NOTICE tliat William Rose, of Ingersol, Ont., Merchant, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described land: Cemmencing at a post planted about two miles south of Refuge Bay, on the west coast of Porcher Island and at the northwest corner of lot 1282, Cassiar district; thence east 80 chains; thence north 20 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south following coast line to point of commencement, containing 160 acres. WILLIAM ROSS. Jan 11. A. O. Noake, Agent. SKEENA LAND DISTRICT. District of Coast. TAKE NOTICE that Arthur Noakes, of Victoria, B.C., occupation Civil Engineer, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described land—on Porcher Island: Commencing at a post planted at the northwest corner of Lot 1292, about 2 miles distant and in a southeasterly direction from Jap Bay; thence north 40 chatns; thence east 40 chains; thence south 40 chains; thence west 40 chains lo point of commencement, containing 160 acres, more or less. Dated Dec. 20th, 1907. Jan. 18 ARTHUR NOAKES. STUART LAKE LAND DISTRICT. District of Omoneca. TAKE NOTICE that George B. Watson, of Fort Steele, B.C., occupation Prospector, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: Commencing at a post planted on the north side of Stuart Lake, about 32 miles west of Fort St. James, thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains, to place of commencement. Dated October 26th, 1907. Feb. 1 GEO. B. WATSON. WHY NOT HAVE THE BEST THE REPUTATION OF James Buchanan & Co'sSCOTCH WHISKIES Is world-wide, and stands for the BEST that can be produced. The following brands are for sale by all the leading dealers: RED SEAL BLACK AND WHITE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD VERY OLD LIQUEUR SCOTCH RADIGER & JANION, Sole Agents for B.C. STUART LAKE LAND DISTRICT. District of Omineca. TAKE NOTICE that George B. Watson, of Fort Steele, B.C., occupation Miner, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands:— Commencing at a post planted on the west bank of Tather River, about four miles up the river, above the Tather Indian Village, thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; more or less to river bank; thence following river up stream to point of commencement and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated November 21st, 1907. Feb. 15 GEORGE B. WATSON. STUART LAKE LAND DISTRICT. District of Omineca. TAKE NOTICE that George B. Watson of Fort Steele, B.C., occupation Prospector, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: Commencing at a post planted on the north side of Stuart Lake, about 33 miles west of Fort St, James and 15 chains north of the southwest corner of my application No. 1; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains to place of commencement. Dated October 26th, 1907. Feb. 1 GEORGE B. WATSON. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT District of Renfrew. TAKE NOTICE that Harvey Waters, of Victoria, B.C., occupation Timber Cruiser, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: Claim No. 7—Commencing at a post planted south flve and one-half miles and east six miles of W. C. Nelson and H. Waters' post of their No. 1 claim on Cheewhat Lake; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains to point of commencement. H. WATERS. Located on 26th August, 1907. STUART LAKE LAND DISTRICT. District of Omineca. TAKE NOTICE that George B. Watson, of Fort Steele, B.C., occupation Miner, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands:— Commencing at a post planted on the north shore of the north arm of Stuart Lake, about 6 miles easterly from the head of said arm; thence north 40 chains; thence west 160 chains; thence south 40 chains; more or less to Lake shore; thence east following shore line to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated November 26th, 1907. Feb. 15 GEORGE B. WATSON. STUART LAKE LAND DISTRICT. District of Omineca. TAKE NOTICE that George B. Watson, of Fort Steele, B.C., occupation Miner, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands:— Commencing at a post planted on east bank of Sowchca Creek, about 1% miles south of the south line of the Indian Reserve at the south end of Stuart Lake; thence east 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence west SO chains; thence south 80 chains to point of commencement and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated November 16th, 1907. Feb. 15 GEORGE B. WATSON. Y. W. C. A. 1208 Government Street VICTORIA. Reading and rest rooms, lunch and tea rooms. Instruction in English. French, Music, Physical Culture, Needlework, Domestic Science, etc. Bible Class. Social evening every Wednesday. STUART LAKE LAND DISTRICT. District of Omineca. TAKE NOTICE that George B. Watson, of Fort Steele, B.C., occupation Miner, Intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands:— Commenolng at a post planted on the south shore of Trembleur Lake, about one mile west of outlet; thence south SO chains; thence west 80 chalna; thence north 80 chains to lake shore; thence following shore line to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated November 20th, 1907. Feb. 15 GEORGE B. WATSON. Y. M. C. A. A home for young men away from home. Comfortable Reading Room, Library, Game Room, Billiards, Hot and Cold Shower Baths, Gymnasium and efficient instruction. Manitoba Free Press on file for Middle West visitors. 4e BROAD STREET VICTORIA STUART LAKE LAND DISTRICT. District of Omineca. TAKE NOTICE that George B. Watson, of Fort Steele, B.C., occupation Miner, Intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands:— The Taylor Mill Co. Limited. 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We make a specialty of Undertaking and Embalming, An experienced certificated staff available at all times, day and night. Phones Nos. 48, 305, 404 or 594, Victoria. The Y. B. e. Novelty Works ran abtiqub, abtibtio abb abokitbotttbax, nutno won hadb to obdeb. I un now ready to fulfil any orders for all kinds of Banks, Stores, Offices. Churches, Barber Shops and Hotel Bar Fixtures and Furniture. 100* «h»__Y_lle Mrs* :i _ » 11 " __» TAMOOVnM, B. a T. LeOAIB, rroyrletar. Investigate the I "Cushman" flarine r\oto\ As good as the best. Cheaper than the rest. BAXTER & JOHNSON 811 Qovernment Stree Victoria, B. C. THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1908 Correspondence. The Week accepts no responsibility for the views expressed by its correspondents. The columns of The Week are open to everyone for the free expression of their opinion on all subjects which do not involve religious controversy. Communications will be Inserted whether signed by the real name of the writer or a nom de plume, but the writer's name and address must be given to the editor as an evidence of bona rides. In no case will it be divulged without consent. Shall the Bank Act Be Revised? As everyone, in any way connected with the business life of Canada, has been, more or less, affected by the monetary stringency so generally felt during the past six months, I have no doubt that any discussion of our banking methods and the clauses of the Bank Act will prove interesting at the present time. In the first place, why should Canada be affected, to the extent that she is, in consequence of a panic in New York? It is not an answer to say that the monetary stringency has been worldwide, and that all countries have been seriously influenced by these conditions. Such an answer does not touch the root of the matter. The unscrupulous manipulations of stock-jobbing capitalists on the New York Stock Exchange—the exploitation of the savings or the wealth of the people, till prices have no relation to values, resulted in a slump, which rapidly became panic when it was found that public confidence had been so abused as to be at last completely destroyed. The withdrawal of bank deposits all over the country followed. People preferred to hoard their money rather than leave it in the banks. To meet these demands realizations became imperative, and every attempt to realize securities accentuated the panic by still further contributing to a steadily declining market. Banking houses, unable to meet demands upon them by borrowing abroad, and consequently being compelled to realize on their securities at prices infinitely below what they had cost, were obliged to close their doors. The immense shipments of gold :rom London to New York, causing I steady and unprecedented rise in :he discount rate of the Bank of Eng- and, and the great continental banks, was the result of the closing out of he foreign balances of American houses, and also represented the pro- eeds of foreign loans to American banks. Thus the fever of financial fear runs ts course and is gradually allayed, hen confidence begins to return, and hen the turning point is reached re- overy is rapid and conditions soon ecome normal. Tllat the currency laws of the Unit- d States are unscientific is generally dmitted, and even an improved and cientifically balanced currency will ot do away with the cause of panics, t can only fortify the country against heir ultimate and at all times evil ffects. The improvement nf the cur- ency regulations is a remedy, not a ure. The cure, and I believe there is |only one, is to regulate and control he stock exchange operations; and to eclare certain classes of operations ot only illegal but criminal. There can be no interference with he legitimate fluctuations of the mar- :et as regulated by demand and sup- ly, or other natural conditions, but' II artificial manipulations, by means combinations, trickery or fraud, ould be crushed out with an iron nd. This will, of course, be a difficult ldertaking, but not an impossible ie, in any country, except perhaps in e United States, wher capital is all- werful and monopoly rampant, and here, unfortunately, the people arc t interested in a proper and just ministration of law. It goes without saying that Canada ust, to a certain limited extent, be fluenced by such conditions in the nited States, because of the intim- e commercial and financial relations between the two countries, but this influence is largely sympathetic. In reality, Canada is independent of American conditions, and when we see a money panic in New York having the effect of paralysing Canadian commerce and putting a stop to the natural and healthy expansion of Canadian trade, owing to the inability of the banks to meet the legitimate and reasonable business requirements of the people, an enquiry into the whole system of Canadian banking methods and practise becomes of the first importance. Consider for one moment the far- reaching and distressing effects upon the whole country when it is plunged into a condition of financial chaos, resulting from a partial collapse of the banking system. That recent events in New York did bring about a very grave state of things in Canada does not require to be argued. If there had not been a partial breakdown in our banking system, there would have been no monetary stringency in Canada. The breakdown in our banking system is proved by the fact that practically all usual banking accommodation was discontinued for several months—during the panic—and only now, when the financial storm has spent its force, and conditions are slowly returning to the normal, are our banks beginning to assume their ordinary functions. It must not be supposed that this suggested enquiry will in any sense resolve itself into an attack upon the banks or the banking system of the country. The object of the enquiry would be to cler.r- ly understand the causes of the recent monetary stringency, in so far as Canada has been and is still affected by it; and to devise means by which the commercial and industrial interests of the Dominion can be secured against the loss, stagnation and distress which must otherwise result from the recurrence of the conditions we have just come through. While any drastic interference with the rights and privileges of the banks of Canada is not now advocated, it is essential at least that their methods should be clearly understood so that, if necessary, their policy may be judiciously controlled by the Government in the public interest. It is, of course, in every way desirable that any contemplated changes in the Bank Act shall interfere as little as possible with the powers now enjoyed by the banking corporations. The objects of the enquiry should be: 1. To protect the public interest. 2. To enlarge the scope and power of banks and to facilitate their operations. 3. To increase the banking capital of the country and the circulation of bank notes, so that the banks can meet the demands of the expanding trade of the country. To this end I submit the following suggestions for consideration and discussion: 1. That all chartered banks in Canada be compelled to call up the whole of their authorized capital, thus providing several millions of money to carry the increasing trade of the country. 2. That the organization of new banks be permitted with a minimum capitalization of $250,000—the whole to be paid up in full before the bank is authorized to begin business. 3. That the banks collectively be compelled to insure their deposits by the payment to the Receiver-General of a tax computed on the sum total of the average deposits, and that the money so paid shall constitute "The Bank Depositors' Insurance Fund." 4. That the double liability of bank shareholders be abolished, because it is inexpedient and unnecessary. 5. That the chartered banks in Canada be not permitted to lend any part of their Canadian deposits outside of the Dominion, except when by special representations made to the Treasury Board, they are, by an order-in-coun- cil, permitted to do so for particular purposes and for limited periods. 6. That all chartered banks shall make a special monthly return to the Department of Finance, showing their total loans and total deposits in eacn province of Canada. 7. That the banks be authorized to issue notes against and equal to, but not in excess of the sum total oi their combined paid-up capital and reserve, subject to all of the regulations governing the issue of bank notes. 8. That the following words be eliminated from Clause No. 76, subsection 2, paragraph C, to wit: "Or upon the security of any goods, wares and merchandise"—because it is not es pedient to restrict the lending powers of . bank so long as its loans are secured by assets, readily convertible into cash. 9. That the word "wholesale" be struck out of Clause No. 88—wherever it now appears—so that the ciai.se may be enlarged to cover the requirements of all dealers and shippers whatsoever, and not limited in its application to wholesale dealers and shippers only. 10. That Clause No. 91, governing the rate of interest, be struck out, because it is ineffective and unscientific, and not in harmony with modern economic principles. 11. That an annual inspection of the head offices of all chartered banks be undertaken by the Department of Finance. W. J. HOLT MURISON. that; I could even love your money apart from you." "Quite right, darling, I want you always to separate me and my money in your thoughts." Nodd—What does this money stringency mean, anyway? Todd—Why, the thing has simply- spread from me to the whole country. —Life. "Robert, this spelling paper is very- poor," complained the small boy's teacher. "Nearly every wordi s marked wrong." "It wouldn't have been so bad," protested Robert; "but Annie corrected my paper, and she's mad at me, and for every little letter that I got wrong she crossed out the whole word."— Lippincott's. Our Store HAS A FINE LINE OF HIGH CLASS TOILET ARTICLES. We have just imported a fine assortment of French and English Hair Brushes. SEE THE NEW-SHAPED WHALEBONE BRUSH. USE BOWES" BUTTERMILK TOLIET LOTION FOR CHAPPED HANDS. Cyrus H. Bowes CHEMIST Government Street, near Yates St. VICTORIA. B. C. r TRAVELLERS' GUIDE J VICTORIA Had a Fellow. The effort of the Ladies' Home Journal to prod pastors and church members to greater effusiveness in welcoming strangers to public services may lead to overdoing hospitality in various ways. One of these ways was revealed to a warm-hearted Western pastor. Coming down from the pulpit after the evening sermon, he found a stranger in the person of a fair-haired Swede, and, greeting her with a cordial handclasp, said: "I am very glad to see you; I want you to feel at home here. I'd like to become acquainted with you. If you'll give your address I'll call and see you." "Thank you," she replied, "but I have a fellow."—Congregational ist. BOND SIGN CO. VANCOUVER Signs ELECTRIC BOARD METAL BULLETIN GLASS COTTON SHOW CARD In up-to-date atjrles. Estimates and designi f urniihed. And So They Were Married. The Heiress—And would you love me if I lost all my money? The Count (earnestly) — Dearest, in that case what else would there be for me to love? "But are you sure you love me quite apart from my money?" (More earnestly)—"More than HOLLY TREES Prices irtm ag MM to fe.ee, aeeerd-mg to tiie. Write tor seed set tn let. JAY & CO. VICTORIA, B. C. KING WILLIAM IV. V. 0. P. The Very Oldest Scotch Whisky Procurable. This is a blend of the rarest selected old Scotch Whiskies to be found in Scotland. It is pronounced by experts to be singularly rich in those compound ethers—only developed in the finest spirits by great age—which impart the delicacy of flavor and constitute the elegance of bouquet so much prized by connoisseurs. To the gourmet it is offered as a substitute for the old liqueur Brandies shipped from Cognac prior to the destruction of the vineyards by phylloxera. Call for King William IV. V. O. P. at any first- class hotel, bar, cafe or club. If your dealer cannot supply you for home useilkindly telephone PITHER & LEISER Sole Agents for B. C. Corner Fort and Wharf Streets. STRAND HOTEL VICTORIA The home nl nil theatrical and wider He artiats while in the Capital city, aire at Other kindred bohemlans. WRIQHT & FALCONER, Prsprieters. CAMBORNE The Eva Hotel CAMBORNE, B. C. Headquarter! for mining men and commercial traveller*. JOHN A. THEW, Proprietor. BANFF, ALTA Hotel King Edward Banff's Most Popular fa a Dav Hotel. Close to Station and Sulphur Bathe. N. K. LUXTON, Proprietor. PHOENIX. Deane's Hotel PHOENIX, B. C. New Modern hot water ijrstem. Etcctria lighted. Tub aad shower batha and laundry In connection. The miners' home. ••DANNY" DEANE. Proprietor ROSSLAND Hoffman House R05SLAND, B. C. Rates $1.00 per day and up. Cafe io Connection. QREEN & SHITH. Prop's. NELSON. HOTEL HUME NELSON, B.C, Leading Hotel of tha Kootonajri. J. FRED HUME, Proprietor. Silver King Hotel, NELSON. B. C. The home of the Industrial Worker! of the Kootenaja. W. E. HcCandllsh, Proprietor Royal Hotel NELSON, B. C. The Best Family Hotel in the City. .$1.80 a day. Mrs. Wm. Roberts, Proprietress* BEDDING PLANTS Cheap Prices. Get our price list. Johnston's Seed Store City Market VICTORIA Victoria FRUIT and Farm Lands Write for "Home List" and information. R 8. DAY •nd BEAUMONT BOGGS Realty Brokers. 690 tobt nun n txotobu. TIOIUI OATTZBAX.L Mlier a__4 esters! Otatractsr. TenSara flrsa en Brick, Stone an Frame, Alterations, Parquetry Floorlm Oflcs, Bank, Btsra and Balosn Fitting- Pile Driving, Wharrea and Dock Shad constructed and repaired. TIOTOBIA. THE WEEK, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15, 1908 Incorporated 1101* Capital, $SO0,000.tt] Capital Increased IS ^°lV<>0M.M.j Reserve . . |M.**M| Surplus, J«»-.!'«aa 1907 . . $H0,0M J. B. KATKEBS, Gen. Kan. IK CLOSING OT ESTATES either as Executors or Assignees the Dominion Trust Co., Ltd., is never Influenced by ulterior motives. Their entire ambition, effort, and energy is directed towards securing the best possible returns for all concerned. Name this company executor ln your will. Blank will forms furnished free of charge and stored ln our safety deposit vaults, when we are made your executor. DOMINION TRUST CO., Limited. 338 Hastings St, West Vancouver, B. C. The Week A Provincial Review and Ilagaslae, published every Saturday hy "THE WEEK" PUBLISHING COMPANY, LIMITED. Published at VICTORIA and VANCOUVER MM Government Street. .Vlcterla, B.C. it* Hastings St Vancouver, B.C, W. BLAKB1CORE..Manager and Editor Independence and Partizanship. Evidences are not wanting that the next few years are likely to witness a decided strengthening of the note of independence which has been recently heard in the Canadian press. I want to make it clear at the outset that by independence I do not mean a repudiation of party obligations, but the cultivation of a method of looking at public affairs in a manner which will not subordinate public interest to the exigencies of party. In this respect an evolution is taking place in popular sentiment. In the early days the only means of financing a newspaper was by drawing on the party funds. The system still survives, but it is neither as widespread nor as absolute as it was twenty years ago. With increased prosperity and the accumulation of wealth that large section of the community which is not hidebound in its political allegiance is rapidly increasing. The men who claim all the virtues for their own party and who ascribe all the vices to the oposition, are diminishing in number, although the race will not become extinct until the millenium dawns. This unreasoning defence of a party or of a government under all circumstances, cannot be justified upon any ground. To argue otherwise is to assert the infallibility of parties and governments. There is an old proverb which runs, "Faithful are the wounds of a friend," and on this principle it is difficult to understand why even a party organ should not offer fair criticism when it is deserved. It is impartiality which alone gives weight to criticism. The extremes to which newspapers have gone in upholding every action of the party they are associated with has not only weakened their influence, but strengthened the demand for a more independent note. Such an attitude is not inconsistent with strict party obligations. If a paper is anything more than a mere mouth organ, it must do something for itself. Whether it be a Conservative or a Liberal organ, it has behind it a great historic past, and it should have political convictions. Those convictions should be permanent, and if so the paper will remain faithful to its ideal. It will always be recognized as a Conservative or a Liberal paper; it will stand for the political principles with which in the main it is identified, and along those lines may become a leader of public opinion. But this does not preclude that lofty conception of its calling which will lead it to set principles before party and to refuse to sacrifice the former at the bidding of the latter. This is the difference between independence and partizanship; the one is receptive, the other is obstinate. The time comes in the history of every political newspaper when it has to decide between independence and partizanship. That period is reached when the government of the day is faithless to its pledges or violates principle. The servile press will continue to endorse and to flatter aj usual, because it is servile. The party- press, none the less anxious for the permanent success of its party, but alive also to its responsibilities to the public and its regard for principle, will not hesitate to censure its friends, not for their undoing, but for the upholding of the principles upon which the permanent influence of the party depends. There are papers in Canada to-day which have been strong enough and wise enough to adopt this attitude; their circulation is increasing and they are self-supporting. Such well-known papers as the Montreal Gazette, the Hamilton Spectator, the Toronto Daily News, and Saturday Night, whilst preserving their political complexion, have not hesitated to speak out very emphatically in denunciation of the policy of their party. No one suspects them of weakening or charges them with infidelity, although professional politicians condemn their action as inconvenient; but the people applaud and frank criticism pays even from the standpoint of the party manager, whose unit of valuation is the vote. A political newspaper must in the main defend the party with which it is associated; that it should do so under all circumstances is a proposition which cannot be maintained, and if it could the greatest loser would be the party. J$jh>C?7rt<£^. -A- * Social and * Personal. * * * Mr. Joseph Hunter was a passenger to the mainland on Sunday night. * * * Miss Ruby Fell entertained a few friends at dinner on Saturday evening last. * * * Captain Rogers of Pier Island has been a visitor at the Balmoral during the week. * * * Miss Belle Roberts came down from Vancouver on Wednesday evening after attending the wedding of her friend, Miss Annie Spence, formerly of this city. * * * The last session of the Private Skating Club was held on Tuesday afternoon at the rink on Fort Street. Some of the skaters present were Miss Margaret Rickaby, Mr. Holmes, Miss Winona Troupe, Mr. H.arvey, Miss Mason, Miss Doris Mason, Mr. Troupe, Mr. J. Arbuckle, Mr. Fred. Rome, Mr. Stillwell, Miss Johnson, Miss Little, and Mr. W. Barton. * * * A wedding of interest to Victorians took place in New Westminster two weeks ago at Holy Trinity Cathedral between Mr. Gordon Corbould and Miss Maud Charleson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Charleson of Vancouver. The Rev. A. Shildrick officiated. Mr. Corbould is a brother- in-law of Mr. Ethelbert Scholefield, thc Provincial Librarian, of this city. * * * All those attending the Fancy Dress Ball at the Empress next week are requested to register their names and thc character they represent in thc book which will be provided specially for this object. * * * Mrs. 0. M. Jones, Fort Street, gave an impromptu dance on Friday evening of last week. The supper table was superbly arranged with yellow daffodils. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Bodwell, Mr. and Mrs. Spring- hett, Justice and Mrs. Irving, Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie, Mrs. Fall, Mr. and Mrs. A. Crease, Mr. and Mrs. Prentice, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver, Dr. and Mrs. Helmcken, Dr. Hasell, Dr. and Mrs. Robertson, Dr. and Mrs. War- son, Colonel A. W. Jones. Miss Tuck of Roccahella entertained a number of friends at tea on Saturday afternoon last. A profile guessing competition afforded a great deal of amusement; the prize for which was won by Miss Ethel Pitts, who guessed the greatest number correctly. Some of the invited guests were the Misses LeSueur, Mrs. Pearce, Miss Miles, Mrs. Peace, Miss Mackay, Miss G. Mackay, Miss Gillespie, Miss Keast, Miss Barbara Keast, Miss Rochester, Miss Monteith, Miss Tiny Monteith, Miss Little, Miss King, Miss Newcombe, Miss Blackwood, Miss Langley, Miss Perry, Miss Irving, Miss Genevieve Irving, Miss Phipps, Miss Barron, Miss Bullen, Miss Williams, Miss Mary Lawson, Miss W. Wilson, Miss Johnson, Miss Hanington, Miss Earle, Miss L. Earle, Miss Cann, Miss McKeown, Miss Angus, Miss Amy Angus, Miss Tilton, Miss Ethel Tilton, Miss Browne, Miss Fitzgibbons, Miss P. Drake, Miss Trenchard, Miss Day, Miss Griffiths, Miss Newton, Miss Child, Miss Helmcken, Miss V. Wilson, Miss Kitto, Miss Holmes, Miss Saunders and Mademoiselle Kerpez- dron. * * * Mrs. H. Helmcken gave a very charming tea at the Empress last Tuesday. The decorations on the tea tables were most elaborate, being carried out in pale pink carnations and asparagus fern. Among the guests were: Mrs. Roy Troupe, Mrs. W. R. Higgins, Hon. jf. S. Helmcken, Bishop Cridge, Chief Justice and Mrs. Hunter, Hon. D. M. Eberts, Miss Cridge, Attorney-General and Mrs. Bowser, Hon. Dr. Young, Premier and Mrs. McBride, Mrs. G. A. McTavish, Mrs. Bullen, Captain and Mrs. Troupe, Misses McTavish, Miss Bullen, Miss Troupe, Misses Helmcken. Mrs. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Troupe, Mr. and Mrs. King, Mrs. McLagan, Mrs. Hobson, Mrs. and Miss Savage, Misses Leiser, Mrs. R. Jones, Mrs. Lampman, Mrs. Laundy, Mrs. J. Harvey, Mrs. Blackwood and many others. On Wednesday afternoon Mrs. F. Higgins was hostess at a tea given in the Empress. Among the guests were Mrs. J. R. Anderson, Mrs. Berkeley, Mrs. T. S. Gore, Mrs. W. S. Gore, Mrs. Beaven, Mrs. Laing, Mrs. Archer Martin, Mrs. Prior, Mrs. King, Mrs. J. H. Todd, Mrs. Atkins, Mrs. Worlock, Mrs. Troupe, Mrs. R. Dunsmuir, Miss Schubert, Mrs. B. Tye, Mrs. Luxton, Mrs. Freeman, Mrs. Little, Mrs. B. Heisterman, Mrs. Brett, Mrs. Ker, Mrs. G. Wilson, Mrs. McBride, Mrs. B. Wilson, Mrs. Lamp- man, Mrs. J. Wilson, Mrs. Blackwood, Mrs. Raymour, Mrs. Black- lock, Mrs. Rome, Mrs. C. Todd, Mrs. Morley, Mrs. McB. Smith, Mrs. Munn. Mrs. H. Heisterman, Mrs. H. Kent.. Mrs. Cleland, Mrs. Wolfenden, Mrs. Lugrin, Mrs. Shaw, Mrs. Richardson. Mrs. Courtney, Mrs. Rycot, Mrs. Ackman, Mrs. W. Higgins, Mrs. McTavish, and the Misses S. Blackwood, M. Lawson, Chute, Holmes Lugrin. "JEWELRY COSTUMING." 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Pooley, Lampson street, gave an At Home in honour of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Charles Pooley, who is at present her guest. Among the guests were Mrs. Waghorn, Mrs. H. Pooley, Mrs. Punnett, Mrs. Pierce, Mrs. Tilton, Mrs. McCallum, Capt. and Mrs. Reed, Rear Admiral Fleet and Mrs. Fleet, Mr. and Mrs. McCallum, Mr. and Mrs. Bridgeman, Mrs. McGill, Mrs. McBride, Mrs. F. Pemberton, Mrs. Prothero, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. R. Robertson, Mrs. Herman Robertson. T. Barnard, Mr. Harold Robertson, Mrs. Luxton, Mr. R. Jones, Mr. Innes, Mrs. C. Gibson, Mrs. Worsfold, Mrs. Arundel, Mrs. Janion, Mrs. R. Janion. Mrs. Stevenson, Mrs. Hollyer, Mrs. V. Eliot, Mrs. A. Gillespie, Mrs. Phillips, Mrs. George Gillespie, Mrs. Lampman, Mrs. J. Harvey, Mrs. Butchart, Mrs. T. S. Gore, Mrs. McKenzie, Mrs. Good, Mrs. S. Simpson, Mrs. 0. M. Jones, Mrs. Talk, Mrs. Crowe-Baker, Mrs. R. Wilson, Mrs. Peters, Mrs. A. Crease and the Misses Tilton, E. Tilton, H. Peters, Pitts, Drake, Monteith, P. 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Sold Everywhere. THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1908. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Goldstream. TAKE NOTICB tliat Frank Buffling- ton Vrooman of Victoria, B.C., occupation Gentleman, intends lo apply for a special timber licence over the fol- . lowing described lands; Commencing at a post planted twenty chains north of the northeast corner of section 12, thenco forty chains north, one hundred and twenty chains west, forty chains south and one hundred and twenty chains east to point of commencement. Dated 21st December, 1907. FRANK BUFFINGTON VROOMAN, Jan 18 R. W. Wilkinson. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Goldstream. TAKE NOTICE that Frank Bufflngton Vrooman of Victoria, B.C., occupation Gentleman, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands; Commencing at a post planted at the northwest corner of section 21, thence eighty chains east, eighty chains south, eighty chains west and eighty chains nortli to point of commencement. Dated 21st December, 11)07. FRANK BUFFINGTON VROOMAN, Jail 18 R. W. Wilkinson. J VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Goldstream. TAKE NOTICE that Frank Bufflngton "Vlooman of Victoria, B.C., occupation Cintleman, intends to apply tor a spe- ckl timber licence over the following ■ascribed lands: Commencing at a post planted at the Artlieust corner of section 20, thence Ighty chains west, eighty chains south, Ighty chains east and eighty chains .orth to place of commencement. ' Dated 21st December, 11)07. FRANK BUFFINGTON VROOMAN, Ian IS R. W. Wilkinson. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Renfrew. TAKE NOTICE that T. M. Baird and S. Wood of Victoria, occupation Timber Cruisers, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: Claim No. 1—Commencing at a post planted 80 chains west of southwest corner of Timber Limit No. 3193, thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thenoe south 80 chains; thence west 80 chains to point of commencement. Located 7th Dec, 1907. THOMAS MILER BAIRD. STANLEY WOOD. |Jan 18 VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Renfrew. (TAKE NOTICE that T. M. Baird and S. Wood of Victoria, occupation, Timber Cruisers, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: ! Claim No. 2—Commencing at a post planted 80 chains west of southwest cornel' of Timber Limit No. 13i:j3; thence nortli SO chains; tiience west SU chains; thenco south SO chains; thence oast so chains to point of commencement. Located rth December, i.)07. THOMAS MILLER BAIRD, STAN LEV WOOD. |lan 18 VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Renfrew. I TAKE NOTICE that T. M. Baird and .. Wood of Victoria, occupation Timber Uriiissr, intends to apply for a special imber licence over the following de- iCPibed lands: Claim No. 3—Commencing at a post ilanted SO chains west of southwest eerier of Timber Limit No. 13193; thence Jast 160 chains; thence south 10 chains; Alienee west CO cliains; thence north 40 |_hains to point of commencement. Located 7th December, 1907. THOMAS MILLER BAIRD. STANLEY WOOD. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Renfrew. TAKE NOTICE that T. M. Baird and i. Wood of Victoria, occupation Timber bruisers, intends to apply tor a special Imber licence over the following described lands: Claim No. 5—Commencing at a post ilanted 40 chains west of the north- vest corner of Timber Limit No. 18544, hence north 160 chains; thence east 40 ihalns; thence south 160 chains; thence vest 40 chains to point of commence- nent. Located Sth December, 1907. THOMAS MILLER BAIRD. STANLEY WOOD. tan 18 VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Renfrew. ■ TAKE NOTICE that T. M. Baird and l_. Wood of Victoria, occupation Timber fcrutsers, intends to apply for a special limber licence over the following described lands: | Claim No. 6—Commencing at a post planted 40 chains west and 10 chains south of the southwest corner of tlm- jber limit No. 18546, thence west 40 Jchains; thence north 40 chains; thence ■west 80 chatns; thence south about 60 Ichains; thence easterly along shore 120 Ichains; thence north about 60 chains to lioint of commencement. Located 9th December, 1907. THOMAS MILLER BAIRD. , STANLEY WOOD. |ian. 18 SKEENA LAND DISTRICT District of Coast. I TAKE NOTICE that William Croteau E Aldermere, B.C., occupation Farmer, itends to apply for permission to pur- hase the following described land: Commencing at a post planted at the juthwest corner; thence north 20 chains ) McClure Lake; thence along McClure ,ake ln an east southerly direction 43 naiiis, more or less; thence west 40 nains to place of beginning and mak- lg 40 acres more or less, and known 3 the southwest fractional quarter see- on of 36, township 5, Range 5. Dated November 20, 1007. an. IS WILLIAM CROTEAU. SKEENA LAND DISTRICT. District of Coast. J TAKE NOTICE that Jennie Croteau le Aldermere, B.C., occupation house- life, intends to apply for permission to lurchase the following described land: 1 Commencing at a post planted at the 'outhwest corner; thence north 40 chs.; Jience east 40 chains; thence south 40 lhains; thence west 40 chains to place If beginning and known as the north- Vest quarter section of 30, Tp. 6, Rge. and containing 160 acres, more or eDated 23rd of November, 1907. tan. 18 WILLIAM CROTEAU. TAKE NOTICE that M. Brennan, of Ootso Lake, occupation Farmer, intends to apply for permission to lease the following described land: Commencing at a post marked M. B. Southeast Corner, situated about 40 chains north and 40 chains east of Lot 325, N.E. Cor.; thence 40 chatns north; thence 40 chains west; thence 40 chains south; thence 60 chains east to point of commencemnent, containing 240 acres. Dated November 15, 1907. De. 14 MARK BRENNAN. Best Buy. BEST BUY IN VICTORIA OF BUSINESS PROPERTY. WITH WATER FRONTAGE ON JAMES BAY. Double Corner on Wharf and Government streets, with 100 feat water frontnge on James Bay. This property has ihe Post Ofllce to the North, the C. P. R. Hotel to the East, Parliament Buildings to the South, and a Steamship Company's wharf to the West of lt. As an Hotel Site the situation of these lots is unrivaled In the City of Victoria, hundred of thousands of dollars have been spent ln valuable Improvements on all sides of them by the Provincial Government, the City Council and the C. P. R. Price $52,600. Easy terms can be arranged with deferred payments bearing interest at 7 per cent. For further particulars apply to A. O. P. FRANCIS, Broker. 510 Pender Street, VANCOUVER. B. C. DISTRICT OB CASSIAR. TAKE NOTICE that The Hidden Creek Mining Co., or Vancouver, occupation, , intends to apply for permission to lease the following described land, about 3 acres: Commencing at a post planted at the south east corner post of Lot 479; thence north one chain; thence southwesterly parallel to high water mark, about 30 chains to west boundary of Lot 479; thence south about one chain forty links to high water mark and thence along high water mark to point of commencement. Dated Nov. 26th, 1907. HIDDEN CREEK MINING CO., Dec. 7 Per J, Herrick MacGregor. I SKEENA LAND DISTRICT. • District of Coast. TAKE NOTICE that W. N. Campbell of Victoria, occupation Civil Engineer, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands: Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner of. lot 1294, (J.R. Cody) one mile west of Jap Inlet, Porcher Island, thence north 40 chains; thence west 40 chains; thence south 40 chains; thence east 40 chains, containing 160 acres. Dated Dec. 16th, 1907. W. N. CAMPBELL, Jan 18 J. J. Templeton, Agent. SKEENA LAND DISTRICT. District of Coast. TAKE NOTICE that J. J. Templeton of Victoria, occupation surveyor, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described land: Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner of lot 1293, M. S. McLeod, one-half mile west of Jap In- NEW WESTMINSTER LAND DISTRICT District of Coast, Range 1. TAKE NOTICE that Max. J. Cameron, of Vancouver, Merchant, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: No. 1—Commencing at a post planted about 6 miles from Ramsay Arm, on the main Quatham River, S. W. corner; thence east 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains to point of commencement. 20th December, 1907. No. 2—Commencing at a post planted about 6 miles from Ramsay Arm, on the main Quatham River; S. E. Corner; thence 160 chains N.; 40 chains W.; 160 chains south; 40 chains east to point of commencement. December 20th, 1907. No. 3—Commencing at a post planted about one chain distant and in an easterly direction from Quatham River, about seven miles east of Ramsay Arm, thence west 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains. 20th December, 1907. No. 4—Commencing at a post planted about one chain distant and in an easterly direction from Quatham River, about seven miles east of Ramsay Arm, thenee east 80 ohains; thence north 80 chains; thence west JO chains; thence south 80 chains. 21st December, 1907. No. 5—Commencing at a post planted about 40 chains distant and in an easterly direction from east bank of Quatham River, about eight and one-half miles east of Ramsay Arm; thence west 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains. 21st December, 1907. No. 6—Commencing at a post planted about 40 chains distant and in an easterly direction from east bank of Quatham River, about nine and one-half miles east of Ramsay Arm; thence west 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains. 21st December, 1907. No. 7—Commencing at a post planted about 40 ohains distant and in an east- Arthur Gone T/MfDCD AAADQ Office Phone 1534 Manager * Mlri_gJ____.lt _Yl_rli O Residence 4-33 posted up to date erery day ELECTRIC BLUE PRINT &. MAP CO. VICTORIA. B.C.. CHAN C ERY CHAMBERS. BLUEPRINTING SZ LANGLEY STREET. DRAUGHTING OFFICE. Complete set of Maps showny al/ TIMBER LICENCES and other Lands taken up inBritishColumbi Blue Prints Can be obtained ot .-ihorf noi let Porcher Island, thence south 20 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence north 20 chains; thonce east 80 chains to point of commencement and containing 160 acres, more or less. Dated December 16th, 1907. Jan. IS J. J. TEMPLETON. erly direction from east bank of Quatham River, about ten and one-half miles east of Ramsy Arm; thence west 80 ehains; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains. 21st December, 1907. MAX. J. CAMERON, Jan 18 L. W. Kingsley, Agent. ST. ANDREWS COLLEGE TORONTO A Residential aad Day School ior Boys Handsome New Buildings. Larg" Athletic Field. Carelul Oversight in every Department. First Class Staff. Lower and Upper School. Boys prepared for the Universiiies and Business. Calendar sent on Request. Rev. D. Bruce Macdonald, M.A., LL.D- Principal Re-opens after Xmas on Jan. 8th, 1908. NEW WESTMINSTER LAND DISTRICT District of New Westminster. TAKE NOTICE that Harry McMicken Keefer of Vancouver, occupation Broker, intends to apply for permission to lease the following described land: CommencinK at a post planted on the N. E. Coast of Savary Island and about 26 chains from the easterly end of the Island, thence wast 20 chains to low water mark; thence south 400 chatns along low water mark; thence east 20 chains to high water mark; thence north 400 chains to point of commencement, and containing eight hundred acres, more or less. Dated Dec. 2nd, 1907. Dec 14 HARRY McMICKENKBEFER. NEW WESTMINSTER LAND DISTRICT District of New Westminster. TAKE NOTICE that Frederick Patrick Rogers of Vancouver, occupation carpenter, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described land: Commencing at a post planted at the S. W. corner of Lot 1347, G. I., New Westminster district; thence west 20 chains; thence north 20 chains; thenco east 20 chains; thence south 20 chains to point of commencement, containing 40 aores more or less. Dated November 26th, 1907. FREDERICK PATRICK ROGERS. Dec.14 NEW WESTMINSTER LAND DISTRICT District of Coast, Range 2. TAKE NOTICE that Ed. Brown, of Vancouver, B.C., Cruiser, intends to apply for a special timber license over the following described lands: No. 1—Commencing at a post planted on south shore of Burke Channel, about one mile west of Lot No. 241A; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence north 80 chains to shore line of Burke Channel; thence west along shore line 80 chains more or less, to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated December 16, 1907. No. 2—Commencing at a post planted on south shore of Burke Channel, about three mlles west of Lot No.241 A; thence south 40 chains; thence east 160 chains; thence north 40 chains more or less, to shore line of Burke Chanel; thenee west along shore line 160 chains more or less to point of commencement and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated December 16th, 1907. No. 3—Commencing at a post planted about one mile south of Lot No. 241A, on bank of Newcomb River, Burke Channel, thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains to point of commencement and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated December 16th, 1907. No. 4—Commencing at a post planted about one mile south of lot No. 241A, Burke Channel, adjoining post of claim No. 3; thence north SO chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence west 80 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated December 16th, 1907. No. 6—Commencing at a post planted about 2 miles south of Lot No. 2I1A, Burke Channel, and one mile south of corner post of claim No. 3 and 4; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thenee south 80 chains; thence west 80 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated December 16th, 1907. No. 6—Commencing at a post planted about 4 miles south of lot No. 241A. Burke Channel, and two miles south of S. W. corner of Claim No. 5; thence west 40 chains; thence north 160 chains; thence east 40 chains; thence south 160 chains to point of commencement and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated December 17th, 1907. No. 7—Commencing at a post planted about four and one-half miles soutli of lot No. 241A, Burke Channel; on a bank of a small river about one-half mile east of claim No. 6; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence west 80 chains to point of commencement and containing 640 acres more or less. Dated December 17th, 1907. No. 8—Commencing at a post planted about two miles east of claim No. 7, on north bank of unnamed river, emptying into Koeye Lake, south of Burke Channel, thence north SO chains; tiience wesl SO chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east so chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres more or less. Dated December 17th, 1907. No. 9—Commencing ai a post planted about one mile south of Claim No. 8, on north bank of small river emptying into Koeye Lake, south of Burke Channel; thence south* 40 chains; thence west 160 chains; thence north 40 ohains; thence east 160 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated December 17th, 1907. No. 10—Commenolng at a post planted about one mile east of claim No. 9, on north bank of small river emptying into Koeye Lake, south of Burke Channel; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east SO chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated December 17th, 1907. No. 11—Commencing at a post planted about one mile east of Claim No. 9, and adjoining corner post of claim No. 10 on north bank of small river emptying iuto Koeye Lake, south of Burke channel; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence north SO chains to point of commencement and containing 640 acres, more or Dated December 17, 1907. No. 12—Commencing at a post planted about 20 chains west of Claims No. 9 and 10, on south bank of small river emptying into Koeye Lake, south ol Burke Channel, thence north 160 chains; thence east 40 chains; thence south 160 chains; thence west '40 chains to poinl of commencement, containing 640 acres moro or less. Dated December 17, 1907. No. 13—Commencing at a post planted about one and one-half miles soutli of the head of Koeye Lake, south of Burke Channel, thence east SO chains; thence north SO chains; thence wost 80 chains to shore line of Koeye Lake; thence south along shore line SO chains to point of commencement and containing 640 acres more or less. Dated December 18th, 1907. No. 14—Commencing at a post planted about one and one-half miles south of the head of Koeye Lake, south of Burke Channel, thence east SO chains; thence south 80 chains; theuce west SO ehains to shore of Koeye Lake, thence north along shore 80 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres. Dated December 18th, 1907. No. 15—Commencing at a post planted about one-half mlle east from the foot of Koeye Lake, on the north shore of said lake; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south SO chains; to shore of Koeye Lake; thence west along shore of said lake SO chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 aeres, more or less. Dated December 18th, 1907. No. 16—Commencing at a post planted about two miles south of Lot *241A, Burke Channel, and about one mile south of corner post of claims No. 3 and .; thence north SO chains; thence west Su chains; thence south SO chains; thence cast SO chains lo point of commencement, containing 610 acres, more or less Dated December 16th, 1907. .No. 17—Commencing at a post planted .ibout two miles south of Lot No. 241A, Burke Channel, and one mile soutn of ..■orner post of claims No, 3 and 4; thence east SO chains; thence south SO chains; .hence we**,t 80 chains; theuce north 80 chains to point ut' commencement, and containing 6*10 acres mure or iess. Dated December 16th, 1907. Jan. 15 ED. BROWN. B.C. Timber] Maps of All Districts VANCOUVER MAP and BLUE-PRINT CO, Suite 20-21 Crowe and Wilson Chambers. VANCOUVER, B. C. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. Private Bills. The time limited by the rules of thc house for the presentation of petitions for leave to introduce private bills expires on Monday, 27 January, 1908. Bills must be presented to the house by Thursday, 6th February, 1908. Reports on bills will not be received after Thursday, 13th February, 1908. Copies of the bill, petition and notices must be deposited with the undersigned, and the house fees paid, not later than Wednesday, 8th January, 1908. Dated this 2nd day of December, 1907. THORNTON FELL, Clerk of the Legislative Assembly. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. Bridge, North Arm, Fraser River. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Rupert, Quatsino Sound. TAKE NOTICE that M. J. Kinney, of Portland, ore., occupation Lumberman, intends 10 apply for permission to lease the following described land: Commencing at a post planted on tlie north line of Township 10, Rupert District, where the said line intersects the shore line of the east side of Marble Bay; thence northerly following the shore lino a distance of about 200 chains to the northeast corner of lot 316. Staked the 16th day of December, 1907 M. J. KINNEY. Jan.4 Robert A. Grlerson, Agent. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Rupert, Quatsino Sound. TAKE NOTICE that The Quatsino Power and Puly Company, of Victoria, B.C., occupation, A Pulp Company, intends to upply for permission to lease tlie following described land: Commencing at a post planted on the north line of Township 10, Marble Cove, Rupert District, where the said line intersects the shore line on the east side of Marble Bay; thence southerly following the shore line a distance of about 120 chains to a point intersecting the mouth of Marble Creek. Staked the liitn duy of December, 1907. THE QUATSINO POWER & PULP COMPANY. Jan.4 Robert A. Griarson. Agent. Superstructure of Swing Span. NOTICE Is hereby given that the time for receiving tenders for the Superstructure Metal for Swing Bridge, North Arm, Fraser River, has been ox- tended up to and Including Friday, the 31st day of January, 1908. F. C. GAMBLE, Public Works Engineer. Lands and Works Department, Victoria, B.C., December 17th, 1907. Dec. 28 VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Rupert, Quatsino Sound. TAKE NOTICE that Enoch A. White, of Victoria, B.C., occupation Lumberman, Intends to apply for permission to lease the following described foreshore: Commencing at a post planted at the northeast corner of an Indian Reserve at tlie head of Quatsino Narrows, Rupert District, thence southerly following the shore line a distance of about 160 chainB to a point intersecting the mouth of Marble Creek, including small island on north line of section 10. ENOCH A. WHITE. Jan.4 Robert A. Grlerson, Agent. DISTRICT OF CASSAIR. TAKE NOTICE that The Hidden Creek Mining Co,, of Vancouver, occupation, , Intends to apply for permission lo lease the following described laud, about 40 acres: Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner of Lot 479; thence following high water mark south and west to the southeast corner of Lot 308; thence east tive chains; thence uorth and east following a line parallel to high water mark about 80 chains 10 a point 5 chains south of point of commencement and thence to "said point of commencement. Dated Nov. 25th, 1907. HIDDEN CREEK MINING CO., Dec. 7 Per J. Herrick MacGregor. TAKE NOTICE that George Young and Arthur Bell, of Victoria, B.C., Timber Dealers, intend to apply for the rile to purchase the following described lands in Kildalla Bay, Rivers inlet; commencing ut tbis post planted on lhe east side of tlle Bay about one-third ul a mile from the point at the mouth ol the Bay, being the southwest corner post; thence eust SO chains; theuce north 30 chains; Ihence west 90 chuins to beach; thence suuth along beucli lo point ol commencement; containing 40 acres, more or less. Staked Nov. 25, 1907. UEOKUE .OLNU ,4 ARTHUR BELL, Dec. 7 George Young, Agenl. NOTICE TO CON .TRACTORS. Bridge, North Arm, Fraser River. Superstructure of Swing Span. SEALED TENDERS, superscribed "Tender for Superstructure Metal for Swing Bridge, North Arm, Fraser River," will bo received by the Hon. the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works, Victoria, B.C., up to and Including Tuesday, the 31st of December, 1907, for manufacturing and delivering, f. 0. b., scow at Vancouver or New Westminster, all the metal work required for the superstructure of a steel swing span. Drawings, specifications, condition of contract and tender may be seen by Intending tenderers on and after Tuesday, the 26th of November, 1907, at the ofllce of the Public Works Engineer, Lands and Works Department, and at the offlce of the Provincial Timber In spector, Court House, Vancouver, B.C. Each tender must be accompanied by an accepted bank cheque or certilicate of deposit on a chartered bank of Canada, made payable to the order of the Honourable the Chief Commissioner ln the sum of two hundred and fifty ($260) dollars, which shall be forfeited If the party tendering decline or neglect to enter into contract when called upon to do so. The cheques or certificates of deposit of successful tenderers will bo returned to them upon the execution of the contract. The successful tenderer will be culled upon to furnish a bond, himself and two securities, satisfactory to the Honourable the Chief Commissioner, In the sum of $1,000 each, or to furnish a bond of a Guaranteo Company satisfactory to the Honourable the Chief Commissionet' in the sum of $3,000 for lhe due fulfilment of the work contracted for. Upon the execution of the contract and a satisfactory bond being supplied, signed with the actual signatures of the tenderers and enclosed tn the envelopes furnished. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. F. C. GAMBLE, Nov. 30 Public Works Engineer. NEW WESTMINSTER LAND DISTRICT. District of New Westminster. TAKE NOTICE that Roman __. Chandler, of Vancouver, B. C.„ occupation tlmbor broker, Intends to npply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: No. 2—Commencing at 1 post planted at northwest cornor of T. L. 18187; thonco east SO chains along the north llne of T. L. 18187; thence north SO chains along the west lino of T, L. 12502; theuce oust 80 chalus along tho north llne of T. L, 12502; thonce north 80 chains along the wost lino of T. L. 12503; thonce lu a southwesterly course along the line of the Capilano Water Reserve to place of commencement, and containing 610 acres of land, more or December 23, 1907. Jan 11. ROMAN Z. CHANDLER. The week, Saturday, February 15, 1908. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Nootka. TAKE NOTICE that W. E. Simpson of Iowa Falls, Iowa, Banker, intends to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a special timber licence over the following described lands 30 days after date. , ._. No. 1—Commencing at a post Planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.b., S.W. No. 1, which Is on the southeast bank of Upper Campbell Lake, where lt cuts the C.P.R. line; thence east following the C.P.R. line 100 chains; north 80 chains; thence following shore line of said lake to point of commencement, containing 640 acres more or less. No. 3—Commonclng at a post Planted at the southwest corner marked WB,.b, S.W. No. 3, which is 20 chains distant in a northerly direction from the south east corner of T. L. 14864 and three- quarters of a mile fro mUpper Campoell Lake; thence east 80 chains; northi 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 4—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 4, which Is one mile distant in a northerly direction from Upper Campbell Lake, and one mile east pt T. L. 14864, thence west 80 chains; north 80 ohains; east 80 chains; south 80 ehains to point of commencement. No. 5—Commencing at a post Planted at the southwest corner marked W.i..b., SW. No. 6, which is one mile distant ln a northerly direction from Upper Campbell Lake, and one mile east of T. L. 14864; tbence 80 chains north; 80 chains east; 80 chains south; 80 chains west to point of commencement. ' No. 6—Commencing at a post Planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.b., S.E. No. 6, which is situated on the north shore of Upper Campbell Lake, on the C.P.R. line; thence west 40 chains; north 160 chains; east 40 chains; south 160 chains to point of commencement. No. 7—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.b., S.E. No. 7, which ls about four miles in a northwesterly direction from Crown Mountain; thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 8—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.B. No. 8, which ls five miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain; thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. Staked Dec. 16th, 1907. No. 9—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 9, which ls four miles distant ln a northerly direction ti-om Crown Mountain; thence north 160 chains; west 40 chains; south 160 chains; east 40 chains to point of commencement. No. 10—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E., No. 10, which ls two miles distant In a northerly direction from where the C.P.R. line cuts the north shore of Upper Campbell Lake; thence west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. _._._, No. 11—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E., No. 11, which is five and one-quarter miles distant in a northerly and westerly direction from where C.P.R. line cuts north shore of Upper Campbell Lake; thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. Staked Dec. 17, 1907. No. 32—Commencing at a post planted at the northwest corner marked W.E.S., N.W. No. 32, which is six miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain, and one-half mile south of Upper Salmon River, thence east 80 chains; south 80 chains; west 80 chains, north 80 chainB to point of commencement. 33. Commencing at a post planted at the north-west corner, marked "W. E. S., N.W., No. 33," which is five miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain; thence south ik> chains, east 8o chains, north 8o chains, west 8o chains to point of commencement. No. 84—Commencing at a post planted at the northeast corner No. 24, marked W.B.S., N.E. No. 34, which ls three miles distant In a northerly direction from Crown Mountain; thence south 80 chains, west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 36—Commencing at a post planted at the northeast corner No. 35, which ls marked W.E.S., N.E. which ls five miles distant ln a northerly direction from Crown Mountain; thence south 80 chains; west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains; to point of commencement. No. 36—Commencing at a post planted at the northeast corner marked W.E.S., N.E. No. 86, which ls six miles distant ln a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and one-half a mile south of Upper Salmon River; thence west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains; north 80 chains to point of commencement. Staked Dec. 20th, 1907. No. 37—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., No. 87, S.E., which ls flve miles distant ln a southwesterly direction from West Lake, Sayward District; thence west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 88—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W. No. 38, which is flve miles distant ln a southwesterly direction from West Lake, Sayward District; thence east 80 chains; north 80 chains; wexttO chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 39—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner, marked W.E.S., S.E., No. 39, which ls three and one-half miles distant from the south end of West Lake, where lt joins the line of Lot 110; thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 40—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S. S.W. No. 40, which Is three and one-half miles In a southwesterly direction from the south end of West Lake, where lt Joins line of Block 110; thence north 80 chatns; east 80 chains; south 80 chains; west 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 41—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast cor. marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 41, which is four miles distant in an easterly direction from south end of West Lake, on line of Block 110 thence west 80 chains; north 80 chains, east 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 42—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W. No. 42, which is four miles distant in an easterly direction from south end of West Lake, on line Block 110; theme east 80 chains; north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 43—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 43, which is one and one-half miles distant in a westerly direction from the south end of West Lake, where it joins the line of Block 110, thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 45—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W. No. 45, which is one and one-half miles distant from the south end of West Lake, where it joins the line of Block 110; thence north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains; west 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 46—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner which ls marked W.E.S., S.W., No. 46, which is one mile distant and in a southeasterly direction from West Lake adjoining Block 110; thence north 160 chains; east 40 chains; south 160 chains; west 40 chains to point of commencement. No. 47—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W., No. 47, which is two miles northwesterly from south end of West lake, where it joins the line of Block 110; thence north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains; west 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 48—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E., No. 48, which is two miles distant and in a northwesterly direction from the south end of West Lake, where it joins line of Block 110; thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 49—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W. No. 49, which is three and one-half miles distant In an easterly direction from centre of shore line of West Lake, thence east 80 chains; north 80 chains; west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 60—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner, marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 60, which Is three and one-half miles distant in an easterly direction from the centre of shore line on West Lake, thence west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 61—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 51, which is flve miles from the south end of West lake, where lt joins the line of Block 110; thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. Staked Dec. 16. 1907. No. 62—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner, marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 62, which is six miles westerly from the south end of West Lake where it joins line of Block 110: thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 53—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W. No. 53, which is six miles in a westerly direction from the soutli end of West lake, where lt joins line of Lot 110; thence north 80 chains; east 30 chains; south 80 chains; west 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 54—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 64, which ls two and one-half miles distant ln an easterly direction from the north end of West lake, thence west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 56—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W. No. 55, which is two and one-half miles distant westerly from the north end of West lake; thence east 100 chains; north 40 chains; west 40 chains; north 40 chains; west 60 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. Staked December 14th, 1907. W. E. SIMPSON, Jan. 11. Thos. S. McPherson, Agent. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Rupert. TAKE NOTICE that James Purdy Nelson, of Bellingham, Wash., U.S.A., occupation broker, intends to apply for a special timber license over the following described lands: Commencing at a post planted about 30 chains distant and in a southerly direction from the northwest corner of Lease No. 222; thence south 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains. JAMES PURDY NELSON. Dec. 24, 1907. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. Rupert District. TAKE NOTICE that James Hastle, of Victoria, B. C, Merchant, and James H. McLauchlan, of Victoria, B. C, Contractor, intend to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: No. 3—Commencing at a post planted about 4 miles to the west of Robinson's Bight, on a small unnamed creek, being the northwest corner post; thence south 160 chains; thence east 40 chains; thence north 1(0 chains; thence west 40 chains to point of commencement. June 13, 1907. JAMES HASTIE, Jan 11. James H. McLauchlan. KOKSAILAH MINERAL CLAIM, Situated in the Victoria Mining Division of Helmcken District, on Koksailah Mountain, west of and adjoining "The Bluebell" mineral claim. Take Notice, that I, Lars Nicholas Anderson, of Victoria, B.C., Free Miner's Certificate No. B17380, intend 60 days from the date hereof, ot apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action under Section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated at Victoria this 23rd day of January, A.D. 1908. LARS NICHOLAS ANDERSON. DISTRICT OF RUPERT. TAKE NOTICE I. T. S. McPherson, Agent of Victoria, B. C, intend to apply for a special timber license over the following described lands: No. 10—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner section 3, township 26, marked T. S. McP., No. 10, which is two and one-quarter miles northerly from west arm of Quatsino Sound, thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains, south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. Dec. 19th, 1907. No. 11—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner of section 2, township 25, marked McP. F., No. 11, which is two and one-quarter miles northerly from west Arm Quatsino Sound, thence east 160 chains; north 40 chains, west 160 chains; south 40 chs., to point of commencement. Geo. H. Jackson, Agent. Staked Dec. 19, 1907. No. 12—Commencing at a post planted one and one-half mile in a northwesterly direction from the west end of Nah-Wi-Ti Lake, and one-half mile west of S. E. Corner section 1, township 33, thence west 40 chains; thence north 100 chains; thence east 40 chains; thence south 160 chains to point of commencement, containing 640 acres more or less. Staked Dec. 20, 1907. No. 13—Commencing at a post planted one mile in northwesterly direction from west end of Nah-Wi-Ti Lake, and at N. W. corner section 31, township 25, thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains to point of commencement. Staked Dec. 20, 1907. No. 14—Commencing at a post planted one mile from west end of Nah-Wl- Ti Lake in northerly direction, half mile north of N. W. corner section 32, township 25; thence south 80 chains; thence east following shore line 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains to point of commencement. Staked Dec. 20, 1907. No. 16—Commencing at a post planted one-half mile north of T. L. 13222, and at N. E. corner section 36, township 26, thence west 160 chains; thenfce south 40 chains; thence east 160 chains; thence north 40 chains to point of commencement. Staked Dec. 20, 1907. No. 17—Commencing at a post planted one-half mile north of T. L. 13222, of W. Corner section 31, township 19, thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence north 80 chains to point of commencement containing 640 acres, more or less. Staked Dec. 20, 1907. Jan. 11. T. S. McPHERSON. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Sayward. TAKE NOTICE that W. E. Simpson of Iowa Falls, Banker, intends to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a special timber licence over the following described lands thirty days after date. No. 12—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S. S.E. No. 12, which is seven and one-half miles distant and in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and on the Bank of Upper Salmon River; thence north 40 chains; west 160 chains; south 40 chains; east 160 chains to point of commencement. No. 13—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner, marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 13, which is eight miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and one mile north of Upper Salmon River; thence west 80 chains north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chatns to point of commencement. No. 14—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W. No. 14, which is eight miles distant ln a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and one mile north of bank of Upper Salmon River; thence north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains; west 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 15—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner, marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 15, which ls eight and one-half miles distant from Crown mountain and 15 chains west of Island Power Company's line near bank of Upper Salmon River; thence north 100 chains; west 64 chains; south 100 chains; east 64 chains to point of commencement. No. 16—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W. E. S., S.E. No. 16, which ls nine miles distant in e northerly direction from Crown Mountain and one and one-half mlles north of stake 12, on the Bank of the Upper Salmon River; thence north 40 chains; west 160 chains; south 40 chains; east 160 chains to point of commencement. No. 17—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner, marked W.E.S., S. E. No. 17, which is nine and one-half miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and two and one- half miles north of bank of Upper Salmon River; thence west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 18—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W. E. S., S.W., No. 18, which is nine and one-half miles in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and two and one- half miles north of Upper Salmon River, thence east 80 chains north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 19—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W. No. 19, which is ten and one-half miles distant ln a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and three miles northerly and westerly from post No. 12, on bank of Upper Salmon River; thence north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains; west 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 20—Commencing at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E., No. 20, which ls ten and one-half miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and three miles northwesterly from stake 12, on the bank of the Upper Salmon River, thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 21—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 21, which is eleven and one- half miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and four miles ln a northwesterly direction from stake 12, on the Bank of Upper Salmon River; thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 22—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W. No. 22, which is eleven and one- half miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and four miles in a northwesterly direction from stake 12, on the Bank of the Upper Salmon River; thence north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains; west 80 chains to point of commencement. Staked Dec. 18th, 1907. No. 23—Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner marked W.E.S., S.W., No. 23, which ls seven and one- half miles ln a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and on Bank of Upper Salmon River; thence north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains; west 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 24—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner No. 24, marked W.E.S., S.E., No. 24,' which is eight and one-half miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and one mile north of the Upper Salmon River; thence west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 26—Commencing at a post planted at the northwest corner marked W.E.S., N.W., No. 25, which ls seven and one- half miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and on the Bank of the Upper Salmon River; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; north 80 chains; west 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 26—Commencing at a post planted at the northeast corner marked W.E.S., N.E,, No. 26, which ls seven and one- half miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and on the bank of the Upper Salmon River; thence south 80 chains; west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 27—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 27, which is seven and one- half miles distant in a northerly direction from Crown Mountain and on the Bank of the Upper Salmon River; thence north 80 chains; west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 28—Commencing at a post planted at the northeast corner which ls marked W.E.S. N.E. No. 28, whioh is eight and one-quarter miles distant in a northwesterly direction from Crown Mountain, and on the south bank of Upper Salmon River; thence west 80 chains; south 80 chains; east 80 chains; north SO chains to point of commencement. No. 29—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E. No, 29, which is eight and one- quarter miles distant ln a northwesterly direction from Crown Mountain and on bank of Upper Salmon River; thence west 80 chains; north 80 chains; east 80 chains; south 80 chains to point of commencement. No. 30—Commencing at a post planted at the northeast corner marked W.E.S., N.E. No. 30, which is ten miles distant in a northwesterly direction from Crown Mountain and on bank of Upper Salmon River; thence 80 chains south; 80 chains west; 80 chains north; 80 chains east to point of commencement. No. 31—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 31, which ls ten and one-half miles distant in a northwesterly direction from Crown Mountain and on the bank of the Upper Salmon River; thence 80 chains north; 80 chains west; 80 chains south, 80 chains east to point of commencement. Staked Dec. 19, 1907. W. E. SIMPSON. Jan. 11, Thomas S. McPherson, Agent. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Nootka. No. 2—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner marked W.E.S., S.E. No. 2, situate on the west Bank Upper Campbell Lake, where the C.P.H. line cuts same; thence west 80 chains; north 120 chains; east 40 chains; south 80 chains; east 40 chains; south lu chains to point of commencement. Staked December 16th, 1907. WILLIAM E. SIMPSON, Jan. 11. T. S. McPherson, Agent. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Rupert. TAKE NOTICE that Francis Joseph Alma Green, of Quatsino, B. C, occupation Prospector, intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: Commencing at a post planted at the northwest corner of Lot 182, at the Narrows, Quatsino Sound, thence east about 86 cha'ns to northeast corner of Lot 192; thence north about 120 chains to the southern boundary of the Indian reserve; thence west to the* shore of Narrows; thence south along the shore to point of commencement; 640 acres, more or less. Jan 11 FRANCIS JOSEPH ALMA GREEN. NEW WESTMINSTER LAND DISTRICT District of Coast, Range 2. TAKE NOTICE that George Young and Arthur Bell, of Victoria, B.C., timber dealers, intend to apply for the right to purchase the following described lands in Kildalla Bay, Rivers Inlet:—Commencing at a post planted on the east side of the bay, about one- third of a mile from the point at the mouth of the bay, being the southwest corner post; thence east 20 chains; thence north 20 chatns; thence west 20 chains to beach; thence south along beach to point of commencement; containing 40 acres, more or less. Staked November 26th, 1907. GEORGE YOUNG & ARTHUR BELL, Jan. 11 George Young, Agent. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. District of Rupert. TAKE NOTICB, that I, Frank Kelly, of Victoria, B.C., timber cruiser, intend to apply for a special timber license over the following described lands: 1, Commencing at a post planted at southeast corner of Section 29, Township 82, Rupert District; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated Dec. 16, 1907. 2. Commencing at post planted about one-half mile west of southeast corner of Section 32, Township 32; thence west 40 chains; thence north 160 chains; thence east 40 chains; thence south 160 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated Dec. 16, 1907. 8. Commencing at a post planted at northwest corner of T. L. 16196, Section 5, Township 38; thence west 40 chains; thence north 160 chains; thence east 40 chains; thence south 160 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated Dec. 16, 1907. 4. Commencing at a post planted at northwest corner of T. L. 16196, Section 4, Township 33; thence east 40 chains; thence north 160 chains; thence west 40 chains; thence south 160 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated Dec. 16, 1907. 5. Commencing at a post planted at northwest corner of T. L. 16186, Section 4, Township 33; thence west 40 chains; thence north 160 chains; thence east i0 chains; thence south 160 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated Dec. 16, 1907. 6. Commencing at a poat planted at northwest corner of T. L. 18186, Beetle! 4, Township 33; thence west 40 chainl thence north 160 chains; thence east \ chains; thence south 160 chainB to poll! of commencement, and containing 6<f acres, more or less. Dated Dec. 16, 1907. 6. Commencing at a post planted 1 northwest corner of T. L. 16186, Sectlo 3, Township 33; thence west 40 chains thence north 160 chains; thence east 4 chains; thence south 160 chains to poln of commencement, and containing 64 acres, more or less. Dated Dec. 17, 1907. 7. Commencing at a post planted a northeast corner of T. L. 16186, Sectlo: 3, Township 33; thence west 40 chains thence north 160 chains; thence east 4i hains; thence south 160 chains to poln of commencement, and containing 64| acres, more or less. Dated Dec. 17, 1907. 8. Commencing at a post planted al northwest corner of T. L. 16194, Section 2, Township 33; thence east 40 chains; thence north 160 chains; thence west 41 chains; thence south 160 chains to point of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated Dec. 17, 1907. 9. Commencing at a post planted at northeast corner of T. L, 16194, Section 2, Township 33; thonce west 40 chains; thence north 160 chains; thence eas; 40 chains; thence south 160 chains to ptlnt of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. Dated Deo. 17, 1807. 10. Commencing at a post plantedat northwest corner of T. L. 16196, Sacton 1, Township 83; thence east 40 chats; thence north 160 chains; thence westjo chains; thence south 160 chains to poit of commencement, and containing 60 acres, more or less. Dated Dee. 17, 1907. FRANK KELLY. Jan 18. George H. Jackson, Agent. NOTICE TO LOGGERS. Bridge, North Arm, Fraser River. Piles. ALTERNATIVE sealed tenders, superscribed "Tender for Piles, Bridge, North Arm, Fraser River," will be received by the Honourable the Chiel Commissioner of Lands and Works, Victoria, B. C, up to and including Tuesday, the 31st of December, 1907, for furnishing and delivering at th« bridge site on the North Arm of the Fraser River, on the line of the Cemetery Road, fir and cedar piles. About six hundred (600) will be required, varying in length from twenty (20) to forty-five (46) feet. They must be straight, sound, and not less than ten (10 Inches at the small end. No butts will be accepted. Further printed particulars can be ob- tained on application to the undersigned. Tenderers must state the price pei lineal foot for piles delivered. The successful tenderer will be furnished with a list giving the number of piles required and the length of each. Eacli tender must be accompanied by an accepted bank cheque or certificate of deposit on a chartered bank of Canada, made payable to the order of the Honourable the Chief Commissioner, in the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars (3260), which shall be forfeited if the party tendering decline or neglect to enter Into contract when called upoi to do so, or fail to complete the wort contracted for. The cheques or certificates of deposit of unsuccessful ten- tenderers will be returned to them up* on the execution of the contract. Tenders will not be considered unless made out on the form supplied, signed with the actual signatures of the tenderers, and enclosed ln the envelope fur- nished. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. F. C. GAMBLE, Nov. 30 Public Works Engineer. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. Rupert District. TAKE NOTICB that James Hastle, of Victoria, B. C, Merchant, and James H. McLauchlan, of Victoria, B. C, Contractor, intend to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: No. 4—Commencing at a post planted about 4 miles to the west of Robinson's Bight, on a small unnamed creek, being the northeast corner post; thence west 80 chatns; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chainB; thence north 80 chains to point of commencement. June 14, 1907. JAMBS HASTIE, Jan 11. James H. McLauchlan. NEW WESTMINSTER LAND DISTRICT. Distriot of Nsw Westminster. TAKE NOTICE that Roman Z. Chandler, of Vancouver, B. C„ ocupation Broker, Intends to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: No. 1—Commencing at a post planted ten chains south of the southeast corner of D. L. 1413; thence north 160 chains; thence east 40 chains; thence south 160 chains; thence west 40 chains to place of commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less. December 23, 1907. Jan 11. ROMAN _ CHANDLER. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. Rupert District. TAKE NOTICE that James Hastle of Victoria, B.C., Merchant, and James McLauchlan, of Victoria, B.C., Contractor, Intend to apply for a special timber licence over the following described lands: No. 1—Commencing at a post* planted about 4 mlles to the west of Robinson's Bight, on a small unnamed creek, being the southeast corner post; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chatns; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains to point of commencement. June 11, 1907. JAMES HASTIE, Jan. 11. James H. McLauchlan. VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT. Rupert District. TAKE NOTICB that James Hastle, of Victoria, B. C, Merchant, and James H. McLauchlan, of Victoria, B. C„ contractor, Intend to apply for a special licence over the following described lands: No. 2—Commencing at a post planted about 4 miles to the west of Robinson's Bight on a small unnamed creek, being the northeast corner post; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence north 80 chains to point of commencement. June 12, 1907. ! JAMBS HASTIE, Jan. 11. James H. McLauchlan. THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1908. sssssssssssssssssssssssssss^^ Dinnerware Newness OF MERIT—SURPASSING FAR ALL OUR PREVIOUS EFFORTS. Never in the history of this store's merchandising have we shown such a magnificent assortment of medium-priced Dinner Services as is now offered. We have spent much time in planning this showing, and exercised the greatest care in selection, and the new creations in Dinner Ware just lately unpacked are, indeed, delightful. The ware in every case is much above the ordinary, and the decorations have been executed with such marvelous detail, these sets are genuinely fascinating. The decorations are sumptuous—the gold work being worthy of special note. We are greatly pleased with this new and fine showing, and want you to see the offerings. Even you, with your intimate knowledge of wares and value, will be surprised at the superior character of the goods and the very special values offered. If you have longed for a pretty Dinner Service, "now" is your opportunity. Such pretty sets and such unusual values aren't common, by any means, and we advise ycu to see these at once. Come in and let us show you these. The salesmen are enthusiastic over them, and they'll be delighted to have the opportunity to show them. These handsome sets may be seen in our First Floor Showrooms, and at any time, but we advise an early visit, be:aise the finest are sure to disappear very quickly. TEN ESPECIALLY GOOD VALUES FROM AMONG THE NEW LOT DINNER SERVICE—In semi-porcelain. A very neat and pretty floral decoration. 97 pieces. Special value at, per set $8.50 DINNER SERVICE—A "stock" pattern in a pretty blue rose decoration. There are 114 pieces in this set. Matcliings from stock at any time $13.50 DINNER SERVICE—One of the newest decorations. A tulip in blue with lots of gold as well. 96 pieces of newness for $14.00 DINNER SERVICE—In semi-porcelain, 96 pieces in a very pretty green and gold carnation decoration. Neat and pretty. Per set $14.00 DINNER SERVICE—A 105-piece set in semi-porcelain. A "stock" pattern which you can replenish at any time. Pretty apple blossom decoration. Price $15.00 DINNER SERVICE—Here is one of our daintiest sets. A pretty pink rose and wreath of gold make a pleasing decoration. Price $15.00 DINNER SERVICE—Here is one of our daintiest sets. A pretty pink rose and wreath of gold make a pleasing decoration. 102 pieces. Per set $18.00 DINNER SERVICE—Another 102-piece set in semi-porcelain. Dark green, orange and gold, make a very attractive decoration on this. Per set.. $20,00 DINNER SERVICE—Flown green, orange and gold on finest semi-porcelain makes this set a set worth special note. 102 pieces. Price, per set $20.00. DINNER SERVICE—A 107-piece service in light green and gold decoration. A really handsome style and excellent value at price marked. Per set... .$25.00 DINNER SERVICE—Another semi-porcelain set of 107 pieces. Flown blue and gold decoration. A set you'll be pleased with. Jer set $27.50 CHINA DINNERWARE AT THE PRICE OF COMMON CLAY. Direct from the famous Calsbad China Potteries we have received some excellent examples of the superior art and skill of the workers of this renowned pottery. The four sets here listed stand far above the ordinery sets usually sold at this figure in point of artistic merit and excellence of material. That Victorians appreciate their goodness is evidenced by the many sales since we have received them a short time since. We have still, however, a full range and advise that you see the dainty offerings soon. CHINA DINNER SERVICE—A new importation of famous "Carlsbad" china services discloses this excellent set. Clusters of pretty pink roses and heavy gold on fine china makes 115 pieces of niceness. Per set $50.00 CHINA DINNER SERVICE—Another of our new "Carlsbad" dinner services. This is another 115-piece set. Heavy gold border and dainty pink roses complete the decoration of this. Excellent value, at, per set $50.00 CHINA DINNER SERVICE-Still another set in "Carlsbad" china. This style has an exceptionally heavy gold border and a pretty and novel combination of roses, green leaves and gold, ng pieces, at, per set $65.00 CHINA DINNER SERVICE-This is a very rich and handsome set and has been a favorite set with many. A heavy blue and gold band on an excellent china 's the secret of its popularity. 139 pieces for $90.00 Silverware Goodness Yes, especially worthy of mention are these few items picked from the hundreds of dainty pieces in our Silverware Department. In this department we stock an immense variety for the home. The newest and best creations from the world's best makers are being constantly added and you'll always find in our silver offerings the very "latest" efforts. Quality here, as in all other departments of our business, is the first consideration. Not a single unworthy piece ever passes over our counter. Investigate our offerings! ROGERS' 1847 SILVERWARE The following lines of "Rogers 1847" Silverware are put up in pretty plush lined boxes and are especially suitable for wedding gifts: PIE KNIVES, each, plain $2.50, gilt..$3.00 SOUP LADLES, plain or satin bowls $4.00 BERRY SPOONS, plain, $2.00, gilt..$2.50 AFTER DINNER COFFEE SPOONS, box six $2.00 OYSTER FORKS, plain or fancy, box six $3.00 CHILDREN'S SETS, of Knife, Fork and Spoon, plain patterns, set $1.75, fancy designs, set $2.00 AVON SETS, 3 pieces, consisting of Sugar Shell, Butter Knife, and Cream Ladle, set $3.50 BUTTER KNIFE AND SUGAR SHELLS set, $1.00 and $1.75 SUGAR TONGS, several designs, each $1.75 BOUILLON SPOONS, set six $4.50 Gravy Ladles, Fruit Knives, Butter Knives. Cheese Scoops, and many other things. "MERIDEN" SILVERWARE SILVER PLATED TEA SERVICE, 4 pieces. Plain design or satin engraved $15-00 SUGAR BASINS AND CREAM JUGS to match, large choice, newest patterns, Pair $5.00, $6.00, $7.50, and $10.00 TOAST RACKS, each $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50 and $3.50 MARMALADE DISHES, in crystal, best quality silver plated frames, each $3.50, $4.00 and $5-oo In daintily decorated China Dishes, each $3*50 and $7.00 FRUIT STANDS, in crystal and decorated glass dishes, each $3.50, $4.00, $4.50, $5.00, $6.00 to $8.50 BUTTER DISHES, covered, in plain, engraved and satin finished styles, each $3*50, $4*50, $5.50, $7.00 and $10.00 CRUET STANDS, 3 bottles, breakfast size, in the very latest designs, each $2.00 and $5.00 CRUET STANDS, 2 bottles, each $2.00, $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 A FEW OF THE POPULAR PIECES IN SILVER-MOUNTED OAK Worthy of particular mention is our very fine stock of handsome silver-mounted Oak Goods. This handsome ware, always popular, is now more so than ever. Equally adapted for everyday use or "occasions." We have an excellent variety of these excellent pieces—Silverware department, first floor. Afternoon Tea Trays, each $20.00 to..$6.00 Butter Dishes, each $4.50, $4.00, $3.50, $3.00 Biscuit Jars, each $6.50, $6.00, $4.50, $4.00 and as low as $3.50 Salad Bowls, each $10.00, $8.00 and .. .$7.50 Dinner Gongs, each $6.00 Cigar Cabinets, each $9.00 Liqueur Frames, 3 bottles, each $18.00, and as low as $8.50 Splendid Values in McLintock Quilts. DOWN FILLED QUILT, covered plain and printed sateen, 6 ft. x Price DOWN FILLED QUILT, covered plain and printed sateen, 6 ft. x Price DOWN FILLED QUILT, covered plain and printed sateen, with edge, 6 ft. x 5 ft. Price DOWN FILLED QUILT, covered satin on one side and sateen on the 6 ft. x 5 ft. Price. with I DOWN FILLED QUTLT, covered with 5 ft. 1 Turkey Chintz, 6 ft. x 5 ft. Price ..$5.50 $6.50 ; DOWN FILLED QUILT, covered with with the choicest of the choice sateens in very 6 ft. artistic designs. Price $14.00 $8.00 * ALSO SOME BEAUTIFUL QUILTS, in with : sateen and silk covers, at, each, $20, $25, frilled * to $35.00 .$9.50 ; SMALL SIZES, for cradles and cribs, with J dainty, small patterns, 24x36 inches, 30x42 other, ! inches, 36x48 inches, 36x54 inches, at, $13.00 each, $4, $5 and $6.00 \WiT3_ nrsTran ftse fl VrMOME.IMOTEL AND.CLUa-rURNISMtRS^ VICTORIA':* B:t. '■■< i «0000*0-i»-»00<>00-0*000-0000-^^ At The Street ^ Corner h By THB LOUNQBR * The ceremony of giving royal as- lent to Bills in thc local Legislature not a very exhilarating function, ■fthorn of the trappings of State, it is almost a humdrum proceeding. When •lis Honour marches through the lirincipal entrance and along the aisle Iif the Legislative Chamber to the llirone, accompanied by his guard of lonour in military dress, there is an lir of old world pomp which recon- |iles the new world to the pageant. Men, on the other hand, His Hon- r, clad in ordinary morning dress Ind carrying, his topper in his hand, liters by a back door, quietly takes Js seat, and without a word listens the monotonous drone of the clerk lading the bills to be assented to, Iving one gentle nod after each and I more pronounced one at the end of lie affair, it savours of the perfunc- Iry. J This is just what happened on luesday afternoon, when eleven bills, [eluding the notorious Natal Act, revived the royal assent through the ledium of His Honour's nods. No oubt some ceremony is necessary, ut just why it should involve the at- ndance cf His Honour in the House noi], when he has to perform the far more important duty of signing each bill in the privacy of his own apartments, deponent knoweth not. From my eerie in the press gallery I witnessed a very pretty little comedy. Naturally, when the Lieutenant- Government entered the House everyone rose to his feet, except the member for Nanaimo—and the editor of the Colonist. The former was but following his own bad precedent; whether the latter was contaminated by the evil communication which corrupted good manners, or whether his erstwhile American citizenship imposed too great a strain upon his loyalty he alone knows, but he openly joined the rebellious Comrade and achieved the distinction which has already made the Socialists notorious. I noticed that the Lieutenant-Governor's secretary transfixed him with a piercing loow, which, however, had no effect but to cause him to look into his hat. It just occurs to me to say that as the issuance of tickets admitting strangers to the floor of the House is entirely within the province of the Speaker, of whose loyalty there is no doubt, it ought not to be too much to ask that gentleman to exercise his discretion to the exclusion of persons having no prescriptive right to the floor such as is enjoyed by a member, and who apparently knows as little of decent manners as the Socialists. I think the most amusing lounge I have indulged in this week was outside the vestibule of the Victoria Theatre on Wednesda" morning. It was tiie occasion of the sale of tickets for the great and only Paderewski show. On the previous day Manager Denliam had disposed of all the members' tickets, and there were some 300 left for the general public; a few of them were at $2, a few more at $3, and the balance at $4. For these 300 tickets there was a line of applicants stretching out from the vestibule along View Street and southward on Douglas as far as the stage entrance; and great was the disappointment when the supply of tickets was exhausted long before the tale end of the queue reached the box office. 1 know that Victoria is a musical city, but I am confident that not 10 per cent, and possibly not five psr cent, of those who were purchasing tickets could, if they were blindfolded, tell the difference between the playing of Paderewski and that of the commonest plant, thumper on the road. I am convinced, after sitting in the box office for an hour and listening to the conversation of the ticket purchasers, that the sole reason why they were willing to spend $4 on a ticket to hear Paderewski was simply because he is the fashion. Now, I do not want to depreciate his extraordinary talents, but I am going to give my readers a little bit of information on the authority of an eminent musician who has spent some years in Germany. He assures me that in that country of musicians, and in the most select musical circles, neither Paderewski nor Kubelik had any status, and that there are scores of players who are rated higher by the Conservatories. Unfortunately, however, they have not such long hair, nor arc they as proficient in the art of advertising. I expect my musical colleague, Bohemian, will be down on me for saying this, but I would respectfully remind him that it is not an expression of opinion but a statement of fact. A knowledge of it may comfort those who do not hear Paderewski play on Friday night. It is astonishing to me how Manager Jamieson keeps up the quality of the entertainments at the New Grand Theatre. Week succeeds week, but with the exception of an occasional poor turn, the general standard of excellence is the same, tl is safe to say that few vaudeville houses in the West get as good value for their money as the New Grand, which accounts for its popularity. Judging from thc advertisements, the Fancy Dress Ball at the Empress Hotel will be popular affair. As it is for charity's sake, it is fitting that it should be as cosmopolitan as possible, and I am glad to learn that the tickets are being purchased by people in every rank and station; it will be essentially a function for the Hoi Polloi. There is little doubt that thc accommodation of the hotel will be taxed to thc utmost, and even if $3 is a little stiff, it includes a splendid supper, and all the profits will go to St. Joseph's Hospital. So, my merry Lounger, dig up I Not so much for the sake of the function as for the benefit of thc charity. In many Victoria gardens snowdrops arc now in full bloom, and even crocuses are peeping out. On Sunday afternoon, while strolling in the vicinity of Moss Street, 1 heard the bleating of lambs, thc lirst of thc season. The delightful weather 01 the present week makes one believe that spring is here. For at least two months yet, Canada east of the Rockies will be battling with ice and snow, and for two months after that may not have seen the last of the white coverlet. What is the matter with Vietoria? 1 want to make an appeal to the athletic authorities of Victoria. It is that they will agitate, in season and out of season, and will never let up until they have secured a central ground. Much could be said on this subject, and it can be better said in the sporting columns, but after close observation for two years, I am convinced that athletics will never be a success in the Capital City as long as the public have to travel to Oak Bay in order to see matches. The delay, the inconvenience, thc uncertainty, and the impossibility of the tramway coping with the traffic, be they never so willing, is a determining factor in this matter. When tlie athletic grounds arc more central, spectators will be counted by thousands instead of hundreds. OQri cot-c^r. THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1908. Staking the Mountain Echo. By Arthur P. Woollacott. , MRS. WALTON thought that her niece's beauty was of the kind that an artist would have made use of in giving a soft yet generous touch to a primitive scene from one of the earlier pages of history. She admired the style, perhaps because she knew that it held many points of distinction in common with her own. The elder lady indeed, found a singular fascination in watching the play and luster of Eleanor's countenance and was in the habit of exciting her for her own aesthetic gratification. "Eleanor," she said, "I believe there is something of the savage in you after all." The younger lady nodded a solemn affirmative and put aside her volume. "Savages are victims of a limited horizon and hence lack appreciation. Consider what it is that lends so great a charm to the Oddyssey, the Earthly Paradise, and such twilight literature. To my mind the interest is always infinitely greater when the romance is brought to the very threshold of the present. Here we are, living in the Stone Age, with Drake, Vancouver, Quadra and a host of wild adventurous spirits flitting in the offing. It is the contrast I suppose that makes it so delightful." She nodded in the direction of the fleet of war-ships anchored in the bay. A soft, autumnal haze reduced the mountainous scenery to a glimpse of fairyland. In the west the wooded shore of Vancouver Island was a mere silhouette in Vandyke brown touched sharply into the warm tints of the sunset. Camp fires blazed along the beaches; launches were coming and going, and a large swarm of Indian canoes drifted among the ships imbibing twilight ideas of greatness. A number of gentlemen, including some officers from the ships, greeted the ladies from the promenade and passed on. "There is safety in numbers," Mrs. Walton commented, smiling at her niece's warmth of colour. "I envy you the romance that is brought to the very threshold of the present. It glorifies the future." They looked at each other and went into helpless laughter. "Thank heaven, they are occasionally gregarious," said Eleanor, with great relief. "This is the first whole day I've had to myself." Mrs. Walton, with a relish derived from her recollection of similar experiences, dilated at length on Eleanor's persecutors. During the recital the victim frowned stormily, laughed, sighed, and generally responded with such readiness to the descriptive touches that her aunt prolonged the torture and exaggerated for her own pleasure. "And you still persist in keeping me in the dark," she concluded. "Will you believe me when I say that the question interests me in a spectacular way only?" Mrs. Walton scoffed. "In a sense, yes," she conceded, recalling certain ludicrous complications. "But otherwise" —well, with all your coolness I know that there is a whirlwind of feeling lying dormant. But really, Eleanor, it is not. right. Your attitude is a premium on presumption. I believe after all you are indifferent. I have my theory all the same, ami it has been partially confirmed. When it became known that that mineral claim of yours in the mountains yonder had to be re-staked at once, how many of them, do you think, like chivalrous knights of old, volunteered to start off at an instant's notice?" Eleanor awoke from her seeming indifference, but with her customary wariness she avoided the pitfall. "How could you, aunty! You've placed me in a dilemma. It was my intention to employ Letherdale." "Well, it wasn't altogether my doing," her aunt said, with momentary compunction. "Both Mr. Twining and Dr. Loring volunteered and start tomorrow morning—separately, of course." Mrs. Walton watched the effect of the announcement. Eleanor was lost in thought a moment. "It's too bad. It places me in an awkward position. I must forbid them," she said, with decision. "They will be justified in ignoring youi prohibition." The statement startled her and she turned to hide a rosy countenance. How to extricate herself and preserve her independence was the question that required prompt solution. "What did they—Mr. Twining say?" "He told me that he had instructed his architect to add a large conservatory to his house," the aunt returned, cooly inspecting her niece's features. "I believe I told him yesterday that I had a passion for orchids," Eleanor commented absently. "Dr. Loring said that immediate action is necessary to forestall claim-jumpers. He knows that Twining is going, but will go himself in any case to make sure. I think it very generous of him." "Very!" was the answer murmured with some asperity. "What a girl you are to sit there pondering a scruple with a fortune hanging in the balance," Mrs. Walton pursued with amazement. "Why, according to Letherdale's computation, there's a handsome fortune in sight, and he said there would be a stampede the moment the fact became known." Eleanor, however, was not easily mollified. She remained silent and oblivious to her aunt's further remarks. Late in the evening she sprang from her chair and observing that Mrs. Walton had gone into the house, she put on her hat and a light cloak and walked rapidly to the village where, after some searching, she found Maquilla, the Indian guide. Some minutes later Maquilla began gathering together his poles, paddles and camping gear. Early next morning Letherdale heard the regular thudding of poles in the river bottom and went to the door of his cabin expecting that it was a messenger from Miss Newcombe with instructions to proceed to the Canyon in the interior of the island to re-stake her claim. It was too dark to distinguish objects clearly, especially under the shadows of the forest-clad shore. The canoe, with two polers, and someone sitting amidship passed up, a dim shadow in the gloom. Letherdale hailed it but received no answer, and he wondered, hoping that none of the crowd of unscrupulous prospectors had become aware of the fact that Eleanor's claim was practically at their mercy. Presently another canoe came up and Genelle, his colleague in the river business, swung lazily up to the landing and spread himself out comfortably in the stem-sheets under the shelter of his sombrero. Letherdale watched the smoke curling from a hole in his head-gear for a while, and then concluding that he was bursting with importance went down to interview him. "See here, Letherdale, jump in and come over. The Doc wants you." "Sure?" Genelle wiggled his pipe by way of affirmative. "Twining hired me this morning to take him to the Canyon as fast as I knew how. I suspected the Doctor would want you. There's some sort of race on. Both are going up to stake Miss Newcombe's diggins. You know-what that means." The river-men crossed the straits to the Bay. Letherdale at once proceeded to the shack where the Doctor was engaged in biological experiments. In a few minutes the backwoodsman was making arrangements with a typical product of the west—a lithe graceful chap, with a gravely cheerful eye and a head eloquent of more than the average share of brains. There was a tenseness in his manner, and a concentrated decisive look in his expressive eyes that excited Letherdale's curiosity. On the verandah of a cabin near by, Tony Genelle ancl a capable looking fellow in knickerbockers, a soft fedora, a well-trimmed beard, with the manners of a penegrinating millionaire were discussing the details of a canoe trip to the Canyon. The man's voice was frank and hearty, but with a ring to it that made one think the speaker had a thing or two up his sleeve. Letherdale knew at once that the man was Twining ancl observed him with interest, and was not at all surprised that Miss Newcombe had shown her preference for him, for he was decidedly a likeable man in appearance and was, moreover, reputed to be wealthy. Loring proceeded to Constable Haddington's office for the necessary papers ancl Twining followed on his heels with an air of provoking nonchalance. Tony turned to Letherdale: "Say! Look at Twining's back. Bet he's the politest kind of devil. He's worrying the other. You can tell the way his back moves." Letherdale's attention was attracted by Mrs. Walton, who was coming from the government office, and began telling him breathlessly when within fifty paces, that Eleanor had mysteriously disappeared. "Mr. Letherdale, I really don't know what to make of it. She's such a daring girl, but eminently sensible. I see you smile, but of course you know her well." He thought that he knew her as well as anyone can be expected to know a woman in this world, for he had mothered her when her parents, former neighbors of his, died and left her on his hands. Since that time Eleanor had travelled extensively and was now not only accomplished, but exceptionally beautiful as well. Letherdale assured her that Miss Newcombe was well able to take care of herself. "Well, you are exasperating—really as bad as Constable Haddington, who looked at me in the same way, smiled his cool, ominiscient smile, and dismissed the matter with provoking indifference. What is one to do if one cannot depend on one's friends?" An hour later the two canoes were leisurely ascending a series of rapids en route to the interior of the Island. As there was nothing to be gained by racing up a succession of stiff rapids, the guides agreed during one of their portages to be loyal to each other until the ground was staked, after which each was at liberty to make the water fly. Twining chafed considerably at what he called Tony's blessed laziness. The canoes kept abreast like sections of a catmasan. Tony, however, was as touchy as a lord and as proud as most of them: "Say, boss!" he said, with incisive pathos, after Twining had been nibbling at him for about an hour, "Take it all in a lump or by the mile?" Twining wisely accepted him as an irreducible proposition and thereafter kept his peace. On the afternoon of the second day out they reached their destination, and spent the remainder of the day in blazing lines, planting stakes and in traversing the island. That night the parties pitched their camps on a level spot surrounded by a fringe of berry bushes overhanging the water ancl prepared for a good night's rest. The tug-of-war would begin with the first break of dawn. The Indians hated the spot for ,like many camping grounds on the coast, it had in earlier days been the scene of tribal conflicts. Late in the evening Genelle became troubled and uneasy in manner. Letherdale watched him closely until at length Tony called him aside and pointed to the further bank of the river, where in the intense shadows they saw what they thought was a woman's face, standing out like a ghostly blurr. It was gone in a flash. "Did you see that, Letherdale?" said Tony. "I've glimpsed it once or twice before." It was one of those mystifying appearances that impress one like the vague adumbrations of the seance room. "Prospectors sneaking past," Tony thought. "Couldn't have been. Well—there was one canoe ahead of us too. It may be Indians." The matter was dismissed. "Any more claims around. I want to stake one," said Genelle. "This island's the only outcropping. Low grade. Wasn't worth a grub-stake until the railway began to loom up. Now it means a fortune." "Who's going to get it, Twining or the Doctor?" Letherdale laughed. "Dunno! Eleanor's peculiar. Her dad ancl Loring's governor discovered it when they were partners. Both died before it was any good to them. Canoe went to splinters in a log-jam—Newcombe was sucked under ancl drowned. Loring footed it thirty miles through the jungle nursing a broken leg right to my place—ancl died. The location was lost. I found it when Eleanor was in Europe. That was when she had just thrown over the Doctor in favour of the rich man. I wrote to Loring and he made me swear to leave him out of it." Genelle whistled: "So he's entitled to half and won't look at it!" "He's peculiar too. Bet he'd hammer me if I went and told Eleanor now. Say what in the deuce—" An avalanche of small pebbles rolled down the opposite bank into the stream. "Otter," said Tony. "What would an otter be climbing that bluff for?" Letherdale wanted to know. Genelle was about to take a pot shot in that direction, when the voices of Loring ancl Twining were heard, near the canoes in the heat of an altercation. Twining apparently was baiting the other into action of some sort: "Surely you'r game!" he was heard to say, with insulting sarcasm. Loring swung on his heel and returned to the camp-fire looking pale and preoccupied. For the next hour he was in a state of suppressed excitement and was plainly making a great effort to keep his temper down. Conversation was more or less difficult and was not pursued. Beetling cliffs surrounded the camp and the forks chroning and swirling on either side filled the air with endless uproar. The Indians of the party, wrapped in their blankets and with heads half hidden in the smoke of a communal pipe, were talking with mysterious solemnity among themselves. Twining was as indifferent and as placid as a man in church and at the moment was engaged in cleaning a revolver with all the leisurely care of a cow-puncher, while the firelight played over him in its own wild way, splashing him with the hues proper to a son of the wilderness. He suddenly threw up his head and looked enquiringly at Letnerdale. Genelle and Loring did the same. It was necromantic, but Letherdale understood their movements when he heard what he thought was the river singing one of its impromptus. It suggested a woman's voice. The hour, the circumstances and the growing excitement incident to the race on the morrow had its effect on the men. Loring presently leaned forward from his place with a noticeable pallor and handed Letherdale an army revolver. "Try it," he said. Letherdale fired several shots at a bit of fungus standing out from the hole of a tree, and pronounced it as accurate as a rifle. The crack of the gun produced a remarkable effect. The singing sounds ceased, the result impressing Letherdale like a sudden silence. He felt queer as though he had unwillingly killed something. Twining bounded up and joined the group: "Target practice ?" he said, tossing cigars to the men. "I'll go you a bout, Loring," he added, swinging abruptly and facing him with a cold, steely glance. The Doctor met the challenge with a manner as suddenly resolute as that of Twining. "What's the matter with the lot of us chippin' in?" said Tony. Twining looked at him, studied him with the keen scrutiny of one whose purposes are definite, immutable. "You put up a couple of empty bottles on those stumps," he said incisively, dismissing Tony from his attention and stepping off a distance of twenty-five paces. The pair took their places at either end of the line. There was a personal element, a desperate sort of preoccupation in the manner of both that made Tony say, with a lot of the enthusiasm gone out of his face: "Holy Mackinaw! This looks darn like a dool!" At the same instant one of the Indians began telling Letherdale with much excitement that he had heard the men arranging to have some sort of scrimmage. "We fire when you count ten Letherdale !" "Ready ?" said Twining in a voice that had the reckless mounting ring of a man who is being whirled into a galloping fit of intoxication. They turned their backs to eacli other. Thc Indians were piling armfuls of resinous branches on the fire which sent the flames into a towering blaze. (To be continued.) mt_m THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1908. Notes on Provincial News Out of Work. seems to have reached him this winter. They must have had a great time at Champagne Landing, wherever that may be. Jack Pringle tells of their Christmas feast, when the piece de resistance consisted of a The meeting of unemployed held in ^ish of roast gophers stuffed w,th he Athletic Club Rooms at Nanaimo mjce 0n the bill of {are) amid many I Monday night last, was an import- other delicacieS) the following items nt one. It showed several things rigured. Bear steak, knuckle of lynx, •/hich may as well be recognized: ,£g of wolverjne, owls' eyes poached ?irst, that there are a large number on hard tack] scrambled weasles' _f unemployed in the Coal City; next, brainSi brazed mink heartS| muskrat :hat there is no immediate prospect of pie. fricassee of otter| squaw berries, ■esumption of work at the mines; ancl, high balls and ,ow ba]ls 0ne thing ast, that work which these men might c.m be said for Whitehorse—it is all lave done has been let to Japanese. ajjve It is gratifying to know that Com- :ade Hawthornthwaite was less ex- _-, the Hundred Thousands. :ravagant in his utterances than us- jlie greatest herd of caribou ever tal; he was probably impressed by reported in the Yukon is now moving; :he gravity of the situation. The southward across the head of Sixty- nost practical outcome of the meet- mj]e rjver| a hundred miles west of ng was the receipt of a telegram Dawson. Reports say the herd has rom Premier McBride to the effect been crossing there for nearly a hun- :hat public works would be started in dred daySj and jt |s estimated that he neighbourhood of Nanaimo which IOo,ooo caribou have already crossed, vould relieve existing conditions. It with no end 0f the mammoth proces- s inconceivable that, with several sjon jn sight, uindred of our own countrymen out if employment, there should be any Are We Suckers? urther hiring of Orientals. No rail- Apropos of the Alaska-Yukon-Paci- vay company or contractor can af- fie Exposition, the Whitehorse Star ord so far to run counter to public comes out editorially in the following entiment, even if they were callous manner: nough to ignore the appeal of work- "Seattle has always found Yukon- lien of our own race. ers and Alaskans to be easy marks in the matter of disgorging money. Coal and Coke Tax. Seattle has grown rich and affluent at The Fernie Free Press has a rabid the expense of Yukon and Alaska, nd not very discriminating editorial The money has all gone one way— n the subject of the proposed coal towards Seattle. Now a scheme is on nd coke tax. Under existing condi- foot to make a grand coup in 1909— ons, it may fairly be assumed that make 'the big cleanup' at the expense ie Free Press could hardly do other- of Yukon and Alaska, whose names ^■ise than attack the proposal of the are being traded on for that purpose, rovernment, but no one can read the " 'The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Expo- Iditorial without a feeling of regret, if sition' is a rather 'sausagefied' name ot of sadness, that a paper which for for a real estate boom, but that is all many years enjoyed independence, it is, and all the name is being used nd was wont to discuss public ques- for, and it is not Alaska or Yukon ons in an intelligent manner, should real estate that is to be boomed either, ave sunk to the degrading position "Both Alaska and Yukon have broad f a corporation organ. It should expanses of real estate which need trely bc possible for a writer of aver- booming, but it is not likely that ei- re intelligence to advocate the in* ther will find much recognition at ^rests of a corporation without ignor- Seattle, her own interests being para- g those of the public. To fail in mount to anything outsiders may wish |iis or to deny its possibility is to to exploit. irogate the functions of a newspa- "No one objects to Seattle having cr. To demonstrate its impossibility as many expositions and fairs as she to remove any plea of justification desires, but she should rely on her r its existence. own resources as bait for the unwary and not on her efforts to play Alaska Too Partizan. and Yukon as 'good things.' In the same column in which the "There are a few people yet in the ld Man of the Cranbrook Herald North who enjoy being patted on |aims credit for running a decent their backs and called good fellows, ewspapcr, and declares that the Her- and that is what Seattle is doing in ■Id has proved that this is a paying the matter of her hyphenated real es- licy, hc has a paragraph ane.it Dun- tate promotion scheme. But thc |in Ross' speech at Ottawa. In this 'taffy' is too transparent, and very few aragraph the Old Man claims that Yukoners will be lured by it. loss showed up the hypocricy of the "Seattle is playing the people of the IcBride Government on the Oriental nmigration question "in a concise anner," also that he placed Mr. Bow- :r, "whose legal firm acted as at- irneys for the Japanese Immigration North for suckers. Are we?" Free School Books. The Cranbrook Prospector is a [strong supporter of the proposal that .gency," in a very bad light indeed, the Provincial Government should aril view of Mr. Bowser's emphatic range for supplying free text books enial of Duncan Ross' charges on jn the public schools of the Province, ie floor of the local Legislature, it fn an intelligent editorial on the sub- a little difficult to harmonize this ject the Prospector says that the chil- aragraph with the Old Man's claim dren are called upon to provide them- 0 decency. It is easier to appreciate selves with too many books, that the he point of his concluding paragraph, books they get are ont fair value for hat "nothing under the heavens can the money paid, and that a Minister of Irevent Duncan Ross being returned Education of the ability of Dr. Young t the next election." The Week could undoubtedly devise a satisfac- ttite agrees with the prediction; the tory method of overcoming the diffi- revention will not come from any- cttlty. This puts the case in a nut- bing "under the heavens." Nothing Like Contentment. The Whitehorse Weekly Star of inuary 24 is full of newsy items lout the North country. It is full shell, and there is some reason to hope that friend Grace will not be disappointed. WEEK 17TH FEBRUARY. The New Grand SULLIVAN A C«MI»INE, Proprietor*. Management at RtiT. JAMIIMN. CARLISLE'S DOG AND PONY CIRCUS Including "Tom," the World's Greatest Talking Pony. ALVA YORK English Singing Comedienne. SEYMOUR EMILIE HOWE and EDWARDS Comedy Sketch "The Arrival of Mr. Dooley." THE PIOTTES Character Singers "The Italian and His Sweetheart." EDDIE POWERS Blackface Comedian. THOS. J. PRICE, Song Illustrator "There's Another Picture in My Mama's Frame. NEW MOVING PICTURES "The Pearl Fisher." "The Exciting Ride." OUR OWN ORCHESTRA M. Nagel, Director. "IL BACIO." Pantage's Theatre JOHNSON STREET VICTORIA, B. C. ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE Matinees (any part ef house).. ..lie Evenings, Balcony 10c Lower Floor 20e Boxes lte Matinees Every Afternoon at 3 O'CIock. Night Performances 8 and 9.15 EQUIP YOURSELF WITH A THOROUGH :' BUSINESS OOVRSE SHORTHAND TYPEWRITING BOOKKEEPING Day and Nieht Classes. You can j enter school any time, individual 1 instruction. A diploma from this school will enable you to secure and hold a position with the best Arms. Terms reasonable. For particulars write or call TBE SHORTHAND SCHOOL 1109 Broad Street Victoria, B.O. B. A. KacIUUan. Knows Him. The Hedley Gazette knows Duncan rejoicing because the lowest tern- Ross pretty well, having had expenditure that week was 25 degrees ence of his vagaries when the re- :low zero, whereas a year ago 50 dc- doubtable member for Yale-Caribou ■ees below was reckoned to be "a was campaigning for the last election, irbingcr of spring." The content- It has his peculiarities down to a fine ent of spirit which pervades White- point, and gently reproduces one of jrse society is something to be them in the following paragraph: oud of ancl easily puts to shame the "While Duncan Ross was deprccat- ■owlers who enjoy perpetual sum- ing British Columbia anti-Asiatic leger in Victoria. E. J. White, the islation in Ottawa, his paper was imourous "stroller" of the Star, re- whooping it tip allee samee other ves the chestnut that last winter the British Cnlutnibans. in Greenwood, .ientific research department of Duncan should have used the wires "•hington, D.C., wrote asking him to kill that little editorial endorsement l^r information regarding ice-worms, of the Natal Act in last week's |ut no such cheering correspondence Times." LADIES SWEDISH GENTS MASSAGE Turkish Baths VIBRATOR TREATMENT HB. BJOBNFELT, SWEDISH MASSEUR. Special Massage and Hometreat- ment by appointments. Room 2, Vernon Blk., Douglas St. Body Development. 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P iflTtNTS an< Trade Marks obtained in all countries. ROWLAND BRITTAIN Registered Patent Attorney and Mechanical Enjiaeer. Room 3, Fairfield Block, Granville St. (near Postoffice) Vancouver. Lctve Your Baggage Checks at the Pacific Transfer Co'y No. 4 FORT ST. VICTORIA Phone 249. A. E. KENT, Proprietor LATEST NUMBERS English Magazine CHUMS TIT-BITS THE STRAND PEARSONS PUNCH KNIGHT'SBOOKSTORE VICTORIA, B. 0. LLOVD & CO., chimney sweepers and house-cleaners, 716 Pandora St. Satisfaction and cleanliness guaranteed. All orders by post or otherwise promptly attended to. Trial respectfully solicited. PHONE 191. Will You Take $500 a Year... for your spare time. In other words the man who has a couple of hours morning and evening and will employ it in operating A Cyphers Incubator at his home can make from $500 in twelve months. We have a unique plan to work on and will be pleased to explain it to any one interested. Call or write. Watson & McGregor 647 Johnson Street, VICTORIA, B. C. SEEDS, TREES, PLANTS, for the farm, garden, lawn, boulevard or conservatory. Acclimatised stock. Oldest established nursery on the Mainland. Catalogue free. M. J. HENRY 3010 Westminster Road, Vancouver 1 . FOR THE BALL Dress Suits $^7.50, $30, $35. ALLEN & CO. I iFit=Reform Wardrobe* * Victoria, B. C. New House to Rent, or Por Sale. I have for immediate possession to rent or will sell on very easy terms —small cash payment—one of the best built dwellings in the city, Only 15 minutes' walk from Post Office, and one block from car line. Situated in one of the best residential sections. Bungalow, with large balcony, seven-roomed house, absolutely new, with full sized cement basement, concrete floor; electric light in every room in the house. Hot and cold water equipment; heavy porcelain wash bowl and bath, also separate toilet in basement. Laundry in the basement equipped with latest concrete tubs and hot and cold water. Walk has been laid in extra heavy I concrete from street to verandah I steps. This is a proposition that will ! be snapped up quickly. Call or ! phone 1543. G. W. DEAN I Adelphi Block - VICTORIA, B.C. & THE WEEK, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15, 1908, sorting Comment. Mr. and Mrs. David Alexander of Duncans are registered at the Balmoral. * * * Mr. and Mrs. H. Dallas Helmcken have taken quarters at the Empress Hotel for the remainder of the winter. * * * Mrs. P. De Noe Walker left dur- ff . • is up to the Island League to take ■^^Ptiri 111 If the necessary steps to put a stop to * the practice, and I hope that this will be done at the meeting this evening. The local rugby team had an easy T"~~"" victory over the Nanaimo players at The first test match to select Oak Bay last Saturday. A win was eleven players to represent the Van- expected, but it was hardly thought ing the week for the mainland. She couver Island Football Association that such a big score would be rolled expects to be away for several weeks, against the Mainland, was played at up. The game was a very poor ex- Mf A R Johngton and Mr Frank Ladysmith last Saturday, and result- lnbition of the grand old game, net- Lioy(j of Westholme were guests at ed in the selection of a team whicli ther side making any effort to exert the King Edward Hotel during the is expected to defeat the Mainland- themselves. week. * * * ers, but at the same time it might The Vancouver Rugby Union is Mf_ Dona,d Fr&ser of ^_ ^ have been strengthened considerably, working itself into a fury over the al- dian Bank 0f Commerce has been The selection of the team has occa- leged treatment of Referee Tait at transferred to the New Westminster sioned considerable comment, some Nanaimo a couple of Saturdays ago. of which is not of a very compli- It is claimed that the players from mentary nature to the committee, the Coal City treated him in a very From the twenty-two players who ungentlemanly manner and threaten- took part in the test match, thc com- ed him with all kinds of dire wrongs, mittee had sufficient available mater- Nanaimo, on the other hand, claims ial to form a very strong combina- that he received proper treatment, but tion, but in some unaccountable man- even if he was called a few ungentle- ned they have overlooked players manly names, it is hardly sufficient who should have had their place. for the Vancouver players to ask for Bradshaw in goal and Lorimer and the suspension of the whole Nanaimo Hewitt at full back make a very team. strong combination, while in the for- I was surprised to learn that the ward line the team has one of the Victoria Cricket Club was in a bad best scoring aggregations that could state financially. It is well known be chosen, but the half-back division that the club is maintained by sub- Corps has arrived at Work Point ' , ,, , . . „ , , , Barracks to take the place of Captain is weak, and it would not be surpris- scnptions collected from ex-players, Reed> wj10 is returning to England. ing if this division cost the Islanders but last season the collections were * * * the game. Johnston at centre half is not sufficient to cover the expenses. Miss Heneage, who is leaving Vic- the best that could be chosen, but I hope that some arrangements will toria next week to make her home on had Connors, of the Shearwater, been be made to get the club out of debt Thf}[s Island is giving a small fare- ' ' , . ., . t ... well tea this afternoon in port, he would undoubtedly have before the commencement of the sea- gained the place. But with the elec- son, as to start the season in debt tion of Johnston we have no com- would be a hard blow to the team, plaint. At right half, however, Mc- The prospects for the season are very Kinley is a rank failure and is not bright as far as playing is concerned, entitled to a position. After the ex- and it is expected that the team will hibition he gave in the All-Island vs. be as strong as ever. I have to con- All-Mainland match of last season, it gratulate L. S. V. Yorke on his elec- should have been sufficient for the tion as Captain of the Club. He is branch. * * * Miss Doris Mason has returned from Duncans where she has been staying with her sister, Mrs. R. C. Furlonger. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ritchie are expected in Victoria very soon. They intend to spend the summer here with Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Flumerfelt. * * * Miss McDonald of Winnipeg has returned to her home again. She has been the guest of Miss Arbuthnot, Belcher Avenue. * * * Lieut. Eaton of the Army Service "Drink and Fear Not."—Shakespeare. AROMATIC SCHNAPPS Distilled with Juniper. The very latest and best appetizer on the market. It is not only an appetizer in the true sense of the word, but it is also an excellent tonic and system-builder. It has proved most marvellously beneficial already to hundreds of invalids afflicted with chronic rheumatism, gout, kidney disease, etc. Those who appreciate good Gin and Whiskey should try these fine brands. Old Pensioner Dry Gin, per bottle $1.00 Simpson's Blue Funnel Scotch, per bottle $1.25 DIXI H. UP-TO-DATE GROCERS. ROSS & CO. 1316 GOVERNMENT ST. * * * One of the last social functions before the Lenten season which is being looked forward to by Victorians is the ball to bc given* by the Union club, on the 28th of this month. The engagement has been announced of Miss Amy Holley, of Bath, England, to Mr. Bird, of Sinta Luta, Sask. Miss Holley made many committee to realize that he was not an ardent lover of the game, and has friends here while on a visit to Brit- fit to fill the place, and another given already won his cap as a representa- ish Columbia about a year ago. an opportunity, and from those who tive of Canada in the international „, _. , , , . ,, _ ■ 1 _, _ T , •__. •. .. 1 *_i _._ tt •_ 1 ___ . it Mr. Moorhead, late of the Canadian witnessed the game at Ladysmith, it match with the United States, and I g.^ of Commerce in Vancouver is learned that other players gave a hope that he will be able to lead his spent the week-end in Victoria, be- far better exhibition than him. Har- team to the championship, Victoria Social. ley, at left half, is at the best an experiment. He has been playing on the forward line of one of the Mainland teams all season, and on his showing in one game has been given his place on the All-Island team. In place of these two players, Thackeray of the Y.M.C.A., and Dufty, of the Esquimalt teams, should have selected. The former is one of the most consistent half-backs in the 0n'a tripto*Ca"lifornia! league, and it is certainly a hardship UMPIRE. fore going on to Alberni on Monday night, where he has accepted a good billet. * * * Mr. Thornton of Thetis Island has been spending a few days in Victoria. Miss Blakemore is visiting Mr. and OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOTO The Poodle Dog Grill Yates Street Victoria, B. 0., is The only real Grill in British Columbia—the only plaoe where you oan actually obtain your choice of meats and all the delicacies of te season. Mrs. Vickers of Kamloops has been Mrs. Shirley Blakemore of Haro St., visiting friends in the Capital. Vancouver. * * * * * * Colonel Gregory was a passenger to Mr. and Mrs. Crowe-Baker have been Vancouver on Thursday morning. returned after spending several * months travelling in Europe. They B. Marvin have were the guests of Mrs. Herbert Ross in Vancouver for a few days before coming on to Victoria Mr. and Mrs. E. that he has been overlooked. Dufty, Miss Leigh Spencer of Vancouver on his form this season, is better than is "entered at Ae Empress Hotel. McKinley; in fact, it is hardly possi ble to choose a weaker half-back than McKinley. Outside of these positions thc team is a strong one and should give the Mainlanders a hard run for a victory. But in the next test match it is hoped that a more careful selection is made than has been the case in this team. Now that the team has been selected it is impossible to change it, and whatever our complaints, we hope that the Island team will be returned victorious on the occasion of the first match in Vancouver early next month. It is rather hard on a player to be selected in the first twenty-two, and yet never be given his place in thc line-up by the press. This is exactly what happened to Peden, of the Bays, who was selected as goalkeeper for "B" team. Peden was chosen and made the trip to Ladysmith and incidentally played a good game, but on every occasion when the team appeared in the press credit was given to Dunn, of the Esquimalt team. It is very evident that it was a mistake the first time the teams appeared, but the committee should havc seen that the error was corrected. I believe in giving credit to whom credit is due. A meting of thc Vancouver Island League has been called for this evening, at the request of the Ladysmith club, to discuss the question of importing players from the Mainland. This matter was referred to last week, and I am pleased that the league is taking steps to prevent the rapid approach to professionalism. The Vancouver players arc already registering a kick about ex-Mainland- ers playing on the Island team, but until they show that these players have been coaxed to thc Tsland on the promise of good situations, it will be a hard matter to do anything. It Mr. A. T. Parry of Cowichan Bay is at the King Edward Hotel. The betrothal is announced between Amy Campbell (Maisie) Campbell- Johnston, the daughter of Mr. ancl Mrs. Ronald C. Campbell-Johnston, Mrs. Arthur Crease entertained at and J. R. Armytage Moore, son of the an informal tea on Monday after- late Wm. Armytage Moore of Arn- noon' * * * more, Co. Cavan, Ireland, and Mrs. Miss Fanny Devereux has returned Frank Hardcastle, of Lancaster Gate, to Duncans to resume her school London, duties. * * * Mr, and Mrs. Charles Lamb of So- menos have been in Victoria for a few days. * # * Mrs. Heam, Miss Norrie and Miss Hadwen of Duncans were in town for the Paderewski concert on Friday evening. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Maurice of Shaw- nigangan Lake, have been guests at the Empress during the week. OMINECA LAND DISTRICT. District of Coast. TAKE NOTICE that Marie Phlllppi, of Omaha, occupation, Lady, Intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands: Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner of section 21, township 1, range 4, Poudrier Survey; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence west 80 chains to place of beginning, being said section 21. Dated January 15th, 1908. MARIE PHILIPPI. Feb. 15 A. Olson, Agent. 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