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___________ LKJ" ____________________________ wee-siitst _eDiTio_sr.-i2 _?_a_g-i_]s VOLUME 34 NEW WESTMINSTER, B. 0., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1889. NUMBER 39 THE DAILY COLUMBIAN I*rj»l.I9HKI> Evfirj *.n-avantiM* *'s«Wt Wanday', BT THK SC__2S1 ISTlBXJTr 3__SO*I'33;-a_3B, At thel Btoura Printing iCslnbliiili- Xtltiixi, Columbia Btreet. For 12 "<-.!•■!■'- For fi montha For H' ■ ctu« DELTVEItE For 12 months For B'-moiittaH For 8 montha. Poi-iaun*' Per weetc. Payment in all * rate) tr " -■>■■- ..fe'pti "a. % 00 'HE CITY i Mie lu THE XJEKL' Mailed, vifr year.. Mailed,!* monthiH. ...67 no ,. 4 (ll) ■.exoopt for weokly COLUMBIAN ■«> tltimiiiy,* ;... „fiO 1.36 n,!v«*-HTKiiwu rates ran (He hail-*. Ti-uuHlt-ui .\dvi-j-(!»\-fji-itiit.—KIr.il Insertion, 10 eta, por Hue solid uonpai-eh; eaoh BnbBt-'iueul, eon aemitlveUiserMriu, acts, per line. Advortisemenl-H not Inserted every day—liut, ini-ertion, 10 ots, per line; siib'-e- quehl Insertions, Sets, per line. St-ariil-fifc AilvcrllsemeiHi*.—Professional or Business Cards—ii'- per month, Hpc* clal rales for general trade aclvwi'tlslng, according to space oc-.'iipiuri and duration of contract. A is*-iii!'.1" aii!«8, when tlJftjilnyfiil, charged 25 pur cent, less uian transieul advts, if . soli;, ohftrged at, regular traiiKli'iit rates. Special Jiot!-.•*•■•, iuunng reading luaiu-r, 20 qts. per line each Insertion, Hpeoials tnseHeu by the month at reduced ratee. Births, Marrlnu^;>nd lAiatha.gl for each Insertion; Funeral Notices ln connection wiih UealhB, 5u cts. t-ach insertion. WPEKIV ADV.KT)SIHQ RATES. Vruiiftliritl AdVf.rtlMomentB.—Elrstlnsei1- tlon, 10cts, per linn solid nonpareil; subsequent Insertions, 7 ■•,-..•, per line. 8la«<n?j« A.dver.t Iseirienls.—Professional or BUHiness Cards—$1,60 per month, Special rates for geni-rnltnule advertising, Special Notices, IlinhB, Marriages and Deaths, same rates as Dally. Cats must be all metal,and farliirgooutu au extra -ato will be oharged. uarpersons sending in advertisements Bhould he (jareful to state whether thoy are to a ppeur l n the Dally Edition, or the Weekly, or both. A liberal reduction is made when Inserted in both. No advertisement inserted for lesB tlian $1. SUBSCRIBERS "Who do not receive Iheir paper regularly, from tho Carriers or through the Post Oflice, will confer a favor by reporting the same lo the offico of publication ut once. Weekly Britisli Columbian, WciliuMlay .llomlng, Sept. 25, 1889. A correspondent has asked us to please explain the following portion of clause three of the published agreement between the Corporation and the Contractor: "The Contractor shall be entitled to receive from the Corporation twenty-thousand dollars (§20,000) of its tirst mortgage fifty yenr six per cent. gold bonds per lineal mile of the main track of the said railway," etc. Our correspondent, who is a ratepayer, adds: "To some of us it seoms to rend as if the S.R.R.Co, claim about $400,000 besides the $150,000 bonus." The preamble to the agreement containing the clause referred to will show that the word "Corporation" stands for the Railway Company, and not the city, as our correspondent may imagine, and it is important to bear in mind that the agreement containing the clause which our correspondent wishes explained is an agreement between the Southern Railway Company and the contractor, Mr. Bennett. The Railway Company stands as a middleman, bo to speak, between the city and the contractor, and hands over to the contractor the city's bonus of (150,000 and also $20,000 of the Railway Company's "first mortgage fifty year six per cent, gold bonds per lineal mile" of the railway. The bonds in question, it will be seen by reference to the act of incorporation of the Southern Railway (provincial statutes, sec. It of chap. 36, SO Vic, 1887), the Railway Oompany are empowered to issue, up to the limit of $20,000 per mile, for the purposo of raising money to prosecute the building of the road. In other words, the Railway Company, by their charter, aro authorized to mortgage the line of the road to the extent of $20,000 per mile to assist in securing the construction of the railway, and it is these mortgage boiiui, whioh 'lie Company pays to the contractor, in addition to tho city's bonus of $150,000. This brief explanation, we trust, will make it clear to our correspondent and others tbat the city has nothing to do directly with the "$20,000 fifty year six per cent, gold bonds," and that the $150,000 bonus, in addition to right-of-way, water lots, Lulu Island lands, etc., is all that the ratepayers have to consider at this time as the city's contribution to the building of the Westminster Southern Railway. Tho Queensland govornmont, it is said, dorives a revenuo of .£12,000 a year from advertisments on tho back of postago stamps. Strango tlio ingenious Yanks novor thought of augmenting thoir surplus by this means. Anothor week, and exhibition time will be upon us. Tho royal city will then have an opportunity of spreading- horsolf and proving whothor nhe is oapable of rising to grout possibilities. In spite of the fuct that her citizens ure a "narrow- minded community," we are convinced that New Westminster will, upon this occasion, somewhat surprise those whoso prejudices or wishes teach them to ad'oct that the city has no go and is incapable of meeting an emergency. Tlio emergency this time will be a large one and will cull into force every effort that can be miidu by one ami ull to render tbe grout week enjoyable and attractive lio the numerous visitors who will stay with US. Tho citizens have already shown a largo minded public spirit by their ready contributions to tho fund now being raised, as well as the subscription which we tako a pardonable pride in having initiated. But the question of success is not merely one of dollars and conts. There ure other factors which will tell forcibly. Tho question of decoration should, abovo all things, not be left merely to tlio committee wliich has charge of that item. Nothing tells so much in popular demonstrations as fine weather and plenty of decoration. Although it is out of oub power to command the forinei', we can ut least deserve it, and us to the latter, there is not one who is incapable of adding to that. A flag or piece of red baizo at a window will cost nothing or little, but a street from every window of which there floats a rag of bunting is a sight, to behold. There is scarcely a reason why every house should not exhibit some such sign of holiday rejoicing. Anyone whose good fortune it has been to have been present at some gala day or carnival on the European continent will agree that a wonderful deal of decoration can be managed with the simplest of materials. The use of boughs or bandies, green leaves and flowers, is so common and yet so beautiful that there is no need to mention that we have plonty within reach of every citizen. During the Jubilee celebration in England a capital idea, and yet a simple one, was the burning of a light after dark in every window. In a city whose structures are very largely composed of wood such a means of illumination would bo hazardous, but New Westminster lends herself, by reason of her hills, to the use of the beacon fire, and a series of these to be lighted all around ut dusk would form a capital idea. The procession we believe is already outlined, but perhaps ropm could be made for a number of costumed children. To ensure a thorough success it is essential, too, that our visitors should be mado perfectly at home. There should be no raising of prices all round (this point we mentioned before, but it cannot be too much emphasized), and the last aim of all should be to "make." We would urge, also, that newspaper correspondents from other cities should be given every facility for obtaining reliable reports. Their task ia. not by any means an easy one, and is often rendered as unpleasant as thoughtless persons can make it. We urge, therefore, that every encouragement should be given the outside journalists. The worst they can do is to freely advertise tho city. The lieutenant-governor should be requested to closo the offices and declare the days of the exhibition public holidays. This course was adopted during Victoria's gala time, and the same course should, wo think, be pursued in October. All doubt (if ever thore was any) is at an end as to tho influx of visitors. It will be immense, and with us it now rests to ensure everybody "plenty for their money." As we before remarked, we have no - • "V , • i , Ml 1 lu.o_l.iugo. ll OiifalUlllijli&l .,,.1 ,.u the thing in style. Speaking of the campaign of the Rush among the sealers, the Brooklyn Eagle says:—"England sees that it amuses us while it doesn't hurt her, and as for Canada, it's of no oonsequence what she thinks," In the MmmcVHygiene Tlierapeu- tique, Blanche Howard, a female doctor, gives statistical proof that the mortality from diphtheria is rapidly increasing. Twenty years ago in Franoe this mortality was between 36 and 45 deaths in overy 100,000 inhabitants; now it amounts to 110 to 121 in overy 100,000. In Eng land the deaths in every 100,000 number 22 ; in America, 60 to 90 ; in Germany 140 to 155 ; inOhristi- ania, 340. Another illustration of the danger of party judgments has como to our notice. If we had beon asked an opinion as to the advisability of submitting the Behring Sea question to John L. Sullivan, wo should certainly have been inclined to treat the question us a very silly attempt «t u joke, or a strong evidenco of the insanity of the questioner. But, the other day, an interviewer got hold of .John L., and extracted his opinion on thut, among other things, und hore it is : "1 think wo sti'ilcu u trillu wide in undertaking to protect so much water. The smaller tho ring tbe better. The idea of making a fool-play like that latt one gives me a pain in ths ear." We should tl.'urt; it would. John has evidently got a good solid grip of tho tnajter, und understands whut u great nation owes both to itself und to its neigli- liors. When tiie Plumed Knight gets u pain in his our, us he very probably will before the matter is ended, ho may be tempted to wish that ho hud sat for a little at the feet of tho great slugger. The Vuncouver press is naturally indignant over the sensational and caliiiiiinous articlo respecting alleged ."crookedness" in Vancouver municipal and polico circles to which tho morning paper in this city has lent its columns. Tho News states that the article was either written or instigated by a party in Vancouver who hail written a letter to the News containing similar charges, and tho letter in question had been refused publication for the reason, says tho News, thut "If these charges are untrue, the publication of tho letter would be a most scandalous outrugo; if the vague insinuations havo any basis in fact, the charges have not the remotest connection with municipal matters, and the publication of them would be simply to gratify a little personal spite towards certain members of the corporation of Vancouver. As regards the charges made in the article in the Westminster morning paper," concludes the News, "they are so absurd that they require ng denial, antl tho only matter connected with the article that calls for comment is the circumstance that any newspaper should be so poorly conducted as to give such rubbish a place in its columns." The Vuncouver World says that "tho now and somewhat eccentric New Westminster paper yclept Truth—a misnomer by the way—seems to be itching for notoriety and has assumed the sensational role." The charges in the local morning paper with respect to Vancouver civic afi'uirs aro pronounced by the World to be "grossly libelous,"and it adds: "What is the press of the province to think of such foul blots aB are daily staining its columns) These calumnies savor more of the 'wild and woolly west' than of a civilized community, and must be received by the people of New Westminster—one of tho most enlightened cities in British Oolumbia—with anything but pleasure." The local morning paper is certainly neither to be congratulated nor commended for having admitted into its columns, and fathered, without any adequate knowledge as to its truth or falsity, suoh a calumi- nous and damaging article affecting our sister city of Vancouver as disgraced its columns yesterday morning. The terminal city press can be trusted to attend to its own soiled linen, and nothing at all is co be gained, but much lost, by such puricnt officiousness as the new paper lias displayed in this matter. Those who claim to be authorities say that tho sham naval war which has boen raging for some time round tho coasts of Britain has not been po it.*'".''..'-'.-!!* nr Rimirnoriyn i,n if" was expected to be. It was thought that there would havo been a series of stirring encounters, bearing more resemblance to real warfare than anything which could take place on land. The most of what has taken place has, on the contrary, merely illustrated an eager desire on the part of each fleet to get away from the other. Many places were, however, takon after heavy bombard ment. Edinburgh, among the rest, was held to a ransom of .£1,500,000 on pain of being reduced to ashes! The most of the magistrates were away in the country holiday making at that "important crisis in their country's history," and it wns dill! cult for tlio offloer despatched with tho official notico of ransom or bombardment to find any ono on whom to serve the formidablo missive ! EN ROUTE. Tho Governor-General and Vice- Regal Party Coming West. Their Programme. Tcw-ible Floods in China and Japan. Lives Lust und Villages Inundated. Seafo'i'd, Delaware, on Fire, and Will Probably be Utterly Wined Out. VICE-KEG Al. MOVEMENTS, Ottawa. Sept, lSih.—Tlio pro,- graan'iiu foi" the wehturn tour i.f tlio view regal pliity .has been published here. On thu 27th the pni'Ey "'ill leave Winnipeg fur Saltcoats, then Poi'togO lu Prairie llll tlio 53d. Bl'Ali- tliui will bo reached un the 30th, ntid left oil October Itt. Ou tlio 2d Broad: view ivill b.o reached, oil lhe 3d Grenfell, on tho 4th Regina, whero ti atop will be mudo for tivo duys and the rifle meoting of the X. "V. M. P. attended. On the uioi'i.'ii]g of (he Dili u start will bo made for Rush Lake, where the party will atny until lho 9th, then on to Duilmore for lhe 10th. On tho Uth Lotlibrulgo will be reached, the party branching off the C. P. R R. ou thu line of the Northwest Conl und Navigation Co. At Lethbridge the mines will ho inspected und the Blond Indians visited, and the party will then proceed to Foit MaoLeod, where, leaving the train, ihey will, he driven over the ranching country in n four- iii-hsnd, escorted by a troop of the mounted police. Four 'daya will bo occupied in this drive nud the Cochrane ranoh nnd other ranches, together with the Blackfoot reserve nnd the reserves nt OleiohOn wilt bo visited. Ou thu 18th tho vice-regal purty will rench Calgary. Hero the train will be tnken and tho pnrty will pruceoil over Bow River into the Rocky mountains. Banff will be reached on Saturday, Oct. 10th, and left again on the 21st'. On tho 22nd a stop will be made nt Donald and tiie distinguished travellers will move on slowly until Kamloops is reached ou the 25th. On tho 2(ith a stop will be mado nt North Bend, hut not for long, as tho governor and his party propose to reach Vancouver on the evening of that day, nnd visit Westminster the second day after. Victoria, the end of tlieir western journey, will be reached on the 30th, a stay will be made here for a few days before the return journey is commenced, leaving the coaBt in the drat week iu November. The governor-general proposes to return to Ottawa about the middle of the month. FLOODS AND CHOLERA IN CHINA. San Fkancisco, Sept. 18.—There havo been furthor breaks in the Yellow river nnd moro country hns been flooded. Cholera has made its tippenrnnco among natives in Corea. AFFLICTED JAPAN San Francisco, Sept. 18.—Oriental advices state that there wore terrific rain storms in various parts of Japan on Aug. 20th. The rivers ruse to a great height, breaking the embankments and causing grent floods. Villages were washed away by wholosnle. It is estimated that noarly 10,000 lives were lett and ovor 20,000 persons reduced to a state of destitution. MAY BE WIPED OCT, Wilmington, Del., Sept. 18.—A special received here this morning, saya: Seaford, a town of 2,000 inhabitants, in the lower part of this state, is on fire and will probably be totally JOINED THE UNION. London, Sept. 18.—Work on the docks is steadily assuming its normal aspect. Fewer non-union men are employed lo-day than yestorday, owing, in great measure, to the fact that many are joining the union. THE ARTILLERY COMPETITION. Qoedec, Sept. 17.—The artillery competition has been finished and the competitors havo returned home. The Charlottetown buttery won tho double shaft nnd also took first prize for (14 pounds. The Halifax battery wuu the cup offered by Montreal merchants. VILLIEK'S COMING AGAIN. Ottawa, Sept. 17.—Mr. Frederick Villiers, tlio London Graphic's war correspondent, arrived in Ottawa yesterday. Mr. Villiers lias cumo to Canada to accompany Lord Stanley on hio trip to British Oolumbia, illustration's ot which ho will send tn his paper. A FAMOUS FARMER HEAD. Simcoe, Sept. 17 JohnB. Oarpen- tcr, one of the wealthiest and best known farmers of the province in the township of Townsend died this morning. His farm was winner of the first gold medal given by the Agricultural and Horticultural Association. mr. oooderham's funeral. Toronto, Sopt. 17.—Tho funeral of Iho late Mr. Goodnrhnm took place yestorday p. m. The cortege was ono of the largest over seen in tho city uf Toronto and included about two thousand mombers of tlio Salvation Army. Services woro hold in the Shoi'bourne street Methodist church, mu legacies, Toronto, Sept, 17.—William Good- erliara, probably left in money, land and, .securities §450,000 to Victoria Univorsity, Cobourg, conditional on its romoving to Toronto. It snid the Salvation Army will not get as much us lie intended to give them and that the Christian Institute mainly founded by him ia left wholly unprovided fur. His income is said to have been 820,- 000 or $30,000 a year and it seems thnt his praotice for sumo years past wus to spend $800 or 810,000 a year in living, devoting the balance to charities and benevolence. deep mining in the comstook. San Francisco, Sept. 17.—W. E. Sharon, in an interview in the Daily Report thin evening, snys thnt the lower levels of the Comstook nre to ho drained nud that deep mining is to bo ri'Bumedi Thin is lhe most important mining news given t" tlio public for many years' OHINAMEN PEJtJIAXENTLy SCATTERED, Oakland. Cu.1, Sept. 17. -Late lu.-.,t night a i^iuiii powder errtriilge exploded a the. month of du, tunnel to Lako Chabut Ah Bing, who held a cartridge in his hand, wna liloivn ti pieces. Another Oliinuiwin was killed outright and two others lived nu hour. KILLED in a prize fight. St. Louis, Sept. 17.—An eleven round prize tight wus fought hero U-t uight between Ed Cleary and un ainti- teur named Jack King, with hard gloves. The light wns won by Cleary. This murning King died from hin injuries. strange suicide. Boston, Sept. 17.—About 11:30 o'clock last night, a strangor aged about 22, shot himself in tho ear with a 32 calibre revolver and died beforo medical aid could reach him. In his pocket was fuund tho following note: "This is caused by insomnia with which 1 have been troubled fur years. 1 belong to the Columbian Society, No. 52 Lexington avonue, Kew Yurk ciiy. I nm in good standing, address them, und they will see that I am decently buried. David Levy Arvut." THE DEADLY COAL OIL LAMP. San Francisco, Sept. 17.-—Moses Gabriel, the two-yenr-old son of Annie Gabiiel, mother of six children, upset a coal oil lamp at their homo early last night. The burning fluid set lire to tlio child's clothing and he wus so severely burned that he died at midnight. Mrs. Gabriel in endeavoring to extinguish the flames was herself badly burned and suffered great agony until morning, when Bhe too expired. The other children were more or less burned, two little girls quite severely. will do it again. London, Sept. 17.—The Centra! News is in receipt of a Jetter signed "Jack the Ripper," wherein the writer promisi'3 to commit another murder in about a week. The handwriting of the noto is tho same as that of the letters and postal cards received by tho Central News some time ago, in which tho "Rippor" declared his in- toution tu pursue his course until he should reach the number of 15 victims, and there is no doubt of tho letter's authenticity. THE STRIKE TROUBLES. London, Sept. 17.—The trouble which uow threatens to undo the good work uf John Burns nnd render futile the mediation of Cardinal Manning, arose from an infraction of the agreement of the dock company that they would not omploy new hands in. place of their si liking workmen. Wheu the latter returned to the Royal Albert docks yasterday to handle freight they found employed there several hundreds of men known aa "blacklegs." This infuriated the old men and they immediately quit work, and but for the influence of John Burns there would have been a riot. Immediate steps will be taken to organize the Riverside laborers. The docket) union already haB 18,000 memben, the lightermen's 6,000, and tho stevedores 3,500. It is proposed to unite these bodiei and form a general council, to which all disputes between capital and labor shall be referred. To-day's", troubles at somo of the docks, between the regular workmen and the "blacklegs," are not regarded as of serious import. They aro only such minor disturbances as could not but be looked for as the aftermath of auch a gigantic upheaval as the recent strike. It would be well-nigh impossible to bring about either a lockout or another general strike just at present. Both sides are too eager for a period of recuperation to indulge in an immediate renewal of tho great strike. FAKERS ARRESTED. San Franoisco, Sept. 19.—Chri:?;"n Smith and Frank Davis, known to the police as fakers, wero arrested last night ou suspioion of boing tho slayers of Captain Duncan Logan who attempted to prevent ono of them robbing a bar tender last week. BATTLING BRUTES. Johnstown, N. Y., Sept. 19.—Arthur O. Dpman, heavy weight champion of Connecticut, and Park Bos- worth, of New Jersey, fought for $500 a side, Queensberry rules, last night. Tho fight took placo just over the Hamilton county line, and was witnessed by about 200 sports. In the tenth round Bosworth was knooked out by Upman. ^^^^^^^^^^ Geo. Neely, station and express agent at Stony Mountain Station, C.P.R., has skipped with a small sum of tlio company's money. SPAIN DEMANDS The Return of Spanish Prisoners in Morocco—The King of Portugal Seriously 111. Decision in the Hamilton Murder Case—A Jury Wanted in the Cronin ("use. A Prominent Democrat Dead—The Franklin Pari; Knees Postponed. SPAIN AROUSED. Madrid, Sept. 19.—The Spuuiik govornment has ordered a fleet of war vessels to proceed to Morocco tu demand the release >-f the captain, four sailors nnd one passenger of the Spanish vessel, enptured off tiie coast of Morrocc") and has also ordered 1,500 men to be held in readiness tn embark fur Morocco at a moment's notice. Although this action has been taken it ib still hoped that the captives may be peacefully surrendered. KING OF PORTUGAL ILL. Lisbon, Sept. 19.—Tho King of Portugal is seriously ill. THE HAMILTON CASE. May's Landing, N. J., Sept. 19.— The opening of court was delayed until nfter 11 o'clock this morning on account of an accident to the train from Atlantic City bringing some of tho counsel and jurymen in the Hamilton case. Mrs. Hamilton was not iu court, counsel uskiug that she be excused from attending. She passed a restless night and morphine was administered to quiet hor nerves. SamL E. Percy,, counsel for Mrs. Hamilton, opened tho argument. State representative prosecutor Joseph Thomp- on insisted thnt the defendant should be convicted ns indicted. Percy in argument dwelt on the actions of. tne nurse, Donnelly, who, he claimed, was so much under the influence of liquor that she drove Mrs. Hamilton to do the deod that was dono in self-defense. Vile epithets, it is claimed, had beeu used to Mn. Hamilton daily, in the morning, and the bruises which she bears are blows olaimed to have been dealt to her by nurse Donnelly. In conclusion he appealed to the jury at least to give hi* client the benefit of any reasonable doubt. Prosecutor Thompson then began his argument, in which he dwelt upon the testimony given the day before, especially that of Mrs. Hamilton, and could not see where any doubt could be entertained as tn the cause ef cutting her. He stated that it was an atrocious assault and could uot bo changed. Thompson laid tho testimony of-all the witnesses to the direct cutting open to tlio jury, and appealed to them to consider that and not the former relations of the nurae or the family quarrels of n.aa and wife. It is not thought that Mrs. Hamilton will be convicted, and a disagreement of the jury need nut be a surprise. The jury returned at 3:1S p. in. with a verdict of guilty. Mrs. Hamilton was sentenced to twu years* imprisonment. BURNED TO DEATH. Oakland, M. D., Sept 19.—Information has juat reached here of the burning yeBterday of the house ol Mn. A. K Scubower, two and a half miles from Deer Park. Two children of Mn. Scubower, aged 3 and 6 yean were burned to death. Mts. Scubower was visiting the residence of her father •t the time of the fire and left the children at home. cronin murder case. Chicago, Sept. 19.—The work of securing a jury in the Cronin murder trial waa resumed this morning with renewed vigor, at both sides seemed to be encouraged by progress made yesterday. One third of the jury hai beon sworn in. NAGLE ALL RIGHT. Sacrameneo, Cal., Sept. 19.—Attorney-General Johnson has perfected the papers on appeal to tho supreme court of U. S. in the case of Deputy Marshall Nagle who was ordered discharged from custody on Monday by Circuit Judge Sawyer Snn Francisco. PROMINENT DEMOCRAT DEAD. Providence, R. 1., Sapt, 19.—J. B. Barnaby, a member nf the national democratic committee, died nt 4 o'clock this morning. „i, i wnv invi,- PIPff« Boston, Mass., Sept. 19,—The running races ut Franklin Pr-rk were postponed on nccount of bud weather. They will begin to-morrow with today's code entries; weights to stand. Later—It was decided by the managers of the Bolch Stallion raco te have it postponed until Monday next, instead of Saturday, sb was fint agreed upon. THE ILL-FATED "LKOS." Cleveland, O., Sept. 19,—The body of anothor of the missing yacht "Leo>" victims was discovered on tho laike shore a short distanco west of the city this morning, and proved to bo John Pilow, aged 21, of Lorain. Pilow'i clothing "having been badly burned, gavo conclusive evidenco uf tho "Leofl" blowing up. Thoro ia now no doubt that ovory one of the nine men in the yacht havo been lost. Children Cry for I Pitcher's Castoria. VOLUME 34. KBSmnSHBIDB WEEKLY BRITISH COLUMBIAN, NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C. SEPTEMBER 25, 1SSE NO. ,19. Weekly British Columbian ITnitti'idiir .-ilurul-.it, Sepi. 35, issu. The full text of our commissioner's report on the Southern Railway routs and the progress of the work, which we publish to-day, will be read with interest. On ono point, at least, the reader who has carefully perused llie whole narrative of fact will find himself convinced, and that is that the Fairhaven Ss Southern Railway is in good and competent hands. Of Mr. Nelson Bennett's solid financial standing and good faith the report furnishes, to say the least, strong presumptive evidence. Thu mere fact of what has been accomplished, and is yet being done, at Fairhaven, the Company's heudiiuurters, constitutes substantial and indisputable proof that the Bennett Oompany is built upon bed rock and that it is able, at any rate, to carry out its intentions. Practically unlimited capital would seem to be at the disposal of Mr. Bennett, the head of the enterprise, and we are very much mistaken if Fairhaveu, the chosen centre of his operations, with its splendid situation and natural advantages, does not prove a second Vancouver, in the rapidity and solidity of its growth. The §75,000 stone and brick hotel in course of construction, mentioned by our commissioner (a copy of the elevations of which may be seen at this oilice), is an earnest of the future city that the backing and enterprise of the Bennett Oompany will cause to spring into existence at Fairhaven. It will be worth while for Westminster to be con aected with even such a centre as that; but does anyone suppose that Fairhaven will be long without connection with every road on. the continent! We venture to say not. (Parenthetically, we would state here that our commissioner brought with him, as well as the sketches of the Fairhaven Hotel referred to above, a copy of a railway chart, showing the exact progress and condition of the railway soutli of Fairhaveu and also tbe lines of the projected connections with transcontinental roads, which may be inspected at this office), It will be patent to everyone, we think, after perusing oor commissioner's report, that "Westminster , need not have the slightest apprehension about speedy eonnection with American transcontinental railways if it throws in its lot with the Fairhaven and Southern, and this is the principal and, perhaps, most important fact that will Be (l?'.!uced from our commissioner's report, besides the general testimony to Mr. Nelson Bennett's undoubtedly solid financial standing and unimpeachable good faith. meat enters too largely into the dietary of the average man. Every now and then a prominent medical man will commit himself to this opinion, but it is difficult to find any large body of physicians who seem willing to countenance vegetarianism out and out. In large cities, where competition is keen and the battle of life is made more severe by small or uncertain wages, and the false ideas about ''keeping up appearances," vegetarianism is being received as tho gospel of cheap living, by thoso who have to cut and con ■ trive how to exist at all. To this large class it appeals with a force which is the more powerful as the purse strings are drawn tighter. How the poor live is one of the great problems of every thickly populated community, and because "necessity is the mother of invention," any new idea that promises to cheapen the cost of living is certain at least of a patient and hopeful reception. In making somo suggestions re exhibition matters, a few days ago, we urged that the lieutenant-governor should be requested to declare the days of the exhibition public holidays. We would repeat the suggestion, and trust that some action may be taken to that end without delay, as the time is short. If three duys cannot be obtained, the last two duys at least should be proclaimed holidays. On the occasion of the Queen's Birthday celebration this year at Victoria, it will be remembered, two additional days were declared public holidays by the lieutenant-governor, and his honor would no doubt be pleased to do the liko gracious thing in the present instance. By making the clays of the exhibition public holidays not only would a considerable aid be given to the success of the whole affair, but a boon would be conferred upon many in the principal cities of the province who would not otherwise be able to attend the exhibition and celebration at this city, wliich combined will be one of the grandest and most enjoyable events of the year. By all means, let the exhibition days be made dies non. Vegetarianism is gradually but surely becoming recognized as something more than a mere craze, and to-day numbers in its ranks many men of eminence either as total or partial believer.: in tho crusade against flesh meat for human food. The contention of the vegetarians is that as hard and as good work can be done upon a vegetable diet as upon flesh meat; that their principles are more conducive to health and that the cost of living is reduced by one-half or more, by a systematic vegetable diet. The latter argument does not appear to be much disputed, and if the remaining benefits attributed to vegetarianism can be substantiated, the food reformers will have made a great point. Pitman, the inventor of phonography, is a very old man, and one who in spite of his years works ten hours daily. Parnell, the Irish leader, is ready at a moment's notice to keep the British houso of commons going all night, (no easy task), whilst Howard Reynolds, the renowned cornet soloist, is also a busy man. These three aro believers in vegetarianism and practice its principles, so that at the first blush there seems reason in the con- ten tion of the food reformers. Whether . good heavy manual labor oan be maintained upon a purely vegetable diet is, howover, a different matter. Dr. Allison (no moan authority) says that it can, but, of course, his vegetarianism includes ' the use of milk, cheese, butter and eggs. As fur as we can understand, vegetari, r>ne and all protest against : ..-• using of tobacco and fermented liquor (why, it is difficult to comprehend, these articles certainly being flesh meat, in no sense). One great reason, perhaps, for the favor with which the theory is being received ir, to be found in the fact that the reformers liavo succeeded in bringing the cooking of vegetables to a higher standard. In fact, some of their dishes aro so concocted and manipulated that they will pnss fairly well with the uneducated palato for highly seasoned flesh of some description. Indeed, the perfection of thoir cooking has in a great measure beon their great claim to attention. Whatever may be thought of the extreme idea, little doubt appears to exist in the rninds of those able to judge, thnt flesh Inspector Byrnes, the celebrated head of the detective force in New York, bas been interviewed by the correspondent of an English journal, and his views of newspaper reporters are worthy of note. Said the inspector: "We recognize that newspaper men have a duty to discharge, and we help them. Every New York newspaper keeps a reporter at police headquarters day and night. I am a center through which a great deal of news filters, and I consider it my duty to communicate that news to the press." Being nsked if publicity did not defeat the onds of justice, he replied : "Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. If I have something which I think inadvisable in the interests of justice to publish, and if any of these reporters around here get hold of it, why I just go to them and ask thom not to publish it. And they don't, until the case is ripe. We have great difficulty in keeping things from leaking out, but I always find the reporters ready to keep back anything that I desire. On the other hand, if I hear that some of the reporters have got hold of information which the others haven't, I have got up out of bed to supply them rather than that they should get left. We supply them all alike. The newspaper men are an excellent set of fellows, and wo are on very good termo with thom." Indiscriminate secrecy and withholding of details from the public, often another name for official sheer stupidity, is evidently not one of Inspector Byrnes' guiding principles. It would appear that where bruins and intelligence direct detective operations, publicity as a general thing is not injurious to the tracking down of crime. ent. The shah goes to buy a pair of spectacles, but cannot troublo himself to enter the shop, and orders thnt the goods shall be brought out to his carriage. It never occurs to him that the street traffic is instantly blocked up by the crowd which assembles to see him try on the glasses; and so yesterday evening, again, when he went to sup with the Per- 'sian minister, Neriman IChan, it never entered his mind that he ought to take notice of the guests who hud been invited to meet him. He and little Aziz, his favorite, supped alone together in a small boudoir, and when they had enten enough they wont away." The annual provincial exhibition of Ontario makes its exit this year from the stage of events. Commenting on the demise of this time honored and long useful institution, the .Mail says: "It seems to be understood that the provincial fair will be held no more, nnd that the grant towards the show will be devoted to somo other purpose. Mr. Rykert, the president, thinks the exhibition is succumbing to the opposition of rival shows, us, for oxample, that of the Western Fair Association of London and that of the Industrial Association of Toronto. But this is hardly a correct statement of tho case. Years ago ihe various cities used to vie with each other for tho privilege and profit of having the provincial in their midst. All could not have it the samo year; so local fairs were established to take the place of the provincial when tho provincial went to other localities. This was not unreasonable. London could not deprive itself of a fair simply because the provincial was held in another, and perhaps a distant city. It was not antagonism, but necessity, that brought the local shows into existence. If tho usefulness of the provincial is gone it is not because of rivalry, but because its children have grown to manhood. The provincial will not be dropped without a feeling of regret. It has done some fine work, and has distributed some $150,000 in prizes." A radical change, it seems to be generally anticipated, is impending with respect to our annual provincial agricultural and industrial exhibition. Heretofore it has been the practice to have this show held alternately in the various principal cities of the province. This has militated against its success in the past, and, for obvious reasons, must do so still more in the future. The cities which would lay claim to having "their turn" are increasing in the provinoe, and uo city can afford to provide proper facilities for, or take an adequate interest in, an exhibition that would come round only every third, fourth or fifth year. Some important change must be mudo in the matter, and it will be made at the annual meeting of the association, in this city, next week. Marine Engines.—Tlie City of Home's engines have six cylinders, three of more than seven feot in diameter, nnd they indicate 11,890 horse-power. The Eturia and Umbria each liave three cylinders—two of nine feet and one of six feei— and develop 14,321 horsepower. The City of New York and the City of Paris each have triple expansion engines of 20,000 horse-power. The vessels of the Italian navy have en- ginos of 18,000 horse power, aud two have engines of 19,500 horsepower. The most wonderful engines yet designed, however, are those of the Surdenia, with twelve main cylinders, to develop 22,800 horsepower. Aghicultubal Science in Germany.—There are G2 experiment stations and other like institutions for agricultural research in Germany, the land of tho earliest and greatest development of scientific farming, and these employ 217 scientific specialists, li'rom the best accessible accounts it appears, according to Prof. W. O. Atwater, that 27 German stations exercise control of commercial fertilizers, 29 of feeding- stuffs, and 30 of seeds, by examination of part's in the interest of the purchaser; this, however, in most cases, being only part of the work done. Some stations follow a number of lines of inquiry, others confine themselves to one or two. Thero aro 15 devoted mainly to investigations in vegetable physiology, including nutrition of plants : 7 to animal physiology, including feeding experiments ; 3 to dairy industry ; 4 to sugar-beet und 3 to fruit and wine culture. There are 9 with buildings for vegetation experiments, 4 with special structures for feeding experiments with animals, and 2 with experimental gardens. Tho results of the work done are of the greatest value to the German farmer, who has learned to make daily use of tho information furnished. LATE CANADIAN NEWS. The telephone exchange ut Winnipeg was damaged by firo to the extent uf $1,000 yesterday moruing through an electric light wire coming in contact with n telephone wire. Lord Stanley aud party arrived at Winnipeg last night. Elaborate preparation were made for their entertainment during the week. The train arrived at 7:30. Tho party wero escorted tn the government houso by a mammoth torchlight procession. The party spent Saturday and Sunday at Bat Portage, whero un address was presented. The Warship Canada was docked on tho new drydock at Halifax on Friday aftornoon last. Tho docking of the ahip was wituessed by a large throng of peoplo. Admiral Watson formally declared the dock opened. This graving dock wns built chiefly by the Itnperini authorities. Tho total length ia 000 feot, 70 feet wide at the bottom, and 100 foet wide at the coping. D. LYAL & Pianos. The genuine Axis Cut Pebble Spectacles, manufactured by B. Laurance, can be had at all times at D. S, Curtis & Co.'s Drug Store, and attention is specially called to tlie visit ol Mr. Lnurance, the eminent Oculist-Optician^ to tlieir store on October 2, 3 and 4, who will lit them to all sights on scientific principles, Teacher Wanted. A TEAOHER FOR LANGLEY FRAI- ItlK 1'iiWio Sohool. Duties to Commence the L'llril October. Apply to HENRY DAVIS, Boc.'y l'.'il of Trustees, Langloy. Langloy, B, O., 23rd Sept., 1880. soswat ans, Yocalions BOOKS, ___^^__ STATIONERY, FANCY GOODS, TOYS Etc., Etc. N. 13.—!>uherty Organs sold at 50 per cont. oil list prices, for cash, Columbia Si, New Westminster, tlwou&Sml in The Silent City. Patronage Is solicited atthe ONTARIO HARNESS SHOP, FRONT STREET. FOB SALE. 1Q HEAD WORK HORSES. They ure Id only 5 or (I year!- old, well broken and in good condition. WUl besold cheap for cash. Inspection solicited. For full particulars applyto JAMES PUNCH, Brownsville, or to G. W. RASURE, d wsoSHtc New Westm I nster. SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. There must bo some mistake, remarks an exchange, about the dignified and impressive functions which the Shah of Persia went through ■while in England, To judge by the accounts, he bore himself in Great, Britain like any other monarch. But a very different kind of shah has turned up in Vienna. There his majesty of Persia has been having what is popularly known as a good time. The London Times' Austrian correspondent thus do- scribes it: "At a court dinner the shah omits to give his arm to an archduchess who is acting, as his hostess, and she has to run after him. At another court function, where the emperor waa waiting for him, he arrives, without concern, more than a quarter of an hour lute. At the geological gardens he borrows a stick to goad the animals and mnko them savage. At somo public baths ho and his valet play pranks with the water-cocks and flood the buth-room. In another place, having wetted his hands, his majesty wipes thom on the coat tails of the nearest gentleman pres- It is calculated that forests still cover nearly thirty per cent, of Europe, and forty per cont. of the vast area of Russia. The North Star is approaching tho polo. Mr T. H. Saffoad has found that it will reach 89° about 1944 A. D., and will remain within a degrco of the pole 300 years, making its nearest approach about 2102, when the declination will be 89° 32' 23." More than 1000 peaks in the Himalayas havo been found by measurement to exceed 20,000 feet in height, and it is estimated thot at least 2000 reach this altitude. In the Alps thero are two peaks more than 15,000 feet high, nnd six or seven over 14,000 feot. Acethc Acid in Surged,?.—A German Surgeon, Dr. l'\ Engelinaiin, claims that acetic acid is us effective an antiseptic as carbolic acid, and is to bo perferred on accouut of its harnilcssncss, even in concentrated solutions. Other unvuutages aro its effect in stopping flows of blood, nnd the fact that it penetrates the tissues moro readily and deeply than other antiseptics. A three or livo per cent solution is used. The abuiidiiiico of remains of the mammoth in Siberia is almost incredible. MiddondorfT reckoned that at least 100 pairs of tusks had been put upon the markot yearly during tlio last two centuries, nr.d from personal observation Norden- skjold is inclined to regard this estimate as too small. It thus appears that in tho recent modern trado useful tusks of more than 20,000 of these animals of past ages have beon collected. Unwateiveij Sand.—About a fifth of the globe's land surface, according to Prof. Loomis, has an annual rianfall of less than ten inches, and a considerable larger part has too littlo water for agricultural purposes oxcept in tho limited districts whoro irrigation is practicable. In Nortii America an almost rainless region exists in Soutjiern California and Arizona, and a large urea about Slave Lnhehus only ten inches of rain yearly. An artist named Husher, representing a local photograph establishment, is now in Alaska investigating tho remarkable mirage discovered by Prof. Willoughby. At first ho took emphatic grounds againit the "silent city," and ridiculed the mirago along the glaciers. On his way to Sitka, three weeks ago, Mr. Husher atoppod at Muir glacier and made a number of views. After he left Muir glacier he informed de Groff, a local photographer, that he had seen a startling mirage while making his views, and that he waa accordingly prepared to say that tho mirago picture of Professor Willoughby was not a trick, as had been claimed by the San Francisco photographers. In Bupport of the opinion that is gaining ground that Professor Willoughby's "silent city" is not a myth, wo tako pleasure in publishing tho statements of two gentlemen who solemnly doclaro that they saw the mirage of a city in Glacier Bay on July 2nd last. From what wo have been able to learn as to the credibility of these witnesses, they appear to be reliable, and enjoy the roputation of candor and uprightness. Mr. Chris- tio is a foreman at the extonsivo Bartlett bay cannery, and his homo is in Astoria, whero his family now are and whore ho is well known. Bauti.eit Bay Oahseky, Aug. 23,1839.—Robert Christie and Georgo Patterson, in the presence of Lumau B. French, Chas. R. Lord, It. Willoughby and Minor W. Bruce, mako tho following stato ment, to-wit: On tho 2nd of July, 1889, whilo sailing from the main nr Glacier bay into what is known as James bay, just south of Willoughby island, about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, suddenly saw rising out ngninst the sido of tho mountains what appoared to be houses, churches and other large structures. It appearod to be a city of extensive proportions, perhaps of 15,000 or 20,000 inhabitants. We watched the apparition for a long timo, and think it was visible for nn bour or mine. We further aver that at that time wo hnd never heard of what in called iho "silent city," or that Prof. Willoughby had photographed it. Wo arc satisfied that it was a mirago from its position and appearance.— Alaska Free Press. I SOCIETY. The Annual Show will bo held at. Ladner's : Landing, TUESDAY OCTOBER 1,1889 ['i-izo List of §1,000, s^r^^^Vl^s. Steamer Adelaide will leave Now West- minster ontho day of the show nt7 a.m. for Ladner's Laudlng.reumilng at 8 p.m., enrrylngexhiblls fret-, nnd passengers at 50 rt-* eaeh for round trip. Excursion ratea ou O.F.N.Co's,-ic..mei*sand steamer Dunsmuir. For full prizo list apply at theCojiUMUiAN olllco, "New Westminster, or to the Secrotary of the Society at Ladner's Landing. Tuos, McNi'm/v, A. Gir.cmtiST, President. Seeretury. wse!8td Auction Sale! I will sell by public auction, on tho it, Wm O. «__»• JF". NewWestminster Lodge, No. 3. ALL MEMBERS OF THE above Lodge aro hereby notified to attend atthe Lodge Room at 9 a. in. sharp on THURSDAY, ;tr<l October, to join In the procession..Visiting Brethren cordially Invited. dwse2itd T. TYLOR, It. S. In the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Iu the Matter of the Goods of Wiluam Mooius Campbell, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT all persons indebted to Wn.LiASt MookkCasumielIi,late of Sumas, inthe District of New Wostminstor, decensed, nre requested to pay the amountof their Indebtedness to the undersigned at New Westminster forthwith, and all persons having a claim against the estate of the said deceased are required to furnish particulars thereof, duly verified, within one month from tliis date. Bntcd the 3rd dayof September, A. D. 1881). CORBOULD, McCOLL & JENNS. Solicitors for Pl-COBEOAMIMIELL, se-i-dwl-wU Administratrix. THOSE WISHING FREE-HAND Crayon,WatBr Oolor or Pastel PORTRAITS [For Christmas] Should Leave their Orders Early with SViiss Linnie Lewis Orders taken during tho Exhibition at the Exhibition Building. Instruction in Drawing and Painting at Studio-Con, Royal Ayk. «fc Mauv St. dwso21ml AGRICULTURAL GROUNDS, Chilliwhack, Some Thoroughbred Holstcius, Cows and Calves, New Milch Cows, Work Oxen, Eeef Cattle, two-year-old Dairy Heifers, One pair of Blnckhnwk four-year-old Colts (buggy team), besides other horses (broken) and colts (unbroken). — __kX>SO — NEW TOP BUGGY TWO-SEATED CAR10LK, Two-Wheeled Curt (now), Second-hand Buggy, Five Buckboards, Four Bain Wagons, and lots of otlier articles, too numerous to mention. A.M.NELSON, Auctioneer dwselotd AUCTION 8U1 REAL ESTATE. 1 have boen iiiktriK'ter. lo sell by public lUli'llnil im -Hurltnl Will's. Thb yniing couplo who wero recently niarriod in public mid wont tn housekeeping, have Revered tho marital tio, the husband leuving for the Sound a few dayB ago. On Wednesday llio prize bedroom sot wna tulieu possession of by A. Aaronson, who held a chatlle mortgage on the same. A well known young niiin ef thia city, who had figured in affairs which do not redound to his credit, is a parly to Iho unhappy termination of this affair. —Fridays BRITISH OOLUMBIA luh-mviiui ( i.im:iteiu i THOMAS ALLNH1-, HENRY 8. MASON, OUYLKRA. HOLLAND, in;ai> i»i i'ii'£•: i 15 Serjeant's Inn, Fleet LONDON, ENO. : M '•. Street, Wednesday Mg, Oct, 2nd SON has any and ny fr The Business of ALLSOP i been merged In the above < will be carried on UytheC , „ ..... this date as a general Lund Investment and insurance Agency. MONEY TO LOAN on Mortgage lit. Low llat.es. Town Lots and Farming Lands for Sale on easy turnis". Victoria, B. C, May Kith, 18t-7. dwjly5 Mr. Laurance, tho eminent Oouliat- Optician, will bo at l). S. Curtis & Co.'s | Drug Storo on October '2, 3 and A, for the ' purpose of adjusting the B. Laurance Pobblo and otlier speetncles and eyeglasses to all conditions of sight. His thorough knowledge of his profession and largo experience enables liim to select such louses as aro best adapted to each requlremeut( however dillicult, and always ensures to the wearers of tho B. Laurance spectacles caso and comfort, and an abiding improvement to thoir sight. At the Charles Street Presbytorian ohurch, Toronto, on Friday evening, three young ladies wero formally set apart for foreign mission work. Miss Harris, of St. Andrew's church, goes to India; Miss Graham, of Charles stroot church, and Miss Mcintosh, of l the Central ohuroh, go to China. .ui toofliMii N OTICE IS HEltEBY GIVEN THAT i_i tho partnership heretofore subsisting between tlio undersigned under the flrrj. name of Coniorford & McDougall, Merchant Tailors, has been dissolved this day by mutual consent. All accounts owing tho lute firm aro to bo paid to J. A. McDougall, and nil claims against tho said lirm will be settled by liim, T, COMERFORD. J, A. MCDOUGALL, New West., Aug. 31,1880. COLONIAL HOTEL, NEW WESTMINSTER, The following undermentioned property: The whole of that valuable proporty at Elgin known as the McDougall Farm, together with all the farm Implements, crops and Live Slock. The farmlands consist df-187 aores, and are described on lliomapof NewWestminster District as Lot 165, the HE quarter of section '27, and Lot 2IJ, all In (ii-onp-i. There are about 220 acres of Prairie Lund, out Of which some lL'd lmve heen ploughed and cultivated. Tin-whole Of Lho prairie land is fenced, subdivided and dyked, ond fitted with all necessary ttdo sluleos. Tho balance of the land Is well timbered, Thore Is a good 2-story Souse with six rooms furnished, and insured for fti.oiw, a good Ham with aoapaoltyof fifty tons of Hay; Btftbllng for seven Horses; Cow Htnble, 100x80 foot! Granary, Wauou Shod-, and othor buihitUHS usually found on a good farm. Then* Is also a Harden of 2 acres. Well cultivated and stocked with Fruit Trees, The Crop consists of about f,5 tons of Hay, 6 tons of Barley, '25 tons of Oats, and 2 acres of Mangolds still iu tiio field. THE STOCK Consists of 18 well bred Dairy Co*> s, all of whioh are believed to be In calf; lFedi- «rf «•' Hiill.l -U-v■«r-■ .lfl 11pif-jfr, (1 Yearlings, 18 Calves. ;i Heavy Draft Horses, I Muggy Hor-am, 3 Hows with young pigs, 3 Hojjs, 1 Hoar, a huge number of Chickens, Ducks ami -Turkeys, FAi'MiNr, Ijii'i-iiMiiNTS.— 1 Chatham Waggon, 2 Dump carts, l Seeder, 1 Disc Harrow, 2 Sets Tooth Harrows, 1 Cultivator. 1 Roller. 1 Chaff Cutter, 1 Root Sllcer, 1 FlanOt Jr. Drill, Ji complote seta Doublo Waggon Harness, 1 sot, Doublo Ruggy Harness, 2 sets Dump Cart Hai ness, 1 two- Horso Ruggy and a full Hue of Farm, Garden nnd Carpenter's Tonls. Alfco a full line of Household Furnituro. This valuable farm will bo offered as a whole, with the stock, implements and crops, for a lump sum. If more acceptable ------- —- '»— ' .'HI lu, tm1,l __-nr. Mr. J. A. WILL CONTINUE THF BUSINESS under liis own nmne, at the same store, on Colambla stroet, next.to F. Crake's, A continuance of lhc public puUonugc- Is respectfully sol Idled. Satis* faction guaranteed. dwso5to J1S, mi'11 lUIUlPDUim iiiiiwu'in.M-r-i""" to purchasers, the farm will bo sold separ 0*j ...... ... *__!„ „-,! .«« «.«n.,.U «! IO pui-OUii!*"'!-*, mi' limn "•in ■»< .-«■— svr. ately, and the stock and Implements will ho sold on the premises later ou. This Is an excellent chance for anyono wishing to secure a well-storked Ranch. The property Is well situated on tho Nloo- mokl River a short distance from Mud Ray, und when tiio present, dyking scheme, whleli Is now under contract,is carried out, the land will ho very valuable. Tho soil is unsurpassed In fertility and second to nono ln ILC. Tho torms, wlileh arc easy, will be mado known at llie sale. T. .1, TRAPP, w.-eistd Auctioneer. VOLUME 34, 10CA1 ANDGjHERftL NEWS. ltcpalrs Wanted. Tho Yule road, botween Jones' ranch and Popcorn, a distance of 13 miles, is sadly in uoed of repairs at various places, and its condition is so generally bad, particularly tho bridges, that famiors are greatly hindred in getting their produco to the steamboat laniliug, A few hundred dollars spent on these bridges now would save the government a much greater expense next: spring, besides making tho highway passable to the farmers. It is very important that tin* government ahe uid at once atteud to these repairs, for the road at present is impassable to t loaded vehicles. WEEKLY BRITISH COLUMBIAN, NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C, SEPTEMBER 25, 1839. nm___ni NO. 39. JQMUM THE CITY'S PRIDE. The Exhibition Buildings on (-linen's Park, Their Architecture and Their Position. A Work of Considerable Magnitude that has been Successfully Completed. Tlio Race Track and Athletic Grounds. The Field of Trial for Man and Beast. Wo have received from Mr. J. W, Bengough the iuiihitabla curtuouiBt of Grip, who is now on a loutiiring tour to tho c ast, that, lie will appear for "one night unly," Tuesday evening, Oct. 8, in Herring's opera house, in his unique and celebrated sketching entertuiniiiciit—an evening of mimicry music, laughter and fun, ombellished with rapid crayon sketches "f "people you know." This is Mr. Boneoueh's first trip to the cuuat, but anyono who has witnessed his really unique performance:', iu .the eastern provinces, will appreciate the treat lhat is in storo for llie amusement-loving public. An adv. will appear in duo time. THE PROGRAMME l'or llie Three llnvs- I'eii'Uruliiiu. clue Form. riBST DAY—IVEllXK, Reception of visitors. DAY. 10 a. in.—Base bull match. 11 a. in.—Scottish giur.es and sports: heavy weight contests, running and leaping; danciny, etc. Tu£ of war,Van- dourer v. New Westminster. 1 p. ru,—Firemen's tournamont: hoso reel races antl speed tests. 8:30 |i. in.—(Irani! ball in Herring's Opera House. SECOND DAY—T1IU11S11AY. Reception of visitors. 9:30 a. m.—Organization of procession: grand pai'.ido through the principal streetB to Queen's park; formal openiuu of the provincial agricultural exhibition and Queen's park, by his honor, Lieut. Gov. Nelson. 11:30 a. m.—Basu ball match, 2 p. iu.—Horse races. 3 p. ni.—Laci'usso match. Illumination of the exhibition buildings in tho evening. THIHD DAY—FRIDAY. Reception of visitors. 9:30 a. m.—Baso ball match. 11 a. m.—Sailing raco for yachts. 1 p. m.—Foot ball match. 2 p. in.—Boat and canoe races. 8'p. in.—Illumination of New Westminster, lireworks uud torchlight procession on the Fraser River. Y. M. C. A. CONVENTION. Closing Day of lhe sixili Annniil I'lin- vcutloii ol tile l-nclllc NorUiwcut, nt Vancouver. On Saturday, the third day of the convention, work commenced with devotional exorcises, Rev. E. T. Clapp conducting. This wns followed by nn address by S. Bain, Esq., Portland, on Bible training classes; their importance. Reports of otlicors of the executive committee were then read and were followed by Rev. ti. A. Tewks- bury, who spoko on "some of the dangers that threaten tho church; and what the V. M. 0. A. ean do to counteract them.' At 11:50 lunch was served in Wilson Hall, to which lho delegates adjourned uud enjoyed a most sumptuous repast, provided by the ladies of several of tho churches, St. James, the First Presbyterian and St' Andrew's. Ths occasion was taken advantage of by Messrs, Henderson, Victoria; Rev. Mr. Clapp, of Portland; Messrs. Hanson, of Spokane Falls; Bain, Portland; Rev. E. Rob •on and others to make abort address, ei of congratulation, eto. Mr, George Carter announoed that 119 delegates were preient and $2,700 had been raised. The rest of the afternoon's programme commenced with devo, tional exercises and was followed by the reading of sovoral interesting pa pen. A large company assembled in the Imperial Opera House for the evening session of the couvention. The services wore opened at 7 o'clock by a song service, conducted by Prof. R. K, Warten, of Portland, followed by a brief address and devotional services, led by J. F. Betts, of Vancouver. Mr. N. H. Jacks then showed a number of views of leading Association buildings and workers throughout the country. These were shown by means of a stereopticon, and centered a great deal of interest upon the work being done in these magnificent buildings. Mr. H. E. Brown, of New York, then addressed the convention upon thn subjeot of "Tho Held work and agencies of tho Ynuni" Men's Christian Associations.'' Mr. Mason spoko upon "Vancouver's uew Association building. When and how to build it." Mr. Mason presented the noeds of a new and larger building for Vancouver's young men, and stated lhat it was de- aired to seoure funds to put in the basement, whioh would oost the sum of 85,600. Subscriptions were, announced, togother with pledges on cards, amounting to $4,800, which gives a great impetus to tho building project nnd is a good foundation to start with. A series of resolutions wero thon passed, and after announcements of Sunday sorvices, tho convention was, on motion, adjourned to meet next year in Portland, Or. Prof. Saundors, of Ottuwn, dircotor of the govornmont experimental farms, is in Winnipeg on a tour of inspection of the farms. Tho professor comos to the coast. The many changes brought about in tho royal city since the present coun- eil ciiinu into existence have nil tended to improvo and beautify the oity, but of all the works accomplished, which will in the futuro redound to tho credit of tlio aldermanio bonrd, tho new exhibition buildings nro the greatest, and will prove tho most lasting monument of tlie progress and enterprise of 1889. The present hns been n red letter year in the history of Westminster, having seen greater changes, more rapid advancement and more goneral prosperity than any in tliu past 30 years, and the completion of this latest and one of the must worthy enterprises the city has over under, taken in itB own beat, interests, as well as for the benefit of ihe whole district, accords well with lliiitime. Wheu the annual meeting of the British Colum. bia agricultural socioty was held at Victoria last year Westminster made' a grand fight co secure the exhibition of 1889, and succeeded, by primming, among other tilings, to builu the lino structure juBt completed. The royal city has been more than ns good us ita word. On Monday afternoon a representative of Tiif, Coll'jibiah paid a visit to the park and agricultural buildings for the purposo of noting tho progress mado since his last visit somo weeks ngo. Tho metamorphosis was found to bo complete. Whore stumps, rocks and trees abounded in wild profusion ut that time, n cleared and levelled stretch of ground, completely fenced, and covering 25 acres, now maintains, the centro crownod with the handsome agricultural buildings. Entering the grounds from tho main eu'runee on Pelham street, the newspnper man espied Aid. Thos. Cunningham, directing tho movements of tho workmen and issuing orders right and left like u general lo his attics decamp, and to him he' applied for information. Aid. Cunningham, by the way, is chairman of the park committee, and has been the champion of the park and agricultural buildings enterprise from the first, and still shows his untiring zeal in the good work by devoting his entire time to the most important details. Entering the main entrance of the ACIHICULTUltAL BUILDINGS, your representative was tit once struck with the busy preparations, visible on all Bides, for the coming provincial exhibition. The carpenters, of which there seemed to be a score, were as busy as active men could be, making tables, benchos, shelves and stands for the proper reception of the exhibits; gas fitters were laying pipes,, making joints aud hanging lights, of which there will be 120 separate ones; and the decorations, which have been entrusted to Mr. Peter Latham, wore beiug festooned round tho pillars, walls and railings. Telephone and telegraph appliances were also being put in to connect the buildings and grounds with tho city. All was confusion, but method reigned for all that, and it was only to the inexperienced eye that matters seemed confounded. Over the large rotunda the gas fitters were putting into place handsomely curved pipes, from which the largest chandelier will be suspended. The style of this ornament is unique, and when it is decorated with various trappings It will be a handsome addition to the othor embellishments of the building. The decorations consist of evergreens, beautiful autumn leaves, flags, banners, etc. The artistic manner in which the evergreens and rich colored leaves are being blended shows good taste and a correct idea of the proper lines of beauty. Tho building ia an Imposing and handsome structure, the design of Mr. 6. W. Grant, the architect. The plans show a building in the form of a Greek cross, having 4 wings of equal length, the center surmounted with a very fine tower and dome shaped roof, while the tormina, tion of the wings have corner turrets and balconies. Tho portion at present erected is the centre dome aud the south and weat wings. This gives from the city side the appearance of a fully completed structure. Tho building is two stories high, each floor having a superficial area of 7,500 foet. The main entrances are in the centre of the wings. On the right of tho entrance are Ihe offices, waiting rooms, lavatory, eto.; on the left, wide, easy stairs lead to the second floor; the seoond lloor has similar ruuiiis, ior committees, lavatory, etc. Undor the centro dome iB a large olroular opening with a gallery around, giving a line effect and an excellent view of the interior. The wholo building is woll lighted, for, in addition to the wall windows, tho clear Btory windows light the center. Between the corner turrets and over ench entrance is a large balcony thnt commands a magnificent viow of tho grounds, as woll as the oity and river. On the first floor and immediately under tho centro dome the band stand is situated, and from hero swoot music will bo discoursed on oach day of tho exhibition. The building rents on solid brick and stono piers, is strong and substantial and ils wholo construction reflects great credit on tho contractor, Mr. T. Ackermuii. Tho machinery annex is an open shed 100x4(i foet, which ir, reserved for tho exhibition of machinery of all descriptions, vehicles, etc. Tt is situated closo to tho buildings juat iiiBido the stock yard fence, and consequently convenient to all. i TIIE ATHLETIC ABOUNDS and race track lie in front of the main entrance. The race track is half a mile in length and GO feot in width— the widest in the province. It is also a better racing traok than any in the province, as it is not level throughout, and presents good opportunities to test both Btaying powera of the horso and horsemanship of the riders. The starting and finishing points are directly in front of the main entrance, nnd the grounds are so spacious and well arranged that many thousand people can obtain an excellent view of the races. Inside the raco course aro tho athletic grounds 10 acres in extent, and level for the most part us a billiard tablo. Thoy are tlio largest grounds in the provinco dovoted to athletic .sports, and nmong tho largest oil the continent. If desired, cricket, baseball, lacrosse, football and tennis matches could be played at tho same time, without interfering with the otlier, and s s well ore the grounds arranged that persons occupying tho grand stand could watch tho progress of ono or all of these games without difliculty. Tho grand Btand is being erected on the west side of tho race track, direct-facing tlio athletic (grounds. It will bo enp- able of holding soveral tbuiiaunil peoplo, and '.vill be so strongly constructed us to givo perfect Becurity against accident iu the shape of a break-down. Northeast of tho raco track, and twenty feot fi'niii tlio stockyards fence, n strip of ground 300 feet, long line been set aside for refreshment booths, shopB, sidehouses etc.; no booths will bu allowed on any otlier portion of tho grounds. THE STOCKYARDS and stables uro just as well worthy of praise us any other matter iu connection with the enterprise. Entering lhe gate in rear of tho agricultural buildings a 5-acre square, bordered on all sides with, stables, stalls, pens, coop3 and sheds, having a total front- ago of 1,500 feet, strikes tho eye at once us porfect in arrangement. Tho stables contain 80 separate locked box stalls for horses and thoroughbred cattle; pens for 100 sheep; stya for 100 hogs; c-inps sufficient to accomodate 500 fowls and closed sheda largo enough to accomodate 200 dairy cows, young cattle and calves. Tho wholo arrangement of those sheds and stalls ure perfect, even down to bedding, two tennis being cconstuntly employed hauling sawdust from the mills for this purpose. A lino well, containing a large supply of pure and sweet water is conveniently situated closo to the yards. The chicken coops aro the most complete of their kind on the coaat. The front is made of wiro netting, large in the mesh, giving the interior of the coop plenty of light and doing nwny with tho unsightliness of slatted boxes. Each coop is provided with a padlbck and koy, of which the exhibitor will have control. Tho entrance to tho stockyards is from Montreal street. Over 100 men are now employed giving the buildings, Btookyards, athletic grounds and race course their finishing touches and by Saturday night every particular of tho work is expected to be complete and in readiness for the exhibition and celebration next week. The large 2-ton roller will bo kept at work till the last moment in order to get the newly prepaied ground into tho best possible condition. The completeness of every detail in connection with both building and grounds is something the people of the royal city have reason to be proud of, and the farmers of thu district are sure to appreciate the efforts that have been put forth on their behalf. Surrey Agricultural Association. At a meeting of the board of directors of the Surrey Agricultural Association, at the town hall, Surrey Centre, ou Wednesday, Sept. 18th, the following arrangements wero made in respect of the forthcoming exhibition: Messrs. Ferguson, Thrift, Wade and Mac- Lean and Mesdamos Carnoross and McCallum were appointed a committeo to receive and arrange exhibits; Messrs. Armstrong, Murphy and Boothroyd were appointed judges; Messrs. Ferguson, Thrift, Punoh and MaoLean, finance committee; Geo. Boothroyd, feed and water for stock; Geo. W. Rush and C. A. Carnoross, gatekeepers. All exhibits to be in position by 11:30 a.m. The baby show will be held at 3 p.m.; equestrian exhibition, promenade, Ssc„ 3:30 p.m.; election of officers for 1889-90, at 4 p.m. No artioles to be removed until after 5 o'clock, p.m. Refreshments will bo served on the grounds by ladies of the neighborhood. The officers of the association will present two supplementary prizes to the parties taking the largest nnd second largest numbor of premiums in all classes. Committees will report at the Agricultural Hall at 8 o'clock on the morning of tho exhibition.—By ordor, Henky T. Thrift, Sec. It. C. Provincial Exposition Subscription Fund. For the purpose of raising a fund to contributo towards the patriotic and ■worthy object of making the next annual provincial fair, to be held in this city, a grand and unprecedented success, tho undersigned agree to contribute the sumB opposite their respective names (to be paid into the association or to trustees competent to receive the same, on or before 0 months from the dato of the last provincial exhibition, and to bo applied to preparing exhibition grounds and buildings in tlie city, for increasing the amount offered in prizes, aud for furthering the exhibition in other ways): Petor Qrnnt 10 on F G Strlckliinil 25 Oil A H Wintemuto 10 00 J ff Sexamith 30 oo B Douglas 100 00 nelil & Olirrlo SB 00 W H Thlbiuuleali 15 01) Ogle, Oampboll iCo 20 Oo SlIISSCItH'TIOXS I-Alll. Tin: Columbian , W.I Armstrong I. ll ilryinner RtQwnrt .t Cash George Turner Youug .'.- Toi'liuno Tcruuna & Co p iiiiou'eiiu'..Z!'!!Z!ZI"'.!;!;;!"™;".'.'.'.' W (J Couth i.ii TM Cunningham AKIOiinl Rev.l II Wlui,., Glllov Bros Ghulit .v Miiolun- 1L.-I1.1.-.-.-..11 tiros, Chilliwhaok K II v.■■ -.i. A -I lllll I lullil i lion Imi- IT H Glover Will Iter .v Kllliclwell Ai.-kei noiii Bros KB Sooullar *Co Jns Clliinliielmni ..., Cnpt A Ui.ml J H Mncilonei: HTRcnil A Co slnirpe a l'nlne, l.ulti IsfaiiU R W Armstrong I, P Eckstein W O Loye Annie M .Iniine'i T Olllililiighiini Next! R. J. ARMSTRONG, I3BI_.Z._S xnsr soice Family Groceries! Slim iii . SO 10 . 2" l.n .250' . 10 10 . 10 00 . 10 00 . 15 ill . ui nn . 25 10 , 25 00 . 10 Oil . '.'ll On , 10 Ik) , iii on , 25 CO , iii on , in IKI . in oo . in on . 211 co fi5 nn 50 01) 10 nu III 00 . 50 00 loon hi im III CO 1(1 00 in oo :«oo Wholesale fllty Ma per lenibB net. ■Beef, Pork Muttou PotntocF.new Oabbnce Onions Wheat Oats Pens Hay, S -I on (« i m i mm s so 8 00 (6) o 75® 1 60® I 11)0® 1 50 1 60® 0 00 1 CO @ 1 25 1 25 ® 1 50 per ton 10 01) §14 ) perib... Butter (rolls Cheese, " Eggs, perdoz Ooruwoou (retail) per conl Apples, per box Hltlos(gr'u)per Uio lbs " (dry) " Wool, per lb 0 25 ® (! 30 0 M @ 0 15 35® 40 3 Oil mi 1 SO® 1 A 00® B 5 oil ® I) 0® 10 FINEST CREAMERY BUTTER A SPECIALTY. LaToxador herring's, Ivfaclzerel, Salt Cod., A:mo-iii's TJnc. HZaras, -^rm.o*u.r"s TJnc. Bacon. urio-CLr. Bran. Snorts, US-HIGHEST PRICES PAID FOR FARM PRODUCE. noidwiy Scou Mar-Armstrong Block, Columbia St. Notice tii' Lands Liable to be Sold for Taxes in tlie Corporation of the District of Surrey. In obedience to a warrant to ine directed and bearing even date witli this notice, ninety days from tlie date hereof I will sell the undermentioned landi, or sufficient thereof to discharge the amount of delinquent taxes and costs due thereon". The sale will take place at tlio Town Hall, Surrey Centre, at the hour of noon on the date mentioned, unless said delinquent taxes and costs are sooner paid: Name of Owner. Position of Lam] Gray, .Matthew Byrnes, Georgo Gardiner, Ben Lambiy, iilcK. T .... Mui'i'io, .1. K., estato . Spoil's, Jaines White, N. A Davis, Hy Melody, Anthony Pendola, Angelo Pcndola, Angelo Robinson, John Ross, William SB I Seo 20, Tp 8 NE| Seo9,Tp7 NptE'Seoll, Tpl.... SW J Seo 31, Tp2 SptK ' Seoll, Tpl.... SW i Seo 34, Tp 8 B5N, R3W, Lot 30.... NW'iSeo 14, Tp2 NE J Sec 8, Tp 1 B 1 N, lt 1 E, Lot 21 .... B1N.E1E, Lot 22 .... W i Sec 23, Tp 2 B5"N, It 1 W, Lot 11.... I Amt! ut Costs i Total. _A rre'THJ I 804 40;¥10 47;S74 87 32 07 0 05 30 32 2 03 3 05 5 68 30 20 7 0!) 43 29 31 87 0 50 38 43 1!) 25 5 05 24 30 32 SO 0 00 39 46 13 OO 4 30 17 86 7 50 3 04 11 14 39 15 7 40 46 61 40 50 S 32 54 82 24 75 5 71 30 46 20 35 5 89 32 24 Dated at Hall's Prairie, Surrey, this 3rd day of September, 1S89. HENRY T. THRIFT, se4-wlm Collector Corporation of Surroy. Wlion Baby was alcfe, -wo r&tb hor Cantorin, Wlion oho was a Child, sbo cried fnr CaBtoria, Whon sbo became Miss, she clung tu Castoria, Whon aha hsd Childnn, aho gave thom Csstorb UIKII OAAVSBY.—Ontho 10th Inst., In tho city of St. Catherines, Ont., Edmund Cawsey, aged 60 years, father of Mrs. .1. Carter Smith, of this city. T. C. ATKINSON, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, *c. Offlccs- Masonlo Building, New Wostminstor, B. C. dwic ARMSTRONG tss ECKSTEIN, BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, ETC.- Masonic Building, New Westminster, B. C. dwmyltc t'OltllOIIlD, Mtt'OLL .t .IKX.V*. BARRISTERS. SOLICITORS, otc. Offloes—Masonic Buildings, New Westminster, nnd Vancouver, B, C. dwtc B A. C. HRVDOXB-JACK, M. A., ARRISTER, SOLICITOR, NOTARY -'- " ~ In tho Hamley opposite the Colli wuuHto Building, Columbia SI onial Hotel. JOSEPH E. GAYNOK, U.A..1.I..U. GOLD MEDALIST of the University of Dublin. BARKISTER-AT LAW of Ihe High Court of Justice, Ireland, Offices, Cornor McKenzie & Clarksou sis., New Westminster. dwfe2llc G. W. GRANT. ARCHITECT. Offlco—Corner Mary and Clarkson Sts., Westminster, dwtc ALBERT J. HILL (M.CAN.Soc.C.E.), CIVILEM3INEER, LAND8UUVEYOR and DHAUOHTSMAN. Hnmley Block, NewWestminster, dwau2-Jtc Business Notice. THE UNDERSIGNED IS PREPARED to furnish plans and specification*- for all classes of buildings (stono nnd brlok a specialty). Will furnish all the necessary drawings and superintend work through a competent foreman, and will guarantee perfect work for Sper cent, of cost, Offlco In Bank of B. C. Building, up stairs, New Westminster. JAMES KENNEDY, dwsetltc Architect. -OF THE- Agricultural Association 2nd. $5 00 300 an 400 5 00 soe 5 09 4 00 2nd* S3 00 400 3 00 3 00 2nd $2 00 1 00 50 50 1 00 Sfsf* A numbor of Chinamen aro going home on the steamship Port Fairy. They came through from the east in bond and are mostly merchants who havo made their fortunes in New York and Brooklyn in the last five years and are returning home whore they can live like princes for the rest of their natural lives. Thore aro 82 in the party and all of thom speak more or less English and aro Baid to bo vory olean, intelligent peoplo. YeBterday morning on tlio arrival of tho steamor Nortii Pacific at Port Townsond from Victovin three Mongolians stopped nshoro, butdid not proceed fur when thoy woro takon into custody by the inspector of customs. Tho Ohinamen had certificates that they wero merchants, but tho inspector wns not tu be misled by such a statement ns bn know hy tl'.cir appearance that, they wore coolies, and consequently thoy woro returned to liritish soil on board the Olympian, Tillies, *W l • '.VMi-'ii'SS, A Pleasing- Sense of Health and Strength Renewed, and of Ease and Comfort Follow) tho uso of Syrup of Figs, as ii acts gently On the Kidneys, Liver © Bowels Effectually Cleansing tho System whoa Costivo or Bilious, Dispelling Colds, Headaches and Fevers rind permanently curing HABITUAL CONSTIPATION without weakening or irritaf-Qg tha organs' on whioh it aots. STomalo iu. Wo bottles by all Li'inUug' SIAJIUFADn ■ •L) OSU BY THM OiUPOEHIA na SYBUP 00 Bin IftiAl ,.iSlC. CJI,.. '-ooifjv,,,*^, Ky. Nuw voaa. ft. >• TO BF. HELD AT NEW WESTMINSTER CITY, October 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 1889. DIVISION A. Classes 9, IS, 27 and 30. The prize is increased to, S30 00 DIVISION C. class. OXFORD DOWNS. 1st 17 Best Ram ono year old and upwards §10 00 18 " " Lamb 5 00 19 " Pen of 3 EweB ono year old and upwards 7 00 20 " "of 3 Ewe Lambs 5 00 SHEEP-MERINO. 21 Best Rom ono year old and upwards 10 00 22 " " Lamb 5 00 23 ." Ten of 3 Ewes one yenr old nnd upwnrds 7 00 24 " " of 3 Ewe Lamb-' 5 00 DIVISION D. class. SUFFOLK. 1st 18 Best Boar one year old and upwards S10 00 19 " Breeding Sow in furrow at tho meeting or that has been within six months 7 50 20 " Pen of two Sows, of tho same litter, under 12 months 5 00 21 " Boar under one year old 5 00 DIVISION E. class. ORNAMENTAL BOWLS. 1st 75 Hest pair Pea Fowls S 3 00 70 " " Guinea Fowls 2 00 77 " " English Pheasants 100 78 " " Mongolian Pheasants 100 70 " " Whito Turkeys, not to bo entered for any other prize. 2 00 Ou page 53 in Prize List, amongst Special Prizes, H. M. Cunningham & Ca should read 5 entries instead of 15. DIVISION L. olass. CUT FLOWERS. 1st 58 Best 0 Roses $ 1 00 59 " Collection of Dahlias 1 00 00 " Bridal Bouquet 1 00 01 " Wreath or Oross 100 02 Best Six Rex Begonias 1 00 03 " Water Color, Floral 2 00 04 ' Landscape or Mariue 2 00 05 " " " Still Life 2.00 " " Portrait 2 00 " " Collection 5 00 OS '• Oil " Floral 2 00 09 " " " Landscape or Morine 2 00 70 " " " Still life 2 00 71 " " " Portrait 2 00 72 " " " Collection 5 00 73 - Decorative Painting 2 00 74 " Modeling or Wood Carving 2 00 75 " Hand-painted China , 2 00 70 *' Repousec or Hammered Brass Work ' 2 00 77 " Oil Painting, Children under 15 years 2 00 78 " Crayon Landscapo 2 00 79 " " Portrait 2 00 SO " Collection Cabinet Photos (plain) 3 00 81 •' " " " (colored) 3 00 Under (.'lasses 47 and 49 of this Division tho prizes should bo $5 and S3, not 83, $1.60 nnd |3. class. DIVISION N. 1st 11 Best Rick Rack Crochet $ 1 00 12 " Crochet Lace '. 1 00 13 " Collection Knitted Lace. 5 00 14 " Honiton Lace 100 15 " Point Laco 100 10 " Collection Laco -. 4 00 17 " DaruedNct 100 IS " Applique Work 150 19 " Crewel Work 100 20 " Outline Work 1 00 21 " Riok Rack, Sown 1 00 22 " Cheney Work, hand-mode 100 23 " Crazy Work 1 00 24 " Braiding on Wool 1 00 " "Cotton 100 20 " Historic Picture, raised wool work 3 00 class, DIVISION P. 1st 33 Bost Bunch Sawn Shingles 8 2 00 34 " " Shaved Shingles 2 00 class. 4 Best Araaeino Work . Chenille Work 1 class in this Division. Class No. 1 altered to read ?3 and S2. class. DIVISION T. ^ 1st 7 Best Carriage Afghaa § 1 00 SPECIAL PRIZES. Ht Oco. D. Brymner—BoSl Collection Bottled Fruit and Jollies § 7 00 Kennedy Bros--Bost Collection of Grain grown in the Province by Exhibitor, 1st prize, SI0 ensh and the Daily Columbian for one year; 2nd prize, S5 cash and the Daily Colmnbkm for ono year (Daily Columbian, 88) 18 00 P. Peebles—Best Bread by lady not competing for other prize, ono' Dominion Wiro Mattress, value 7 50 Not competing for any other \ S 2 00 }:: 2 00 8100 100 100 100 300 100 100 100 100 3 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 150 1 50 $3, net 2nd 8 50 50 3 00 50 50 200 50 75 50 50 50 50 eo 50 50 200 2nd $1 00 100 2nd 8100 100 2nd 8 50 2nd 83 00 13 00 VOLUME 34. P"*'-^ ~ rr* ins ''tyz'll* T. \ ■•**--ra-»m-*-ra«i»^.^^ WEEKLY BRITISH COLUMBIAN, NKW WESTMINSTER, B. C, SEPTEMBER 25, 188& 'iffit, miii'ii'f"hit h h imi msonaan is NO. 39. Weekly British Columbian ircdni'Mlity Morning. Sepi. US, 1880. (From Daily Columbian, Sept. IS.) The Dunsmur left this moraine, for Jfanimo with full cargo and several passengers. The steamer Irving arrived to-day from up liver points with 102 head of cattlo, 11 hones and 24 calves and the usual amount of freight mid passengers. Tho Y. M. C. A. gymnastic class held an interesting practice at tho drill shed Inst night, and the now apparatus was pretty thoroughly tested. Il ia learned that tho Drill Shed has been set apart to bo fitted uf for tho accommodation of about 200 visitors. The Y. M. 0. A. gymnasium will remove tlieir material iu order to make all the loom possible. Mr. Thos. Cunningham, chairman of the park committee, authorizes us to say that ihere is not tho slightest ground for fearing that the fence around tho exhibition and athletic jrroiiuds will not bo completed in time for the exhibition, as it will be iinislied this weoli. Mtssr.-. E. S. Scoullar Ss Co., who had tho contract for tho metal roofing of the KiiBS-MoLaren saw mills, have finished t he work with the exception of tho boiler house. Tho material used is corrugated, galvanized iron, rendering the buildings, 30 far as the roof is concerned, fire and water proof. Tho contract was an important ono, amounting to §3,500. There was an informal practice by tho Choral Union, under tho direction of Hia Lordship Bishop Sillitoe, in the Temperance Hall last night. Handel's "Messiah" will form an important part of the Union's musical studies for some timo to come. As they havo turned not a littlo attention to this sublimo oratorio already, thoy are able to Handel it pretty well now. PAINFUL ACCIDENT. A Young Man Falls Ten i'cel, AllglillDji on Ills lli'iul. A young man named Wm. Elliott, »on of Mr. Henry Elliott, wos engaged in tearing down the old section of the asylum; he stopped upon a rotten rafter and was precipitated into tho space below, a distance of ten feet, alighting on his head on a stono. Beyond a severe scalp wound and nervous shock, the lad was not seriously injured. He was at once placed under the care of Dr. Bentley, and at latest Accounts was doing well. A Plea for me Visitors. As may be seen by an advertisement in this issue, a very sensible and timely call is made to the citizens in regard to providing accommodation for the multitude of visitors suro to pour into tho city during exhibition week. From oven the lowest, the lucrative, point of view it will pay to cater to the want of our visitors. It behooves our citizens to lay aside some of the customary rcserre and, liko the Greeks of old, throw open private doors with truo public spirit, for the sake and good name of the royal city. It is thu duty of every good citizen to strive to send these visitors nway after all lhe excitement is oyer, well-pleased with their entertainment and treatment. This is the best way to advertise the city. Dangerous Blunting Tho blasting operations at the park are attended with considerable danger to adjacent residents, as will bo admitted when it is stated that a four- pound rock was, yosterday afternoon, about G o'clock, hurled through tho verandah roof of Mrs. Brighouse's residence on Royal avenuo. The damage the rock might have dono can bo easily imagined. As it was, Mrs. Brighouse, who is ill and confined to her bed, was so startled that she got up, and gained no good from her fright, to say the lenst. Mr. E. O. Ross, who lives in tho same vicinity, haa complained moro than once to tho authorities about the imminent clangor from the heavy blasts wliich are set off at the park, and it is to be hoped that something may bo done to mitigate the clangor -without delay. Correction. In the report iu this paper yeBterday of Monday night's counoil proceedings, an error appeared hy tho omission of a resolution, which mudo it appear that Aid. Keary objected to a certain proposal made tu tho ponitentiary authorities ro water works, for want of bettor information; when it was anothor resolution altogether that Aid. Keary objected to, whichjwas to the following effect; "That the roport of the water coniinitteo bo adopted, and that the mayor bu instructed to make an overdraft on the Bank of Montreal upon terms dready agreed upun by the unt'' • *!:'i company." As a matte'- ■ ' ',. - Aid. Keary, »i woll ns Aid. .Tallin's, spoke in favor of the resolution irith regard to the proposal to tho penitentiary authorities in the water works matter. I'Iit luvlingiilsliltig Kxlruorillnqrr. On Monday night in Court Houbo Square a pilo of inflammable material, 8feotiu height, and consisting of woridou boxes covered with tnr paper and saturated with coal oil, was aet abluzing, and alter the liro had obtained a good hold, Mr. H. L. Pearson, representing tho A, A. Andrews Company, nf Winnipeg, Manitoba, turned upon it a stream from a Household Fire Extinguisher, and in less than two minutos put out every vestige of iiro. The instrument used is a neat-looking cylinder, nickel-plated and Bttad on t p »-ii'h a device for holding tiie acids, whioh, on tliu tilt' lino, are let, loose ui ijeoted with force ing up of the ma- the water and enough to send the stream 30 foet in line spray. Carbonic acid gas is, of course, the main ingredient of the Bubstance. The machine is intended to serve in tho capacity of ornament in tho house or oflico, and only needs to bo turned upside down nud tlio tap turned on to mako n very efficient home fire department in itself. Another exhibition of the powers of the instrument will bo given by Mr. Pearson to-night at 7-30. Mi'i'iltiK ur the Licensing Iluaril. The licensing board met this morning. Present—the mayor, Jas. Cunningham, J. S. Cluto and W. Wolfenden. There was an application for a transfer of tho Colonial hotel license from L. Pither to Westcolt Ss Raymond. Granted. An application for a saloon liconso for the Senate saloon, to be opened in the Oddfellows' block, by James Tierney, accompanied by a petition purporting to bo signed by a majority of the residont qualified electors of tho ward. Mr. Jenns and Capt. Pittendrigh appeared for applicant. Tho board held that under sec. 13ofthoby-hiv.it had no powerto grant any more saloon licenses. Mr. Julius enquired if it would not be better for the board to got legal advice on this matter, but tho board said the by-law was enough fcr them to go by, and the application was refused. A report ivii3 prcsontod frum the inspector, stating generally that the hotels and saloons had been fairly well oonducted during the past three months; and that drunkenness among tho resident population had decreased 30 per eent. among the whites and 20 per cent, among tho Indians. There being no further business the board adjourned. The Secretaries Welcomed. The Y. M. 0. A. rooms, Viotoria, held a brilliant fathering Monday night, the occasion being the reception tendered by the local association to the general secretaries of the Pacific northwest, whose conference opened in the capital city yesterday. Mr. R, Erskino occupied the chair, in the absence of Hon. John Robson. Aftor singing, Kev. M. L. Rugg offered prayer and the chairman, in a brief speech on behalf of the association, welcomed the dolegates to the city. He was followed by Rev. P. McF. Mocletid, who welcomed them on behalf of tho clergy. After more music, Mr. N. H. Jacks spoke in answer to the words of welcome. He was followed by Mr. C. W. Beers, general secretary at Portland; Mr. C. S. Mason, evangelistic secretary of the Snn Francisco association; and Mr. M. M. Meyora, general secretary of Tacoma. The Rev. Mr. Wheeler, who lias just returned from London, told of the great pleasure it had given hiin lo meet whilo there Mr. G. Williams, the founder of the Young Men's Christian Association. The Rev. Mr. Sample, of Fort Smith, Texas, in a few words spoko jf the work in his state, and the pleasure it gave him to be present. Refreshments followed, and a very pleasant meeting camo to a close. HckmiiIcIi Urgently ltciiutrcil. Mr. Morris, manager of the gas company, was in Vancouver yesterday purchasing the pipe required for the now gas main from the company's works to the exhibition buildings. The pipo will cost about §2,000, and is now all ready for shipment to this city. As mny bo noticed in another column, tonders aro callod for on tho construction of the main, but bo far none have been receivod. When it is remembered that the distanco botween the two points is over a mile and a half, that mnny turns with consequent fittings have to bu mado, nnd that this is the 18th of September, the full seriousness of tho question appears. If thero is going to be light at the exhi- tion buildings it is high time something wore being done. Men uro extremely scarce; fifty, at least, aro required on this pieco of work. Tho railway is going to gobble up 30, ns thoir notice shows. It is to lio trusted that oor citizens will not have to turn to themselves, and, discarding pen, yard-sticks and compasses, assume the pick and shovel and the monkey- wrench, like the Jews of old on tlio walls of rejuvenated Jerusalem. Mr. Morris snys that the laying of this main will ensuro ll bettor supply of .gaa to the city on accouot of tho acquisition of forco nocesaary for tho no» demand. At latest accounts tlio gas company has decided to lay a pipe mam from Columbia st. up that stroot at tho corner of which stands the Homer residence. This will savo time, labor and money. A Happy F.vi-ni. There was quito u flutter of excitement this morning at Dominion Place —the residence of Peter Grant, Esq., of H, M. Customs, it being the oc- cision of the marriage of his niece. Miss May Grant. The fortunate man on this happy occasion was Mr. Alex. Matheson, one of the proprietors of the Dominion Hotel, Kamloops. Tho bride was dressud in a uoat travelling suit of grey German clotli, with bonnet to match ; she was attended by hor oousin, Miss Emily Grant, daughter of Oapt. Angus Grant, who was alio dressed in a neat suit of groy, and it iB needless to say that they both lookod charming when tiiey entered tlio parlor at tlie beginning of the ceremony, which waa performed by the Rev. Tims. Scolder, of St. Andrew's Presbyterian church. Tho groom was supported by Mr. JamesMcAi-thur, of Kamloops, After the marriage the wedding breakfast wao iu ordm', when the happy couple sat down with some twenty of their relatives at a tablu beautifully decorated with ii,overs and fruils and literally loaded with nil the delicaciea of the soisoii. After breakfast the party to.m carriages for the C.P.R. station, where ihoy boarded the train for Vancouver, en, route, por steamer Islander, for Victoria, whero part of tho honeymoon will bo spoilt. Tho bride was the recipient of many handsomo and valuable presents, among which was one from Dominion Lodge, No. 4,1. O. G. T., of which tho brido has been an active member. Wo offer our thanks for the usual wedding favors and exl ond to Mr. and Mrs. Matheson our hest wishes for their future prosperity. Personal. Dr. Walker, of Orillin, Ont., is in tlio city, the guest of Mr. Corbould, his uncle. Guests at the Colonial : B. Campbell and wife, Portland; H. P, Danoll, Mrs. Baiss, 2 children, O. P. Scoves, Matsqui ; F. C. White, Langley ; H. A. Turnau, Chilliwhaok ; D. McRae, Vancouver. Rov. C. Croucher arrived homo today after a throe mouths' absence in Halifax and other parts of Nova Scotia. He was warmly welcomed at the Junction and at the station in this city by friends who were glad to seo him homo again and looking woll. Guests at the Qtioou's : John Endicott Sardnor, Victoria; D. E. Wulk- er, Vancouver; R. Docon, Montreal; C. H. Parkland, Seattlo; Jas. Adair, Toronto; Robt. Newton, Montreal; H. H. Aue, Sau Franoisco; T. L. Robertson and wl'". Blaine; John Roberts, Port Kolis; Hartley Ross, Ladnors. District Court. Before the Hon. Mr. Jnstto'o McCreight. The case of All Yen, who was so^ seriously injured in llie Bhooting and stabbing affray at Ladner's Lnndiug lately, cume up this morning for examination. Mr. Cum Yow, of Vancouver, interpreted. It came out that one of tlie principal witnesses for the prosecution had been arrested by the other side, nnd owing to the complication arising from this irregularity, Governor Moresby nsked that the case be remanded until tho 25th inat., wliich request was granted. All Yen, the victim, was shot in tho region of tho abdomen, but is expected to recover. THE TOURNAMENT. Westminster's.Team Rarrcri Out of the Wet Test. Vancouver Takes the First Plnco. Special to The Coi.ujiniAN. Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 18.—Inthe wet test competition to-day the results were as follows: 1st, Vancouver, B.C.; 2nd, Walla Walla, Wash.; 3rd, Victoria, B.C.; Westminster, on nccount of their nozzle having been altered beforo leaving their own city, were barred out by the judges. Tacoma, Sept. 18.—Wo stand for third plaoe; time, 38| seconds. The judges protest againat our nozzle, it having but 2\ threads. The Vancouver team take first place; timo, 36ij seconds. Walla Wnlla second; timo 38J seconds. The Tacoma professional team mado the run in 41 seconds. The other two Tacoma teams made a fluke and sot nn time. Nanaimo got water too fast; no timo. They mado tho run in about 40 seconds. The dry testa start at 1:30 p. tn. Wo havo a ninth placo with twelvo entered. In the speed raoe we have an eleventh placo, twelve entries. The professionals are very soro over their defeat. CORRESPONDENCE. An Ai*guuicnl Against Early closing. EblTOK Columbia.-,:—Allow me tho privilege of occupying u small spuce in your valuable paper, which I propose to fill with good sense and reason, and which every business man in tbo city is more or less interested in. I do not pro- pose to ridicule or criticise the actions of tiio couucil in forcing laws upon tho citizens, but when it comes down to justice they cannot but consider it an unjust action in closing hotels nt tlie early hour of 12 o'elook on week nights, So far aa the Sunday dosing is concerned, 1 say it is woll, and should lie striclly kept by every hotel uud saloon hooper in the city. What ( want to yet at is tho closing on week nights at Ii! o'clock, thu result of whicli is that the city is at a loss of hundreds of dollars. I will relate from my own experience an instance that occurred at my own placo of business n short time ngo. There were nine num unine down from Harrison L:iko, lumbermen, who had checks amounting to an average of §200, which I endorsed for identification, Tho same evening they were at my place of business, and us it camo near tho doting timo I lnid to turn thom out on thu street, and, unablo to get inside shelter, they boarded thu early Vaucouvcr train. Now those men, each of thom, were to return, and before leaving wore to pur- chaso a suit of clothes, underclothing, boots, and other ueccssarics forthe winter sunson; but, seeing tho way they were used, mado tho nocossary purchases iu Vancouver, This is not tlie only caso that might bo mentioned, but Jt is a daily occurrence, driving those who come to town to trade to other places. I trust that tliis matter will havo tho consideration of our city authorities, and I think it would only be their duty to have this clause rescindod for their own benefit and tlio citizens' at large; for it is impossible to accommodate the public under the said clause.—Yours respectfully, R. W. MolNTOSlI, New Westminster, Sopt. 17, 1881). A young Englishman named Walter Hooper, who had been living in tho Manitoba district several years, and who mis married two months ago to a young lady from England, brought his lifo t" a siuldcii close yesterday morning at 11:30 hy drinking two ounces of carbolic nciil. No apparent reason can be assigned for the rash act. (From I'M'.'.y Columbian, Sept. ?,''.) Posco in tho polico couit this morning. No cases. Tliu street sprinkler is doing good aervice on Columbia and Front streets, R. W. Armstrong has paid his subscription to the Exhibition Fund. Next! Great quantities of hay aro being roceived from up river. It, has boen a good year for hay nnd the price ought to be low tins winter. Kidd'ssalt works, Godoricli, Out., ampng the largest in Camidn, wero bnrnod ibis morning bv an incendiary. Tho loss is §10,000; iniurunoe, £3,000. Tho repairs to tbe lower end of Douglas street aro nearly Iinislied; the earth is being laid on thickly ovor tho sawdust. A sidewalk on the right side facing tho river will bo duly appreciated by all who are in a hurry to catch the train. A Ohinaman who stole a §20 gold pieco from a half-breed two yoars ngo, was recognized by tho latter to-day, but nothing could bo done in the mutter on nccount of tliu long period of timo which has elapsed since the commission of tho crime, and tho absence of any witnesses. Mr. Richard Pickering, C. E., will leave in the morning for Now Westminster and Vancouver. While on the mainland ho wilt visit Ohilcotin Lake in tho interests of English capitalists, und make an examination and form estimates of its capacity for irrigating purposes, etc.—Times of Tuesday. Tlie old belfry tower behind Holy Trinity church lins been demolished, and tho bolls now dumbly recline in the dusty roadway, awaiting, presumably, a glorious elevation inlo a moro Worthy sphere. There iB quilo a chime, and it seems a pity that thoy should not be used to play tho carillon and usual belfry music. The causo of the shooting caso at Ladner's Landing was gambling, ono of the most prolific causes of Ofiinese disturbances. To put a stop to this practice among the celestials ia a task beyond tho power of any police, it is practiced in the greatest secrecy and with sentries posted, and generally within sound of the passing officer's foot steps. A party of prospectors, ono of whom is Mr. Llewellyn, tho diver, loft yesterday for Yale, near whicli place they intend to examine the river bod. They will investigate all tho bars and expect to be very successful in bringing up nuggets of a good size. Information will no doubt be forthcoming as to lho success attending their efforts.— World, Stjit. ISth. The ghost of the Oolumbia street flume, liko Banquo's, will nut down. The latest vagary of this monumental pieco of uncivil engineering is a burst in the gas main that crosses it. The smell consequent upon this uncalled for action of the gas pipe, is something better imagined than experienced. The continual mining at this part of the streot has a decided tendoucy to mnke tho surrounding proporty owners fatigued. It is hoped that it will be all over by exhibition week. i Westminster to Of-lawn. Can'l Conic. Tho following despatch from tho Victoria lacrosso club to thu secretary of tho Westminstor club hns boen received: "Sorry we cannot play ut N. \V. during exhibition woek!" Tho Vuncouver team will therefore piny WestminBter insload, antl no diminution of interest or excitement will bo felt. On I lie irurpiitli. News is hard to get theso times, but in spite of that Mr. A. Smith at tbo polico station has many serious objections to being aroused from bis peaceful slumbers by oven such a respectable aud wealthy member of tho community as a reporter. This happened last night, and the victim of the outrage has serious thoughts of exchanging the bull dog's chain for a piece of thin and easily broken string so that all such callers may huvu all the nows they want and bo hospitably entertained by getting a bite boforo tbey go. *—*-*- —■- Blon. Mr. rjcwtliicy's Movements. Hon. Edgar Dewdney, minister cf tho interior, was banqueted at tho Dolmonico hotel, Victorin, on Monday night. Yrestcrdny morning Hon. Mr. Dewdney and Mrs. Dewdney and party arrived at Vancouver on iho Islander. During tho day the distinguished guosts were taken for a cruiso up tho North Arm of tho Inlet and had a luncheon on the water and a delightful time generally. To-dny llio visitors woro driven around Stanley Park, and ovor thu principal streets of Vancouver. This evening Mrs. Dewdney will hold an "At Homo" at tho Hotel Vancouver and to-morrow Hon. Mr. nnd Mrs. Dewdney will leave for Ottawa. It's Not So. Mr. T. Adkui'inaii, chief of tho ino department, called at this uitieu to-d.iy uud said that an impression injurious tu the reputation of tho hoso ro'ej team which went to Tacoma bus got abroad in thiB city. It is being reported around town that the nozzle taken by the toam had been tnniporod with in snch a way that in screwing it on less turns would have to bo made. This is not only quite untrue, but the fact of tho mutter is that the nozzle thread was grooved out doeper and an extra thread put on. This is tho truth of tho matter, and sofarfromunydishoncstmotivo being harbored by our boys they really injured themselves by their very anxiety to have everything strictly squaro and abovo board, A good deal of wrangling ia going on at Tacoma over tlio results of tho tests, and in the ovont of Vancouver being counted out Wostminstor will get third place. The Rov. J. M. McGuickin, O. M. 1., hns received nu intimation that necessitates his almoat immediate departure for Ottawa to fill the position of Rector of tho Catholic University there. Mucli of Rev. Father McGuick- ill's time in this oity has been given to tho management of St. Louis Col- logo, and although the reverend gentleman has a deservedly high reputation as n pulpit orator, ho hns shono more particularly in educational work. Thoso who have beard him preach cannot fail to hnvo noticed that ho has a profound und intimate acquaintance with tho theology of bis church, and that he is a widely read and thoughtful ecclesiastic. His removal to Ottawa is proof sufficient that his superiors are aware of his brilliant talents, for Ottawa is to Catholic Canada what Stoneyhurst and Beaumont are to thoso of the sumo creed in the United Kingdom. To those who havo como into intimato acquaintance with Father McGuickin his removal from this city will be u mattor of profound regret, und wo assure him that lie will bu followed by lhe cordial good wishes of those of every creed in the Royal City. Shipping Entelllgciii'e. Tho steamer Michigan is expected this ovening or oarly tomorrow mom- mi'. Tho stenmer Emma is ut the C.P.R. dock having her pilot and deck houses renovated. Tho Rainbow arrived this afternoon with tiio usual amountof freight and passengers. The Gladys arrived from up river points with a cargo of farm produco, hay in bales and a numbor of passengers. The Rev. Mr. Cruncher's little steam launch wus noticed careering down stream ibis morning at her usual fine speed. The Irving left at 4 o'olock this morning for Hope. Sho will return tomorrow with a band of cattlo, 130 head, from tho Hopo ranches. The Rithet left this mornin!; at the usual hour, having on board 100 head of cattle, I) horses, 4 car loads of feed, 150 bales of hay nud a large cargo of general merchandise. She hud a full passenger list. TACOMA TOURNAMENT. Special lo the Columbian, Tacoma, Sept. 19, 4 p. in.—We have withdrawn from the championship race to-day. Will run in the speed race to-morrow morning, nnd will leavo for homo on the 5 p. m. boat after the race. The boys are sll well. The weather is very hot. CORRESPONDENCE. The Liquor License Ity-I.itw. Eoitor C'olomuias-.—In your issue of last night there appeared a communica tion from Mr. R. W. Mcintosh in wliich it was claimed that the restrictions imposed on hotol keepers by the by-law are unnecessarily stringent, and opposed to tho commercial interests of tho city, and ought to bo modified. Mr, Mcintosh seems to have misapprehended tho intent and meaning of some of these restrictions. There is nothing in the by-law requiring hotclstocloso at midnight, or at any time. A greut many poople fail to make a clear distinction between hotels and bars, whereas this distinction is clearly mndo in tlio by-low. It requires all bars to close at 24 o'clock, but permits hotels to remain open as long as tho proprietors mny choose. A bar is not a necessary adjunct to a hotel. It provides neither food nor lodging for guests, and it might be closed permanently or dispensed with altogether without serious inooiivonionoo or harm to any one. The bar is simply and solely an establishment whero persons may be supplied with a beverage whioh is not only unnecessary Imt positively harmful, in a great majority of casos at least; and Mr. Mclnto-ii will scarcely deny that this beverage is tbe immediate cause of a great dual of tho poverty; suffering, crimo and unnatural death which bring unnecessary sorrow into every community. It is tliis admitted evil that tho by-law sooks to restrain, while it leaves untouched all the necessary appliances of n hotel. But as there are some persons who have through habit acquired such a lilting for this pernicious beverage that tlicy regard it as a necessary accompaniment to every meal, tho by.law provides that liquors may bo served witli meals at any hour of tlio niglit or day. Suroly such a provision should bc regarded as liberal enough to meet tiic reasonable requirements of any circumstances likely ta ocelli'. The bylaw does not make it necessary for a hotol keeper to turn away from his housu any person aftor 24 o'clock except 'lioso who are there for tho purpose of drinking liquor, and it may bo doubted if any one will bc ablo to show tiiat either tiio material or moral interests of any community require) bars to bo kept open uftor midnight for that purpose, Compliance with tin: provisions of the by-law may result in diminishing the revenue of tlie bar, but this means a proportionate reduction in tiic amount of drinking— which may be taken to have boon tliu express object tbu counoil bus in view. Such incidents as tint mentioned i:i Mr. Mcintosh's lottor must be very :,uu indued, nnd nro soiircoly worthy of being considered when not against tiiu material and moral advantages involved in any measure which tends to curtail the terrible evils of intemperance. Yours, &c. Sept. 19,18S9. Pon tub By-Law. If yon wish your sight carefully and correctly fitted with tho best spectacles in the world, cnll at I). S. Curtis & Co.'s Drug Store on October 2, 3 and 4, when Mr. Laurance, tho culubrated Oculist- Optician, will bo tlioro, and after on examination of tho eyes lit yoa on soientifio principles with tlio B.'Laurancc Axis Cut Pebble and other spectacles, ensuring to you the ability to uso your oyos for the most minute employment with great onfloand comfort and thu certain preservation of your sight. ♦—«—, Noal Whitu & Co., of Halifax, N. S.,drygouda, hnvo msifined ; liabilities about $90,000. Thin powder nover varies. A marvel of purlty.Htro-JKlhamlwholesomeiiess, More economical than tho ordinary kinds, and oanuot he sold In competition with the multitudo 0/ low test, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only In cans. Hoyal Baking Pow msn Co., 106 ^Vall St., Now York. 3fely SEATTLE, WASH. ROOMS 22, 23, 24, 25 AND 26, BOSTON BLOCK, Post Offloe Building. Best facilities inthe Northwest for Imparting a thorough practical education. Actual Business, Shorthand, Plain and Ornamental Penmanship and practical English Department.--.'. narSpeeimensof penmanship and Illustrated catalogue sent free. STUDENTS ADMITTED AT ANV TIME. _ _wn.111 -ltf Corbett & Kennedy, MASafACTDKERS OF TIN, COPPB MEET-IRON ■WA3B. WEBSTtiK'H ULOCK (UP-STATHS), Front Street, . New Westminster, HAVING JUST OPENED IN THE above Une, we respectfully solicit a share of the trade, and trust by careful attention to orders and moderate charges to merit the same. Experienced workmen; satisfaction guaranteed. Est! mates furnished for Galvanized Iron Cornice, Roofing, Plumbing, Gas-fitting, Steam and Hot Water Heating, &q. b*" Entrance to premises on Mary St in rear of Bank of B. C. duinhi'te Samuel Mellard, HARDWARE MERCHANT, WESTMINSTER STREET, CENTREVILLE, B. Cs Dealer lit Cutlery, Kiiptlii-nwnre, Books, Stationery and Medicines. Land Agent, Conveyancer, and Votary Public. Agent Tor "The Columbian." Past Offlco Address, Chlllhvliaclt. wjefflto Bank of Montreal. ESTABLISHED 181S. CAPITA! (all paid up), '. $1-^,000,000 KKST, - ■ 0,000,000 Head Office, ■ Montreal. SIR li. A. SMITH, IC. O. It. G.-Prosidoht. G. ,\. DUUMMONH. Kmi.—Vice-President W.J. BUOHANAN-Qenernl Manager. HAVIC BRANCHES IS LONDON, Ellg.l Now York, Clilcnso,nml Inall tho prlncfpnl cMles nml towns In Cnnnda. Interest allowed os, special deposits. C. SWEENY, Manage]*, Vancouvor. GEO. D. imYMNKK, Suii-Agent, Npw Westminster. wje!8m3 A w Un *Xi &8i MERCHANT TA5LOR Begs to announce tliat lie hus removed to stove in AMSTEQl'S new BLOOK Opposite Masonio Building, COLUMBIA STREET, SOLICITING A CONTINUANCE OF PUBLIC PATRONAGE. ilwinulilito MUflftj I mm, gftuuuL., CHOICE Family Groceries! And PROVISIONS. ALSO A WELL-SELECTED STOCK OF DRY COODS AHD FURNISHINGS. AT THE LOWEST PRICE8. LUNDBOHM'S BLOOK, Columliln Hired, Now Wcrilntlugter noldwly VOLUME 34 WEEKLY BRITISH COLUMBIAN, MEW WESTMINSTER, B. C, SEPTEMBER 25, 1889. NO. 39. Wednesday -Homing. Sept. 115, IS8I). (From Daily Columbian, Sept. 20.) The river was extremly low this morning; for somo reason or other. The salmon cntch continues largo. Thero aro many boats on the rivor. The sockeyo Bpecies predominates. The gas main to tbo exhibition building is boing pushed forward rapidly by a strong forco of skilled work- , mon. Tlie Siwashes are swarming Into the city in hordes, and the swoet faces of klootohes give an air of distingue to the promenades. Guests at tlio Queens: J. C. West, John H. Edwards, Jas. Edwards, Victoria ; John Roberts, Vancouvor ; F, Lawson, London. For the lust few doys a great quantity of pollen has been noticed Heating down stream. This is tho truo index of approaching winter. Guests at tlio Colonial: D. Muir, 0. 0. Morrell, W, L. Fagan, Vancouver; R. L. Ciuvston, Keromeos; D. McOillvniy, Sumass. Business throuhout the city, oxcept in the building branches, was vory quiet to day. This is the lull before the storm ; our morchanta will hnvo all tho business they can attend to ubout a week from date. Mr. Ira Wilson, of Cadbora Bay, has lost liftoen sheep through tbo ravages of a panther. Although a sharp watch has beon kept on the varmint to givo him a riflo shot, ho lias proved too cuto to bo caught napping. At various places near tlio centre of tho oity tho sidewalks aro in a dangerous condition : iu some there aro loose planks which tip up when stopped upon, while others are so rotten thnt tiiey crumble away at the touch. No police court this morning, Tho constables are not disgusted with tho good behavior of over.ybody, but they do wish thoro was something stirring. Thero is too much businoss on hnnd throughout the oity just now to permit of much nonsense. Tho enterprising Victoria (B. 0.) Board of Trade has issued its tenth annual report, covering tlio period from 6th July, 1888, to 5th July, 1889. Ths phamphlct is well gotten up, cor- tains a considerable nmount of special and general information, and is credit- ablo tn tlio organization publishing it. About toil o'clock Tuesday night a smnll child belonging to nn emigrant family bound for Pugot Sound, accidentally fell into tho wator from the deck of the steamer Olympian at Victoria. Dave Sweeney, tho freight clerk, seeing tho child's predicament, sprang after tho littlo one and returned it to its thankful parents. Tho games committeo of the Caledonian and St, Andrew's Society will hold a meeting somo evening next weok to make a final arrangement about thoir work. Tho ground will be in readiness for laying oil'for tho 100 yards and other races in u day or two. Tho base ball diamond will also bo marked off at the earliest opportunity. Tho str. Irving arrived this afternoon at 2:45 o'clock. Sho had a heavy list of goods for consignees in the city, 120 hoad of Similkuiiiocn cattle for Van Volkenburg Bros., and 42 passengers. A lingo number of Chinamen, who have beon working on the ra.il- way and at lumbering, wore among tho passengers. Tho cattlo are lino specimens of up country booves, and quite equal to any lately recoived. Tho steamor Lakmo is at presont at Nanuimo. She has been chartered by Turner, Boeton & Co., to go to Skeona river for a load of salmon. Slio wont from Tacoma to Vancouver, and the customs liouse officer there told tho captain to go to Nanaimo, aud she arrived there yesterday. Mr. Smith, customs houso officer, will not givo the steamer a clearance. Ho has telegraphed to Ottawa for instructions. — IKstiiiesa'ai/'s ft mes. Posters aro out announcing a threo days' race mooting at Ashcroft on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 10,11 and 12. This is iu connection with tho agricultural exhibition to bo held at Ashcroft on tha. 10th and leth, and will mako quito a stir iu tho ambitious and progressive oity, and will bo tho means of drawing a Inrgo concourse of poopio, Tho events consist of the Cache Creok and provincial stakes on the lirst day, the Settlers uud Cayolo stakes on tho second day, nnd tho Ashcroft Derby and Consolatiou stakes on the third dny. In addition, Indian races will bo arranged for oach day. ___________ Pretty Well Advertised, At, tlio mooting of. tho cololiriitioli committees lust night somo ouo mado lho remark that tho Agricultural Association was to blaino for nut sufficiently advertising tho oxhibition. It may bo stated that tho exhibition is advertised in ovory paper in the provinco, as well us by 1500 prize lists and 1,000 largo posters. .initio Sniiflossftil. Thn (ire extinguishing exhibition Wednesday night on Court House squaro was again successful. The instrument in the hands of Mr. Pearson wsb subjected to a very sevoro test. A number of urchins had built a liro for thoir own amusement somo forty foet from the test liro, and they ignited thoir pilo at tho samo timo aa tlio othor. Wheu Mr. Pearson hnd completely put out tho coal oil blaze a gen- tlomiin in tho crowd cried to him, "Can't you put out the other onoj" "Certainly," said he, and stepping leisurely ovor to tlie burning muss, lio reduced it to bluck and harmless ashes in a fow seconds. Tho crowd wero astonished nt, iho powers nf tho instrument nnd fully expressed thoir admiration. Children Cryfor Turned the Hone on Kllul, A Seattle paper roports that at Tacoma on Tuesday aftornoon when the Astoria hose team got the water, one of tho judges, T. Deasy, chief of tho Victoria firo department, claimed they did not have the proper coupling, whon tho man at the hose turned the water ou him, and a tight was about to ensue when Chief Rainey stepped up and compelled tho man lo lay down the hoso. Special School Hoard Meeting. A special meeting of tho school board was held last night to consider Iho applications for tlio position of lirst assistant teacher in the boy's division, contral school. Mr. Geo. MaoRao, who hos been teaching at Port Moody, where he provod himself a very efficient teacher, was appointed to tho position. The janitor's salary was increased to §30, and- the school children will be made happy by being granted two days holiday during oxhibition week. . . . rivMiil,mini lo the Bev. Father Mc- (ialckon, O. HI. I. A meeting whicli represented tho wholo Roman Catholic population of St. Peter's Parish was hold in the Library Hall on Thursday evening'. Mr. Chnrlos McDonough in tlio chair. The parishioners who had not already signed thon affixed their signature to tho address, and the meoting adjourned to the house of the Roman Catholic Bishop, whore the address was read and the presentation made. Tho rev. father thanked his friends most cordially, and in concluding a very eloquent reply ho said in tones full of feeling—"I regret to leave you, but it is my duty to obey the order of my superiors, I niU6t go and hopo you will pray for me ; and I assure you I shall always pray for you." Tho pastor aud his people parted on this occasion in good old fashioned stylo like true friends deeply moved by memories of the past. _> Tho Boyal City's Credit. In the report of Monday night's council proceedings, published in this paper on Tuesday last, there was a paragraph to the effect that the tender of the Bank of Montreal for the city's $85,000 street and park debentures was 102', and that the tender was accepted. This fact merits more than passing attention. That Westminster's five percent, bonds should soil at a premium ot 2' per coot, is extremely satisfactory as demonstrating the high standing wliich the city has in the money markets of the world. A recent sale of similar bonds by the city of Vancouver realized 101.65, and the "terminal oity" press felicitated itself considerably over the result. The premium of 2J per cent, on the §85,- 000 of debentures will amount in the aggregate, as any one may figure for himself, to a Utile over $1800, which amount the city will be in pocket on the transaction. We have always held that Westminster's solidity nnd promise were unexceptionable, and the monetary institutions of the country evidently think so too. , * . . "TWO BOTTLES OF WINE." Temperance Lecture by llie Bev. D. \. lncss. Last uight in tho W. C. T. U. hall, on Douglas street, beforo an audience that occupied noarly every Beat in the spacious room, which, if the remark will bo pardoned, is not very well ventilated : any one entering from tho frosh nir Inst night must have been struck by tho vitiated atmosphere iu the hall. Tho subjoct of ventilation occupies tho very next seat to that of temperance. Tho reverend gentleman for over an hour and a half kopt his audience thoroughly interested iu the subject. Ho gavo a clear and easily understood summary of tho chemical analysis of the two bottles of wine beforo him. Ono of those bottles contained a clear, inviting-looking liquid, which tho lecturer said was unfermont- cd; the other bottlo was filled with a dark liquid—tormented wine. Mr. Lucas took Btrong exception to the slander which he said had boen thrown upon the namo of the Saviour by those who took position against tho temperance question. Thoy said lhat Christ himself sanctioned tho uso of wino in mnny unitances. Tho leoturer said that Christ never did anything of the kind; tho wine ho did speak uE was unferinented and harmless. Saint Paul's advico t> Timothy to take "a littlu wino fnr liis stomach's sake," was ably disposed of, and shown to bo by im menii3 a license to drinking. Every ono present ivas deeply impressed with lho remarks of tho speaker and a hearty voto of thanks was awarded liim. A collection for tho benefit of tlio W, C. T. U. was taken up, and ul about 10 o'clock the audience dis persed. moualy chosen officers of iho convention.: T. M. Henderson, of Victoria, president; G. F. Orchard, of Tacoma; Hon. John RobBon, of Victoria; D. S. Curtis, of New Westminster; vice- presidents; A. E. Rand, of New Westminster; E. W. Frewer, of Vanoouver, secretaries. When the business above mentioned was finished the convention adjourned to tho Wilson Hall where an elaborate spread had been prepared by the ladies of the Baptist aud Congregational churches. Five long tables were well filled by the delegates and friends ot the work, all of whom did justice to tho delicacies so bountifully provided by Iho ladies. After a considerable lime had been spent at the lunch a number of excellent and witty speeches wore delivered, whioh wero listened to with great interest and frequently applauded. After the entertainment of thia material character had beon amply enjoyed by the visitors and friends, Rev. E. D. McLaren, B. A., on behalf of Mayor Oppenheimer, who was unavoidably absent, made a welcoming speech. Mr. McLaren extended greetings of the most cordial character. Addresses of wol- come were then dolivered by the Rev. J. li. Kennedy and W. Hioks, after which Hon. Jno. Robson, president of tho Victoria association, was called upon for a speech and responded in a witty and happy mannor. He was followod by addresses by Henry E. Brown, a member of the international committee, and Rev. G. A. Tewks- bury, paBtor of tho first Congregational church of Seattlo. G. A. Charnock, secretary of tho Vancouver association, then gave out noticos of subsequent services and meetings, after which the convention adjourned to the New Baptist church, whero devotional exercises wore continued until 3:30 p. m. The transaction of routine business and the reading of reports and papers was then proceeded with, and in the evening a praiso meeting was held, followed by an address by Rev. Mr. Starr, of Victoria, who took for his subject, "The word of God is the only safe guide for young men." The convention met to-day in the Baptist church at 9 a. m. and 2 p. m. and at the Imperial Opora liouse at 7:30 in the evening. All meetings are open and the public are cordially invited to be present. . . . DOWN TO BUSINESS. The Celebration Committee Meet and Ulscuss rrobablHtes.—Good Beporls From Sob.Commlttees. Sljclh .tnmniH'onvcntlon ol-lho PaclHc NorUim-st Association. Tho sixth annual convention of the Young Men's Christian Association of tho Pnciiic Noithwcst commenced in Vancouver yestorday, anil will bo continued until Sundny. Tho morning session commenced by nn informal meeting iu tho rooms of tho association, at which many woro present. At 10:30 u devotional meeting at tlio Baptist Ohurch was commenced, conducted by N. II. Jacks. Tliero wero eighty-six delegates prosent, Aftor the servico all met nt the Y.M.C.A. rooms, when the convention wns doclnrcd open. Tlio following persons worn unani- Pitcher's Castoria. Last night at the City Hall, sometime between 8 and 9 o'clock, the mayor called the meeting aB much to order as circumstances would allow. The gathering was positively sans ceremonie, and as every second man had a lighted cigar or pipe stuck in his mouth, it would bo hard to imagine anything more easy or more calculated to inspire genuine admiration for the glorious freedom of our beloved country. It was really a pity that the real business of the evening was conducted in such a loud manly tone of voico, that those gentlemen who were pleased to amuse themselves by whispering together rather loudly, too, wore very much inconvenienced and annoyed. In fact the Bight would have made a stranger from the hampered east smile with pleasure and yet envy, thus viewing our citizens carrying the refreshing habitsof tho billiard and smoking-room into tho oity capitol. Any young man who will start an elocution class in this city deserves a monument and his portrait hung in the City Hall. Of all the fine, intelligent-looking young men at the meeting last evening, not ono know how to address tho chair or audience properly and nothing ia more painful than to watch and listen to an awkward speaker. If our young men would stand up straight, and keep their hands off the dosk in front of them, and not betray suoh an intense longing'to sit down again that thoy are bending down half tho time, as if iu readiness to dodge an inkstand or a ruler hurled at them from the chair, they would appear vastly more to advantage and confor a benefit on thoso who listen. Tha minutes of last meeting having been read aud confirmed, the following communications wero considered. From William Seitz of Vancouvor, asking tho committee to grant free tickets to members of the Jockey club who have cards for tho presont year, for admission to the grounds. After a great deal of disoussion it was finally moved by Mr, Whyte, seconded by Aid Cunningham, that tho communo cation bo referred to tlio agricultural association and secretary instructed to advise Mr. Seitz accordingly: Carried. From Captain John Irving in regard to transport of "0" Buttery band, stating that tho C. P. N. Co. would carry thein at excursion rates, §3 for round trip. Recoived und filed. Aid. Roid proposed that application be mado to tho owners of tho Rainbow iu rogard tu this niatter. Aid. Jnquos, who goes to Victoria mi Tuesday, will transact this business. Itlil'OllTli. Thu reception committee bad no. written report. No replies had been received ii'iui peisous invited. Roport, .-.neb as it was, adopted. The printing committee reported programme published and distributed. Adopted. Tlio procession committee reported everything going on swimmingly, and that iho musical arrangements had all boon satisfactorily concluded. Tho artillery and rillo companies have not been formally invited to take part, but it ia understood,, that the officers intend lo hue u turn out of the men. The suggestion of Mr. S. J.-Thompson that a cunuou be taken up lo the park and used In lire salutua waa qiuirtl'ied liy his worship saying lhat llin people ni'nuiul tho park hud nil the artillery practico lately thoy wanted for sumo tune io como. Mr. Woliter remarked thai it was UIII'"l'!i«into thai 'li" foot bull niid boiil moil j liutii coin uu t io same day, thus making it impossible for the foot ball men to coinpoie in tho regatta. As something had to clash in the programme, and it was too late to make alterations, this part of the programme was allowed to remain intact. His worship said that a friend of his in Victoria intended sending 3 horses to take part iu tho races. Secretary Mackintosh caused a good deal of amusement by stating that a gentleman in Calgary was Bending a car load for the same purpose. The sports committee reported favorably on tho various branches of athletics on the programmo. Mr. J. C. Whyto reported for the lacrosse, und referred to tho Victorias refusing to come as if ho wore not sorry at all, the Vancouvers would give juat as good a game as the Islanders, without the squabbling. The baso ball club wishes to tako the gate receipts on Saturday order to recoup themselves for los which they have sustained lately; the request was laid over. Messrs. Grant, Cunningham, Calbick and Whyto wore appointed a committee to look after the erection of the grand stand. The mayor roported good progress mado by tho dancing committee. The decoration committeo reported that two arches will bo constructed, ono on Columbia street and the other near the park. Tho fire works committee aBked for anothor §100. Mr. Moresby said that every effort ought to be used to make this part of tho entertainment a success. Many people here had never seen firo works aud he thought that if the pyrotechnic display could by a little extra expense be made to last 3 instead of 2 hours, it would be well spent money. Mr. Fraser proposod giving prizes amounting to §100 for an Indian band competition, and, like Mr. Moresby's for tho firo works, the idea was generally opproved. Aid. Reid thought tho gas company ought to make a special effort the night of tho illumination. Mr. McTieman will be asked to bring all the Indians possiblo into town. Mr. Ross reported for the billeting committee that the drill shed will be fitted up with accomodations for 150 persons. The committee has also obtained all information about receiving thevisitors. On motion tho name of Sheriff Armstrong was added to the reception committee. It was roported that nothing had been dono to advertise either Victoria or Vancouver, but a gentleman in the audienoe said that the circulars had been mailed yesterday. No word had been received as to the gun-boat, but his worship thought it likely that one would be sent by Admiral Heneage. The moeting then adjourned. New steamship Company. The Puget Sound and Alaska Steamship Company have been incorporated at Olympia, W. T., with a capital stock of §000,000. The objects are the building, purchasing, acquiring, owning, equipping, furnishing, fitting, supplying and navigating sailing vessels and vessels propelled wholly or partially by steam or other motive power, tugboats, barges and lighters, to be used in all lawful business, trade, commerce and navigation upou the ocean, seas, sounds, bays, inlets, straits, tidewaters, rivers, lakes and canals. SECRETARIES' CONFERENCE. Conclusion of the Two Days' Work. Victoria's Anniversary. Tho second day of tho gouoral secretaries' conference of the Y. M. C. A. waB opened in tho association hall at 9 a. in. yesterday, devotional exercises being conducted by E. C. Roper, general secretary of East Portland. At 9:30 D. S. Ruterbaugh, general secretary of Astoria, conducted Bible study for oue hour, when M. M. Meyors, goneral socrctnry of Tacoma, delivered a very interesting paper on "Our Reading Rooms, Tlieir Management," which was listened to with wrapt attention by thoso present. At 12 a. m. another interesting papor was read by C. W. Beers, genoral secretary of Poitland, on "Tho Goneral Secretary's responsibility to tho Stato work." Tho conference has boon well attended and tho visitors are woll pleased with Victoria and the treatment they received at tlio hands of tho secretary and committee of tho Victoria branch of tho associations. Yesterday afternoon the members took sail boati and went to Esquimalt, where they visitod H. M. ships. At 7:30 hist ovening a grand praise servico wns hold, nnd at tf tho anniversary services of tho Victoria ussociution wero hold in tho Pandora Btroet Methodist church, the building being about half filled. The exercises opened with u praiso son'ico by lho choir under the leadership of Mr. ,1. G. Brown. Tho first psalm was then road by ltev. C. S. Mason, followed by a prayer .by Rov. J. E. Starr. Mr. 0 VV. Boors, of Portland, camo next with a vocal solo, wliich was succeeded by the opening speech given liy lion. John Rubsoo, president of lho Victoria association. The annual roports of tlio treasurer, Mr. Watorson, and of tho genoral secrotary, Mr. Teague, woro road and Bhowed a very satisfactoiy year's advance. Addresses wero afterwards delivered by Rev. Mossl-s. Mason and Starr, Mr. Myers, Mr. Noel H. Jacks and Mr. H. E. Brown; Mrs. McCrady, of New Westminster, providing a charming treat for all present in tho form of several ningtilfloetlt stilos.— Thursday's Colonist, (From Daily Columbian, Sept. 21.) Miss Linnie Lewis, the accomplished artist, has sin advertisement in this issue whioh should bo carefully read. At a special meeting of the Victoria Athletic Club held Thursday evening, W. H. Quinn, the wreatler, was elected a member. Chief Pearce and Chiof Ackerman went through the Chinese quarters this morning on a tour of polico and firo inspection. A number of the rille men went over to the range for practice to-day. The atmosphere was not all that was desirable, but at the medium distances some good sport was possible. Tho minstrel band headed by its drain major awoke the echoes on the principal streets of lhe city to-day. They wore resplendent, in gorgeous Zouave uniforms and their music was also fine. Philip, an Indian who was found guilty of being intoxicated, was fined §5.00 and costs at tho police court this morning. Phil, deposited a big silver watoh ua a forfeit until he could raise tho monoy. He was also charged with having liquor in his posaeasion, but under tho circumstances tho charge wns not pressed. Tho captain of the Lakme was interviewed by a Free Press reporter us to his detention at the port of Nanaimo. He said that ho was chartered by Messrs. Turner, Boeton & C". to load salmon at tho Skeena river for Astoria. He claims that the customs officials nt New Westminstei' informed him that ho could obtain his clearance pppers at Nanaimo, but on arriving there Collector Smith would not do so. Captain Graves states that some one will havo to pay for his detention, as he was acting under instructions from tho firm which chartered tho vessel. Tho Dominion Illustrated for September 14 has some features of exceptional interest, Among these may be mentioned a portrait of Boatswain Hawkins, of the "Rush," whose in- volun' ry trip to Victoria, B. C, in the "Black Diamond,"' our readers have not forgotten; illustrations nf the Halifax Carnival; a fine view of Owl's Head, near Lake Memphromngog; a good portrait of tho Hon. Judge Lynch, and some characteristic groups of Manitoban Indians. Mrs. Spragge's sketches lose none of their interest. The Dominion Illustrated is published by the Dominion Illustrated Publishing Oompany, of which Mr. G. E. Desbarats is the manager. Subscription, §4 a year. Address: 73 Saint James street, Montreal. V. .11. C. A. Convention. Yesserday constituted the second day of the sixth annual convention of the Young Men'a Ohrisiian Association of the Pacifio Northwest, at Vancouver. The morning session was occupied wilh a Bible lesson and the reading of several interesting papers in which the following gentlemen took part: H. E. Brown, Biblo reading; F. W. Teague, paper on the "Impoitince of summer outdoor sports and recreation grounds ;" Filmore Tanner, of Spokane Falls, on behalf of Mrs, Tanner, paper on "How to organize and derive the most benefit from ladies' auxiliary committees;" Everett Smith, of Seattle, paper on "Tho lyceum, its power and position in our woik ;" N. H. Jacks, state secretary, paper ou "District work and conventions." At, 12:30 an adjournment was made tj tho Wilson Hall, where, as on the previous day, a lino repast had beon prepared, on thia occasion, however, by the ladiea of Ohrist Church and the Methodist churches. Aftor luncheon, Hon. John Robson, who presided, rose, aftor the reading of notices of the afternoon's work, to express his rcgrot iu being obliged to le.ivo for Victoria that afternoon. He delivered a short and enthusiastically received address and closed by presenting to the Vancouver Association nn SSC0 city lot. Addresses by a number of others followed. At tho aftornoon session iliore was a Biblo leading nud a numbor of able and interesting papers were presented, A business mooting was hold nt Hotel Vuncouver at 4:30 o'olock, and in the evening there was a praiso sorvico at tho Imperiiil Opera house, followed by addresses, solos, etc. Thin morning at 9 o'clock, a public devotional meeting was hold nt tho Baptist church, conducted by Rev, C. F. Clapp, of Portland, Or. waa a great success; tho blending of ine voices and the good time loft little to be desired. Miss McNab's reading, "Betsy destroys the paper," was one of the finest efforts of tlie evening ; as an elocutionist Miss McNab undoubtedly occupies a good position, but the true merit of the performance was the sympathy wliich characterized the reading. Very hearty applause showed the appreciation of the audience. Mrs. Trew fairly surpassed herself on the piano, in her rendition of the beautiful morcetra by Nortb, "His sorrow thy young days ehaded." Only those who have something more than a superficial knowledge of instrumental music and the mere nomenclature of harmonic science, can criticize Buch performances. The audience demanded an encore, which was gracefully accorded. "Dingdong bell" by the choir was pleasant to listen to, and Mrs. Poiugdestre's song, "What will you do love?" was receivod with hearty applause. "Pierot" by Mrs. Lyal disclosed one plain fact—that this lady's voico was perhaps tho most cultured of any of the ringers. Mrs. Lyal replied to an enthusiastic encore by excelling tho first song in another, sung with grent pathos and sweetness. "Saved by a child," one of Piccolo- mini's beautiful songs, received full justico from Mr. O. Lyal, whose well trained voice appeared lo full advantage in this effort. Refreshment) wore served at tho conclusion of this song and tho audience enjoyed a few minutes' pleasant chat boforo the choir assembled on the platform tn givo the final part song, "Lovely night," one of tho most successful efforts. Tho singing of "Auld Lang Syne" wound up as pleasant an evening as this season has cson. About §70 were t ilcen, and tho promoters of the entertainment aro well pleased. Shipping Intelligence. Tho Irving brought 120 head of cat tlodown last night from tho Similkameen ranches. The Dunsmuir arrived this afternoon from Nnnaimo with a cargo of coal and a quantity of general merchandise. The steamor Delta paBsed down the river to-day with a scow load of stone for use at tho mattresses at the sandheads. Tho Agnes has taken all the briok from Wise's whorf brought in hy the Lakme to it- destination at the Ross- McLaren Mills. The Irving hsd 12,000 feet, of lumber for Chilliwack anil neighborhood when she left this morning, also about 25 tons of freight and a good number of passengers. Four car loads of shoep were set down on the C. P. N. dock early this morning. Tho sheep were among the finest ever reoeived here; they are from Clapperton's ranch at Nicola and are consigned to Mr. Dickinson. The steamer Rithet left this morning for Victoria. She had 50 head of cattle, a quantity of baled hny and fatm produce. She also took on enough freight at the Delta to make up the full load. Tlie usual number of passengers were on her list. The Miohigan arrived at horwharf to- day'with the Ugliest freight Bhe has yet brought to this poit. The consignee) were the Royal City Plaining Mill) and Messrs. Mathers & Milligan, together making about 10 tons of merchandise. She will take away 0,500 cases of salmon for Astoria. VERY SUCCESSFUL At Collingwond, Ont, , yesterday, liro burned Oallury's blook, Horuking & McFnddou's hardware store, Diirn- ford Bros.' grocery store, Danford, Roach & Co.'s geuoial attire, the. ti'lt- graph and express offices-, lhe Musunio Hall and the Mechanics' Institute, L..-.S, S'.'U.liOO. Was the Presbyterian Choir Concert In tho Old Church. An audience of over 200 people filled the old Presbyterian church to about its full capacity last night, when the choir came upon tho platform to sing the opening gleo. Thia selection was sung wilh good ofi'i'ct ami gavo evidence of training. Tlio piano duet by Mrs. Tit.ov and Misa Frasor, although a pieco bristling with difficulties, was skilfully performed and gave genuine pleasure to the audience. Miss Clark sang in the third number ou the programme instead ol Mrs. Poingdestre. Miss Clark's voico nnd style of singing are vory pleasing, aud the applaune with which she was rewarded, was deserved. Mr. Vidal's song, "Good byo swootheart," gave that gentleman a good chance to display the powers of hia fine voico ; liis execution ia marked by careful training and his easy mannor makes hima really accomplished singer. The pnrt Bong for female voices, "Sweet and Low," by Pinsuti, is por- haps a trifle out of tho reach of even goud nveriuro singers, hot it sustained un serious loss at tho hands of llio choir last night. A duet by Mis. Grant and Miss McEwon, -'List to the Convent Bella." accompanied on the pianoforte liy Mra. Lyal was a treat. Tin.' song "Waiting," by Mias Rankin wns sung in tho full rich tone und pleasant manner f"f whicli this lady is kiii'ttli. Tiie tlio, "Dainu Dui'den," Personal. Guests at the Queen's : Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson, Toronto; J. Wilson, Vancouver; A. Bullock, Nanaimo; W. R. Manson, Kamloops; R. H. McMillan, Victoria. Guosts at the Colonial : D. A. McLean, Mr. and Mrs. Sutherland, Miss McKay, Vancouvor; C. G. Hubson, Lulu Island; David Minx, Vancouver, Geo. Seymour,. Montreul. Wiih the vice-regal party now on its wuy west is travelling au English M. P. This gentleman is Henry lumber who aits in the house nf einiiuions, for Wandswoi'h, a.constituency- containing about 11,000 vmeis. Ho is a Conservntivc nnd was returned unopposed at the last election. In tiie present temper of party feeling this if not likely to occurr nguin, the more especially as that constituency is a working class centro, and contains a gocdly sprinkling of Hibernians within its limits. V.CTORIMIEWS. r--('U*'(i!:«:Uast'>»TIie iIIiierIc Nac Overhauled hy tiio ttiiHh und IBrr I'j'IMth Evamlnr-cS. Special io the Columiuan. Vu'toma, .Sept. il.—The schooner Maggie Mae, Captain Dodd, romrnod ' hist night from Behrinff*a -Sea. On Juno 27th siii: lighted tlio Rush about forty mUoa from St. Paul Island. S-iil waa immediately made on the schooner and away .shu went before a heavy \\ in!. For three horna Bhe was chused by the Kush, whieh pnt on full steam. Finally the schooner was overhauled, and ordered to heave to. The officers of the Rush boarded tho schooner and demanded to aee her clearance papers. These were produced, examined and returned. Liont. 1 uuir. examined the eeaUUius uooui'd tho lied am not very fresh, mid having euiisi Dodd he could go, but to quit Behrinff Sea at once, threatening seizure if caught again. Tlio Maggie Mac got :?.,Hj7 skina for the season's worli, 1,200 being taken in .Behring's Son, Slio spoke tbo Favorite on August 17th with 1,500, and all well; Mary Ellon, July 17th, with 1,700, and made the run home iu twenty days with light winds. C;iptain Dodd aaya he would have fought to the death rather than allow his uUkis to bo taken. J. l-'inlayson, grocer, corner Brough. ton aud Govornment streets, closed up to-day. 'It is reported he has assigned to R. V. Rithet & Co. fur the benefit of hia creditors. Liabilities and assets nofe yet ascertained. The Wellintfton nud James Bay baseball olubs ure playing at the Caledonian grounds this atternoou. The Sardonyx sailed lor northern can-* norios this morning. VOLUME 34. ■m ■. wv-vTr»Yjjff'fir fif-,,tff|,rt'"-1 r « WEEKLY BRITISH COLUMBIAN, NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C, SEPTEMBER 25, 1SSD. Weekly British Columbian Wednesday Morning. Sept. 25. ISSa. In his leoture 'Wednesday evening Mr. Lucas mentioned an objection mndo to Imperial federation, that Australian members of a federal parliament-,. ould be either in England or on the ocean all their time. This look-; liko a very smnll brick to big an idea, but it, moves us to nsk, what is, the mutter with carving an Imperial District (after the manner of the Federal District of Columbia) out of, say, Alberta Territory, right at the foothills of the Rockies, mul holding the Federal parliament there. Even if it di'l nol shorten the sessions—and the absence of metropolitan dissipation would liavo ,i strong tendency that way—it would give the Australian fellows another throo weeks in thn bosom of their families. It would turnisli a useful object lesson, too, for Britisli members. After inspecting lakes iu which one could drow making as big would i of the than sm to Ulitjlll haps om garv wil One o ing bom OhambP! those v.- tno Oh! Oountry without much of a bubble, and farms as nn English county, thoy irobably havo n hotter idea importance of the colonies ni' of them would, be likely rs in an} other way. Per- t'difoi'ial brethren in Oal- ■ second this-motion. ' the signs of the approach- i rule triumph is Mr. Joseph Iain's latest speech. To io rend between the lines there is unmistakable evidence that the speaker himself sees the handwriting upon the wall, nnd is now fully aware that in attempting to form a. Liberal-Unionist party lie has irretrievably lost whatever in- fluen■■■" (and il , :i«e was very great) he had in the counsels of the Liberal party, and at the same time he is looked at askance by the blue- blooded leaders of the Tories, who, now they have used him for their own ends, would gladly drop all connection with the man who lias travelled all the road from red communism to an alliance with Salisbury, the Radical who "has been nil things by turns but nothing long." "What is your policy," piteously pJeads Chamberlain, "if you get into office)" and the very question shows that the ex-Radical no longer regards the return of Air. Gladstone to power as an idea too utterly absurd. He can now understand that it is possible for the Liberals to obtain a majority at the next election, and in a short time, perhaps, the poor fellow will be able to understand what has been plain to ordinary men for months past, that Gladstone is tho only mnn in whom the people place confidence just now. "And then," adds the member for Birmingham, "if you Liberals coine back, look at the bad lot of Radicals and Socialists you muat bring with you." The great Liber".? party can bear with enthusiasts even if they do want to march a little taster than the music, but in llm day of retribution coming, 'Joseph Chamberlain will find, to his sorrow, that tliere is uo forgiveness for the Republican turnod Tory,and who, to secure place, will be ready to recant his errors. Men do not forget that Chamberlain was the preacher of the doctrine of "Ransom" and the apostle of the "three ow" cult, and, although s bin nose when social- it ued, it was uot many hat In*- was hanging to skirt-tails of "Citizen" he Tories in derision Oharles) and Auberon iberals have not forgot- or to liis defection Mr. was ready lo admit ly parallel in history to 'eminent of Ireland is nd ; and yet lie is Tory for it is the same thing, gton is a Whig by birth i, and it, was uo marvel not swallow Homo Rule but although he moves acre nov. li ■ ism i- yeui.,., the ., i Dilk- terincl am Herbert ten thai Qhaiulerli that thi the bad that of J1 or Unionii Lord 'l'i: and ii, il that hi all at one slow,,' lie tin, the ii'' Oh.i'f d muiviii mei to be thoi th:.' ' radii lisi Unionist, English thoro'i'-hl move , theo in leadi jped. an But b, been move- parts of the empire. In his lecture the other night, Mr. Lucas spoke of tlie ignorance about Canada and Canadian affairs which prevails in Britain, und we nre afraid it cannot bu doubted that a great deal of that ignorance results from the faet that her people care little about the colonies. Many of the poorer classes, of course, are anxious enough for information about countries tn wliich thoy desire to come in the liopo of bettering tlieir oondition, and among the richer people many, like Lord Roseiierry, taking a genuine interest in the colonies, wish to see them hound co the Old Country by closer ties; but the muss of the people, rich and poor, regard the matter with an apathetic indifference as a thing quite apart from their individual or national well-being. In Australia, too, as iMr. Lucas hinted, there appears to be a good deal of the same self-centered or insular feeling. We may do injustice to our fellow-colonists, but our feeling certainly is that, had the Australians, as we have, a large and independent nation, of the same blood and. language on their borders, tho annexation feeling would be much stronger and more widespread than it ever has beon in any province of Canada, unless, indeed, it be urged, and there may be force in suoh an argument, that the very presence of an independent, and, therefore, possibly hostile, nation, has kept alive the lire of patriotism in the Dominion. And in the Dominion itself, while everybody knows that the question is much discussed just now, one cannot avoid a suspicion that a great deal of the discussion is disingenuous. It tastes of double-dealing, so to speak. We do not, of course, refer to suoh men as Principal Grant and Mr. Lucas, who are thoroughly in earnest and havo the courage of their convictions, but to those who have taken up Imperial Federation in order to offset the Unrestricted Reciprocity cry of their opponents, and to those on the other side who, recognizing the harm it may do to their pet theory, sneer at it as a 'fad" and a chimera. In a word, the grand dream—or rather, grand scheme—which is worthy the best thought of the foremost statesmen of the empire, is to many Oanadian politicians but a factor in their party strife—something whicli owes its importance to the probability that it may enable them to score a point in the game of "ins" and "outs." Nevertheless, Imperial federation, with all its handicaps and pullbacks, gives promise of great things, and is worthy the best thought of every loyal Oanadian and Britisher. has, like tl ii-- '■., retrograd -' tht people, bt aspires t an aristocrat, and to teenr-jod his habit of u the motley one of the le is tho one man in iog whom the Liberals lespise, It is Busy to say, as the opponents of Imperial Federation do, that the scheme: i.i Utopian, and it is just as ensy to answer that Anglo-Saxons have realized Utopia inoro than .once, und may do it again. We OOrtainl) cannot see that there is anything inherently impossible in the scheme, and no one can doubt that it would be fruitful of benefits to tho empire at large. Notwithstanding that, however, we believe the great opposing force, or perhaps we should say, tlie great obstaole to Tbe Lancet, an American medical journal, has the following forcible remarks, backed by a striking illustration, of the evil effects of tight clothing: Now that rational ideas as to dress have acquired a definite place in public esteem, it may be imagined that the practice of tight lacing and customs of a liko nature, if known at all, are not what they used to be. A case of sudden death lately reported from Birmingham proves that it is still too early to indulge in such illusory ideas. The deceased, a servant girl of excitable temperament, died suddenly in an epileptoid fit, and the evidence given before the coroner respecting her death attributed the fatal issue to asphyxia, due in a great measure to the fact that both neck and waist were unnaturally constricted by her clothing, the former by a tight collar, the latter by a belt worn under tin stays. We have here certainly tlio^e very conditions which would had us to expect the worst possible consequences from a convulsive seizure. There is no organ of the body whose free movement is at sueh times more important than the heart, Yet here we find, on the one hand, its movement hampered In a tight girdle so placed that it oould with difficulty bo undone at a critical moment; on the other, a contrivance admirably adapted to allow the passage of blood to the brain, while impeding its return. This is no isolated case as regards its essential character, though, happily, somewhat singular in its termination. Minor degrees of asphyxiation, we tear, arc still submitted to by a good many self-torturing child- r..i of vanity, The tight corset and the high heel still work misohief on the bodies of their devoted wearers. Taste and reason, indeed, combine to deprecate their injurious and vulgar bondage, and by no means unsuccessfully. Still, the evil maintains itself. Oases like that above nifiitioned ought to, if they do not, open the eyes of some self-worshipers of the other sex, who heedlessly strive by such means to excel in a sickly grace. We would strongly impress on all of this class the fact that beauty is impossible without health, and would advise them, in the name of taste as well as comfort, to avoid those methods of contortion, ono and all, by whicli elegance is The three promised county court judges have at last been appointed. Hon. 0. P. Cornwall will preside over county court business at Cariboo, Mr. W. W. Spinks ut Yale, and Mr. W. N. Bole at New Westminster, his adopted city. Hitherto the county court business in these judiciary districts has been attended to by the supreme court judges, but, with the rapid increaso of population and the growth of all the varied interests of the province, the supreme and county court work has attained proportions that demand separate and particular attention, and the appointment of those three county court judges, to administer that branch of the legal machinery in their respective, hereinbefore indicated districts, will, we believe, give general satisfaction. An interesting feature for Westminster- ites growing out of the appointments is the fact that Mr. Bole's elevation leaves his seat in the local parliament vacant. Nature, tho scientists sny, abhors a vacuum ; tho selfsame law would seem to opernto in tho human breast with regard to parliamentary vacancies, and we may expect to see such a rush for Mr. Bole's M,P.-ty seal in the house as will cause a tidal wave at James Bay and blow tho top out of every thermometer iu the royal city,' We trust that this distracting race may not begin until after the exhibition, whicli, with the Southern railway question bulking largely on our view, is quite as much excitement as is good for the royal citizens for tho next few weeks. However, there is nothing to prevent a little quiet meditation on the subject in the meantime, und a mental balancing of the "points" of the various "dark horses" who are sure to rush into the field the moment the burs are taken down. Let it be seriously laid to heart that AVestminster wants a good roan to represent her in the local house. We cannot attempt to predict at the present time who it shall be. BRITISH COLUMBIA'S DISPLAY the success of the scheme, is the only carioatured, and health may be supposed self-interest of the various | painfully and permanently injured. Al, Toronto's Great Industrial Fair— What Eastern I'rcss Thinks of It. Tlie Globe hns the folowing respecting the British Columbia court at the Toronto Exposition : TheBritioh Columbia court, which is situated in the building near the western entrance to the grand stand, is a placo where visitors can spend an hour of profitable inspection of the products of that fast-rising province. British Columbians are proud of their country, and believe there is no country like theirs. In Mr. Charles A. Caldwell, their representative at the exhibition, is reflected strongly the character and ardent patriotism of his fellow-countrymen. Ho has given tho best appearance possible to the room where the exhibit iB to be found, and eloquently dilates from morning to night on the mineral, agricultural and manufacturing wealth of the province. He has, indeod, much to be proud of, judging by tho variety of products which ho is in charge of. Almoat overy school-boy in Ontario has read of the immense timber resources of British Columbia, and desired to view what he hud to conjure up by imagination. At the door of the British Columbia court, however, is to be seen the timber uf the Pacifio province ss it was cut down in the forest. There stands a specimen of n spruce treo 175 feet high to the first limb and clear of knots. There is also a sample square luck, 3G x 3G feet, of the D jug- las pine, which was cut from the tree 80 feet from the butt. The age of this monster of the forest was 400 years, as was proved by its 325 annual rings. In the exhibit is another circular specimen of British Columbia pine (1 ft. 8 in. in diameter, a maple door with beautiful panels, a cedar door, Douglas pine and spruce boards 48 inches in diameter and without any blemish, panels of polished cedar, curly maple, showing grain of the wood and fine newel posts. Another wonder in the timber exhibit is a Montgomery cherry, two years from the bnd, and yet measures nine feet high, If any one doubts that British Columbia is adapted by climate and soil for agricultural purposes they had better remove their doubts by an examination of the cereals and vegetables in tho court. Tho ahoavos of grain exhibited could not possibly be richer iu yield of grain and brightness of the straw. Tho sample of spring wheat grown on high lands without cultivation or manure is n marvel in itaelf. Thero are also to be seon in a bunch somo twenty varioties of native grasses, which look very pretty. Com- ..,« t„ (lm vi"">Hi'.!,'t- tl'" "i"" nt the difiercgt varieties is immense, nnd shows how adapted the soil of the Pacilio coast is for tho raising of vegetables of all kinds. The turnips, beets, carrots, potatoes, cabbage and corn, attract a great deal of attention. The prettiest display, however, is the array of bottles containing samples of ill the fruit raised in British Oolumbia. Tho strawberries are as large as medium- sized apples; the Bartlett poars are like small turnips, and the crabapples present a healthy and bright appearance. Then there are wonderful large and lusoious plums and apples, which have a very coaxing flavor. In the collection are also gooseborries, rhubarb, peas, tomatoes and currants. The fruit display itself would stamp British Columbia as a good and fair country to live in. But there are still more products to bo spoken of, and that brings up lho fishing industry of British Columbia, Mr. Caldwell has arranged in the centre of the court a pyramid of canned salmon, wliich is suggestive of the groat fishing industry of the province. In addition to salmon canning and packing companies on tho Fraser River and at othor points, the deep sea fisheries are now attracting the attention of fishermen in ull lands. There is now a large fleet of fishing boats pursuing a remunerative trado in the Gulf of Georgia and the north wost coast of the provinco. Then, again, tho opening of the 0. P. R. led to the opening of an export trado in fish to Eastern Canada and tlie United States. The streams and large rivers of Ihe province teem with all specimens of the finny tribe, ao that tho fishing induatry, instead of becoming loss orofitablo and extensive, will yearly add to the wealth of British Columbia. There are on exhibition magnificent specimens of fur, those receiving the most attention being skins of tho marten, beaver, otter, bin ok boar, brown bear, and cinnamon bear. The skins aro all soft and of vory superior quality. Tho last, but not the least, products to be mentioned are the free minerals, Tlioro is a specimen of silver which brings §3,000 to the ton ; gold quartz, §1,500 to the ton and native copper of a very rich oharaoter, Then, again, thero are magnetic iron oro nud gold specimens which are to be found a short distance from Vuncouver city. In the mineral collections is a specimen of pctiilieil wood which was found 240 feet below the surface iu a mine in Cariboo. It r0aoinblosa petrified Japanese, Mr. Onldwoll ntutesthat mining operations arc very active in British Columbia nt prosent, and predicts that tiio ooal industry itself will soon becomo o large and Important factor in the commerce of the country. All that is wanted is capital, whicli is ex- pocted to (low in as the resources of the province becomo kuor.ii. NO. 39. At tho 3ynod of tho Anglican church in Canada, the discussion of the Jesuits quostion was resumed from Wednesday night and a memorial from the diocese of Ontario was referred to a committee. Hon. G. W. Allan moved that tho synod do petition the parliament of lho Dominion ut its next session to enact such laws us will secure the hotter observance of the Lord's day in the Dominion. Jolj printing of all binds neatly done at the Uolumman office, Prices will be found as low as nt anv otber offico in t ic iirt.-.-iik".- — Ad' GKR-A-ID-TID New Westminster, B. C. ■luring Provincial Agricultural foliiliilimi, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY and FRIDAY, OCT, 2nd, 3rd and 4tli, '89 SIX BRASS BANDS iu ATTENDANCE. $7,000 IN PRIZES! FOR SPORTS AND EXHIBITION. SPORTS TO CONSIST OF Horse Racing, Yacht Racing, Boat and Canoe. Racing, Athletic Sports, Lacrosse, Base-ball, Foot-ball, Hose Reel Contest, and Rifle .Hutches E DUBER TIIK ASSPICH) OF THE Caledonian anil St, -Andrew's Society. GRAND TRADES AND SOCIETIES PROCESSION ON Thursday Morning, Oct. 3rd. Representing tlio Gioat Industrlos Grand Ball I ON Wednesday Evening, Oct. 2nd. SsffK^KjKsras? 035* O 1W O '™^™«~»i»sws«i -FOR & Ranges! DON'T FORGET TIUO ADDRESS: Wrltaiik? I HI CoIumbiaSi., New Westminster © JK, ".'S.7 O 355- IL 1EL .ARD, Whom we have appointed our sole agent CHiLUWHACK, for our celebrated Stoves in that district. New Westminster prices, Mr. Mellard will supply our Stoves at dwnoiyi AND WHERE TO GET THEM AT THE LOWEST PRICES. LARGEST BOOT & 811 STORE SN BRITISH COLUMBIA ;hoes AND WHERE TO GET THE BEST ASSORTMENT THE LOWEST PRICES. AT And Where Quality, to Get the Newest Styles, Where to Get the Best and Where to Buy Them at the Lowest Prices. U3F REMEMBER, my stock of fine Boots and Shoes, in the newest styles, is larger this season than any dealer's in the Province, To buy at Low Prices, to see the Greatest Variety, to get New- Goods (not old shop-keepers), go to dwtc JAMES ROUSSEAU, 61 Col-cixxiTsia Street. THIS SPACE BELONGS TO Ha Tn READ & 00. HARDWARE SIEKOHANTf CELEBRATION TO END WITH IMMENSE Torchlight Procession! ON FRASER niVEll, AND GRAND DISPLAY OP FIRE-WORKS Ou -frlilny livening, Oct. 41b. Excursion Rates from all points. BarFoi-inll Information anil Prizo Lists soo small bills. Vf.n, TOWNSEND, Mayor. J. 8. C. PHASER, Treasurer. S, T. MACKINTOSH, nnaatd Seorotary, (LUNDISOM'S BUILDING, FRONT STREET) HEALEE XKT UGH, 'REET) INDISE! Constantly ou Hand au Extensive Stock of Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots & Shoes, Hats A Caps, Crockery, Glassware, Ac. TWC—t-JM-'ES iSsts BO-JTS' 8VXT8. Groat Variety of Hoiisotiold Avtiolos. Also, GRAIN, SEEDS, POTATOES, LIME and GENERAL STORES. x. It*—Farm Produco butiylid at niurku frnm tlie Interior promptly iitlcndod to. ni Hold on commission. -aa.OrderH dwjcSIc RIES For First-class Family Groceries and Provisions, go to SINCLAIR'S, - Columbia Street. New Goods arriving all the time. A nice lot of CHRISTIE S CRACKERS & BISCUITS just to hand. New SYRUPS, MOLASSES, etc., etc. Call and get prices. dwtc RAE %t* IMC ■ [SUCCESSOR TO D, MrPFTADKN] DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF FIRST-CLASS r* nesp d Provisions JS?"1 BED ."MS MM ® tsMz _ZJ • Coflees Roasted and Ground on the Promises. Fine Teas a Specialty, uwly OOLUMBIA STREET——— VOLUME 34. WEEKLY BRITISH COLUMBIAN, NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C„ SEPTEMBER 25, 1839. NO. 39. QUEBEC'S CALAMITY. Falling Rocks Bury Whole Families. A Desperado's Death. Tlio Nicaragua Canal. Rivalry Between Union and Northern Pacific. Cloud Burst in New Mexico. Reported Suicide of Mrs. Hamilton. A Peace-Maker Stabbed to the Heart. CRUSHED IO DEATH. Quebec, Sept. 19.—To-night sevornl thousand tons of rook slid from Oape Diamond at tlio end of Dufferin Terrace to Champlain Btreet, 300 feet below, demolishing in its courso seven dwellings. Up to midnight six bodies had been taken from the rains. Thos. Farrlaud, and two children named Burke, and one unknown child. About 25 persons havo been removed from the debris badly injured, Some havo broken arms aiid lege, and others are badly crushed and mutilated. It is supposed that at least UO persons aro yet under the ruins. Tlio mass detached from tho cliff side loft a vacant space of extraordinary dimensione under Dufferin terrace, nnd the meat promomade ia now unsafe. Ton corpses and sixteen wounded have beon taken out. It will take several days to recover all the bodies. The damage will exceed $100,000. Houses in tliat locality wero built of stono and brick and inhabited by ship laborers. The officers and men uf tlio royal schoul of calvary are coming to the rescue with ropes, picks and shovels. About six hundred mon are now at work. Three more bodies liavo juit beon taken from the ruins and tho bullies are covered with coagulated blood and dust, and are a sickening spectacle to behold. The redeiuptory fathers aro among the rescuers. THE HEATH EOLL. Quebec, Sopt. 20.—Following is a revised listas far as known up to noon: Killed, Jas. Farrell, three Farrell children, two Burke ohildren, one Bradley child, one child of P. Fitz- geralds, Mrs. Bracket, Mrs. Stephen Burke, Harry Blaok, Win. Black, ThoB. Nolan and Mrs. Roddy. Tho injured are : Mr. and Mrs. Carbon, O'Neill, Mrs. Mike Sheridan aod child, Thos. Beirigiiii, Dennis Berrigan, Jas. Hayden, Win. Stevou aud sui, Nellie Deehay, Pat. Fizgornld, M. Ready, threo Mnyburg children, S. Bmke, his mothor, Mrs. Fitzgerald, Thomns Graham, Wm. Power, wife nnd child, Mrs. T. Farrell; some dead and woundod aro uow being taken out of tho ruins, names as yet unknown. Later:. — Additional kiliod — Mrs. Thos. Berrigan. Additional injured —Miss May Coldwell, seriously. The work of rescue was pursued unceasingly throughout the nightandstill goes on with unabated vigor, but tho task iB a gigantic one. For instance, the Black family aro buried under debris twolvo feet deep; when' Miss May Caldwell, niece of Mrs. Black was extricated lifo was almost extinct; she is seriously hurt. The next person reached wna Mr. Thomas Berrygan whoso wife hud been taken out. He was badly shattered and in a critical condition. Then on me a boy of 8 years of age, named Berrygan with left leg crushed. Mrs. Black was noxt taken out unconscious and remained so for 5 hours. She is badly hurt. Quebec, Sept. 20.--The work of excavating still goes on at the scene of the terrible land slide, but a fow bodies have beeu taken out since midnight. A large numbor of persons nro still missing and thero is no doubt but thoy nre beneath the ruins and so deep down that they will nil be dead before they are rescued. The loss sustained by the surviving victims of the disaster is almost total in addition to home lost. The sufforurs are working men and have lost all thoir summer's earnings. The injured have been removed to tho hotel Dieu, whore they are receiving all possible caro. The list of the dead will bo prepared before noon. Quebec, Sept. 20. — The latest news from tho land slide states that the persons rescued aro Miss Mary Coldured, Thomas Berrigan, a boy named Berrigan, and Mrs. Black, all badly bruised. Mrs. Black states tliat hor husband was killed at the door of thoir house, and is still inthe ruins. DEATH 01' A DESl'EliADO. Moorehead, MlNN., Sept. 20.— John Thomas Raymond, alias Thos. Brown, was hanged in the corridor of tho jail here at 4 o'clock this morning. Hayiniind Bhot and killed policeman Powell in this city Inst December. Though but 20 years old, tho murder of officer Powell is nut his only gravo crime. Burglaries and robhories by the scoro can bo charged to his account, and nt least two murders must bo added to his list. A year ago a pugilist named Fulljamon, of Toronto, was killed in a prize fight in a barn at Grand Forks. Tho murderer was nover oaogtit. Brown a couicbsiou clears up the mystury. The man,who killed Fullii mi b was "Boston Carey," otherwise known us "Bux Car Caruy," and a few days later he was shot dead by Brown near Hillaboro, Dakota, in in a row. RAILWAY RIVALRY. San Francisco, Sopt. 20. Commenting on the report that the Northern Pacifio had enjoined the Union Paoifio from building across its track at Spokane Falls, a well known railway official to-day said, "That will not amount' to anything except to cause a tew days delay. Thoso two roads uro having a cat and dog fight in Oregon and Washington. Tho Union Pucilio through ils leased line, that of tho Oregon Navigation Company, is doing somo rapid construction just now. By tho 1st of October it will be in Spo- 1 kano Fulls. Tn Idaho it is working under tlio name ' of the Washington aud Idaho Railway. That road will go to Mullen Missoula and Garrison. This is all Northern Pacific territory that is boing invaded. There is also going to bo an invasion north from Portland bofore long. The Union Pacific wants to reach Tacoma, Seattle and Puget Sound, and I think the Northern Pacific people will let the Union Paciiic run its trains on their track to thoso pointa. If they do not concede that privilege it is my opinion that under tiie name of the Port Town- send and Southern Railway the Union Pacific will build n parallel lino. Surveys are in existence for that very purpose. disastrous cloud burst Qbhaohaai, N. M„ Sept. 20.-A cloud burst near .Keene station to-dny and submerged the Southorn Pacifio railway track to the dopth of 10 feot. It struck 2 ranches here nud the rush of water tore up orchards, carried off stock in houses nud landed them in the canyon below. SUICIDE Ol' MRS, HAMILTON. New York, Sept. 20. —The Morning Journal publishes a despatch from Atlantic which snys it is rumored there that Mrs, Robt. Ray Hamilton, who was sentenced yesterday to 2 years imprisonment fin-stabbing nurse Donully, has committed suicide. STRUCK BY LIOHTNINO. Tucson, Ariz., Sept. 20.—During tlio raiu storm here last uight, two buildings were struck by lightning and demolished j many others were damaged. ' THE PEACEMAKERS LOT. WlLKESBARR, Pa., Sept. 20.—Mrs. Patrick Farrell, boarding liouse keeper at Jeriuin, Lackawanna county, was kiliod last night by being stabbed to the heart while trying to separate two fighting boarders. SPANISH-AMERICAN PRIDE. San Fhancisco, Sept. 10.—Advices from Central America by the steamship Acapulco, state that the president of Honduras has gone lo Guatemala ill order to meet Presidents Barillar of Guatemala, and Menendcz of Salvador, to make arrangements with them in order to mediate on serious difficulties which havo arisen respecting the inter-oceanic canal between Nicaragua and Custa Rica. Mr. Mizer, American Minister to Contral America, snys that the difficulties have arisen moro from a jealous guarding of national dignity on both sides than from any actual injury done or suffered, and he is confident that the differences will be settled harmoniously before lhe end of next month. HEAVY RAILWAY TRANSFER. Cincinnati, Sept. 19.—Cincinnati, Washington, and Baltimore Railroad, was sold at 11:30 to dny, at tlio court liouse. It was purchased for §5,000,- 000 by E. R. Bacon, representing bond holders and stockholders in this country and England. The road was sold on a foreclosure mortgage. accidentally shot. Dunsmuir, Cal., Sept 19.—Ono of a number of railroad employees, accidentally fired a revolver in a saloon hero last night, and E, D. Lake, an engineer, was shot and killed. He leaves a wifo and two children in San Francisco. EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS IN CALIFORNIA. Ukiah, Cal., Sept. 19.—From Monday until Tuesday afternoon there were not los-i than a dozen shocks of earthquake iu this vicinity. the gallic cock crows. New Youk, Sept. W.—Ie Courier Des Elals Unit, ilio loading French organ, says editorially this morning, relative to recent utterances of M. Freyoinot and General Miribel concerning the French army: "The conclusion from all this is that we all, as far as possible, should display our entire sympathy and admiration for our brothers of Alsace-Lorraine, who havo this great, this subliuio coursgo to serve day by day against tho invader. This is what the chiefs of our army havo done, indirectly, in raising high the French ling in vory view of the German frontier; that is the best proof of the sympathy wo can give to our loyal brothei'B of Alsace-Lorraine " IRISH ENTERPRISE, Dublin, Sept. 20.—A deputation of Iriah workmen from various departments of industry has gone to Paris to study the products of the trade exhibited at the exposition. BOCLANOER HONORED. London, Sept. 20.—Fifty retired officers of tho French army, who were formerly comrades of Boulanger, presented the general with an address protesting against his prosecution by tho government nnd expressing a wish that he mny gain a striking victory in the coming election for members of the chamber of deputies. bringing them to time. Madrid, Sept. 20.—Advices from Laugior any thnt the Moors hnvo issued a proclamation warning the natives not to harm Christians on pain of death. It. is believed that the ruffians will release the captured Spanish sailors ou Saturday. ROl'LANGER HOPEFUL. UiNiiON, oept. ill.—A represeiuu- tive of the proas news association called upon Goneral Boulanger at his residence in Portland Place this morning. The general was in good spirits and confident that the rosult of the elections in France would be in his favor. He said his friends and supporters woro carrying on tho campaign with vigor and his hope waB undiminished in spite of tho storm of defamation which tho government and politicians who were against him were pouring out. Tho goneral did not think everything would be deoided on Sunday noxt. There was an unusual number of candidates in tho field; at least 2,000 nominations had boon mado for about (100 seats. In consequence of this multiplicity of candidates, in many districts n majority would not bo obtained, nnd ho estimated that seoond ballotings would be liocossiiry ill 200 casos. These 200 supplementary elections will probably take place October (lib. POLICE INTERFERENCE IN IRELAND. London, Sopt. 19.—The little town of Dungannon, in the county Tyrone, Ireland, is to-night, in a perfect frenzy of excitement over a political controversy. A week ago a number of English Liberals, who aro travelling through Ireland with a view of studying tho Homo Rule question on its nativo soil, interested themselves to organize iu Duiigannou a public meeting in tho interests of Home Rule, the date of wheih was fixed for to-night. For nearly a whole week the fact that such a meeting was to be held wus well known to everybody in the county Tyrone, and not a single word of objection came from the police authorities. To-night, however, the Market square, where the meeting was to have been held, is filled with armed police and placards are posted proclaiming the meeting. This action of the authorities excites tho most intense indignation among those in sympathy with tho object of tho meeting, und a deputation of tho Englishmen who wero chiefly instrumental iu organizing it called upon the magistrate this evening to protest against this attack upon lhe right of free speeoh. Thoy wero fold that tlie meeting had been proclaimed because it seemed certain that if it was permitted, bloodshed world result, as the Orangemen proposed to organize a counter meeting only a stone's iln-ow away in case the Homo Ruler's assembled. Diinynunoii tonight is divided into two hostile camps, Catholics, and Orangemen, taking eveiy opportunity to hurl do- fiance at ouo another. Up to this time no more serious consequences aro reported tlian a fow broken heads, the results of isolated disturbances, but tho feeling runs pretty high and the police are nearly all concentrated on the scene of the proclaimed meeting; news from that point is awaited with coiiBidorable anxiety. PAVING THE WAY. London, Sept 18.—Mr. Chamberlain, in his speeeli at Huddersfield last evening, mnde a point wliich has attracted some attention by asking the Gladstnniuns to make a plain statement of their general -policy. He pointed out that even if the liberals should win atthe next general election, fivo or six years must elapse before their ideas of home rule could bo brought into practical operation, meanwhile what was to ho thoir internal and foreign policy outsido of the Irish question'! He intimated that in their race for home rule, the liberals were drifting into alliances with radicals, socialists and ull sorts of people whose claims upou the party in the event of success would he a menace to the orderly and safe conservative progress of the country. Befure appealing tn the British public for a return to power, the liberals should define more satisfactorily than they had hitherto done, what they proposed to do for the country as a whole. FERRY DIVORCE CASE. San Francisco, Sept. 21.—The legal advisers of MrB. Ferry, wife of Clinton B. Ferry, tlie lumber merchant of Tacoma, stated last night that letters looking to a compromise were passing between them and the attorney general of Washington territory, who is adviser of Ferry. Mrs. Ferry is anxious for a speedy settlement, and if Terry will not have one the divorce suit will be pressed as soon- as it can be reached on the calendar. . TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT. Worcester, Mass., Sept. 21.—A railroad accident occurred on the B. Ss O. Railroad about 3:30 to-doy betweon Lancaster and South Lancaster. A frieght left Rochester ubout 7 pm. yesterday and was duo hero at 4:30 this morning. A special freight lcit here oarly this morning ond collided with this train. Engineor Edward Lawrence, Rochester, had his left arm broken; Firemen Wann was killed. Peter Topro was injured about tho head, 13 cars were piled on top of each other, both engines were totally ruined. THE LANCASHIRE PLATE. London, Sept. 21.—The race for the Lancashire plate, valued at $12,- 000, wus run at Manchester to-day, and was won by Donovan, Chittabob second, Alicante third. WHEAT. Liverpool, Sopt. 22.—Wheat quiet, Cala. 0s. iO'd. A SENSIBLE SULTAN. Zanzibar, Sepi. 21.—The sultan of Zanzibar lias issued an edict whicli empowers Groat Britain nnd Germany to search all Zanzibar dhows and other boats with the object of suppressing tho slave traflic. Tho edict also declares that evory porson entering Zun- zabar after November lat shall bo free. SLAVE PHOW I'AI'TUHED. Zanzibar, East Africa, Sopt 21.—A dhow with over a hundred captive slaves on board hasboon captured near here by an English cutter. Ehe bit Paul Guibe ^..,... the ioJ- lowing statistics regarding the Indians of the United States : The Indian agencies are 61 in number. Tho number of houses occupied by Indians is 21,232. The estimated number of Indians in Alaska is 30,- 000. The nnmber of Indians living on and cultivating lands is 9,612. The total Indian population of the United States is 247,701. The number of Indian church members in the United States is 2S.063. Thero are 10 Indian training school in different parts of the Union, Tlio number of Indians in the United States i'bo wear citizens' dross is 1831. Tln/number cf Indians in the Unit'.! States wbo oan read" English is 23,595. The number of Indians iu the Unilod Slates who can road the Indian language is 10,- 027. QUEBEC MOUKNS The Loss of Many Citizens. A Hero among' the Ruins. Over- Board and Browned. Small-Pox in Bolivia. A Gigantic Steal. Colombia's Gratitude. Life-Saving Heroes. English Cotton Ring. French Elections To-morrow. Boulangists Actively Working. THE QUEBEC HORROR. .Quebec, Sept. 21.—Tho wink of digging out victims uf the land slide wan carried on all night although it rainod incessantly. Tlie efforts of tho workers wore concentrated on the spot whoro a man named Kemps is supposed to bc. At 4 o'clock this morning work was far onough advancod to allow him to be seen. At intervals Kemp would sing popular songs, thon shorn, "polico! police!" The poor man io either insane or iu a delirium. A niiiii naniuil Beauohnmp, who, with 2 brothers, lias worked without sleep ever since the downfall of the slide, crawled into the small.opening to sot at, Kemp, who was lying somo 15 feet under an immense pilo of earth and stones, but tho bravo mail had not gone (J feet when tne whole muss fell in upon him. He wai nilo to crawl back a couple of fi-et, but was fastened there by tho corpse of a woman whieh blocked the opening. The Retlemp- tnrist father.', who passed tho night "U the scene encouraging the workers, and knelt do'iu and recited prayers, although almost exhausted, redoubled their efforts, and in a fow momenta tioiiuchamp was pilled out alive, I'll: badly stunned and- bruised. John Nolan, who was thought lo have been killed, was found still alive, though buried under 20 feet of ruins for over 30 hours. It will bo several hours yot before he can bo got out. Men of the battery and the royal school uf cavalry ore still aiding in the work uf rescue. OVERBOARD ANIl DROWSED. Rockland, Me., Sept. 21.—The lumber laden schooner J. L. Catler, wub wrecked during the gale yesterday. Capt. Durant and his wifo were washed overboard and drowned; the crew wore saved. CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN NOTES, New York, Sept. 21.—The contract has been signed by the Honduras government with the Honduras und Central American Steamship Co., of Glasgow, for a bi-monthly steamship sorvico between Port Livingstone and Now York. The line is to be established immediately. A handsome monument has been erected in Bogota, Colombia, to commemorate ths gallant services nf the voluntary English legion which fought in the war of independence. It is reported that a tribe of the cliff dwelling Indians has been discovered in the Cordilleras overlooking Golfa Dulce, Costa Rica. Tho Dutch bank of Berlin has engaged to place a new Chilian loan of between 9 and 10 millions. Small-pox is making tsrrible ravages at Cochabaniba, Bolivia. Several army officials have been arrested in Valparaiso, charged with defrauding the national regimental funds out of over a million dollars. A CHAPTER OF HEROISM. Washington, D. C.Sept. 21.—The most heroic chapter in the history of the life saving service will be recorded of life savers duriug the recent storm along tbe Atlantic coast. Brief telegraphic reports only have been reoeived here, but from these there is gathered that hundreds of lives and thousands of dollars wonh of property hnve been saved through the efforts of the various life saving stations. As soon as telegraph communication is restored with the stations along the coast, Supt. Kimball bus requested reports from t!ii-iii. Nothing like the same number of rescues, within the period covered by u single storm, have ever before been accomplished along the coast' of Maine and Massachusetts. Nineteen vessels in distress asked for life saving crews, and were either assisted or the crows taken ashore, thus five persons were rescued along the coast; along lho Rhode Island coast two crows wore rescued; seven crews were rescued along the coast of New Jersey and the Delaware Breakwater. Twenty-two vessels in distress were assisted and 104 persons tnken ashore. At Capo Henry three stranded vessols were reached and 24 livos wero saved. TO FIGHT THE COUtON RING Manchester, Sepi. 21.—Energetic action is being taken by those employed in the cotton industry , to defeat the Liverpool corner which has succeeded in buying up the great bulk of the actual cotton whicli will be on the market at tho end of this month. Bilh employes and employers have agreed to joint action in order to defeat ill. ring. Two-thirds of the mill owners hnvo decided to run on short time, and the remaining third will be unable to work ot all, as the oporutives union will call out the spinners of all the mills. boulangists actively electioneering. Paris, Sopt. 21.—-Paul Deroulede, Laguerre Naquet, and other members of the Patriotic League, recently suppressed by tho govornment, have issued a manifesto in which thoy appeal to all patriots to voto for Boulanger in to-morrow's election, and thus deliver thoir country from the yoko of the govornmont which is ruining France. The Gaulois says the government at the last moment intends to issue a proclamation declaring that all votes east for Boulanger will be void. Tho Boulangists are working actively in the interest of their candidates. A committeo has boen appointed whoso duty it will bo to closely watch tho ballot boxes to prevent any attempt at fraud. D. SB CURTIS 9sr CO. AGENTS B. LAURANCE'S SPECTACLES. Wholesale and Ketail Druggists NEXT COLONIAL HOTEL, NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C. SPECIAL BARGAINS in New Dress w Goods, Jackets, Paletots, ■ Dolmanettes, and Ulsters. A Large Assortment of MEN'S SUITS from $7.00. WALKER & S dvselOtc COLUMBIA STKKKT. JUST RECEIVED, A CAR-LOAD OF Pell, Rice Coil-spring- iMcLaughlan ■per <-a_v mWtW je "be sss _JLSO DUPLEX, HANDY, BRADLEY & OTHER t Democrat and Express Wagons! (tgir The Best and Cheapest Rigs ever offered for sale in British Columbia.' dwap-lte JrlLeici db Oi_i.:rrl-e, W, & G, Wolfe Cor. Columbia and Mary Sts., New Westminster. The above named firm having fully decided to retire from lhe Dry Goods Business and confine their attention to the G roc-cry Business for the future, now offer the whole of their Choice, New, Well Selected and Well Bought Stock of Dry Goods and Clothing at Cost Prices for Cash. A rare chanco is now offered to intending purchasers, as tk-stock consists of goods just suited for the present and coming season. All fresh and in prime order and purchased in the best foreign markets at rock bottom prices. Sale to commence on Monday, tho 16th instant, and to continue until the whole of the stook has been olosed out. REMEMBER THE PLACE: Corner of Columbia and Mary Streets. W.&G.WOLFENDE-'N. ROYAL CITY Planing 11 Oompany, Li RICHARD STREET, NEW WESTMINSTER. MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS M Minis of Rog asOi Shingles, Shakes, Laths, Pickets, SALMON BOXES, NET FLOUTS, TR ACTS ALL ICXITOS OB* Wood Furnishing for Canneries Doors, Frames, Windows, Mouldings. Balurters, Blinds. Brackets. Railings, Newels. PLAIN AND FANCY AND ALL KINiUS OF TtiRNED WM. nolfldwly VOLUME 34. WEEKLY VtRITISH COLUMBIAN, NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C, SEPTEMBER 25, ——^™- '——mmmwvntmTtttmtmmwtm—mtattmtmamttmmtBsniivnmmTaatsstmattamisavmm NO. 39. A SOUTHERN TilAMP. The Special Commissioner of "The Columiiian" Tramps Southward in Search of News. A Rough but Interesting Trip Throuffli a Fine Portion of Westminster District. Sketch of the Progress of the Southern Railway and Connections South. Although railway matters have been the principal topic of conversation and argument in Westminster for more than a year, yet little has actually been known of tho real progress of the work oxcept from hearsay, tbu majority of our citizens apparently being content to stay at home and arguo tlio subject jiro and con without being thorougldy acquainted vvjth the real facts as they stand. It was the intention of The Columbian to send out a sfecial commissi -ner to make a thorough inspection of tha proposed line some months ago, but it was found inconveinent to do so at that timo. the staff of The Colu.maian has lately been increased, howover, and iu view of tho railway question again coming before the public for a final verdict, wo determined to can y out our original intention and asooitain tho exact facts regarding railway work on both aides of the boundary. The trip bas just been accomplished, and the facts as found by personal inspection and observation will now iiu laid before the public iu tlio words of our commissioner. The failure uf the Canlield'company to build the Southern Railway, and the subsequent breaking off of negotiations with that company, aro too well known to require explanation here. The now agreement with Nelson Bennett et al, to build tho road has appeared in the columns of The Columbian, and the general public are acquainted with its conditions, which will be ratified or rejected at the polls, on the 14th of October next. It might bo here noted that no person outside of our office knew of the intended trip, and consequently nothing was "cooked" for the occasion. the start. Leaving Brownsville on Tuesday, 17th inst., at 9:15 a-m., with rille on shoulder and personal ellects stowed away in his old '85 haversack, your commissioner walked over the patch of grass that leads to the Southern Railway grade and in the space of a few minutes found himself on "the field of action." The first thing that strikes the eye is the substantial manner in which the grading has been performed-, the next is the apparent caro that has been taken to ditch the low land lying inland, the water from ■which, if allowed to stand, would certainly undermine tho road bed and -soon undo the work that has been accomplished at great expense, The systuin of ditches running across these lauds aud emptying into tho river is doing splendid work, as anyone can aee who will spare a couplo of hours to investigate. Both Bides of the grado are ditched wide and deep, and outlets for the water are provided by the culverts which are situated wherever necessary. The Colu.maian representative found half a dozen gangs of mon at work on the culverts, and tho workmanship displayed in connection with these would be hard to find fault with. It was also noted that at every cross- ditch tho timber for tho construction •of lhe culverts was en the ground, and ready for the skilled hand of the mechanic to give it shape. About two miles out from Brownsville the heavy timber-is entered, and a great relief tlie shade of those trees afforded after toiling across tho open undor tho rays of a broiling suu. On both sides of .the road many thousand tie3 are to be seen piled up and awaiting the coming of tho tracklayer. About a mile weut of tbe hatchery tho line runs through a 1'IECE OF MUSKEQ, into tbe moss on which the graders had to cut two feet deep to lind hard pan. After leaving tho hatchery crossing, the rood bed is particularly solid, and a finer piece of railroad con- scruotion is not to bc found anywhere. The top of the y,rade has been smoothed by the rains, and being hard and level would make an excellent race course or carriage drivo were it not wanted for moro important purposes. All tho way till the long cribwork is reached the country through wliich the line pass-js is very rich, and in a few years, whin ii. in settled on it will be a beautiful farming district. Tho 1,500 feet of cribwork along the bank of the Fraser ia substantial in eveiy way, and gives an impression of solidity even to the uninitiated. Vour commissioner -has seen works of this kind in many otlier parts nf the continent, but none more suhitantial. At this point, from the face ; thu bluff above the roud- i.bed, c.udu petroleum oozes from the -ground in small streams, but tiio immense quantities of this oil lying beneath and awaiting development will only be ascertained wheu men with capital and enterprise annexed prospect the neighborhood thoroughly. One of theso days someono will "strike it rich." After passing the cribbing the lino curves into a low marshy pieco of country, and a milo farther on the grading ends. But construction is actively progressing ull tho samo. A igang of ubout 80 men aro busily grading and ditching, and tlio progress ihoy make, even over this marnhy ground is, to say the least, surprising. Tbo foreman explains that handling a pick, shovel and wheelbarrow are not scientific accomplishments, but tho art of keeping railway laborers at work is, which ill a nutshell explains tbo rapid progress. Leaving thu graders bu- Jiind, your commissioner started across a luilb of muskeg, ditted with small pine trees and lavge bog holes. A pleasant break to tbe monotony of this part of the journey was tho presence of TWO LARGE BEAKS on the right of way, their right to which, however, lliey did not stop to dispute, but lied precipitately on The Columbian man's approach. At the end of tho muskeg the grading is again reached and continues without a break to Bossi station, ill the eastern end of Parsou's channel. Hero is located Nu. 1 whito camp, a portion of Bradshaw & Lemon's contract. Mr. Bradshaw invited me to dine with him, which invitation was accepted with gratitude and considerable alacrity. After dinner Mr. McCammon, the engineer in chargo of construction, gave much valuable information ns to the manner ill which the work was being performed, and Mr. Jas. Leamy, who also happened to bo in camp, pointed out a splendid grouse preserve, where, ho guaranteed, un ordinary sportsman could bag a sackful in an hour. Bossi station is graded for a side truck, and it will bo an important shipping point for up river farmers when the line is in operation. The namo of tho station is obtained from a farmer who resides closo to tlio steamboat landing at ibis point. A hundred yards up tbo grade Bradshaw Ss Lemon's men are working on a pretty stiff cut. Only white men are employed. For tho noxt two miles the road is graded with the exception of a few hundred feet, whieh the contractors promise to havo finished before the end of the month. station 595 is marked in red figures on a small and unpretentious post, but this littlo piece of cedar marks the station of the future city of Port Kells. The surroundings would not tempt even tho greatest enthusiast to wander off into raptures, but cities havo sprung into existence during the last ten years that gave as little promiso of future greatness as Port Kells does to-day. Not far from the line aro situated the undeveloped iron mines, wliich some day will yield rich returns aud probably give rise to a largo and thriving town. Leaving Port Kells bohind, the grading is followed in a southerly direction across the Serpentine Hats to the intersection of the "Tale road. This portion of the grading is oil but finished, and only a week or two at the most will be required to put it in readiness for the rails. Tho ownors of the land on the flats have cut immense ditches, almost rivers in size, across their property for the purpose of drainage in connection wilh the railway ditches. These ditches, although only cut a couple of months ago, ure already full of Uttle fishes, which some day will provide excellent sport for tho disciples of Walton. At the intersection of tlio Yale road a post oflice, to bo named Clayton, will be established in a few weeks, and here also will be a station of tbo Westminster Southern Railway. The company evidently looks upon this as an important station, as the grading bas been made for 1,500 feet of sidetrack. Certainly it is a very likely spot fora thriving village, surrounded us it is by a rich and populous farming settlement. Half a mile south of the Yalo road, Bradshaw & Lemon have 85 men and 0 teams at work on the heaviest cut on the line. A little over 10,000 cubic yards of earth baro to lie taken frum the ridge to bring the grade to its propor level. Another month will be required to finish the cut. From this camp to the Nicomekl river, a distance of throe miles, tho work is progressing steadily, no less than 18 sub-contractors being busy on the grade, and in a couple of weeks the line will bo completo tu the river. At the Nicomekl construction ends for the present, but will bo resumed as soon as the definite route is located. A party of Bennett's engineers are locating three separate routes to the boundary, but until it is definitely announced what inducements tbe peoplo of Blaine will offer the company lo tako tho lino through that town nothing will bo known as to the routo from the Nicomekl southwards. It is almost a certainty, however, that the old Oanfield route will not bo chosen. The RICH AND BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY through which your commissioner travelled all day caused hiin to reflect on the advantages Westminster would do- rive from a railroad passing through this magnificent district and terminating in the Royal City. Tho ever increasing products of theBo lauds necessitate additional facilities for cheap and easy marketing, and tho city that bocomes the market for tbe products of this district, Its future is assured. Tho farmers aro evon now complaining that they cannot do justice to their farms and haul their goods to market on wagons, and what will it bo livo years hence, when ten times tho acreage is under crop. There muBt bo ad ditional means of transportation, and only a railroad will provide thom. summing up. So far as tho work has progressed, it. will bo found that tho road is gr»d"il as far as Bossi, with only ono long break; from Bossi tu-Clayton, at the intersection of the Yule road, with breaks in all amounting to about GOO foot; from Clayton to tho Nicomokl the only large item of construction remaining unfinished is the big cut uf: Bradshaw & Lemon's No. !i whito camp. With favorable weather the lost of construction will bo finished by October 15th, and then 21 miles of roadbed, equal to any on the coast, will be ready fur the rails. The road is freo to tho general publio for inspection, and if anyone doubts tbe correctness of theso statements it only requires ono day's very tedious and dillicult walking to verify the faots. THE SHADES OP NIGHT, a heavy dow, and the thermomoter wero foiling veiy fast when tho Langley road was reached on the return trip frum the Nicomekl rivor, cusu- quently your wearied and footsore rs\w*s; •prrr^-sTr-Misist.—'TrsxsvtfTr.T: commissioner ca- his eyes about find a friendly roof under which to lay his head tor a few hours' rest. After a sharp walk of 2Jj miles the farm house of Mr. Abraham Huck wus reached, and, although a complete stranger and disguised us a tramp, the door was thrown upon and a hearty welcome accorded tho unexpected visitor. Without waiting to hoar any excuse, Mrs. Huck, a right jolly, bustling old lady, brimming ovor with goodnature and kind-heartedness, set about preparing supper, aud in a few minutes your commissioner was feasting moro heartily than ho bud done for many a month. After a good night's rest and a live o'olock breakfast the route was taken again, this time for Uncle Sam's domains. A short out over the mountain was pointed out, which it was said would save a fow miles walking; and this trail wa3 takon, muoh to iny ultimate regret. After plodding up the difficult ascent for a time, following a bridle path, tho trail dividod into throe paths, and us luck would havo it your commissioner took tbo wrong one and wandered aimlessly about till a skidway was encountered, whicli led him to tlio Royal City Mills Oo.'a lumber camp. While enjoying a pannikin of cold tea after tho warm climb, the SHRIEK OF THE IRON HORSE was heard, and a moment later a train of immense logs rolled by tho door, drawn, I was informed, by the first locomotive brought to British Columbia. With the assistance of the second cook tho right trail was again discovered, and a farther walk of livo miles brought your commissioner to tho St. Leonard's hotel, on Boundary Bay, of which tbo worthy host is our old friend Mr. Wm. Ross. Tho sight of tho unrivalled buy and tho snug comforts uf the St. Leonard's, nestling prettily among the trees uud shrubbery that adorn tbo shore, throw out inducements to stop and rest that were hard to resist. How few peoplo m British Columbia know of this delightful spot, and how tew of those who do know profit.by thoir knowledge? If such a resort existed on tbo Atlantio coast it would be worth millions of dollars to its owners. Compared with Old Orchard Beach, Coney Island, Long Branch and Capo May, it is a paradise, and not ono of these resort-) mentioned are fit to be compared with Boundary Bay on tho Canadian Bide. On the American shore the beautiful beach has been disfigured and spoiled by immense rows of piles, planted by greedy speculators anxious to acquire wealth in the Bhape of mud flat lots. When tho tide recedes about 'I miles of the beach is left high and dry, and at high tide about 5 feet of water covers the entire flats, It is hard to imagne a more suitable watering placo, and surely none better exists. The St. Leonard's, though large and comfortable, has been found too small fortheaccommodationof pleasure- •oekers and Mr. Ross finds that he will have to double its size at an early date. RAILROAD MATTERS agitate Blaine fully as much as they do Westminster, and perhaps more so, for tbe citisens of thut pushing little town ore both anxious mid willing to bonus the Bennett Co. to make it a station ou the main line. Through tho kindness of Mr. Dorr, proprietor of the Blaine Journal, your commissioner was introduced to soveral leading citizens, who one and all oxpressed their determination to niiiko Blaine a railway town if monoy and other inducements would do it. Ono gentleman informed mo that tho road woold be bonused to tbe extent of 400 acres of land within tho city limits, and if that was not considered ample inducement a largo cash bonus would be added to it. Tho people of Blaine, ho said, would not hesitate at any reasonable demands in ordor to get the railway. When aBked his opinion of the Bennett Company, Mr. Dorr replied: "Mr. Bennett is the right man, and you may depend that tho road will be built. He has tbo confidence of every one; and he has tbo reputation of carrying out his projects to a successful issue." Another Blaino man said: "Tho moment, wo heard that Bennett was going to extend his line nortii to connect wiih Westminstor wo all agreed that Blaine's chance had come, for wo knew that ho was tho right man and that, ho means business." "Then you think Bennett, is sincere and will really build lhe road," queried your commissioner. "Everyone who knows Bennett will tell you that he nevor undertakes anything ho dooB not make a success of, and I believe ho has agreed to build tho rnnd to Westminster," Huchiias the concensus of,public opinion in Blaino. It wus learned that three parties of Bennett's engineers w-ro at wurk locating threo separata routes from tho boundary to Fail haven. The nearest party of engineers was reported to ho at. work about halfway botween Blaine and Ferndale, and thither your commissioner determined to proceed in order to lind if such was tho case. Tho only obstacle in tho way of carrying out this design was the services of a hoi'3e, for Blaine is not bleased with a livery stable. Half a dozon or more persons were named who might bn induced ti hire an animal, but at the end uf a three hours' search nonn bad boon obtained, and your commissioner was about to commence the journey on foot wbon a good natured, citizen onmo to tho rosoue and proffered tbo services of his horso, provided, ho could find a saddlo and bridle. The offer was accepted, bot saddles wore fully as source as horsos, and your commissioner lod his fiery steed over a MILE OUT OF TOWN before tho requisite trappings wero obtained. Mounted ut lust, the journey in quest of further information was, commonced. Blaine is prettily sit- tuuted, but it iB not seen to advantago except from a southern viow. Semi- uhmoo Spit and the intervening water makos tlie foreground of the picture perfect, all but the piles, while the green clad bills in tho rear of tho town gives u bold and striking up- to :!:g'-.;und. ridn from Blaino south would be delightful bat tor the disgraceful condition of tho roads, which are so bad that travel is greatly restricted in consequence. The engineers' camp was farther away than your commissioner supposed, and lio had ridden over two hours before the spot indicated was reached. Leaving the horse on the roadside he entered the bush and following u short trail the white touts of the party soon camo in view. The chiof engineor of the party, Mr. Janes, was found in camp, nnd he, most courteously, gave all tho information required,- He produced liis maps and field noil's and explained the work already done by his party, wliich consists of 30 mou. The location of tho line, from tho bouiiduiy to tlio Nooksack river, ut Ferndale, had been completed tliat day, and ono party bad OHOSSED THE RIVER and commencod work on the southern bank. According to instructions Mr. Janes hud located alternative routes, neither of which aro closo to tho old Canfield BUivey, but both linos join at Ferndale, whero the Nooksack will bo crossed. The moat difficult portion of tho location bad been accomplished and Mr. .lanes expected to form u junction with tho engineering party working north from Fuirhaven iu about three weeks. Ho explained to your commissioner that bis orders for the rapid completion of the work were veiy strict, and that be was forced to make the junction with the southorn party by a certain date, an evidence, he considered, that Mr. Bennett was determined to commence construction at an early dato. Leaving tho hospi- tablo camp, your correspondent onco more resumed the routo and arrived at Ferndnle just as the sun disappeared iu all ils grandeur in the west. Ferndale is not, impressive, neither is its poople. The hamlet is a dirty little place on the muddy banks of the Nooksack river, and the only redeeming qualities it pii3sosscs lies in the half dozen fine farms situated near by. Tlie inhabitants seem to lead a deliciously idle life in tbe vicinity of the pestoffico and hotel; and pigs, too, congregate thero in large numbers, mingling freely with the crowd of loafers unmolested. But Ferndale aspires to bo A RAILWAY TOWN and its inhabitants are willing to give Mr. Bennett 150 acres of land and §2,500 in cash to awaken them from their lethargy—and the monoy will bc well spent. This amount may seem small, but it is much greater in proportion than Westminster proposes to givo, for it comes out of the puckets of less than fifty people. The Nooksack is crossed on a wondrous contrivance in the shape "of a ferry scow, the design and original drawings for whioh were expressly imported from old Ohio nearly a quarter of a century ago. The ride from Ferndale to Bollingham Bay, if mado at night, is performed at tho risk of lifo and limb, moro particularly so if your horse happens to bo shoeless and troubled with CORNS AND BUNIONS. A considerable length of the road passes through a dense forest, tilled wil h a gignntic growth of Douglas fir and cedar. The trail, for it is not worthy of a hotter name, is in a terrible condition, covered with protruding stumps and roots, iutersporsed with deep mire holes, in whieh tho horse frequently sinks to the knees. There seems to be no effort made to improve the trail, which is rather surprising, as the cities on Bollingham Bay derive much of tlieir trado from the formers located along its route. It was n mutter of congratulation to your commissioner thut bo hud added an extra 82,- 0CD policy on bis life bofore leaving home, not that ho considered that his existonce had acquired that additional value, but simply to got even if possible on an old grudge with the insurance company. But the final settlement of the feud is reserved for somo future date, for though a hundred dangers were encountered in the shape of stumbles and falls, the journoy was finally accomplished in safety, and Sehome was reached just as the clock struck'.). BELLINGHAM BAY embraces no less than four cities in tho same number of miles frontage, viz; Whatcom, Sobome, Bellingham and Fairhaveu, tbo last named being the fairest and most promising of tbem all. Whatcom is unfortunately situ- ated, but might become a large and busy city wove it not flanked by bettor situated neighbors farther down the bay. Tbo mini Huts, on whioh the city siiwago is deposited, fills tbo uir with an llll-porvading odor of Hastiness when tlie tide ia low, and ut high water tlio surface nf the bay is bedecked with all sorts of floating garbage from a cork to tho last killed cut. But eels are said to become uncustomed to skinning, end possibly tho Whatcom peoplo will get acclimated to those nuisances and smells, which will ovon- tuully, if they aro not now, bo necos- Bary to their existence. Whatcom has mado considerable progress during the past year, but it is not being built in tli.it soiid and substantial mannor tui'o. About 880,000 has been spent, in street improvomenta during tliu last six months, and this largo sum has kept business good notwithstanding tho growing importance of hor rivals farther down tbe bay. Cuts and fills of sm..' magnitude have ruffled tho sensibilities of many West- niiiisteritos since tbo stroot improvements were commenced in tho royal oity, but those complaints would couso if the aggrieved parties would visit Whatcom and inspect tho revolution accomplished thoro. Your commissioner had tho extrcmo felicity _ of standing on the sidewalk and looking down the chimnoy of a 2-story building. It put him in mind of "Auld Reokio," but the inhabitants woro evidently burning up their stock of old boots, so he was satisfied with making tho inspection a short ono. Many buildings ure situated as this one is, and yot the.'.- lins been no clamor against the improvements. THE SECONO CITY is Sehome, and ii adjoins Whatcom iu a very brotherly fashion, it being difficult to distinguish whero tho one begins and the other ends. Sehome looks prosperous and substantial, and every peraon met gives tho visitor tbo impression that there is a prizo fight or a baseball match in the direction he is taking. Thoro seems to bo no time for leisure, everything is rush and huriy. Large buildings aro going up in evory direction, and the clatter made by the carpenters is deafening. Street improvements are also being conducted on an extensive scale in a most thorough manner. Tho Sehome House, tbe finest and most comfortable hotel on the Bay, is a credit in oveiy wuy to the city. The proprietors, by tho way, nro Canadians, and very obliging people they are. Adjoining So- home is Bolliugliam city, but only a oity in namo, though the owners of the townsito nre confident that it/' proximity to Fairhaven will one day make it all that their fondest hopes could desire. While enjoying a much needed rest in the Sohomo House, your com missioner was aoouslod by a ci'.'./i.Li, who inquired if The Columbian was the only newspaper in British Columbia. On being answered in tho noga five the intelligent citizen replied that "it didn't make much difference anyhow, for he calculated that none other came to the bay." After requesting to have his name put down ns a subscriber for The Columbian, the citizen withdrew, remarking that "it paid onco in a while to take a pointer from a Britisher." [Concluileil on V„%o 10.1 C W. Colter hiiB.determined to nppeal to tbe supreme court, against the decision unseating him in Half''mand, Ontario. Fire destroyed tlm Independent newspaper blook and several othor buildings at Now Hamburg, Out., at midnight ou Thursday. Loss, 810,- 000. Lord Stanley, Lady Stanley, and suite arrived at Pint Arthur Thursday evening nu their special car "Victoria" and wore enthusiastically received by the citizens of the town. Addresses were presented. mmttetSiTStStttiTJ^n ( X-IMIITSID ) Engineers, Boiler Makers, and Iron and Brass founders H AVING GREATLY INCREASED THEIR PREMISES ANI) MAOHIN- !_ ery, me in a position to undertake the construction and repairs of Murine and Stationary Engines and Boilers, 33illm:.>, it'iniiig and Cannery lK;i«lliliery. as woll as -Dustings and Forcings of every description. Estimates given; al! work guaranteed. D. CJkRTMEl,, A. RflcKELVIE, General Manager. dwjintc Mechanical Manager. HoMf Slipot MACLURE'S. lOntoEXlll Miss Peebles WILL HOLD A BAZAAR and FANCY FAIR 2nd, 3rd and 4th of October. 12:7 laBB 2?K,B*M:IS-SS on. COIjTJ-Jiv(r*SIJ£u ST. Tho store will bo illuminated with Chinoso Lautcrns and thrown open to tho public from 8:30 a. m. till 11 p. m. Tho storo bus been enlarged und is now 70 foot long. An OliCHESTKONE and other valuable articles will bo sold by Dutch Auction at tho closo of the Bazaar. NOTE THE ADDRESS-"-«,->lii)iil>ia Street, opposite the HSiuiR of Montreal. seildwim CO. Wii HAVE Till:, LARGEST AND FINEST STOCK OF CARRIAGES, PHAETONS, HANDY MARKET & CHURCH WAGONS III THE MARKET. ALL OUR RIGS ARE FULLY CUARANTEED. Repairs of all hinds neatly and promptly done. F. C. STRICKLAND & CO. 6e3dw Webster's Building, Wostminstor, B. C. GENERAL & SHELF HARDWARE, Including Tools of all kinds ul tho bost makes; ilross-Cllt & Mund-SilWS, Barbed Wire for Fonolng, ami all tho neoestary lltensiis for Eiii-uinci Pulley Blocks, Snatch Mocks, Rope & Chain in all sizes; Pitch, 'if ar & Onkumi Tarred and Plain Paper for Building) Paints & Oil; in all colors', Liquid Paint x in all shades) Fluor Paints ready touse; firind Stonesi Wall Paper in all dosigus; Brooms & Brushes for all purposes; Lubricating OillU Traps of all descriptions, and a general assortment of Agricultural I in piemen! s, tW Special attontion givon to ordors by mail. T. J. TTiA.T>T> SZ CO., dwjly.lto Columbia Street, New Westminster,. REAL ESTATE BROKERS, financial and Insurance Agents. Property for'Salc in all parts of tho City and Suburbs, Wo also havo listed some of tho finest fanning land in tho Province. MONEY TO LOAN. HOUSES TC EENT. Agents for tho Confederation Lifo Association of Toronto, tho Londoi Gunrantco and Aooldent Co., Limited. Gonorai AgentB for British Columbia foi tho American Stoam Boiler Insurance Co. of Now York, the Royal and Atlas Fin Assuranco Companies of England, Union Fire and Marino Insuranco Co. of Sal Franoisoo, South liritish Firo und Marino Insurance Co. of New Zealnnd, OFFICES NEW WESTMINSTER-Columbia Street, Bank of B. C. Blook. VANCOUVER-HasthiRs Street, opposite the Post Offloe dwsolOto V0LUAI1" 34. wn,n«K™™r,x-^BXt&*SnS&rmllUtS^£SS2ZSiSZXSS WEEKLY BRITISH COLUMBIAN, NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C, SEPTEMBER 25, 1889. '-;-r-mwitra-f''---*'™^^ NO. 39, THE B. C. MITENTIABY. fllow tlio «riat Criminal Jtcposltory Is Operated. Efforts or Kindness, Discliilino ami Cleanliness. JaIiIo -lliiniiBciiiciil uml Courteous Officers. .Illicit lo Inlcrost, Aslonlsli mul ll. ;iri-i Upon. A description uf tho Provincial Bas- |tile deserves more than tho passing recognition afforded in tbo columns ot sveii the bett daily journals. Such lotice is too ovanesqent and too curt tor a subject whicli possesses many Bsleiiients of sad solemnity and fond 'or deep and sorrowful thought, in minds that sometimes do that uncom- 0mou thing, think. Uut the best must >e made of circumstances, and in con- iderutiou of the subject and its vur- ed features, the following remarks may not bo estimated as overdrawn, ne visitor to the penitentiary is ad- (rutted to tlie grounds through ono of tho largo gates, set liko grim portoul- isos in the till palisade that encloses lhe land surrounding tho buildings. Bl'lii: warder, on a small platform above, Bruises the ponderous iron bar and Irops it again, and the gate clashes ihut with an ominous clang tlmt start- es tho norvous stranger. And so, ano is inside tho awful precincts of 'durance vile," and liberty is on the ther side of tho fence. Involuntarily Jthei'u sweeps through the mind all past 'ins, liko a drowning man's parting 'ision, and an uncoinfortublo feeling ,oizes one for fear the lynx-eyed warier up there, pacing back and forth with his polished Winchester ou his ihoulder, should suddenly shout, 'Aha! villain! you aro my prisoner; ;en years at hard labor!'' Up the gravelled winding walk, loading to the jreat stone building, the straugor paces, tinting as lio goe3, on cither hand, tho siopes with verdure clad, JliL- trim and gravelled walks, the gay _ irterros, the llowors in the full flush of new-born beauty nodding in the ^garden, and tho pretty trellis-work irbor, all entwined with creeping ivoodbiue and lovely, trailing (lower forms. Then he outers tho coutt- yard, most noble in its dimensions, upon which opens tho main entrance of ibe building and upon which some f the windows uf the warden's upart- Riients look out. In the centre of the quudranglo is what might have beon 'ntended for a fountain, but is now devoted to flower culture. A parting glance away up the valley nf tho Fraser before entering the penitentiary, discloses a vista of superlative loveliness. Miles of it lie there bathed in the rich golden sunshine of mid-September; mountain peak and lowland vale, forest glade and farm lea, lonely rags and snug cottages and the noble river rolling majestically on to tho ^Pacific—some little bird like an Eng- ish lark goes soaring in freedom up nto the blue immensity of space, trilling forth in ecstasy the sweetest measures of unwritten music—ah!— a convict dressed in the terrible garb of prison life working in the field: the shock is great, indeod—yonder goes tho very soul of liberty upward to tho iky: there, in tho dun garb of shame, the very emblem of all wo pity and feel sorrow for. With, perchance, u sigh, the stranger turns his full powers of observation to the vast, orderly, almost silent, and admirable machinery that works within. He is sure of a cordial welcome and courteous treatment from the wardon or his deputy, and having remarked tho almost military exactitude and regularity maintained in the office, he starts off in tow of his guide. First comes the urgory, a room containing a complote assortment of drugs, artifioial limbs, ind splints for all parts of tho body, and a full set of surgical instruments. Dr. de Wolf Smith is the physician. Crossing the hall tho guards' room is entered; a largo apartment somewhat resembling tho best kind of barrack- rooms. A board on the wall shows a list of the conviots, with name aud number of cell, also a duty board for he officers. Two electrio bells, one rom tho wing and the otlier from the warden's oflice, are in this room, and would bo rung in case of trouble at either of these points. T,he storo room resembles a goneral merchandise store, inch as used to figure in the wildcat Jtowns of the Wostern States, It contains everything from tho proverbial needle to tho proverbial anchor. Tho tobacco supplied to the convicts was Bhowti the visitor, and was quite strong enough to introduco itself without help; it is of iho kind known as "navy plug," u sweet article, warranted to kill tho amateur chowor with, as tho cobblers say, "neatness and dispatch." Ono quid or plug a week is supplied to each oonviot. Tho boots and shoes, clothing and other articles manufactured by tlio convicts are stored horo for thoir uso. Two ropes pendant in tho hall aro boll-ropes and aro usod to call tlio convicts in; tho convicts' bell is rung fivo minutes to 12, noon, and fivo minutes to G in tbo ovening. At the back of the building is tlie bull which ia rung when tlio .conviots havo [ill been cuuittod and nunc found v,-:nt- iii»; until Iho ringing of the hell no guard leaves his post. The keeper's 'mil, iu ulueli tlio Columiiian man and bis guide, Mr. Archibald Mclnnes, found the keeper comfort ably enjoying his afternoon "forty winks," is ulso used as the armory and key room. Tlio rifles and other arms are locked up in the cupboards when not in use, and are kept scrupulously clean. They uro Winchester pattern, 48 calibre, lu tho koy cupboard nil Borts and conditions of keys were noted ; from tho door keys, groat burly monsters, llio very antitheses of tlie watch-key, down to tho flat-chested and consumptive-looking Yalo pattern ^koy. A u electric boll from tho wing oall be rung night or day by thn guards there, in enso of di"tui'bunco. Some handcuff* and other governmental jewellery cheerfully decorated the wall, ii"t Inappropriately. Through n stout, bou studded dour one passes to tho convict quarters. ! fhere are four tiers of coli, one above tho other, and they are built in tho centro of the building, leaving a wide space all round. A narrow gallery, protected by an iron railing, runs along tho front of the upper tiers of cells. Whitewash and black paint contribute to givo an air of severity to tho place, but a perfeot flood of sunshine was pouring through the open strongly burred windows, leaving no doubt as to tliu perfect sanitation and health regulations. The cells are built of brick, trimmed with massive iron where necessary, and tbe door of each coll is an iron grating of immense strength, further guarded by a thick iron bar that conies down and cavers tbo lock aud key hole, thus most effuctually precluding the faintest possibility of tampering with it. The colls are all numbered and tho galleries lettered A, B, C, etc. In the large open spaco on the floor uf the wing are benches and desks usod Jjy tho convicts in school hours. School is hold every day except Wednesday, which is, with Sunday and Friday, a church day; one hour at noon of Wednesday is devoted to religious exercises; on Friday from 1 to 2 p, m., tho bishop holds divine sorvice, and on Sunday, frnm 8 to 10 a.m. Each cell has a gus jet, a folding canvas bed, blankets, coverlids and a pair of slippers for use in the cell. The bod clothing is all neatly hung up during the day on u peg set in the wall for the purpose. The prisonors are pormittod all kinds of "extras" if they pay for tbem, and the good-conduct men are allowed to read in thoir cells, In the basement of thu main building are a number of cells formerly intended to be used as punishment, cells, but now otherwiso occupied. The basement ia lire proof and bus a commit floor. Tho meat room, the old lamp room, tho dining hall, for officors who do not gu borne for meals, the kitchen and the cells ir.teudod for femalo prisoners, aro all in the basement. Returning to the second floor of the main building a pleasant surprise awaits tho visitor in the two churches which are situated there. Tho Protestant church occupies one side of the hall and the ltomau Catholic the opposite. In the former is a small raised dais with a reading deBk and a chair in each corner, occupied by armed warders when the number of the congregation warrants, the precaution. Cumfortablo seats fitted with book- bonrds, occupy the middle of the hull, and in a small nlcbve behind, sit the guards, keeping a vigilant eye on the laity assembled. A small, but well selected, library, in connection with the church, furnishes the prisoners plenty of good reading. Crossing the hall to the Catholic church, that sanctuary will be found fitted up very tastefully; tbe altar, while not decorated with all the elaborate profusion of outside churches, is very striking and pleasing. The audience chamber is similar to that of the Protestant church across the way, and like it, has a well selected library for the use of the prisoners. A large board punctured with rows of holes, in somo of whioh were pegs, ia the library register, a peg representing a book out. Tlio church of England service is held on Friday. The deputy warden's sitting room and parlor are on the third floor. The warden occupies the southeast wing of the building, and up in the top rooms of the building the officers hnd accommodation. A large tank, on the top of the building supplies the entire institution with water. Each floor, in case of liro, oan be flooded, whilo in almost every corner are Babcock's patent fire extinguishers. The ethnological census nf the prisoners showod 45 whites, 30 Chinese, 12 Indians and 2 negroes, nnd one whito female prisoner, making a total of 110. This is tho lirst female prisoner sentenced to 2 years in British Columbia. There are 2 insane Chinese among the prisonors and 4 sick in the hospital. Five of the prisoners are in for lifo, and tlioro aro sentences ranging from 15 j'cars downwui-ds. Our benevolent government doos not boliove in starving its prisoners, as the appended dietary list will show: Breakfast: Cold meat, 4 oz,, without bono; bread (whito), 13 on.; brown bread, 1 or..; coffee (peas), 1* pints; sugar, '■ oz. Dinner: Meat, 7 oz., without bone; whito bread, 8 oz.; brown bread, 1 oz.; potutoos, 10 oz.; soup, H pints. Supper: Bread, 12 oz.; tea, 1 pint; sugar, A oz. The dietary for tho sick is equal to that of any hospital, and comprises overy delicacy usually supplied to nivalin's. Ltaivim: tlio main building and crossing the yard, tlio tailor and shoe-making shops are reached; those two establishments nro separated by a low partition, beside whicli, on an elevated platform, an oilicer keeps constant watch, Here tho prisoners nro thoroughly taoght tho trados by efficient instructors. Near iiy is the blacksmith shop, in which several of lho prisoners weru found resting from their labors, which are never of a back- breaking sort. Many branches of Vulcan's art are taught, but the work, as can be readily undoi's'ood, is not so varied'a» that iifuniirclliiiry"ainitl'y;" 'l'l,., l„.|.„ 1„„.»„ „„,•,,.,, H.',. ,..„,! fr'„..| tho blacksmith shop, hus all the appurtenances for bi'onhnuking, and is under the superintendence of un efficient instructor. The building which used tobo kuown ns llie Sappers and Minora hospital, iB now ignobly stuffed with bay and straw and tlie lower part utilized as a root house, (hi llio ot'icr sido of the yard are the stable and cow house; the horses standing iu tlio Btalls weru largo uud ablo looking animals and in a fine condition. Tbo cow liouse has stills for quite a number of onus, and iu thu loose-box nt the iqipur end, a promising oalf kicked up bis luii'ls in glorious idleness with nothing tido but grow. Poultry nf ull descriptions and ill gro-ii num- lieu strutted and cackled nil around the building. Iu a small building apart from ihe others, iiomo fine specl- iiiiina i.f iii- phejiRiuit f-url.v iv,-rn shown' uui.' uf them', the golden crested pheasant of China, is a beautiful bird with all thu brilliance and coloring of a bird of paradise. Two ar- gus pheasants natives of the Malay Peninsula, and two common English pheasants, comprise the stock. Tho land adjoining this house, is in a high state of cultivation, andiaset to mangold and carrots, some of which aro of abnormal proportions. Convicts on leaving tbe penitentiary are clothed from head to foot in good, warm clothing and are supplied with money enough to pay their way to the place whore they wero sentenced; but thoy need not return thore if they don't want to. One prisoner who wub at work in tho oflice of the deputy wor- deli, writing nnd occupied with accounts, is a remarkable man, and strikes the visitor at onco as a superior being to the other inmatos of the institution; there is a scholarly, oclu eated and rolined look about him that peeps even through his grotesque prison garb and makes it pitiful to behold such a man in such u position. Ho is "in" for fifteen years. The ravine bosido the main building is being gradually cleared and beautified. A good road will probably run through it in the course of a year or so. It is an enchanting spot, but looks lonely. Tho penitentiary stands on 09 acres of ground, 40 of whicli aro undor cultivation, 75 fencod in; a number of lots at tho west side also belong to the penitentiary. Aftor making the tour of the building and grounds, one leaves the place not without a feeling of regret. A GLORIOUS DREAM That tnn be lii-allzi-il.—The Kev. II. V TaiciiH Cleverly Suites I lie Case or Gitinerlul I'etlcrnllon. Wedtiosday night in the Opera Houso a tair-sized audience assembled to listen to the Rov. D. V. Lucas, the celebrated federutioniat, describe how the scheme was to be brought about. Mr. Cunningham, having been appointed chairman, stepped upon the platform, followed by the speakor of the evening, at 8:17 o'clock. Theso gentlemen were hailed with applause. The Eev. D. V, Lucas is a remarkable looking man; ho stands about six feet till and is massive in build; upon his broad shoulders is a head marked with every indication of intellectual power; the type of the countenance is Roman and do notes decision of character and great will power. As an orator ho is very happy in style, and talks to his hearers in an easy familiar strain that at once puts them in good humor and awakens their interest. The chairman addressed the audience in a few opening remarks. He said that no greater honor could have beon conferred upon him than that oi electing him chairman of an Imperial federation meet ing. The subject was ono which pos sesscd especial interest for British Columbians. Wo had been living aa it were on the nigged edge of the em pire, but, in tho event of this great idea of federation coming to pass, we should bo the centre; so the map would show if carefully scanned. The subject is a broad one, ample as the domains of the British empire, but tho right men had hold of it in England. Lord Hnseberry was its president, and another noble lord, a mem ber of the present ministry, its vice president. There was no partisanship in this mutter—it was of too much im portunce. Some day this country of ours will be the Imperial highway tu Australia and tho Orient, itis coming. Ho bolioved tho Anglo-Saxon race wero to be, by tho grace of God, tho rogonerutors of the world, as thoy had been its conquorors. Nothing could withstand them; and in the united strength of Imperial federation thoy could dictate peace to the whole world. The chairman then introduced Mr. Lucaa who was greeted with applause Ho began by asking permission to make a couple of observations —one strictly about himself, the other entirely about his audionco. Ono hundred and twenty years ago in the oity of Boston, his ancestors, when they saw tho old (lag coming down in the dust, could not stund it and doterminod to lenve n soil over wliich the standard of England was not destined to flout; and they came north into tho wilderness of Canada, among the bears and wolves, whero their lot was much harder and tlieir advantages less, bat it was their loyalty that made them endure cheerfully those harships. It who enough to livo under tho old flag of Britain. Through the grand loyalty of bis ancestors bo felt himself tic! tu this country. He admired the bravery of his ancestors ono and a quaitor centuries ago, and he could not, if ho wished, prove unworthy of such noble loyalty and courage. To bio hearers ho would recommend u perusal of Dr. Ryerson's groat book on Imperial federation. It was llio best, book ovor written on this subject, and was filled with the giand true Canadian British loyalty. Tbo other remarks applied to themselves. Hore in British Columbia «-.■ nn. .,'i|,„i no .Wintii- front. ,1110 "i the uiust important pans of the Whole empire, even, although, as the chairman bod remarked;-oil tbo ragged edgo. While oohsideiublo rivalry and jealously existed between the provinces of Eastern Canada, here in British Columbia wo were all. iu a friendly way, be hoped, striving for predominance. British Columbia is moro united, and, tlii'Vefore, occupies a butter position tlian any of those pi'"Viiioesin Iho east. He ranked himsolf very low among thoso who w.iro struggling for Imperial federal ion, yet. he did not think tliat oven among the splendid iulnllciti al, present grappling with tin; priit'leni th, ie. was one thai could by himself unravel tlm knoiiy question. Many men renowned throughout the world had given their Ijost and clearest Miunulil to it, bllt it wi'fl still iiu-nlvfid. Tl'i'i-e wna :i oiittiinoii uftrttnii'ut ng'ins' ''iiporia! leib-l-ii mu Hhieli lu- klioiililit bad no analogy to tbe present slate of things. It lias been said that great kingdoms and empires have existed in the past. Yet some of these with all their mightiness huvo been swept completely away and disappeared. There have not boen wanting able writers and keen thinkers to prophesy that the samo fate awaits the British Empire, and they have compared it to tho growth of the human body, which must eventually decline and waste away; he could Bee no analogy between the two at all, between tho body and n kingdom. Of all the great states that had ruled tho world in former days, probably tho Roman Empire was tho greatest of them all. It hsd begun iu humble surroundings and by what apparently was a healthy growth, attained the limit of its stupendous power; tbou it stood still as if the Creator bad accomplished sonic vast purpose; then, after a thousand years of undisputed sway, came the decline in tho reign of Trajan, the revolt of the Goths and the tall of Constuitinople, and the great Roman Empire was 110 mo.re. If there was that entire loyalty which he conceived there ought to be in the mind of evory citizen, they would understand tho feelings of tho huly Apostlo Paul when he proudly boasted of his citizenship and that ho wus loyul to it. Why should wo not all emulate this great example and try to the boat of our powor to preserve our empire from destruction. He quoted passages of Scripture as fundamental principles of his remarks. There was a great necessity for a common sympathy between all parts of the ompire. We havo boon told thut tho idea of imperial federation is no more than a glorious dream thut never could be realized. Many a glorious dream has been realized. Ho saw, in Jersey, a great bridgo across a chasm; it hud existed for centuries, but wanted one thing, the keystone for whicli thero remained a place; tho bridgo was strong and beautiful yet not perfect for lack of this alone. The Britisli Empire was the bridge, imperial federation the keystone. He had sat and gazed at that sentence and had fallen into open-eyed dreams, and he saw, "far back in othor years" an ancient Briton sitting on a stone, wearied from some battle in the time of the Heptarchy, and he drew near this rugged warrior and asked him, "Ho you think the day will ever come in whioh those seven kingdoms will be united in one, and the people thereof shall raise their voices together and shout, 'God save the ICing ?'" And the man smiled and said, "My dear friend, thut is a glorious dream, but it cannot be realized." But it has been realized. Again, "as in a dream," he saw the grand old palace of Holyrood, at Edinburgh,battered down by English cannon and rebuilt by Scottish hands. Again and again this happened. Then he taw a stalwart Scottish warrior, reeking with the blood and sweat of Ban- nockburn, resting to viow the place upon which lay strewn thirty thousand English dead, and he asked this grim warrior, "Do you think the time will ever come when England and Scotland will join hands and ory with one voice, 'God save tho King V" And the Scut smiled and shook his head, " "l'is a glorious dream, iny friend, but it can never bo realized." But what do we see to-day?—the hardy sons of Scotia going forth with the sons of Erin and of England to fight the common battles of Great Britain. But why go across the sea for proof? Take the Dominion itself; go buck' to the duys whon the nativo tribes were scalping euch other and the French and English striving for supremacy; oven to the time whon ho stood in New Westminister 20 yeuis ngo, und ho remembered the jealousy and bitterness between Upper and Lower Canada. Had he usked twenty-six years ago if those contending provinces would ever bc united it would have been called a glorious dream, "only that uud nothing more." He bud auid thnt, iho railway must be built. Men there wore who suid the government wns ruining the country with dobt, and we were now going to completo the work by building a railway to get at 10,000 people on the Pacifio coast. He had told such men that thoy did not know what they were talking about. The 10,000 were a diop in the bucket compared with the vast resources of the Pacific province and value of reaching tho 300,000,000 on the othor side of the ocean. There was a time when midshipmen and murines wero taught to hato u Frenchman as thoy would tho devil; it wns thought thoy would light better on such sentiments. But let us come down to the Crimean war, when French and English fought against Russia, and it hss beep told when tho Flench captured lho Mala- koff in tliat memorable dash, the English wero ready to embrace tbe bravo Frenchmen. We look for the dny whon tho Groat British Empire shall bo drown togothor in one common sympathy and united in all interests. When that day domes, looking at it from the standpoint, of a Christian patriot and philanthropist, we shall have fulfilled llio exhortation of llio poet Onwper. Alluding to the maintenance of a standing British army, tho eloquent speaker said a standing army was a constant menace, and if we could by any means do away with standing armies we wuuld have made n giant stride towards universal pence. In letters whicli ho hnd writ- tun to Cnnadian papers, when abroad, he hud culled attention to tbo fact that out of the five continents of the world Europo was tbu only one whoso name did not begin and ond with A, and Europo stood aion,, glistening with bayonets and seemingly furthest away of all from tho peace of Gorl. ln showing lhe evils nt'niuiiihiimngstunning armies, Mr. Lucas pointed out that those I'liormnus numbers of men produced nothing, they wore pructionl- y idle. Ho was iu Mnniroiil when llie Northwest ivbelliiin broke out, and ans a witness of lln: splendid exhibition of patriotism, when the Oiiiia- dinii vuluiitedrsptiut'ttd fo'tli to go to tin- fr -ut. Tills siiimud that Camilla j had proud to tho wuilil that standing i armies could bo dono away with. And all those brave volunteers wero vvoileers, wage earners and wealth producers. It was by cultivating the spirit of loyalty in the people that made the best soldiers—those who fought for love of country and not for hire. He looked upon free trado as a milenium policy; there can bo no question ao to the righteous principles of free trade; yet it is ono of those things which will not universally prevail until men are drawn together. The confederated empiro could be perfectly self supporting and quite independent of the rest of the world, which it could force to accept free trado through sheer necessity. He was not a politician, he had seen so much to disgust him in politics, that he wanted nothing to do with that science. As to unrestricted reciprocity, how are we going to get it if our neighbors don't want it? and they havo plainly shown that thoy don't want it. But by Imperial federation tho advantages of freo trade could bo hastened. We should have among other incalculable benefits, n universal cheap postage. Ho had discovered, when living iu Australia, that u newspaper could bo sent from Canada to Australia for 2 cents, but it took G cents to send one from Australia to Canada. He could get no satisfaction on tho subject from the Melbourne postal authorities. An agitation wus in progress in England for cheap post ■ age. Should such 11 thing becomo universal unlimited knowledge could bo diffused by newspapers sent all over the empire. By not getting the Australian newspapers we aro almust iu tbe dark about that groat country. The speaker very humorously ridiculed tbe idea of a mnn wishing to join with tho United Statea on the principle of it being a larger nation; he showed how much greater it would bo to be an integral part of 300,000,000 instead of merely a paltry 60,000,000. He could get 10,000 young men of Canada who were better informed on tho resources and extent of tho British Empire than tho same number uf Englishmen. It was a positive fact thut anybody who wanted the Britisli press to notico anything about Canada, either a lecture or a publication, hnd almost to go down on his marrow bones and beg one little "stick" of 3pace. The speaker related an amusing instance of asking a Liverpool editor for a column of space on a lecture on Canada. England to-day holds the gateways of the world. The prescience with which she had selected lier stations around the globe was amazing. Had the right men been on the flocr of the Britisli parliament and given proper information nt the critical moment, Maine, Oregon and Washington would have been Canada's to-day. There was a great lack of correct knowledge ubout Canada in England. The principles of home rule were right, judiciously managed, and the Irish, iu his opinion, will eventually get it. In answer to the statement that in the event of au Imperial parliament the Australian members would be either on the ocean or in England all their time, he had to say that there would be far less business to transact where each part of the empire conducted its own local affairs, with only a general voice in tho great council, lt was ridiculous, he thought, that §70,000 should have been squandered in merely discussing the Manchester ship canal bill. Why not give Scotland, Wales, Ireland the .management of their own affairs and a voice in the general parliament.' that waa the way to settle ail disputes. Trade with Australia required working up; there were millions in it, and the bond between Ciinuda and Australia should bu strengthened. He had never expressed tho idea of Australian confederation boforo nn Australian audience without great applause, showing huw eager that people aro for union. Tbe press will be lhe great uniter of the two countries; through its means they will get to know 0110 another belter. The reason why Canada enjoys complete immunity from foreign attacks, is tho protection ufl'iii'd- ed her by tiie British navy; anil if tlie navy is a source of safety and comfort to her why should she begrudge to pay her proportion to maintain it' The army may bo dispensed wiih, but the navy novel-, it will ever remain the pride and' protector of England and her colonies. But let confederation come and he would liko to see lho nation that 11 ould dare to attack such a power. From Canada oould bo callod 100,000 willing men, from Australia the same number, roady to go to nny part of the ompiro. Wo would forco penco upon the world As for British Columbia, no country in tbo world lo- day possesses her facilities for applying powor to machinery; ber streams are admirably suited for this purpose, and tho climate is bettor adapted for tlm manufacture of cotton and woolen fabrics than any he had over soeu. But we ennnot produce the wool, that coniiia through the United Statei from Australia. Why through tbo United Stales? Why not import it direct? Australia lins 00,000,000 shoep and 10,000,000 head of cattle, am! wo can get all the wool we wanr from her without -i- milling the Unitsd States, uud our lumber ought to be sent 10 Australia by Canadian nut Yankee shippers,'i'S |s uow thu case, Iu conclusion bo ssii! that if be bad been helpful in putting even the humblest pin ih tlm structure of Imperial federation lie would feol himself amply rewarded. That grand old land of Eng land would of courso occupy the first placo in tho confederation, it was the graudest land on earth. Ho gavo a number of instances showing thnt England's greatness springs from ber faith in God; this faith is shown by the mottoes that adorn all the grent buildings throughout the land. In tho Liverpool exchange he bad spoil those splendid merchant princes quietly exchanging millions of pounds on the floor of tho hall; but in Now York he hud seen a howling mob of well -dressed mei] yelling and shouting until thn plaeo was a perfect, pandemonium. After a flowing I'libiginm on England and hor iiioniui's", the speaker niihouuootl that he would deliver a lecturo on tompor- nnoe, entitled, "Two buttles of Wine." He would not drink tbo wiu^und ihon give the lecture to them, but he would have the two bottles of wine there—at the rooms of the W.O.T.U. If anybody didn't know where that was ho ought to bo ashamed of himself. A hearty round of applause greeted the eloquent speakc r at tbo finish of his remarks. Job printing of all kinds neatly done at the Coi.usiui.iN office, 'Prices will be found us low as at any other offioo in the provlnoe —Adv THAT TERRIBLE PARESIS. Are the Canadian People Becoming a Nation of Li-inntlci-I-Tj-ic frightful Increase of this most peculiar Insanity antl how it Iti cured-. THE BRAIN (j> Ilcalthy Condition. a pkotopafh^ With Paresis Lctioru Tlioro tire many welt known men confined In our Asylums-whobutiifiliort time ugo wore prominent among our business and social circles. Why are they there? Paresis! Did it come on at once'.' Not at all. It'.vas a gradual butposltlvo groM'th. They overtaxed nalure. The drain on their vitality, thoir nervo powers, their brain tissue, waa loo groat, and thoy gradually but.surely sank under it. The things they did io bring this sad end about are precisely tho same things being done by thousands of men and womon to-day. Itis not necessary lo name thom. They all ond disastrously unless cheeked or regulated. Prof. Phclns, of Dartmouth College, knew this fully when he began bis experiments whieh resulted in the discovery of tiie wonderful Palne's Celery Compound, lie reall-/.eU lhat Paresis (consumption of the. brain) was our great National weakness. He knew that tho brain and nervous system must, be forti- fi-'dtomeet the great .strains which >ik dern life bring upon It. He saw that men were becoming debilitated and wommi weakened by the pressure and demands of life, and he sought and discovered thn remedy. Paine's Celery Compound, if rightly taken, will renew the brain and build up nervo tissues as fast as they becomo exhausted. It Is not a narcotic, lt contains no drugs, no nostrums. It is perfectly pure. It is absolutely harmless. The nigh character of its discoverer guarantees this, and the indorsement of the medical anil chemical professions prove it. British Columbia Tin* Annual Exhibition ot tiie British Columbia Agricnltl Association Will he Held at the NUW EXHIBITION BOILD1SII, In tlio Cily of III WESTMINSTER, WEDNESDAY, THUBSMY and FltroAY, OCTOBER 2ND, 3RD & 4TH,'89. XSST K» \m% 3E SE 3J3 £8 For Exhibition and Sports. In connection wiih thisExhibi Ion will be Hu- -jpDiilug of Queen's Pari.* and an extensive programme of SPORTS and. HAM RS, PROCESSIONS, FIRE-WORKS, Ac, nnder direction of the Citizens' Committee. All entries for the Exhibition must bo mado with the Scoreti i*j ';•.■■,. aoon oh TUESDAY, Octobc; ! < ' All Stock and other exhibits from south of the river will be carried across on iho steam ferry, vmm off chaucjk, and drays will be fouud at. railway stations and wharves to convey exhibits, i*u**;i*, to tho Grounds. Special Reduced FCnles will beptvenon all railways and steamers tn persons nnd exhibits faming to (be Exhibition, As it is expected the attendance at this Exhibition villi be very large., the Direct tors hopo to soo an exhibition worthy of the r.isoiuces of tho province. Further information may be had from lho prize lists [which will bn sent, freo on application], or from the secretary! r. r. peakso« I HECHKTARY, binstkk, Aug. sn, ian, ilwnll^lml VOLUME Si WEEKLY BRITISH COLUMBIAN, NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C, SEPTEMBER 25, 1889. no. sn. :iSCS2S.-BZSuT:i,S2m A SOUTHERN TRAMP. Impressions of Fairhaven and Notes of its Progress After an Existence of 6 Months. Bailway Construction, City Improvements aud Other Details Visible to All-comers. Pacts and Figures (riven liy the Chief Engineer of the Fairhaven and Southorn. [Continued from Kino 8 & Concluded.] FAIRHAVEN. ia the acknowledged yein uf itie buy cities, nut that if, is tho largest, for Whatcom outranks it in population, but because it is tlto best situated for shipping nml commercial purpososj is inhabited by a more enterprising and progressive peoplo, and lastly, but nut least, beoaUBO it is tlio present headquarters ol tlio Fairhaven and Southern Railway. The situation nf Fairhaveu is all that might lie desired for a handsome and easy graded .townsite. Along the water's edge the laud is low, but nut marshy, and the plateau is latgo enough for il city nf 50.000 population without utilizing the higher ground in the rear. A point of land, immediately west uf tlie city, forms a natural breakwater fur tho harbor, and the first Impression conveyed by the prospect from the water is that tho name was woll chosen, being expressive of what is actually Llio case. Fairhaven bus no mud flats, but on the contrary, deep water is to bo found anywhere within 100 feet uf tho shore. At the Fairhaven and Southern Railway Co.'s wharf tho largest vessel afloat can lie in safety. The anchorage in tho harbor is said tu bo excellent—a soft bottom with an average depth of from 8 to 12 fathoms. Above the plateau on which the city proper is being built, tho hills rise with a gentle slope, not precipitous or broken, but an easy and pleasant grade. On evory side now buildings are springing into existence daily, and nf all the cities ou the bay FAIRHAVEN IS IUE BUSIEST in thi-i line. At least COO men aro at work on building operations, street making and sidewalk laying, and yet this number is insufficient to meet tho demand. Streets nro being graded in every direction as fast as men and horses can dn tlio work, but houses are going up on all quarters of the townsite in advance of street improvements, fur the population is increasing so rapidly that house room must be had uo matter how inconveniently situated. Your commissioner ascertained the following facts; Fairhaveu was covered with a dense growth of timber on the 1st of Jauuary last, when the Bennett company acquired a portion of the townsite, and at that time only 4 houses were erected. Up to Marcli 1st only 2 new buildings were added, but sinco that date 150 buildings, large and smull, have been erected and another hundred are now being constructed. About Marcli 1st tbe Bennett company began clearing away the forest, and to-day 300 acres have been slashed, burned and grubbed and are now ready fur building on. The city now boasts of a post office, telegraph and express offices, a dozen hotels, an equal numbor of stores, two saw mills and a ship yard—and all theso the creation uf (i months. All this prosperity and progress can only be attributed to the FAIRHAVEN AND SOUTHED.!* Railway Company, which is developing an enterprise aeoond to im other corporation on the coast. Tho company owns a mile of water frontage that is not going tu remain idle. Already about half a mile of siding has been completed and tho railway track is laid the full length of the construction. A large wharf, strong enough to bear tho weight, uf thousands of tons of steel rails, is now in use, and the railway track is also extended on to this structure. The company owns a saw mill at Whatcom and another at Fairhaven, and a portable mill which is in use at the end of the track. All these mills are running night and day, cutting bridge timber and ties for use on construction. A fourth mill is now being built at Fairhaven by a Mr. Heacock, who is under contract with Mr. Bennett to cut (35,000 feet of lumber evory 10 hours. The mill is to bo running in 7 days. Tho company have now in course nf erection a magnificent hotel, which will cost when finished belween 875,000 uud $100,- 000. It is to bo built nf brick und atone, uf handsome design, sin stories high uud firo proof throughout. Your commissioner walked up 12ih street nnd examined tho wurk sn far us it has progressed. The foundation, 100x100 feet, built of stone, broad und solid, is finished and work on the walls has commenced. Large iiunntities of building material uro scattered nbout and ut least 50 men are employed on thu worn, 'tins gives the visitor tho impression lhat the Fairhavon company have faith iu tlieir city, and soulless corporations are not addicted to building monuments for idle peoplo to gaze on. When your commissioner landed on tho Fairhavon wliarf, a little after,0 a.m., ho was surprised to And that all was BUSTLE ANIl ACTIVITY, oven at' that eurly hour. A large forco of mon wore omployed loading threo flat oars with bridgo timber, whioh a littlo later wero hauled to the end of the truck by ono of tho com pany's engines, Piled upon tho wharf were immense quantities "f railroad material, smne 10.000 ur muro steel rails, and huge piles of bridge iron, All largo pieces of machinery wore marked "N. Bennett, Fairhavon.'' The etcel rails arc of American mniiii faoturo and aro' said tn hn equal to the English make. After inspecting the aliotls und their contents, yuur commissioner chanced to meet the com pany's sture keeper, who supplied some valuable information. Tho rolling stock of the company at present in use consists of the following: twu 05 ton, 20 wheel locomotives; 13 flat cars, 8 box cars and one caboose. All these are at present in use on construction, but this number will bo largely increased when tho rolling stuck, now en route from the east, arrives, Tho locomotives aro tho liuest made on the continent, and aro built on the English pattern. They are also very uuwerful, being specially built for lira wing heavy trains. The curs are as good, if not better, than any in use in America. Even tho flat cars are provided with air brakes and Janney's patent couplers, which improvements fow of tho bost equipped roada on the continent can boast of. The workmanship nn the ours,.and the goneral finish, iB superior to anything your commissioner laid ever seen before. ltAlLWAY CONSTRUCTION. was tho next matter investigated by yuur commissioner, and to attain the object in view another journey un foot was necessary. Proceeding down the line fur -U miles the end of the track was reached nud hero was found a gang uf GO mon busily engaged ut track laying and tie placing. The manner in which tlio rails are laid does not concern the readers of theso researches; tho facts of what has been done being required, not the mode uf operation. Only a limited number nf men can be utilized iu truck laying, and tho foreman explained that he hud every man at his command nocossary for the rapid performance of the work. The rails aro huulod out on flat cars tu tho end of the track and are dumped oft'; the train then returns for another load. Tics are also brought to the ground by train, from the mills at Fairhaveu and Whatcom. Track laying is proceeding at tho rate of from £ to "■ of a mile por day—as rapidly as it can be accomplished under the circumstances. After viewing tho operations for a time your commissioner returned to Fairhaven and culled nt the general offices of tho company. Mr. Bennett is at present in Now York, but Mr. J. J. Donovan; chief engineer of tho company, was found at. his post, although tho hour was still early. Your commissioner introduced himself to Mr. Donavan and explained his mission. Mr. Donavan, gave the visitor A CORDIAL OREETINO and then courteously intimatod that all the information he was in possession of, and any required from the books of the company, wus nt the dispossl of your commissioner. This wus unexpected, but advantage ivas taken of tho offer. After chatting fur a few minutes on railway' mutters in general, Mr. Donovan snid: "Our line is graded a distanco of 20 miles soutli to Sedro, on the Skagit river, where the coal mines of the company are located. Theso mines are very rich, two large seams having been developed, one 14 feet iu width. No finer bituminous coal has been found iu Washington Territory. Our tracklayers are hard at work laying the rails towards the Skagit, and we expect to have trains running to Sedro in less than CO duys. We havo 500 men at work un culvert and bridgo building, and these would bo further advanced towards completion but for the scarcity of timber, though we have three mills running night and day supplying material. Wo have experienced groat difficulty in obtaining lumber, but aftor next week, when Mr. Heacock's mill is in operation, we expect to huvo no further trouble in thut direction. Everything in connection with construction is progressing to the satisfaction of the management of the company. As soon as the line is completed to tho Skagit the valley of that river will be tributary to Fairhaveu, whicli will bo an immense advantage to the business of the oity. Some time in December we will be marketing coal from the Sedro mines in all the cities on the bay. A force of 50 men is now at work developing the veins, and the coal will be ready to mine hy the time trackluying is finished to the Skagit." WORKING NORTH. "Have you done anything yet as to operations north?" asked your commissioner. "Wo have three engineering parties at work between Fairhaven and the boundary," replied Mr. Donovan, "and the location will be definitely settled within a few weeks. We have lecured right of way for live miles nortii of Fairhaven, and our agents are at present engaged iu further negotiations. The route we will take cannot be made public ye'., as it would interfere with purchases of right uf way in course of arrangement. "When will you begin gradini' towards Westminster?" "Within two weeks wo will be grading north, but only livo miles nf the line will be built until the whole right of way is purchased. It is not our policy to show our intentions beforo hand, and wo counot take the chances of paying any price demanded for land, which '"ould naturally be the caso if our definite location waB made public. The 500 men now employed on bridge and culvert building on the Skagit line will he transferred to the northern line in two weeks, and the work will be rushed as fast as possible while the fine weather lasts." "Then ynu really mean business, and intend pushing operations towards forming a junction with the Southern Railway at the boundary?" "Tho day uftor Mr, Bennett and Mr. Thompson returned from Westminster, nfter completing arrangements for tho tsunsfor of the line to our control, u party of engineers was sont north and commenced tho work of location, uud since then we have boon working with tho atriot object in view of pushing the road to completion from Fairhavon at, the oarlioBt posBiblo date, Mr, Bennett took full possession of tho Southern Railway on Aug. 1st, and ovory thing in connection with it is now under his control. Itis quite probable that construction will be fin ished from the Nicomekl river to the boundary I his fall, and wo fully expect to have the wholo line completed from Fairhaveu to Westminster by May 1st, 1800." "Is it your intention to do much in the wav uf improvements at Westminster?" ' "By the terms of our agreement we are bound tn fulfil certain conditions wliich will necessitate tlie expenditure of largo sums uf money, bllt how much I am not prepared to say. One thing, however, is certain, nur expenditure will be vastly in excess uf your bonus." "Will, your equipments and improvements be nn tho same scale as ut Fairhaven, and will yuu commence operations there at an early date." "Everything we construct will be substantial throughout, but of tho scale un which improvements will be made it is a little too early to speak. Tho bylaw has nut carried yet; when it dues our intentions will soon be known. If yuu vnto the bonus no time will be lost iu commencing wurk, for there is much to bo done." ''Supposing tho bylaw dues out pass, will Ihu work yuu have already dune between Fairhaven and tho boundary bo thrown away." "Nut by any moans. Wo will build into British Columbia all the sumo, but Westminster will nut be benefitted thereby.". "But ynu are working tho same ns if the bylaw were already passod." "Why," said Mr. Donovan, "you du nut infer that Westminster will reject it?" Your, commissioner ventured the prophesy that the bylaw would curry without trouble, especially uftor the people* were .made aware of what the Bennett company had already done and what it proposed doing. Mr. Donovan was questioned concerning southern connections, and he replied that cunsttuotiou would be pushed smith us noun as the lino tn Westminster was well under way. He said THE SOUTHERN TERMINUS of the roud wuuld lie Portland, while tho eastern terminus will be somewhere east of tlie Rocky mountains. He also informed your commissioner that tho line, hud been definitely located t-j the summit uf the Cascades, and that maps of tlie definito location have already been tiled with the-secretary of the interior for a line 80 miles up to Skagit river. He nlso hinted that the Fairhaven and Southern Railway would form a junction with the Manitoba road, whicli is now building towards the Rockies. If this connection is made it will give Westminster another through lino to the east. While this conversation was in progress a bundle of papers were brought in and laid on Mr. Duuoviin's table, which he explained were the reports of the previous day's work. Your commissioner was invited to inspect the papers, which he did and found them to be reports of all the work in progress. Thinking it wuuld be interesting, as well us conclusive evidence of the operations of the company, the following was copied from one of the papers: F. Ss S. R. R. DAILY TRACK REPORT. Foreman Wm. Shields No. of men employed 60 Hours surfacing 5 No. of ties placed 1200 Truck lnid frum station 166-142 2400ft. (Signed) Wm. Shields, Foreman. Your commissioner personally inspected tho work above mentioned and is therefore in n position to verify the report, whicli is correct in every particular. Mr. Donavan was then asked concerning tho steel rails ordered in England to be delivered at Westminster. He replied that he was present when Mr. Bennett ordered 3000 tons of 50 pound rails, to he delivered in the Fraser in February next. "How dues your company stand financially?" wob the next queition asked. "The capital stock of the company," said Mr. Donavan, "has lately been increased from $1,000,000 to $6,000,- 000," and then he smiled quietly and added, "we are not hampered in that direction." "It is reported that your company has spent nearly $2,000,000 in Fairhaveu and vicinity, on railroad construction and on other enterprises; is this true?" "Well, you are asking a question that ia hurd to unswer, and I cannot give you a direct reply, but 1 will say that wu have spent an immenae amount uf money since the first of the year, on uur improvements in Fairhaven, the length of line graded and our expenditure for Block and material, and you will easily understand that all these must have required a largo expenditure of money. I might alio add that we puy all our accounts monthly, on the 25th of each month, and no person has yet been able to say tho Fairhaven and Southern Co. is Blow pay." "Besides the railway, your syndicate controls other enterprise!, does it not?" "Yes, the syndicate controls the Fairhaven Land Cu. and the Skagit Coal und Transportation Co., besides the Fairhaven and Southern Railway. The officers of these companies are: Nelson Bennett, president; O. X. Lar- rabee, vice-president; E, M. Wilson, treasurer; E. L. Cuwgill, secretary; J. J. Donavan, chief engineer." POSITIVE ASSURANCES. Before taking his leavo your commissioner put a parting question to Mr. Donavan: "Can I tell the people of Westminster that the road will be pushed to completion immediately?" To this ho replied: "Tho people of Westminster will be ablo to rido to Fairhavon over our lino by rail vory oarly next summer. You can assure thom of that." Aftor apologizing to Mr. Donavan for occupying so much of hiB valuable time, and thanking him for tho courteous reception, your commissioner withdrew. A short distanoe from the Fairhavon and Southern Railway Company's offico stands a small building on which is painted in large letters, "Arthur Ss Sherman, attorneys at lnw." Thinking a legal opinion on railway matters might not come amiss, your commissioner entered and introduced himself to Mr. Sherman, who seemed willing to speak on the subject introduced. He said the people who had taken up their residence in Fuirhaven had done so uxpecting that railway construction would bo vigorously prosecuted, and they hud not been disappointed. The moment it became known that Mr. Bennett had acquired a portion of the townsite, with the intention of making Fairhaven the base of operations for tlm building of his railway there was a grand rush for tho new city, and that rush has continued ever since. Mr. Bennett's reputation us a successful railway builder, his thorough business habits nnd romarkablo powers of perseverance, instilled confidonco in every one, wilh the reault that Fairhaven boomed from tho lirst. Certain promises wero mado by Mr. Bennett concerning what ho proposed doing, overy one ol which had been faithfully kept. Even the most sanguine believers in lhe ability of Mr. Bennett to keep his promises are surprised at tho wonderful energy he has shown in connection with tho construction of tho railway. Wlion connection is mudo with Westminster, the Bollingham Boy cities will then bo in direct communication with the east ever tho C. P. R., which iB looked upon uu u most important advantage from a commercial point of view. A direct line to Westminster will develop the trade between the two cities and result advantageously to both. "Wo are a eity," concluded Mr. Sherman, "of only six months' growth, and you can seo for yourself tho progress we have made. A year honco Fairhavi'ii will have surpassed all other cities un tho bay; and if you revisit us then ynu will find my pre diction is correct." Your commissioner called on soveral nther prominent citizens, who Bpoko enthusiastically of the Bennett Company and thu wonderful enterprise they have chown in all directions. It was impossible tu find a man who had not confidence ill Mr. Bennett, and even tho people of Schomo were ns extravagant in thoir praise uf him. -'Why," said one gentleman, "wo all knew Caufielil would never build tho road to Westminster, and that was the reason his schomo found sn little support except from the largo landholders of Whatcom, who wanted to boom their property. But the day wo hoard Beunolt had undertaken tu build the line we know it was struight business this time. Bennett is n railroad builder from' tho wurd 'go'and you can depend on him." In Whatcom thu public expression was different. Many peoplo there Btill cling tn the fond hope that Mr. Cuulield will yet surmount the difficulties with which ho is beset und build'his line both south mid north.' Several of the largest property owners in Whatcom are said to be associated with Mr. Cuulield in his enterprise, and aB it plainly means "railroad or burst" with them it is no wonder they Btill argue confidence in the Bellingham Bay and Weitmimter Railway. Fairhaven, it is generally admitted by all disinterested partios, is rapidly overhauling Whatcom, and in another year will be the larger place of; the two, therefore the jealousy of the people of the latter town is not tobo wondered at. When your commissioner turned hia back on Fairhaven ho loft with tho decidod conviction that the Bennet Company is thoroughly sincere, and that its intentions and agreements regarding Westminster will be carried out to tho letter. There inny bo people who will question the truth of some of these statements. To such doubters your commissioner would say: On to Fairhaven and Boarch for yourselves. The distance is not great and the expense is comparatively small. Do not condemn at random, but if you have the interests of Weitminster at heart prove the truth or falsity of these statements before passing judgment on them. Having accomplished all he was able to do in the short time at his disposal, your commissioner began the homeward journej, upon whicli it will not be necessary to dwell, and arrived that evening at the outskirts of Blaine. Having returned tho saddle and bridle to the owner, the Southern tramp, dusty and sun browned, led his somewhat subdued steed by a short rope through tho one principal street of Blaine, much lo the amusement of the inhabitants in goneral. Anohoring at the St. Leonard's for the night, the final stage of the homeward journey was commenced next (Friday) morning, and Westminster was reached, all well, at noon. TncoaiiiTtHiruiiiiiont Prise Winners* At a meeting of the judges, at Tacoma, on Friday owning, the following prizei woro awarded: In the wot test hoso raco Astoria was given first money, Vancouver second, Walla Walla third. Dry test hoso race- Vancouver first, Astoria second, east Portland Ihv.l Ans tl:r. •'.-.-:.:;: ionship--Astoriu first, Victoria Becond, Seattle third. Speed race—Vnncouvor first, Astoria socond, and third prize money divided equally betweon Viotoria, Tacoma No. 2, east Portland and CurvoHis, each getting $12.50. Hook and ladder race—Seattle first, Tacoma second, Astoria third. According to the prizes, Astoria wins $1,800; Vanoouver, $1,050; Seattle, $600; Walla Walla, $150.50; Victoria, $112.50; Curvallis, $212.50, making a a total of $4,250. Vancouver refused to tako second money, claiming thoy had been awarded first money after tho race, and secured nn injunction to restrain Chiof Riiinoy from poying over first monoy to Astoria. . The tournament is declared uut to have been a succoss from any standpoint, this being attributed prin cipally to mismanagement. Eight thousand shcop havo arrived at Maplo Greek, N. W. T., from Oregon, for Sir Lester Kayo's farm. ECUADOR'S ACTION On tlie Chinese Question. Killed by a Falling Sail. Incendiaries Burn a Church. A Malicious Circular. Abortive Attempt to Murder. Printers Want More Pay. French Republicans Sure of Victory. Boulangists Far Behind. Collins Dying. THE HEST CHINESE BILL. London, Sept. 23.—-Ecuador has prohibited the immigration of Chinese. REPUBLICANS AHEAD. Paris, Sept. 23.—Following aro the results as far us known up to nuw: Republicans, 25".', Monarchists, 165, and Boulangists, 150. Up to 7 o'clock this morning official returns have boon recoived from 03(1 divisions, of which tho republicans havo carried 217 and tlio revisionists 153. In tho remaining "(Hi there has beon no choice, nnd roballoting will bo necessary. Among tlie prominent republicans elected are Faillioro, .lebot, Jules Uocho, Grant, Dovelle, Dreohunoau, Barbes, Sarrion and Koinucht. The opposition elected DoCaSBagnao, Lulou, Fould, Has- iiianii, Godelte, Lanjuinaia Count and Dcmicn. In 12(1 of tho districts to bo ro- contested, tho result of tho second ballot will probably be favorable tu the republicans, and in tlie remaining 39 the opposition candidates are likely to bo successful. This estimate is made hy republicans themselves. The republicans also rely upon thoir ability to secure ton colonial seats, and thus hold 354 seats in tho new ohamber of deputies. Everybody iu official circles appears to believo that a republican majority is secured, which itis thought, if not so largo, will be more compact and more homogeneous than the government majority of the last chamber. WILKIE COLLINS DYING, London, Sopt. 23.—The condition of Wilkie Collins, tlie novelist, is worse this morning. His mind is wandering, and the end is close at hand. AN ENTERPRISING COAL CO. London, Out., Sept. 23.—The Medicine Hat Coal Co. is making vigorous ef. forts to sell it3 bonds hero to build a rail- way from Medicine Hut to the mines, OTTAWA NOTES. Ottawa, Sept. 23.—Tho printers employed in the government printing bureau have forwarded a memorial to the score- tary of state, asking for an increase of salary from 811 to §13.50 per wook, and that they be paid for statutory holidays. It is asserted by a gentleman who should bo in a position to know, that the premior, who has been acting ministor of railways since Mr. Pope's death, will award tho vacant portfolio to himself. The most prominent candidate for it was Chapleau. It is understood that Sedgcwiek, deputy ministor of justice, will ho offered the judgeship in Nova Scotia equity, occupied by the late Judgo James. Articles of incorporation of the Joggins Raft Company, to handle Canadian and American timber on the Pacific, have been tiled. The company starts with a paid up capital of §300,000 and u reserve of over double that amount. O'Dona- hue of San Fruneison wilt work'the scheme, Thoy will build rafts of from 8,000,000 to i 0,000,000 feet and tow them to the mills at Sun Francisco. ATTEMPTS Al MURDER, Windsor, Out., Sept. 23.—Several attempts wero made to poison tho family of Win. Derbyshire this morning by Paris green thrown in the well. The poison floated ou the water nud frustrated the design. DEAN OF FACULTY. Montreal, Sept, 23. —Dr, Crake has been appointed doan of tho faculty of medicine of McGill, iii place of the late Dr. Howard. ASPHYXIATED, Toronto, Sept. 23.—Mary Bryan, a housemaid at John Morrison's, blow out or accidentally turned on the gas last night and was asphyxiated. THE LARGEST YET. Montreal, Sept. 23.—Tho s. s. Parisian arrived here last evening with the largest passenger loud ever landed in Montreal. Judge Baine of Winnipeg was a passenger. STRONG COMMENTS. Toronto, Sopt. 23.—Hon. S. H. Blake, told his bible class yesterday, whilo commenting on the Hungarian dancers at the recent exhibition here, that hn would sooner ho in Sodom antl Gomorroh than be a director in the exhibition, and thut it should have been opened with prayor. KILLED ON THE HIGH SEAS. San Francisco, Sept. 23.—Tho British ship Thirlmere, which arrived from Antwerp this morning, reports that on May Hth A. W. Spencer, an apprentice, and an able seaman named Cadinthroo, woro instantly killed by a falling sail. INCENDIARIES' WORK. Red Lake Falls, Minn., Sopt, 28.— St, Joseph's Catholic Church waa discovered to bo ou firo at midnight and before tho flumes were got under control tho ohurch and its contents were totally destroyed. This firo is tho sequel to an intensely bitter fight which has been raging botwocn tho French ond German months. The firo was the work of an incendiary, as the men first at the scene claim thoy saw a throe-gallon can of oil underneath tho altar. A MALICIOUS CIRCULAR, Washington, D. C, Sept. 23.—Tho Posl to-day prints a oircufar isBUod by the world's fair committeo iu St. Louis and sent to membors of congress and officers of commercial organizations in the southorn states, which is intended to excite a sectional spirit hy appealing to southorn prejudices against the north and cast. MARINE MOVEMENTS. San Franoisoo, Sept, 23,—Arrived— Stcaiuor Empiro, Dopurturt; Bay; barquo Arctiu-as, Seattlo, Sailed—Tho Rufus E. Wood, for Nanaimo. A HANDSOME GIFT. Ottawa, Sopt. 23. From far awny India thoro arrivod at Earnsollft'o Just woek a package contnining two silvor bowls of nativo Hindoo workmanship, sent to Sir John by Lord Lntldsdowno to romind him und Lady Macdonald of "absent friends who do not forge Canada." These bowls eaoh weigh 4( ounces, nro 10 inches in diameter anc abnut 8 inches high, all lined with gold. THE RICHELIEU ELECTION. Montreal, Sept. 23.—Sargison and Chapleau have been in the citv holding a consultation with the Richelieu Conservatives over the election to he hold in that oounty on October 18th. The Tory leaders regard the situation in tho oounty with somo anxiety! Their nominating convention is to be held on Tuesday. CAUSED UY ELECTRICITY. Winnipeg, Sept. 23.—At 11 o'clocl this morning, acting Sergeant Leach of tho city polico forco, perceived i blaze in the cupola above tho roof o; tho Forost Bluck, through which tht wires of the telegraphic system conducted into the exchange. H( gavo tho alarm and the brigade wai promptly on the scene. Ladders wen brought into requisition mid the fire men ascended witli tho chemical horn and extinguished the bhzo in a fov minutes. Chief Code snys tho lire wai caused by uu electric light wire cross ing a telophunu wire on St. Mary': Btreet. Manager Walsh recognised thf prompt turn out of tho brigade, and i a mark of appreciation of their valui bio Bervicos, ho forwarded $50 fur the Brigade Beuevolont Fund. RACK again. Toronto, Sept. 23.—Davis Bluing president of tho defunct central bank, was seen in the ciiy this morning, 1( ia said ho made somo arrangement! witli tho liquidators, after his exile ul many niunths, to return. MR. YATES' CABLE. London, Sept. 24.—The queen hai] deoided to postpone her contemplated visit to Struthpsffer till next year, sc her majesty will remain nt Balmoral until slio comes to Windsor in Noveml bor. Tho queon will probably get tc Aix Les Baines early in tho spring. THE PRINCE OF WALES WELL AGAINi The health of the Prince of Wales il, bu far improved that tho npproheusior. felt by his relatives as to the existence of blood poisoning, which caused si! much unxiety u month ago, are for tin! moment allayed. ALBERT VICTOR'S INDIAN TRIP. Unless something unforeseen occurs] Princo Albert Victor's Indian \srof gramme will be curried out, but thf Prince of Wules bus been warned ol' tho probable consequence of any undue exertion while iu Scotland and it1 advised to take as much rest as possible during his coming visit to Greece.* A ROYAL "GOOD FELLOW." Prince Christian Victor, uf. Schles? wig-Holstein, who lias been at Bui. moral for a fortnight, has gone baok to his regiment. Ho has had a good deal of shooting and dear stalking, oi- whicli ho i3 vory fond and he is a goot;'; shot. He is one of the sturdiest anc. most athletic uf the royal family, being, vory strong and fund uf all out duo.) amusements. Ho is moreover a vory pood follow nud vory populur in hii- regiment, A MARVELLOUS RAOE HORSE. The wonderful luck of tho Duko of Portland bus apparently not been hausted, for Donovan's victory in thej Lancashire plate on Saturday bring! tho total of the duko'a winnings sinoc the beginning nf laat season, up to within a fraction of £100,000, of which Bum Donovan lias contributed nearly1 une hnlf. Donovan has quite] put int, ihe shade the winning ol Ayrshire, whu won about £38,000 in tho course of his season, whereas,: Donovan, whu iippurontly still hns u.' long and prosperous future before him ' has already placed about £55,000 to] his owner's credit, tie won 11 raoesj out of 13 us a 2 year old. and this sea-, son, save for his "lluky" defoat iu thf.' "2,000 guineas," he has curried all boj fore him, winning the Prince of Wnlei' stakes, £1,000 at Leicester; New Mar : ket stakes, Derby, Prince of Wale}} stakes at Ascot, Doncaster stakes am now tho Lancashere plate, winnini them all easily, too. His last achiov . ment is probably the best, for Chita bab was so tame that he could hardb hobble to Doncaster station the wee- before. He came round with sui prising rapidity and was well suited b seven furlongs at Manchester. i The Cariboo Mines. Dr. T. J. Jonei, who has just « turned i'o Viotoria from the mines « Cariboo, was called upon by a C'o'imij ropresentative, to whom he gave inter,[ eating information in regard to mine'( and mining. He visited all the mine y. in the soction during his recent visi to Cariboo, but gave more partioula attention to the Island Mountain ani B. 0. Oo.'s property. Tho Islun Mountain was lirst visited; in it ther are four tunnels. The lower uno i now 200 foet in the lodge, aud uvcrag ing 3 feet in width, all woll minora'' izod ore. There is now on tho dump, at a low estimate, 600 tons. The nex ( tunnel, John'B tunnel it is callod, i I now in 211 foot, and averages 5 feot i I width. On the dump there is 1,00 toni of good ore. The Euternris''' tunnel is in 420 feot, the lodge hoim- about Bix feot in width. This tunne is about 800 feot from tho mouth a > tho John's. All operations at the Island Mountain aro at prosent suspended, although! there are over 2,000 tnnB ot good oi [ on tho dump, and the oxidized ore 11 bo found there would alono be sutticienj to pay all running expenses and Iout; a profit besides. Bosides the ore oi' the dump, tlioro is enough in Bight t/1 last a yoar. If put in running ordor, the mill—a ton-stomp one, with fuo concentrators, a largo crusher und all the most modern niuohlnory vvoull realize a profit of $1.00 n day, Th*j Graphite is another vory proinisin:' ledge, also owned by the Inland Mom,' tain Co. Tho Graphite Is novon fori wide on the face, and tho tunuel is rfl 04 foot. Thero ia about 180 tuna i,' ore on tho dump, and operations hor'' also aro for tho timo being suspondci, VOLUME 34. Ijrrrrv, y BRITISH COLUMBIAN I WEEKLY BRITISH COLUMBIAN, NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C., SEPTEMBER 25, 1889. NO. 39. Wednesday -Horning. Sept. IIS. >S«I. {From Daily Columbian, Sept. 23.) W. C. Loye has paid his subscrip- od, $10, to the Exhibition Fund. Jext! Mr. L. P. Eckstien has .paidliis Bub- iription to the Exhibition Fund. Vhu'll bo the noxt to go south ? Mr. Max. Mowat leaves to-morrow lorning to commence the season's ork at the Dominion Hatchery. Mrs. Annio Jaques lias paid her sub- iription to the exhibition fund. Tho npaid list Bhould bo wiped out this eek. Sockeyes monopolize tho nets just ow but the Siwashes think thore is .ore in cranborry-picking than in slung. All subscribers to the celebration ind who have not yet paid their sub- priptions aro requested tu leave the mounts with the treasurer, Mr. Fruer, as soon us possible. Owing to the largo amount of space iccupied by our commissioner's roport n Fairhaven und Southern Railway latters again to-day, we ore compellod o omit the usual church report this vening. Anyono who may wish to procure a opy of the Delta agricultural oxhibi- ion prize list can be obliged at this ffice. The Dolta exhibition tukospluco ne week from to-morrow, on Tuesday, )ct. 1st, at Ladner's Landing. Polling took place for the Lillooet lection on Saturday. The ballots ore counted this afternoon, and, as ill be seen by our special despatch in nother column, Mr. Smith, tho gov- rnmont candidate, has been elected iy a majority of 31. On Saturday at Hall's Prairio a man lamed MoPhail, whilo hauling logs on skid with a team of oxen, had occa- ion to turn his back upon the animals. ~ne of thom suddenly kicked him in he buck over tho kidneys. The uu- ortunate man blod profusely, but un- ler the care of Dr. Hall was soon liucli relieved. A number of credible citizons concur n stating that they felt a distinct Tcinor uf the earth at about 11 o'elook est night. It seemed like a shock and he rebound, but very faint. Some i'ho wore reading noticed the lights uiver and pendant articles oscillate. ['he late seismical disturbances in Call- ornia may account for this phenome- on. At the lumber camp near Port Moody, on Saturday, a twig fell upon he head of a young man, penetrating he scalp and running slantingly between it and the cranium for u length sf 3 or 4 inches. The young man suf- iered great pain, but Dr. Hull, who ma summoned, says that if erysipe- ,S8 does not set in the patient will soon be as well as over. At prosent the coal millers at the Carbon Bill coal niine near Tacoma aro on Btrike. Thero ore about four hundred men out and the prospects are that the mine will bo closed for some time to come. In consequence of this the Southern Pacific railway coal vessels are compelled to go to the Union mines, Comox, for their car- . The first vessel is the ship Palestine, which arrived at Port Town- send laBt Friday eti route to the Carbon Hill mines, but on account of the strike was ordered to Comox. She has completed her cargo and is ready to sail. The other vessels of the fleet to follow the Palestine are tho Alaska, Oriental, Yosemite and Two Brothers. The Icarus for Westminster. The city clerk has received a communication from Admiral Henoagc, commanding the Nortii Paoifio fleet, intimating that he will probably order H, M. S. Icarus to Westminstor, to remain in port during the progress of the exhibition. The presenco uf the Iciircs and her brave sailors will lend an additional interest to oxhibition lil'aii-s, and hor assistance on the night if the illumination, with tho electric search lights, will be much appreciated. The citizens of WestminBter will heartily welcome both officers and men, und it is safo to predict that when tho vessel leaves port every man aboard will carry away only pleasant rccollootioiis of tho roynl city and its people. Tho management of tho exhibition and celebration might, issue passes to the crow of the Icarus, entitling thom to freo admittance to the grounds and agricultural buildings. Ui'fealt'il, tint Yiminiishctl. Whon the 8 o'olock train steamed in on Saturday night with tho Hyack lire toam aboard, the band struck up a brazen nute of welcome. Thero was a tumult of hand shakes and "how do do" nud tho boys woro accorded a warm and hearty reception. Chief Ackerman was present and headed tho party to the Hyack Hall, the baud leading thn procession. The chief mudo a short speech of welcome to tho team iiou coiiipliniontod !.. .-.: the Manner in which thoy had upheld the honor uf Westminster abroad. These remarks were roceived with ap- plauso, and the boys wore then taken iosaession of and marched off home. Westminister though defeatod in the tournomerit, was far from losing glory. Tho difference betweon hor timo and tho best mado in tho contosts was only •half-a-socond—scarcely appreciable without'u stop-watoh—tuul that against the best professional teams. The first dny sho wus tho lowest iu tho pool; the socond day hor good quulitiee gavo hor third place. Defeated not vanquished, io the lot of tho toam to-dny. The flyocks did honor hoth tu themselves nnd to Wnatiniiitor, and thoy return homo inoro appreciated than over by tho people of tho royal city. Children Cryfor LILLOOET ELECTION. Ur. Smith, tlie Government t'undidntc, lEcliiriicil liy a -tlajorllj' »' III. Special to the Columbian. Clinton, B. 0., Sept. 23.—The result of Lillooet district election is ss follows: John Saul, 63; A. W. Smith, 94; spoiled ballots, 1. Victoria Won't Come. Tho secretary of the Viotoria foot ball club has written to Mr. J. S. Olute, secretary of the Westminster foot ball club, announcing that it would be impossible for the Victoria team to play in the Royal City during exhibition week, but offering to play a woek or two later. Mr. R. B. Lhiter and Mr. Clute went over to Vancouver this afternoon to arrange, if possible, with the club of that city to take the placo of V-itoria and play for the modals. It will bo a general disappointment if the match is not arranged, but tho Vancouver leather kiokors are a pluoky lot and will doubtless be willing to try conclusions even on Buch short notice. STRUCK IT RICH on tlie Srinllliaiiiceii mver..--YuluuliI*; Placer Mine Being Developed liy «. W. Unsure. Mr. G. W. Rasuro returned from Somilkameon last Saturday ovening. This morning Mr. Rasure called at The Columbian office and gave an account of his journey. He brought down a band of about 60 horses and sold 45 along the road, tho speculation turning out to his satisfaction. The claim which ho is about to begin operation upon is ou the south fork of the Simil- kanieou rivor, seven miles above the mouth. It is a hydraulic mine and as it has 1000 inches of water there will be no troublo as to the washing part of the work. Mr. Rasure took from a small bag a number of nuggets weighing from"$8 to $15 each; they are fine specimens and were all found the same day and in the same locality, in prospecting. Nine men are at work putting in ditches, etc. There are from 3 to 25 cents in every pan of dirt taken out. Mr. Rasure iB on the way to Victoria to purchase the necessary hydraulic machinery, and will begin operations about the 15th of next month. He estimates that the mine will show $16 per man per day. The Mainland Mining Co.,- of Granite, has struck a new pay-streak, and is uverag ing $12 per man per day. In consequence of this another rush to the Granite creek has begun, and the stream will again be pretty thoroughly prospected. Many think Granite creek will yet pan out rich. Shinning Intelligence. The Rainbow had about 40 tons of freight and n good number of passengers whon she left this morning. The Dunsmuir left this morning with 20 head of cattle and a large consign ment of farm produce. She took on a quantity of farm produce at points down the river. Tho Rithet left for Viotoria this afternoon with 660 sheep, 46 head of cattle, 72 bales of hay, 168 sacks potatoes, several packages of butter, eggs, etc. She had the usual complement of passengers. The Irving will go up next Monday to up river ports to bring down exhibits and otlier material for the exhibition. She will then go up on Wednesday to fetch the visitors, which will allow thom nearly two days to visit the exhibition. She will return up rivor on Saturday. Tho steamer Irving arrivod from up river yestorday, having ou board tho following cargo: 462 bales of hay, 47 sacks of grain, 257 sacks potatoes, 110 boxes apples, 7 boxes peaches, 0 pears, 0 beans, 6 melons, 4 cucunfbers, 3 mushrooms, 6 grapes, 40 sacks cabbage, onions, turnips, carrots, beets; 11 bales hops, 4 boxes geese, 4 boxes turkoys, 10 lambs, 8 horsos, 3 wagons, 1 cart, 40 packages seed, 10 coops chickens, 7 beef cattle, 10 pigs, 2 calves. The Irving goos down this afternoon to tho bridgo with a load of iron for tho San Francisco Bridgo Co. and will return with 1050 cases of salmon from the Richmond Cannery Oo. for shipment enst over the O.P.R. Police Court. (Before T. C. Atkinson, Esq,, P, M., and 1*. MoTiernan, Ksq., .1. P. Ching alias Ah Yun, a Chinaman, charged with supplying liquor to Philip, a Harrison river Indian, wus represented by a fellow countryman, whn spoko English. Philip and another Siwash gi'iitlomaii hud retired under the dock noar the bottling works on Front s-roet, to enjoy in tranquility at. ut half a gallon uf gill ill a square bultlo. The cork wub withdrawn and the initial gulp just nbout to bo gulped when tlie feet of Constable Carty appeared, then his legs, body, head and generous luge hand grasping tho club of t'fli-.'o The gin party was iu- he saw the officer, but was eventually captured. Chief Pearce described hiin as a "hard sood," and an old jail bird. Officer dirty tested Ching's pig-tail by giving it a atiff jerk, but the hair remained intact. Ching waa fined S50 and $■'! ousts, nr in default three months'.imprisonment. Daniel Gillios. for boing drunk and iuoiipablo, forfeited $5 bail by non-appearance. Two men, who were lighting oppo- Hito the Merchants' Hotol, wore arrested by Oflicer Dominy, who took ono of them to the station, and returned nnd took the other half an hnur later. Thoy both deposited bail to the nmount uf $10, whieh they lorfoited this morning by not appearing to answer the charge. (From Daily Columbian, Sept. 24.) Mr. Thomas Cunningham has paid his subscription te tho exhibition fund. Nextl The gaa main has reached the Park and will soon be in connection with the building. Lacrosso practice every aftornoon, henceforth, except Sunday, up to opening of exhibition. At the police court this morning, Jim, a Chilliwack Indian, was fined $5 for having been found in a state of intoxication. The Irving left this morning with the usual amount of freight and passengers, many of the latter being bound for Chilliwack fair. The barometer was extremely high to-day, standing 30.37. Some local scientists connect the late earth tremor and this barometrical condition. The Rifles are ordered to parade on Fridoy niglit for drill. As it is the intention of the company to take part in the grand procession, it is expected that every man will make a point of attending this drill. The fireworks committee aro getting their material into shape rapidly, and the prospects for a good display are vory bright. Two fire balloons will be sent up on tho niglit of the illumination, which will be a novelty of their kind. A small boat, containing Pat Gannon and two friends, was passing down the river about 2:30 to-day, and ono of the passengers indulged in a mild species of skylarking, with the result that the boat being pretty full, like the passengers, tipped over. The mon were rescued by some Indians and conveyed to the shore, wetter and wiser. The instructions issued to the police of this city regarding the closing of the stores on the Sabbath ate imperative and will be striotly carried out by the police, and aa all have by thiB time become conversant with these instructions no further notice will be given, but any store keeper hereafter found carrying on his usual business on the Sabbath will be prosecuted.— World. Hunt, Baines and Co., the great fish dealers of Montreal, have notified Mr. W. H. Vianen that they will take all the sslt salmon he can send. This firm also Bent Mr. Vianen an order for $774 yesterday, value of fish lately ro ceived. A standing order for 8 boxes (about 2,000 pounds) of salmon, every day, all summer, has constituted this firm's business with Vianen's fish house. Alderman Cunningham, chairman of the park committee, makes a request that the young men should turn out to cut and pile vine-maples for decorative purposes, as the workmen on the buildings and grounds aro too busy to be spared for this work. Mr, Cunningham will send a team to gather up the trees when cut and piled. Here's a chance for patriotic young men to do something for their country. The Exhibitions. The Chilliwack exhibition opens tomorrow and will ocoupy two days, Wednesdoy"an'd'' Thursday, 25th and 26th September. Monday next, Sept, 30th, is the date for the Surrey show, and the Delta fair takes place at Ladner's Landing on Tuesday, 1st Octo- ber. It is hardly necessary to remind our readers that the provincial exhibition will be held in this city next week, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, tho 2nd, 3rd und 4th of October. . m . "FARES, PLEASE!" Westminster's Electric Street Hallway, Aid. Cunningham's speech last evening in the oouncil chamber, dealing with tho growing prosperity of New Westminster and tho interest which was awakening about her all ovor the country was' particularly woll timed in view of the faot that an application for un electric street railway franchise lay on tho table. Westminster is go ing to bogin where great cities in the past have just attained by long yoars of expensive and wearisome study and waiting. They bogan with the one horse bob-tail ear, the "drop a nickel in the box, please" stage, so to speak, thon the tintinnabulation of the conductor bell-punch and the clang of the patent, "Lowis and Fowler Register" awoke tho echoes of another, more advanced era in street-car ethics; then last and hest, the electric aysteiii camo upon the set-tie and to-day is first favorito in public estimation. Westminster is bolter situated for au electric than a horse car aystoiu: tho inclines aro very heavy, and thu curves would bo numerous in zig-zogging up tho hills, so that the wear and tour of horse flesh' would bo much more expensive than even a first class electric equipment. EATING, SPEAKJNG AND PAYING. The V. .11. (I, A. Slimier and lull rluin- nielli at tlio Opera House Last Mali: ii Oi'iiiU'd Sin-ri-sn. $5,000 !!u!«i!'! (in tllll tinlMlnv I'.tml. Tho supper giving in Herring's opera liouse last night, by the ladies' central committee of tho Y. M. C. A., was well attended, and during the hour allotted for refreshments, from 7 to 8 p. in., about, two hundred peoplo sat down tn the bountifully loaded tallica which tho ladies had provided upon tho Hour of the houso and on tho Btage. Shortly after 8 n'cluck, Mr. D. S. Curtis, president of the local association, and chairman of the meeting, opened tho bocoikJ part uf tho programme by declaring that the assembly had come together a ith somo other bjoot besides simply tn oat the good things provided by the ladies, and that object was to hoar the eloquence of Sfiino nf the delegates-to the recent Y. M. C, A. convention'. Mr. F. W. Teague, general secretary of the Victoria association, was called on, and opened in a humorous manner, but soon settled down to business. He had just come from the convention at Vancouver, and there was one thing which struck hiin with very great force. There was a time when the Y. M. C. A. used to apologise for being in tho work. But that time was, most unmistakably, over now, and at the lato convention were assembled some of the best men as regards brains and wealth on the coast. This wss the case all over tho continent to-day. Mr. Geo. Carter, the general secretary of Seattle, was next called upon. Ho lamented, in a facetious manner, that he had lost his appetite since coming into the hall. Mr. Carter then interested his audience with a few moments of sprightly talk on his impressions of the convention at Vancouver. His first impresfiou was that of having had a right hearty guod time. Tho last impression was that the dovil was going to have a very hard time this year. Mr. N. H. Jacks, travelling secretary for tho Pacific Northwest, wus next called on by the chairman, and gave a brief but spirited address. He spoko of the work of the Y. M. 0. A. and its remarkable growth and advancement, within the last year even, all over America, and noted the great progress that the association in this oity had made since he (the speaker) was here last. The association in this city was now taking steps to put up a building of its own, and the travelling secretary hoped to have the pleasure of being at the dedicatory services within a year. (Applause.) Mr. fl. E. Brown, travelling secretary of tho international committee fnr the United States and British provinces was the noxt speaker. Mr. Brown is a gray-haired, rather remarkable and cheerful looking veteran in Y, M. C. A. work. He referred to the "talk of the boys" who had preceded him, which brought down the house, and then delivered a most eloquent and inspiring address, showing the vast and increasing work of the Young Men's Christian Association in America, along the different lines of railroad, college, and mission work particularly. Mr. D. S. Curtis, chairman, made a short address in conclusion, and asked all members of the association to remain after the public meeting, as there was business of importance to be discussed with the delegates present. The meeting then adjourned with the doxology and benediction. The public having left the hall and gone home, about 17 of the members gathered together in an informal way to discuss the financial aspect of affairs. Before any regular business formalities could be begun, some one spoke up and proposed to subscribe funds there and then, without further parley, towards the proposed building fund. A spirit of enthusiasm seemed to seize all present and in a few moments the astonishing sum of $5,000 waB subscribed, sb follows: Coatham & Co., $1,000; D. S. Curtis, $500; H. M. Cunningham Ss Co., $500; Clow Ss Maclure, $500; Edwin Rand, $500; A. E. Rand, $500; W. C. Coatham, $250; T. M. Cunningham, $260; G. H. Grant, -$200; A. 0. B. Jaok, $200; E. Hailey, $100; A. Des- Brisay, $100; J. L. Caldwell, $100; Geo. Windsor, $100; J. D. Fraaer, $100; Albort Cooper, $50; John Cunningham, $50. Total, $5,000. CITY COUNCIL. The council met at 8 o'clock last night for the transaction of business. Present—Aldermen Jaques, McPhaden, Cunningham, Reid, Shiles, Keary and Calbick. Mnyor Townsond in the chair. The reading of the minutes of tho last meeting was adopted: COMMUNICATIONS. The following communications were taken up: From L. Williams, asking for an extension of two weeks for contract on St. Andrews street. On motion the application was granted. Thomas Draper, asking extent of city propor in acres or miles, and asking that unnamed streets be namod and numbered. Received. Alderman McPhaden said that the niatter hnd better stand over until after the exhibition. The clork was instructed to inform Mr. Draper that the council being engaged with exhibition matters nt presont would consider his application later. J. E. Funning, of tho St. Anthony Fulls Wator Power Co., in reply to a lettor from tho city clerk iu reference to wntor supply. Received and filed, A. H. McBride, warden uf the poni- tentiory, replying tu lottor concerning right of wuy through the penitentiary grounds, and that, tho samo had been forwarded to tho Inspector. Reoeived and filed. Mrs. E. Guld, referring to the cutting away of a bunk of earth ou her property, and uskitig that it be done at once. Recoived. Aid. Jaques said this was a hard street, ond the thing had never been settled, lt was thought bettor to leave the job until tho soason was further advanced. On motion thu clork waa instructed to inform Mrs. Gold to the effect that as soon as tho oouncil can practicably do this work they will attend to it. James Kennedy, in reference to tho confirmation of the survey opposite the Powell Block. Recoivod and tiled. Aid. Jaques said that Mr. Cotton, Hiving returned, would attend to this matter at once. John Jessop, Victoria, asking a further supply uf city and district fulders. Granted. Chas. E. Puoley, Q. C, regretting his inability tu accept tho invitation nf the mayor and corporation to visit the exhibition on iioeount of nther business. Received and tiled. D W. Gnrrlnn, M.P., Nanaimo', expressing regret that uhBcuce from the province will prevent his accepting the invitation tu the exhibition, Received and filed. F. Barnard, M. P., regretting his inability to accept the city'B invitation to the exhibition on account of going to Cariboo on that date. Received and filed. Hon. John Robson, accepting invitation to attend the exhibition. Received and filed. Mr. E. Crow Baker, M. P., regretting his inability to accept the invitation to attend the exhibition. Capt. John Irving, acknowledging with thanks, invitation to attend exhibition. Received and filed. Hon. F. G. Vernon, thanking the mayor and corporation for the invitation to the exhibition, and regretting his inability to attend. Received and filed. E. II. Bauks, H. M. S. Swiftsure, Esquimalt, acknowledging for Rear Admiral Heneago, tho receipt of the invitation tn the exhibition, and stating that the Icarus will be sont. Received and filed. A petition, without signatures, relating to the liquor lioense by-law, and whicli was intended to be circulated to show tho views of the licensed victuallers on the subject. On motion, the petition was laid aside to bo brought up with the liquor license bylaw. H. V. Edmunds and others asking for a oharter to run a system of electric street railways in New Westminster. Received. Aid. Jaques Baid that it was the intention to get up a company to operate a motor line. Aid. Cunningham moved, seconded by Aid. Reid, that the clerk bo instructed to inform these gentlemen that the necessary steps ahould be taken to meet tlieir views. Carried. Aid. Cunningham said he was glad to see that New Westminster had, in common parlance, "got a move on," and was going ahead rapidly. Herbert G. Ross, re introduction of "household fire extinguisher" into the province, of whioh he is agent, and asking for orders for same. Referred to fire committee to report. S. G. Tidy, asking permission to lay building material ou Edinburgh street near Montreal street. Permission granted subject to usual conditions. REPORTS. The park committee reported that several payments had been made. Adopted. Aid. Cunningham verbally reported how the park stood at the present time. Every intelligent man in New Westminster knew how things were going on up there. Inside decorations were in progress and the grounds will be finished in two days. Covered walks are being put down around the building. The telephone company are putting up a telephone at the building for the use of visitors, offices, etc. The telegraph company will also put up an instrument, from whioh they will derive enough pecuniary compensation to make the venture a paying one, In laying the sidewalks Mr. Forrest and his gang had rendered valuable help. Report adopted. Health committee recommended the sum of $25 be paid Mrs. Nickerson for beds and clothes burnt at Poplar island during quarantine; also $10 to Thos. Walker for blankets and quilts destroyed at Poplar islnnd. Adopted. Tho bourd of works reported progress and requested longer time for the work on Clarkson street sidewalks and Mr. McColl'a tank. Adopted. ACCOUNTS. Scott, Marshall aud Creighton, for stables, sheds and pens, $590.00; McLellan and Lory, work on park, $500.- 00; Hon. A. M. Richarda, $50.00; W. P. Grant, pumping out pontoon, $5.00; Mrs. Nickerson, clothing burnt, $25.00: Thos Walker, clothing burnt, $10.00. The tenders for Pelham street wore opened. Five tenders wero received, the lowest being that of Messrs. McLellan Ss Lory, $4,750, whicli was considered fair and reasonable and wub accepted. Aid. Keary nbjooted to the expenditure of so much money on Pelham st. on the ground of over-expenditure. Aid. Cunningham said in reply to Aid. Keary that after the work on the pork wub finished 100 men would bo let loose on it and it was the intention of the city to find work for these men bo long us it could. On Pelham street not a stroke uf an axe hu3 been struck in 17 years, and yet there are men who want to build there if they can get a place for thoir houses. Tho poople wore getting tired of doing work the corporation ought to do. Ho hoped the gentlemen round the board would throw no opposition in tho way of this project. Aid. Reid said it was time something was dnno in that directum, and was in favor of the poshing of the wurk on Polhaiu street. Aid. Jaques and Aid. Calbick also spoke in favor nf accepting tho contract. His worship explained that tho original intoiition was nut to go into the swamp, hut m view of tho industries which urn likely tu spring up thero it was deemed judioi- niis to continuo the survey. MUNICIPAL BUSINESS. In the liquor lioense umendment bylaw tho clork reported that ho hud consulted wilh Mr. A. J. McColl and the amendment had boon propured. On motion tho by-law was read a second time. Tho council went into committee of the whole, Aid. Cunningham in tho chair. The by-law and preamblo passed as road and the committee roso and roported the bylaw complote Roport adoptod. Rules being suspended tho bylaw was road a third time, by titlo, passod, and on motion tho bylaw was directed t« be signed by the mayor and clork and the seal of tho corporation attached. Further time was granted for the third reading of tho wator leases bylaw. NEW BUSINESS. Aid. Cunningham said he would move that his worship bo appointed a committee of one to look aftor bunting fur the exhibition building. Aid. Jaques moved, seconded by Aid. Reid, that $1,000 ou granted the Bports committee. Carried. Aid. Cunningham seconded by Aid. McPhaden moved that his worship be appointed to Bee about getting flags and banners for the exhibition building. McGorvie, of Victoria, will be applied to for tliis purpose. The question of providing lunch for the invited guests next came up. It has been proposed that somebody cater for this lunch. The city hall would make an excellent place for the reception of visitorB. On motion, Aid. McPhaden and Keary were appointed a committee to look after the lunch. Tickets will be issued for the lunch and one or two of the aldermen will be present all the time. Aid. Reid said some difficulty was being experienced in finding bedding material. He thought it would be a good plan to advise tho country peoplo to bring their own bodding, and the city would provide plenty of room. The hotel keepers had all beon interviewed ns to tlieir aloeping accomodation und it was found that they could acoomndate about 500. Evorybody was very willing to open sleeping rooms for visit- ora. Various peoplo had been written to about bed clothing. The C. P. R. has been applied to for a train of cars, but there is not a Bleeper on the coast. The shipping will range up alongside tho docks and bo utilized for sleeping purposes. Aid. Cunningham said there was one gentleman who had not been invited, who certainly should be, Mr. Nelson Bennett; invitations will be extended to Mr. Bennett and the mayors of Whatcom and Sehome. Aid. Jaques gave notice of motion that he would introduco a bylaw to restrict cattle using the sidewalks within city limits. Aid. Keary asked if the contractor had any right to lift the sidewalk near the Bushby estate on Front street. It ought to be put down during exhibition weok. Aid. Jaques aaid he would introduce a bylaw tn grant Messrs. Edmonds & Co. a charter to operate on electrio atreet railway. Council after some informal talking, adjourned. Personal. F. R. Glover went up tu the Chilliwack exhibition today, to represent The Columbian at the bIiow. The Hon. John Rubson, provincial secretary, is in the city, and leaves for Chilliwack on tho Gladys to morrow morning. Guests ut the Colonial: Mr. Borrells and son, Keremoos; Jas. Fraser and son, Hopo; C. L. Ruggles, John Boultbee and son, Vancouver; George Cruikshank, Ottawa; W. L. Cusact, Simon Leiser, Victoria; R. Filer, Montreal. TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. The death of Prince Monaco is causing anxiety in London as to the future of Monte Carlo. Forty-eight dead have boen taken from ihe Quebec landslide. Work still going on vigorously. Georgo Francis Train was arrested this morning at Boston, Mass., for debt amounting to §1000. Thore was a dynamite explosion at Peterhoff station which was intended for the czar, but he missed it by a, few minutes. G. F. Train refused the assistance of counsel when arraigned for dobt in Boston to-day. He was committed to the county jail. Charles Sleichetz murdered his employer, Sol. E. Felch, at Marinette, Wis., to-day, and narrowly escaped lynching by the mob. A desperate, but futile attempt was made this morning to wreck a passenger train on the Wisconsin Central lino. No clue to the wretches. An ox-employee uf tlm Au-trian nrmy has been arrested in Huboken, N. J., for having stolen $3,000,000 guilder of war department money. A brave engineer on tho Lackawanna and Lake Shore Rood, N. Y., saved many lives ut tho loss of his onu, by holding on to tho throttle of his engine. A disreputable house was burned early this morning ut Odgen, Utah, damages $17,000; insurance about half, Said to ho the work of a femalo incendiary organization, Verdict of the ooroner'a jury ou the lust Whiteohapel victim: "camo to her death by the hand of some person or persons unknown. Identity uf the woman is still a mystery; this niurder is even mure mysterious than any of its predecessors Tin- inieriiiiti'iiiiil Amei-ioanci niii this morning in New York gates were present from all lhe of South and Central America, Zolapa, of Honduras, said lhc people of his country are very enthusiastic over the subject of closer relations with the United States. They wanted principally tho mines of Honduras developed. The delegates will lenvo for Washington in a few days. igioss Dole- states Senor UKAilti 1 .lA'ii iu ALL, Tho high position attained and the universal acceptance and approval of tho pleasant liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs, as the most excellent laxative known, illustrate the value of tho qualities on which its success is based and aro abundantly gratifying to the Cal. Fig Syrup Company. You can have your eyes examined and the 11. Laurance Pebble Spectacles and Eye-Glasses scientifically adjusted to your sight. Mr. Liiurnnee, the eminent Oculist-Optician, will bo at IJ. S. Curtis *t Co.'s Drug Store during exhibition days. Thero is no extra charge for examination or consultation. The big arbitration suit of tho C. P. R. t's. Queen, which lias been under consideration ut Osguodo Hull during tho past three days has adjourned to moot nt Ottawa ou January 2d. VOLUMK '&l. IBBBBBgglBBBBttaMWI Mnm**irr-^"'iff-M"-W]l''i-','MM-ll-,MM-MM"ltw WEEKLY BRITISH COLUMBIAN, NEW WESTMIKSTeH, B. C, SEPTEMBER 25, 1880. NO. 39. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS. ui-iilli ol His. Uurvoy. Wo regret to announce the death of Mrs. Harvey, the wife of Mr. James Hurvey, the well known storekeeper of Nniiaiuio, and daughter of lhc late Hon. Robt. Dunsmuir. It is remarkable that, though one of a very numerous family, unly two of hor relations are at pit-sent in this province. Two of her sisters are on tho high seas and will leain of lier death when they arrive at Quobec, and it is strango that two of hor sisters learned nf their father's doath, which took place a few months ago, at Queenstown, when going to England frnm Victoria. Typhoid fever is lhe imnie of tho lady's death and we sny tinit Mr, Harvey is also ill from tli dltito cam- ay rot t muir and two of li Switzerland ; Mrs Croft are un tho A Mrs. James Duusn North Carolina, muir, a brother, is toriu, uud Mrs. II cause. Mrs. Duns -t- daughters arc in Snowdon and Mrs. iaiitio, und Mr. and uiir uro visiting in Mr. Alex. Dmis- ,-tt preaent iu Vic- ydon, a sister, re sides at Departure Boy. Sirs. Harvey was tho second eldest daughter of tlie lato Mr. Dunsmuir, and was a native of Nanaimo.— Times „f Monday. A Vine. Pictorial B*apor. The tirst copy of tho illustrated weekly of tho Paoifio Coast hns readied our table, and wo must say that it surpasses all our expectations. No pictorial journal in thu world is superior to this elegant number of the West Shore, and lhe thought that it is to be a weekly visitor is a very pleasant one. The number beforo U3 contains a graphic sketch, in colors, entitled "Running a Gauntlet nf Firo iu the Cascades," and is a very striking and artistic picture of a railway train dashing through a forest lire. There are a number of other illustrations and illustrated articles, but by far tho finest picture wo liavo seen in any journal is the beautiful engraving which occupies two pages in the centre of the number, with the title of "Last Day of the Season." In its drawing, grouping and coloring it is simply superb. If this is what the West Shore is going to give us, and we are promised such a treat every week, we will always look forward to its coming with pleasant satisfaction. Such on elegant and artistic journal as this will bo m great demand everywhere, especially with ihose who feel an interest in the grand scenery of the West and the graphic sketches of Pacific Coast incidents it will contain. For salo at all news stands at 10 cents a copy, $4.00 a year. L. Samuels, publisher, Portland, Oregon, Maple Ridge Council. The ninth regular meeting of tho Maple Ridge council was held on Saturday, Sept. 7th. Present—Reeve Blackstock and Councillors Isaacs, Ferguson, Parkinson and Stevenson. The minutes of previous meeting were read and approved. Communications received from Rev. C. Bryant, re crossing; olerk instructed to reply that the council could not put in crossings to private dwellings. A number of communicationa and petitions respecting road work wero read and received and duly disposed of; no appropriations wero made, owing to limited state of finances. Noble Oliver, of Whaiinock, was appointed pathmaster in placo of Wm. Delo. Messrs. Fletcher and Lund wore allowed half their taxes on on road leading to their place at Whannook Lake. Coun. Ferguson reported having let repairs to the amountof $25uu uuperLilluuetbridgo. Pathmaster A. Ferguson reported work on town line ditch completed; report accepted, and vouchers issued for payment of the same. The clerk was instructed to communicate with the city olerk, of New Westminater, re district folder. Moved by Coun. FergUBon, seconded by Coun. Parkinson, that the sum of $75 be tendered James Best as compensation for land taken for road on ' sec. line, sec, 20, township 12; carried. Ooun Ferguson's by-law to repeal clause 4 of road bylaw 63, passed its first reading. The following bills were ordered paid: T. F. Sinclair, quarantine supptieB, $3.20; B. C. Gazette, printing, $5; D. Bos- omworth, bounty nn bear, $2 50. The council then adjourned till next regular moeting. Late Despatches. I1L0OIIY Ai'FllAY WITH A BUllflLAH. Oakland, Cal., Sept. 18.—A burglar was found in lho cabin of the lumher sohooner Laura early this morning by Becond mate, who uttuiuptod to capture him. The burglar was armed with a knife with which ho stabbed the mate on the head, breast and both arms. The lirst mate came lo his comrade's aid and seized the burglar just ub he was about to jump over- Luiiii,. Ho tu.uwu ,'.i live mate and gashed hiin also, and made his escape. The wounds recoived by the oflicers are painful but nut dangerous. A later nccount says that the wounds of tho second mate aru serious and may prove fatal. OFFICERS EXONERATED. Washinonon, D. C, Sept. 18.—The report of the court of inquiry wliich examined into the running of the Boston on the rocks in Newport harbor, find that the officers in oharge wore vigilant and attentive to thoir duty, but the accident occurred through error of judgment in estimating the distance from curtain laud marks ahown by the chart', by wliich tho vessol was boing steered. The conrt rocom- menfls uo further action and ex- oneratcs tho offloorB, AN ARIZONA TK.MII'.t'V. Pbescott, Ariz., Sept. 18,—Chas. W. Boaoh, n pioneer newspaper man, but reoently a prominent cattle raiser, wns assassinated last ovening at his lodging house. Ho wos writing and was Bhot at through the wioduw with buckshot, four striking him in tho face and two in the chest. The murderer is unknown. Largo pusses are scouring the country. Beach leaves a wife nud one child at Los Angelos. LIVELY ARIZONA. Globe, Ariz., Sept. IS.—Tho report of 200 San Carlos Indians having joined the Huuepas iu a contemplated raid, is entirely false. All lhe San Carlos Indians are quiet, with raro exceptions of local disputes. A light occurred Sunday night, 15 miles from San Carlos, nmong a bund of Sun Carles Apaches who were un a drunk. It resulted in the death of 2 bucks and a squaw and tbo wounding of several tilers. AM ENGLISH M. P. IN THE PAUTV Ottawa, Sept. 18.—Mr. Houry- London, England, is Lord Stanley on his Kimber, M.l- to aocumpany western trip. MANITOBA PRIZE WHEAT. Toronto, Sept. 18— At the industrial exposition, yesterday, Mr. R. Waugh secured first prize for a bug of white fyfe wheat, the only Manitoba wheat exhibited put on competition. UNIVERSITY, FEDERATION SETTLED. Toronto, Sept. 13.—In order to secure the removal of Victoria Methodist university frum Cobonrg to Toronto, a quarter of a million dollars hud to bo subscribed. The tirst bequest of William Gooderhain brings the total subscription up to $265,000; the federation of the Methodist with tlio provincial university is settled. MOVEMENTS OF THE ENEMY. Ottawa, Sept. 18.—The mortuary statistics for August show the death rates por thousand to be: Winnipeg, 2.26; Montreal, 3.13; Toronto, 1.55; St. Hyacinthe, 4.20; Brockville, 9. THE SHREWD C. P. R. Winnipeg, Sept. 18.—-The Canadian Pacific directors have apparently heard of the Northern Pacitic people in their ei.deavors to reach the North West Territories. Negotiations havo been in progress for somo time between tlie Northern Pacific and tho Northwest central stockholders for tho purchase of the latter line by the former. Nows, however hns been received here that English capitalists, backod, presumably by the Oanadian Paciiic, have made formal aarangemonts with Canadian shareholders for construction of the entire road. OPENED WITH ECLAT. Portsmouth, Sept. 19,—The Simpson dry dock was formally opened this morning, when the U. S. steamer Yantic was successfully ducked. The coremony, wliich occurred at eleven o'clock, wa3 witnessed by a large number of visitors from Baltimore, Washington, New York and Philadelphia, who arrived here this morning on the Bteamer Virginia. Following the docking of the Yantic a banquet was served at wliich speeches were mado by J. Simpson of New York, Admiral Jewett, U. S. N„ Hon. John R. Thomas, of Illinois, and others. The visitors will leave at 5:30 this evoning on the Virginia to return home. for Infants and Children. Ci-oitorlaissowiMladaptodtochlldrontiat I Castoria euros Colic, Constipation, superiorto anynrescrtotlon I Bom* Stomach, Dlarrhcoa, Eructation, „.__^ „. t,—,.,_, „ „ | -(i7|(gou, injurious medicaUoB. 1 recommend Has Uaowa to me." IU Bo. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. T. IF YOU WANT TO ENJOY A GOOD CIGAR, ASK FOP. THE Tiro Cfntaob Company, 77 Murray Street, N. Y. JjJS*l-«!--3ft*-t^^ Messrs. C. C. Richards S Co. Gents,—I have usod MINARD'S LINIMENT successfully in a serious caso of croup iu my family. In fact I consider it a remedy no houso should bo without. S. F. Cunningham, Cape Island. So Say ALL.-That MINARD'S LINIMENT is tho standard liniment of the day, as it doos just what it is represented to do. TO CLEAR OUT THE BALANCE OP my stock I will sell feed ol all kinds ut the following low prices: Mlxnl Onls and Peak. 25 per cent Peas, $IS.O» per Ion. Uo. SO por cent Peas, $','8.00 ucr ton. Clniuncil Hurley reed, $118,110 per ton. Pen Feed, ncrMM per lon. Thu abovo food Is warranted to bo flrst- olass, ami for dairymen and stockralsers nn botlor can be found ln the market Terms, cash wjly2lm2 on delivery. JAMES HOSSACK, Langloy Mills. MURDERED! I (About2P. M„Sept.ll) I I? HIGH PRICES IN BOOTS AND! SHOES. te «OF a ! tn IS ALL e -», *. 9 i IX100O B8ED JLTAS STOI k SHOES. BURIED ALL CDLTAS STOOK INg BOOTS k SHOES. _ REGARD FOR HIGH? PRICES. ! MEN, WOMEN DREN, ; CHIL-, £To Buy Boots that R Boots h h. 8. wSeniute'sI SIGN OF TIIE BUFFALO, dwselato C'olumwa Street. e wow opening -THEIR- -OF- •Sli? * ==ALSO A COMPLETE blJME OF Ladies', lhm} and Children's Mantles, Cloaks and Jackets. LONDON HOUSE, COLUMBIA STREET, NEWWESTMINSTER. dwoclSto JUST .:. OPENING Our first consignment of LADIES: JACKETS! Also the largest assortment of MANTLE* ■CLOTHS iOTIWOH, SPECIAL: Plushes in all the new shades. Ogle, Oampbetl & Freeman THE LEADING DRY GOODS HOUSE. MASOMC BLOCK, NEW WESTMINSTER. F- CRAKE, nir 1?_ ./.—;..,,.. man uia-otwi mt; Practical Watchmaker, Jeweler & Optician. OPPOSITE THE BANK OF MONTREAL. WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, PLATED WARE, &C, BEST QUALITY. EASTERN PRICES, A full line oi Spectacles & Eye-GlaSSeg in steel, rubber, silver arc gold frames. The finest Pebbles nude, (4 per pair; all sights suited. Speoial attention given to FINE WATCH REPAIRS, Having learm.- tiio business thoroughly from somo of the finest Horologers in England, and sinco then managed the watch-repairing departments of a few of the best firms on the continent of America, is a suffioiont guarantee of good workmanship. ' Formerly manager for nearly 8 years of tho well-known firm of Savago k Lyman, Montreal. Charges Moderate, „ , _ . , Montbeal, Doo., 1887.—Mr, F, Crake Andw. Robortson, Esq., Chairman of Montreal Harbor Commissioners, says: "I nover found a Watchmaker who did so well for me as you did when in Montreal, and I am sorry you aro not horo to-day." dwaplQtc NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE —FOR THE— WEEKLY BRITISH COLUMBIAN. it2TThey arc not only made of the Choicest TobRCCO hut they aro of Bloine Msiimf-uctuve, and should bo patronized by all good oitizens. WM. TIETJEN, Manufacturer, KOLBHOOK IIUILDINO, COLUMBIA STREET, NEW WESTMIHSTER. Farmers, Attention! TIIK UNDERSIGNED HAS CMiliwsacfe, En C J51 Farm Wagons. IS Buck Boards. 1 Spaii well matclicd 4-year old Black Horses. 3 Single ©riving Horses. <5 t'ovtn and Calves. JO Head Steers. 1 Trotting Wagon. 13- A Full Line of Cooking Stoves, Hooting .Stoves, Tinware, Hardware, Groceries, Dry Goods, Notions, Crock- cry ft Stoneware, Clothing, Huts ft Cups, Drugs, Farm Implements, House Furnishings, Furniture, und tho Largest Lino of Boots and Shoes above Westminster nnd tho most Complote Stock of General Merchandise, COME AKD EXAMINE AND RE CONVINCED. HENDERSON BROS. JylOd&wSm <5C OO. Real Estate, INSURANCE ANO Financial Agents Purchase Sell and Lease Property, Collect Rents, Make Loans on Mortgages, And transact all Businoss rotating to Roal Estate. —AGENTS FOR London Assurance Corporation. Connecticut Fire Insurance (Jo. ol' Hartford. London and Lancashire Lifo Assurance (io. Cantonlnsurancc Olllcc, LU. (Marino) OFFICES: Columbia St., New West'r. 4t Government St., Victoria dwsoHyl •iP-a.-s-ja-jEO-Esr.iaL.-js-E.-Bi 8S MAKINGj AtMSS JENNINGS', (Late of England) Cornei ot Church ami Columbia Streets NEW WESTMINBTER, BarSjiUb/uctlon guaranteed, dwfe7to BAKSR -iRQS, & CO'Y 10 Cliapol Walk, South Castlo St., Llvot pool, England. 8 Bank Buildings, Columbia Street, Nov Westminster, B.C. Shipping antl Coimissioif jTJi.G3-E'r-a',S-l'3, Ceheral Wholesale MEEOiinNTS&lspiiiiTEns Any description ot Ooods Imported U ordor nnd Custom and Ship Brnkliu transacted, Latest Freight anil Marke Qiiolnllons. dwuuSlc mi mmm URSER tail Trees, (jniiuncht-ai Trees, Small i'nHvl Ami GARDEN stock on hand In ureal variety. Everything flrst-olass an.l furnished ill good shape. Itt-Send 15 els. Ior valuable BO-pnge Doi scrinllvo l.'nlnlogin: wllh ll lic-nmii'ul ool' ormi nlnles. Price Llsls soul, free. fi. W. HENRY, I dwdelllto Port Hammond, ll. O. 1 Hants for Sale} ATTHE Douglas Street Nursery, j ORDERS TAKEN FOR FRUIT ANU ORNAMENTAL TRUES, IncludinJ all the tending varieties or Apples, Pears, I'lnius, CIscrricsj ALSO S.ll ALL Fltl'ITS ol every description. Umiqm-.t'-i, WreatliN and Ci'OSHes mad* to order, tkiwa-rtyl P. LATHAM, I.LlMlaCl 330-332 CoitDOVA STRKKT, VANCOUVER. B.C. Iraportors and Dealers In OK ALT* DKSCIHTIONS. MARINE WORK A SPECIALTY. dwde20tc MoFuMENTft ■WOEKS. Columbia and Church Streets, Alex. Hamilton, PROPRIETOR. North Britisli and Mercantile FIRE INSURANCE- Capital, - $15,000,00». I RATES OH FARM BUILDINGS. DWELLINGS, Hurd or Lumber Finished! 100 foot from Barns, % per cont. for 1 venr, or 1% por cent, for S years. STABLES—2 per cent, for 1 year, nrtpe-Ji cent, for 3 yoars. J. C. JAQUES, Agent, waujml NEW'W'ISTMINSTEK.D.C. / Puyallup Nursery t TREES, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, { Grown ln tho famous Hop Region of Puy( allup and White River Valleys. •.-•Si, OVER ONE MILLION €sSBnt, WCSr*" TREES & PLANTS. TSW, TONS of Grass and Clover Seed. I' TOKS of Choice Seed Potatoes (lOkindf TONS of Choicest Vegetable Seeds. SEASON 1880 41800. Enough for Dealers. Enough for Plontenj Now revised Lisp and Prices Just outs' Don't looi yolll'ielf by not sending furl immediately nnd learn what Is grown anc to bo hud closo ot home, Catalogue frei to all. J. HI. OliLE, Wje5in0 Puyallup, Wnsh. Ter, ijIlkemI BANK BUILD1NQS, Mary Street, NewWestminster, B.C [Telephone No. 66.] 14 CURE ROAD, HALIFAX, ENGLAND. CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS AND AUDIiQhS CONVEYANCERS, REAL ESTATE AND : INSURANCE AGENTS, ! STOCK AND SHARE BROKERS London mnd Lancmhlre Fire aud British Kmpire Life In.aranei Clompaule.. N.w Westminster Building Sooiety, Accountant's OIBcc, Diocese at N.W City Auditors, 1S8U, 1B87 and 1888 ADVISE CLIENTS IN THE BUY1NC AND SELLING OF REAL PROPEH TY IH THE CITV AND DISTRICT and nthor monetary traiiBacllous. ) Hnvo si'vcnil good InvoHlments on the! booKs, and all uow comers -.vill do well l> call bolero doing business elsowhi 3, dwIWely
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