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YA- TERMS :-$31.0 PECR ÂNNum. OUR TOWN AND COUNT Y BIRST THE WORLfl AFTERWARDS. M. A. JAMES, EditeradPopitr NEW SERLIES. BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO, WEDEDY A 0 90 OTJEXV o 2 QA-RPTS -A MT D VICTORIA-AN .CROSTIC. jIin Friday's Globe aDpeared the, fol- lewing Unmes and, preceding -comment. Tim STATESMAN hopes tobje foigiven by the author if he reveaisls i ame, for these beaiitiful sentïimeaits were written by our distinguished friePndDr. John Hoskin, Q C., off Toroiïo when lie was a law student in the office of the late Robert Armour, Esq , in LIte town ef Bowmanville. Thle Globe says: On a Queen',s Birth- day in the eanly fiftics a " cou.- ]aw student-now oeeof lier Majesty's counsel in this city-penned the, follow- ing acrostic on the mre cf lier M ajesty. The poem was printed in the newvspap- ers off the day, and is well wiortliy cf reproduction alter the lapse cf' between forty and fifty years, years wlicLij it miay be rejnairked, have net lessented the loyali'ty cf the now dj,iinguished author: VirtuousQueen off Britain's preud do- TOROINTO TO THE COAST iND RETURIX. As our readers are always interested in hearing off the travels of our subscrib ers, we give some extracis from a lutter of a former West Durham lady, (nee Sophia Oke) who lias just returned fr)m a trip te the Pacific Coast. pllaving recently returned from the Pacifie Coast, where I have been since September last, perhaps a synopsis cf my trip te the far West may be of some interest te you. When going eut 1 went by the American route, taking the G. T. Rý te Chicago whero I arrived at 1t) p. m. the same day I left huere. Friends met me at the Dearbern St. depot and 1 spent the next day with tbem a t their home and seeinZ tha city. I noticed a markeci change and many imprevements in the past five years which lias intervened since myv last visit. Next morning I resumed my-jeurney at 9 o'clock bythe C. &N. W. Ry. te S8t. JDURHIAM~ DISTRICT DIVISION. The ne'it session off Durham District Division, Sons off Temperarice, will meet at Blackstock on Friday, June 8, at 1030 a. m. Bro. W. B Bugoyn e, G. W. P., St. Catharines, will be pres ent. Delegates are requested to b;e on liand promptly. In the evening a publie meeting- will bc held at 7.30 wheii a g-ced program wil! be rendp-red. Collection takeên for expenses. Everybody is invited to at- tend the evening meeting. C. Jols's, S WERRY, 22-2 D. W. P. D. Sec'y, X11. BElTIIORSE RANCI!. The Ottawa correspondent to the Toronto Dailv Star has this to say off the preposed seheme off our member for West Durham: f ~1GANSMVERSARIES. Mount Vernon-June 3-4 Providence-June 10. Ebenezer-June 10-11, Eufield-Juup. 17-18. MapleGrove-June 17-18. Ilampton-Julv 1-2. ilaxdon--July 1-2. zion-July 8. SOLINA. The Sunday School anniversary is is c ver and it was a magnificent success in everv way. Pavoning conditions surrounded Eldad and nearîrv $100 lu receipts is the resuit. Great credit is due the- committee for the completeness of arrangements. Evýervything worked like a charmn Rev. J. C Wilson, B.A. Oshawa, gave two appropriate sermons