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3r|*E THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, FEB. 17, 1927. Synopsis of Proceedings of Provincial Legislature m PROGRESS DAY BY DAY The opening of the 17th Assembly and the Estimates promised at an of the Ontario Legislature was ^U^^RY 3RD able in that there was a new Lieuten- - FEBRUARY 3RD- /ti w r> RovO a MaJ°r T- A- Kidd (Con- Kingston, ant-Governor (Hon- ™nD- who defeated Hon. Mr. Nichol) moved new Speaker (Hon W D. Black Com of the g h from the ^ dw £ I'Mahor AC Throne. Dr. Paul Poisson (Con. North Clerk of the House (Major A. ^ seconder. Major Kidd E, sinciair (L;b- onta™s*uth) 1 „r„„ moved adjournment. NEW LEGISLATION- ! pggjjyjARY 4TH- Bills to increase Municipal Income . . ...^ , , ... Tax Exemption; to reduce Amusement House was in Committee to facih-{".to-rait British clergymen to tate action of Legislative machinery Suet nrirriagHeremoniefvn On- Caucuses were held by ^™en tario; to revise several and clarify and Opposifcon camps to outline plans other existing laws; to further agri- °f campaign for the coming session, cultural affairs and introduce "legis- FEBRUARY 7TH-- lation to recognize and give effect to House in Committee. Passed read-the expressed desire of the people of ings 0f nine bills eminating from Sta-Ontario for improvement in the meth- tute Revision Commission, as follows: od of Control and Administration of respecting Old Age Pensions foi the Sale of Liquor" and the usual de-. Sehool Teachers; to facilitate pur partmental routine. I chase of land for school purposes; POINTS EXTRANEOUS-- ! amendment of Industrial School A-;t; "We look forward to the Diamond Minors Protection Act to give magis-Jnbilee Celebration." Reference was trates more discretion m dealing;with made to last year's Inter-Provtaei*l minors;,Arbitration Act clarification Conference: the completed monument of clauses in Workmen's Compens^ to Sir James Whitney. The condition tion Act; Act respecting the hours of of agriculture was reported favorable work of firemen. A Bill to amend >the consfdering the season; cream and Bills of Sale and Chattel MortgE butSr had improved, through new Act passed its second reading, grading and advancement is reported FEBRUARY f.TH-- mpetitive dairy tests. The experiment of placing British boys on Ontario farms invites expansion. EDUCATION AND HYDRO-- Bilingual school inquiry W. E. N. Sinclair (Liberal) attacked the Speech from the Throne as a "meagre fare", and W. E. Raney (Prog) gave the credit of winning th< election to Canon Cody. In the pected"to report shortly;" travelling ing session the Premier replied to Sin-schools and correspondence courses clair and Raney and gave out the had proved satisfactory and would be names °f the new Liquor Control Com-increased as would also "Advanced mission. These are D. BHannafor-Education" in local centres. Fort Wil-j President and Gen. Mgr. of the Ham had adopted Hydro; the Nipigon Canadian National Railways.; Hon R^ power plant was working to capacity J- M-amon, late Postmaster General of now and more power was needed in the Meighen Ministry at Ottawa, and that district; use of power on the, Stewart McClenagl farms continued to increase; power j Ottawa, had been arranged for on the Gat-j FEBRUARY 9TH-- House in Committee; debate not 1 and Ottawa and a "measure of progress" could be reported as to the continued. Bills introduced included one to permit the Minister of Mines to appoint a substitute for the Mining Judge when necessary through the latter's absence. An amendment of the Wolf Bounty Act to prevent deception on part of claimants of bounty. (Some people have been catching wolf pups and growing them till they St. Lawrence Waterways affairs. FORESTS AND MINES-- Extension of air tire protection and the establishment of segregation areas for natural reproduction of forests ia promised. Mining activities were emphasized by discoveries of new areas of gold, copper and zinc. T. and N. 0. - . extensions are to be considered, as is I old enough to call for bounty) the Durchase of increased land area in I Act to revise Assessment Act _'Eorcnto jMdjJBftPaxliamenUi'y re-.! vent, companies evading Act quiremenliWI^rection of the Pro- j present outlined, vincial Building at the C. N. Exhibi- I W. E. Medd (Prog. South Huron) tion last year forecasts the erection' inquired about Ontario School Health of similar buildings by other provincesj Book. thero I F. G. Sandy (Prog. Victoria South) .-, . ■, x--r».. >..,-,,-, wanted to know amount of premiums HIGHWAYS, HEALTH, FINANCE. |paid by Government for fire insurance. Five hundred miles of county road I A. D. McLean (Prog. Middlesex are to be improved to Provincial, North) wanted the cost of excavating standard; new Dental Clinics are to the new East Wing of the Parliament be established; progress at Boys' Buildings, while C. A. Robertson (Lib. School at Bowmanville is reported Huron North) enquired as to how satisfactory- The public debt and fin- :many civil servants had been employed ancial administration was touched on 1 sjnce Election Day. Aurelien Belanger (Lib., Russell) continued the debate on the Speech from the Throne, referring particularly to the bilingual school question Belanger is an orator of no small parts. He further claimed credit for the Liberals for "modification of the O.T.A." J. G. Lethbridge (Prog., West Middlesex) questioned the statement that more farmers were using Hydro, quoting 7,755 as farmer users instead of the claimed 20,000. He was pleased with the Liquor Commission. Citizens should respect law. Rev. W. G. Martin (Brentford) scored Raney as a "mud-slinger." Referring to The Globe, he said "even the Premier's enemies judged him aright re the Liquor Commissioners. Two Government Bills were given their first reading; cne brought down by Minister of Health (Dr. Godfrey) re Dept. of Labor, and a compulsory weed cutting measure introduced by Minister of Agriculture (Hon. Mr. Martin). K. K. Homuth (Ind. Labor, Waterloo South) moved the adjournment. MOIRA RIVER SCENE OF THERMITE TEST Results So Far Prove Efficiency in Clearing Off Anchor Ice. RIGHTSTO WOMEN Error in Ontario Law Deprived Them of Title Following Marriage. Toronto.--The Ontario Legislature has taken the first step; in rectifying of its most interesting sins of sion in many past years, namely, the robbing of married women of their independent property rights. The act done inadvertently a year ago, when, in the revision of the law, the section was dropped which preserved to the wife her title to property owned by her at the time of marriage, and also secured to her the sole title to any gain which she might make by any I cher cows eood to choice, $G to $5.75; ! employment or profession. _ TORONTO. drfoTtomod $3 50 to $4.50; do,| For the past year, accordingly, On- Man wheat--No. 1-North., $1.53;. ^--• and cut{ers, $2.25 to $2.75;' tario women have been happily ignor-No. 2 North., $1.00; No. 3 Northern, I butcher bulls. ffood to choice, $5 to ant of. the fact that they possessed $5.25; do, med., $4 to $4.75; do, bolog- vom of these rjghts. The law makers i, $3.50 to £$?£*k*?if ! °* the Province, however, have dis- Ontario Government Control Liquor Commission The chairman of the Ontario Government Control Liquor Commission will be David Blyth Hanna, of Toronto, former head of the Canadian National Railways, CENTRE. His lieutenants will be Hon. Dr. Manion, M.P., at LEFT, physician and former soldier, of Fort William, and Stewart Mc-Clenaghan, at RIGHT, of Ottawa, retired merchant, and former M.P., who has had experience as a license commfesioner.________ Markets Cheese--Finest wests., 18%, to 18%c. Butter, No. 1 pasteurized, 40% to 41c. Eggs, storage extras, storage firsts, 45c; storage sec-39 to 40c; fresh extras, 52 to fresh firsts, 50c. 3, not quoted; No. 1 feed, 59%c; No. 2 -10' f^j^g choice, $5.75 to$6.25; do, ta"' fair, $5 to'$5.25; stockers, choice, j :overed their < ind have given f. ports. ' | i?1^ to $6 75 }"£>', fair to" med. ,"$4 to ' second reading to "An Act to Make , track, Toronto--No. 2 old j !L'50- milch cow3, $65 to $80; sprir.g- Certain Changes in the Law in C-onse-Belleville, Ont.--The results of the yellow, 88c; No. 3 old yellow, 86c. | ^ _f75 to §90; plain to med. 'cows, quences of the Revision of Statutes." experiments on the Moira River and Millfeed--Del. Montreal freights, | $40' to ?60; calves, choice, $13 Included as a section in the Act and at the mouth of the harbor have not bags included: Bran per ton, $32.26;. to $14; do> med., $9 to $12.60; do, | mad9 retroactive so as to cover last as yet been fully determined, but suffi- shorts, per ton, -$34.2o; middlings, j com. and grassers $5 to $6; lambs,! was the last Becti<m respe! -cient had been demonstrated -to re- *40-2t>. . | choice, $12 to $12.50: h„ move any doubt of the practicability Ontario oats, 50c, f.o.b. shipping ; $9.60; sheep* choice^ of thermite, in some way to alleviate P01^1 to $6; lambs, bucks, $9 to .6.50 to $7.50; heavies"$4.50 to $5; do, culls, $3 , Out good milling wheat--$1.26 to'to'$3.50; hogs, thick smooth, fed and floods- . , $1.28 f.o.b. shipping points, according watered, $11.50; do, f.o.b., $11; do, A number of men journeyed _______ ,, country points, $10.75; do, off cars, $11.90; select premium, per hog, $2.25. MONTREAL. Oats--No. 2 CW, 76c; No. 3 CW, I 66 %c. Flour, Man. spring wheat pats., "per cent.! firsts, _$8.10; seconds, $7.60; strong r lots, $14.50. Coolidg-e Invites Powers Discuss Naval Treaty MEMORANDUM SENT TO FOUR NATIONS. United States Delegates to Geneva to be Given Authority to Negotiate Such Pact. Washington.--United States delegates to the preparatory commission cf the League of Nations disarmament conference will be clothed with authority to negotiate a treaty with Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy for further limitation of naval arma- This announcement was sprung upon Congress by President Cxdidge without previous warning, when he transmitted to the Senate and House a copy of a memorandum which the United States Ambassadors in London, Tokio, Paris and Rome have been instructed to lay before the Governments of Great Britain, Japan, France -and Italy. In effec'; the President's proposal means that two disarmament conferences will be in progress at Geneva at the same time, one seekin|Sa binding agreement to apply the 5-5-3-1.(57 ratio adopted by the Washington arms Conference to cruisers and submarines as well s.3 to capital ships and aircraft carriers, and the other attempting to arrive at an agreement on an agenda for a general disarmament conference to be held under the aegis of the League of Nations at a later date. In the Senate the reaction to the President's proposal was generally favorable. Administration leaders, taking the proposal in entire good, commc-ncied it, as did many Democrats and Independent Republicans, although because o^1 the previous reluctance of Great Britain, France mod other powers to undertake' League of Nations Watching Events Geneva.--Whether China will insist upon intervention by the League of Nations in the Chinese situation depends largely upon the tenor of the reply of Great Britain to Pekin's protest against the despatch of British troops there, che Chinese spokesman of the League said on Thursday. In addition to the suggestion for convening an international conference with the collaboration of the United States, League officials offer as another possibility the drawing up by the Council of a, doctrine which would serve as a basis for the powers in the negotiation of new treaties with China. taking a long pole- ^SJpklP Barley--Malting, 60 to 64c. rope attached, lowered it into the holes | Buckwheat--79c, nominal, that were made. The pole floated j Rye--No, 2, $1.00. underneath the ice and .went away 1 Man. flour-First pat. $8.10, To-down stream the length of the rope ronto; ^^^^ _ attached, showing conclusively that tent- p<n. barrel, in cariots^TWonto,' bakers'," $7.40; winter pats., choice, the anchor ice had been broken up for |5 50. 'aboard, in bulk, $5.50. i $6.10 to $6.15. Rolled oats, bag, 90 a distance of about sixty feet. The Cheese--New, large,' 20% to 21c; lbs., $3.65. Bran, $32.25. Shorts, channel of water was running freely twins, 21 to 21%c; triplets, 21% to $34.25. Middlings, $40.2_5. underneath the ice and the eroding 22%c. Stiltons, 23c. Old, large, 25c; ,2, per ton, process was apparently going on. twins, 26c; triplets, 27c. Old Stilton; The day before at this place the ,28c. . , iiie u», _ r j Butter__Fjnest creamery prints, 4a.j fo 46c; No. 1 creamery, 44 to 45c: No. 2, 42 to 43c. Dairy prints, 34 to 35c. Eggs--Fresh extras, in cartons, 54 to 55c; fresh extras, loose, 53 to 54c; fresh firsts, 49 to 50c; fresh seconds, 40 to 41c; fresh pullets, 38c. Storage extras, 48c; do, firsts, 46c; seconds, 41 to 42c. Poultry, dressed--Chickens. 0 lbs. and up, 40c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 38c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 36c; do, 2% to 3% lbs., 35c; do, 2 to 2% lbs., 35c; hens, over 5 lbs., do, 4 to 5 lbs., 30c; do, 3 to 4 Bullet Marks Own Path. A new tracer bullet, capable of, etching a red line 1,200 yards long in the skies, denoting the path of its flight, has been developed by the United States army for use by machine anchor ice or fragile was almost i penetrable. Professor Barnes has agreed to present to the City Council a detailed report of his operation here and also will offer soma remedy on the situa- Useful Bulletins. The University of Toronto has published and is sending out in bulk to____ all the secondary schools-in Ontario! lbs., 28c; roosters, 25c; turkeys, 46 two bulletins which should be of great! to 47c; ducklings, o lbs. and up, 3o interest and value to parents who wrestling with the problem of careers j .g^o'bushei; primes, $3.45 to $3.... for boys and girls. One of these bul- j Manle products--Syrup, per imp. j Beans--Can. hand-picked, $3.60 to letins is entitled "Opportunities for Graduates in Science in the Faculty of Arts" and explains what each science course consists of and for what different occupations proficiency in each subject will make one eligible. The other bulletin in entitled "Opportunities for Graduates in Applied Science" and it explains the nature of the work expected of an engineer. It also tells something of the gal., $2.25 to $2.5 . _ to $2.25 per gal.; maple sugar, lb., 25 to 26c. Honey_60-lb. tins, 12% to 13c; 10-lb. tins, 12% to 13c; 5-lb. tins, 13 to 13%c; 2%-lb. tins. \5c. Comb honey--$3.40 *o $4.50 per doz. Smoked meats--Hams, med., 28 to 80c; cooked-hams, 42c; snicked rolls. 25c; breakfast bacon, 30 to 35c; backs, boneless, 33 to 40c. Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 50 engineering courses, civil, chemical, | to 70 lbs., $22; 70 to 90 lbs. $20.50; mechanical: mining, metallurgical and! 20% lbs., and up,J21.34;, lightweight electrical. The Department of University Extension sends these bulletins to anyone who asks for them, free of charge. No doubt there are a good many parents who would like to peruse these two booklets. Just Like Men Mayors. Councillor Miss Hudson, who was sleeted mayor of Eastbourne, England, , ... barrels, $41.50; heavyweight rolls, $38.54 per bbl. Lard--Pure tierces, 15 to 15%c; tubs, 16 to 16%c; pails, 16% to 17c; prints, 17% to 18c; shortening tierces, 12% to 13i4c; tubs, 13% to 14c; pails, 14 to 14%c; blacks and tans, 15% to 16c. Heavy export steers, $7 to $7.50; do, com., $4.75 to $5; heavy steers, good $6.25 to $6.50; butcher steers, choice, $6.75 to $7.00; do, fair to ivl good, $6.25 to $6.75; butcher heifers,! jjunan pr0- The r well spending of it, length. Northern War Lord Plans To Hurl Back Invaders CHANG ISSUES ULTIMATUM TO CANTONESE. Struggle is Now on to Determine the Control of All China to be Fought Out in Honan Province. further naval limitation at this time, especially in view of troubled conditions in the Orient and Russia still an uncertain factor. There is widespread skepticism about the prospects for tangible results. At the Washington Arms Conference in 1921 the total tonnage of capital warships and aircraft carriers which loading naval powers could possess was fixed, and also the size and armament of cruisers, although no limit was set to the number or total tonnage of these classes. Groat Britain and the United States were allowed 525,000 tons each; Japan, 315,000; Italy and France, 175,-000 each. This was a ratio of 5-1.67-1.67. ' choice,' $6.75 to S7;' do, fair to good, i $5.50 to $6; do, com., $4.50 to $5; but- Pekin.--The allied war lords of the North have begun their long expected drive to hurl back the Cantonese invaders into the southland. North against South, the struggle is on to determine the control of all China. Chang Tso-lin, dictator of Manchuria for many years, made the announcement in telegrams to Generals of the Northern Alliance, which he heads, as the power behind the Pekin Government. Through Chihli and Shantung Provinces the Northern troops are advancing to recapture Hankow from the Cantonese, who have been using it as a Central China base to prepare for their further march toward Pekin and also Shanghai. The Northerners will not halt at the Yangtse River, said Chang, but will force the Cantonese back through to their home Pro- PRINCE IN HUMOROUS SPEECH PRAISES 'RADWTELEPHONY I London.--In a tone of humorous re-| lief, the Prince of Wales welcomed the ' triumph of science in perfecting trane-Atlantic telephony as having removed some grave fears from his mind. He was speaking as the guest of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, and, alluding to his year in office as President of the British Association for the ! Advancement of Science, reminded his hearers that on the occasion of his j Presidential address to the association, Lord Balfour, on his behalf, had expressed the aspiration that his year in office would be marked by some striking scientific achievement. "Months passed," said the Prince, "and I had begun almost to despair that this year in office would be a failure. Then suddenly ca f Kwangtung, from which tliey began the northward march last spring which gained them domination over half of China. In a vigorous telegram to Generals of Marshal Wu Pei-fu, Chang notified those adherents of the once dominant w-ar lords of Central China that the Northern armies were adva their Pre Hon. J. K. Flemming Dies in Maritimes Woodstock, N.B. -- Hon. J. K. Flemming, M.P., for Victoria-Carleton, and former Premier of New Brunswick, died Thursday after an illness of several weeks. He became Premier of New Brunswick in 1911, after a political career as a Conservative since 1895. Following a serious illness in 1914, he retired from public life, but in 1925 he re - entered the Federal arena, and was elected to Commons as member for Victoria-Carleton. In the last Dominion general elections (Sept. 14, 1926) he was again elected. Mr. Flemming's death causes the second vacancy in the House of Commons. The other is that left by the recent death of J. W. King, former Liberal-Progressive member for North Huron. Honan Province seems destined as the battleground of the contending forces. In its eastern portion, Feng Yu-hsiang, once called the "Christian General," some time ago was reported operating with the wandering Kuo-minchun troops, well armed and aided ______ing into from Russian sources. Although of Honan, and request- i forced from Pekin and kept moving, their co-operation, but warned them : they are considered a powerful foe of that he would brook no opposition. ! both Chang and'Wu. Many requests for relief from Can-1 The Cantonese, believed about to tonese rule had reached him, asserted j move northward from Hankow, may CJ-ang, and he was most anxious to | reform a junction with the Kuomin-assist the people of Hunan and Hupeh' chun. Provinces, but in this he had been ] With the Northern armies pouring that anvbody could--at a price--call; balked by Wu Pei-fu, once his ally; in from the north and east, Wu Pei-fu p ; , , iN n Americ whenever h< g hist the Kuominchun, the National! may be caught with his army between chose. That triumph gives the hall- j People's Army of the Pekin Govern- j the opposing forces. If so, he may ' the asso-! ment, which Chang and Wu overthrew i have the choice of allying himself ciation." my term of office ii ist April. ! with either or fighting both-