The Season's Best If vou are looking for something that's par- ticularly choiee in a Spring Suit--or © Spring Overcoat--you'll find what vou are after if vou come here. You'll 'syrely be interested in our handsome, choice, ¢lassy, high grade, exclusive, different, stylish, perfect, beautiful garments at $15.00 3nd $18.00. We have some of the swell- est Suits and Spring Overcoats that ever adorn- ed a man's back, Step 'in, please, and see. Livingstox's, Brack St A little out of the way,but it will pay you to walk b, b ¥ from Prof. J. COLLEGIATES AND BELLEVILLE MEET THIS EVENING. | Semior Frontenacs May Play In To- | tonto On Saturday Night--IKResult | Of the Curling Games. | The members of the Kingston Col- i legiate. hockey * team are in good | shape for the return game with | Belleville at the Covered Rink this | evening to Heeclare the winners of ithe fourth group of the junior O. ["H. A. series. The K..C. 1. boys will i line-up the same as they did in Belle- | ville on Monday evening. "Cam" Tolahd who was injured in the game {in Port Hope a short time ago, is #till unable to play, but it is hoped ihe will be in good shape for the | fifth round, providing the team wins { thiz evening. : ¢ Spoor who replaced Toland on the ; wing is holding down that position { well, and for that reason the man- agement of the team does fot want i Toland to play yet for fear he might be injured again Frontenacs At Practice, Frontenaes had a practice at the | coveréd rink on Tuesday evening in preparation for the semi-finals of the Senior O. H. A. which will be played in the near future. There is a chance thdt Frontenacs will be or- dered to play the first game in To- ronto, either on Saturday or the first 'of next week. The manager ment of the team is planning to run { an excursion. Another practice wil be held on Thursday evening Collegiates Good Work. The Belleville Ontario says: "The | K. €. I's exhibited fine checking and | combination. Their defence was very strong and their goal was a } wonder A strange feature of the { game was that the students always | scored immediately after breaking | away from their own ice Curling Games. Seven games were played at icurling rink on Tuesday afternoon land evening. The rink skipped by J. F. Macdonald won from Dr. Good- iwin's by 13 to 12; J. M. Elliott's won {from J. B. Cooke's by 1 to 11; W. J. Driver's won from A. B. Cunning- ham's by 13 to 8; W. H. W. Dalby's {won from W. H. Montgomery's by 14 to 10; J. A. McRae's won from ' Hooper's by 14 to 12; George Han- son's wan from W. M. Baillie's by 11 'to 4. It¥ the singles T. R. Carnovsky won Matheson by 14 to 12. the » News of Troops in the City L. Kenneth Cameron, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs, L. K. Cameron, To- ronto, who went to California' with{ 248 Ui Special Showing of Advanced Styles in New Spring IS & COATS | EER Fashion's latest creations, featuring all the new models, colors and materials. \ _A superb foolleciion of plain and fancy 2 tostene in i}! The paymaster"s i} | age. i} Lieut. his parents some time ago, has re- turned to do "his bit" for King and country, and has enlisted with the 93rd Battery. 'here. Last month two sons and father, members of the C. E, F., met in Londen. The three were Major {W. H.'Gimbletf, R. C. H. A., Record Office, London_and his two sons { Judson of the 1st Canadian Artillery and William of the 33rd Battery draft, : Simcoe, 'the first county to raise a battalion; is campaigning for a sec- ond. Ottawa, on Tuesday, sent these ar- tillerists to Kingston: W. J. Clithroe, J. V. Younghusband, A. N. Burton, D. Lockwood, H. F. Pack, T. Taylor, ! Walker, | William J Hagan, G. C. their | goa At the Grand. ; Among the good things that are {booked for appearance at the Grand {Opera House for the last half of this week is the Famous Players picture of "The Avalanche" featuring the {celebrated actress, Catherine Coun- tess, This play, by Robert Hilliard jand W. A. Tremayne, was one of the {big successes of New York, and an |all star cast surrounds Miss Countess {in the filmization of this piece. A {two-reel Universal photoplay, a com- jody picture, and the Pathe News, {showing interesting scenes of the war, will also be shown. The vaude- {ville is the best that has been book- led into this city for some time, and includes the Three Gay Sisters in a (high-class singing and dancing act, jand Lee Zimmerman in a comedy {imitation act that comes to the Grand |highly reéommended. This splen- 'did programme will be shifwn every lafternoon and evening for the last {three days of this week. ---- At the Strand.' I ~The*standing room only sign was tagain in evidence at the Strand last evening. The performance merited the crowded house which greeted the relebrated stage star William Fav- ersham in his presentation of "One Mililon Dollars" a Metro wonder- play in five parts. Other good reels were also shown. This bill wil] be given 'again to-night for the last time. The feature photo play for the last three days is one that should prove a hig drawing card. It is a new brand of film the 'Red Feath- { er," in which thay dainty star, Violet Mersereau, will be seen to great ad- vantage in a vehicle entitled "The Path of Happiness." | i | Mother and Babe Die. | One of the:saddest deaths in the leity in some time 'occurred at the eneral Hospital on Tuesday, when Mrs. William Running, formerly of {Howe Island, but later of this. cify, died after a brief illness. On Sun- day last deceased's infant child, aged ten days, died. Both the ni®ther and the child died of the same dis-| ease, It wgs a very sad sight upon {looking in fe cdiket to see the dead infant ying in the mdther's arm. The remains were sent to Lansdowne for | burial. | vives. Deceaséd"s husband sur- Late Miss Nellie' M. Sléeth. | Miss Nellie Martha Sleeth, .aged { forty-two years apd eleven months, | passed to rest at her late Rend YREslly, VE on Tuesday. { The Yuet i hp a graduate | of the Chitin t School for Nurs- | | ing. For twelve years she made | her home in Watertown, N.. Y., but | returned to the ily about two years | ago to look after hér mother died about eleven months ago. | She Is survived 'by one sister, An ! nie Gertrude, living at home and six brothers: Sergt. E. Sleeth, 21st | Battalion, now fighting in Belgium; Lawrence, Edward, and Clifford at | home; Frederick § of Hamilton, and | | Samuel, of Cineinhati, Ohio, | 'AUSTRAEE TO SEND who | To the War This Year--Pre~ mier Hughes in Buf= falo. * T. H. Green, H. A. Wetmore, Y.M. | I} C-A. Secretary, O. Darrah, Hull ath-| fd lete, and E, Beattie, All recruits come te the OH1st Depot Battery, | Kingston, and will go overseas in drafts will such fime as a brigade of artillery is called for. | looking into a case of fofgery, A i cheque' was issued, got gto wrong i hands. The name forged and the money secured, "Bob" Trappe, Jett wing of the T. IR, and A. A. senior O. il. { Toronto, %ill leave next Monday for | Kingston, where he will join the bat- ftery. Trappe is only 18 years of -- | Raby, Kingston Army Service i} Corps Winte# Services, returned on i} Tuesday from Napanee where he in- In 3 a i} spected the A, 'S.~€. Depot, i i i lion, Peterbore, are in Kingston for i oy. examinations to qualify for captain- (Contipued on page 12.) CANABIANS AT SHORNCLIFFE [}' The t.adies Hold Teas--Miss Kitty i They are now i} and Hughes In, A A letter from Shdrancliffe "states i that Rev. Dr. Mackie and Mrs. Mack- H ie merly of Kingston, have been nding, the winter at that place. on a holiday are greatly missed. Shorn- cliffe: is now filled with Can adians and a number of the ladies meet every afternoon for tea. Mrs. {Capt.) Russell Hale is still very sick. The nights are very dark and no lights for the streets are in use. Miss Kitty( daughter of Lieut.-Col. W. 8. Hughes, Hughes is in the Canadian Hospital there, went out one night to the post box and running into a pole was laid up for a few days as a result. Was Formerly Of Kingston. 7 "It is not generally known that the wife of Brigadier-General A. C. Mac donnell, formerly of the Strathcona Horse, a brigadier ai the front,.and wounded last week, _Kingstonian. When thé General Sad ubed from the Royal Military HC e he took west with hin Maud bell, 'daughted of the late Col. us lis wife. The Camp- in the residence department is! A. team, ! who with Mrs. |' fs. & former | ma Buffalo, N.Y, Feb. 23.-=*"Australia | will send 300,000 more tréops, fully | equipped, trained and maintained by Australia to aid the British arms, befote 'the year ends," declared W. rH. Hughes, Prime Minister of Aus; | | tralia, hére yesterday or "We are hopeful that the war may + end 'this year; but however long the struggle, 'Australia isin the war to aid with all her resources. It is { well known now what account Aus- tralia can give of herself in naval and | | land forces." t ThePremier is accompanied by his wife and child and by three _secre-. taries," He is on his way to Lon- don to confer with the British Cabi- net on war affairs. Australia, the Premier said, was not so badly affected by the war be- | cause of its comparative isolation from the rest of the fighting world. WILL RUIN GERMANY. A Banker Reports Financial - Conditions as Very (Specldl to the Whig.) London, - Feb. 23.---A despatch | from Genevg says & banker who has | just returned here after spending several fnenths in Germany says that the principal banke in the chief towns on the Rhine and also in Mun- ich and Dresden are in serious finan- cial difficulties and some big crashes may be expected within the next three months. Los:es (involvad would be at least a billion dollars. The banker. added, and if the war continued another nine months Ger- Jnany would be ruined financially. What We. Owe Belginm. In the early days of the war well as to-day we oe the Bel a deep debt for the stand they took Againsg the invading Germans. You now have an opportunity to show the concert to be held in Grant Hall, on Saturday evening next, the 26th inst. In aid of the Bel > enable ; 2nd ANAC Vetowar A No. Alas. A Me-t onion ae Ve the, n " United States, died on Sunday, | ¢ '9 MONTHE MORE WAR | Six Heutenants of the 93rd Battal. ® » cial Telephone Notice! \ In Order to Avoid Delay, We Have Now 2 Telephones = | For General Use No. 170 and No. 397 Only one of these, No; 897, appears in the telephone book at present (both will appear in new book), so Central will give you No. 170 if the other number is busy. ' NEW THINGS JUST RECEIVED AND PLACED IN STOCK READY FOR TO-MORROW"S SELLING New Spring Suits New Spring Coats New Spring Skirts Spring Gloves FRENCH KID GLOVES--In Tans, White and Blacks. Special at $1.00 pair FRENCH KID GLOVES---dn White, Black, Greys, Fawns and Tans ..... 000. 0.4. 5 es SN Le ee $1.25 A HIGH GRADE FRENCH GLOVE, in all wanted*shades, $1.50 BEST MADE IN FRANCE BEST SOLD' IN CANADA At 75c. White Washable Cham- 2 ~oisette Gloves 75¢ This is the genuine article, a real French Glove that is quite as soft and perfect fitting after washing as before. ee te acon cs Ab sem aan John Laidlaw glans © smooth leather and hog-skin. Four gratitude by buying a ticket for * iL fo Me ie We have just received a very chéice assortment of English Leggings y IN 3 < : : ali i og-skin Lace Front, Genuine Hog-skin - Front, ' with Straps or Spiral Front nd Spang pont, Smooth eather A