ON SALE. Special Bargains in SHIRTS FLOCKWEAR CAPS and HATS Our best grades only . Collier's BY JULY Ist Che t aily f2 ' . . ON BALE. Special Bargains In SHIRTS, NECKWEAR, CAPS and HATS Our best grides oaly Collier's GIVE BONUS OF £50 TO RHODES SCHOLARS ' Temporary Increase of Sti- pend is Announced by Secretary. 26 Jan, KINGSTON, ONTARIO. WEDNESDRY, JANUARY 26, 1921. 1 CANADA FEELS | = | ' { THE PRESSURE, MOTHER SPANKS HER, SHE SUES FOR $250 Girl of Twenty-four, Disputes Parent's Right to Chastise. + Yilwaukee, Jan. 26.--Has a DOESN'T WANT | i | | OUR CATTLE ritish Whig CABINET POSTS ALREADY FILLED Navy, Interior and Labor Port- folios Now Occupy Hard- ing's Attention, Washington, Jan. 26.--There are LAST EDITION. COAL T0 DROP BY MARCH 1 Reported That Price Reduc- tien Will Be $3 to $4 a Ton. Montreal, Jan. 26.--The Star says: About the first of March a reduc tion of from $3 to $4 a ton in the price of hard coal may expected, according to a prominent fuel merch. ant, though the heavy freight rate and exchange will prevent anything Ike a drop to the old levels. The decrease is anticipated in the price at the mines, which is said to be from $1.50 to $2.00 higher per ton thai, last year at this time, and while hard coal is not mined ahead as is soft coal, and there are no stocks of anthracite on hand, as there are of bituminous, this dealer thinks that there will be a decided drop in the present high rate with the approach of warm weather. While optimists among coal mer chants are looking forward to a late spring, the coal buying season is said to.be already. more than hald over and so far business has been ex- ceptionally quiet, though no one is prepared to give an estimate of the lessened consumption, It is by no means local, however, for throughout the eastern United States as well as Canada, tho season has been ex- ceptionally mild, and there has been a decreased demand for hard coal, they say, An Edinburgh Professor's 0b- jections--DBritain's Tele- phone Rates Are Up., London, Jan. 26.---Prof. Robert | Wallace, Edinburgh University, has Of the Emigration Movement --Tempordry in- | the is granted all | es scholars from £360 to £350 was announced to-day by! nk Aydelotté, United States Sec- | mn, two ways to tell who will be in the cabinet of President Harding. One is Mr. Harding's own announcement and the other -{s definite arrange- ments made by the individuals con- cerned to enter, public life, such as severing business connections -and packing their 'household goods. Definite evidence has come to the writer that John W. Weeks, former senator from Massachusetts, is pre- paring to take over the portfolio of secretary of war. Within the last week, Mr. Weeks has sent for pre- liminary data, so that he may make a survey of the entire war depart- ment. : Charles Evans Hughes is winding up his legal affairs so as to be ready for the secretaryship of state. A. W. Mellon, of Pittsburgh, has resigned as director of the Pennsyi- vania railroad and will become sec- retary of the treasury. Charles Gros- venor Dawes, of Chicago, who was previously mentioned for this place, will probably become governor of the federal reserve board, succeed- ing W. P. G. Harding, who is about to resign to become president of the $100,000,000 export corporation. Harry M. Daugherty will be attor- ney-general and Will Ha¥s will be postmaster-general. Herbert Hoover will be in the cabinet as secretary of commerce. Henry Wallace, of Des Moines, Ia., will be secretary of agriculture, A. T. Hert, of Kentucky, who was conspicuously mentioned for secre- stipenc Fewer From Old Land, London, Jan. 26.--The Times de- jclares that the imperial government {has made a sudden reversal of its | emigration policy, particularly in re- | gard to the proposal ,to send 4,000 {men to New Zealand. Acting pre- {sumably on representations from New Zealand, the Times adds, only 'one thousand men will be sent at {once to that dominion, and further | contingents will be only sent when | the first thousand have been .ab- | sorbed. nro I g pleted by March 1st and the work |Bents a must be finished by July 1st. | mer, 1921. This decision means that the Fin- | wehnenwehr, or civic guards and the | : -- Ministers Preach Less And So Live Longer | British Phone Rates Up. London, Jan. 26.--Practically the whole press and public are up in arms against the action of the post- office department in raising tele- phone charges by about sixty-seven per cent.,, op the average, over former rates. The new scale has This Is -the_Allied Experts' » > Bost De . With R - er iriase Ob y , [mother the right to spank her 24- Rh F P erty-S k C |Year-old married daughter 'with a | ecision egar to " Tom x' ov tric en Len shoe, if the daughter is very naughty? | . ' . { August Braun, civ | Germany, _ Some | «tral Europe: |e on Brass, eiv fatge, id Paris, Jan. 26.--Allied experts to- he Trustees! Ottawa, Jan. 26.--Canada has | Mrs. Lillian Rebstock, of Wauwa- | . h | {tos e t day handed the Supreme Allied Coun- 9 sa bass {been feeling for the past few | ny i Sausies, aud i Batya ion to | ! R » € , e mother. cil their report on the plan for dis- | th afship. because Jain io months sgme of the pressure of the | Lillian testified that her mother (issued a memorandum depreciating i 1 scaosarsailp, Ca 2 ' - ag ty a | i bandment of German military units. | be certain (dither of the value of [emigration movement from the pov- (spanked her so severely that thé im- | the opening of British ports to' Cana- The reports give satisfaction to the jmoney In future years or of their [erty-stricken states of central and | Print of the shoe heel remained for ,dian store cattle. His principal ob- French viewpoint on the question, | own capacity to continue the Pav-lsouthcastom Europe. The dominion ovis HES I His leet mony he |jections"are the consequent suppres- 1 i+ i finitely th 5 > vas stain y an, - | gi itis . providing for full compliance with all | ment indefinitely. At the same time {Immigration authorities, . however, 11 > ccordingly, demanded 250 {sion of British cattle breeding and- the disarmament clauses of Ver. | they wish it clearly uriderstood that have b z . i an, acc ingly, nade $2 | the absence in Canada of the kind fillies treaty. Ii sons es to Great |tB¢ bonus wid not be withdrawn [Nave been meeting the pressure by | from her mother for assault and bat- fof cattle that agriculturists really 3 es , Teasy. Colifedes io Ts without adequate notice, and certain- | rigid enforcement of regulations in- j tery. ; | want. Britain's view as to granting further H In any case where a tandiiats te 16d to . int} t's { The mother alleges that the spank- | delay which was suggested on Mon- | !Y BOt In any case where 3 ate | lended to prevent an influx o sur- | 4 cEed a fuss 3 has been elected in expectation of plus population to flood the labor Ing was 0s and justified by | day before the supreme council hy 12s 3 : = ar i : rofane language which the daugh- Lioyd Ge >. Two-thirds of the .. | Feeeiving it. It is proposgd to pay | market and to be a charge upon the | Profane lang ; et ¥Q George, Two-thirds of the ope- the bonus in two half-yearly install- | public treasury in one way or an- [ter directed against her during a ration of disarmament must be com- | Be Re otarivs In: rr fothar Th th : | family squabble, beginning in mid-sum- | other. During the war and for some | When 'J Broun ked Lilll {time afterward the flow of fmmi- | B het es ag i ar au | grants from the continent of Europe | ¥ eLlier she ever § ~ IS Waen she | i | gets "'géod and mad," Lillian admit- {to Canada was altogether stopped. | 5 % % i i ' | ted she did, but said her limit is security police, mist be disbanded Of late economic conditions have led {darn fer : as must all other similar -organiza- -- ras nant peolle to leave | Lillian's husband, Ray Rebstock, tions not allowed by the Versailles _ Boston, Jan. 26.-----Methodist min. [0 AF ' rag by = go i ° | told the judge that when it comes to treaty. The council bas still to act on | 13ters live longer nowadays because | 5a a, 7 >-¥rovaiia, - Roumania | language his wife *'can take care of the report, but it was the general op- | they preach less, Bishop Edwin IH I oP "¥ropean countries, } herself in 'a squabble." inion this morning that it would ap- | Hughes said at a meeting of the lb ® aration Canaduaward has - prove the experts' conclusions. Interdenominational Institute of | con Of two classes; firstly, a move- | Paul Doumer, French finance min- | Evangelism. The. increase in their Re ot ves wh Children of oo (GERMANY IN NEED ister, opened the discussion on the | years became marked about the time | 2768 in ne on gon; Second 4 OF FOODSTUFFS Gehman reparations by the council | that intensive church evangelistic > iif Sen 0. re yates io are | : . ring ; . | ---- this morning. He read a reporton the | campaigns began to decrease, he ob- | gh 5 or SWD Soir ig SCaNae | Must Import 3,000,000 Tons financial situation and outlined the served. 'The Bishop argued the need {o 5 Thee BE conditions prevailing 4 ' : | French viewpoint concerning the so- | for the old evangelistic campaigns, | there. Dependents oF nen who &te of Grain During Present lution of the reparations gusstion. f with a sermon every night, as the Hiren hi ada Sy 9 alg aMe Year. The conference then heard Baron E. {only solution for present day prob- | Pp amilies, may enter the dominion freely, 2 Lit V. D'Abernon, British ambassador to Germany. , ---------------- CANADIAN DOLLAR RISES TO 89c. New York, Jan. 26.--Further ¢ extensive purchases of remit- tances to London,Paris and oth- er European points imparted additional strength to the for- elgn exchange market to-day The Canadian dollar rose to 89 cents during the morning ses- sion. Sterling demand bills rose to $3.833%, a gain of three cents over yesterday's final quo- tation, and the highest figure since last July. TO GARELESSNESS Coroner's Jury Blames Dr. Faed, of Toronto, for J Fatality. Toronto, Jan. 26.--A verdict to the effect that Miss Monica Kenney came to her death on January 8th, through "receiving a drug improp- erly prepared by Dr. Percy E. Faed, and administered by Dr. J. H. Me- Connell," was returned last night by Dr. G. W. Graham's jury. The fur- ther wording of the verdict was that "We find that Dr. Faed was guilty of 8ross carelessness in the matter. We also find that Dr. Faed believed that he had received neodiarsenol from Dr. Abraham Brodey, and we find that Dr. Brodey gave Dr. Faed di- arsenol instead of what he asked for, We find that Dr. McConnell is com- pletely exonerated and recommend that in the sale of diarsenol and neo- diarsenold the packages in which they are contained should be so dif- ferent as to prevent further mis- takes." The above verdict was the result of an exhaustive inquiry as to the administering of the drug which caused' the death of two women on January 8th. TO PRESENT BUDGET- EARLY IN SESSION To Provide for the Double- Platoon System inFire Brigades. Toronto, Jan, 26---Ham. Peter Smith announced to-day that®it is the intention of the government to. have the budget presented the first thing after the debate on the speech from the throne is over. The bond issue of ten millions, which the province has disposed 'of to a Toronto syndi- cate, is intended to provide funds for Hydro-Electric development by the Quegnston-Chippewa ~ scheme. At Present over, six thgpsand men are employed on the undertakip® and it i8 expected that the bulk of the work there will be complet by July. ~One hundred thousand horse-power 'Will, it is thought, be available by September 1st. . a islation will be introduced * early inthe séssion by Hon. Walter | Rollo, minister of labor, providing , that in all permanent fire brigades the men shall work on the double- Platoon system. Legislation - will safeguard the rights of fire-fighters +» in so far as owe day's rest in seven is ©" concerned. o Twenty persons, it is estimated, ~~ were killed and many others injufed in a raliway wreck near Abermule. Wales, on Wednesday. The wreck occurred when the coast express col- Hided with a train from-Montgomery. Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest, brother of Marquis of Londonderry, who was one of thos injured, died shortly af: _ ter the collision. Ta a | | | lems, ce Reduction In Price of Gasoline Announ Chicago, Jan. 26.--A reduction of | two cents a gallon in the price of ga- | {soline was announced here yesterday [consequently Stringent Regulations. Persons in the second, or refugee | class, however, have to comply with | | stringent regulations which are be- ing rigidly enforced. Scores of this [class of intending immigrants are being rejected and | by the Standard Oil Company of In- [Shipped back to their native lands {diana, as a result of decreases in tho |at the expense of the steamship com- | price of crude oil. At service stations, on the price dropped from 29 to 27 cents, and from tank wagons from 27 to 2 181% to 15% cents a gallon. HELP UP CLERK ; : \ DIES IN CELL # Toronto, Jan, 26.--Raymond +# said to be from Kitch + # ener, held up a Queen street + # drug clerk. One hour after be- + * ing arrested he died in a police + + cell. + + TEPPELI PIR SPP bbb bbb bbe Pe TO DEPORT "WILD WOMEN" Officials of Women's Reforniatory to Solve Problem. Bedford, Jan. 27.--Officlals of the State Reformatory for Women in Bedford are quietly planning, it was learned to-day, to literally "ship" four "wild women" impris- oned there to other quarters of the globe. Matrons gave the names of the troublesome prisoners who are to be deported as Anna Windort?, Gussie Seeley, Rose Allen, and Rose Weissel. Mrs. Anna Hedges Talbot, the superintendent, admitted that she has been in consultation with United States Immigration Department agents about sending the girls back to their native countries. "I think this country has enough to do," said Mrs, Talbot, "to look after its own wayward girls." The girls will be shipped back to Europe as '"'undesir- able aliens." This is said. to be the first time in Bedford's history that Uncle Sam has been asked to take prisoners there fii tow. No General Outbreak Of Smallpox in Canada ing the federal health department indicate there is no general small- pox outbreak in Canadian cities. In some centres, such as Ottawa, there are a number of cases. A report was received a few days ago qf a bad outbreak in a country distri Quebec, which cause: e authorities to send a supply of vae- cine to that vicinity. Vaccination is being enforced, and the outbreak is expected to decline. Disturbances in Siberia Assume Alarming Character London, Jan. 26.--Reports ' that disturbances, which broke out re- cently in Siberia, are assuming an alarming character, are contained in | sieging several towns held and forti- off the supply : of foodstuffs from Wh vine slaught on péasant communes, and that terrorism is reigning over a large area. : The intentioh of the Conservatives in the Ontario legislature to delve thoroughly into recent .negotiations 'between the Drury government and the Backus interests, is indfcated by a notice of a demand made by Hon. G. H. Ferguson for the return to house of all correspondence. 5~tents. Kerosene was cat from | * | ton Ottawa, Jan. 26.--Reports reach ia Helsingfors despatch to the Cen- tral News today. Peasants are be- fied by Soviet troops, thus 'cutting S. On the othér hand the ad- assert that in eastern Siberia the Bolsheviki have began a great on- {panies which brought them to Can- ada, it is stated at the immigration department. The department has acted upon the suggestion that in- tending immigrants be examined at ports of embarkation overseas, in- stead/ of merely on their arrival in this country. Officials having a knowledge of central and southeastern European es have been sent to Antwerp] and Havre from the immigration of- tice in London. These officials have not authority to prevent the pros- pective immigrants from embarking, but they have warned many that | » they would not be acgeptable set- tlers for Canada. In cases where these warnings have not been ac- cepted, the immigrants have been rejected on their arrival at Canadian Atlantic ports. HIGHLAND CORPS 18 REORGANIZING General King Presides at Meeting of Stormont and Glengarry Regiment, Cornwall, Jan. 26.=~The first an- nual meeting of the officers of the Stormont and Glengarry Regiment, since re-organization, was held here. General W. B. King, CM.G., D.S.0;, G.0.C., and Majer Lawson, King- ston, were present. General Kin expressed pleasure at meetifig so' many of the officers and outlined the method of carrying out annual train- ing which he had recommended to be adopted throughout this military district. He had recommended that three companies of the local unit perform their training, 1921-22,.at Cornwall, if suitable accommodations could be obtained, and one company at Alexandria. It was decided to ask the militia of full Highland uniform for this regiment. The-question-of-the-tartan-| [to be adopted was not decided. It was decided that the-154th battalion pipe band should be re-organized, and Lt. Col. A. G. F. MacDonald and the officer commanding were uested to make the necessary angements. ¥ A resolution was ° unanimously adopted declaring that in the opinion of the officers it was absolutely ne- cessary that an armory and drill hall be constructed - at battalion head- quarters, in order that the proper training of the corps might be car- ried out. The possibility of recruiting two battalions in this district, one to be recruited and trained in Cornwall, ited counties outside' of Cornwall, was Qiscussed, but no definite con- clusion was arrived at, it being left over until the next meeting, A pleasant feature of the meeting was the presentation of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces' officers decoration to Lt. Col. H. A. Cameron, by Gen- eral King, the general referring to the long and faithful service of Col. Cameron in doin, replied briefly. 2 Thirty-six Filipinos, mostly wo- me and children, were drowned in wrecking of three-masted coastwise helplessly pounded to pieces a: mouth of Agno River, Pangasinan FROYMICR.. _ . prmpciomvs snobs President Harding has completed department to authorize the issue |. and the other within the three Un- |. g 80. Col. Cameron | steamer Pilicidad, blown ashore end | Berlin, Jan. 26.--Germany will be obiiged to import 2,000,000 tons of grain to meet home needs jn 1921, according to an official reply to-day to a question put by.the Italian dele- gation in Brussels concerning the country's immediate requirements of foodstuffs from abroad. The gov- ernment admits the appraisal sub- mitted at the Spa conference will prove inadequate owing to the fail- ure of last year's crop, which did not come up to the expected yield. Fodder amoounting to 1,800,000 tons will also be required in addi- tion to the wheat, while 1,000,000 tons of raw products for the manu- facture of oleomargarine during the current year constitutes a further item on the government's list of food reommodities to be imported. The requirements of meat and bacon are estimated at 150.000 tons. commodities, based on their present market prices, is estimated at 3,200,- 000,000. ' Open More Pulp Limits In Northern Ontario Toronto, Jan. 26.----The establish- ment of two additional pulp and pa- per industries. in Northern Ontario is. foreshadowed by the announce- ment by Hon. Beniah Bowman that extensive pulpwood limits will be shortly advertised for sale. One of these Hmits is tributory to the Naga- gami River in Algoma and so situ- ated that the mills would probably 'be located north of the transcontin- ental. The other is around Long Lake in the Thunder Bay district south of the traastontinental. The usual conditions requiring the erec- tion of pulp end paper mills of a specified daily output will be im- posed on thos tendering. ' The lim- its will carry vith them rights to de- velop sufficient power for the opera- tion of thé plants to be"dbuilt, , DRUGGED AND ROBBED DOCTOR IN MONTREAL Philadelphia Physician Found on Lachine Road Frost- Bitten, 26.--Found be- Montreal, Jan. The gold mark value of the Above | { been put forward without the sanc- [tion of parliament. Technically the | postoffice department is within its rights in raising the rates, but | strong protests have been made. ARCHBISHOP AGAIN URGES TRUCE OF GOD Irish Prelate Denounces Folly of Ambushers and Bar=- barity of Reprisals. Dublin, Jan. "26.--In a letter to the parish priest of Hedford, Gal- way, the archbishop of Tuam la- ments that the "truce of God," which he called for in July, was broken first by the civilians of his diocese in the Kilroe ambuscade last week. ~The archbishop says that during 'the past six months Nis people had shown magnificent restraint under great provocation; that arrests, floggings, imprisonments, raids and other indignities did not provoke them to violence. » The misguided criminals at Kilroe, continued the archbishop, are trebly guilty, because 'hey knew they were invoking reprisals on the innocent, which followed in the shape of eleven homesteads being burned and mine families left destitute. The archbishop denounces as equally cowardly the folly of the am- busuers and the inhuman barbarity of the reprisals. He again appeals to the best elements of "the two sister nations" to call off the state of warfare, which is described as a negation of Christianity, and to establish a truce. Britain Pays $100,000,000 Washington, Jan. 26.--Great Brit- ain last year reduced its floating debt in the United States by nearly $100,000,000, the , department of commerce was informed by Consul General Skinner, at London. dispatch said that at the end of last November the British floating debt in this country was $55,405,000, consisting of three months' treasury bills, amounting to $28,815,000, and sterling treasury bills of 12 months, amounting to $26,690,000. At the end of November,| 1919 the floating 1 MOTH ing en the ipper Lachine road, suf- fering from [rost bitten hands and a frost bitten right foot, Pr. AV, W. Hawke, fory-eight years, of Phila- delphia, Pa, was taken to Notre Dame de Grace police station. Dr. Hawke tolc the police that he had been druggd and robbed of $300 and his wach, He remembered hav- ing been a a downtown hotel, and later in a itore on Windsor street. The police ittended to his hands #nd foot, and tok him to his hotel. EE mr ar of ~ 5 1 gE arial or b 2 oible scientific and ihdus- debt was $150,914,000. This is exclusive of long time loans obtained by Great Britain from the American government and American bankers. TECHNICALITY NOT TO BAR Irregularity in Deposit Will Not In- validate Candidacy. : Ottawa, Jan. 26.--The electiop pa- pers of the United Farmer candidate in West Peterboro' will not be Invali- dated by reason of the fact that his deposit check was made payable to the returning officer instead of .the recelver-general, so it was stated at the office of the chief electoral offi- cer here today. There is a general provision of the new franchise act that technical errors in papers shall not invalidate an election so long as the principle of the act is complied with, and the candidate has cted in good faith. The official opinfon here is that this provision removes 'any doubt of the legality of the U.F.O. candidate's nomination, though the matter has not yt beem put up to the department. Sir Martin Recovered. Toronto, Jan, 26.--Sir Martin Har- ey has recovered from his recent ill- . He left Toronto yesterday and will rejoin his company at Sudbury, and \from then on will continue to a) ir in person during the remain- | der of\ his tour:: fi > tax forms for 1920 will for distribution. On Debt to Americans | The [are valued highly tary of war, will not be in the cabi- net, but will be rewarded by being given some other post of promi- nence. This leaves the portfolios of navy, interior and labor undetermined and everyone of Mr. Harding's advisers and close friends who might be pre- sumed to know, including some of those who had last-minute talks with Mr. Harding before he went south, frankly confess that they are up-in the air about those three post- tions. Indeed, Mr. Harding himself is weighing the merits of various eli- gibles and probably has gome to no decision as yet. License Fees Jum In Watertown, N.Y. Watertown, N.Y., Jan. 26.---Re- commendatigns for ma the licenses as well as censes required were made to the city council by City Manager Ging- ham. The council seemed disposed to accept the suggestions, which will at least be embodied in the tentative charter, > The proposed license fees are: Milk vendors, $5; store milk licences, $1; junk dealers, $15 instead of $5; baggagemen, $5 instead of $3 peddlers of novelties, $5 per day instead of $1; hand bill distributors, »$20; curb pumps, $15, now noth- ing; electric signs, awnings, ete., $5 for five years, now untaxed; under walk dug-outs, $1 to hold city's title..| The council adopted an ordinance requiring that applicants for open- ing or cleaning sewers deposit $5 and pay the entire cost of the work where the city is blameless for the stoppage. es Heavy Rainfalls Predicted For Northern Ontario er, South Porcupine, Jan, 26.---Mag- gie Martin, Indian woman from Kamiscotia, whose weather opinions in these parts, takes a leaf from the beaver book of Major Mac Lang, M.L.A., and says there will be tremendous rains to- wards the end of January. The squaw says she never saw the beavers act so strangely as this winter. They are coming out from undér the ice 100 A , Irom. the. taossy rstead of from the store in their houses. As Major Lang's prophesy of a late and mild winter, based on his observations of the beavers, prov- ed accurate, the prediction .as to heavy rainfall may be extended in view of uie interest in the power situation manifested by mining men. Stolen Auto Found. Oswego, N.Y., Jan. 26.--After a search of four months Chief of Po- lice Mowatt located. an automobile belonging to Charles E. Dexter, Scriba, N.Y., which was stolen Sept. 30th from No. 172 East Fourth street, Oswego. The machine was purchased by Jack Crowley, Altoona. It was stolen by Jack Lewis and J. L. Sullivaf, who came. here to ar- range for a boxing exhibition at Fort Ontario: and who are now in the state reformatory at Elmira, having been arrested in Watertdwn for bur- glary. 2 heen Shuberts Form $20,000,000 Vaudeville Corporation | New York, Jan. 26.-- Incorporation of the Shubert Advance Vaudeville company under the laws of Delaware with a capitalization of $20,000,000 was announ here by Lee Shubert, wha with his brother, J. J. Shubert, will direct vaude performances San cities next season. is among the cities meladed in the new elrcuit. |1tes?4, Varsity 2, O.H.A. gamle in Toronto : Gran- er i [would densan 85 rm A NEW PLAN FOR LIQUOR PURCHASES Proposal Made to British Col= umbia Government by Salmon Canners. S-- Vancouver, B.C., Jan. 26.--That an Order-in-Council be passed pro- viding 'that all purchases .of liquor made under the Moderation Act shall be placed in countries prepared to purchase an equivalent value of Brit- ish Columbia's natural products, was the novel proposal made to Premier John Oliver by a delegation of pro- minent salmon canners. The pre- mier said he was favorably impress- ed with the idea. As one of the basic industries, ft nted out, salmon a 760,000 of salmon on and the market Is dull, It was urged that the government should export direct from France, where there are large supplies of brandies, wines and liquors, which, owing to prohibition in the United States, the French people have been unable to dispose of. HEAVY "SEA QUAKE" REPORTED BY VESSEL . | 8 (Lasted Half an Hour, Rocked Ship and Broke Propeller. New York, Jan. 26.--Storles of a "sea quake" so violent that it caws- ed the ship to list heavily and put one of the proprellors ofit of commis sion, were brought by passengers on } the United Fruit steamship Calam- ares, which docked here yesterday from West Indian and Panama ports, Jose Rigdon, a Costa Rican plant- rer, the only passenger on deck at the time the "sea quake' occurred, said that for half-aa-hour the disturbance continued. > Captain Henry Spencer at first be- lfeved the. vessel had run over a school of porpoises, but later agreed it was a quake. The propelles, was "bent "dnd twisted, apparently by a piece of rock that had been thrown MD. J10m. the hollom-ef-dhe-oceny ---- Look for Cheaper Qas; : Coal and Oil to Drop .Torontd Jan. 26.---A probabe re duction in the price of gas to the consumers of this city in a few months, is suggested by City Finance Commissioner Ross and City Auditor Scott in a report to the City Coun- cll, They estimate the increaged ex- penses of the Consumers' Gas €o. for the year ending September 30(H next at $957,377, but state that coal and gas ofl will probably drop in price the meantime, and, in conse quence, the cost of manufacturing gas will be reduced and the con- sumers will reap the benefit. . They estimate the average revenue per thousand feet of gas as $122.68 and the average cost $1.20.46. - J : Australia's Big Apple i May Have to Stay 6 ---------- Ottawa, Jan. 26.--C 'Commissioner D. H. Roes, the Weekly Bulletin, 1 Trade and Commerce st: the. exportatble surplus g from Australia this mated at 2,250,000 cases. He 3 that transportation facilities de doubtful. The apple season in Aue ; tralia commences in continues to the end of April. HH. Dewart Is again hot on the trail of the International Nickel Gompany, ' et x » .