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Port Perry Star, 9 Feb 1922, p. 2

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Ma ohne 540,000 by miles, was the time made by | Alberta; Ee io nshicl two-masted Néwfoundiand owned Ontario, 92,000. Very little flaxseed, ing vessel H. H. MacIntosh, in|if any, was 'grown in the Maritime port with a cargo of coal. The time | Provinces and British Columbia, is considered good freight steamer! wamonton, time. The Macintosh was built et|jink of the t Edmonton, Dunvegan and Mahoney, N.S., about eight years ago. Wi NB ~A company is be- ing promoted in Woodstock to manu- facture men's boots, shoe packs and other footwear here. It is said that there is strong capital available for the purpose. + Quebec, Que.~Royalties on the fol- lowing pelts were paid to the Provin- cial Government during the past year, acconding to the Department of Lands and Forests: 68,115 beavers, 16,072 mink, 197,644 muskrats, 88,104 wea- sel, 8,602 white fox, 8,607 marten, 8,- 607 seals, 2,128 deer, 12 caribou, 32 elk, 444 ermine, 165 silver fox, 8,640 grey or yellow fox, 1,171 wild cat, 4 badger, 978 bear and 1) white bear. Montreal, Que.--A feature of the export-livestock trade during the past two weeks has been the increased de- mand for live Canadian cattle from Belgium, and several large Shipments of Canadian cattle have already go forward via Boston and New York, Ottawa, Ont.--All hogs marketed at| public stockyards and abattoirs if Canada on and after May 1 will be 801d aceording to official grading to be 'done by government officials, ac- cording to an announcement made by the Dofuinion Department of Agri- culture. - This policy is the outcome of a méeting of producers, packers and agricultural officers held at Ottawa last November. A minimum premium of ten per cent. will be recognized for select bacon hogs. Toronto, Ont.-- With. the completion of the Toronto-Kingston™ provincial highway this summer, it will be pos- sible to make the run by automobile from Toronto to Ottawa in one day, according to A. L, Baldwin, resident government engineer, speaking before the Gananoque Board of Trade. F ederal Parliament i to Meet March 8 A despatch Fr from Ottawa says: -- Parliament - will be summoned to meet on Wed- nésday, March. 8, it was an- nounced, following = Thurs- day's meeting of the Cabinet Council, which lasted until af- tex: 7 o'clock in the evening. The first day's business will be limited 'to the election of a Speaker, while the formal opening, with the delivery of the speech. from the throne, will take place on Thursday, the following day. -- Discovery of New Dyes. a new dves--one, a beautiful blue, other a shade of ve been bay Fr ? ry Maitland C. Bos- professor |. British Columbia railway wag com- pleted this year. It joins Psace River 'and Berwyn and already grain is be- ing transported from 'a rich distriet. Calgary, Alta--Exports from this point to the United States were ap- proximately cut in half in 1921 when compared "with the previous year's record of .goods leaving for across the border, 'amoun' comparison with $6,729,602. Tis de- crease was due entirely to the eFects to $8,010,046 in| of the emergency tariff. Included in|. the year's exports to the United States were 12,801 cattle, 1,975 sheep, 1,651, 498 bushels oats, 1,061,508 bushels of wheat, 97,512 pounds butter, 65,152 sacks of flour, 925,626 hides and skins, 2,168,492 pounds meat and 2,736,602 feet of lumber. Victoria, B.C.--The shingle manu- facturars of British Columbia have eo | formed a $600,000 corporation known as the British Columbia Consolidated | Shingle Manufacturers, Limited, head- quarters here. Other companies in- corporated during the past week num- ber seven, totalling $210,000 in capitalization. New Westntinster, B.C.--~Members of the Fraser Valley Milk Producers' Association, which include ninety pe cent. of the milk producers in the en- tire Fraser Valley, had a production of milk from their dairy herds during the past year, that totalled 75,000,000 pounds. In addition one million pounds of butter were produced and a half million pounds of cheese. Anyox, B.C--It is understood that the Granby Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co, is planning construction of a dam to cost $350,000. It will avg- ment the present power supply and insure Tequitements for winter work. a Fone Jona in the sailed en route to ot for Vancouver ¥ ov : "The word "trash" originally meant , during 'such spare] fine brush-wood or twigs, 2 J 1 as he can muster, in investigut- faggots for firewood fréquently filled [The present. tactics of in 'the centre 'of 'tha 'bundle of sticks {| with this small, useless stuff,' 30 as to THE TAILOR WHO 'MAKES HIS OWN STYLES vs thp sume old Lengue of Nations Cost, but Undle Sam. euta it the Association: way." ~--Asahi (Tokio) BRITISH EDICT ON THE TURKISH TREATY Two Fundamental Stated in Note to Fi Premier. A despatch from Paris says: -- When Lord Hardinge, the British Am- bassador, saw. Premier Poincare 'and delivered the British note on thé Turk- ish treaty, he stated; the correspon- dent is authoritatively informed, two fundamental : principles on which Great Britain demands agreement be- fore it considers that there will be any use in having a €onference of the allied nations on that subject. 1--Britain insists that the allies must ap, the question of a re- vision of the Turkish treaty from a standpoint that will Be impartial fact as well as theory. 2--The allies must agree fo present! Greeks and Turks'and then back ft ap with the full moral pressure. of their united weight. The first point was raised because | She recent French note implied that! Britain was taking a pro-Greek at- titude, while France was impartial. Hardinge emphasized 'the assertion that the British have been far from pro-Greek 'and Greeks would: be the first to admi it. ~ The second demand was partially 2 | duy i in replying to the statement: i | PARLEY Nine-Power Treaty Adopted | by Committee on Pacific and East Problems. A Fu from Washington says:i--The last Session of the Com- mittee on Pacific and Far Bastern Questions adopted the so-called nine- power treaty to stabilize conditions in the Far East for ratification at the plenary session of the conference on Friday, thus concluding the last act of this committe, and completing the last of the treaties before the confer-| pa After this, the 21 demands, which | were before the committee on Thurs- , came. to the fore by Dr Wang! of 'Baron Shidehara. The latter, at Thursday's meeting, offered three important modi- lk fications iF the "including withdrawal of Group V. Dr. Wang expressed pleasure over|$ 'the offer of Jepan in this respect, and regretted that Japan did not volunteer to renounce the other claims predicat- ed upon the treaties and notes of 1915. He reviewed the cause leading up to the demands and the attitode of Japan during their, neyotiation. rom ogcasioned by the French enayizy EXCHANGE SHOW. | whether Britain was prepared Hight the Greeks if the latter refined to agree' to the plans for revision of the treaty. The British countered by asking if France .is prepared to fight '| Turkey. under similar circumstances; | The British say, however. there will | be no occasion to fight either if thet "1 allies should agree on impartial terms} Biitnin's gradual and back them up. - The e Jooger, the Anglo-French dis-} st th New Fi i becomi an increasingly serious tention between the two countries, 5 "Brotectin of he' be known resulted in the suspension of the nes} gotiations for an Anglo-Fren: = guarantee : and until 'the former is. pa Pound . Sterling Has Almost $1. 32 i Pan Two A despabch from: ak at very to n or pre-war conditions is forcibly il-) lustrated in the recent wpward course the mare convinced be-| of her foreign exchanges. ell informed quarters Two years 2go--February 4, 1920 [to 'demand bills 'on London' "suffered their} ne of con-| most disastrous collapse inthis mar- ror of ot the satisfaction of Britai of 5% 2 subjee es Tg a i e Toronto. 5 it anitoba wheat--No. '1 Northen, Manitoba oats--No, 2 CW, b6%¢; g3tia } No. 1 feed, 53%¢c; No. 1 feed, Manitoba barley--Nominal. All the above, track, Bay ports, American corn--No. 2 low, No. '8 yellow, 68%e¢; 67%¢; track, Toronto. Ontario oats--No.-2. Fhite, nom - Ontario wheat--Nomin on, 7 10 60 3 extra, ha, 47 lbs. ba ereat 7 to 60c, according to tre Buckwlhieat_-No. 2, 78 to 80c.. Bye No. 2, 86\to B8c. Manitoba flour-First $7.40; second .pats., $6.90, Toronto. 'Manitoba flour--90 . per gent, at., eaboard, per Barta Millfeed --Dal. Mont ht, bags included: Bran, Li an is shorts, per a $30; good feed $1.70 to. $1.80 aled i y- Track, Toronto, per ton, No. 2, $21.60 to $22; mixed, $18. -Straw--Car lots, per ton, $12. Eggs--New , extras, to 52; | do, extras, in ¢ , B38 to bbe. utter--Ci true, 41 to 2c; ;-do, Sih a , 39 to 40¢; do, No. 2 storage, er deity prints, 30 to 82¢:- Cheese--New, large, 19% "to do, ing, 20 to 21c; do, Stilton, 24 24 to 25¢ a ie bacon to. = GL 30 to. 36¢; cottage no 2s then smoki i Barrelled meats eot pickled | rolls, ait, $87; hea NISL; 'mess Poh ited meats--Lo fie fy cases 16% BE ci bets; 17 Fs a 4 fo. fo Te 3 : shortening tierces, to '1 18% er tresh-made ex- a ts0ut of pickle, 1c less Common. cows. $3. $4.50; thin: calves; For or $12; | $5 to $6; good lambs, § $13.25, , is ASK EXTRA CUSTOMS « DUTY ON GERMAN TOYS 83 British Toy-M x Making Plants Compelled to Shut A despatch Er Lond Serious co! ft tr 2 Sate ie sth [an xX er oe owing to the depreci ated. state: of the currency nd

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