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SESSION ON SECOND OF FEBRUARY, e first session of On- venteenth Legislature will Wednesday, Feb. 2. An an- ent to this effect was made emier Ferguson following a two- | # Counci! with his Cabinet. f eight weeks, ¢ February opening will mark| Besides the Government control pol- #8 of the first official appearances icy, various important taxation re- | Of the new Lieutenant-Governor of the ductions have been promised by the Province, W. D. Ross, who will suc-| Government for the session which is; 'ceed his Honor Col. Harry Cockshutt, ' now announced. "A reduction of $5 in office early next month. Mr. Ross, per year in motor license fees has al on this occasion, will execute the time- ready been effected by order-in-Coun-| honored 'formality of delivering the cil, but the Legislature will also have! Speech from the Throne. The identity to pass the increased municipal in- of the House members who are to come tax exemptions, which the Gov-, move and second the Address in reply ernment has pledged itself to effect, ! « will not be made known, it was learn- and will also have to approve the cut | ed from the Prime Minister, until in the amusement taxes, which has after the first of the 'new year. | been announced, While the House opens a full week! The new Parliament when it con- earlier this year than it did last, there venes wil be the first one based upon ds little doubt but that the inaugural redistributed Ontario. In place of ceremonies would have been held sti'l the 111 members representing the old earlier had not some necessary altera- | constituencies, there will be 112 mem- | tions to the Assembly chamber inter. bers 'representing the new alignment! fered. These alterattons take the of the ridings. CANADA CONSIDERING | World War Pigeon Hero AN AIR MAIL SYSTEM Dies; Helped Save Battle Postmaster-General to Make| Paris.--One of the feathered heroes . . of the great war---a carrier pigeon, | Definite Announcement m | which helped save Verdun--has just | ear Future. ! died of old age. The bird had a wound 'Saint John, N.B.--Proposals look-' stripe on its leg band and was one of | ing to the establishment of an air the government's pensioners, having mail system in Canada are under con- sideration by the post-office depart- ment, Hon. P. J. Veniot, Postmaster- General, said at Bathurst, in an inter- view over long distance telephone. "The matter," he added, "is only in the tentative stage as yet and a de- finite policy has not been adopted but we have it in hand and expect to make a defiinte announcement in the near form of strengthening certain girde supports, and will not be com until Jan. 15 at the earliest. The ing jon, it is confidently felt, will run considerably longer than did the last, which occupied less than been given a home by a grateful na-| tion, | Through a barrage of shrapnel the! pigeon in 1916 carried a message that! kept Froideterre Hill from being cap-| tured. In an order of the day the army cited the pigeon for "having! maintained communication with the | front line when all human means] | an announcement from the Dept. of | stated that before the expiration of NEW OCCUPANTS OF GOVERNMENT HOUSE Mr: W. D. Ross, who has been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of On- tario in succession to Col. Henry Cockshutt, and Mrs. Ross. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ross arp natives of Nova Scotia, but have lived in Toronto for several - years. ~~ CANADA USES NEW TREATY-MAKING POWERS IN PACT WITH CZECHO-SLOVAKIA Ottawa, Ont.--A commercial trade|temporary character continuing for a treaty between Canada and Czecho-{ period of 15 months, or until three Slovakia has been negotiated and ap-| months notice of denunciation has proved by the Cabinet, according to|been given by either party. It is Finance. The statement, issued by|the agreement negotiations will be be- tide have plans. for a gay. Christmas. mourning and given way to ied beneath tons phi of the walls and the ceiling collapsed! under the force of several streams of | water. 2 Fa The dead: Donaki Mélville, Robert Stewart, and R. S. Shearer. The injured: A. Smith, R. C. Kirk The victims, all 'were bur- (both seriously), Alex. Brown, J. G. temporary absence that the outbreak occurred. NORWICH COUPLE KILLED BY TRAIN Christmas Journey Brought to Fatal Termination by Level- Crossing Accident. Woodstock.--Mrs. W. E. Maedel of Norwich was instantly killed and her husband, W. E. Maedel, received in- juries from which he died several hours later, when their automobile was struck by a Canadian National Railway passenger train at the level- the department, points out that it is| gun for a more general and definite the first commercial agreement to be convention for the regulation of com- concluded since Canada obtained new | mercial relations between the two treaty-making powers at the recent countries. Imperial Conference. Negotiations, Canadian goods that are given most | were conducted by James A. Russell, favored national treatment on impor-, Tariff Commissioner, who is now in!tation into Czecho-Slovakia are flour, ! crossing on the provincial highway between Eastwood and Gobles, six miles east of Woodstock, about 2 p.m. on December 22nd. Mr. and Mrs. Maedel left their home in Norwich "shortly after noon and | were proceeding' east to spend the failed." In its flight through the bar-| Europe. The Dept. of Finance states | wheat, hosiery, wrapping paper, bar-| Christmas holidays with friends and | rage the pigeon was hit by a shell that Canada obtains the lowest rates|ley, oats, rye, buckwheat, malt, peas,' e'atives when the accident occurred. future. y s y | . : y Ted A falr trial, he sald, would likely be splinter that carried away-its claws. of duty given any country by Czecho-| fresh and dried apples, all kinds of They had just got onto the crossing given the carrying of mails by air- The pigeon will be mounted and plac-| Slovakia on a list of some 71 com-. fish, including canned fish, lard, but- | gecording to members of the crew, plane, probably on a small basis at ed in the Verdun war museum. first, but if conditions and results warranted it, the system likely would be increased. PUDCIEPSRD YER RD [peas English Conservative Party to Canvass New Women Voters. rds Canada Included on Beam Wireless Communication The new register of voters to be -~ | published shortly will show a further | Sydney, N.S.W.--Experiments hav- increase of 350,000 in the number of | ing proved the feasibility of beam women voters. This will bring their | wireless communication between Great total to about 10,000,000, as against Britain and Australia, the Marconi 13,000,000 men voters. Co. expects to inaugurate service on! The Conservative party has made a commercial scale between the two plans to canvass this increased num- countries, beginning in March. ber of women voters through women Communication with Canada will speakers and workers. These will be! probably be opened some six or eight coached in a special series of political weeks afterwards. correspondence courses, The courses a , will include such subjects as empire development, socialism, trade union- Denmark Returns ism, economics and the British consti- to Gold Standard tution. en | Copenhagen, Denmark. --- Denmark | has formally returned to the gold standard, at all events in her dealings with foreign countries, The Danish | a Parliament adopted a measure per-; Tne famous roast beef of old Eng: piling re eran OE Danich [land threatens to join the other tradi- no BOX RL a a. rate, Dem tions of this country's more spacious This step by Den- one January 1 Qucesion #3 Tie oc (bast which are unable to survive the The the krone reached par a few months | more. restricted postwar days. ago, but a Cabinet crisis intervened recent fat stock show in London has early in December. brought out the complaint that the a---------- modern cooking stove is ruining the! : market for large joints. Ti Te-war | Canada's Leather Output . Alen ghiky | | | full-size joint and full-size oven would | Largest in Five Years il Roast Beef of England Bows to Modern Stove. leave no room for a medium sized cook | in most modern kitchens, so the scale of the magnificent beasts must he re- duced by the breeders in obedience to the builder. Ottawa.--Canada's leather industry | tontinues to show improvement ac- cording to reports issued by.the Do- minion Bureau of Statistics. The value of the output by Canadian tan- nerles during 1926 was $26,141,217, an increase over the preceding year of $485,642 or two per cent. Prices for all kinds of leather averaged about the same in 1925 as in 1924. There were 104 tanneries aperating in Can- ada last year. -- Veteran Author-Engineer :-.a. a King Loses Half Share in Girl's Pet Rabbit. King George has lost half a rabbit. Wilfred gained international fame in August when the King, while staying at Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, bought half a share of a little girl's pet in or- der to save the complete animal from A being sold over her head. The rabbit Passes Away in Ottawa, was playing on the lawn in front of Bolton Abbey rectory, where the other _ Ottawa.--J. H. E, Secretan, veteran part owner lived, when he was attack- pivil engineer, noted author and ra- ed by a treasonable stray dog and poonteur, died suddenly here on Dec. killed. 22nd, aged 72. He was for many; : i Bears on the surveying staff of the! bis { nadian Pacific Railway under Sir! Canada's birth rate leads all the William Van Horne and was associat- | white races of the world, according to} *~ @d with the construction of the rail-|a cose study made at Victoria, B.C, 'way. Disabled by rh tism in the of comparative figures. Canada's : 90's, he visited the Yukon and birth rate is 23.4 to the thousand, and _Jater wrote a number of books which Australia comes next with 23.2. Eng- are considered authoritative of the | land' and Wales fall slightly below period. ' France with 18.8. BRITISH NAVY WITHOUT RESERVE | radio listeners of the Dominion to des- modities 'which comprise all the im-|ter, honey, cheese, canned fruits and! portant Canadian exports to that vegetables, condensed milk, agricul- country. In return Canada grants tural implements and agricultural Czecho-Siovakian goods the benefits of | tools, rubber footwear, rubber tires, the Canadian intermediate tariff. | lead, zine, engines and motors, adding The new rates became effective on machines, automobiles and various January 1. The agreement is of a other items. ° RADIO PIRATING IN UNITED STATES rivais in the United States broadcast- ing on the same wave-length, The Canadian Government Radio Dept. is taking the matter up in a friendly way with Hon. Herbert Hoov- Ottawa, -- Pirating of Canadian radio channels by United States broadcasting stations is driving the peration and bringing a flood of com- plaints to the Radio Branch of the Dept. of Marine and Fisheries, Ac- cording to Licutenant-Commander C. state of affairs, and it is hoped that P. Edwards, Director of Radio for the an amicable settlement which will be Dominion of Canada, the situation is fair to all concerned may be reached steadily going from bad to worse. within the next month. | Under arrangement with the Un- rn me ited States Dept.of Commerce, Can-! Able to Take X-Ray : ada is supposed to have the use of i seventeen waves, six exclusive and | Films of Human Body eleven jointly with the United States Lei > sity oy Nas stations, but since the Zenith Radio| New OE lioiogie Unt Corporation of Chicago flouted theo motion-picture ex perts has dis- order of the United States Dept. OF covered a method pi x a Commerce to keep off the exclusive: atograph films of rig rnd Ouvadian Haye 3 vis gh and body, according to an official British' was. vindicat ya: Unite States, espatch. The problem of producing court, Canadian broadcasting stations i Joa strong illumination. for = longer enjoy freedom from inter- moving pictures without injuring the Ebi skin of the subjeft has, it is said, | 3roadeasts from London, Ont., are] been overcoine almost completely spoiled by hetero- es 12 A on dyning frem the Zenith station at People are hungering for the great Chicago, and stations throughout' roar taught, i or ras Canada ave similarly affected by Campbell Morgan. remedying this very unsatisfactory er at Washington, with a view to-. Man. oats-- No. 2. CW, nominal; He was taken to the Woodstock Gen- eral Hospital, where he died about 5 o'clock without 'regaining conscious- ness. \ Mr. Maedel was a well-known busi- ness man in the Village of Norwich, having lived there practically ail his life. He was also for several years a member of the Norwich Town Coun- cil. He was between 56 and 60 years of age and Mrs. Maedel was about the same age. They are survived by four { SONS, World's Oldest I Legislator on Duty at Ottawa. Canada has what she believes to be the oldest legislator in the world. He is on the verge of-one hundred years of age. He is Hon. Goerge Casimir Dessaulles, who was born in 1827 in Quebec Province. And he turned up for.the Senate sitting, walking in un- aided. when the passenger express came up behind them, the engine striking the! rear of the car. Both occupants were thrown out of the automobile, which landed in the ditch a mass of wreck- age. Mrs. Maedel's head struck a heavy fence and she was dead when | Ice Cream is Sold at 40 Below Zero Circle, Alaska.--With the thermo- meter at 40 below, ice cream rapidly at $1.76 a quart hete to-day. {picked up by the train crew. Mr. | It was said to be the first shipment EC =p | AN ADIAN GOVERNMENT PROTESTS | Maedel landed alongside the fence and !of that delicacy from Seattle to any ; : by I his head was also seriously injured. point within the Arctic Circle. THE WEEK'S MARKETS TORONTO. Man. wheat--No. 1 North, $1.47% ; No. 2 North.,, $1.44; No. 38 North, $1.39. No. 8, not quoted; No: 1 feed, 63c; No. 2 feed, nomina!; Western graiu quota. tions in cif. ports, Am. corn, track, Toronto--No. 2 yellow, 91¢; No. 8 yellow, 90c, Millfeed--Del, Montreal freights, bags included. Bran, per ton, $31.255 shorts, per ton, $33.26; middlings, $40.26; good feed flour, per bag, $2.80. Ontario oats, 50c, f.o.b. shipping points. ~~ Ont. good milling wheat--$1.28 f.o. b. shipping points, according to reights. Barley--Malting, 60 te 64c. Buckwheat--75¢, nominal. Rye--No. 2, 90c. : : Man. flour--First pat, $8, To- ronto; do, second pat., $7.50. Ont. flour-- Toronto, 99 per cent, ztent, per barrel, in carlots. Toronto 5.56; seaboard in bulk, $5.65. 4 Cheece--New, large, 10 to 20a; twins, 20% to 21c; riplets, 22¢c. Stil- tons, 28¢, Old, large, 26¢; twins, 26¢; triplets, 27c. Old Stiltons, 28c. Butter Finest creamery prints, 44 A Greatest of British Airmen Visits Toronto ---- to 46¢: No. 1 creamery. 48 to 4de: No. ! 2, 42 to 48c. Dairy prints, 34 to 36e. PeesPresh extras, in cartons, 72 to 78¢; fresh extras, loose, 70¢c; fresh firsts 63 to 6bc; fresh seconds, 88 to 89¢; fresh pullets, 62 to 58¢c. Stora extras, 465¢; do, firsts, 42c; do, seconds, 5% to gre. ; oultry, dressed--Chickens, spring squabs, 1 to. 1% lbs., 82 to 38c; do, spring, over 4 lbs, 80 to 86c; do spring, 8 to 4 lbs, 82 to 86c; do, spring, 2% to 8% lbs, 30 to 83c; do, spring, 2 to 2% lbs., 30c; hens, over b lbs. 28¢c; do, 4 to 5 1bs., 26¢; oo, 8 io Ibs, 24c; roosters, 22¢; urkeys, 47c¢; geese, 28¢; ducklings, 5 lbs, and u y B20: hs Bean an. hand-picked, $3.60 to 15 bushel; Eine, 3.45 to $8.60. aple lucts--Syrup, per Imp, of to $2.30; per b-gal, $2.05 L, bois per gal; male sugcr, lb. 25 Honey--80-1b. tins, 12% to:18¢; 10- 1b. tins, 12% to 18c; 5-b. tins, 13 to 18%c; 2%-lb. tins, 15¢. - Comb honey--$83.40 to $4.50 per doz. Smoked meats---Hams, med., 28 to 30c; cooked hams, 42¢c; smoked rolls, 25c; breakfast bacon; 32 to 36c; backs, LL meat g clear bacon, 50 to 70 Ibs., $23; 70 to 90 Ibs., $21.50; Bi a tft Tart , in barrels, $42.50; heav. rolls, $39.50 per on weight Lard--Pure tierces, 14% to 15%c; tubs, 16 to 16%c; pails, 16% to 17c; prints, 17% to 18c; shortening tierces, 134 to 12¢; tubs, 18% to 13%; 12% to 18%c; blocks, 14% to 14%e. heavy steers, good, y butcher steers, choice, $6.50 to $7.35; do, fair to to $6.26; do, $6.26 to' $7; do, fair to good, $5.50 to $6; do, com; $4 to $5: butcher COWS, good to choice, $6 com. to med., $3 to $4 'canners "d | trary," bureaucratic machine 1. 1. EN 5 BIT and ils, | d, $6.25 .2b; do,| - com., $4 to toi heifers, choice, | to $5.25; do, § hooves Canada jealously serve her sound, free British tions and to strain. every nerve which apparently can best be done encouraging a large influx of peo from the United Kingdom aud Irelan: As, however, we cannot, an should not, move agricultural people there in cultural development, and also ously foster the work and : neces- sarily 'place our main dépendence upon the east and central Etro) aided colonization. i bald facts of the case... . , "The indications are that the. indis- criminate, happy-go-lucky immigra- tion efforts of the past will not ans- wer the purpose of ithe future. The situation' clearly demands comprehen sive policies and intelligent adminis- tration on the part of Canada's immi- gration Services. The present arbi- must ber pletely ow defective parts replaced. What Canada wants is a certain proportion of real, agri- cultural settlers, which need not be of the "fancy" class, because agricul- ture in Canada, in view of the large proportion of "marginal" lands am- ongst the present vacant area, is not a fancy occupation in any sense of the word. * Beal We need to recognize more clearly the ungomfortable fact that the key - = problem in colonization in évery pro- vince in Canada, is the development of our enormous residue of vacant, in- ferior lands; lands generally of aver- age soil quality, but dnvolving strenu- ous pioneering: efforts in order to re- deem and improve them into. high class, productive farms. Experience proves conc.usively that the European peasant, Sir Clifford Sifton's "man with the sheepskin coat," is essential ly the person to tackle this job, for which no other applicants are insight. i " Colored Lights Limit After- Speakers. A'new sunfire scheme of red and green Hghts for stopping after dinner speakers has been applied effectively When a postprandial orator has talked four minutes, 'or his alloted time, a big green electric light glows near the toastmaster's place. After another minute a red light flores. Then the guests, by previous instruction, ap- plaud until the speaker sits~down. = = When the system, was inaugurated at 'a Chamber of Commerce dinner at Walls, small cards asked Heavy oxport steers, Jess to $7.50; | thelr $6.25 to. $6.50; il WE and--cutters, $2.25 $2.25 to $2.75 Josdes, "hoice. $5.50. oss