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ick BROS mt 5m I. am "I [HE NEWS IN A NIHSHHL s escaped A, lot 0f P3 r18 3 in the cistern 0‘3 Whicb is used for ”V7 According to the report of the De- pgrtment of Fisheries, the value of the ‘ Cam nan fisheries .for 1896 is computed It 113‘ evident from a reportjvhich has ' resented toOthe Dominion Parlia- [new that the British Government has refused and is likely .to persist in a.re- fusul of the application of the United. States to reopen the seal question at the present time. x , - --AA'-vnl‘ k" GREAT BRITAIN. The Prince and Princess of \Vales vis- .zed Canterbury on Saturday. and 0 en- ed the restored chapter of the cathe ral. Mr. Aubrey Beardsleyi whe has heen in bad health for some tune, IS raprdly rwwering. and xs able to resume work. The Duchess of .Tectkfipe'nds more than 85,900 a year 111 rehgrous and phil- anthropxc works. The sum is just one- fifth the annual amount granted her The Jacobites are preparing to cele- brate White Rose day by a banquet in London, on June 101:1. the date of the birth of James. the Pretender. in 1688. It is believed to be certain that. many, perhaps all, of the political prisoners w;ll be pardoned early in June in com- memoration of the Queen's diamond ju- bilee. as Government. asking that the Am- erican fishing cruiser J. herring, Jr., which was convicted of fishing within the three-mile limit, and confiscated, be let down as easy as possible. Oscar Wilde, in a long letter to the London Daily Chronicle, says the cruel- ty practised day and night upon chil- dren in English prisons is incredible ex- cept to those who have witnessed it. The King of the Belgians has caused some excitement by paying a visit to London. incognito. travelling to Bal- umral to see the Queen, and then deâ€" parting from Glasgow in his yacht at midnight. . I I ‘, ___ A Danish missionary, who has arriv- ed in London from the Congo E State, says the natives are being treat» ed with great cruelty, with full know- ledge of the Belgian authorities, and that an appeal for intervention will be made to Germany. - 1°.._L -4: likely. He was not for} his little_ librqry cons: autograph 00?“ tory. but not genously inju'i'éd. ySlCluu, "a... _..___ About Our I-â€"â€" __ U 1y sold copy of a first edi- .ts' poems, 1817 had the auto- W. Wordsworth, with the sincerest reverence." Bub ---L ‘1... UNITED STATES- Our Own Country. united States. and has arriv- Th'e The British: fruit steamer ,Ethelred. which arrived at Philadelphia on Sun- day. .was on; two occasions .dhased by Spanish Cruisers. which fired shot: me log of the Mayflower. which‘ was entrusted to Mr. myard by the London consistocnal convention. was formally presented to the commonwealth of Mao- saohnsetts on; Wednesday. Henry Marion Howe. of Boston, the son of Julia Ward Howe. w‘hohasbeeri appointed professor of metallurgy in Columbia College. is a cousin of F. Mar- ion Crawford. the popular novelist. Robert J. Powley. under sentence to be electrocuted at Auburn. N.Y., for wife murder, man he is a Canadian and that he intends to call the attenion of ‘ the Canadian Government to his case. ‘At a meeting of about thirty rabbis and laymen in.New York on 'Duesday night aresolution was drafted favor- ing the colonization of Palestine by Hebrews, but opposing the scheme of making it a State. anwex-lgsjibg' of 'dyhamibe,‘ which 'they were "thawing out.” 'Dhenr home was wrecked and the mother and a third son p'rdbably fatally injured} ~ (A telnet and two some were killed near Duluth» Mfirqn" on..Wedqegsc_lax.‘ by Mi. Booth-Tucker, commander of the Sa.lvation__\Army_i.n the Upit‘edfitatps, LI.- v-C ’-â€"_â€" was on Wednesday convicted of main- taining a disorderly house at the big army barracks in New York. He was remanded for sentence, and admitted out on bail. Mrs. Eliza D. Stewart. who organized the first VVoman’s Temperance Union in the West, celebrated her eightyâ€"first birthday at Springfield, 0., recently. “ Mother Stewart,” as she is called, or- ganized the first union at Osborn. 0.. with 100 members, in 1873. ~ The Right Rev. 0.0. McCabe, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Chnmh.says that Dr. Depew misrepresents Ameri- can feeling in demribing it as anti- :Bl'i‘tisih. The Bishop has written to Lord Salisbury at length. assuming him of the kindly feeling in the United States towards the Mother Country. The reports of business in the Unitedi Skates: fumdhed by the commercial agencies indicate a slight ,although‘ very slow improvement in the general trade movement. Manufactures usu- uall)r are quiet, but as yet prices are fairly well maintained. Cotton goods are. dull and print cloths are at about the lowest possible. price:n The exâ€" Aâ€"â€" L.-- 1.-.] W JUVVU’D 1’“. _‘.v- tnemely umseasofiliilervâ€"w'eaflher has had a. serious effect up to the present the on the dry goods trade. Levanger, Norway, wnped out by fire. .Zanzibar’s' Sultan has by proclama-‘ tion abolished the legal status of slavery. . ’ Five hundred horseless cabs will be glaced on the streets of Paris early in Earthquake shocks were felt on mid- night of Saturday in Rome, and at Mas- sena, Ischja, and other points. . Ptof. Andree expects to start from Spitzberge'n on June 20th., to discover the North Pole in his balloon. Spain is negotiating a large loan. se- cured by the ,A'lmadlein quwksnlver mines, to melelt her waar expenses. . The POpe has completeda Latin. poem in eighty stanzas, pointing out. the ‘beauties of frugality and the evnls of l gluttony. \ .o 'l I. Aug.“ During a special service in the Pisa cathedral on Saturday a panic 'was caused by the fall of a lighted candle, and seven persons were killed! and sev- enteen injutred. ' l ‘_L_ UA‘U‘ Va- -â€"-.’._.._ The Paris Figaro makes a complete denial of the statement that the Duo (l'Alencon, whose, wife perished in the Charity Bazaar fire, is about to enter a monastery. a l ‘ We 19 a feeli'ntg in Paris that a visit from Emperor William during the Exhibition of 1900, owing to the feeling over Alsace-Inrraine, would not be agreeable. The German Reichstag on Wednes- day adopted a credit of thirty million marks for the purpose of rearming the German artillery with improved fieldpieces. The Dole Government has decided to give to the British Company the .0911? cession for the ocean cable. . British memoi-war are now surveying the cable route. ' L-UUAU ; v“-..- a reactionary measure plpciong all pol- itical meeti s and assocmtxons under police oontro . x 7 L24 nA-.nak‘:nq of Central and South Almerioa are ripe for revolution, and they would willing- ly become colonies of Great Britain if it could be arranged. The natives of Portuguese East Afri- ca are defeating the Portuguese troops, and the Governor of Delagoa has ur- gently requested Othe Government at GEN ERlA'L. THE BUREAU CHRONICLE. June 10, 1897. hat the Latin Republics South America are ripe and they would willing- nies of Great Britain 1f PATERNAL ADVICE almost DULUNIAL CABLE ROUTE. GRAVE DANGER TO THE BRITISH EMPIRE AT THE PRESENT TIME. Necesslty for luncdlue Action to Ill-d Britain and ller Colonies Together- Direct loam are Desirable. Speaking of the projected trans-Pa.- cific cable scheme. a. writer in the Em- Although Britain isinconstant touch with all her colonies. the majority of the latter possess no means of inter- communication by telegraph direct. Our West Indian Islands are not connected direct with Canada; Canada cannot communicate direct with Australia; Australia has no direct cable communi- cation with. our growing South Afri- can Empire. Costly circuitous routes have to be adopted for colonial inter- . communication. . I ‘ To-day this causes loss and much vexatious delay; it may, later on. con- stituite a grave danger. seeing that some of the existing cables necessar- ily land on foreign, and possibly hos- tile shores. Manifestly. the necessity has arisen for anew set ‘of nerves for ' the British Empire, and the Pacific cab- le should form an important link in that chain of all British communication. which must soon become the indispen- sable complement of our Colonial Em- There is no time to be lost, for active, ambitious rovais are in the field. Efforts are being made by the Am- ericans to establish a. cable between the United States and the fatr east and Australia. This project has the approval of the American Govern- ment, which has already organized ex- peditions for taking soundings along the cable route. fox-Uh to-da as a cnaracuerisuu manl' festation 0 British pluck and enter- prise. Mistress of the seas. England has contrived to utilize and monopolize the depths thereof! HOW IT CAN BE DONE. Mr. Chamberlim is fully alive to the importance of this question. which would certainly have received more of his personal attention had not the po- litical situation absorbed all his time. Every responsible colonial Minister is in favour of prompt action, and it is to be hoped that the presence of colonial PIemiers in London this year may has- 1896. Some definite announcement of the plan adopted will then probably be made. responsibility. But this .system has many disadvantages. and 1.2.18 expected led. In that case, an Imperial-Colonial Cable Commission could be created to establish and control the working of the cable. The capital could easily be raised at 2 1-2 per cent, the interest thereon l being made a first charge on the reve- ’\ wue. It is thought that the financial liability will be dinded between the L ‘Imperial Government. the Australian ‘ d Canada. each contributing ACETYLENE GAS It (‘oulcl Also Be [sod ill the Illumination of Buoys. Acetylene critic in Prof. Vivian B. Lowes, who times greater than coal gas. and that in this compressed state, which 18 more suitable for ship lighting, a cy- linder holding one cubic foot would supply a. burner giving a light of 32 candles for 400 hours. ~While recog- nizing the dangers of acetylene. he says they can be easily guarded against. and he estimates a great fu- ture for the gas on ships. It should ‘ have a special place in the illumination of buoys. Where electricity is used pressed coal gas and gasoline enrich- ment require a small aswork and com- pressing plant. . Pro . Lowes believes that, although odlamps are good and economical, her as room for acetylene for this pur . as a cylnnder. of liquid acetylene 0 .13-4 cubic feet capacity. with a reducing valve. and. stored in bottom of the buby. would: give a clear. white light of 32 candles for one month. and .the .cost even now when calcium for coal gas was 11.1 per cent; for oil gas. 11.5 per cent; for acetylene, 14.7 er cent° for incandescent gas (Wels- ), 20.8 per cent. and for the elec- ‘-..._ 0:9 mr cent. . _ trio TO BE LOST. a Duuv; v-' .v.... _ v . 011 was; was 11.1 per cent; for cent; for acetylene, 14.7 r incandescent gas (Wels- sr cent. and for the elec- ro, 25.2 per cent. 0N SHIPBOARD. Blrmlnghnm, Englnnd. llns n l-‘nctery for linking llcntncn Code. It has recently been discovered that there is in Birmingham. in the very center of Ghristian England. a factory where idols are made for heathen na- tions. any: the Pbttery Gazette. Lon- don. Many attempts have been made to obtain. admission to the factory. but a strict watch is kept upon outsiders anxious to pry into the secret cham- bers where the heathen gods are made and journalists especially are prevent- ed from entering the works. 'A few facts were. however. to be gleaned concerning this extraordinary industry. Idols of all kinds are turn- ed out. representing the gods of all heathen nations mom Tokio to Timbuc- too. The ergo“ trade to heathen counâ€" tries 18 a My large one. although j mane gods are .sent out to foreign deal- ~_ -t n-:_A am... .. .. __- - ers in curios in the bazaars of Cairo. ‘Damascus. Colombo, etc., for sale to unâ€" suspecting travelers anxious to take home some mementos of their stay abroad. - The price of gods varies greatly. You may get a Birmingham made one in a London curiosity shop. for half a crown or you may run up the pretty bill of £20 for an especially ugly one, “stol- en." according to tlhe dealer, “by a sailor during the Chinese war." In the Cairo bazaar, However, the price of a first-class god of this kind may rum from £20 to anything. A traveler in. formed thle writer that there was lit- tle diffioult‘y in detecting a god. of noâ€" in; _._...-m 1“an manufacture. The first generally dis-l played some. slight irregularity .or dress. The trade in idols is kept such a close secret that It is difficult to estimate the output for in the board of trade retmrns the god would doubtless be classed under the humiliating title of “works of art or curios." But there is no doubt the trade is a fairly large one and that some cute Birmingham men do very well in the business. The Chronicle is the most wide ly read newspaper published in the County of Grey. WHERE IDOLS ARE MADE. 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