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C uy Goey 100 "L o 1 OO _ ho theck=; _ Hy then outiined his plan for a set-,i «is s off, but with the right to have a union tlement, adding, that he did not regard b representative present when the men the question of the open or closed shop‘ & are paid. as at issue in the controversy. | A fourth point proposed complete _ After expressing the opinion that recognition of the principle of sollecâ€" an agreement on the terms suggested > tive bargaining. | should cover a term of one year, Gov-l' The Governor also suggested that, ernor Pinchot discussed the wage ; as a method of settling differences in question in detail. | & case of disagreement between miners _ "The whole body of wage rates !nl *s$3 and operators, each side select 1 man the anthracite field," he said, "is antiâ€" css agrceable to both to attend and take quated, haphazard and honeyâ€"combed & part in discussions, but without a with Incwv. It needs revision. I; vote, and not as an umpizc or refereo.‘ suggest the Anthracite Concilia.‘ If then unable to agree, he proposed tion Board be authorized by the Joint Toronto had the differences be referred to the Conâ€"| Wage Scale Committees to undertako National Exhibitio ciliation Board, "which will be preâ€"‘ Iu?:n*l‘tl'lfllh a year a thorough in the official wele vided with whatever ecu!bmn'n-hhn. i Sn in q en im The Governor also suggested that, as a method of settling differences in case of disagreement between miners and operators, each side select a man (3) Full recognition of the union by the operators, without the checkâ€" off, but with the right to have a union representative present when the men are paid. (2) A uniform increase of 10 'per eent. t» all employees, this increase to take cffect September 1. t1) Recogniton of the basic eightâ€" hour day for all employees. If longer hours are necessary at certain times, or in certain occupations, the overtime be paid for at the eightâ€"hour rate. A despatch from Harrisburg, Pa., says:â€"Governor Pinchot has submitâ€" ted to representatives of the anthraâ€" cite miners and operators, in joint conference, a proposed basis of settle ment, providing for a 10 per cent. inâ€" crease in pay, recognition of the eightâ€"hour day for all employees, and full recognition of the union by the operators, without the checkâ€"off, but with the right to have a union repreâ€" sentative present when the men are‘ paid. The three main points of the scheme of settlement were set forth as folâ€" lows : NEW PROPOSAL TO AVOID HARD COAL STRIKE HAS THREEFOLD BASIS bstrmates of $1,000,000 of terriâ€" torial »revenue for the province of New Brunswick in 1923 will be fully realized by the end of the fiscal year on October 31st, according to a stateâ€" ment made by the Minister of Lands and Mines. The Minister further astated that indications point to a busy season in the woods during the comâ€" ing fall and winter. l at m Ingt mee tion 430,731 bushels o Winnipeg, Man &¢ St. John, N.B.â€"The Canadian Indoâ€" pendent Oil Co. which have two large oll tanks at Courtenay Bay are now erecting additional tanks, one large one with capacity of 167,000 galions for fuel oil and four small ones each with a capacity of 40,000 gallons for gasoline and lubricating oils. i Quebec, Que.â€"What is considered &n important departure in marine afâ€" fairs is the departure of a coustwise vessel which took a large cargo and a number of passengers for Newfoundâ€" land. The present trip is more in the nature of an experiment to determine the possibilities of a trade between Quebec, Montreal, and the west coast of Newfoundland. There is at prosent no line of vessels engaged in this trade and the provincial government is said to be keenly interested in the result of the venture. [ Ottawa, Ont.â€"The Soldiet Settle â€" ment Board has compiled crop producâ€" tion reports on 18,216 soldier settlers‘ | farms for the season of 1922. They 1 w a total of field, orchard and garâ€" ; crops amounting to $15,966,203. I ightyâ€"one per cent. of the settlers : d a farm garden, 79 per cent. had t Halifax, N.S.â€"A member of the Federal Fiskeries Dept. has been sent to Yarmouth and Shelbourne counties to conduct a further inquiry in regard to the advisability of changing the lobster fishing season. The question of changing the season so that fishing may be permitted in the winter or fall has been constantly raised and it is corfidently expected that a settlement will soon be made. | 8. Secretary to Visit Canada etary of State Hughes, of Washâ€" . & visitor to Canada for the £s of the Canadian Bar Associaâ€" : Montreal early in September, © one of the guests of honog inquet tendered by the Governâ€" tes of $1,000,000 enue for the p nswick in 1923 wi y the end of the r 3ist, according le by the Minister ho e oo mmmnmey 20 OO C° EC & warm weicom + Scale Committees to undertako National Exhibition Grounds. The '..":-.r;'d ':fi t:: c“:! m ote within a year a thorough in the official welcome. In one pictu whic {" f ""‘2’ | extending the welcome to Colonel ( itever equipment is revision. f oats Canada from Coast to Coast CANADIAN M.P.P. BIDS_ What is conceded| cent. brood sows oultry. They acâ€" ‘or the raising of wheat and 6,â€" iember of the to be the largest steer yet seen in the . has been sent Winnipeg stock yards was sold during ourne counties last week. The animal weighed 3,170 qjuiry in regard pounds and sold for $250, the highest k i Calgary, Altaâ€"They came to holiâ€" onsidered day and they stayed to work. Tourists iarine afâ€" from the United States registering at coustwise the Calgary auto camp have purchasâ€" go and a ed lands in Alberta and are remaining ewfoundâ€" to engage in farming. Twelve holiâ€" re in the daymakers in the past month purchasâ€" letermine ed farms in the province and one between bought four for himself and his sons. est coast So far 4,600 tourists have registered t prosent at the civic auto camp, many of them his trade arriving via the new Banffâ€"Winderâ€" t is said mere road. I result of _ Field, B.C.â€"Having completed one | of the most spectacular crossings of the _ Settle Rockies, cccupying 26 days, an expeâ€" producâ€" dition organized by the Apalacian seitlers‘ Mountain Club of the United States . _ They have arrived at Jasper Park. The exâ€" ind garâ€" pedition headed by Dean Peabody of 966,203.. Boston left this point journeying with â€" settlers a pack train of sixtyâ€"five horses across â€" ‘nt. had the highest passes of the Rockies, . »d sows, through 250 miles of mountain terriâ€" | hey acâ€" tory seldom traversed and never beâ€" ising of fore by any expedition of this kind. « and 6,â€" There are nine men and eight women! in the expedition. D4 Hc declared he based his proposals upon information assembled ‘rom opâ€" crators, miners and Government exâ€" perts, with the belief that they afford a basis for settlement reasonable and‘ just. "Second, that the interest of the miners, the operators and the public all require that this controversy shall be settled without a strike. "Third, that the public is entitled to a voice in the discussion, and the rights of the people generally deserve consideration, at least, as much as these of the miners and operators." _‘ "First, that this controversy has continued until a chance of agreement by direct negotiations by the miners and operators has been lost. In opening his address the Governor said : "My justification for proposing a basis upon which I believe this strike can be prevented, with justice to all parties, is threefold. necessary for the rendering of prompt decisions." | declared Robson Black, manager of the Canadian Forestry Association, ! who is at the head of the lakes arrangâ€" fing details of a three months‘ comâ€" i paign in Northern Ontario in the inâ€" | terests of fire prevention. ] l Mr. Black states he had the report ]of one company that lost $500,000| cords of pulpwood due directly to| | carelessness of prospectors setting out \ fires in the woods. One other comâ€" | pany lost fifty million feet of plne.! !Perhnps the most serious loss of any was that in which an Ontario firm‘ | lost in one week‘s time enough pine to ‘keep the company‘s mill going for |fiftyâ€"six years. | ? "We have come to the point where! we have got to face th> cold facts with| regard to forest fire prevention. At! the present rate of waste the forests‘ of Ontario will be depleted in twenty years," said Mr. Black. "If fires conâ€" tinue at the rate of this summer, Onâ€" tario is going to f:co a large exodus of population atiached to the vrood users,. It will mean that scores of, towns in the province will cease to‘ exist as towns which are now dependâ€" ent on the product of the forest for existence." | ‘ONE WEEK‘S FIRES | _ DESTROYS 56 YEARS A despatch from Port Arthur, Ont., says:â€""Forest fires in Ontario during the past summer have destroyed five to ten times the amount of timber put to use by all the mills in the province,", Forests of Ontario Will be Deâ€" pleted in Twenty Years, Says Robson Black. Regina, Sask.â€"It is estimated by the Provincial Government that Sasâ€" katchewan has 12,332,000 acres devotâ€" ed to wheat this year and 5,098,000 acres to oats. Other leading crops are as follows: barley, 617,000 acres; rye, 878,000 acres; flax, 461,000 acres; and hay and clover 275,000 acres. price brought at local yards since the war. The animal, which came from a Wainwright, Alberta, ranch stood six feet at the withers and is destined, for a while at least, to be a side show atâ€" traction. inssfi d is 14 15 )00 , will, however, meet Britain‘s three | women Members of Parliamentâ€"Lady | Astor, Mrs. Wintringham and Mrs. â€" Philipsonâ€"and discuss international | questions of particular interest to woâ€" men with them. Her plans also include visits to several European countries, | in each of which she intends to “boost"| Canada. next term A despatch from Vancouver, EC , says:â€"A,. number of school teachers bave arrived bhere on the stcamer Makura from New Zealand and Ausâ€" tralia to take up positions in Cinâ€" adian schools with the opening of the Anzac Teachers Take Posts in Canadian Schools _ "Women, in my opinion," she added, "are resting too much on their oars at the present time and are too satisâ€" fied with what they have achieved to achieve more. This is a great pity." The Canadian woman M.P. is an energetic speaker, and while here she will address meetings in several cities.! Since her arrival she has been asked if she will allow herself to be nomjn-l ated for a British constituency, but iti is unlikely she will accede to this re-l quest. In her own words, she would rather "stay and blaze the trail inl Canada than start afresh here." She‘ sesttÂ¥ > ®l220s _ 3 28¢; is ti jury deprecated the absence of A l Bestca E. th‘xs ond ne ohe had e!-', sv;rblelren;ticyinsgection of public build-'yogi pected. Englishwomen, she thinks, do‘ mg‘s for the purpose of testing fire-"’rc; ] nonâ€"Oerbperate enough. 'fighting appliances, and also made a| M "There appears," she says, “t°°‘ number of recommendations. | gal., much of the ‘we can leave it to | The jury found that "there being at 8al.; George‘ sort of feeling among th".n']present no proper system of Govern-"b H(] While some things have improved i"| ment supervision, inspection be enâ€" 10 1" the country in others there has been a| forced to provide for adequate fireâ€" 1° ,\‘ complete standstill. [fV"CF T ~COVe I0F c t _ Mrs. Smith is over here on a misâ€" ~ sion from the Canadian Government ; to persuade more Britons to emigrate â€" to that Dominion. "Canada," she says, * ‘"is the gem in the British crown. *‘ When I see the teeming millions here â€" who scem to lead aimless lives I want | to tell them of the land of promise : beyond the seas and to remind them . that in Canada, which at present has ‘ a population of only nine millions, | there is room for one hundred and fifty millions." | For several years Mrs. Smith has‘ represented Vancouver in the Britishf Columbia House of Commons. In 1921] she was given a seat in the Cabinet as‘ Minister of Education, which position she held for a year before resigning, thus becoming the first woman to be a Cabinet Minister. She had better luck than some of her colleagues, for| every measure that she advocated beâ€" came law. § The last time "Mary Ellen" visited â€" this country was in 1911, but she does . not seem to have found as much im-“ provement this time as she had exâ€" pected. Englishwomen, she thinks, do| © not coâ€"operate enough. |1 Among many distinguished visitors to London is Mrs. Mary Ellen Smith, "Our Mary Ellen," she is called in British Columbia, who claims to be the first woman in the world to take her husband‘s seat in Parliament. This happened during the war, when Mr. Smith, the Financial Minister in the Governinent of British Columbia, died and his wife, contesting his seat in Vancouver, entered Parliament by a majority of more than 3,000 over her‘ nearest opponent. BRITONS EMIGRATE Mrs. Mary Ellen Smith, of Briâ€" tish Columbia, on Visit to A despatch from London uy u. ; _\ / ___ _ veicome for the men of the London Scottish, who 2are now encamped at the Canadian Exhibition Grounds. The London Scottish is the parent regiment of the T5th Highlanders, who assizted cial welcome. In one picture the men are shown lined up at the city Hall, and in the other Mayor Maguire the welcome to Colonel C1 owes, D.S.0., the officer commanding. a warm welcome for the TOROh!TO WELCOMES THE LONDON sSCOTTISH says :â€" A monster electric light giving 60,â€" 000 candle power is used in motion picture making. _ _A despatch from Washington says:â€"The purpose of the visit of Secretary of State Hughes to Canada is described at the White House as "a manifestation of the friendly attitude of this Government toward Canada." A high official said it was in accordâ€". ance with the action of the late Presiâ€"| dent in stopping at Vancouver, and that it was deemed fitting from time, to time to give evidence of the friendly| feeling of this Government toward the people of the Dominion. | U.S. Government Displays Friendly Attitude | escapes, efficient fireâ€"fighting equipâ€" | ment, the organization of a watchman service, and for a general alarm sysâ€" ’ tem, either by means of a powerâ€"house whistle or for electric gongs within the buildings, or for both. It further recommended that all elevator or hoist shafts in such buildings be of fireâ€" proof construction, and that in the' case of the building of new hotels or lodgingâ€"houses construction of a fireâ€" retarding nature be used within reaâ€" son, and that where possible segregatâ€" ed units be erected, instead of one large building." i "That Annie Leigh came to her death accidentally at the Wawa Hotel, Muskoka, on August 19, while enâ€" deavoring to escape from the burning building." A despatch from Huntsville says :â€" The following verdict was reached by the jurors empanelled to inquire into the death of Miss Annie Leigh, one of the victims of the disastrous fire at Wawa : f , Hayâ€"Extra No. 2 tin ‘ tr Sxtra No. 2 ti NT PM OCV Preeidczlg' Edmund Walker ’sll;fik;n,Toronto. 315,tԤ10t'hy, per to:, Commerce ‘:}:itlhe Canadian Bank g‘ Sira\lvx:déail%fio to slg‘r)g timothy, 6 1 * (‘ n i Bank of Hamilto:, has taken over d;)e m'()‘t}?éesfg-so. ots, per ton, track, Toâ€" JUR im animne Cl c ‘tgw_ms. 25 $92W“, ,]"Â¥e- 24% to 25 y cives verpicr _ ks B6 to: triplets 86 to 27e) IN WAW | twins, 33% to 84c. Stiltons, 38e; s A s | cheese, 31 34c¢c. New Z mtocl Advised GOVernmlzlSASTER j n oiier. Pinggt ealand, old vision as P nt .SuPer. §35{c; ordinary creamery prints, 87 AUk rotection No 2, 88 to 34c creamery, 85 to 3'6(' m gainst Fire. ‘425-“5_"7""&8.‘ in 7| despatch from | 85e¢; extras, 390 to cartons, 41 to' g‘he following verdi}iuntsville says: , IC;VZQCORds, 271 to ;g:' firsts, 34 to 0 jur et was r o hy § poultryâ€"Spring the jurors empanelled to in:fif:‘e‘di by ;%:.a}r:d over ;{;cscflfc‘;“fl chickens, 3f nig $Ur: hene, over 5 thes 3i6: do" 4 w € _b ibs., 24¢; do, 4 to 5 Sir Edmund Walker President of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, which has taken over the Bank of Hamilton. Careful manoeuvring by this wise woman diplomatist has at last borne fruit in the announcement that France is about to recognize the sovereigns now watching over the destiniecs of Greece. | eign in Europe, has succeeded in a few minutes‘ conversation in inducing M. Poincare to depart from his policy of neutrality in regard to Greece, where her daughter now reigns next to her husband, George II. \ While Prime Minister Baldwin and Lord Curzon continue their unavailing efforts to induce a change in French policy on reparations, Queen Marie of Roumania, the most diplomatic soverâ€" Bulgaria. j A despatch from Paris says:â€" While he still refuses to be swayed from his stand in the Ruhr by British| statesmen, Premier Poincare could not: resist the determined appeals of a woâ€") man in the interest of her ('hildrcn.‘ MARIE, PILLAR OF THE "LITTLE ENTENTE" Puts One Daughter on Throne at Athens, Another at Belâ€" grade, Third Destined for | *3 PHIIMeES, Ojee. a ] _|__Commercial cows, $3; good butcher Maple productsâ€"Syrup, per imp. hicfers, $5; com. dairy bulls, $2.25 to gal., $2.50; per bâ€"gal. tin, $2.40 per $2.50; calves, grassers, $3 to $4.25; gal.; maple sugar, Ib., 25c. | do, sucker, $6.50 to $9; good average Honeyâ€"60â€"lb. tins, 11 to 12c per| quality lambs, $10.25 to $11.25; do, Ib.; 10â€"lb. tins, 11 to 12%¢; 5â€"1b. tins, 12| real good, $11.50; hogs, Government to 13¢; 2%â€"lb. tins, 12 to 14¢; comb graded selects, $11.82% ; ungraded honery, per doz., $3.75 to $4; No. 2, |lots of suitable weight, $10.75; sows, $3.25 to $3.50. $7 to $7.50. «xnmmenominens ons oecommmenmmmemmmmemeeass.,..2,.,222.220_ ud The persuasive powers of this wo Te :V IOAL PA P ONRG c ~ i Smsce tiscics ths i s Ts 4 lbs., 22¢; do, 3 to 4 lbs., J7¢; roosters, 15¢; ducklings, over 5 lbs., 22¢; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 20¢; turkeys, young, 10 lbs., and up, 25c. Dressed poultryâ€"Spring chickens, 8 lbs. and over, 88¢; chickens, 2 to 8 lbs., 85¢; hens, over 5 lbs., 30¢; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 28¢; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 20c; roosters, 18¢; ducklings, over 5 lbs., 28¢; do, 4 to 5 Ibs., 25¢; turkeys, young, 10 lbs. and up, 30c. | Beansâ€"Canadian, handâ€"pieked, 1b., Te; primes, 6%e. | Maple productsâ€"Syrup, per imp. gal., $2.50; per 5â€"gal. tin, $2.40 per gal.; maple sugar, lb., 25c, ,7 Honeyâ€"60â€"lb. tins, 11 to 12e ner| ARIO ARCH TORONTO Man. flourâ€"ist “'p;;s‘,v in cotton saflcs, 86‘.5)0‘ per bbl.; 2nd pats., $6.85. Ont. wheatâ€"No. 2 white, nominal. Ont. No. 2 white oatsâ€"Nominal. Ont. cornâ€"Nominal. Ont. flourâ€"Ninety per cent. Fat., in jute bags, Montreal, prompt shipment, $4.50 to $4.60; Toronto basis, $4.40 *o 34;5'0; LuLk seaboard, $4.40. Am. cornâ€"No. 2 yellow, $1.08. Barleyâ€"Nominal. Buckwheatâ€"No. 2, nominal. Peasâ€"No. 2, nominal. Peasâ€"No. 2, nominal. Millfeedâ€"Del., Montreal freizghts, bags included: Bran, per ton, $ 5 to $26; shorts, per ton, $27 to $29; midâ€" dlings, $33 to $35; good feed flour, $2.15 to $2.25. TORONTO. sllzf_;mitoba wheatâ€"No. 1 Northern, .Ma'n“oha barleyâ€"Nominal. A}" the above, track, bay ports. d over, 38¢; chickens, 2 to 8 hens, over 5 lbs., 30¢c; do, 4 _ 28¢c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 20c; 18¢c; ducklings, over 5 lbs., 4“to 5b lbs., 25¢; turkeys, Mc en se m Weekly Market Report thy, per ton, cutters, $1.25 to $2; feeding steers, ._ 3 timothy, good, $5 to $6; do, fair, $4 to $5; 50. stockers, good, $4.50 to $5.25; do, fair, n, track, Toâ€" $3 to $4; milkers, springers, each, $80 f _ _ to $100; calves, choice, $10.50 to $12; 4% to 25¢; do, med., $8 to $10; do, com., $4 to $7; , 26 to 27¢; lambs, ewes, $12; do, bucks, $12 to tiltons, 38¢; $12.50; sheep, choice, light, $5 to Zealand, old $6.50; do choice, heavy, $4 to $5; do, culls and bucks, $2.75 to $3.50; hoifl,‘ y prints, 87 fed and watered, $10.85; do, £.0.5., , 85 to 86¢c; $10.25; do, country points, $9.85. | MB C onivenes That a much larger quantity of pulp ‘ weod is being worked up in Canada than in former years is evident from a comparison of the figures for 1922 as compared with those for 1921. in 1922 the total cut of pulp wood was 8,9223,049 cords, of which 74.2 per cent, was used at home, and 25.8 per cent., [ or 1,011,232 cords were exported to the United States. In 1921 of a tota‘ | ent of 3,273,131 cords, only 67 per | cent. was used in Canada and 3% pep | cent. exported to the United States, T veen Marie aizo is famous as an auther and playwright, her best known play being "The White Lily," which is now being produced at the Paris Opera, interpreted by Loie Full. er. The Roumanian Queen is 2 mem. ber of several Eurcpean "~demies, notably the Frerch Academy of Pol. lical and Moral Science, where her contributions are eagerly received and usually approved. Six Nations Chief in Chief Deskaheh, of Bra chief of the Six Natic caught by the photograp don on his way to Westm: man, of whom it is said that she has a stronger will than any king, are inâ€" deed extraordinary. â€" She has played _no small part in the restoration _of equilibrium to central Europe and the Balkans, and apart from her camâ€" paign to get Roumania into the war on the side of the Allies, though her husâ€" band was a member of the Hohenâ€" zollern family, she crowned all preâ€" vious achievements by marrying off ‘ her two daughters to Greek and Serb. ian monarchs. She is now planning a marriage â€" between â€" her youngest . daughter and the King of Bulgaria, | Toâ€"day she is considered one of the pillars of the Little Ententeâ€"that bloc of nations resolved to keep and enâ€" e esmaniet ras y tw B "urope. Queen M for orce peace in | Hog quotations are based on the to. price of thick, smooth hogs, sold on a to graded basis. Select premium, 90 cents. Cheese, finest easterns, 24%c¢. Butâ€" ter, choicest creamery, $44%c. Eggs, selected, 38c. Corn, Am. No. 2 yellow, $1.04%. Oats, No. 2 CW, 59%e¢; No. 3 CW, 51%c¢; extra No. 1 feed, 57%¢; No. 2 local white, 55%%¢. Flour, Man. spring wheat Jmta., Ists, $6.90; do, 2nds, $6.40; do, strong bakers, $6.20; winter pats, choice, $5.75 to $5.85. Rolled oats, bag, 90 lbs., $3.25. Bran, $28.25. Shorts, $81.25. Middlings, $36.25. Hay, No;__2, per ton, car lots, $15. o‘% Nations Chief in London hief Deskaheh, of Brantferd, Ont., 1 of the Six Nations Indians, zht by the photographer in Lonâ€" on his way to Westminster Abbey iitend the nuemorial service held the late President Harding., _ Choice heavy steers, $7 to $8.25; butcher steers, choice, $6 to $6.75; do, good, $5.50 to $6; do, med., 85 to z5.50; do, com., $4 to $5; butcher eifers, choice, $6.25) to $8.75; do, med., $5.50 to $6.25; do, com., $4 to $5; butcher cows, choice, $4.50 to $5.25; do, med., $3 to $4; canners and tubs, 16 to 16%e¢; pails, 16% to 17¢; prints, 18¢. Shortening, tierecs, 14 to 14%¢; tubs, 1454 to ltific; pails, 14% to 15%c¢; prints, 17 to 17%c. Cured meatsâ€"Long clear bacon, 50 to 70 lbs., $18; 70 to 90 lbs., $17.50; 90 Ibs. and up, $16.50; lightweight rolls, in barrels, $36; heavyweight rolls, $33. Smoked meatsâ€"Hams, med., 27 to 29¢; cooked hams, 48 to 46¢c; smoked rolls, 22 to 24¢; cottage rolls, 23 to 26¢; breakfast bacon, 30 to 34¢; speâ€" cial brand breakfast bacon, 34 to 88¢; backs, boneless, 82 to 38c. Lardâ€"Pure tierces, 15% to 15%¢; the Balkan« ;rn(l- "Fer quantity of palp orked up in Canada ears is evident from the figures for 1922, MONTREAL those for 1921 In of pulp wood was which 74.2 per cent, and 25.8 per cent., er cent. followed a sum r cent.,! Prince Regent rted to acted upon _ the a loll:' Genro, op clder 67 per‘ new Premier is 32 per ; the formation of States,| @xpected to be cn; A despatch fm; Tokio says:â€". Count Gombei Yamamoto has been ap» pointed Premjer of Japan, to succeed the late Baron Kato. The appointment followed a summons to court by Prince Regent Hirchi:o. who acted upon the _ Advice Of _ the Genro, op elder Statesman, The new Premier is Progressing toward the formation Of a Cabinet which is expected to be completed soon Count Ylmafioto Succeeds Late Baron Kato as Promsi to of of Hon, Ja;(;\;;‘s- I order has been no clearance p; said to be the Hudson B texture is harder than» goose quill, with a bla stead of white. Lord Be the Hudson Bay produc Prime Minister, But favored the lowly goose All quills used to con slia and later from Gern war stopped importation finest writing styles in A despatch from London says : Quill pens are at last succumbing to the march of progress here, as the Treasury has decided to dispense with them in Soutbwark County Court, alâ€" most their last stronghold. One of the chief reasons for their passing is that few workmen know the art of their manufacture, _ Philip Cooper, head of the London firm whose predecessors supplied his Majesty‘s stationery office with quills for about 100 years, predicts that the industry will be extinct in a few years, As the decades have passed, it is statâ€" ed, parents are more and more deâ€" clining to apprentice their sons to this trade, believing that the resources of invet'ution would doom it. iRSiP Nt sn +. : The ordsr j« expecto this practice and to clearance Papers to makins a Lona fige | L120 221C PCEV Lame IntVO Collision it 1909. Known as the Blue Diamond of ]the Red Sultan, it was once the proâ€" perty of Marie Antoinette, and others before her, who similarly met tragic fate. The last owner was drowned when the gem was lost. It was first the property of Abdual Hamid, who acquired it during the French Revolution. Although this stone is not likely to claim any further victims, it certainly has ruined many fortunes, as it is estimated that searches instituted to recover it alâ€" ready have cost close to 50,000,008 francs. British Treasury Discards the Historic Quill Pen essels U‘l‘nder 250 Tons | _A despatch from Paris says:â€"| ports that divers are about to hep operations in an attempl to disco\ the exact emplacement of the |}i» | Egypt, sunk off the French coast |; : year, and to recover precious gold th went down with the ship have prom; | ed a French newspaper to recapit=ls the many treasures hidden away do down in the sea. Although it is i: | possible to estimate the amount | gold lost in such cireumstances, the | are other things, of which the avern | person is unaware, buried in Da ‘Jonrs's locker in futile efforts to ; cover which huge fortunes have be« spent. y One of the most precious gems « lost lies several fathoms deep off Brittany coast, consigned to the when two boats came into collisior Huge Fortunes Spent to Recover Sunken Treasur» despatch fro;n Ottawa Jacques Bureau states ies tu® . In Ontario twentyâ€"one d# ent species of woo!aro cut the forests. These are s white pine, hemlock, cedar, |, sam, red pine, birch, jfackp;, tamarack, maple, | basswo, elm, poplar, ash, beoch, o cherry, chestnut, buticr», hickory and walnut. Over half the cut of white pine p; duced in Canada is taken ; Ontario‘s forests, This |s ; most valuable of the softwoo species, the output of the p» vince in 1920 being valuo| , nearly fiftcen million doila; It will surprise many Onta» people to learn that 1,238 0; board feet of oak was cut in <| province in 1920; also 631,00 feet of chestnut, 164,000 feo>= , cherry and 13,000 feot . walnut. The Natural Resources !»;, ligence Service of the Dop:» ment of the Interior at O+ft» says: Cannot Carry Liquor te, Lord Beaconsfic Bay product when Natural Resourc: ; But Queen vo yage _ to Put ap .4*1 limit the $=â€"ua "ossels rapebig in that an SAY§;â€" eld used ) he was Victoria im aw THE £. P. RANC SOUTHERN AU PRINCE SPENDS H ON HIS WESTERN Develops Symnativ standing of Canec culture in Brits M ® h wi tu ©I furt n 1 PC h« ing . more ing awnd ela; is an i of dry t} t #t t n psC W the Bi on A ways keop wa~ on vÂ¥uil British