Iti is eativiated- that this year’s

- orange: crop of Florida will bring

oe $10, 000,000.

'- «Seventy. fer ‘gent of the ‘gold | in
, the possession of civilized man is
“in the form of coin,

The Duke of Connaught has
_ consented to open the annual
_ exhibition at Winnipeg next
summer, ~

. A $65,000, 000 corporation, ‘to

merge the greatest string of
“five and ten -cent stores in
America, ‘is. announced 1 in N ew

_ York.

. The Prince Rupert Jo ourn al, one
‘of the most progressive papersin

~ the north, ‘announces that it-will|

henceforth appear as a morning
daily.

Mayor. Morley, of Victoria, pro-
poses that the city should extend.

its boundaries’ ‘by annexing Oak
Bay, Esquimalt, and, a Part of
South: Saanich.

- In flying from the Atlantic to
‘the Pacific, Aviator Rodgers
broke two records, succeeding in
maintaining a continuous flight
for over six hours.

. The world production of copper
-in, 1909. aggregated 844,100 tons
‘(metric ton, .2;204.6 pounds),
which exceeds by about 100,000
‘tons that of the year before. -

* Business’.men_ of Vancouver

propose the organization there
of a fur sales agency, with the
object of making the city a ceuter
‘for the fur trade. ‘of the province
cand Alaska, -

A fire originating in an over-
- heated furnace in the basement,
gutted the: four-storey building
of the T..N. Hibben Co,,. on
Government St... Victoria. . The
. loss is about $100, 000,
'. , The wife of a resident of Wing-
ham has presented: him with a
_ baby boy weighing only one and
‘a quarter pounds, His hands
are no larger: than a man ’sthumb

mail. 4
ness. che. is (a “normal,
ehild, -

‘The: new $4 bills are proving a
source - of inconvenience in more

healthy

.|than:one respect, ‘The police of

the: ‘province have been warned
to ‘Took out, for counterfeits of
the notes, which are being sent
across, the line from the United
States,: .

Three contractors engaged in
grading Prince ‘Rupert. streets
have sued the city for sums ag-
gregating 350, 000, alleging . the
imposition of unnecessary restric-
tions ‘by the council and neglect

to provide police protection dur-

ing the laborers’ strike.

Hon. W.'8. Fielding is: going
to England; but whether he is
going there to reside permanent.
ly, or only for a rest, his friends
do. ‘not. state. The “ex-finance
minister. is: likely to enter. the
imperial parliament, offering for
one ‘of. the London ridings,

Maine retains. constitutional
prohibition. Governor Plaistead
and ‘his counci! decided to accept
the . corrections in the vote of
four towns, cast. in the ‘spécial
election i in September, thus. re-
versing. the result 48 indicated
onthe face of the first official
returns.

vA ‘girl has just been married in
Indiana whose maiden name was
Katherine Ottorordemgentschen-
felde, The informing wire did
not mention the husband’s name
so that it would seem, says dn
exchange, that the officiating
clergyman died of Jockjaw i in the
attempt. :

'. Hundreds of diamonds of fine
quality were obtained in the
‘space of a few hours in an, ex-

tensive valeano in the northern
part.of New South Wales, being
extracted from the loam by the
primitive method of hand-sifting
the sands i ina tub of water, |

Aside from his diminutive-|

/ consume 1,500,000 tons of coal. i

| nounces the existencé of ahitherto

.|lake and the Arctie otean,

Mr, Law's’ ‘accession ‘-to ‘the
position has-been greeted: “with
enthusiasm by the Coriservativea
of Britain. oo .

The sewing. eatton ‘combine has
just published a report: showing
its profits. to have.reached $16, -
514,760 in the year 1910-12, mak:
ing the colossal - total of $150, 000, -
000 net profits: in. the last- ten
years, . The dividend now paid, is
85 per :.ceit.. During the last
thirteen years shareholders have
received in dividends nearly four
times their original, ‘capital. . vial

If the energy of one ton of.
radium, could be- conserved ‘and
then eonstmed in the space of
thirty years, it: would suffice ito
propel a ship of 15,000.tons, with
engines of 15,000 horsepower, ‘at
the rate of 15 knots an “hour for
thirty years, Such‘a ship: in a
similar period of service would

Right Reverend Dr, Holtnes of
Athabasca, who has just returned
to Winnipeg froma voyage down
the Great Mackenzie river, an-

unknown tribe of 1,000 Eskimos,
living west of the: Mackenzie
river and between Great - Bear
The
Eskimos still hunt with bow and
arrows andusestone implements,

Financial . arrangements are
now being’ made for. the con-
struction at Lang’s Cove, Esqui-
malt, of the, largest drydock .on
the continent. . It will have .ab-
solutely madern equipment, and
will be 1000 feet in léngth and,
100 feet wide—120 feet at the
top—and 36 feet deep, these- di-
mensions being practically sim-
ilar to the new graving dock at
Southampton, the largest in: the
world, where th® monster steam-
er, “the Olympic, was recently
docked.

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through’ “the west, the. Union;

“DRY UMBE

Bank appears to’. he. ‘to the fore.

iq, (Its western business “has ‘grown
‘| to such an ‘extent, says a Winni-
~| peg despatch, that the directors
are considering ‘the removal ‘of

the head office from Quebec t to
the prairie metropolis, ny

Advocates of: railway national-
ization, taking advantage of the
recent troubles in the British

‘|yailway world, are seeking to ob-
tain support fur this particular ae
item on the Socialistic program:|..|--

(i) by convincing the country

that with state ownership, rail-| | ~~

way strikes would.be ‘impossible
or less probable; and :(2) by per-
suading the railway workers that
they have far more to hope for
from becoming servants of the

state. than from remaining the I. ;

employees of private. companies.

- Bill Miner, the: notorious train |- |

robber and outlaw, who with a

fellow-convict named Tom Moore, poe

escaped from a Georgian convict

camp some weeks ago, has been}
| Captured and is once more in the

‘) clutches of the: law. . “Miner did
not offer any serious resistance,
but his pal, Moore, resisted ar-
rest, with the-result that he was
shot and’killed in the. fight that
ensued, Miner: will be taken
back.to the penitentiary to serve
out his sentence for having been
one of the principals in a train
robbery and holdup in Georgia.

Sir William Ramsay, the noted

scientist, has demonstrated that

if coal continues tobe taken from
British mines at the present rate
there will not be a pound of un-

mined coal in England in another |/

176 years, In 1860 the output of
coal was 80,000,000 tons; in 1870
it was 110, 000,000 and year by
year since the output has been

increasing. Last year it was)

more than 200, 000,000. -This
means six tons per head for the

population. of England, against | _
three and one-half: tons in Bel-
gium, two and a. half tons in
Germany, and one ton in France.

‘Ready for Building in: the...
Get prices foin us before you build in 1 New Hazelton, We:
“4 ~ are ready with the goods’ on

‘Interior | ‘Lumber Company

Hazelton

~ Omineca Hotel |

as Hazelton

‘g This hotel is headquarters for all mining and commercial men |
visiting Onineca district. Ce

- Good Sample Rooms
~ Baths and Barber Shop
Hot and Cold Water

; People desiring to visit Bulkley Valley and pointa south may
"travel by the Bulkley Valley Stage, which leaves this hotel for Alder-
_ mere and Telkwa every Tuesday and Friday,

J.C. K. Sealy, Prop. .

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and Reliable’

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"The Grand Trunk Pacific Townsite of a
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t is the intention of the company to build !

a station on this townsite in’ the spring
of 1912, °

(Signed)

Winnipeg,
Nov. 6, 1911.

G. U. RYLEY,

‘Land Commissioner,

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7 The clearing of lots will begin immediately, streets will be graded, and everything possible will be done, to 5 taake this | town a big.
city. A big advering & campaign i is under way and before Jong the name Hazelton will be known from coast to coast.

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