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The World’s Doings i in. n Brief

News Notes from Many Sources.

American bankers. will lend
France $100,000,000.

The German emperor has re-
tired seven generals.

Canadian nickel is to be re-
fined in Nova Scotia,

B.C, lumber mills’ are again
‘Tuning at full capacity.

The Japanese Empire claims a
population of 71,000,000.

Canada will export 200,000,000
“pounds of cheese this year.

An earthquake caused’ great
damage at Fiume, Austria.

Great Britain’s war expendi-
ture is over $30,000,000 a day.

There were fourteen deaths
from heat in Detroit last week.

In 1916 British Columbia will
produce $35,000,000 in minerals.

Several men were shot and in-
jured in a strike riot in Seattle.

A Laredo despatch says. many

Americans are returning to Mex-|.

ico,

Shipments of ore to Trail smel-|

ter since Jan. 1 total over 250,000
tons.

Gotch, the weestlen, broke a
‘leg in an exhibition bout at Ken-
osha, Wis,

The British Red Cross has
81,000 workers, of whom 57,000
are women,

An outbreak of meningitis at
Sydney, N.S. W., alarms the
authorities,

Since the war began $188,000,

000.in British gold has been Bent .

to New York.

Stony Mountain Indian’ have
made the Duke of Connaught a
chief their tribe.

Mayor Stewart, of Victoria, is
now minister of finance in the
provincial government.

Shipment of liquor over the
U. S. government railway in
Alaska has been prohibited.

, Kaiser Wilhelm has awarded
‘more than 400,000 iron crosses
since the'beginning of the war.

It is reported that the second
and third Canadian contingents

are to be armed: with the Lee-
' Enfield rifte.:

it has been proved that the
great German dreadnaughts Kaia-

er and Kronpring were sunk in

the Jutland battle.

U.S. Ambassador Morgenthau
has resigned from his post at
Constantinople. He is succeeded
by Abraham Elkus.

Sir Roger Casetnent’s appeal
against the sentence of death
wah dismissed by the’ British
court of. criminal appeal,

The Gérman_ submarine cam-:
paign was evidently resumed on
Saturday, when‘a British steamer
was sunk without warning. } oa

‘Organized labor‘in England has
agreed to postpone the: August
holidays, “to avoid interference
with the output of munitions, .

A British court has; awarded.
owners of the Americar steamer
Wilhelmina £78, 400. «The vessel
_ Was seized a8, a ‘prize by a British |,

‘warship. © seen ae

‘Sir Gedrge Paish; Sir Harry |
Drayton, jand Alfred). Hy Sriith |

of have:been ‘appointed:commission-

ers to enquire into the: ‘eanditiont!

shows sipns.of decreage,

caused.

of the Canadian railways, Their

investigations may lead to nation: |.

alization of the transcontinental
lines,

Infantile paralysis, which has
heen epidemic in New York,
Cases:
have appeared in several, Cana
dian: cities, /

Frarice has called to the colors

all able-bodied men of 47 and 48,

excepting those engaged in muni-
tions factories or as farmers or
farm laborets:

Spanish railwaymen have re-
fused to arbitrate theirdifferences
with their employers, The gov-
ernment will take steps to ter-
minate the dispute,

The prairie provinces are swept
by storms this week, Several
deaths ,have been reported and
great property loss has been
A number of granaries
have been blown down,

An Amsterdam despatch says
that four battleships, four battle
cruisers, two older hattleships,
and four. smaller cruisers of the

German fleet are undergoing re-

pairs in German shipyards, as a
result of damage inflicted by the

‘British fleet in the Jutland battle,

The Seydlitz, which was sunk,

‘has since been salvaged.
The German submarine mer-j]

chantman Deutschland’ is about
315 feet long, 20 feet wide, and
was drawing 17 féet when she
entered . Virginia Capes.. The
submersible is propelled by two
Deisel engines of 600 hor sepower
each and makes close to fourteen
knots’ an hour. She is larger
than the average freight steamer
and makes a speed of about three
knots in‘ excess of the speed
attained by the average freighter,

Value of Farm Lands

The average value of farm land
in Canada is $38.90 per acre, ag-
cording to figures just compiled
by the Bureau of Census“ and
Statistics at Ottawa. These fig-
ares, include all land used for
agricultural purposes of any kind,
whetherimproved or unimproved,
and the value of houses, barns,
and other farm buildings. ‘The
average value per acre ‘thus esti-
mated is as follows for eech of
the Canadian provinces: British
Columbia, $125; Ontario, $52.49;
Quebec, $51.36; Prince Hdward
Island, $87.64; Manitoba, $30.36;

‘Nova Seotia, $28; Saskatchewan, |.

$24.20; Alberta, $23.16; New
Brunswick, $22.48, The exegp-
tionally high. figure reached in
British Columbia is due'-to ‘the
flourishing condition of the frult-
raising industry, while the gapd
showing.of Ontario. and Quehee

is attributed to intensive apd|,

well developed. farming methods, |-

“The deopest mine in the world
is Baid to be the St. John del Ray,
the lowest workings of which gre
at a ‘vertical depth of 5,711 feet,
The Village Deep, onthe Rakd.+

is worked: 0. 8.. depth of ay

‘| feet on the inclihe, vos

The hint in France j is. “eaiiip
eight times, more. silver ‘thay, lt

ml:

did in peace ‘times, .

CARIBOO DISTRICT.

HIGHway Baines, Necuaco RIVER,
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.
(Navigable Waters Protection Act,”
“R.S.C., Chapter 118.)

HE Hon, Thomas Taylor, Minister

of Public. Works,- gives notice that

he has, under section 7 of, the said Act,
deposited with the Minister of Public
Works at Ottawa, and in the office of
the District Registrar of the Land
Registry District of .Kamloops, at
Kamloops, a description of the'site and
plans of.a highway bridge proposed to
be built in ‘the Nechako River near
River Avenue and Montreal Street,

Prince George, B.C, 7

And take notice that'after the expira-
tion of one month from the date of\ the
first publication of this notice, the
Hon. Thomas Taylor will, under section
of the said Act, apply to the Minister
of Public Works at his office in the City
of Ottawa for approval of the said site

-land plana, and for leave to conatruct .

the said highway bridge.
Dated at Victoria, B.C.,
day of March, 916. sy
. tT, TAYLOR,

‘this 21st

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_Minister of Ppblic Works, |

Department of Public Works, 44-7,
Victoria, B. C., 21st March, 1916, ' '

Synopsis of Coal Mining Regu.
‘ lations.

(Coa mining rights of the Dominion,
in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta, the Yukon Territory, the
Northwest Territories and in a ‘portion
of the Province of British Columbia,
may be leased'for a term of twenty-one
years at an annual rental of $1 an
acre. Not more then 2,660 acres will
be leased to one applicant, ;

Application for a lease must be made
by the applicant in pexgon to the Agent
or Sub-Agent of the district in which
the rights applied for are situated,

In surveyed territory the land must
be deseribed Dy. sections, or. legal sub-
divisions of sections, and in unsurveyed
territory the tract applied for shal! be
staked out by the applicant himself,

Each h appileation must be accompani-
ed b ee of $5, which will be refund-
ed i the rights applied for are not
available but not otherwise, A royal-

ty shall | be paid on the merchantable
output off of the mine at the rate of five
cants per te

The person operatin
furnish the Agent with sworn returna
accotinting for the ‘ful’ guantity of mer-
chantable coal mined and pay, the
royalty thereon, If the eoa sine
rights are not being operated, suc
returns should “be furnished ‘at least
once & year,

The Jesse will include the coal mining
rights only, but the leasee may be per-
mitted to purchase whatever available
surface rights maybe ‘considered nec-

esaary for the qerking of the mine at}.

the rate of $10.40
For - full information “application
should be made to the Secretary of the
Department of: the Interior, Ottawa,
or ne or Sub-Agent of
Dominion an
. W. CORY,

Deputy: miniatsr of the Interior.
N.B.

Bn acre,

nauthorized publication of | |
thie advertisement w will not, be paid for, a

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BUSINESS PHONES $5; HOME. PHONES $2.50,per month oe

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