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The sixâ€"yearâ€"old son of a rancher named Rudd at West Lethbridge, Man. while playing with a gun, shot and killed his threeâ€"yearâ€"old sister. Bert Leedham, aged 16, son of the foreman of the Withrow mines, South Uniacke, N.8., was cauiht in the machâ€" inery on Friday and killed instantly. The date of the meseting of the Domâ€" inion Parliament has not yet been fixâ€" ed, but it is expected that the openâ€" ing will take place about the middle of January. Ferdinaad Carriers, the crank from Rimouski who expressed a desire to kill Sir Wilfrid Laurier, has been deâ€" clared insane and sent to an asylum. It is now considered likely that the Allan and Lominion steamship lines will accept the Government mail sulbâ€" sidy and five a {fortnightly service from St. John. The later shipments of Canadian fruit to England arrived in good condition, with the exception of the grapes, which showed a tendercx to drop from their stems. A Foderal Minister discussing forest fires, expressel his firm conviction that the starting of a fire in a forest should John Mcintyre. one of the Windsâ€" or, N. S., men arrested on a charge of starting the fire which resulted in the destruction of that town, has been committed for trial. An agreement has bean entered into between _ the Hamburgâ€"American Steamship Company and the Grand Trunk railway for a regular monthly service between Hamburg and Portâ€" land. Me. E. H. Haycock, a mining engineer, has obtained a patent for an apparatus by which mining may be carried on in frozen ground at comparatively amall expense. it is stated that the Dominion Govâ€" ernment proposes next session to inâ€" troduce legislation to increase the reâ€" tiring allowance of _ Supreme Court judges from twoâ€"thirds to fourâ€"fifths of their sa‘ary. be made a criminal offence, punishable by heavy penalties. j Several animals owned near Ottawa were recently found to be suffering from tuberculosis and on the authoriâ€" ty of the Minister of Agriculture it is stated that the disease a‘so exists at the Experimental Farm. Sir Louis Davies, Minister of Marninad and Fisheries has purchased the resiâ€" dence of Sir John Carling in Ottawa for eleven thousand dollars. The death is announced in London of Francis Turner Palgrave, the poet and essayist. He was seventyâ€"five years of age. T M I NSE The Retail Merchants‘ Association of Ottawa has decided to ask the Legisâ€" lature to radically change the present anctioneering laws. and all the muniâ€" eipalties throughout Ontario will be asked to join in this appeal. GREAT BRITAIN. Archbishop Machray, who has been ill in England, continues to improve, and expects to return to Canada after Christ mas. The Imperial War Office denies the report that the British Goverment inâ€" ‘ends to place two British regiments in Briiish Columbia. A deputation from Montreal on Wedâ€" nesday urged upon the Government the desirability of having Canada reâ€" presented at the Paris Exposition. Eir Louis Davies. Minister of Marina Hon. H. R. Emmerson is Premier of New Brunswick, a reconstruction of the Local Government having been efâ€" fected On asccount of illâ€"health Hon. James Mitchell resigned the Premierâ€" ghip. Sir Wilfrid Laurier will accompany Sir Louis Davies when the lattar goes to attend the seal conference in Washâ€" ington next month. As there has been no response to the call to Canadian sculptors for designs for the statues of the Queen and the late Hon. Alexander Mackenzie, which are to be placed on Parliaâ€" ment Hill, the offer may have, to be thrown open to British and foreign irtists. THE VERY LATEST FR( ALL THE WORLD OVER. An envelope _ marked _ "Conscience Boodle," and containing $1,050 in Nova Scotia New Brunswick and American bills, has been received at the Finance Department at Ottawa. It is expected that the Ottawa and New York railway will be open for traffic on the first of December. The Ancient and Honourable Artil= lery Company .of Boston have abanâ€" doned their trip to Halifax. Deputy Minister of Justice Newcomb reports that peace has been restored at St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary. Guelph has spent $8,000 in sidewalks and $100,000 in buildings, principally private houses during the past year. Sir Wilfrid Laurier will accompany Cir Tanis Navies when the latter goes It is estimated that Prince Edward County will have 130,000 barrels of apâ€" ples for export this year. > Intcresting Items About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, and All Parts of the Globe, Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. John Callahan, an asylum P“"“,‘t.?t London, choked himself fatally while eating his dinner. P iA h John Pollard, merchant N.S., who lost heavily in fire has become insane. Mr. Ogilvie reports fresh discoy of gold in the Klondike in creeks butary to the Indian River. An insolvency law will likely be inâ€" troduced at the next session of Parâ€" liament. es The Ontario Legislature I1 called to meet on November Owen Sound has been completed. The Bank of Hamilton has l_mrflllfl‘ ed property for an office in Winnipeg. An expedition will start from Montâ€" real for the Klondyke in a few weeks. A new issue of postage stamps wWill be placed on sale about December I. The Russell fire fund now amounts to $22,650. : The G. T. R. will erect a new station at Merriton Junction. The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph has 150 students. o A new torpeds destroyer is Nt Anmn n mm nmpar nc w CANADA grn'in elevator at Montreal on Wedâ€" the Government fresh discoveries it of Windsor, in the recent now amounts triâ€" Henry George, the single tax advoâ€" cate, and one of the candidates for the | Mayoralty of Greater New York died suddenly at his hotel on Friday mornâ€" ‘ing after addressing several meetings. He was fiftyâ€"eight years of agoe. Mr. Chauncey M. Depew, one of the presidents of the New _ York Central Railway, is decidedly _ of opinion that the wreck at _ Garriâ€" son was caused by dynamite_ p}ac: Capt Sverdrup is making preparaâ€" tions to go on a North Polar expediâ€" tion. The Norwegian Government will allow him to use the Fram, and will give him twenty thousand kroner to refit the vessel. According to commercial summaries, furnished by the mercantile agencies of Dun and Bradstreet, the condition of trade shows generally little if any apâ€" preciable change since the last reâ€" turns. In different quarters the unâ€" usually mild weather has acted as a deâ€" terrent to the ordinary progress of trade, and the demand for certain lines of seasonable goods has been checked. There is no decided increase in any direction. _ The demand for iron and steel continues good, as it is expected the cost of manufacture will increase shortly. _ There is a fair demand for woolen goods at steady prices, but cotâ€" ton goods are weak and stock large. The commercial failures in the United States for the week just ended are 218, compared with 205 for the correspondâ€" ing week a year ago. The results of the general election of members of the Newfoundland Asâ€" sembly indicate that the Whiteway Government will have a much smaller majority in the new Assembly. An alleged discovery of conspirâ€" acy to murder Sheriff Martin bas been made at Wilkesbarre by Marâ€" tin‘s son. Martin was in charge of the deputies who shot down a number of the miners a short time ago. General Jamat is likely to succeed Gen. Saussier as commanderâ€"inâ€"chief of the French army. Sixteen thousand rifles from Hong Kong and Shanghai have been receivâ€" ed by Philippine rebels in _ the west coast of Luzon. The report that General Castillo, the Cuban leader, has been killed in an enâ€" gagement with the Spanish troops is confirmed. News from Lommak, Japan, says that Mr. Landerhout, the Dutch Controller of the village of Sisolla, has been murâ€" dered by insurgents. There was hot fighting. Two carloads of Canadian hides that had been smuggled into the United States from Canada have been seized in Boston. This is the first seizure of hides since the Dingley tarilf law went into effect. intent The King of Siam has ordered a memâ€" ber of his staff to be executed for a breach of etiquette, committed at Lisâ€" bon. The Catholic mission at Hue, Cochin China, reports that a disastrous tyâ€" phoon swept over that part of the counâ€" try on October 22. Over 50 persons were killed and 80 injured in the stampede at Khnieleff, Russia, on Sunday From a church. A cry of fire caused the panic. _President McKinley has issued his proclamation naming November 25th as a day of national t hanksgiving. _ _ The grand jury at Wilkesbarre, P&., on Thursday returned true bills for murder against Sheriff Martin | and his deputies for firing on and killing striking miners at Latimer, Pa. 5 Governor Atkinson of Georgia, in his message, condemns mob law, _ and suggests, among other remedies, that the prisoners be armed and allowed to use their weapons in their own deâ€" fence. The trial of Edward C. Haynes, of Watertown, N. Y., for killing Mary Crouch and Mary Daly, after lasting eight weeks, resulted on Saturday in a verdict of murder in the second deâ€" gree. It is currently reported that Prince Hohenlohe, the German Chancellor, has resigned. h. * Over 12,000 people at Gifu, Japan, who were rendered homeless by the floods recently are now being supâ€" ported by the Government. Two officials of the Nigata Bank, Jaâ€" pan, together with a broker in the Niâ€" gata Grain Exchange, have been arâ€" rested for embezzlement. A fossil skeleton of an unknown aniâ€" mal, larger than a rhinoceros, is reâ€" ported at Athens to have been found in acoal mine at Kymi, Island of Eubâ€" GENERAL Count Tolstoi, the Russian author, is reported to be dying. Marshal _ Blanco has arrived in Havana and has taken command _ of that island from Captain General Weyâ€" ler. Five inmates of the county lu?élni: asylum at Pennring, il}., ha.ve.bl {. asserted, been mauled to death by & tendants. Canon Gore, who has been seriously ill in Buffalo, has sufficiently l‘t‘“"vveri ed to enable him to leave New YOTr on his way home to Londun. k The American Public Health Assocla(i tion, in session in l’hiladel_l)l{la».p?jsel a resolution approving of indivi ua- cups in the celebration of the com munion. Sir Julian Parfinrcgfc.;itrc;',‘ _the7 â€" Britâ€" ish Ambassador to the United States, arrived in New York on Saturday. built at Newcastleâ€"onâ€"Tyne, with turâ€" bine engines, which is expected to atâ€" tain a speed of thirtyâ€"six to forty knots an hour. A conference between representatives of the employers and delegates from the striking engineers in Britain has been practically arranged, the latter baving agreed to withdraw their deâ€" mand for eight hours per day, which has been the great stumbling block in the way of arriving at a settlement of the strike. The London Spectator takes a pessiâ€" mistic view of the situation between the United States and Spain, and exâ€" An attempt will be made in Chicago to prevent departmental stores selling provisions or liquors. f ns ons â€" presses the opinion that the chances are in favour of war. The coroner‘s jury in the case of Edâ€" ward Langtry, husband of the actress, has returned a verdict in London of death " due to an effusion of blood upâ€" on the brain, caused by a fall." is United States Ambassador Hay, on Saturday, telegraphed to the Queen at Balmoral an expression of President McKinley‘s sympathy and condolence upon the death of the Duchess of Teck, upon the track with criminal UNITED STATES ce m lc in en e y ho w on w + 00 ue w prs o qon uP One Workman Received Fatal Anjuries â€" Two Others Badly Hurt. A despatch from Vancouver, B. C., says:â€"Just about 12.45 o‘clock on Wedâ€" nesday the people in the centre of the city were startled by a loud report as of the firing of cannon, and then those in the neighborhood of the Royal City mills saw a mass of bricks, timber, and ironwork hurled into the air with terrific force. It was at once seen that one of the big boilers at the mills had exploded, and the fire brigade, assisted by a band of volunteers, were soon on the spot searching amongst the deâ€" bris for the killed and wounded. ‘The first found was George Sulley, whose leg was terribly hurt, while his head was teriously cut and scalded. A lad named Forbes was next taken out from beneath a pile of bricks in an unconâ€" scious condition, Charles Phillips was the third taken out; he was badl! scalded, but not fatally. The searcf; was continued for some time, and the ro!l call of the employes revealed the ;act that all the men were accounted or. The same situation, though in a less marked degree, is the secret of the trouble in the cotton trade. The operaâ€" tives do not yet appreciate the facts, however, and a repetition of the terâ€" rible experiences of four years ago may be necessary before the lesson is learned. The employers‘ federation is stronger toâ€"day, and the struggle, if begun, will be the bitterest of all inâ€" dustrial wars. The immediate collapse of the engineering strike would do much to ward off a cotton trade strugâ€" gle, but the engineers‘ society is the strongest trades union in the world, anél will not surrender for a while yet. ‘The engineers‘ battie is as good as lost, and, despite, the uncompromising attitude of both sides, the men are seeking any honourable retreat from their demands, which it is now clear would destroy the engineering trade of Great Britain. Even the most preâ€" judiced of the strikers are beginning to realize that the foreign contribuâ€" tions, which at first encouraged them, were really designed to kill employâ€" ment in their trade by taking adâ€" vantage of the opportunity to seize the foreign market. g N6h That can‘t be true; if it were no lovers would ever live to get married. a foreign power, is innocent, and that the reason the French Government reâ€" fuses an investigation is hecause the volve a State secret that might beâ€" conviction of the real culprit would inâ€" come a casus belli. The _ leaders of _ the operatives‘ unions are using their influence to seâ€" cure a negative decision, coupled with an offer to curtail production. It is extremeiy doubtful if the manufacâ€" turers will accept the alternative, which, they protest, is altogether inâ€" adequate. They affirm, on the contrary, that a reduction of 10 per cent,. in wages is necessary in order to make production yield any profit. _ In the present state of the market the reducâ€" tion would have to be at that rate to insure a profit, but the agreement with the operatives‘ unions, forbids more than a 5 per cent. reduction. s A cotton operatives‘ strike on top of the engineers‘ strike would unâ€" doubtedly weaken the chances of the success of the operatives of hboth trades. Public opinion, at the outset, will probably sympathize with the cotton operatives, who will resist a reâ€" duction in wages. This sympathy will be sbhort lived as soon as the facts reâ€" farding the cotton manufacturers‘ diâ€" emma are fully understood. a The Royal City mills is a branch of the British Columbia. Mills, Timber and Trading Company, the largest lumâ€" ber concern in British Columbia, and this branch alone employs more than one lhundred and fifty men. The accident fortunately happened _ at the dinner hour, or more would undoubtedly: have been injured. _ As it was there were numerous narrow They say now that all ink is full of deadly microbes. _ t It is again asserted that _ Captain Dreyfus, undergoing imprisonment for life for divulging military secrets to Threatened Strike of the Lancashire Cotton Uperatives. A London despatch says:â€"The inâ€" dustrial situation is the gravest yet reached. There is little prospect of a compromise in the engineering strike. Meantime the trouble in the cotton trade has reached a decisive point, and this week may see the beginning of anâ€" other great war, involving 200,000 opâ€" eratives, which will paralyze the greatâ€" est trade of the Empire. The spinners and weavers will decide soon whether they will submit to the 5 per cent. reduction in wages, which the emâ€" ployers declaro the exigencies of the trade demand. The German postâ€"office is experimâ€" enting with an invention, an electrical apparatus, which, at the cost of one hundred and twentyâ€"five dollars, can be connected with a telegraph wire, and messages which are typed off at one end are reproduced at the other The Employers‘ Liability bill which has been adopted by the French Chamber of Députies, is a most drasâ€" tic measure, holding the employer responsible for all accidents to the workmen. The situation in Western Africa has been greatly aggravated by the pubâ€" lication of semiâ€"official notes by the French and British Governments, and a conflict between the forces of the two nations in the Hinterland of Lagos may at any moment take place. It is reported in Christiania that a whaling boat returning from the Arcâ€" tic saw Prof. Andree‘s balloon floatâ€" ing in the water near Spitzbergen. Brakmo, the Arctic explorer, proposâ€" An investigation in Athens reveals the sensational fact that the cartridges fitted to the torpedoes during the Turâ€" koGreek war were unprovided with percussion caps, and would have been absolutely _ useless. Prince George, who was commander of the torpedo flotilla is being roundly attacked. es to proceed to Prince Charles proâ€" montory to investigate the truth of the story. CAPITAL AND LABOR. BOILER EXPLOSION, OF COURSE NOT. TORONTO Sinskiâ€"No; All I said was that if a mosquito wanted to tackle you he‘d have ty carry a shovel. "A King or Emperor would not have to face the odium of making Draconâ€" ian laws to defend his power. _ He would find them ready to hand. They are the legacy of the Carnot and Casiâ€" mirâ€"Perier _ Presidencies, and _ were gages of strong government given to Russia. All the power of the Governâ€" ment will be emuloyed, to keep out Soâ€" cialists and Radicals. Inskiâ€"Look here, is it you that has been cireulating the report that I had not washed my face in seven years ? A despatch to the Daily Mail from Paris says:â€""A British syndicate has obtained sole control of the trade of the Soudan in exchange for the payâ€" ment of an anngaity to the F?gy‘pti:m Government and the defrayal of the expenses » of military occupation. lt will recoostruct and work the railway from Suakim, on the Red Sea, to Berâ€" ber, on the Nile, the southernmost point reached by the Angloâ€"Egyptian expeditions." 1 An Alarm of Fire â€" Seventyâ€"Four Persons Were Orushed and Stamped to Death, A despatch from St. Petersburg says: â€"Further details have been received as to the terrible casualty which took place on October 26 last, in the vilâ€" lage church at Kharceleff, in the Kozâ€" lo%f district, on the western coast of the Crimea, when an alarm of fire was raised and a panic ensued, resulting in the death of seventyâ€"four persons, and the severe injury of 160 others. It apâ€" pears the alarm of fire was due to the lighting of candles at the moment when the windows were opened to allow the clouds, of vapour to escape from the packed and steaming congregation. The crowd outside thought the altar screen was burning, the cry 0%° fire was raisâ€" ed, and an uncontrollahi% panic followâ€" ed. There was no medi:al kelp to be had‘ nearer than Kozloft several miles away. When morning dawned there was revealed a vast hrap of dead. Among the victims fatally injured were fifteen pregnant women. The Possibl!ity of a Change of Government in France. * The Paris correspondent of the Lonâ€" don Daily News indulges, apparently with all gravity, in a surprising specuâ€" lation that the overthrow of the Reâ€" public is within the limits of possiblâ€" ity as a result of the coming election for members of the Chamber of Deâ€" puties. The News presents the stateâ€" ment withoi } comment. The corresâ€" pondent saykâ€""On all sides I â€" hear that the next elections are likely to give us, if not a Parliament of Rallies, one in which they will be uppermost. Should this happen, they might think it well to withdraw their allegiance from the Republic. . The Pope would not object. Heis in favorof the pracâ€" ticable course, whatever it may te. There would be really very little diffiâ€" culty to turn this Republic into a kingâ€" dom or empire. If there were a Conâ€" servative majority an empire would be of easier achievement. SOME LATE CABLE NEWS The Times publishes a despatch from Seoul capital of Corea, which says that the Russian Minister bhas forced the Corean Government to dismiss its English financial adviser and chief of "In view of future events, the Monâ€" archists have not rallied, and the Bonâ€" apartists have fused. Were Prince Vicâ€" tor to step aside and Prince Louis Naâ€" poleon to be placed at the head of this amalgamated party, there might be striking results. The latter Prince has been seeing the King of Italy at Monâ€" za. He is now in Switzerland and is expected at Montcalieri. where his moâ€" ther lives, before returning to Paris FIGHTING IN INDIA PRACTICALLY AT AN END. en route to Russia, where he will visit the Czar at Peterhof." The British steamer, Barnesmore, Captain Richardson, < from Montreal, October 13th, which arrived here on Sunday, when docking damaged | her stern by colliding with a pierhead. Warchouses Burned â€" An Extensive Dia: mond Burglaryâ€"Trade of the Soudin. A despatch from Simla says:â€"Sadds Khan, and his brother, leading chiefs of the Maddahkels, have surrendered to the British. Thig is an important step in the settlement of the Tochi difâ€" ficulty. . A I:ondon despatch says;â€"The Britâ€" ish steamer Hankow, from Antwerp for Montreal, before _ reported _ putting into Castletown, Bear Haven, Ireland, leaking badly and with part of her cargo damaged, will proceed to Tailâ€"ofâ€" theâ€"Banks, Clyde. The extensive warehouses and staâ€" bles of Carter, Paterson and Company, Limited, the wellâ€"knows carriers, railâ€" way forwarding and shipping agents, The Daily Chronicle says:â€"‘* We are informed that the Spanish Government signed contracts last week, with an important firm of British shipâ€"buildâ€" ers, by which it acquires some cruisâ€" ers, armed with quickâ€"firing guns, which the firm had nearly completed for another Government, whose conâ€" sent presumably Spain bhad secured to this arrangement. When the question of finance was raised by the contracâ€" tors the Spanish Minister of Marine, Adiniral Bermejo, represented that in the event of war the Spanish Governâ€" in('nt could count upon an internal war oan." The store occupied by the Dlamon_d Merchants‘ Alliance on Piccadilly, this city was broken into, by burglars between Saturday _ and _ Monday morning, and diamonds, etce., . to the value of $75,000, were stolen. There is no clue to the identity of the thieves. PUTTING IT INDIRECTLY. REPUBLIC IN DANGER. A CHURCH PANIC. steers, so that on April lith their ration was made the same as that of the intermediate group. and maintainâ€" ed at this point until the close of the experiment on July 7th. . in)‘t Briefly stated, the results are as folâ€" lows:â€"The heavy ration steers made an average gain of 180 lbs per day; the intermediate ration steers, 1.77 Ihs. per day; and the light ration steers 1.56 lbs. per day. After deducting the cost of the steers, an! dof the food: conâ€" sumed, from the seiling price. the proâ€" fit was as follows: Heavy ration, $9.62 per steer; intermediate ration, $14.50 p:r steer; light ration, $13.64 per steer. Seeking in the Vatican (or a Letter From Pontias Pilate to Emperor Tiberius, A despatch from Rome says:â€"The Pope was recently informed of the disâ€" covery in the Vatican archives of a supposed communication from Pontius Pilate to Emperor Tiberius respecting the crucifixion of Jesus. His Holiness ordered that a careful study be made of the manuscript. This proved that the document was apparently of a Cate about 150 A. D., and that it alludjed to such a communication, but the orâ€" iginal has not yet been found. Other fragmentary manuscripts of the 3rd and 5th centuries, bearing on the same subject, have been discovered, The Ontario Department of Agriculâ€" ture has been successful in locating the fruit trees purchased in New Jersey from nurseries affected with San Jose scale The result of the investigation miuceshows that these trees have hbeen scatterec over a considerable portion of the western portion of the Proâ€" vince. _ A determined effort will be made by the department to stamp out the disease, and the Minister of Agriâ€" culture, Hon. John l)r(den.' has alâ€" ready instructed Mr. W, M. Orr, of Fruitland, to make a personal inspecâ€" tion in each case, with a view to havâ€" ing affected trees destroyed. _ Mr. Orr has also received authority to inspect any nurseries where the proprietors apply to him to do so. Am I to take this medicine internâ€" ally or apply it externally ? asked the lady customer of the drug clerk who had filled her prescription. Whichever way you please, madam. The stuff is perfectly harmless. In this experiment, therefore, the inâ€" termediate ration gave hbest results, while both the intermediate and light rations were considerably more profitâ€" able than the heavy one. More work, however, will be done along this line, Fuller details of the experiment, toâ€" gether with particulars of experiments in pigâ€"feeding, will appear in the next annual report of the college. A Young Woman‘s Reason L L4 Suivcteliectentibeiiintd the Taunts of Brothers and Sisters. A despatch from New York says:â€" Consiantly teased by her brothers and sgisterbs because she could not speak English, Ida Grudberg, the pretty nine~ teenâ€"yearâ€"old daughter of Barnett Grudberg, an actor, living at No 142 Rivington street, became insane . OD Wednesday, and was removed, a rayâ€" ing maniac, to Bellevue Hospital. â€" The girl is one of a family of seven children, boys and girls. The younger children, playing in the street, learned to talk English rapidly. Ida remained indoors and kept herself busy about the house. Her father and mother both unâ€" derstood and conversed in the English language. The result was that the eldâ€" est daughter found herself isolated from the family. Her brothers and sisters, and mother and father as well, teased herabout her inability to learn to speak like the rest of the family, and the younger ones were accustomed to gather around her and tease ber until she became frantic with rage. _ 4 HARMLESS EITHER WAY TEASED TO INSAN ITY. A CURIOUS SEARCH. SAN JOSBH SCALE Dethroned by wiks \The Australian ®Fruit Growers YHI Rend _ Their Products to the British Markets, | The fruitâ€"growers in Australia are _ making a practical move toward the establishment of conpections with the ’British market. The Minister. of Agâ€" | riculture of the colonies of Victoria, \South Australia, Tasmania, and New ‘Zealand, have hbeld a conference and bhave resolved to make an experimental shipment of 10,000 cases of fruit under ;improved conditions, which include a complete system of ventilation for evâ€" ery part of the chamber in which the fruit is conveyed. The Australasian _colonies bhave adopted a standard case, | which is their recognized fruit bushel, { and contains, 2488 cubic inches. is cae measures on the oyrside 10 by 15 | case measures on the outside 10 by 15 ; by 20 inches, and its use will facilitate | packing for shipment, as well as the supervision of experimental ventures by the Governments. It has been found by experiments that for the safe transâ€" portation of apples a steady tempera ture of from 40 to 45 degrees and good ventilation are necessary. _ With reâ€" gard to other lines of {ruit. there is much to be learned as to the requiâ€" sites of the sea voyage. It was re soived to institute a series of experiâ€" ments in transportation, during the coming season. As the Australian fruit season alternates with ber own, the Canadian fruitâ€"growers will have an opportunity of watching an interesting series of experiments during the coming | winter. The shipments from the Ausâ€" 3traluian colonies will be under Gos ernmental regulation, and every case | will bear an official brand. The propos=â€" _ed experiment will necessitate arrange ments with steamship owners regard ilng the special fitting and furnishins of vessels for the trade. At a genâ€" eral conference of fruitâ€"growers rep resenting several colonies it was reso!s ed that the fruit trade could be better stimulated by a federation of the co| onies. With the alternating seasons o! the north and south Canadsa and the Australias should soon be delivering s continuous supply of fruit to the 1 tish market. . d Avedung o. Laatsntel AW teiomeis s 4 The pass was found to be a series of steep rises alfording much dead ground to an atiacking p.r{y. The troops unâ€" der cover, of a mountain bati« r‘x ('l{)â€" tured height after beight, and fin@‘lly the Fourla: Goorkhas and the West Surrey men arrived at the summit, toâ€" gether at 9.30 a.m. 7 k "With the exgocted capture of Arâ€" bnnis pass on Saturday, which is withâ€" in thirteen miles of the Afghan fronâ€" tier at Safedâ€"Koh, the work of the co‘lumn will be practically completed, for the main body of the Afridis, havâ€" ing the Peshawur column on the east and Sir William Lockhart‘s force on the south, will be compelied to sue for peace or to seek the inhospitable reâ€" tirement of the Safedâ€"Koh range. Three batteries onened the attack on the i)ul between 7 and 8 o‘ciock, the artillery thoroughly â€" searching the enemy‘s shelters, l:v‘hile a portion of the force turned the enemy‘s position on the right. All six batteries then shellâ€" ed the defences. The enemy could not face the fire, and General Caselee, who led the infantry spiritedly, had a comâ€" paratively easy task. * f R Gallant Charges Under Heavy Fire â€" The Mountain Battecries Did Good Work â€" #ie Willtam Leckbart is Priving the Tribesmen Before Him. A despatch from Simla says :â€"The British forces under General Sir Wilâ€" liam Lockhart captured the Sempagha Mr, Chamberlaln‘s Installation ®peech / the Glasgow EUniversits. A despatch from Glasgow, says :â€"\r®W Joseph Chamberlain, the Secretary o State for the Colonies, was installed on Wednesday as Lord Rector of the C# gow University. There was an |= mense crowd of people present, and N1 Chamberlain met with an enthusia reception. In the course of his sp«= Mr. Chamberlain predicted that the ! lations between â€" Great Brivain and South Africa had greatly improved o! late, adding:â€"*"There are signs tho< the colonies demand a closer union. an / that the prospect of a really un‘‘> / Empire is becoming a question 0‘ practical politics." CAPTUORE OF TBE P4SS General Gaselee, in command of the second brigade, led the advance upon the enemy‘s position, which was . of the strongest description. The casualâ€" ties among the British officers already reported are Captain DeBatts, of the Artiliery, who succumbed to wounds reâ€" ceived during the engagement, and Major Handfordâ€"Flood, of the West Surrey Regiment, who is among Uthe wounded. According to dispatches from Sunâ€" daki, Sir William Lockbhart explained his plan of attack to his officers on Thursday evening, and the advance from Gundaki commenced in the dark ness about five o‘clock on Friday more ing. The main force, with six ba teries, moved straight on the pass. U« tachments were sent to operale agoi! the villages on the flanks. When day dawned all the troops were in position at the foot of the pass. â€" The enemy‘s position was very strong, and the approaches toit were greatly exposed, but until now the re« sistance had been trifling, the tribes men having been EASILY EXPELLED from the villages of Nazens and Kunâ€" dimishti. A _Mrs. Henry Peckâ€"Bah! |I only : ried you because I pitied you w hen body else thought anythin« abou:! Mr. Henry Peck, wearicy my dear, everybody pities me at 11.15 o‘clock on Friday mornâ€" THE CRUSHED wWORM A UNITED ©MPIRE AFTER HEIGHT TAKEN BY BRITISH TROOPS. 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