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_ The Daily British RINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURD: AY. ob CQ oF MBER 24 " The. forty-seventh an was held at President, Sir 'Was appointed There were C. F. 8mith, A C. W. LinBsay, A Merrett, D. C. Macarow, After the Spcretary of the last previous : = DIRECTORS' R Dire ure in Pani ual mes uuen Decem? i Mot Necretar on Al%o pres Barnet, K McBiary HB had. Tre Patter Foley, John MB fueeting, the mi: REPORT, The President then read The forty seventh' Annual business up to the find the factory In view sroved earning half of the year'to sage the vid twelve months, 1 can venture no con for, business beg generally the Directors. have much Reg leg close « plea wt Bf the f books on good be consider All the "during the ing offices + ank, year, and we have opendd namely: In British Colum Namayo Avenue {(Bdmofiton), Brooks and Strome. © In Saskatchewan----Antic eub<office on Dundas Street, Toronto St. John, N.B.; the last two signa Provinces. We have now a chain of "acific Opean. ? The Directors have much formed by the staff during the All of which is respectfull of the includ ALLAN, President H. MONTAGL Statement of the Result of the Busin css of the Bank for 30th November, 1910, pay ne { charges, re on dep wl making doubtful de have amounted to rodrd Noven the Year ending: after The Net profits of year, on discounts, t from Making a total of J F \ This has heén disposed of ag follows Dividend No. 90, at the rate of § pc. per annum " "9 " § - '- 93, a Transferred to Reserve Fund Written off Bank Premises Accou Contribution to Officers' Pensie Fri Balance carried forward STATEMENT OF LIABILITIES AND ASSETS AT. 30th NOVEMBER, 1910. ¥ LIABILITIES. pe 1. To the Public, : Notes in Circulation' vie weave on Deposits at Tall Rh aks SE ae Deposits subject $0 notice (acerued Riv date included) Deposits by other Banks We WARTS Balances due to Agents in Dividend Nq. 9 Dividends unclaimed ., £0.00 $5,183.56 52.03 Tso, 457.9 In Canada 64,779. 04%.01 386.068.4009 1141 bo 135,000.00 2,046.50 Great" ifaw ates fn the United Balances th and elsewhere, {80,600,761 59 2. To the Stockholders. Capital paid up .......: Reserve Fund... . i Balance of Prolits « sreied forward pg $6.000,000.00 4,900,000. 00 , 297.15 10,999,297.15 ASSETS. Gold and Silver Cola on hand.® Pominion Notes, on hand yaa Notes and' Cheques of other Banks i Balances due by other Banks in Canada Balance due by Banks and Agents in 1 elsewhere Call:and - Shokt Canada Call and Short Loans on Bonds and Stocks where - than in Canada ..,.. . . United States ocks in ' 34.748. elge- Loans on Bonds and 472.80 8,135,770.67 - be 12,881,243.47 Bonds and De- Goverdment, Musilcipal, Rallway and other - bentures Frau 6,042,102.13 of - Interest Current Loans and Discounts (less Relat sorved) Loans to other "Bunks, sec cured Loans and Discounts overdue (loss fu Deposit with Dominion Government (or Circulation a Mortgages and other Securities the ¥ Real Estate .. Bank Premises and Furaiture _ Other Assets (iii for) 3) of provided ' security Note 247,000.00 Bank 105,308.45 hee erty of the 1,600,058 The President expressed the hase that the Shareholders would be pleased With the 'vear's result, and likewise the opinion that ths future lookec promising for a continuation of reasonably good business conditions, and testified to the good wo dd by the staff the previous twelve --. months The report was then The General Jranager Mr E F NH Shareholders bearir upon the profi matters of interest : the Stotkholders, work and seal of (he stall generally It was moved by C. F. Smith and seconded by Thos Long, that Messrs A. Piddington and D. Kinghorn be appeinted scrutineers for the election of directors about to take place and that they proceed to take votes im- mediately, that the ballot shall close at 3 pm. but if an interval of tem minutes elapse without a vote being tendered, the ballot shall close Imme- . diately. (Carried.) Moved by John Patterson and seconded by Dr. McDiarmid that the scrutineers cast one ballet. in favor of the following persons as directors, ¢ vig: Sir H. Montagu Allan, Mr. Jonathan Hodgson, Mr' Thomas Long, Mr. C. F. Smith, oa Hugh A Allan, Mr C. MocHays, Mr. Alex. Barnet, Mr. F. Orr Lewis, Mr. K. W. Blackwell. The ballot was accordingly signed by. the Scrutineers, and the old Board _of Director: declared unanimously re-elected MR. PATTERSON 1" would like to move a very cordial vote of thanks Vice-President, the Board of Directors, the General Manager for their services during the past year, and to tell rehCidery appreciate their excellent services. he Board of Directors, Sir H. Montagu Hodgso! adopted ¥ hden, followed with remarks to the reserve fund, dividend, and concluding with a testimony to the unanimous! in, Vice-President et THE HOME OF _ Confectionery ; Ohoctinses | in boxes and balk. : & r Specialties : «Satin Butter Gups, 25c. 1b, n make, "Also Credms. Taffles and Cream other « | i } | had already | They ! England ~ CHRISTMAS an By BEENARD i. CANADA'S FIRST PLUM PUDDING 150 YEARS AGO ee SANDWELL. ENJOYING A DRIVE Are and fifty year n the eity ndred | of 17 was Christmas acco ritual that Our had ever know versary of of British hs in halt mas, has heen tiy wter all great battle n possible not to I Christ- and manner: dian anni ment th tomir in Canada, | before that | allowed | mon Chris £0 ree first to ecla Pass the about bec which few have 1 fnappropriat back to the mas Day piety ' of thing Christmas Bat mas ol neither nor pule tt hel YOK 'an ina Christ- wit pl LUrRe A TYPICAL first, hmeén and ind C adian city land thot san ral seven under Gene Quebec during lowed the battle Abraham 8 that Fourted wera Am ROUTYY Tur fol of passed +] ever 1 n them | 1 wound on Six thei oris 1 number | died autumn clothing f for winter or ired of had ti severities Liguc city that plentif fine, horribly relaxed, by barbaric savagery of The day before Christmas soldiers who had been sentenced one thousand lashes aplece for petty theft were let off with three hondred "on account of the severity | of the weather; and the day after-§ wards two women , were publicly} flogged 'for "selling liquor without | leave. As a Christmas boon. two soldiers condemned to Heath , for robbery were allowed to throw dice} out purticipation in the annual for one of them to be reprieved, and the loser was promptly hanged with. festivity. Most of the houses had Jost their roofs in the fighting, and] no of the Was was to conveyed. : | plunder { valuable s | that | streets | coats | would ! had CANADIAN CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE ! late Lope . Sir vere useless to kee >» wealthier stoves' ificers sacl small The only com- the city was the line Convent, whe a devoted of nurs looked after hundreds of wounded of both parties - Let- ters written by officers of rison tell us that chief the festal board on the 25 December was salt pork, and ttle of it . { Great was the difference between! this scene of privation and that of the following : Christmas both in Montreal and Quebe The Freach, inhabitants were only a little less joyful than the Britishers feated French regulars back to Fraace The French-Canadian militia, worn out with long campaigning and much nare thankful at the prospect of a Yegumption of agricult than de_ the 'Joss of French gone home almost] vil administrators, | Bigot, Cadet and their had gone back to France, both to up the had vd a the ana reside of a stabl table place in took up seetion dainty th of very at Aad been: ure te a man. | The itendant parasites, leeply reluctant which they office and fac investigation by a king and to bitte government in-the mother conquered | than Mont- | first Christ- | after its the British has left in-| time, Say in the laced | . one thes victim were | ~ Boy part that weeks never a look the real on the day of mas, a bare fall." in army, Major me see t the and have v instead and of who of the gay crowd coats and powdered heads, supposed tha of being the disastrous war, of ample and] They were] for what | For the whose 1100ps eks before it" is one 0 things in history | population of Mont} ng that Christ- » of King George officer Knox moirs to 1 silk people, of a long all in the enjoy it unimpaifed fort in mourning, { of all concel death of the only fected reir most 1 the WAS m cur entire in mour: at re al ! to note that OPEN. ed in the joyous celébrations of "that! momentous holiday-time The policy of all,» under the leadersi of General Amberst, was friends as fast possible with the subjects of the King of Franc Haldimand, the Swiss soldier, schol » be a very wise governor of Can-| da during the American revolution nd do much to hold the French of Canada faithful te the Iritish | i, was chief of the conciliators, his lavish entertainments wer to seigneurs., merchants, and British officers alike. prominent among the leaders of the! Christmas revelry was the famous william Johnson, the wonderful Irishman from theo banks of the! Mohawk. A master of the art fine living, this strange man in the intervals of voughifg it with the indians, over whom 'he had a wnigne| influence, had established in the New York mountains a pleasure house apd a lordly estate equal te any in England or Ireland. Johnson's son, by: an ironical turn of fate, was destined less than twenty years later to come to this same city a penni- tess exile from his father's vast es tates because he had remained loyal to the crown in the revolutionary struggle; and by another turn of fate he was thereafter to become | ome of the great territorial loras of to as crow nd n Most x this gar-/ the { ligious institutions still more sO, The de- { than { the : above all i and { whom {to the _{ ladies i ly | with make | the | their new-made clergy i { of some hospitable of | sutiqiered there, lo aRother of Condda, and the Highlander Fraser. and many o who had earned by years tion and struggle the right Hila Joyonsness Fader them the best part of any army © thousand men, the pick of the tinent: Their social revelrie of a kind to amaze even and festive French Montreal in those little of its present Toronto existed, a small Indian bee was the only real perm city in Canada. Bat the b possibilities of Montreal good many of those who spent first. winter within her walls walls thémselves' were lau litle more than a developm the old steckades emploved Indians The town Ww 5 large to be adequately defended bs walls. [is people were rich, its re An gpacion provines of was days bad magnitics if at all, mere trading post it possessed many gardens, with streets. some of The houses were ably built. and muche less ors : the stone. turrets of Quebec Already suburbs of great wealth and beauty were growing up outside area. of the walled city, a is now wholly occupled by financial district. "The excells of the private houses, the magnifi cece of the public buildings, the pleasant country seats and villas | scattered about amid. gardens and plantations outside the walls, and the charm of the tion," miade=a deep impression Major Knox The French owners of {hese villas were pretty hard put to keep-bod {and soul together, in &pite of the brave showing they made with their laces and handsome furniture neat lawns For a year levied upon by Bigot f the support of the remains of the French army, and food was scarce But every writer of the period com, ments ppon the amazing spirits of these French-Canadians, and espeei ally of their women "Families the calaniities of war have reduced from she height of luxury want of common necessaries laugh, dance and sing, comforting themselves with the reflection 'Fortune de guerre." Their Ing take the Wtmost pains to our officers French; wit! view. 1 know not, uness tha may hear themselves flattered courted without loss time Highlanders were, as usual the officers most petted by these charming and irre sCanadiennes.'" and it is taterestiie at not a few marriages re sulted within a year {rom ships carried on before the ink wa: dry on the articles of Capitulation Doubtless the fair on felt that where the representative of hi { most Christian Majesty bad capit lated. it was no disgrace to them | do likewise. One great mansion most brilliant of the ners of the military ocel plase is still standing | Chateau de Ramezay, the 'fipe house' in Montreal, to-day { historical museym In its giganti { kitchen, long given over to the m | savory delicacies the > | chefs, was cooked in 1760 th | English plum pudding «of land was served in blazing brs {a state banquet to the lehlefs and a few loading of the gathering proces themselves inder the 'most approved fashion The French celebration, more abstemious and more de religious one, began un then with the midnight mass, which has ever been the most popular service the French-Canadian The { afternoon was filled with visiting Frencll gaily conversing among themselves in the language ' preservation they had affecte sich heroic fidelity, and the fair and broad, them even i i of wood, admir gitua por had been you teach what they and | The among of sible court the dix in which ball earliest in the a ol ove and diplomat, who was later | offic ers going from mess house to French fr pass the greetings of the Therf was no stated ball evening, owing to the roy: ing, but practically every danced all pight long at the French merchant seigneur It was the beginning of that "Pax Canadiana" which has | lasted with very slight interruptions up to this day . -------------- i Discovered by the Professor. Seattle, Pl An ahsont-minded German professor attached to a university in Washing ton discovered the other day that he had left lux umbrella somewhere. As he had visited three stores he thought it siust be in one of them, =0 Mh started back and called at all three in turn. "No umbrella has been found here," the professef hn told in "the first store.. The German shrugged bis shoulders and went out, At the pext store the same response was mods, whersupon the professor and then from ason fn" the or went ta the third establishment. There he found his umbrella awaiting him. "§ must say." maid he to his family on returning home, "they were 'more other stores." An Unfortunate Response; 1 Lippincott's Magazine : The problem of too many churches in =» given Jocality is often img owe. It is said that the Rp in a certmm. village, oan" opposite sides of the street, were so close that when the gation in one chareh y Will There Po Any Stars in My Crown 77 the congregation in the othe fer ©h Sprowptly eesponded, "Neo, Neat One. Na, Not One™ Fortunate it is Hf the sevming contradiction is com to the unintentional ipharmoni: wes response: in songs. mete ah . any other or shrugged his shoulders once more, and | honest at the last piace, than at the 3 "Every One Thought I Had Consumption. Pe-ru-na Saved § Me." "1 THANK DR. HARTMAN FOR PE-RU-NA™ WAS. Mois PARIIEAD. Pn "I hardly know low to thask you for the good Peruna has dons me. "I suffered five years with pain in the stomach. About a year ago it became 20 bad X could hardly bear it. I conghed day and night and grew weaker aud weaker. The pain extended through my body aud I also had dificulty'ia breathing, which made me cough. Bveryone thought I had consumption. "My husband heard of Peruna and bought five bottles. This treatment vir tually cured me and now I recommend Peruna to every one who is suffering. "I thank Dr. Hartman for this excellent remedy." Ste. Julie de Vercheres, P. Q., Canada. NEGL ED cold is genérally the first car of catarrh, | 1 Women are especi able to colds. and e These colds occur more frequently dur- | it ing the wet, py er of winter trouble, er time of the It sear and spring than any «¢ year. Often they | duct of the body. Tt quickensand equals are not consid- izes the circuls- ered serious and on 6f the 1 are allowed to reli run on, or, they | congested 1 are treated in such a way as to only mer palliste the symptoms, while the cold | bre becomes more deep-seated and the and patient finaliy awakens to the fact that | membr she has a well-developed case of ca- | arethe more tarrh. head and 0 ot By reason of their delicate struct y | SHE TRY i! the lungs ate tr quently the seat Mrs. Ju cold, especially if there is the slightes | Ohio, writes: weaknessoft . The treatmen "When I wrote to ¥ of catarrh l is also more dif- | Nf be ' EE h three floult and didcouraging than catarrh of | "0 HY Hh "e-Mrs. Mois Parizeat most ree ghs, colds , by Teason of the faet thas wo to the very seat of the Peruna has been found the able of all re rri ies goes at ol w hes out every crevice, every WOMEN SHOULD BEWARE OF CATCHING COLD. PE-RU-NA THE REMEDY FOR CATARRH OF THE LUNGS. thus eving on the mucous whether vey e posed. membranes of th r they fine BOO! MC ys Tolodoy for advice, X 1 had to gusrd | on possible. we, It would pu | took Pett against it t snd it has cured me." 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