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through ot 'Pacific has, under i again Increased until to- is estimated there are at least of the-yaluable mammals bel tween --~ coast of 'Washington and ' "joy shores of Alaska. This year expect to capture 2,000 seals, : ey value of the skins taken since 1917 is about $500,000. Bey Vancouver, B.0.--The first consign- ment' of lumber to Chili for many years left recently, being shipped by T. 8. McClay, Harbor Commissioner for Vancouver. Edmonton, Alta--Prospects are ex- cellent for a record potato crop and it is expected that the yield will be as heavy as any yet harvested... The acreage is twenty per cent. greater than any previous year. Within twenty miles of Edmonton there are three: thousand acres of potatoes in bloom, o Calgary, Alta --A profitable mar ket for their product of sodium chlor- ide is being developed by the Senlac Salt Co., which is engaged in develop- ing the salt deposits at Senlac, Sask. A loeal soap factory is utilizing the product extensively in its manufac- ture, instead of importing from Wis- ccnsin as previously, and it is prob- al e ithe wants of their Winnipeg branch will be sai" 6 source. Calgary, Alta--Owing to the in- crease in the buffalo herd at Wain- wright, one thousand of these animals are to be slaughtered. A special building is being erected for the pur- pose. The buffalo meat will be sent to all points over the country for sale. A strict account 1s being kept of all heads and skins, which will probably] t be disposed of by the Dominion Gov- ernment. The Wainwright reserva- tion contains the last large herd of buffalo in the world, with about 8,000 animals. Regina, Sask.--Active work oe al- ready started on a soil survey of the province of Saskatchewan by the Col- fege of Agriculture in co-operation with the provincial department of agriculture. All possible data will be gathered in regard to soil conditions that are essential to a determination of the most profitable type of farm- ing to be carried out in each district. Saskatoon, Sask.--Telegraphic ad- vices from the morth country an- nounce that a heavy strike of gold bas been made on Cariboo Island, on the north shore of the Great Slave, by the Aurous Gold Mining Company. Mining machinery is now on the way to the island;-and it.ie expected that everything will be in readiness to be- gin operations upon a: very gxtensive scale next spring. Winnipeg, Man.--For the purpose of recovering amber. deposits from the sands ou the west shore of Lake Cedar, Manitoba, J. Dix Rogers, of Toronto, has been granted a 21-year Burial Service at Sea by Wireless supplied from the A despatch from London says:-- The burial service at sea by wireless was the unusual story brought to Liverpool by the incoming Cunarder Carmania. When the Carmania was 300 miles west of Fastnet a wireless message was received from the Canadian Gov- ernment freighter Canadian Trapper, London-bound; asking: "Can you oblige us With a dopy of the burial service?" The Canadian Trapper was about 200 miles distant. A fireman aboard the freighter bad died and no burial AIRSHIP SCHEME T00 alsé Drovides that $5,000 must be ex- pended , on operations dusing the nies were formed under the Domin- $603,210,850, as compared with 512 companies in the "preceding fiscal year with capital of $214,326,000. creased their capital. stock ty $86,- 187,760 in the same fiscal year, while 10 decreased their capital. stock by $19, 580,000. property has 'recently been acquired in this city by a syndicate of Toronto and United States capitalists, upon which will be erected one hundred and fifty moderately priced homes. Work will be started very shortly on the first batch of twenty houses and when these are disposed of the re- mainder will be built. The houses will cost from. $4,000 to $5,000 each and are to be surrounded with suffi cient land to make them desirable, 'Hamilton, Ont.--The announcement that a carload of cherries shipped from the Niagara Peninsula had ar- rived in Winnipeg in good condition and had met with a ready sale was particularly pleasing to the growers. Local growers have been trying for years to find a market in the West. Quebec, Que~--During the months of April and May a total of 29,195 immigrants entered Canada, 15559 being from the British Isles, 8,745 from. the United States, and 4,891 from other countries. Montreal, Que,--The Nascopic 'of the Hudson's Bay Co. left here recent- ly on her annual trip to the Hudson's Bay. The steamer carries stores for traders and the company's. posts in that region, and will bring back their merchandise. The Nascopic will short- ly be followed up by the Bay- chimo, and both ships will probably be back in September. Fredericton, N.B.--Although wea- ther conditions which have prevailed during the past month have been a detriment to the apple harvest, it is anticipated, judging from present in- dications, that the apple crop in this district will be the heaviest in years. Reports from Kingsclear, Oromocto and Douglas all show that the orch- ards dre looking well and giving promise of a big yield Halifax, N.8.--Dr. J. D. Logan has opened offices here as a "clearing house" in Canada for the output of Canadian writers who prefer to live in Canada and market their wares from the homeland. It is hoped that the new organization will largely ob- viate the necessity of Canadian writ- ers failing to find a domestic market going to England and the United States -to market their literary ma- terial. service was available. The full ser- vice was sent by wireless, the dicta- tion lasting an hour, and at the end the body was committed to the deep. nea Sif eomimenitiiny British Premier Visits Canada in Autumn A despatch from London says: -- Unless failure to achieve peace in Ireland leads to an autumn election in the United Kingdom, Canada will probably have an opportunity of see- ing Lloyd George soon. Lloyd George is being pressed to visit Canada when he. goes to Wash- ington for the conference on the Limi- tation of Armaments, and it is under- stood. that he: will do so. COSTLY, year ended March 81, 1920, 991 com. | on Act with a total capitalization of | Eighty-eight existing companies in-| Toronto, Ont---A large block of| TO CANAD. Huge crowds watched Premier PREMIERS' MEETING PASSES INTO HISTORY Preparations Made for British Representatives at Dis- armament Parley. A despatch from London says: -- The Imperial Conference of British Premiers has now reached its penul- timate stages, and the situation 'is happily clarified. There has been a ington, and a basis of reasonable cedure is within reach. During the last two days the dele- gates have devoted their whole atten- tion to the discussion of the possibil: ities and implications at the Wi ington = Disarmament . Confe: the Embassies concerned. It is 1 definitely decided that ne full dibss preliminary conference will take pla ject matter of the conference, at which Dominion representatives like Premier Hughes of Australia and Premier Massey of New Zealand, who foresee obstacles to their aftendance at Washington, will have opportunity to present their views. On every hand there is an eager disposition to promote the success of the Washington Conference. There is visible willingness to sub- ordinate personal conveniences and predictions to the larger end. It has been practically decided that the British Empire will be represent- ed by an undivided unit at the Wash- ington Conference, and, probably, Premier Meighen of Canada and Pre- mier Smuts of South Africa, will be members of the British delegation. Premier Meighen will not remain for the preliminary conversations, but plans to sail for home on the Car- mania on July 30. The United States Government is firmly opposed to any postponement of the Washington Conference until Spring, and the various Governments have immediately set about the pre- paration of their respective cases, with a view of beginning the real work of the Conference before the middle of November. The scene now Ridge, the scene of a striking Canadian victory in the Great War. steady exchange of views with Wash-| agreement as to the-method of pro- : based upon despatches arriving from IAN - HEROES : Meighen unveil a memorial on Vimy -- A despatch' from Moscow says: -- The Soviet Government a the The official figures of the Commissar | of Health show 13,476 cholera. cases| since the beginning of the year, of which 11,234 occurred. in the month of June - alone. says there are five hundred cholera cases in Moscow. The Vossische Zeitung 3 - Ole He wi Chepes---. Dew la yo ; od, Honey Extracted, white clover, 3 60-30-1b, tins, Volga District : 11 234 Cer Cae b 101b: ti Smoked' a Roti 27 to 280; Greeks Claim im Viclory Over|{ Ottoman Forces, in Asia A New; k large, 84 to 8b6c; twins, 34 ay por i. as is 16¢c; Ontari ovr, in a per 1b, Hh famine in the Volga Region started \ ' last month and fgrew steadily worse. ! TR NTIRELY BR despatch from | nesday, night. The resistance of the Turks, it was ay London says: --A big victory of the Greeks over the Turks in Asia Minor was announced by the Greek Legation here on Wed- ps - do, No. 3, 621 68c. $10.50. © Rolled oats Bae ' Ba, Bran--$25 to $2 7. Shorts to 4 Sapo, 2, per ton, to|carlots, $28 Ah Be 23%e." But- 'ter, ¢ 6 dn ra to 89%e. | Bees, Sele 2 fo' dle. Potatoes, SL ; A despatch from London says:-- The seriousness of the situation cre ated by the long drought in England is ehown by the EET: of the Thames Only 125,000, 000 gallons daily are o flowing over the instead of the nor- "broken. mal July ly Sow of %210/000000 gallons. i The Lond er ah - from oe ily Express sags it jo dlatued there; J Turkish Nationalists in London, but there will occur diplo- ; matic conversations touching the sub-|* 'movement carried out by the Greeks. "The newspaper Patris of Athens de: i clared it had learned that Mustapha { Kemal Pasha, chief of' the 'Turkish + Nationalists, hag authorized the Sub- lime Porte, the recognized Turkish Government, to appeal to the Allies repo London that the Turkish ee .are willing for Allied intervention. 1 The Greeks are pressing. on to Angora, the capital of the Turkish Nationalists, and have reached the rr ten, To learn, then to do, means success to you. . next three weeks, iy Saltfleet township, east' of ! Hamil. led in' eluding a double enveloping' | lege. s drawn when If was a "Plans now are ready lth Yondon and for eattizig off the suppl during certain hours daily. ee Duke of Connaught * Takes Daily Exercise A despatch from prom. London' "says The Duke: of Connaught, who is now mn, but looks as if he were the King's brother instead of his uncle, explained how he keeps fit, in a speech when distributing prizes at Dulwich Col- "1 am on in age now," he said, "but still do my physical jerks avery morning. T don't think I should be happy without them." {TO BUILD 150 MILES OF - | HYDRO LINES BEFORE WINTER A despatch trom Toronto says:-- Actual construction work on the ex- {tension of hydro power into the rural districts is to commence within the contracts upon which to: proceed with, rural hydro extension, It is & striking feature in the pro: gress of the Mork that 3t fa thon the province most inti- mately acquainted with hydro power and its varied uses which have been 'DECIDES EMPIRE PREMIERS | ton, will probably be the Scene of| Quickest to sign up and which are A despatch from London says:-- One of the matters discussed by the Empire Premiers Conference in Lon- don has been the possibility of using "airships as a method of improving communications between the Mother Country and the far-flung Dominions of the British Empire. A committee was appointed to re- port on the subject, and its unanimous decision is that any scheme of kind would be too costly. The Do- minion Premiers - British Govern. ment have to decide whether they will go shares in maintaining British air- ships and their personnel as a nucleus of great Imperial trans- -oceanic air service, The committee estimated that it would require an expenditure' of fen millions sterling to run airghip ser- vices for five or six years, and it came to the conclusion that from a the | commercial standpoint the experiment 'would not be worth 'the expense in view of the present financial position. shifts to Washington and the Confer- ence of the British Premiers may be regarded as at an end. --t Chicago Claims ; 26,054 Canadians A despatch team Washington says: --Figuséa announced the Census Bureau Canadians resident in Chicago as 26, 054. The' Ley population of the city is "8085, A482. W. 'W. Wood r President of the United: Farmers of Alberta, who is favored by the farmer members-slect of that. Provines as Premier." He was not a candidate in the recent elections, but the success. of the transmission Tine, township, near London, and the coun- ns under 'the new legislation, which provides' for a Government. subsidy of half the cost Dorchester most ~clamorous in their demands for try surrounding the town of Prescott | engineers are other districts in which an early commencement of DFSeatioay 4 is ex-| "give the number of | hi of the Ura is. largely eredited to abi Rg + Ontiads.. hoa 38,000 ies. Le alm