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a Ree le CE ""Pecn the hardest worked members - wither House, - OTHER PAGE-1928 Canadian Politics in | Aviation Achievements | in"1928 1928 Di a paucity of legislative enactments J 4 Fasllament, 1928 essed a number of teal developments which are of more than passing im- po rtance In pariiament the legislation which occasioned chief interest and appro- bation was a moderate reduction in Income and Sales taxes. In the fo the rate was reduced slightly and t basis of exemption extended to Ai Bala} relief to those drawing less than $5,000 per year, The Sales tax 'was out to three per cent, which was the evel, Legislation hij) ovidihg @ exchange of ur tween co Canada, and Japan and which is a broadening of the Jolley wh which was embarked upon when Vincent Massey went to Wash. amon, 1 Hon, Phillipe Roy, formerly ian High Commissioner at Par- is, gg been named Canadian Minis- ter to France and the latter country has named Jean Knight, Minister of Canada, The interchange with Japan lias not been effected, Another departure in State proce. dure 'was the drrival in Canada of Sir Willlam Clark as High Commis- sioner for the British Government in the Dominion, Sir William arrived y in Ni and has b tho tion be- tween the Government of Britain and Canada, while the Governor-General continues as the direct representative of His Majesty at Ottawa. Sir Willi- am intends to take an active interest Ld the promotion of inter-Empire rade snd inter-Empire interests in A io King during 1028 accepted for the first time an nvitation to at- tend sessions of the League of Na- tions at Geneva, Accompanied by Senator Raoul Dandurand, Hon, Charles Dunning and Senators Mec- , Po! and Hayden, he was present athe | welcome as the representative of Capada, With his party he spent two months on the continent and in Great Britain, returning home to Quebec on October 28 Private Legislation Private legislation was generally the most contentious during the 1928 ses. sion of the Canadian Parliament, Pri- vate bills, applications for increased capital for the Bell Telephone Com- pany and Sun Life Insurance Com- pany and charters for half a dozen companies seeking the right to build bridges over the St. Lawrence river, tied up the session for several weeks. Most of them were among unfinished business at prorogation, Another semi-public * bili which roused great controversy was ons gris: from the Senate and hav- ing for its purpose the granting to the Province of Ontario the right to es- tablish divorce courts, Ontario and Quebec are now the only provinces which do not possess that right. From Quebec there has been no request for such authority, nor has there been Geneva meetings and received. 'any flood of épplications to the Sen- _ ate for divorces. Ontario, on the other hand, is pro- widing practically every case which comes to the Senate. This year more than B00 applications were filed from Ontariv and more than 200 divorces were granted, Members of the Senate Divorce committee - have. for Fears 0 Last session they deter- that Ontario should be given right to erect her own courts. The bill passed the Senate witheut diffi- culty, but its progress through Commons was rough and it went into discard. The Minister of Justice, Hon. Ernest Lapointe, came out flatly op- posed mot only to divorce, but to the , Argument that Ontario was en- the same rights as enjoyed by the other provinces failed to attitude, as did also the a divorce court would en- tion to be given main- * custody of children, vention have there heen such in aviation during 1928, The year started auspiclously, With a splendid flight by Charles Lindbergh, the air hero of the United States, who in Jan- uary. conipleted a voy: at Havana, Cuba in 'which he had flown 7,860 miles, . The world cheered a new air hero in Bert Hinkler, an Australian, who flew from London to 'Australia in 16 gays, fgaching Australia on February "The 'dirigible Los Angeles reached Panama in a non-stop flight from New Jersey, a distance of 2,205 miles, which it completed in 40 hours, on February 28, Charles Levine, who had flown across the Atlantic as a passenger, completed the first non-stop flight from New Jersey to Havana a distance of 1,400 miles in 14 hours on March March 13 was a black day in avia- tion for the- ill-fated fliers Capt. Hinchcliffe and a lady passenger were Joet in an attempt to fly the Atlan. c. German airmen crossid the Atlantic for the first time. from east to west, landing on Canadian territory and being rescued after exgiting adven- tures, They 'were feted in Eastern Canada and New York on their ap- pearance there, Costes and Lebrix completed a rdund the world tour on April An Italian airship sailed over the North Pole under Nobile on May 23. Four days later an 8.0.8. call was re- celved from them by radio and most of the party were finally rescued on June 24, after undergoing suffering and great hardship. Seven of them, however, did not get back to civiliza- tion until July fth, and some of the rescuing party had themselves to be rescued, The. first. airplane flight over the North Pole which did not, however, attract its full mead of admiration was carried through successfully by George Wilkins and a pilot, An American woman Amelia Ear. hart, won the distinction of being the first woman passenger to fly between the United States and England, Two Australians and two Americans reached Australia from Oakland, Cal., on June 28, after having flown 7,800 miles. Frank Courtney and three compan- ions were lost in the Atlantic in a flight from continent to continent and 'were rescued from an open hoat after drifting" all day in an open sea on August 2nd. On October 25 the monoplane Yan. kee Doodle, Capt. C. B, Collyer, set a new non-stop record from New York to Los Angeles in 24 hours and Bl minutes. Thirteen days later the 'plane was wrecked at Prescott and owner and pilot were killed, The Graf Zcppelin reached Fried- richshaven safely making the return trip from Lakcaurst in 69 hours, The passage across had taken nearly four days owing to injuries and inclement weather. She landed at Lakehurst on October 15. Not the least memarkable flight of the year was a Paris to London fl'ght made on September 18 by a Spaniard Juan de la Cierva in a helicopter 'plane an innovation in aeronautics. An increased amount of airplane survey work was performed by Gow ernment planes especially in Mani. toba and Ontario. A regular daily mail service was inaugurated to the Imperial Airways Co. under contract with the Post Office Department from Montreal to Toronto and Montreal "o Albany conrect there with the service to New York. In Hudson Bay, Gov- ernment planes did much swrvey work. IMMIGRATION IN 2928. 'For the twelve months ending Oct. 51, | 1928: Other British oats Countries Total | 55,066 $0,370 164,893 | For the tw sd months ending Oct. 31, 27 HN Other British U.S. Countries Total | 55.933 23.164 £4,453 161,550 For the twelve months ending Oct. ee Other British Countries 48.138 63,176 U.S. 20,860 Total --132,174 with 23 members, against an Oppo- sition of 20. As the year closes with a feeling of national optimism and with concrete evidence of mational expansion, there is the belief that the 1929 session will again mark time, that taxation will be reduced and the development of natural resources again forecasts an- other year of prosperity. The Tariff Beard 'The Tariff Board, sitting as an in- : formative adjunct of Government, cement industry, coal and coke and the third with the steel industry. The hearings wepe il- luminating to the Board and to the public, but any tariff action to be taken by the Government will more probably be hinged upon the recom- mendations of the Duncan Royal Com- mission mendations from it. While the recom- mendations of Sir Andrew Duncan in behaif of stecl and coal industries of undealt acter will be brought before ment early in 1929. GREAT DISASTERS IN 1928. Bt. Francis, California, dam burst, 250 dead, March 13. An carthquake in Bulgaria rendered 125,000 homeless, April 25. Corinth was almost completely destroyed, April 27. A Chilean troop transport was lost and 296 perished, Fly 1. A disaster at Mantha, Penn. entombed 211, only 14 persons escap- ing, July 18. A West Indian hurricane swept along the Florida coast, capsing 2.000 deaths and great destruction in Guadeloupe, Virgin Islands and other parts, September 17. A Greek steamer collided ASapk with a total loss of the entire crew of 43 and the vessel, October 3. Masceli, an Jtalian town of 30,000, is wiped out by an eruption of Mount Etna and the lava threatens other towns and willa ber 8. The 8. 8. Vestris sank off the Virginia Capes, 110 persons drowned Nov mber 13. French submarine and the latter a, eN few - of sclence or ths stirping events as have occurred AROUND THE WORLD GREAT BRITAIN, T has been rather an. uneventful year in Britain, with increasing unemployment and much suffer- ing and distress in the mining dis- tricts, Nevertheless there has been general optimism that the tide has turned and that. conditions even in the mining areas are no warse than they were in the Ruhr three years af- the reorganization of industry and the transference of large bodies of men from one region to another will eventually right itself, Unemployment which opened 'on Jan, 1, at 1,300,000, dropped to 1,- 178,000 at the end of the month of Peuruay, i was down to 1,033,000 April 8, 1,160,000 on June 6, 1.- aa, 0 July 26, ¥ Sos August 20, 279,000 on Oct, 1, 1,344,000 on No- J31 14, and 1,800,000 on Dec. 1, Serious floods in London in the late winter drowned 15 persons, The Church of England again ap- proved the revised prayer hook, only to be rejected again in the House of Commons in May, The Archbishop of Canterbury. took the unprecedented step of resigning on July 25, to be succeeded two days later by the Arch- bishop of York, who was enthroned in the primacy on Dec, 5, Dr, Davidson of Canterbury was made a peer of the realm, 3 Scandals in the Foreign Office through trafficking in French ex- change shocked the British nation and resulted in one official being dismiss- ed, one asked to resign, and one re- duced in seniority on Feb, 27, Capt, Malcolm created a record by driving a racing car on Daytona Beach at the rate of 205 miles an hour at the end of February, but this was broken by Krech, on April 28, driving two miles faster, The Flapper Bill, which gaye women the vote on the same qualifications as to age as men, passed its second reading in the House of Commons en March 20. On April 4 Britain announced the removal of the Stevenson restrictions on the output of rubber. Lord Cushendun at the spring meet- ing of the League of Nations at Ge- neva announced his proposal for the further limitation of armaments, The King of Afghanistan paid an official visit to England on March 13, The financial year ending April 4 showed a surplus of féur million pounds sterling. A Carolist plot against Rumania was frustrated in England on May 5 and Prince Carol was ordered to leave the country two days later. Captain Fitzroy was named the new Speaker of the Commons on June 20, On July 13 Sir Austen Chamberlain announced that negotiations had tak- en place with France to secure a basis for armament limitations, a pact which was grossly misrepresented in Am- erica, On Aug. 8 a pilgrimage of 11,000 went to Flanders to visit the graves of the war der 1d the Arr ) was observed .is year om Nc ii, the tenth year after the war, with spe- cial solemnity. The Kellogg peace pact to which Pritain had adhered on May 19 was signed with due formality in Paris on Aug. 7, Lord Cushendun acting for Eritain in the absence of Austen Chamberlain, who was sick. . 8 the T. U. C. endorsed i of industrial co-operation, and a new era of a better understand- inz of employers and employed in in- dustry was begun, thanks mainly to the tact and energy of Lord Melchett. On Sept. 28 the United States re. | jected the Anglo-French pact, and on { Nov. 11 President Coolidge made an | aggressive speech announcing that America would build the largest navy in the world. The Prince of Wales took another { world journey, this time to north and | central Africa, asmiving at Mombasa on Sept. 28. He was sudenly recalled | at the beginning of December, owing to the iliness of the King, arriving in President-Elect Hoover. England on Dec. 11 after a 6,000-mile , suffering from a oold which Ko 2 Stenting Seem by standing bareheaded on Armistice Day. The cold developed into pleur- isy and pneumonia, and on Dec. 3 oxygen was administered. oi ged his weakness increased ; mained in a critical a, The | King's illness evoked expressions of sympathy all over the world. . Lord Birkenhead resigned the of- fice of Secretary of State for India | to engage in commercial pursuits, and {became director of large mining and | honking corporations. Fs FB FRANCE. France enjoyed two great political Sensations during the year, but both ter the war, and that the problem of \ | { | ed his Cabinet on Nov. 11, disrogard- 'Herr Mueller formed a coalition of electoral system further polling took place. on the following Sunday, The result showed that Poincare had In- creased his majority. in the Chamber of Deputies, and one of the first steps of the Premier was to propose fo re- duce the total of reparations to 32 million gold marks, which were to be paid by the issue of German bonds on industrial corporations, : The new Chamber met on June 1, and the important work of stabilizing the franc at 124.21 to the pound ster- ling was adopted, Poincare was up- A speech " Mussolini in the Se. nate préceded™the passage of the elec toral reform bill in August by 161 votes to 45. This gave the National council of the Fascists an important share in the machinery of government and the bill finally became law on Nov. 15, ® % » 'CHINA No country in the world has seen such great changes as China during 1028, © The customary spring offen. sive. was begun by the Nationalists His Majesty King George V. held on June 29, and there was a long recess. Just before the re-assembly Poincare declared that Germany must pay all France's war debts plus the cost of reeomstruction, and on Nov. 5 Premier Poincare and his Cabinet of National Union were forced to re- 4 sign by the Radical Socialists, leaving | France without any government at | all on the opening day of her Bnew parliameptary session, - After vain ef- forts by other French statesmen to form a Cabinet, Poincare reconstruct- ing the Radical Socialists. On Nov. it was announced that France and Jtaly were nezotiatling a treaty to settle issues in North Africa and the Mediterranean. . '. 5» GERMANY. At the beginning of the year Gilbert Parker, Agent-General for Repar- ations Payments, announced that Ger- many had met all her obligations un- der the Dawes plan to the full. The Reichstag dissolved on March 31 and mew elections were held. on May 20. As a result of these elections there was a swing te the Left, avhich meant an increasing effort to work for peace. The Socialists were called up- on to form a Cabinet, and found con- siderable difficulty in so doing. Ger- many was one of the first countries of. the world to accept the Kellogg Peace Pact without reservation or equive- cation. After long delays and discussions, five parties and announced his gov-. ernment on June 28. The policy of the country as regards foreign ma- | alists on June 12. and this year it raged round Tsian- Fu and about April 24, the Na- tionalists entered a strong protest that Japanese troops were aiding their enemies and their despatch of troops to Shantupg. On April 27 the Na- tionalist epteped Tsion-Fu and Japan was involved in street fighting there on May 3 and 4. On May 11 the Japanese were in control of Tsian-Fu. Peking was occupied by Southern forces on June 8 and Tientsin Was surrendered peacefully to the Nation- This brought the fighting to an end. All unequal treatigs made by China were abrogat- ed on July 8 and 7,000 troops were recalled by Japan from Shantung ten days Jater. The United States for- y recognized the new government of Chins as the de facto rulers of the country.on July 27. - Thereafte the work of reorganizing the finances of the country was begun and the task of setting the house in order. By | October 1st considerable progress bad been made and a mew era 2nd prosperity seemed to in for China. y Chiang-Kai Shek the Nationalist general was eclected president of the pew Chinese Republic by the Central | Executive Council on October 9. @ & X JAPAN The Japanese gemenal election on Jan. 13 left the government without A majority. New elections were held and show. od gains for Premicr Tanaka although he still controlled a minority group. . On June § an effort was made un- successfully to assassinate the pre ve set maier. A On September 28 Yosuhito Prince Chichiby the Ja tions was mot ch d in the months, although Germany protested against the somewhat stern attitude of France on Reparations. The most J Menportat step in the settlement of Reparations issue took place in he on Oct. 19, when Premier Poin- and Parker Gilbert met and agreed to turn the question of Germany's' reparations payments over 10 a com- bankers ried Miss Setsudo ughter of a former ambassador at Washington amid great pomp end with ceremohial that dated back amore than tre thousand years. POLAND Poland had a quiet and somewhat pneventful year although she passed through one domestic crisis when { Premier Pilsudski esigned the pr of vho op lagly gly Bin Ho saddle than ster and mois diciatorial) in his On Feb. 20 M was made UNSWODESS- 1 on the life of the King at Milan on April 12. A Cabinet Council ordered the sup- pression of all anti-Fascist March 00 and about this i i the world by the tone © of have the it]. The prtenab early in oa TR r Pilsu 535) Russia contiuped ber sui 'bubble of 'msual and with 'major say x the affairs o as Minister of War. the year dski but at the opening of i wa: Socialists when they elected a 'President of the Seim on March - On June 27 Piisudski premier and was appointed War Min. dster. ® [a RUSSIA continued her or ping path he the coun- business, It was a year of wild spec- ulation on the Stock Exchange and of Wnesampled prosperity in all industrial elds, The United States opened the year by suggesting a world pact r Canadian Expansion y in 1928 J +. | + w a ¥ major interest SSL aang develop. ments of 1 broad and rapid material pro. gress of Canada, At no time in the history of the Dominion--not even during the artificial stimulation of the war peried--has the country enjoyed so wide a growth in Raviout! wealth, Within the t mated t ave war as .an instrument of national policy on January 4; France, to whom the original note was specially address. od, sent an immediate answer, which Secretary Kellogg answered on Jan. vary 11, On the day hefore the Peace pact was forwarded the United States rent an additional 1,000 men to Nicaragua, The first visit of Premier Coolidge to foreign shores took place on Jan, 15, when he visited Havana, to open the sixth Pan-American conference, which closed on Feb, 8, The Nicaraguan Senate passed a bill ermitting the United States to con: rol her elections, but the Lower House rejected the same measure, Fihany the president of Nicaragua issu decree giving the United States "thie authority on March 21, "Big Bill" Thompson, the bitter enemy of ¥ngland, suffered a get-back on April 11, when many of his nom. inees were defeated at the polls. The United States elaborated its note for peace, and sent it to all world powers on April 13. Meanwhile the House of Congress had on March 17 passed a bill auth- orizing 15 new cruisers. President Coolidge signed the Flood Relief bill, authorizing the expenditure of $325,000,000 on May 15, and on May 23 the President again vetoed the MceNary-Haugen Agricultural bill, He had previously vetoed the same bill in February, 1027, On September 28, the United States rejected the Anglo- French pact pro. posed as a basis of international ac. cord for the limitation of armaments, In an Armistice Day address, Pres- ident Coolidge on November 11, ad. vocated the building of more cruisers and a restriction on financial advances to European countries, On November 13 the steamer Ves- tris sank off the Virginia Capes while en route to Barbadoes, with a loss of 110 lives. Two hundred and twenty- five of the passengers and crew were rescued, On December § the United States indicted a large ber of Canadian distillers for conspiracy in the liquor laws and attempts to smuggle spirits into the United States, & & » Gover: 1928 production at $6,000,000,000, ' or the equivalent of some $600 © per head of pulation for every inhabitant, hese. figures, be it known, apply We, to newly created wealth taken from the soll, from the mines, from the The Prc..dential Election, Hoover was named Republican can- didate in the Indiana primaries on March 8, and Governor Smith's name appeared us the Democratic standard. bearer in the New Hampshire prim- aries, on March 13, Hoover was adopted at a Republican convention at Kansas City, as the of- ficial candidate of the party on June 15, with Curtis as vice-president, and Smith was chosen as official candidate of the Derocrats at uston, Texas, on June 20, with J, T, Robinson as vice-president. Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis, as president and vice-president, car- ried 444 votes in the Electoral College against 87 for Smith and Robinson. In the new Congress, 267 Republicans and 164 Democrats will sit and five Republican Senators succeeded Demo- crats in the Senate. 5 . AUSTRALIA. Early in the year Premier Bruce and { Dr. Page as heads of the Nationalist {and Country parties issued,a joint manifesto that they would ue to co-operate there by showing a united front against Labor, On February 13 Premier Hughes called a Peace Counfer- | ence which was attended by both em- { ployers and cmployed. On the same {day Bert Hinkler roused wild enthu- | siasm by the successful completion of | a voyage by air from London to Aus- tralia in 16 days. Many persons were startled by former Premier Hughes { making a violent attack on Italian im- facturing processes and other creative fits of commerce and finance, though in the final analysis an inconsequen- tial volume of duplication must As is customary in Canada general heading of agriculture tinues to jead in wealth oi 000 Dilshoin: oats ,000; rley, 452,000 bushels 'and other grains | aj gnostion, Dairying brought some i the' product of meat 5.000 000 | Me is 'estimated at $175 ,000, plans raising, fruit growing, root swell the total, Put from agriculture, great as the figures are cach year, the growth of nt in directions from which Cana- dians expect loss, which have econ. tributed most surprisingly to this Mining Expansion Of prime importance has been the expansion of mineral exploitations other, From Nova Scotia to Van. couver Island new impetus has been injected, Old fields have been regen- til late in November the Minister of. Mines announced that 80 per cept, of the area of Canada is potential min- electric resources of the country make economically possible the exploita- tion of low grade ores upon a scale ricultural production, At resent there are 10,2566 mines, metallurgical works, oil and gas wells, quarries, ce- ation In the Dominion and the num- ber is growing rapidly, The time when 8 year will represent around the corner and the nation's as coptrolling the world lies of nickel, asbestos and co- challenged, by developments of the year, Chief mineral developments in ihe province of Quebec during the the productive stage at the close of the year, Forest Wealth While mineral yield was setting new their part in building up a record year, The newsprint industry which bas grown into the major individual labors, They do not includé the pro- found in the estimates, The wheat crop 000 to the national wealth, crops and other farm activities help income is not surprising, It is develop- banner year, from one end of the Dominion to the erated and new fields uncovered, un- eral Jand and that the huge hydro which may soon rival in value the ag- ment, lime and brick plants in oper- Canada's mineral production is just bait has been confirmed, rather than past eighteen months only reached records, the forests too, were doing | manufacturing process of the country in value and bad it not been for the Bluptah . Slavia, iat Shien ef Jha red that he died 8s 50 8€ y inju ral Hadjiteh forme the forests, from the seas, from manu- | 22 July 8, har on os Re be wn 6 to torial He of 'the Bratianu family but the country was soon tranquilliz. con- | ed, 3,000 | in way took Getce on . new governor Free State on February 1, Executive Council of the State pajd a visit to the United States landing there on Web, PAIN which had o Ni conside! meeting in Geneva but Bras i to reconsider her notice of withdrawal, Several deputies were shot in Hament fo" 283 aul itch was killed e Croatian leader on Aug, 8, {ed a new IDA Premier Zaimis of Greece to allow Venizelos once more to come forward 10 save the country en May Venigelos was named piemier en o]vo took place at Lis umanian peasan protest against t A serious the deta In Soviet Russia a vice premier wes ited 0 he vheat shortage i Nor- 0 two weeks Morvinkel suce hy - Totihos with a new government, James McNeill was installed as the general of the Irigh president of the Mr, Irish Free Cosgrave, The Peasant Party gained control in Rumania and' Jullas Maniu was named premier, Nov, 0, - Necrology, 1928 | 8 Rev, Dr McMaster yd Farmet; Dun 24--Maj.-Gen, thals, builder Panama canal, 28--Vincent Blasco Ibanez, novelist, 80--Hon, J, E, Hetherington, o- v, sec, Wield Marshall 1 ari Haig, 68 pha A y, Dr, W, L, Clay, ARV sd L0G Ogden, vice-pres, C.P.B., T--Hon, J, Slinston, ex-justice Supreme Court, #1, 15---Earl of Oxford Asquith, ex Tm , CP CL , 1B, 8, 0 Traffic Februa Gov, N.B,, set mew marks both in quantity and] April: break between manufacturers ri November which led to interprovincial conferences and to compromise in production, the figures for the year Foy robably have been close to ,000. Apart from newsprint 3%, forest yielded meariy another $150,000,000 in merchantable timber, The. oesidlnd 100, presepted re- turns indicative of 2 more prosperous year in an industry fraught with un- certainty and hardship even under the most fayvomable circumstances and in- dications are that final cstimates will place a valuation of some $70,000,000 upon the yield of fisheries. The foregoing takes account of the four chief natural sources of wealth and their exploitation, but the fifth avenue, that of manufacturing, has been very much to the forefront in its contribution le national well-being. Neyer before in history hos industriaf | migration on March 28. The La- {bor party suffered a set back in Tas- | mania in June when the Nationalists | | HRM. The Prince of Wales. |trade and the a. employment been as numerous or bet- ter paid. For the first time in history the ultimate walue of man the raw products and of treated products entering fnto the finished articles, but even so, the capital created by manufacture very greatly exceeds any previous total. | goods has grown 100. and as the year A {closed there were very definite pros- pects that the immediate future opens | undreamed-of - prospects for export trade with Central and South Ameri- ca. Official figures show increases | reaching ahoke firty per cent. in many {x increase is shown at better than 20 per cont, At home, trade and commerce and their upward trend have been reflected wi a i Jemoller, ". E00 tg su Ay G, G, King of ld ig torney-Geners), Alta., 4 a 0 lie T--Joha, R. Bone, "Managing Edi. 'oronto Star, BL. 162s, E. Pankhurst, Suftragist, Sa dane, ex-Lozd En J. Jameson, ex = pe em sn 28--John R. Editor, To- ronto Telegram, DASE 5. Fanow, am : ter Customs, Of. Rov. Canets J. B Belang, were returned to power by a majority since the Revoluti man who with Lenin was largely responsible for the Soviet system, was led on Jan. 16. Russia startled the largest army arms. Lord Cushendun pricked the this proposal on and showed the hypocrisy of (ony? sug- mestions safe by Bussa, ~ THE UNITED STATES Presidential year in the United States passed oe [mom quietly than that measure ay of more | than two to one. The Eucharistic Congress opened on Sept. §. ture. ., 2» NEW ZEALAND. On Rulaaty 18, owing to marked signs of disaffection ection among the native New which has a ! eventually passed off without i | ly affecting domestic peace and leav- ing Poincare still at the helm. On Feh. 9 Poincare's finance policy {was approved in the Chamber by 370 wotes to 181, and with a general eclec- tion in sight a bill was forced through | both Cham r and Upper House an- | opting | Qisobility eo death, old age or | unemployment on March 14. The general election woting took | pinee on April 28, but the voting was iso undecided that under the umigue | JAE CLEANER PY Aon. mn mii i wong Rar ond ten) 2,350,883,700 Arran sanesas evenly Aixidon with Premier Coates dent wotes for his isi in "power. The mew Parigment A met on June 2%, and in anors 'l@f the Dominion at an early dale. jable for investment eral election held on Nov. 17 saw Pre- (2njoy March 21 |{mier Bruce again returned aithoughi by a reduced majority in the Legisia- | among the thrice great cities Money has been a { E E28 i i 1. Coates xesigne; Joseph Ward was called upon to form a new government, :