Alberni Water and Electric Co bill passes amid busy week
The legislature debated multiple measures from saloon license bans to road and school acts. Alberni Water Electric and Telephone Co bill advances as committees report progress on the Columbia Western Railway project and other measures.
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Consolidated Railway and Light Co
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McPherson
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Semlin
Eberts
Turner
Cotton
Hunter
Col. Baker
Columbia & Western Railway
Graham
Trail
Pentincton
Alberni Water and Electric Co
House
Kennedy
Adams
Abyssinians stir Dervishes as Africa may enter war
War echoes describe Abyssinian advances in Egypt provoking possible European expansion. Britain seeks funds for African campaign while Austria Germany and Italy signal collaboration. Debates in UK Parliament underline risks and uncertain gains from Nile expedition amid rival powers.
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Africa
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Austria
Italy
Great Britain
Baratieri
Chamber of Deputies
Rudini
A. J. Balfour
House of Commons
Nile
Mr. Balfour
France
Russia
Marquis of Salisbury
House of Lords
Kassala
N. Y. World
Soudan
Charles Dilke
Salisibury
Constantinople
Balkans
Upper
Coal prospects and shipping bolster local industry
The N V C Co plans a shaft at Wakesiah Park while a 18 inch coal seam on Salt Spring Island is expected to widen with development. The City of Everett steamship, plus other charters, are moving coal to San Francisco. A Miners Union deputation seeks to amend the Coal Mines Regulation Act to exclude Chinese workers, with court testing likely. J Dunsmuir aims to rapidly mobilize miners and build a stamp mill at Mineral Hill Consolidated.
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Salt Spring Island
City of
Everett
Rosenfeld & Sons
San Francisco
Rufus BE
Wood
General Fairchild
Wilna
St. John
New V. C. Co
Bay City
R. Sm‘ta
Miners’ Union
Tully Boyce
Ald. A. Wilson
Victoria
Eberts
Charles Wilson
Vancouver
Minere’ Union
J. Dunsmuir
Alberni
Mineral Hill ‘Consolidated Company
Duns‘muir
Gladstone Returns to London Amid Health and Global News
The article notes Mr Gladstone’s return to London in excellent health. It covers a Toronto exhibit bill veto, a live cattle exclusion protest to the Colonial Office, legal suspensions in Philadelphia, wage cuts at Oliver Iron and Steel in Pittsburgh, Liberal conventions in Pembroke and Pontiac, a cathedral burglary in Peterboro, Armenian famine reports, lumber price hikes on the Pacific coast, battles in Cuba near Candelaria with heavy insurgent casualties, the Pacific cable conference set for London, Hawaii’s princess marriage rumors denied, Ballington Booth’s God’s American Volunteers, Rhodesia administrator successor Lord Grey, a Brockville shooting incident, Russell Sage bomb incident damages, a Sunday described as a joyous day in Nanaimo, and a climate note praising Nanaimo.
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Colonial Conference
London
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Stanford Fleming
Lilioukalani
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Ballington Booth
God’s American Volunteers
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Cecil Rhodes
Dr. Jamieson
Rhodesia
Lord Grey
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