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DOMINION NEWS. ~S-ediu* haa baea bo jun In many ports of I 11 Manitoba. i ~ ■Hon. Jamea McShaas announces h»; retire-I moat from politics.i A bill is to be brought in for .the amendment ; ! jf tho law of libel this MflOQ. •Natural gas has been struck at Ridfrtown, ; West Elgin, at a depth of 90 feet.- ■'Wm. Millmau wm executed at Charlotte- ;1 town, P.E.L, for the murder of Mary Tuplm st Margate in J une last.The cost to the country of the McCarthy 1 Act, which was declared ultra vires by the Privy Council, was $248,732. _ IAt a meeting of the Manitoba Cabinet it ’ was decided to resume woA on the Red River j | Valley Railway immediately. —■•'Traffic on the Canadian Pacific Railway be- , ! tween Bowevain and Dek»rainelt;-hfcm., has ■ j been suspended by a washout.Winnipeg grain dealers estimate the surplus i if grain for export this season at between ] twelve and thirteen million bushels.Chief Justice Arm our was presented with a lt;I pair of white gloves at Napanee, there being , no prisoners for trial at the Assizes there.The Newfoundland Assembly defeated tbe resolution to send delegates to Ottawa to discuss the question of entering Confederation.Four hundred dollars for Scott Act fines lias been handed to the F routcnac County Treasurer within the past week by Magistrate Mc-Kim.An illicit still was seized in Stanley Town- i ship, Huron County, and the proprietor sentenced to one month’s imprisonment and fined $100.The program for the annual mate lice of the Dominion Rifle Association is being arranged. Tbe amount of the prixee this year is to be increased to $7230.At a Conservative convention in Duncanville. Mr. (X H. Mackintosh was unanimously nominated to contest Russell County for the House of Commons. Mr. Raphael is also in the field as a Conservative.Mr. Dawson, M.P. for Algoma, has given an explicit statement to the effect that the Government will push the Sault canal to completion as early as possible.Bear’s carriage tactory at Doon. South Waterloo, was destroyed by fire on March 9, with a sawmill and other adjoining buildings, causing a loss of $20,000.The temperance people of Prince Edward Island presented a petition at Ottawa that the question of prohibition for the lominion be submitted to a plebiscite.Montreal grocers are making strenuous efforts, so far without success, to induce tns framers of the new license law to omit the clause abolishing grocers’ licenses.Under the will of the late Hon. John Ham ilton of Montreal the Montreal General Hospital gets a bequest of $20,000. and Trinity College University, Toronto, $2300.The river is rising rapidly at Montreal, and great fears are entertained of a flood in Point St. Charles, public opinion being-skeptical as to the protection afforded by the flood dyke.By the will of the late Samuel Bowman of Toronto, property valued at $25,000 has been bequeathed to Knox College, and property of an equal valuo to Erskinc 1 resbytcrian Church.Tho Montreal friends of Mr. Taillon, leader of the Quebec Opposition, purpose tendering : him a public banquet and presenting him with a well-filled purse bofore the meeting of the Legislature.The Manitoba Government has decided to establish offices in the most important centres of Eastern Canada to disseminate information regarding the ad vantages-offered by the Province to immigrate.
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Lindsay Watchman
Lindsay, Ontario, CA
Thu, Apr 19, 1888
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