CANADA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2321, 6 January 1890, Page 2

CANADA.

T c Canadian Parlumeufc will a.'ked n it year to enaot lam against polygamy, because of tba Mormon influx to the a rth-wf>st territory.

La Satire, the Leading Fferjoh Oantdtan Liberal paper, came oni strongly on Novrobar 25-h. la favor of annexation to (he Uuued Statea, or tbe formation of the United Statei cf Canada. A movement Is on foot amongst the leaders of the Frenoh Oamdhnß to forward an appeal to the Uutted States if the ISngilsh m&jorltp in the Dom'nlon, as has been threatened, attempts to deprive them of their rights, granted by the treaty of 1863. I- is stated that negotiations ba'wden England and the United State* *ff ocfng Oaoada bava narrowed down to a correspondence In regard to the Bahrlog Strait tuid Alaska boundary question. Hopes are ontertsintd that a ■atteftctory eettlemant will be eff c*ed before next season. Stanley Hall, M.P., In • letter to the " Times," embodies ths results of his visit ito Behrlng Strait and o»tada, and warns iche Home Government thit apathy in this ooatroversy Vll evenually alienate the aoy«lty of the Dominion, and greatly usilst the Ametioan Press in fostering Can id Sin discontent with the English oonacotlon. The Canadian Government his under* taken tbe work of constructing a ship xailwty to connect the rivet* St Lawrence with tbe Biy of Fondy, thns reducing the trip aroand Nova Sootia from five hundred •nUes to seventeen. It will cost over 600,000d015. Thirty-two ioaotnotivee will be required to dray a oar holding ■ vessel, and me trip will o:oapy a little over two , hours. The tariff wl Ibs 50 oens per ton , on cargo, and 25 cents per ton on tbe reasal. Hydn alo j ick« of Immense power *!1 ba v c i to raise the vessel on tbe osr, which can ba aocomptlahed in half i an hoar. This Is specially applicable to the pu'poae of wsr, the oae being oapaoioas enough to transport the largest ship.