CANADIAN-PACIFIC RAILWAY.
*i — PROBABLE NEW CHAIRMAN. By Teleeraph-Prees ABSOciatloE-Copjright.. Ottawa, Hay 9. Sir Thomas Tait ia spoken of as likely to bo the new chairman of the CanadianPacific Railway Company in plaoe of Mr. C. M. Hays, wlo was drowned in the wreck of the Titanic. [Sir Thomas James Tait, is a sob of Sir Molbourne Tait. Chief Justice of the Superior Court for the province of Quebec In 1880 he entered tno Audit Office of the Grand Trunk Railway; secretary to Sir 'William Van Home, then vice, § resident and general manager Canadian ailway Company in 1882, and he padu- i ally advanced in the service, and in the ] early nineties rose to tie position of managor of transportation over the entire system. In 1903 he was appointed chairman of the Victorian Railway Commission at a salary of £3500 per annum. When ho took command the railwaye of Victoria were losing at the rate of £WW a day, and he converted this into a profit of .£550 per day. Ho resigned the Commissionership in September, 1810, for private and family reasons. He was , knighted last year.] s ... ■. .. i ] , j ONLT THE BEST PIANOS. | THE mtIIAIANT BROADWOOD. . THE SPLENDID RONISCH. TIIE MAGNIFICENT LIPP. THE SUPKRI) STIOINWAY. j These are only four of the famous Pianos i on which wo specialise.—The Dresden Piano Company, Ltd., Wellington, Jr. J. 7 Brookes, North Island manager ) Let J. J. Curtis and Co., Shipping, , Forwarding, find Ciutomiiouso Affenl.", ( Cnstorahniifo Quny, movo your I'iirniluro. They've Imd years of exiiorience in , this kind of ivork, nnd will do it to your j satisfaction. No careless pnrkiiif; or , rough handling. .Modenilo charges.—Advt. 5 —-■ ] s> Rβ SEWING MACrilNl^.— You.rptiiiire f one? Oscnr Hewitt jukl Co. supply ( them. STVLE, QUA HIT, I'lilCK. > TERMS—aII will bo found perfectly satis- ' factory. 'Phone 520. or call at Depot, 56 ' Cubs* 9fT?"f- wi'l pro~» <«if p.leim to irivi tlwj greatwl BttiieJ<wUoM »t the Uivmk 1
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1437, 11 May 1912, Page 5
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320CANADIAN-PACIFIC RAILWAY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1437, 11 May 1912, Page 5
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