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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 634, 14 January 1914, Page 3

The third Peace Conference now sitting recommends a semi-official international conference to study the problem of the limitation of armaments. The committee is considering ways and means for punishing the authors of false or incorrect news, capable of compromising international peace. Lady Strathcona, who died in London last month at the age of eightynine years, married her famous bußband in the wilds of Labrador some sixty-four years ago. Lord Strathcona, then Mr Donald Smith, was an agent of the Hudson Bay Company, and Miss Sophia Hardisty was the daughter of another agent. There was no priest or church within a thuusand miles of the spot where the young people met and loved, and the marriage was celebrated "according tot he rites of Labradora," the parties making! simple declaration in the presence of witnesses. Nearly half a centruy later, when a peerage was conferred upon the man who had become a great Empire-builder, some question was raised in social quarters in London concerning this marriage, and eventually a re-marriage was held to be necessary in order to secure Lady Strathcona's position under the laws of Britain. The veteran Cana dian statesman and the wife he had taken under such romantic circumstances some forty-eight years earlier went to the altar and were formally joined with the full ritual of the Church of England, while the Labrador marriage was ratified by a special Act of Parliament.