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{Home News, Feb. 26.)
The Quebec papers represent the r csult of the recent visit of Canadian delagatcs to this country as likely to be an arrangement with an English company for the construction of a telagraphic line and a waggon express road from Canada to the Pacific, the Canadian government guaranteeing 4 per cent, on L 500,000 of capital. It is stated that the Imperial Government, while refusing to meet the requirements which were made on behalf of Canada, is not unwilling to furnish "large material aid on behalf of the British possessions on the Pacific."
" We are informed," says the ' Globe' " that a pro ject is on foot of coining for colonial use a British silver dollar of the weight and value probably of four and a half English shillings. Such a coin, we believe, would be so convenient and so economical that it might well be introduced even in this country." On the 12th February Sir William Armstrong sent in his resignation of the official position he has held for the last three or four years as ordnance engineer and superintendent of rilled ordnance construction to the War repartment.
It is confidently stated that Mr. Serjeant Shec will have the offer of the first vacancy on the judicial bench.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 2, 6 May 1863, Page 5
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