CANADA.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 300, 19 September 1888, Page 4

CANADA.

Mormons from Utah are crowding into Canadian territory on the north - west (Pacific) coast, and the Hon. Mackenzie

Bowcll, Minister of Customs, has been appointed to investigate the subject. They came from Utah upon tho understanding that they bhould not be allowed to practise polygamy. The SUeena River Indian outbreak is becoming ssiiouSj and help has been asked from Victoria, BC. There are but live white men in the foil, which is surrounded by 500 of tho savagest Indiana, all bent on murder. The award of the contract for convoying tho mails between British Columbia and San Francisco to an American firm has loused the iie oithc Canadians, and the Conseivative Ciovernmenb i^ charged with cncoui aging Amorican shipping at Canada's expense. Tho British tJovcrnmcnt has linally refused to giant a subsidy for the projected 1 cable between British Columbia, Honolulu and Australia, and the directors aie pressing the Dominion (!o\cimnont for a subsidy to supplement that piomi&ed by Australian and Sandwich Islands Covernmenls. The outlook at. present id by no means reasoning. The Cami'Hin Pacific mail subsidy querf tion was iinally settled August 9th, b> a ten yeais 1 contract between the railroad company and the BiitL-h Uo\einmcnt en the basis ot *45, 000 per annum for scr\ ice between Vancouver, 8.C., China and Japan, to begin as toon as first-cla^s tteamcis can be procmed. Twcnty-!i\c buildings were destroyed by Hie in St. John, N.B , August 20th, the worst tire since the gieat disaster in 187' J. Lo-s 40,000 dollais." A delegate from Biitibh Columbia was in London, August) 9th, urging the government to adopt pronosils to eecuie the fcetllement on Vancouver Inland ot 250 coftei families, the Pio\incial (iovemment guaianteeing to iei)ay pi'.ncipal and inteiesL of the sums aihanced tor thar. object. Arrangement- lia\e been completed foi importing 3,000 catt'e into Scotland horn Canada. Scotch fa mou \iew this importation trade with ahum, and ceitain local bodies refuse to adir.it Canadian cattle into then distiict. The Norwegian steamship Libi-ta, ian ashoie at White Island, No\a Scotia, August 17, and became a total wieck. The crew had ani\ed at Halifax. Ivluaid Jianlan, iunior, the >ounii son of Hanlan, the oar s man, was burned to death at Toionto, Augu-b 16th. While pla^ ing with matches his clothes caught the