CANADIAN AFFAIRS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 309, 20 October 1888, Page 3

CANADIAN AFFAIRS.

Late advices from the Northwest report starvation among the Indians, with many deaths. Cannibalism exists in the Peace River district — the parents of families being killed and eaten by the children. The §354,000 voted for supplies to the Northwestern Indians have been appriopriated by dishonest agents, and hence the suffering. Gabriel Dumonb is stirring up discontent against the Canadian Government, and has succeeded in gaining a large following-. President Cleveland will soon make a trip by water from Buffalo or Detroit, up through the Detroit River, Lake St. Clair, the St. Clair River, Lake Huron, and St. Mary's River to Sanlt State, Marie. The journey has connection with the question now agitating the people of the United States and Canada, as to the location of ' the St. Clair ship canal and the channels of the Detroit and Shellariss Rivers. Both countries claim the waterways. The British Columbia salmon packed for the season of 1888 is as follows : — Frazer River, 41,600 cases ; SUeena River, 72,000 ; Rivers Inlet, 19,000; Alert Bay, 3,000— 135.000 cases as against 156,000 inlBB7. The delegates to Ottawa to arrange the terms of union between Newfoundland and the Dominion of Canada, did not leave St. John's, as the idea of confederation with Canada is abandoned at present. The reason given is the existence of the pre- ! sent troubles between the United States and Canada, which are likely to prejudice the interests of Newfoundland if she joined fortunes with the Canadian Confederation. Familios are fleeing from starvation in Labrador. Four were brought to Quebec in a schooner on September 22nd. They abandoned everything they possessed. One man with seven, children offered a ' house that had. cost him ,$4OO for $15, and $1 for the furniture, but could find no purchaser.

A colossal scheme is said to be forming by American capibali&ts , to buy up the ten miles of Cape Breton, now worked and owned by different companies wibh English or local capital. As a result of recent investigations ib is reporced that the valuable poldfields near Alaska, recently discovered, and now being worked, on the Yonkin River, are in British and not in United States territory, as had all along been supposed.