CANADA.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 316, 14 November 1888, Page 4

CANADA.

Gibb floss, a Quebec shipownei, died in that cHy, October 2nd. His estate amounts lo >?8, G00, 000 or SIC, 000, 000. A letter from Eraslus Wiman, published in Toronto, October 2nd, says it is. not unlikely that a resolution will be reported for concurrent action in both Houses of Congreat., declaring it the duty of the President lo open negotiations wirh Great Britain looking to a political union between the English-speaking nations* oi the Ameiicari Continent. The condition attending this invitation to Canada is understood to be that the United States shall assume the debt of Canada, A fitting pendant to this it, a cable despatch from London, October 2nd, saying that order? have been issued for an increase in the .stiongth of the Royal Engineers at iialittiK by strong diafls from tho subuuuinc section of Royal Engineers, from Chatham. .Several torpedoes have been oideied horn Woolwich. At a banquet given in Ottawa, October 18th, in honour ot the Secretary ot State, •Sir John M.iedonald made a speech wherein he said that Canada mast keen cool. If a new Fisheiy Ticaty could not. be negotiated they must i overt to the treaty of 1818, and bo willing to submit the interpretation thereof to arbitration. White, a member of the Canadian House of Commons, and a prominent member of the Conservative parly, stated on tho 18th October that tho Dominion Government had madearrxngements to relieve the Government of bue tariff on manufactured and other articles. He is confident that the American Government will propose leciproeity in natural products and manufactures. The ne^ s from Moisie, 202 miles ea^t ot Saguenay, received at Quebec. October 3rd, ia of the most appalling kina. The whole population in the district is on the brink of | starvation, as tho fisheries h ivo entirely failed, and the crops arc of no great account at any time. Tho few provisions in the place are high in price. In regard to the reference to the United States Sena o Committee on Foreign Affairs, of a i evolution inviting the British Government to enter into negotiations to exclude the Chinese fiom the North American Continent, the matter has not been considered seriously in Canadian official circles. It is considered .simply as a hasty move to i secure the labour votes of the Pacific coast Debanu, the defaulting assistant cashier of the National Park Bank of New York, has been surrendered to tho United States authorities by Judge Riou.v, of Quebec. The colony of American Levanters in Canada is alarmed. Sir John Macdonald, in an interview, October Bth, expressed the opinion that the Liberal parly is irretrievably committed to some sorb of political commercial surrender by Canada to the United States. The next Federal election, he says, will bo fou^ut out on thib line. The " Empire," chief Government organ of Canada, declares the attitude of the United States "a standing menace to the Canadian Dominion." Tho exclusion law is working effectively on the Canadian border of New York. On October 10th 3 two Chinamen, who had come from British Columbia, bound for Now York city, wore refused admission at Plattsburg, and bent back to Montreal. Orders havo been telegraphed to the Pacific end of the railway to take no more Chinese passengers. It is announced by cablegram received at Ottawa from London, October 12th. that the contract for tho construction of a ship railway from tho Bay of Fundy to Baie Vesbe, on the Gulf ot St. Lawrence, has been finally settled at a cost of £1,000,000. The greater portion of the village of Point Duchene was burned on October 14th. Loss, $100,000. Official report on the trreab fukon River, Alaska, shows 600 miles of it to be in British territory. This includes about 200 mile 3 in the goldmining region, where the chief camps are situated, the men making $10 to $20 per day washing auriferous deposits ; but work only lasts about two months annually, in consequence ol fi esheta and early fronts. The contract between Mie Canadian

Pacific llailway Company and iho Imperial Govei'nmont for a steamship mail service between British Columbia, China and Japan »as finally sigried in London, October 15lh, and benders issued for three thousand steamers of 6.000 <-onn each. The contract stipulates that the service is to commence within eighteen months, the steamers to run monthly, and stop at Yokohama, Hong Jvon£ and Shanghai. A London cable, of October 16th says : A number of leading canneries in British Columbia are arranging to bring out 600 crofter lishcrmen Lo replace the Chinese. T. B. Barry, who sough b to establish an independent Order of the Knights ot Labour in Canada, his been ex pulled from Lhc Order in the United Statcs'for maJfousbanca in oflioe. Count de Prenjioioal, Spanish Con&ul(Jcneral at Quebec, killed him.self in that city on October 17th. He left debts to the amount of §50,000. Ex-Minister Cartwriyht .said in a speech at Toioubo, October IVbli, thifc annexalion to i/he United !- tatos was ine\ itable unloo& both courlrica could agreo on free trade. Ho ridiculed tho fedex'ation scheme as impossible. It is thought the Dominion (Jovernmont intends to back down on the iisheiies question. Tho ''Free Vre&o ' of L.iiidon, Ontario, which voiceia the view;-. < : the Minister ot Ai»rieultme, took the ground, on O<j tobcr 16 Lh, that Canada had Dcbter yield. Premier (ri eon way, of Wii > n ipe^ , tue ) W. F. Duxton and Acton Uiurows, managing editors ot the " I'iee Pioss and Gail," ior libel on Ootobe« Jui-h. Tiicy staled he \va* l">ontjht in connection vilh tlio Northern Pafulif Deal.

SPANISH AiM ERICA AND it E \\'E;J£ INDIES. A battle took place on Supteinbei 29th in Hayti, between env.iu.l 'x'halmugc's lorces and General Legritim.es command, beginning at .seven o'clock in fcl.o evening and lasl m^ all night. Tnalma<jo was killed! Theie was a ]nvg n number killed and wounded on both sides. The cyclone which recently pievailedin CuLivwll dccLeu-^c the sugar crop ten per cent. It has been claimed that the loss would reach 25 per cent. The 2\!exicaniams have completely ceaoed and all the floods are receding. Official figures state that the losses thicighout the country from cyclones and flood, will exceed 3,000,000d01b. The sixteen cigar factoiies in Ha\ana remain closed, notwithstanding fie voto of the union workmen to accept tho lerms ot thomanulacLureis. A Cuban millionaire, JDomin^u F.anado, and his wite were murdered ?>t f- J i c 111 1 ie-i-dence on Inqnisidor-street, J-lavtu^i, on October 11th, being hacked hoi , thly with a hatchet. iSanudo was very iifh, but hih money and jewels were found undisturbed. A son-in-law and a serv-mb have been arrestod on suspicion A revolution occmrcd in Bolivia, October 13th, on account ol election frauds. General Seide Thulemacjue, defeated candidate at Hayti for the JPru&idency, attacked, wifh m.tny folluwers-, F. T. Lc^ritmie, his succesfaiul opponent at the i\uL-> Nationale, Port-au-Piince, on September 28th, and was killed with 100 of hi.s men. A typhus lever epidemic piewiil*. in Veia Cruz.

COMMERCIAL. S vx Franx-Ij-uo, October 20, 1888. Wheib— No. 1, IS 60 cents: JS T o. 2, Is oS^ ' ent> to is bl\ cents ; I own yradc, Ift 35 cents to IS 50 cents ; extra choice, for milling, I- 1 * 65 cents per cental. Floui. — 4S 75 cents to s\> ; laiuiiy extuts, 5S 30 cent> to S1?S 1 ? 75 cents tor Barloj . - Standai d chevahei , !•-> 52 \ cents to IS 55 cprits per ciiiifcal Hops. — Ne»v ciop, 15 cents to 17V cent& ; old crop, 5 cents 1o 0 ci nts. Conl. — B\dney, i 3's to 14S pei ton Quicksilver ■ — AVeak, 42^ ppr flatk. Brooms. —IS 35 cents per dozen ut auction. Lumber. — Uougl) pine, pur in., 20^; extra lenyth^, 2i.-,r, 50 cenU Lo 23> 50 cents ; selected, 25s ; c!c;u, 32^50 cenfo ; iiouiinj^, 34^ to 39S ror No. 1 and fancy, and 29S 50 cents for No. '2 : stcpjmiir, 3ih 50 cants to 44fi ; rou°h red wood, 17s o0 cents to 20-^ ; surfaced, No. i, 35s per m. feeb ; shiuo;les, 2s 50 cents : lath, 2^ 75 cents to 33 25 cents ; pickets, 17.S 50 cents, to 39s 50 cents tor rouch, and 26 v i lOl 1 tancy. Freights. — Wheat, to Coik, Ha\ro or Antwei'p, 37b 6d ; if to a diiect port, 355.