CANADA.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 380, 26 June 1889, Page 4

CANADA.

,lk>rd\ljoriBdale waß in Montreal on May 14th,' and in answer to all comers insists thab.during his, recent journey North? he' Was /inside' the r Arctic, Circle 4 , 'he

wilL ; prove*it ,to ,the .RoyaL t Geogr;aphicaL Society when he arrives in- London. lV A t $40,000- fire •, occurred , t at Winnipeg on May 6th, involving the, Brooklyn (Nickel. Hate Hotel, six '^large stores and f the syna-, gogue/ ; „' \ h 'IXAil XAi ' J ', ) ". ,' , ,' '.,',: l r »,vFive,men s were drowned at St.. Andrew's, N.8., on,, May ,6th,' by'thVdsinkjing'pf'a St.; Sanveur, ( a suburb, of Quebec, wwass s swept by flame 'on ,May 16th.' t y^hiletthe, , rnilifcar.yj,were preparing «to blow Vp houses to cnecl^,the spread of, the flaniep, a premature 6xplbsion took place, killing Major Short, and Sergeant, Wallicji, Battery, c ' B. '.* The^Majbr, was burned, tp death. , . The British Government 'p'rpppses to begin work at once, on the .defences of Esqui s-j s -j malt, 4 British Columbia, conside^e^ , bne strongest strategic point on the Pacific coast. • . A , roy aL )( ( marine t artillery, f corps, under' the command of three officers, will; also be stationed, there at an annual charge' ; to the Dominion, Government of ' £7,000.. This force lef^ London for ; EsqqimalD on the 14th of May, .and , a corps 'of submarine miners will soon follow., .Foster, Canadian Minister of Finance, alluding to.the^ubject' of coast defences on May 20th, said the ex- ; ,pression'in a late San Franciscp, paper 'that the .British Government contemplated con : verting the, entrance of Puget Sound into, " a second Gibraltar ""was too strong ; bat it was tlie intent'ion i of ( the and' imperial authorities to make great imprp'vements, there, and especially' at -Esquimalt.,' " If .the^ .Americans, object,"". said he, ". to our establishing batteries commanding the entrances to Puget Sound, 'why 'let them build forts on the, opposite side of the straits.", ," , t , t , A' British man-o-war \yill shortly leave , Victoria, 8.C.", for Behring Sea to inquire into the seizure of British vessels by American^ revenue cutters! i Arthur ,Musey, a civil engineer from Paris, and a relative of President Carnot, who came to Montreal to inspect, the beet sugar,ihdustry ; was v drowned ori May 21st, while bathing in the Farnham river/ Two French fishing vessels, the Ella and Four Brothers, which left France some time ago for the -Newfoundland fisheries with fifteen men, are lost, according to a despatch from St. Pierre, Mighelon. and all hands drowned. A ferocious fight lately took place near Fort" McLeod, Winnipeg, between a band of Blood Indians (a horse-stealing tribe from across the American line), on one side, and a force, composed of soldiers, cowboys and Gros Ventres (Big Bellies) Indians on the other. Many were slain on both sides, and not a few of the Bloods remained on the field, minus their scalps ; the re&b of the killed and wounded were borne away. The Bloods gob the worst of the fight, but carried off most of the stolen horses, however. Commander Percy Hokin,> of H.M.s. Swiftsure, of the North Pacific Squadron, died at Victoria, 8.C., May 20th, of acute rheumatism. In a broadsword contest for $400 a-side held in Montreal, May 24th, between Duncan C. Eosd and Pete Laroyer, the former nearly killed liJs antagonist by a terrible back-handed cut. Laroyer tumbled from his horse insensible. Miners are flocking into the Yakon (Alaska) mining districts, and the demarcation of country becomes more necessary daily, as the jurisdiction, of the American Government bhereis questioned, many claiming the territory is British coil. The cost of demarkingthe frontier is estimated at between $100,000 and $150,000.