THE OMINECA HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1926 Canadian Pacific Railway Company | BRITISH COLUMBIA COAST STEAMSHIP SERVICE es February 12, 26, March 12, every Saturday at 11 a.m. SAILINGS FROM PRINCE RUPERT—For Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, For Ketchikan, Wrangell. Juneau, Skagway—February 8, 22, March & , 8.5. “PRINCESS BEATRICE’'—For Butedale, Swanson Bay, East Bella [4 {. Bella, Ocean Falls, Namu, Alert Bay, Campbell River and Vancouver iZ AGENCY FOR ALL OCEAN STEAMSHIP LINES Full information from ¢ \ W. C. Orchard, cormer Third Avenue and Fourth Street, Prince Rupert j LA Five- and Ten-acres Blocks OF FIRST-CLASS . interest for first 18 months; ¢ Light clearing, good soil, suitable for fruit, gardening, poultry, or general production. Located one mile from New Hazelton railway depot. PRICE: §28 to $40 per acre, spread over five years, No Particulars and information at The Omineca Herald Office New Hazelton ND_ 6 percent interest on balance mat THE Placer Gold Lode Gold Miscellaneous Minerals show the value of production For five years, 1896-1900 For five years, 1901-1905 For five years, 1906-1910 For five years, 1911-1915 For five years, 1916-1920) For the year 1921. For the year 1922.....,., For the year 1928........ For the year 1924,....... PRODUCTION DURING LAST crown grants. - of Mines. Victoria, B.C. BRITISH COLUMBIA MINERAL PROVINCE OF WESTERN CANADA HAS' PRODUCED MINERALS VALUED AS FOLLOWS :— Dare resn tenes Ce i ee ee ee ey wane ee bese rane ee , Coal and Coke......... we Building Stone, Brick, Cement, ete...,. Making mineral production to the end of 1924 show AN AGGREGATE -VALUE OF $859,427,386 ‘ The substantial progress of the mining industry in this prov- ince is strikingly illustrated in the following figures, which« For all years to 1895, inclusive beobeee eco enae Lode mining has onty been in progress about 26 yenrs,.and only about one- half of the Province has been prospected; 200,000 square miles of nnexplored milheral bearing lands are open for prospecting. . The mining laws of thia Province are more liberal and the fees lower than any other Province in the Dominion or any Colony in the British Empire, Mineral locations arc granted to discoverera for nominal fees, Absolutetitles are abrained by developing such properties, security of which ia guaranteed by N.8.—Practically sll British Columbia mineral properties upon which work has been done are deseribed in someone of the Annual Reports of the Minister Those considering mining investments should refar tosuch reports, They areavuilable without charge on application to the Department of Mines, Reports of the Geological Survey of Canada, Pacific Building, Vancouver, are recommended aa valuable sources of information, The Honourable The Minister of Mines VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA wee eeeareeenas $77,382,953 118,473,190 68,824,579 10548, 578 187,489,878 82,382,958 260,880,048 42,225,814 1,481,349 ee ey oe ee Beet eee bane wr be rs reenseee ee oe ey ee es for successive 6-year periods: $ 94,047,241 be eenteeeeeee 57,605,987 . eceseee «tee. 96,507,988 cece ee ee eens 126,534, 474 sete eeee eens 142,072,603 189,922, 725 28,066,641 seen eae eeee 35,158, 848 , 41,304,820 a ee ee eT Viet eeeeeeee 48,704, 604 TEN YEARS, $372,604,725 athe Co ehh it om dedi ate SN THE SUPREME COURT OF BRI- TISH COLUMBIA. IN PROBATE, Kn the Matter of the Estate of MICHEL f LAUZON, otherwise known as Mi- chacl Lauzon, outherwise known as a Micheal Lauzon, deceased, | Take notice that by an order of His Honour Judge Young made the 3rd day bf December, 1926, letters probate have Beepcen issued to me in respect of the will mf the above-named, who died at-Kit- anga, B.C., on or about the 10th day oe Rlay of August, 1925. f All peraons indebted to the sald state are hereby requested to pay to mnie the amount of their indebtedness @orthwith. All persons having claims mepon the said estate are hereby re- B@crifed- by SueBted to file particulars thereof,. duly davit, with me on or Before the Ist day.of March; 1926. & Dated the Ist day of, February, 1926. ‘THOMAS E. MOORE, Kitwanga, B.C. 185 j t SKEENA Notice re Extraordinary Traffic As provided for inySection 32 of the ‘Highway Act’’, Chapter 103, R.S.B,C. 1924, it will probably be found neces- sary for their protection to close during the spring thaw all highways in the Skeena Electoral District to Motor Vehicle and all Heavy Horse-drawn Traffic, Due notice of any general closing will be given, but in the mean- time vehicle owners: and operators will please govern themselves accordingly. . » G CG. MACKAY, wo , District Engineer. Dist. Engineer's Office, Court: House, Prince Rupert, B.C. Dated January 16, 1926, 3035 OUR COUSINS ‘DOWN UNDER’ ; BY HUGH SAVAGE, DUNCAN, B.C. ; With the Imperial Press Conference in Australia, A FOURTH ARTICLE Like Hawaii, Fiji has develop- ed greatly during the past twenty years. Unlike the American pos- session, it still preserves unspoii- ed much of the charm of the trop- ical isles of our reading memori- es, In spite of undoubted attrac- tion at Honolulu, there is a sus- Dicion that Hawaiian music and all that pertains to the Hawaiians are being exploited to make an American holiday, In Fiji, al- though there are traces of the effect of tourists on native life, there is much more of the ‘'real thing,’’ plus the atmosphere of a British Crown colony. Under’a blue, cloudless sky we pass through the coral reef that guards the harbor and circle around the channel towards the red roofs set amid the green of tropical ‘trees, which is Suva, on Vanilevu Island. Away in the interior to our left rise great jag- ged eminences varying from 3000 to 4000 feet in height. Gone.are the days when one landed by boat and natives in canoes with outrigged log, bartered beads and curios. They await you on shore as you dock alongside tne wharf. ‘Soon we go speeding up the speeding Princé’s road, and one gains splendid vistas of the har- bor, to pause awhile at a native village, The buts,are roofed and walled with grasses and broad leaves, and the interior, where rushes are cunningly interwoven to form fluors and walls, are spot- lessly clean. This latter is in ?/ striking contrast to the dwellings ‘(of the Indian population.” Many Indians There For there are 60,000 British In- dians in the island, brought dur- ing the last hundred years to work on tne plantations of sugar, Spice, tapico and coconut. Some have acquired land thei bananas and pineapples, set amid hilly ‘i eountry, recall similar scenes in + Natal. The Fijian population of the 250 islands, which form the -jcolony, is 85,000. _ There are four thousand Europeans and 8,000 of other races. . Near the Rewa river, some 12 miles faom Suva, we come into a good dairy country, where many soldier settlers have their homes. Ayrshires, Jerseys, Holstein and milking Shorthorns, imported from New Zealand and Australia comprise the breeds, At a coop- erative butter factory we learned that very high hopes are held for the future of butter production in Fiji. Already some has been exported to England. There is no hand feeding. Grass is abun- dant the year round and colored labor is cheap. Native timber makes excellent butter boxes, Across the Rewa, which ig nav- igatable for small craft for sixty of its ninety-five miles, the build- ings of a large sugar factory clus- ter around a smoke stack. Fol- lowing a short distance down the right bank we come to the Meth- odist Mission at Davauilevu, -a memorial to Thomas Baker, a missionary who was clubbed and eaten amid the mountains of the interior. An Agricultural School Here bovs and girls are taught useful handicraft, and recently a regular school of tropical) agricul- ture for young natives has been started on 800 acres of adjacent land. A picturesque scene was here enacted. The college build- ing of conerete, with tower, stands on a low. bill. Beneath a great tree on the slope sits the governor (Sir Erie Hutson) while on either side residents and visitors are ranged on benches. Before them is a flat extent of greensward ringed with palms. There are drawn up 2 large number of Fijian boys and girls in white shirts and white calico wrapped at the waist. Near them one notes the familiar Boy Seouts uniform, worn by Indian lads. There, too, are separate groups of men and women deck- ed in fantastic dresses of long Meaves and garlanded with flow- ers. First is enacted the native ceremony of “‘qaleqalovi’’, mak- ing of ‘'kava’’ in which the bev- erage made from roots is cleared bY repeated insertion of a long wisp of fibres, which is eeremon- iously wrung out. Then after much chanting,.a cap-bearer pre- sents the first drink to the goye-. nor. ae mills in the colony-and a refinery at Auckland. €oppra, molasses and bananas aré the other main exports, “One would love to linger among the fields of rice and sugar cane, tapico, tora, bread “fruit, bananas and find out more names of un- familiar but lovely trees and flowers, but haste we must, past Indians sitting cross-legzed by the wayside with fruit for sale, or riding in bullock-drawn carts, On, by the bluest of seas, on a glorious marine drive, we glimpse the botanical gardens and the wonderful plaiting and weaving in the building, given and erected by the natives when Goyernment House was burned down.” So, after a pause in the coolth of the Grand Pacific Hotel by the beach we rejoin our ship, Unique Hairdressing Everyone has heard of the Fi- jian mode of hairdressing. Some natives treat their hair with lime so that it takes on a reddish hue. There are some fine ‘bushies’’ among the police, big, brown men with khaki tunies, and white, skirt-like garment, with scollop- ed edge above bare legs and feet, Their excellent band stands in a cirele amid the crowd of white- suited men, and hosts of natives who wave farewell] as the paper streamers part and we slide out to §ea, Perhaps you nave not heard that you go to bed say on Mon- day night and when you wakeup in Suva it is Wednesday morning That is because Suva is on the “international date line.”? Com- ing back you have two Mondavs, or whatever day it happens to be. Native Dances There follows a *‘meke” i, a, several dances, aceompanied by native music, Fifty men clash bamboo clubs, spring and beat the ground as they illustrate the sighting of the enemy, Ten wo- men squat as thev sing an old chant of weleome to distinguigh- ed visitors. Their lithe, oiled bodies swing from theirhips with exquisile grace of aecompani- ment. Children sing in alternate groups, They form acirele with a little girl in the centre, A boy rides » species of hobby horse, ! There are other figures reealling the folk dances ‘of older lands. Six men step out and demonstrate how ineredibly quickly long leaves can be plaited into baskets In the college there is welcom- ing by the governor and Sir May- nard Hedstrom,, president of the Fiji Chamber of Commerce. Our leave-taking is between rows of Fijian children who line the road clap hands and voice their feel- ings in an oft-repeated ‘‘hip ray, hip ray.” a Canadians. Can Pineapple Driving back to Suva we wan- dered amid pineapples. These are of particular interest to Can- ada, for the Dominion Canners of Hamilton are this year to erect an experimental plant for canning in Fiji, . Sugar, of course is the Breat product, It accounts for some: three-fifths of. the -island’s exports. 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