Bn

issued its 41, 000th number.

"have been reduced 25 per cent.

- ‘prohibition law, which: i is effective
_ Jan.

: ers’ in. Germany is approximately |.

. ‘Belgium.

“next Saturday,

oS a ‘Canada’ 8 customs receipts . for
‘November | constitute! a record,

"and gnats. ‘for. failing. to. put, a

—_—

ave disappeared:*

Cr

a — MINER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, i916

“The World’s Doings i in n Brief

News Notes from Many Sources.

Walker’ 8 “diatifery will be
closed for a year. a“

Fifty-three ‘British vesséls were
sunk in November.

“Two fnandred were killed ‘in
food riots in Berlin.

. Great Britain will inaugurate
state horse-breediag. ;

‘Italy has declared she will not
make a separate peace.

The London Times -has just

‘ ‘Uprisings are reported in the
maritime provinces of Greece.

” German money has depreciated
20 per cent in the United States.

Up to the. end of November|

180,000 men enlisted i in Canada.

_ The attendance at San Francis-|
co fair was. nearly 19,000,000,

Typhus is epidemic in. Mexico
City, The death rate is 180 a day.

_ All eivie salaries in Montreal

“German official casualty lists to
Nov. 22 show losses of 3, 700, 000.

: British cabinet ministers will
veda ce their salaries by one-third,

Father Sinnott, of Ottawa, has
been made archbishop of Winni-

peg.
~ Goethals ‘eannot estimate the

time required to clear the Panama
canal.

‘Seattle will enforee the state

“The ‘number of British prison-

33,000.

Two more | "French - Canadian
regimenta ‘are to be raised in
Quebec. ;

Germany’ continues ‘to collect
forty million fran cs monthly from

The deposed - "boy emperor of

China is to wed Yuan Shi Kay’ 8
daughter.’

‘

Lord Brooke may -eomtnand the
first-division of the second: Cana-
dian army. as

Ontario will impose a + ta of 20
per cent on the; gress receipts ‘of
racetracks, . , ;

Thirty-seven’ hundred London
policemen - have volunteered, for
active service, —

a

- President Wilson and , Mis,
Norman, Galt. are :to be mitried |

eing $9, $18, a0.
> An Ottava man wag fined $20

stamp on. a check...

! “Since: thie’ "Gamo by. the
Turks’ ‘égan:'.950; 000, Arménians

“This. year’s; “ght crop brings

_ an average. ineome.-of $1000: to
po each brairle family.

servatives - “and ¢ one independent
with eight vacancies.

A. three- cent postage stamp,
for use during.the war only, is to
be issued by Canada.

Number 5 Hospital, from Brit-

to the Mediterranean.

“In the last year 417 lives were
saved by means of rocket appara-
tus on the British coast.

Ontario will spend twelve mil-
lions.on radial electric railways,
with Toronto as the hub.

Britannia ‘Mines , on Howe
Sound, will soon produce 2000
tons: ‘of eopper ore a day.

The' British steamer Inverkip
rammed a-submerged submarine
in the straits of Gibraltar. ,

The legality of Colorado’ 8 pro-
hibition law has been upheld. The
state will go dry: on Jan. 1,

. Premier Borden lias abandoned
his intended western tour, which
he was to begin this month.

Blaming the United States for
his downfall, Villa threatens to
raid American border towns.

“Fourteen. women were shot by

Grandes, Mexico, on Sunday.

‘There will be no new British
loan till well on in 1916, and no
new taxation in the meantime.

‘London ‘reports ‘say ‘there is|;
now no question of the abandon-
ment of the Gallipoli campaign.

. King, George is now able to
leave the ‘palace, ‘having nearly
recovered. from hig recent injur-
ies. “ ;

The period of Lord Derby’s
recruiting plan end today. - Itis
believed to have proven success-
ful.

“ThreeGermans arrested i in New
York had a store of chemicals
and explosives. in their apart-

ments. ;

_A-woman suffrage measure
will be introduced at the coming
session . of the Manitoba legis-
lature;

Americans. charge professional-
ism’ against George Goulding, of
Toronto, the world’s champion |.

‘| walker,

"The German governor of | Bel-
gium has prohibited. the return
of Brand Whitlock, the 4 American

7 minister.

a

“Hon, James Dunsmuir is giving
$1000 a month - ‘to the Patriotic] -

fund and $500 -a. month to the

Red: ‘Cross. et

ee

"New, ‘\aboratovies,’ for experi-
| ments >with. Canadian. woods;
have been. ‘opened ate MeGill
University. Geb ake or

W ilson’ 8 me
transmitted on Pueaday, was the

preparedness, _ re ot

ie Lioyd | George ‘arin

ish Columbia, has ‘been ordered|

a Villa firing. ‘squad: at Casas].

seag6 “ta. “apt,

longest on record,’ Ik déalt. with

one that 2126 go government oil iy tase

Bail” ‘dizeresating dvet ten mil-

lions is demanded,

Many’ Austrian statesmen pro-
test against the proposed customs
union. with. Germany, on which
the Kaiser is is bent.

Two bandits ‘w ‘were killed and
the sheriff-wounded in a battle
between a posse and train robbers
rear Little Rock, Ark.

Following a mutiny in. the
Chinese fleet at Shanghai, Japan

‘Jsent a cruiser.-to that port, to

protect foreign interests.

Fifty-nine were killed and 66
injured in hunting accidents in
eighteen states: and pravinees—
half as many as last year,

German agents have’ ‘placed
orders in the- United States for
200,000,000 pounds of copper, to
be delivered after the war.

were manufactured, was almost
completely destroyed hy fire,

The new White Star

Ly the admiralty as a hospital

ship and is fitted with six thou, jj

sand beds.

recall of Capti. Boy-Ed and Capt.
von Papen, of the German em-

activities. ;

Herring fishery privileges will
be granted for the waters sur-
rounding Prince Rupert, where
the industry’ is to be established
on a large scale.

TheAncient Ore derof Hibernians |
in Canada proposes to sever. re-
lations with the order in the U.S,
owing to. the attitude of the jat-
ter on the war question

King Ferdinand, addressing the
Roumanian parliament; was com-
pelled to stop by cries of ‘Down
with Germany! Down with Hun-
gary! Léad us to Transylvania!’

. British Columbia’s contribution
to Cunada’s overseas armies in-.
cludes sixteen infantry battalions
and two mounted regiments, be-
sides detachments forother corps.

‘Ford's. peace party, consisting |-
principally of students, news-
papermen, and movie- operators,

for Christiania. "The party was
refused passports. to land i in Eng-
land. °

“The ‘thushroom town of Hope:
well,
works -in’. Virginia, with a popu-
lation. of 25,000; was burned on
Thursday. . The loss was $3, 006, -
000, every wooden building: being
destroyed.

N early three miles of theRogers

heen completed.’ The main head-
ings have ‘been “excavated for
another mile and a half, leaving
half a mile to- pore before the
connection is, made,

Three ° high’ officials / ‘of the
Hamburg- “America: line,” ‘on “trial |:
in ‘New ‘York for violation oFU.S.
laws i ia ‘eorlhection : with coating

'|}German warships from America|

ports werd senteneed to eighteen |’
cae: ae subordinate|

‘The Gold Médal furniture plant |
at Toronto, where war supplies |i

liner if
Britannia has been taken over ‘4

The U.S. -has demanded the|

bassy, owing to their improper. Te

left New York on two steamers. |

at the DuPont powder

Pass tunnel on ‘the GP. RB. has}

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Synopsis « of Coal Mining Regu
' lations.

(Co4L mining rights of the Dominion,
in Manitoba, Saskatchewan an
Alberta, the Yukon Territory, the
Northwest Territories and in a portion
of the Province of British Columbia,
may be leased for a term of twenty-one
years at an annual rental of $1: an
acre, Not more than 2,560 acres will

be Jeaged to one applicant,

Application for a lease must be made
by the applieant.in person to the Agent
or Sub-Agent of the district in which
the'tighta applied for are situated.

In surveyed territory the land must
be described by gections, or legal sub-
divisions of sections, and in unsurveyed
territory the tract applied. for shall be
staked out by the appli leant himaelf, -

_\ Bach application must be accompar

ed by a fee of $5, which will be refund-
ed if the rights applied for ‘are not
available, but not otherwise. A royal-
ty shall be paid on the ‘merchantable

cents per ton,

The person’ operatin,
furnish the Agent wit!
accounting forthe: full
chantable ‘coal ‘mined and hay ‘the |
royalty tliereon, If the coa minin
fights ere, not being operated, suc
returns should be furnished "at Teast
once a year,

“the inine ‘shall

ri hts, only, but-the lesseo.may be per-|,
mitted to purchase whatever available
surface rights may-be considered nee- |:
essary for the working of the mine ‘at
the rate of $10.00 an atre. ...

‘For full information application
should be made to the Secretary of the.
Department, of the Intérior, Ottawa
or: ae or. Sub-Agent 0
Dominion | anda

We CORY, c
NB Deputy. Minister of the Intortor.
wig aleortsomen wil ‘not ba paid for.
‘587 782. : 7 .

output of . the mine at the tate of five| :

sworn returns}.
guantity of mer-|.

The lease willinclude the-coal mining

nauthorized . publication of

Assay Office and Mining Office

Arts and Grafts Building, 578 Seymour Street
VANCOUVER, B.C.

The Estate- of J: O'Sullivan
Provincial Assayers and Chemists” ”
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| Jivan, F.G.S., 26 years with ,
Vivien & Sone, Swansea,

month jnadvanee. This rate includes office con-

wultations and medicines, ae well ag all coats while

In the hospital... Tickets obtainable in Hazaltan

at the Pest Office or the Drug Store; In Ald

from My. T. J, Thorp; in Telkwa from Dr. Wallace;

or by mall from the the Mrdteal Superintendent at the
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NOTICE _ 7 :

NOTICRi is hereby 2 given that an appli-
-cation will be made to the Legislative
Assembly of the Province of British Co-
lumbia at its nextSeasionon behalf of The
Nagaé& Skeena Rivers Rail vtleLe ompany,
a aren tL aa ake e Le
‘ive Assembly of the Province of British.

to be entitled: “The Nano & Skeena
Rivers Railway Act, 1911, Amendment
‘Act, 1916”, extondin: ‘the periods pro-
acribed -by Section 79 of the Railway

{| Act, within which The Nasa &‘Skeena

Rivera Railway Company should. bona
railway,-
up in- cas
‘sent. of the authorized shere ca

‘the Com ANY, , and the expendi
‘such ‘fifteen “per cent: In,” upon “and

ailk, linen and lawn—at Sargent’s.

next. ‘and then! Spain:

Very. prety” “fiandkerchiefs in.

* Servia leada ‘the: “nations . for m=
| ccntemarlais. in? ‘proportion: ‘tol’
| population,, . with Treland: ‘Aanking

operation of the said Company's’ rail-

powers a8 may. be necessary.

B. CG. AFFLECK, Mgr. ' New Hazelton,

islat-.

8.8. Prince Rupert ,

HAZELTON HOSPITAL sssvés,

fer any perlod from one month upward at $1 per —

Columbia, by Chapter.69 of the Statutes |.
of British Columbia, 1911, for an Act -

fide eormanas thea’ eanstrnation | af. ite voles

procure the bona fide paymont. _
of not less than fifteen pet
iether OF.
iture of | '.-

towards the construction of itarailway, |
and the completion and. ‘potiing into ~~

‘way; and for anch further end incidental. - :