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THE ou MINER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1915

“The World’s Doing in Brief

News ‘Notes from Many Sources °

- Baron ‘Alverstone is “dead ‘in|.
~ London. »

“There is: ‘a. “mille shortage ‘in
New. York, owing to the demand

for condensed milk. to supply the
Allied ‘troops. 7

Four ‘motor ‘bandits held up the
‘Western. State Bank at. St. Paul,
getting $3000. ‘They were after-
wards captured, re

Further food riots i in Bertin are
reported.

The Dominion parliament willl,
open on Jan. 1.

‘Sugar i ig forty cents a pound in

onstantinople.
Consta P “A specimen ‘of the rare white

bear of British Columbia was
, {shot afew days ago on Prince
of Wales Island.

The: fall of a ledge i in the Win-
gate. coal mine, Wash., killed two
miners and imprisoned 100 others
-| for twelve hours. '

Harvard has instituted a course
in military | science,

British reinforcements are ar-
riving in Mesopotamia,

Rossland mines are now. pro-
ducing 1000 tons of ore a day.

On the western front the Allies

havé 65,000 motor cars in use. ; Forty-cight airmen have secur-

ed certificates at the Toronto
school, twelve being about to
leave for the front, .

A factory fire in Tororito on
Saturday did $100,000 damage.

Women’ are ‘taking the places};
of motormen on Berlin tramcars.

“The life of the British parlia-
ment is to be extended to Jan. 31,
1916.

Rev. Dr. John Reid, a pioneer
’ minister of Vancouver Island,
dead,

. The U. &. government will
build .an $11,000,000: munitions
: Plant. -

General Stecle has protested |
apainst the custom of charging | -
exorbitant prices - to. Canadian
soldiers i in England, -

‘French cruisers are “pearching
American ships in mid-ocean and
removing all subjects of Ger:
*| many and her allies,

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A Belgian munitions plant at
Havre, France, was blown up on
"| Saturday. Over 1000 are report-
‘Jed killed and injured.

WwW P. Goard has been appointed
-| prohibition organizer in B. C., in
succession to Dr. -MéGuire, who
vesigned the position,

California metal . -eoncerns are
seeking antimony ores, in British |: ;

Columbia. i

i is proposed i in England that
the Mediterranean be ‘made a

closed sea. ’ Several Austrian consuls in

the U. S. must return home. or
face criminal charges for com-
plicity i in Teutonic plots.

_ ‘if new cabinet’ has been form-
.edin Spain, with Count Roman-
ones as premier.

‘Tie town: of. “Hopewell, Van,
. destroyed by’ fire last week, is to
be. rebuilt atonce,

» In reply to German. peace talk,
Great: Britain..announces that
four million. British troops will be’
under arms before April.

. OA bill providing for an army of |.
400,000 -has been presented to
the U.8. ‘congress...

‘An emergency fund of $1,000: -
000, for continuance of work on]
the. US. ‘government railwny in

-Fire caused by deféctiveelectrie Alaska, is to be appropriated.

wiring occasioned $100, G00: dam-

President Wesbrook advocates
age at Picton; Ont.”

doubling the area of land allotted
to the University of B. C., to al-

Vienna’ 9 coal supply. ig so emall : ;
low af agricultural experiments.

_ that it is proposed ta: discontinue
the lighting of the ‘city,

i A band of pro-Gexmansattacked
a_train-loaded with Entente mu-
nitions at Johnstown, Pa a

“Owing to” her shortage of
wheat, Spain ‘will permit the im-
portation of 200,000 tons free, of
duty: and transportation charges,

‘Advocates of church union ad-
‘mit that the results: of the recent’
ballot.” ‘ih the churches show that
their cause is lost, for’ the present,

‘There ig. still a ‘shortage: of
horses. for. army. purposes, .ac-
“cording to Lord Kitchener,

a The Belt Line railway ‘of. Chie
eago, is tied-up by a strike invol-
ving ‘Bix hundred trainmen,

Mrs. Annie Hawkes, sentenced
to death at Macleod for the mur-
der’ of. her husband, ‘has been}
reprieved. She will serve ten
years. ot

B. C. spruce.’ lumber is: in. de
‘:” mand in Great Britain,.: bringing
_ a8 high as $190 a thousand. -.

“Only - two. ‘miles, of ‘the Hope
mountain jine remains.to be con-
stricted. “It will:-be used jointly | |
by. the Kettle, Valley and Great,
Northern, ae .

There’. was, an.  npresedsted
congestion’ of: traffic. ‘on ateamers
leaving: Canada for England: this
week, Many. were: unable to ses
cure 2 passage. .

LA five- foot shoot of sliver tec.
. - ore has been struck on the -900-.
_ foot ley level i in? the Slocan. Star,

Pou “thousand: natives of the
_* Solomon Islands and Santa Cruz |.
Magi ie perished of famine,

‘Three men are under arrest for

— for the insurers

a submarine fired two torpedoés

‘attempted arson. Sixty people
were, asleep ‘in the building,
which’ the’ évimirials tried to burn
ce, -

The ‘federal ’ cabinet hag ‘com-
muted: the death sentence of Mrs,
|| Blizabeth. Coward, who murdered
her husbarid near Fort St.James,
to imprisonment for life.

A prominent Hindu, now in
Ottawa, declares that India ‘is
loyal to’ the. core, but strongly
desires ‘a- better understanding
with the overseas dominions, .

Wednesday? 5 ‘sitting | ‘of the
reichstagz was of:a stormy nature,.
owing té the refusal. of the gov-
ernment to- answer questions
asked by Dr, Liebknecht, socialist.

- The French steamer Harmonie
escaped withoutdamage, although

at her and an aeroplane followed.
her for fifteen minutes, ‘dropping
six bombs. 4

The largest labor organization’

just been formed. It ine tudes :
miners, railway workers, and:
transport employees, numbering |

1

Port Essington; | Ohara and } Nari
victed of manslaughter and sen
tenced to ten years imprisonment.:

German- -spies were responsible |

Kingston plant of the Maple Leaf!
Milling C.o on Monday. The St.
Catharines flour mill was destroy-
edi in the same way a week be
fore. . a

Yuan Shi Kai, | president of |
China, has accepted the throne,:
which. was. offered him by the
council of, state.” "Phe Bntente

“powers have asked that the} °

| change, be deferred until after
the war, . ;

~The | ‘Hudson’ 8 ‘Bay Co. is op-

\ posing efforts to enforce’ the
| Quebec game Jaws-in the cases

of Indians. The compuny main-
tains” that the natives shave an
inherent. right: to” ‘Kill animals,
irrespective of game ‘laws. |

Lady Pontiac Johanna, a cow

owned ii Buffalo and valued at
$20,000, has. broken the. world’s

yielding: 658 pounds of milk. in:
one week, -: From thia milk ‘over
Al pounds ‘of butter was made,

oA trial ‘shipment: ‘of Canadian
frozen fish, sold on'-the.. London
market: ‘on. “Tuesday , « brought
faney prices., With proper facili-
ties, Ottawa authorities main tain,

‘| two million ‘pour.ds ! F jweelk” can

‘be: marketed i in ‘the British capi-
tal.’ a : : oe

One, of the heaviest hit
perience: in ‘northeastern New

_| Yorkin many: years'was reported

on Tuesday.’ All trains’ ‘were held le
up by deep snow. * Reports frotir
other eastern. points ‘indicate that
the blizzard: raged, all. along ‘the
| North j, Attantle seaboard,

icin

in the history of England has’ #

about twa millions. a.
i.
On trial at Prince Rupert for, As
» the killing of John Pitman a=

gano, two Japanese, were con-' & 7 TOA

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Synopsis of Coal Mining Rese
dations.

Coat 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.
yeurs at an ‘annual rental of $1 an
acre. “Not. mora than 2,660 acrea will

be leased to one applicant, :
Application for a lease must be made
by t applicant i in perdon to the Agent
‘or Sub-Agent of. the district in which
{the rights applied for are situated.
In surveyed territory: the ‘land must

divisions of sectiong, and in.unsurveyed
territory the tract applied for. shal be
staked out by the applicant himeelf,.

. Exch application must be accom ani-
ed by ‘a fee of $5, which will be refund-
ed tf. the rights' applied for “are not
available, but not otherwise. -.A‘royal-
ty shali be paid on the merchantable
output of the mine at ‘the rate ‘of five
cents per. ton. .

THo person, opernting
furnish the. Agent wit!
accounting forthe full goantity of mer-
chantuble: coal, mined -and pay the |
royalty ‘thereon, . Ifthe coal minin
rig hts .are not being’ operated, such

urns should be. furnished cat least
once a year.

The lease, will include the ‘goal mining
rights only, but the lessee. may be: per-
nlitted ‘to Pu urchase whatevér” yvailable:
surface’ rig ta may be, considered -nec-

essary for the working of | the'mine at
the rate of $10.00 an nere, -

‘For... full . information . - application
should. be.made to: the, Secretary of the
Department of ‘the. Interior, Ottawa,
or Mion ae ‘Or: Sub-Agent.: of

ands:

: CORY;*
De uty Minister of the Interior:

‘the mine shall

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‘NOTICE

NOTICE ishereby given that an appli ! to
cation will be made to the ‘Legislative
Assembly of the Province of British Co- -
lumbia at ita nextSessionon behalfofThe -
Naas& Skeena RiversRailway Company, . -”.
& Company incorporated by tl ie Legisiat- ~

ive Assem oly of the Province of-British «9 |
/Columbia,-by.Chaptor 69 of the Statutes °°. >.
of British Columbia, 1911, ‘for.an Ach .
to he entitled ‘The: Naas & Skeana’’
Rivera Railway Act, 1911). ‘Amendment.
Act, 196s extending the periods. ‘pre-
scribed ‘by. Section 70 -of ‘the Railway

Act, within which Tha. Naas :& Skeena
Rivers ‘Railway Cenipany should bona.’

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-| fide commence the: construction of ‘ita.

railway, procure the bona fide paymen|
up in cagh of not leas than fifteen Por,

the C
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