, 1875-06-03
British Columbia Items.
. From the Colonist.l

/ From the Colonist.]
The section of wagon road between
Hope and Yale has been let to Teirney
and Hick for about $40, O,Oc0.
T There was heavy fall of snow on
Sooke and Goldstream hills yesterday
morning.
~ H. NJ. s. Rocketleft Callao on the
10th of April for Payta, Coast of Mexi
co and Esquimalt. and did not expect to
reach this Station till July.
w The ladies of New Westminster
have presented. through Mr.. Holbreok,
NJ. P. p, set of colors to the stesm-
boat Royal City.
I Capt. Hughes has had the Indian
Chiefs who saved HIM and his crew from
the wreck of the Edwin photographed
by Shakespeare.
IThe steamer Maude has gone on
the ways at Cook & Ceilings yard for
an examination of her hull and general
over haul.
u A telegram from Clinton an
nounces that Mr.. j. Nicholles of Victo-
ria, who left there with the Bell party
of surveyors, has had leg broken neal
Clinton.
n We hear that Mr.. S. Moore of
Nicola Valley, has started from that
neighborhood with 81 head of cattle,
20 of which ~ere landed here by the
Enterprise, the remainder being sold on
the way down.
T The steamer Eta White, Capt.
Smith, with hay and grain for Mr..
Lenevue, arrived ON the 26th and left
the same day for Esquimalt to take Mr..
Atkins pile-driver across the Sound to
build a wharf at Seattle.
T H. NJ. S. Boxer arrived at Callao
on the 10th Of April from Esquimalt-
all we'll; and was to sail on the 18th for
Coquimbo, where she weuld provision
and coal and thep1go on to England via
the Straits of Magellan. perhaps touch
ing at st. Helena.
e News has been received from the
Jarvis party of surveyors who left the
Upper Fraser last summer to explore
the Smoky River Pass through the
Becky Mountains. Thev have arrived
9. Winnipeg and report the Smoky
River Pass impracticable for railway
construction.
r. The entire coast of British Co.
lumbia has been erected into a pilotage
district. Capt. James Raymur of last
ings Mills, Burrard Inlet; Mark Bate.
Mayor of Nanalmo; John Devereuz,
Thomas Lett Staischmidt and Captain
Charles Clark of Victoria to te pilotage
authority for the district.
V- As the North Pacific was leaving
the barbor on Tuesday last with the
American excursionists Oh board, she
rounded H. NJ. S. Myrmidon and dipped
her flags, and the passengers gave three
cheers for the Queen and the British
flag. The compliment was returned by
the Myrnidon with the addition of a
salute from her big guns.
r Fire was discovered in the kitchen.
of Mr.. Mayer. wigmaker on Yates street,
ON Monday afternoon and was extin-
guished by Mr.. Stietz. A high wind
prevailed at the time, the neighborhooo
is highly infammable. and all the fire.
men were celebrating the Gath at the
Gorge-three first,class concommittants
of a great blaze. The escape OF the
town from destruction was very narrew.
~ Mr.. Wn. Beckford reports find
ing boat floating bottom-up in the
neighborhood of Seabird Island, abreast
Of Tod's Bay. He describes her as
skiff built, nearly 80 feet long. with or
feet beam. She had carried 2 masts.
was rugged to pull oars and some 2
feet had been decked ovel at the stern.
There was four or five feet of telegraph
cable wire fast to the stern. The finder
made her fast to q stone at the Island.
and it is supposed that she belonged to
some Germans at Salt Spring Island.