, 1880-06-06
CANADA,

ing them IN marriage snau pe suoJee' ~ d pen1
CANADA,
The Thousand Islnnds--The Auube1
Market~-Irlsh Relief Fund.
Special DtspotcA to Tbs Chtcaso TTIots'1A
OTTAWA, June 5.-Referring to the rumoF mat
the Dominion Government proposed selling
the Thousand Islands, in the River ST. Lawrences
to private purchasers. the Citizen Government
orgun) says: The Government does not intend to
sell, has not sold, and will not sell the Thousand
Islands, Some OF them may be- leased
Farmers generally In the Ottawa District re-
port TINT the atobug Is already attacking tbs
tender potato plants. The fields in every di1eo~
tou are swarmiux with them
| T. j. Richardson, the contractor for the House,
| uf-Commons debates, has been served With no
dcc Of d writ in chanccry by S H. Mcintosh. tn
which action Is demanded to rcstrain the Gov
ernment from paying Richardson the balance
| due him on his contract The grounds OF the
| app licat1on are set forth under several bends.
| alleging that MI. McIntosh was full partner in
the contract.
The Minis ter Of the Interior has issued 8
notice to the effect that all applicants for rail-
| way-lands in the townships in the Northwest
| surveyed last year, whether such applicants
have settled On those lands or not, will be re-
they arc placed in the agents hands Tor dis
| posal. The same notice contains Al iuttznaton
to squatters on unsurveyed lands that. when tno
survey shows them 10 be located within the rail-
Wny-bclt, the Government will not undertake 70
secure them in possession, whether they happen
to be in odd or even numbered sections
| Lumbcrnen state thAt the demand IN tho
home-mnrket Is still dull, but the United states
| y better even than last year. One trrn In New
| loads OF lumber per day to Troy. n. 7. Lumber
men freely admit that the National policy has
given no encouragement to their trade but
| ductlon-
Some 5000 Was subscribed in this city to-
wards the Irish Relief Fund; but Of this amount,
| ut the Mansion House. What has been done
With the balance Of the money Is question: and
Mayor Mackintosh, who was Treasurer ot tho
city fund, has boen called upon to explain
Two hundred and eighty immigrants have set@ .
old residents have migrnted from the Ottawa
Valley to the Western states. 1t Is evident from
the following statement, which appeared tn the
Carleton Place Canadian tToEy>, that the Minis
| teril press is at list becoming conscious OF the
| fact It says thnt on Monday last number Of
women and children from the northern part at Of ct
| Tho Departments have been officially notified
that tho Government workshops will be closed
on tho E.th.
\ number of tenders for fencing the Canada
Pacific Railway have been received and opened,
II The , Dominion a Rtfe Association al hual match
vii open here on he 6th of September Over
Nj Mf. 4. @ McKenzie, Il = editor Of the C.psc Maoa-
| zine, Inverness, Scotland, who recently visited
| CANADA and wrote some very interesting COM
own magazine in advocacy Of the emigration
| Of "tenant-farmers to this country. has been
| elected Fellow Of tho ANTIQUARIAN Society OF
| tributions he has made to Celtic literature and
the history Of tho Highland clans:
| An American hiss purchased F100, 600 worth Of
/ a9Tnfa fr hk1 n rFNrffNn a
| new grain-eleyator at Ogdensburg. with d
capacity Of l.oooooo bushels:
| Special Dispatch 10 The Chicago Tribune.
| TORONTO, June 5.-The Executive Committee
| of tho Canadian Press Association met here aud
decided TO meet this year in Toronto, in the first
| Bay By the Culliny steamer. and,f possible,
| go a short distance up on the Canada Pacific
Farmers in oil sections in Western Ontario say
that 1t is now certain that there will be q mag
| niicent hay-crop; and that wheat and every
ar An immense M s Is % e6ncourso Of Odd Fellows from
| all parts Of the world Is expected to meet hero
in tS oGson 6eg e the the
Sovereign Grand Lodge Of the Independents
Order. The gathering viii be one ,, ,e, OF SPECIAL rec
acter. Tho Sovereign Grand Lodge Is composed
| OF delegates from each State and Territory In
tho United States, each Province Of the DoIntn-
ch md new zcaiand tie saadweh
Islands and other countries h,a The delsgates
s4eh ss aaycs meg
| The institution has now Il membership OF nearly
100000, and has accumulated vast fund for the
general aud charitable purposes Of the Ort,eE-
having, according to the last annual report, ex-
pended ,740, 405 during the year for the rcltcr
| Of its members. The Ontario Government, fol-
| lowing the usual custom Of the United States,
! has granted the use OF the Legislative Assembly
| rooms for tho purposes Of tho session, which
! special cable from London, Eng, to the
| Globe says: :" 4 dinner was given by the Canada
] Club in honor OF Mr. 4. T. Cali, resident Cnnn-
sThc Prosperity Of tho Dominion, made his first
| public speech In England. In the course of bis
remnrks, Mr. Gait, referring to the Dement'S or
| Confederation, said it has not merely con-
/ soldated the Provinces, but it has given Canada,
in future negotiations with the States, conl-
| nlcrcial independence it did not possess whe1a
the Washington Trenty was mnde. Canada has
now access to the ocean curing both winteF
and summers and it should, IN any n futuro
for nll its grants. hr: Gait referred to the im-
proyement beng made on the Welland Canal.
I Rsa see
o! has @ spent about il connection with the
SGx feir Industry 1 from ron England Mr. Gait saia
5e Paeits Haiwa{ l. Tead tSs hom;n,S BE- ea,sd as
Government in England, and saia he
| who held ONCE now would be found as true to
tho interests Of tho Empire as their predee@es- @
| sors. Hc regretted that the statesmen or both
parties 10 England never recognized their re-
| sponstbility in reference to emigration. Iney
have always regarded it as their duty to gee that
emigrants were put on good ships, carrying Eood Ed
| medical officers; butt HI to what became or t1eR
afterwards, they have given little attentio9. o
What are tho consequences? Why, that, N n. NJ
teen years, of the 900, ,000 people who have ieft
Britain ana ireland and have gone to ,a Amerfca
| only 2to, 600 have settled in Canada Ihis stAto
OF things is not at all consistent with the
interests of England. Ills mission 70 England g
was to alter that poLicy,-to alter the feeling
which permits british subject to A leays s,its his
country and wander West, North. and SOUTH
His business wns to show that Canada offers
special advantages to British enlgrants, and % to
necessity or choice, seek for home across ne
| Atlantic Mr. Gait dwelt on tho importance of
| 1ha Colonies to Great Britain, and concluded:
Let it be remembered that the whole wora a.f Gun
such an Empire as owns the sway Of Queen
! Victoria to-day. II VIC allow the present mo-
| ment to pass-if the Colonies Hit away from tho
| Mother-C Country. BY any possibility can
| the position come back where you are to-day
He trusted that the able men who rule England
would employ their abilities in endeaVo1tug to
bring about closer union OF the Colonies with