The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-29
PROVINCE NOTES.
NOVA SCOTIA

PROVINCE NOTES.
NOVA SCOTIA.
At a meeting of Yarmouth town
council last week, Mayor johnson in
troduced the subject of Offering some
| inducement to encourage the opening
of manufactures in the town, He re
ferred to the cotton mill as being re-
lieved from taxation for a term Of
years, and TO the benefit it had been to
the town. a graduate of Worcester
! (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute is super
| intendent of the cotton mill referred TO,
! Mr.. Frank Killam
! William Armstrong of Lakesville, n
| b., is in Bangor with two tons of tur-
keys for the Thanksgiving trade.
Liverpool will put in a new water
service, and an electric light plant at
a cost Of $31 900.
Mr.. E. ]. Ward. Nova Scotian, ar
rived in Boston on Thursday from the
Klondike with $75 900 in his possession
Providence Methodist Church Var
mouth, viii soon undergo a thorough
renovation and viii be prepared for the
| installation of a new pipe organ cost
|
Mr.. A. +. Ellis, the senior purser in
the employ of the Yarmouth Steamship
Company, has rendered his resignation.
During his many years connection with
the boats between Yarmouth and Bos-
ton he made host of friends, who will
regret his departure from the route.
Capt. Henry F. Cam of Yarmouth
has been appointed TO the command of
one Of the steamers Of the Manhattan
:. S. Co., to run TO the provinces
There was an increase of 81, 0o0, 900
last season in the value Of the fisheries
for western Nova Scotia.
c. e. Stonehouse's broom handle fac
tory at River Centre is in full opera
! ton and ships largely to st. John.
Barque Hermon, which cleared from
! Parrsboro on the 18th, is the last deal
| vessel Of the season and completes
| shipments 9rom there.
Advocate is to have a new wharf to
| cost about $4,000.
There are some good farms and or
ehards in Williamsdale and Colling-
wood. Andrew Taylor gathered over
| 500 bushels Of apples, and James Chap
man over 300 bushels this season.
| During October 500 tons of quartz.
4 crushed AT the New Egerton mill. Fiji
teen Mile stream, yielded Al ounces Of
gold.
Work is progressing at the tripoIite
mine, Munros Point Furnaces have
been put in 10 facilitate drying. A
| barquentine load of 250 tons has been
| taken to New York.
Rev. NJ. A. Mcpherson. of Little Bras
dor, has had several good offers for
his iron areas at Georges River and
| has refused them. The area contains
/ over one-half a mile of solid magnetic
| iron ore with a, length of over four
| miles. Assays of this ore show that
1 the quality is most excellent One
| shaft has been sunk in not less than
! fifteen feet of the solid ore.
! The shipments of the Dominion Coal
! Company for October were 1879 500 tons.
| Shipments up the st. Lawrence river,
| from May / to October 81, were 500. 375
tons, being 10000 tons in excess of last
| season. Early in the spring the com
pany will begin to ship to Boston, to
| fill contract with the New England
Gas Coke Company.
| The lobster pack this season fell con-
siderably short of that of last year, and
prices We're higher than ever before.
The figure obtained on the other side
is about $40 per case.
So far this season the Furness steam
| ers from Halifax have taken to Liver
kpoOl and London 100, 600 barrels Of Nova
Scotia apples, all of which have been
| shipped by the farmers of Annapolis
valley. Of the quantity shipped. nearly
80. 600 were taken to London and about
10000 to Liverpool
Henry A. P. Smith has been appoint
| ed sheriff for Digby county. filing the
vacancy caused by the death of Benja-
main Van Blarcom, some three months
since.
| H Elderkin & Co.. of Port GrevilIe.
| have men in the woods at that place
getting out the frame Of three masted
| schooner of about $50 tons register.
They also have small coasting schoon-
er of about 60 tons register we'll under
way.
1t is stated that the presence Of
Henry M. Whitney in Cape Breton at
the present time has to do with the
discovery Of valuable deposits of ore
from which specuiar pig iron or spelgel
is manufactured. The tests show the
ore to be of the best quality. The de-
posit is said to run as high as $4O0 per
ton. Speigel is used in the manufac-
ture Of Bessensr steel.
1t was on Thanksgiving day that the
new Dominion Atlantic railway s
steamer Prince George, Capt. McGFay,
arrived at Yarmouth, from the hands of
her builders at Hull, England, and she
viii be placed in commission between
that port and Boston. She is a larger
vessel than the Prince Edward, but
CONSTRUCTED on about the same lines.
Woodwork = Huntington - At st.
Marys Church. Auburn, on Tuesday,
18th inst, by Rev. j. M. c. Wade, M.
A, vicar, John E. Woodwork to Miss
| Aimee Huntington, both of Berwick
| Register. Berwick. Miss Huntington
/ is a daughter of the late Richard Hunt
| ington, editor of the Yarmouth Tribune.
| Like her late father, she is a talented
/ writer.
| Capt Southey of the Royal Berkshire
| regiment, aide-de-camp of the gov
| ernor Of Newfoundland, Sir Herbert
! Murray, has returned to ST. Johns from
Halifax, where he had been to consult
with the military authorities regarding
| the transfer of a force of 500 men to
the garrison at St Johns, in the event
| Of war between Great Britain and
| France. He conveyed all the neces-
! sary information respecting the hous-
| ing of the force and the construction
| of local defenses, and has reported to
| Sir Herbert Murray that the contin-
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