Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-14
PROVINCE NOTES.
Grand Menan and Cape Breton il
Winter.
Happenings in Nova Scotia, New Bruins
wick and the Dominion Generally.

The Merchants Bank of Halifax has
decided to ask permission of the gov
eminent to increase its capital stock.
The large bridge over the Shulee river
built seven years ago by the Shulee
Lumber Company for the provincial
government fell down last week. 1t
was about 200 feet long.
At the big railway meeting at Halifax,
last week, the South Shore project was
fully discussed, and resolutions were
passed favoring the scheme. The shore
route would serve the interests of no
less than $4,000 people, or an average of
44O to the mile. The D. A. r. serves a
resident population of $4,000, being but
an average of S7S to the mile, yet the
y. A. r. is a profitable enterprise The
south Shore Railway would serve the
great fish industry, which employees
10000 men, 5000 boats 600 or 700 vessels,
and whose catch is worth an average
value of $3,000 600. The lobster exports
from Yarmouth in 1894 were valued at
$4,000 There are great numbering in
terests on the south shore The gold
mines on this shore have yielded over
S1OO0,OOO. Besides these substantial
things, there are attractions to the tour
ist-beautiful bays and beaches and
magnificent harbors. Halifax would
provide terminal facilities
Died at Shelburne, last week, Captain
Daniel Fraser, aged 8S years, native
OF Inverness, n. B., and more than so
years an officer in his majesty's service.
He joined the 45th regiment in 1855,
served in the army under General Wolfe
during the conquest of Canada; was
wounded at the storming of Ticonderoga,
and wss at Crown Point and Detroit,
At the commencement of the struggle
between Great Britain and her colonies,
he Joined the Queens Rangers in which
corps he served during that contest, and
at its &C Inclusion came to Port RoseWay
where he lived more than 40 years.
The local government has made a
departure in the matter of appointing a
successor to DR.. Reid who retires on
May 1st from the position of superin-
tendent of the Victorian General Hos
pital, Halifax Wallace w. Kenney, a
former druggist, has received the ap-
pointment.
Commencing the Sd of February the
Dominion Atlantic Railway steamer
Prince Edward" will leave Yarmouth
for Boston every Monday and Thursday
and the prince Rupert" will leave st.
John for Digby on Monday Thursday
y DlSDy
for St John on same days. The Fly
ing bluenose trains" running between
Yarmouth and Halifax on Monday,
Tuesday and Thursday and Friday are
cancelled for the present.
The Oak island diggers are sinking a
new shaft This makes eight pits this
company have sunk, and no treasure
yet
There were about 460scrates of lob
eff oh fn -ta
Boston, the 9th from Yarmouth
The promoters of the HalfaX-Bedford
electric road seek charter to build
an electric tramway around the shores
! of Bedford Basin The object of the
| promoters is primarily to connect Hall
| fax with the two suburban places, Rock
| ingham and Bedford, but 1t is suggest
ed that an extension Of the road be
| made to Dartmouth, skirting the shores
| of Bedford Basin. The distance from
| Halifax to Dartmouth around the basin
| shores would not be far short of 20
miles.
January has been a blustery, cold
! month, the temperature at Halifax
reaching zero on several days, and 10 on
the 31st, the lowest for many years. The
! snowfall has been large and the sleigh
ing excellent since the 10Th; the lumber
| men are rejoicing, and the cut will be
| above the average. Halifax harbor was
! SKINNED with ice on the Goth and 31st,
| but nothing to impede navigation. A
| severe southeast gale occurred during
the night Of the 31st, with a maximum
! velocity Of 62 miles per hour, followed
! by strong westerly gale At Truro.
/ the rainfall of the month was 1.72 and
| the snowfall 25 inches, with good sleigh
| ing from the 10th. Lowest temperature,
| 81 degrees below zero. Port Hastings
Rainfall, LBS inches; snowfall, 13
| inches. Pictou-Rain-fall, 091 inches;
snowfall, q inches. In Cape Breton,
| the month was cold, stormy and change
able; snowstorm and drifting on the 21st
and again on the 23d and oath, when
about u inches fell, then clear and very
cold to the end; 30th, ocean frozen over,
| no water to be seen.
| George H. Williams, very popular
| conductor Of the Dominion Atlantic
| Railway, paid flying visit to Worces-
| ter recently. He went up to Boston in
the company's steamer, Prince Edward.
Mr.. Williams says that the weather was
not Of the ideal picnic kind, but not
withstanding, the Hub was reached at
$50 in the morning, after run of a
little over 13 hours from Yarmouth.
The free public library of Yarmouth is
| closed. Cause, no suitable place is avail
| able for storage.