The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-11
PROVINCE NOTES.
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Hap
pennas.

Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Hap
penines.
The steamers of the Yarmouth, Plant
and railway lines landed over $4,000
passengers in Boston during tile past
season.
The Coast railway track is now ball
lasted as far as Capt A. Malone's Up
per Woods harbor. The roadbed is
completed to Darlington Passage for
the rails to that point. Miss L. L. Will
son of Darlington was the first lady to
arrive in Upper Woods Harbor by this
line, having ridden from the PubnicC
station on the construction train
Schooner Levanter, Capt. McComis
Key, landed good fare of fresh fish at
w. A. Killom's, Yarmouth. At one set
that day 81 halibut, one weighing 1856
pounds, were caught. Capt. McComis-
Key sighted a school of bonitas, a fish
which he never before saw in these wat
ters.
DR.. Kendall, M L. A., of Sydney, fed
eral superintendent of the Deep Sea
Fisheries Bait association of the, de-
partment of fisheries, has sent out par
ticulars Of the project. The idea is to
organize f1shermen's bait associations
at about 30 different places along the
coasts of the maritime provinces. The
government will provide full detailed
plan for an icehouse, freezer anc cold
storage in each locality where the assoc
citation is formed. The cost of the small
est cold storage building, to hold ten
tons of bait will be $500. An expedi-
ture of $1,000 will furnish accommoda-
ton for about forty tons Of bait. The
work of organization will be prosecuted
vigorously this winter, so that many
cold storage buildings may be ready for
use next spring.
The winner of the first prize of the D
A. R. advertising competition is Miss
Katherine Mcleod, sister Of the well
known author, Grace Dean Mcleod
Rogers, Amherst. Miss Mcleod, while
teaching at Spellman seminary,
Georgia, wrote several interesting ar
ticles for the N. p press. She is to
join the present freshman class at Aca-
dia.
The annual catch Of Holsters along the
New England coast is years ago was
estimated at about 100, 100000 About
$4,000 men found employment in the
lobster industry Today 80 per cent. of
the canned HOLSTERS consumed IN New
England are Brought from the British
provinces.
, 1t Is 6SllIudleQ lHdl 91,UUO,UUU worth OF
fish will be sold in Lunenburg county
this year. UP to the present time &c
new vessels have been ordered, averag-
ing about $4,000 each. --Bridgewater En-
terprise.
Large shipments of apples for the
Boston and English markets are being
forwarded from Indianapolis Valley via
the D. A. R. The crop in the valley will,
this year, reach about 100000 barrels.
Charles Starr of Wolfville recently
shipped $500 barrels of apples to Moth
ard & Lowe, England. Fifteen to seven
teen shillings were quoted last week
for gravenSteins.
The Rhodes Curry Co. of Amherst
have closed an order with the Dominion
Iron and Steel Co. for the erection of a
hundred houses in Cape Breton.
A committee has been formed in Dub
lin for the purpose Of collecting money
to place in st. Patrick's Cathedral a me-
moral Of Charles Inglis, first colonial
bishop of the Anglican communion.
Inglis was grandfather Of Sir John
Eardly Wilmot Inglis, of Lucknow
fame, was born in Donegal, In his
fathers rectory at KiIcarr, in 1874, and
died in Halifax in 1915.
The run Of mackerel on the Halifax
county shore this fall has been a great
boon to the resident fishermen, who
have taken larger hauls than for years
past. The fish were Of the best quality
Last month over 300 barrels of mack
erel We're shipped to New York.