The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-02


eminent.
The New Brunswick musical festival
chorus held its first meeting at the
Church of England Institute last Monday
night. A large number were present and
enrolled. DR.. ]. e. March, the chorus
conductor read over the bylaws which
will govern the organization. After this
the 95th Psalm, Come Let Us Sing,
Mendelssohn, was taken up. The chorus
was especially strong and rich in female
voices but there was lack of males
The rehearsal was a success, and the
chorus members praise DR.. March as a
| conductor.
Fifteen thousand tons of hay is being
shipped to South Africa for the war of
| flee in November, and in December $1,000
| tons more and about 100000 bushels of
J oats will be dispatched. In December 10
vessels will be loaded at st. John for
South Africa
P. E. ISLAND.
The coming winter the government
! steamer Mimic will run on the regular
route between Pictou and Georgetown,
and new service will be inaugurated by
| the Stanley, which will run between Cape
Tormentine and Cape Traverse.
| The marriage between William Henry
Sullivan c. E., son of the Hon. NJ. Sui
livan, NJ. D., of Kingston, Ontario, and
Adele Mary Marion, daughter of the Hon.
| w. W. Sullivan, chief justice of Prince
! Edward Island, was celebrated at st.
| Dunstan's Cathedral Nov. %. His Lord
ship Bishop Mcdonald officiated, assisted
by the Rev. DR.. Morrison, P p, and the
Rev. Dr. Monaghan.
George Reynolds of Indiantown, while
working in Grand Bay a few days ago,
captured , small aux, the smallest mem
Der of the duck family, and about the size
of a kingfsher. These are very rare
birds, and can only be found in these
parts after long southerly wind storm.
P Campbell, the taxidermist has pre-
served the pretty little black and white
specimen.
DOMINION.
The clasps for the South African
medals have been received at Ottawa and
are being distributed.
A new Roman Catholic church, to cost
100000 is to be erected at Little Farm, in
the suburbs of Hull.
Miss Alice Rigg has been for six years
an engraver of tombstones in the shop of
her father at Windsor, Canada. Miss
Rigg has become an expert in her strange
occupation
Five new locomotives from the Bald
win works, Pittsburg, have arrived for
the Canadian Northern Railway.
| Warehouse Commissioner Castle of
| Winnipeg has requested the marine insur-
ance companies doing business on the up
per lakes to extend the period of insur-
ance until Dec. 70. Castle says the wheat
crop has been underestimate and there
will be fully 5000O,00O bushels for export,
not to speak of oats or barley.
"A big find of iron ore is reported in
Steep Rock Lake district on the Cana
dian Northern Railway, east of Fort
Francis. The ore is believed to indicate
a continuation of the famous Atik-Okan
| iron range, and several thousand acres of
| land have been taken up and are being
| thoroughly prospected.
Greatly Increased development of On
/ tario metalliferous mines is shown by re-
| turns of production for the past nine
months. The report shows an aggregate
of S2,S22 OO3, compared with 254l, 131 for
| the whole year of 1900. a proportionate in
crease of about As per cent. This is the
! highest production yet reached by the
mines in this province. The heaviest IN
] creases are in iron ore. which increased
from Sill, sos in 1900 to 1924. SAG for the first
nine months of the present year; pig iron
from 1885, 066 to $1.296,344, and nickle from
sos, 626 to $937214.
The immigration department has re-
ports from Barbados that colored girls
there are greatly excited over the pros
pect of getting employment in Canada.
Toronto women propose to import 200 as
domestics.
The management of the Canadian
section of the Glasgow exhibition during
the closing days of the great show gave
sample of Canadian cheese, which had
been kept twelve months in cold storage"
The boxes also bore labels giving some in
teresting statistics of the extent and eX-
pansion of Canada's dairy industry. Two
large cheese made at Alexandria. Ont,
each Weighing half a ton, which were on
exhibition were purchased by a Glasgow
firm to be cut up for the Christmas trade
The Ontario Power Company's plans
for the development of $4,000 horse power
at Chippawa have been filed at Ottawa
The Montreal boys who are battling
for king and empire in South Africa will
not be forgotten at the approaching happy
Christmastide. There will be plum pud-
ding for all of the 1900 Canadian boys who
are ''out on active service" To the Mon
treal boys especially have been sent I'M
derclothing, handkerchiefs socks, note
paper, beef tablets, candy, raisins, chew
ing gum, pipes bootlaces and other useful
and acceptable articles.
Sir William Mcdonald has contributed
200 pounds of tobacco. 4 pounds for each
man. Pipes and cigarettes have also been
enclosed with the other parcels.
H. & w Nordin, Swedish financiers,
accompanied by Mr.. Gerard. NJ. P. P,
ave gone to Lake St. John district, where
it is proposed to establish a Finnish col
ony. The government, 1t is stated. has
ceded to the syndicate about 10000 acres
for the project.
ID. H. Kelley, superintendent of gov
eminent telegraphs, is back again in OF
tawa, having successfully completed the
laying of the cable between Belle Isle and
the mainland and the installation of the
Marconi apparatus on the same part of
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