The sun., 1908-10-15
Notes From Abroad.

Canadas hydro electric power transmission
line. the contract for which has been let, from
Niagara Falls toNthe towns and cities OF Weston
Ontario, viii be the longest In the world-sn
miles IL win cost si 10000 and VIII have sin
steel towers. each sixty feet high and using In al
obsa tons OF steel. The work requires 5o7 tons Of
aluminium wire and 10000 pounds of telephone
wire,
The ruby mines OF Burma produced In 1901
siasses trucks" valued In Magok books at
ss77. .es5. Tho royalty revenue for the year VI.
S9o.2is
slavic Europe, owing 10 the treatment OF the
Poles by Germany is laying out Its commercial
lines so as 70 buy less goods from that country
and more from other countries. Hitherto Ger
many has largely monopollzed the Slavic trade
The chief opportunities lie In hardware. iron
mongery, sultlngs, linens, cotton goods. ment
clothing, hosiery. dry goods. shoes superphos
phate and basic Stag, portable farm engines, small
threshing machines. ohafi cutters, spring tooth
cultivators and plouEhs. The best towns to work
from are Posen In Germany Warsaw In Poland
Prague In Bohemia, and cracow and Lemberr
In Austria
Pauperism In London. England, continues to
Increase. The number Of paupers on Septembere
last was 1iss5a. against HAST on the same day
In 1907. 4
by reason Of the falling of In Its American ttadt
the last ten months the Austrian Shipping Com,
pany, known as the stro-American Line, vii
not pay any dividend this year
The dissolution OF the Rhenish Westphalan
pig iron syndicate is now definite. and the vari.
Gus faundres are now selling on their own 40.
count. Prices are expected TO decline. as the
foundries hnd trouble In selling even 30 per cent
Of their output
The Hon j. T. Roland president OF the Cana.
dian Manufacturers Association, says that since
the Indlscrmnate tariff preference OF IS per
cent, afterward raised 10 Ss Is per cent. was
granted to Great Britain by Canada. the woolen
industry, which was fairly prosperous before.
has adly declined The industry Is on the eve OF
extinction. anecting 400 workmen. He appealed
10 Canadians 10 save IL.
British Guiana has granted tariff preferentiais
10 Great Britain, Canada and the British Empire
generally. tits fortunate for British Guiana that
her manufacturing interests are but trinlne.
Australia wants a visit from a British battle.
ship feet equal In power 10 the American neet
which has Just visited that country.
Distress In India 10 still decreasing. The mum.
Der In receipt OF state relief Is only 4o6,ooo
(Septembcr iA.
Statistics published by the municipal poor
relief fund show that the cost OF living In Paris,
France has Increased is per cent since 1906
china by impartial decree orders that the pun
ishment for manufacturing morphine needles
shall be Punishment 10 pes tilential frontier and
that the same penalty. coupled with the closing
Of their shops. shall be inflicted on tradesmen
who sell morphia without customs permit.
The two floating docks for Para, Brazil, are on
their way from England to that port They are
$50 feet long, ntted with electrical pumping gear
and are capable of lifting a vessel OF LOO tons
displacement In their voyage they are attended
by two Dutch cargo steamers. appropriately
named Export and Import.
British blue book says that on January Hast
England and Wales had ozs,o71 paupers nearly
o million.
British railways In 1907 killed iii7 persons and
In iured a6i1