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CANADIAN PROSPECTS.

Ranchman-Farmer's Hopeful Outlook.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1912.

The question of rearing other animals besides eattle and horses was broached by the interviewer, and Mr. Edmiston' said with regard to them:

Is is seldom that a Canadian "There is a good market for ranchmen-farmer arrives in piga; live weight they sell in Hongkong, but Mr. H. W. Ed-Alberta, and generally throughout mistos, of Clover Bar, Province the Northwest, for 8.1-2 cents

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of Alberts, is in the Colony on his (gold) per pound, and as their OST a white. Wire Baind Fox middle of April satil end of

Terrier, balf black face, An- way to his birthplace in Scotland. upkeep of middlings, shorts, sour sweis to pane of Bob, Lost in October, 1013. Four bedroom, When interviewed to-day by a milk and farmhouse refuse fatten Kowloon on Sunday morning. Soit-Tennis Court and Garden. Apply to

well, representative of the "Hongkong them the expense of bio reward when returned to J. U. ELDON POTTER, Prine's Buildings Telegraph," Mr. Edmiston had raising is very little."

Legen, Royal George Hotel, Kowloon,

OF FFICES TO LET-First Class, interesting things to say.

Continuing, Mr. Edmiston says: "I have been twenty years in

"The milk industry is a grow- Canada, and although I am aing one. Small farmers are aver Scotchman, from Glasgow, still aging anywhere from 10 to 50 cans I have the interests of Canada output a day, and special milk How to greatly at heart, as it has sup- train are being run plied me with a living and a facilitate the marketing of an very comfortable one-for many

almost new enterprise."

years.

"Oh ye," our informant an- "My farm consists of a thou-swered to a question-"His Royal sand acros, and most of this Highness, the Duke of Connaught acreage ia under crops of some has made a deep impression with kind; but I have to allow for us, in Canada. When he came to much pasture land because I Edmonton he was given a whole. breed horses and they require a hearted.reception, and I am sure that Chanda in general regards it large area of grazing country.”

When asked as to the kind of a an honour that His Royal horses that ho bred, Mr. Edmiston Highness should be its Governor- said:

General." "I keep about seventy fine hend Mr. Edmiston leaves Hongkong on my place, and my stud is head-to-morrow for Scotland, and he ed by an English hackney stal states that, after twenty years lion that I imported from Eng. absence, he longs for the sight of land expressly for this purpose.

the Scottish hills. So far his got have had great successes both as 'fancy' horses high-steppors-and when bred to heavy draught mares. The resulta have been surprisingly good.

"My market," Mr. Edmiston continued. is, for

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Why Die Prematurely ? It is a remarkable fact that fancy soventeen centenarians, whose horses, in Edmonton and Calgary, ages varied from 100 to 110 have

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When asked as to the number of colt output a year, our infor- mant answered;

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"Usually forty to fifty, and get exceptionally good prices for them."

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and the prices average any where died in Ireland during the present ally to the conditions of the coolie- from $250 to $500 (gold). For year. This fact conclusively carrying business of China and enabled to navigate so as to avoid heavy draught horses the prices proves, asys the "Herak of the India. In the course of the them or seek heller till they vary from $800 to $1,000 Golden Age," that it is possible article he says:-Too much can- had passed, or in the event of (gold) for each team, and I cannot for nearly every well conducted not be said in regard to the being caught in one would have supply the market

rapidly person to live a century, and that praiseworthy action of the Unit- means of communicating with enongb."

there is no need for most people ed States Government whereby the shore, or with other to die before they have reached they have made it compulsory for vessela, so that in the event of balf the century mark. It is only all vessels trading to their ports, disaster, if assistance was not in matter of hygienio living, ab- having 50 or more. persons on time to save all hands, in all pro- atinenco from poisonous foods board, to be fitted with wireless bability a great number would be and from excessive eating and telegraphy, and the writer hopes picked up, and the accounts of drinking, combined with plenty that our own Government will vessels leaving port never to be GREEN ISLAND CEMENT The cattle trade in the North- of honest work, useful exercise shortly realise the urgent neces- heard tell of again would be a western part of Canada is boom and a moderate amount of recrea sity for legislation enforcing the thing of the past. In the China ing, Mr. Edmiston continued, tion. As the world neede men and equipment of British vessels with Sea alone, a great many vessels "Mr. Burns, of course controls women who have gained wisdom an installation capable of com- have suddenly disappeared with the beef market of the Northwest, and experience, to exercise a use- municating over a distance of at a large number of people on and the prices of beef rise or fallful influence upon our chaotic least three or four hundred miles. board, like the steamer "Charter- as be decrees. Ile owns practi- and political life, let us all do Especially is such a law re house" which was lost some years cally all the butcher shops in the what we can to advocate aane Northwest, and the meat that is methods of living, and preach to be sold must be bought from the gospel of a possible century him. The smaller cattle reisers of life for all. cannot afford to fight his mono- poly, nor can they deal with

expense.

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quired in the case of vessels ago. She put to see, was caught engaged in the emigrant and in a typhoon within twenty-four coolie trades, such vessels often hours of leaving port, look over a leaving port with from 1,500 to thousand coolies and other passen. 4,000 people on board... In the gers to the bottom, and is by no latter, granted the majority are means the only one which has Hongkong, 16th August, 1001 Swift and Company, of Chicag. We understand that in the only coolies, still even coolissare disappeared so suddenly: It is a monopoly, pure and simple, lawsuit in Londou brought by human, and as such are burdened We can only hope that, if our and the rest of us little chaps have the Association of Diamond Mer-with souls, also family ties, etc., own Government does not shortly to do the best that we can. For chants, Ltd, London, against which render their lives as pre- take s'eps to make it compulsory our own use," Mr. Edmiston sail, Lloyda, London, for the recovery eious to someone as those of the for all vessels carrying such large. we kill our own catile, and of an amount due as insurance passengers on the big liners, human freights to be fitted with thereby save ourselves a big on a pearl necklace sent by the which liners, needless to say, are wireless, the Chinese Government former company to the Queen of all equipped with the latest and and others will follow in the steps When asked about the steady Siam, and which it will be remem-most up-to-date wireless installa of most European nations and influx of English immigration bored was stolen in the course of tions. Were they not, the manage make it a necessary condition that into Canada, our informant ans transit, Lloyds have agreed to ment would soon proceive a de-all ships embarking emigrants settle the claim. The disapcided falling off in their book from their portabs properly Yes, we like the English om- pearance of this now famous neck-ings in favour of some more go-equipped with wireless tele- migrants that have come to us lace created more than a little ia-ahead company. within the last five years. They erest in Singapore during the

graphy, for though their popula- tions may be hundreds are all hard-working, earnest early part of this year by reason There is an enormous trade millions, yet they can ill-afford to men, who are willing to do their of the fact that the trial took place between China and the Straits best. No man can do more than there of Jules Faul de Boseck, Settlements, as many as 10,000 his best." Mr. Edmiston added; who was brought out from Lon- to 12,000 coolies leaving one port "But we who have to fight the don on an extradition warrant in China for the Straits in a soil and the elements, appreciate charged with dishonestly retain month, and nearly as many vice an earnest toiler when we see him.ing two pearls which it was alleg-versa. The route these vessels Canada is now in a state of ad formed part of the missing traverse is notorious for bad

Chicago, October 21-John growth, a big growth, and necklace, and who was convicted weather, the N.E, monsoon Schaefer, of New Orleans, and natural one, and its basis is 60 at the May Assizos and sentenced raging fiercely for nearly half the Robert Elliott, of Brooklyn, avis- solid that feel safe in saying to two years' imprisonment on year, blowing a gale for daya ata tore, left today for Washington, that it will never 'backslide."

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t'me, then the remainder of th where they will enlist with the "The question of wheat, and of

year sees typhoons of frequent Greek Legation for army service: our wheat production is always a

occurrence, and great violence, in the Balkans. The arrangement matter of conjecture. For instance:

Some remarkable cinemato Still the ships are allowed to put was made through the Chicago graph films made under water to sea with their 1,500 to 4,000 Greak Consulate. They are lo

The wheat this year in Southera

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