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8 THE I COLONIES AND INDIA JULY 6,1895 anchor in Victoria. Harbour for the last month, but they will soon be leaving for Behring to pursue the industry there during the time the Award permits. The outlook in Canada is decidedly improving. In the increase in the revenue and the decrease in the expenditure made altogether a saving of This is not bad for one month. As soon as the new Government is fairly at work, we hope they will take up the questions of the fast Atlantic service and of the Pacific cable.

These matters have been remaining in abeyance quite long enough, and it would be an excellent thing if the Conservative Government were to signalise their succession to office by pealing boldly with the two propositions which are before them, and with which the development of the Colonies is much connected. There is no doubt that the Liberal Government were jn sympathy with the scheme, but sympathy alone will not build steamers or lay cables. No doubt Canadians are congratulating themselves that Mr. Chaplin is not to be the Minister of Agriculture. Mr.

Walter Long will be able to approach the Canadian cattle question with an open mind. He ought not to have any difficulty in nising the strength of the Canadian contention that pneumonia does not exist in Canada, and has never been known there. The disease is both contagious and fatal, and one of its characteristics is the rapid manner in which it spreads when it first gains a foothold in a new country. Canada has been more or less under suspicion on the part of the officials of the Board of Agriculture for nearly five years, and surely if there was any foundation for their fears that pleuro-pneumonia existed in Canada, it would have made itself known, without any 4oubt, by this time. The Canadian team for Bisley has arrived, and is spending a few days in practice at Cambridge.

The commandant is tyEajor Markham. The following is from the Canadian Mining Review for June, and it is worthy the attention of capitalists on this side also Western contemporary pithily remarks absolute indifference of Canadians generally and the Eastern Canadians in particular, to the mining developments of their own great country is enough to make a citizen of West Kootenay weary and tired. If the capital in Montreal, Toronto, and Ottowa, and other eastern cities, that is used annually for gambling on Wall Street, New York, or on the Wheat Exchange, Chicago, or on the Mining Exchange, Denver, were put into development work throughout the great mineral zone in British Columbia, which is as great or greater than any mineral bearing area in the United States, not only would we see more rapid development of the country, but we would see immense fortunes made by our own countrymen. We would also see some point in the East become one of the world's great shipping centres for the refined product of Canadian mines. Canada would become a great exporter of the precious metals and Canadian commerce in everv branch would feel the stimulus.

But, no our precious metals now being mined in bulk must filter through the markets of the United States into the commerce of the world, bringing prosperity, it is true, to the loyal Canadians of West in their ultimate and most far-reaching effects doihor no more for Canada than if the 49th parallel lay north instead of south of West Kootenay. Trail Creek is now producing per day in solid gold during 1895 it will worth of the precious metal, or 5 per cent, of the whole output of the United StatesT Who in Canada knows or cares anything about so comparatively-uninteresting a and what enterprising Canadian capitalist is reaching hand for a share in the golden shower. Trail Creek is greater than Cariboo iu its palmiest days, and more per- nia nt but British Columbian ears are so stuffed with the tra- diti ns of Cariboo that the noise of present-day movement di- them no more than it would the lotus eaters of Alfred yson." f. COLONIAL SERVICE BY A2fGLO-COLONIAL. The many friends of Captain G.

A. French, Army Service Corps, who is well known on the West Coast of Africa, but more especially in Sierra Leone, will be glad to know that he has been recently decorated with the Royal Humane Society's medal for going to the assistance of a Beaman of H.M.S. Barossa, who fell overboard at sea off the Isles de Los. Mr. C.

J. R. Saunders, the latest addition to the Companionship of St. Michael and St. George, has seen a great deal of service in Zululand sirce it became a portion of the British Empire.

At first occupying only the position of a Clerk of the Court and Zulu Interpreter to various Resident Magistrates, Mr. Saunders has taken a prominent part in the administration of the country, and at present holds the office of on Assistant Commissioner and Resident Magistrate. He has performed several special services, having been sent to Amatongaland in 1887 to ratify a treaty with the Queen of that country, and two years later was appointed to define the boundary between Amatongaland and Zululand, and was on both occasions specially mentioned in dispatches. The recognition of his services by Her Majesty has been well earned, and it is most pleasing to find that there is more than sufficient justification for tuch recognition. Colonel Cardew, C.M.G., Governor of Sierra Leone, accompanied by Mrs.

Cardew, has arrived in England on leave of absence, after a highly successful first tour of service, during which he has seen more of the Colony than any previous Governor. The gallant colonel is described as being as hard as nails, and absolutely proof against fever. He is also described as a hard a hard walker, and a hard eater, three splendid essentials for the African climate. It is well-known that he is a total abstainer, and much of his success is attributed to this. At any rate, it cannot be denied that during his administration he has proved himself to be the right man in the right place, although his appointment in the first instance was questioned, owing to his not having had previous colonial experience in the civil branch.

Mr. Francis Smith, who is at present acting as Chief Justice of the Gold Coast, pending the arrival of Mr. W. Brandford Griffith, is a native of West Africa, and has held the appointment of a Puisne Judge of the Colony for the past eight years. Mr.

T. J. Alldridge, District Commissioner of Sherbro, on being relieved by Mr. S. M.

Bennett, has left for England on the usual leave of absence. The commission granted to Sir Hercules Robinson as High Commissioner of South Africa excludes any of the territories over which a Governor has been appointed, which means Natal and Zululand. It is satisfactory to know that Sir Hercules Robinson has entered upon his duties with every prospect of a highly successful administration in a Colony where he is so well known and has so many friends. Mr. J.

de Bene, Goods Superintendent of the Railway Department at Port Elizabeth, has been transferred to Cape Town as Goods Superintendent, in succession to the late Mr. A. H. Harper. Mr.

de Bene has been connected with the Bailway Department for nearly twenty years, and was for some time well known as the Station Master at Grahamstown. Lord Rosebery's list of Dissolution Honours is interesting to South Africans, because the name of the Right Hon. Sir Henry Brougham Loch appears therein. It was only recently.