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rasPfr rAA-vi 1 MANITOBA WEEKLY FEEE PRESS, WINNIPEG, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 19 vj rw rfciiitiTnrwiMf TIMELY 8UCCE8TI0NS FOR CHRISTMAS, been between the Conservative and either one of the other candidates. 'Flie true Liberal comfort is in the fact that one swallow does not make a spring, nor does one by-election infallibly indicate bow the entire country will go. Let them wait for Cardwell. If Mr.

Willoughby shall score as complete a victory as did Mr. McGillivray we confess there ill be little to cheer oar Liberal friends in the Ontario pro -pept. So far, all that can be said is that the people of the pioneer Province would seem to have grown as weary of the School question as those of our own, and that any reasonable settlement of it will bo a relief for which the whole country will feel profoundly thankful. DoYouCycleA in THE SUMMER MANITOBA FREE PRESS Weekly Edition. Eablished Every Thursday at Winnipeg by the I MANITOBA FREE PRESS CO Subecriptioo One year, fl Strictly taah ia advance Subscribers when ordering the address 1st their paper changed, must be careful give the name of their old as well )afl their new poet office Advertising Rate cards containing ifnll particulars, supplied upon personal pr mall application All business communications to be addressed to B.

SOMERSET, I Business Manager leave the lands as they are and persuade the corporations to sell them to settlers the price they would charge Government, with, perhaps, trifling cost of administras-tion added. Tho nominal price spoken of ould probably bo a dollar an acre. What is to prevent the Canadian Pacific say, from selling at that price to actual settlers The shareholders have to be reckoned with, it 1s said. So they have, hut it would not bo difficult to explain to the shareholders that they would bo money in pocket if those lands were settled and producing freight for tho railway, even they realized only a dollar an acre; they would be better paid in the end than if they sold for three, or four, or ten dollars an acre at the present rate of settlement. If the Company were to do this they would still have a direct and veTy lively interest in immigration, and why they should not soil to settlers for a dollar as readily as to the Government we are unable from our view of it to understand.

'he Company are intelligent, shrewd and full of enterprise. We have not bo much hope of some of the other corporations, of which It is easy to predict that before many years they will lx as unpopular in tho community as old Canada Land Company was in Ontario in its worst days. Aid. Jamieson the Mayor-Elect The Other Civic Contests. I I A large vote was polled in the city Tuosday.

The first sitting was open-lots counted for the mayoralty candidates being 8.7C2, as against 3,374 polled last year for Messrs. Gilroy and McMicken. The results shown by the following figures: MAYORALTY CONTEST, Foiling places Ward 1. O. 1...

IV mmm.mm Ward 2, No, 2 No. A to No. to Ward 3. No. 4, A to L.m 140 No.

4, to 105 No. 5... mmm i 92 Bole. 122 29 82 74 107 83 54 93 129 141 93 100 104 183 12G 11C Ward 4, hio. 0...

No. 7... No. 8... No.

9... Ward No. 10, 10, No. 11 No. 12 Wurd 6 No.

13 142 200 169 216 122 117 186 140 154 5. A to JM to Z. Totals 2,171 1,591 Majority for Jameson, 580. ALDERMANIO CONTEST. Ward 3.

Aid. by acclamation. Ware 2. Aid. Andrews, re-elected by acclamation.

Polling places. Ward 8. Cknffey. Mundie. 4, A to 193 109 No.

4, to 135 93 No, 5... 143 34 I Totals Majorit Ward 4 No. 6... No. 7....

No. 8 No 9... 471 Cliaffey, 236. 285 for Aid. Sandow Recommends The Wfcitely Exerciser ns the best body-builder and health preserver.

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Send for Catalogue of Winter Sports. 3 Dealers Write for Discounts. Totals Majority for 815 R- Ward 5. No, 10, A 148 No, 10, to 141 No, 11 118 No, 12 135 Totals 542 108 Black's majority over 1G5. Ward 0 Wilson.

Dunlop. No, 18 186 174 Majority for Wilson, 12. SCHOOL TRUSTEE CONTEST. Ward 1, Ross. McKenzie.

No. 1 86 183 Ward 2. Mr. James Porter, re-elected by acclamation Polling places. Ward 3 No, 4, A to No, to No mmm Fowler, 147 115 66 Day.

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Great Snaps in O. Coats. Good Frieze Ulsters, 'worth $9.50, for $5.50, $10.50 for $6.50, $12.50 for $7. Suits reduced from $9.50 to $4.50, $11.00 to $5.50, $12.50 to $6.50, $15 to $8. Pea Jackets at half price, $7.50 for $375 $10.50 for $5, $12.50 for $6.

Boys and childrens Suits, O. Coats, Pea Coats, all reduced to cost for the Next Two Weeks. Fur Coats and Caps at les than cost. Furnishings go the same way. Dont miss this great sale the opportunity of the year.

Come direct to the place where they are selling the Wholesale Clothing Stock ofj. W. Mac-Keddie and you will find it at The Palace Clothing Store, 458 Main Street. hgh-cuss gift- FOR LADY OR GENTLEMAN. McCrendys Tubular Racing Skate, with Boot, Spring heel sole, beet i steel blade, hollow steel supports, best, hanl-sewed boots.

Made to our order. Weight of beot and skate complete ounces. A choir present for your, skating friend, Complete Over tlio hills nnd far away on a snow-shoe trump, i The oldest winter port in this Canada of c-urs, where all outdoor sports are so; popular. Oar Rnowshocs are made to our order from r.h best Indian-tanned selcted, well seasoned I hick-try. They are to turned out wholesale by I machinery, but each pair is carefully tested nud ''f? guaranteed perigee before we accept them.

Girls or Boys Ladies 111x30 2 Mens Club 12x12 3 oO Racing Regulation 36 xl2 3 50 i Made Waterproof campaigning machinery, and are thoroughly organized. McCarthyite too possess excellent organization hardly Inferior the the Conservatives, and speak very hopefully of the result, though expressing themselves dubiously regarding the change that may come over the constituency during the last few days when they liege Conservative workers will make a dead set to buy votes. Eater allegation lias, however, less force la this than most- constituencies, with only one incorporated village within Its limits, and not, therefore, lending itself to corrupt purposes. 'Cartwright is stamping the constitu-'ncy, and will no doubt have to bmir the blame of the anticipated defeat of the Liberal candidate. SUCCESS IS ASSURED.

Mr. Chamberlain Pledged to Pacific Cable Scheme. London, Dec. 10. If, as I very probable, the Salisbury government should remain in power, for three year, a cable, from Vancouver to Australia will bo made and laid by the end of 3898.

Mr. Secretary Chamberlain, has privately pledged himelf to that erfect. Hi heart 1 in tlio scheme, and lie 1 strong enough in tha.t cai-Inct to carry It out oven IT the Tm-pcrlal government has ta provide a disproportionate part of the nulwidv, Tho appointment iff a committee to enquire Into the scheme must, therefore. Ie regard-'d as a mere form, intended to Matlsfy the few p-'opi. distrust it practicability.

Mr. Phsini-lierlnui lifls dnuni vrn terms of tho reference to the committee. And they nre To consider lu all it aspects the projmn-il for laying a telegraphic cable between Dritish North America nnd the colonies of Australasia, and to report thereon to the secretary of statu for the colonics, besides tho questions of route, cost, revenue hud other matters which will suggest themselves to the committee. Hpeeial consideration should be given to tlie question Whether tho cable should lio laid hv the government or by a private company. nnd to the distribution of or subsidy among tlio governments concerned.

tho sL Tho Goods Yon Would Choose to Wear I RID OF IT. The Toronto Week, reviewing the political situation, is anxious tliat tho School question be got out of the way. It favors the necessary concessions to an amicable settlement and hopes that they will be made without further delay. The country has many other things on hand needing alteration and of far greater importance to the people as a whole. It says There are so many much more serious matters to unite about that we must not allow our national strength and national good feeling to bo dissipated in ungenerous sectarian disputes.

If energies and abilities of our people need exercise let our political leaders take up the question of the development of the Northwest, now shall four millions of acres be brought tnto the market IIow can our thousands of nhnbitants bo made millions now can we put our militia force in proper condition IIow are we to induce the English people to divert their investments from rotten South American securities into good Canadian bonds and mortgages The English financial papers are openly declaring that English investments are leaving the United States, and they are looking for other fields in which to place their capital. We want that capital here badly. Every day this mischevious Separate School agitation Is kept up damages our pf getting any investment whatever made here. Our enemies take advantage of our dissensions they even fan the flame, i Candid friends who damn us with faint praise now point in the English papers to troubles, and prophesy our inability to settle them. We suffer, therefore, very much financially, and will suffer much more without any counterbalancing advantage unless a period is at once put to the hypocritical made-to-order fervour of demagogic agitation.

We appeal to the business men, and men who have something to lose to interfere before it is too late and insist that their representatives give this question an immediate quietuB. Here we have the expression of a feeling that is rapidly growing all over the country and is beginning to assert itself to some purpose. The politicians have had a long innings over the question, and it is time now that the people and their interest should be considered. 1 There is the development of the Northwest calling for attention, and all those other great questions mentioned by The Week- They mean more to us than nny possible settlement of this long dispute as to whether a few thous and children of a certain religious faith shall be educated by themselves or mixed with others. Yet this latter, as Mr.

Gladstone said of Home Rule a few years ago, blocks the way Let us get rid of it. The dispatches say that a Manitoba Minister has been visiting Montreal to confer with the leader of the Opposition in respect to this question. The general opinion will be that it would have been more seemly if he had gone to Ottawa to confer with the leader oi the Government; but never mind which it is if only a settlement is reached. The country wants its hands free to take up those other mattersi Public attention Should be directed to the -problem of getting the waste acres of the Northwest into market, and increasing our thousands of population to millions. We want to cn courage the Investment of idle Brit Ish capital in Canadian enterprises Instead of driving it away by a display of- sectarian strife that raises a suspicion as to whether we are capable of governing 1 (ourselves.

It should be the wish of every patriotic citizen to have this vexatious School Question put out of the way as soon os possible. BUYING RACK TIIE LANDS. A mouth or two -ago a correspond nt of Toronto Globe, anxious to promote settlement in the Northw est, suggested the Dominion Government should buyback the lands con veyed to the Hudsons Bay Company, the Canadian Pacific, and other holding corporations in Manitoba and tho Territories. It was supposed these could be obtained at a moderate price, and Government would then hold them for sale without advance to actual settlers. The scheme Is made tho subject of jui article in tho Canadian Gazette, which highly approves of it, adding that it is endorsed by tlio Winnipeg journals and that settlers nntl of Manl toba would it us a step in tlio right direction.

Speaking for it self, tho Free Press Is constrained to deny tho Knit impeachment. When the at made we took occasion to t-'xpnMH a doubt whether it was either practicable desirable. It is not practicable if tho corporations decline to sell' at a Government price, and it is not desirable if by carrying it out wo should lose their services as Immigration agent. The Canadian. Pacific Company has ljcen tho most Influential factor in getting tho settler into the Northwest any time those past ten years.

An Incentive to exertion was no doubt tlio desire to disitose of its lands. Tako away, and tho result to Immigration might bo severely felt. A much better plan would be to THE FREE PRESS HOME JOURNAL Issued with every Thursdays Weekly Free Press, as a supplement, lor which no extra charge is made. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1895. A STARTLING MESSAGE.

President Clevelands second message to Congress, referring exclusively to itho (Venezuelan question, is calculated on first reading to excite mixed feeling. After calm reflection, however, the conviction impresses itself that ho is merely playing for a third term. It As impossible to believe that a ruler who has shown the wisdom and moderation of Sir. Cleveland can seriously contemplate a ar with Great Britain, to defend a forced interpretation of a doctrine that docs not and was never -intended to apply to the question in dispute betw een that country and Venezuela. Yet the tone of his message con mean nothing lees.

lie refuses to consider the case as presented by Lord Salisbury, and says that the Uni tod States must insist on extreme application of the "Monroe doctrine as advocated by the most violent of American jingoes. It will be observed, however he leaves himself a bole through which to escape. It is incumbent, he says, on the United States, to take mras-sures to determine with sufficient certainty for its justification what is the true divisional line between the of Venezuela and British Guiana, and to this end he recommends the appointment of a commis eloa and suggests that Congress make the necessary appropriation. That is, he proposes that the United States Government shall enter upon an arbitration of its own. vThe commissioners are doubtless expected to find that Great Britains case is a Bound one and to report accordingly, or to discover and report on some' thing so closely approaching it that there will be no excuse for further altercation.

In any case, the inquiry will be. prolonged beyond rthe time during which the exigencies of the next Presidential election shall require the political parties to maintain an attitude of uncompromising jingo ism the purpose being secured the affair will be allowed to quickly sub' Bide. It is not a friendly or dignl tied course to take, and is unlike the character generally attributed to Mr. Cleveland outside his own coun try; but if he is to get a nomination for a third term it would appear to be necessary, in the present temper of the American people. It is rather seriouB trifling, however, if this is the explanation, and the emergency must be great when he can consent to indulge in it.

If not the explanation, ho Is criminally rash in challenging a conflict that would be a blot on the civilization of the age. THE NORTH ONTARIO VERDICT. We cannot but admire the courage awl hopefulness which enablo our Liberal friends to take comfort out of the North Ontario election. The old achievement of extracting sunbeams from encumbers is scarcely more wonderful. The ratran and Liberal candidates together, they say, polled more votes than the Conservative, therefore tlio Government was condemned.

This may do as consolation, bat it will be found very unserviceable In practical politics. The Patron made his entire fight on the platform of his party, which has been specially devised to appeal to the agricultural vote. There is no lie got a large support from farmers who were either to the Manitoba School question or who were even lu favor of remedial legislation, hut preferred to adhere to the candidate of their own class. It is assuming more than reason will warrant to suppose that if Mr. Brandon had not been in the fl 11 his vote would have gone ia a body to tlio LilioraL There (s' evidence that many Conservative ratrons voted for him because be was the Patron candidate, and strong ground for.

the belief that they would have voted for the Conservative If the contest had been confined to Mr. McGillivray and Air. Gillespie. Mr. Brandons total vote -was 1,411.

If only 184 or those had gone to Mr. Mc-Gillivray, nnd all the remainder to Mr. Gillespie, which alwmrd to suppose, the Conservative would have had a majority. Bat there is more than this to consider. The Lilxral candidate Is a Catholic, and in libs own township of Mara he received a large Catholic vote.

It will hardly be contended that those Catholics were opposed to tho Governments policy of remedial legislation. In addition, it is further to be remembered that in tho last Provincial contest Mr. McGillivray canvassed the riding as the champion of ultra Protestantism, and no doubt antagonized Catholic votes that would otherwise have gone to him in virtue of the Government's school policy. It la almost idle to enter into calculations as to what might have but considering all tho circumstances It Is safe to conclude that the verdict of North Ontario is in favor of the Government and the School policy, that the verdict would have been quite os emphatic if the contest had Before Canadians can be expected to take kindly to the idea of annexation to the United States the people of that country will require to effect a vast change in the tone and spirit of society ns established at the present time. We are not accustomed to having our judges going about around with revolvers and shooting lawyers who may happen not to approve of all they do, and it is doubtful if we could reconcile ourselves to such ia condition of affairs.

In Canada the judges arc maintained to punish crimes by a strict administration of the law, not to commit them. In this respect as well as in many others, our neighbors will find it necessary to mend their ways before there can be the slightest hope of seducing us into an alliance with them. According to our Ottawa dispatches aii effort is actually to be made to get a colony of Illinois Tunkers into the Northwest. Those newspapers in tlie East that know so much of the conditions nnd necessities of country, and that indulge In hysterics wiinever the slightest departure I from their own ideas is made, will find in this an admirable occasion for one of thdr choice lectures, of the fish-wife variety. In th9 meantime the Northwest will approve of the Governments action, and will extend a arm welcome to the Tankers when they come.

BUCKETS FROM THE WELL. Set down the backet and draw a single bucket-fall of water from your well. By looking at and tasting It you know the condition of all the water la the well. A man doesn't need to talk long on a subject in which ha is interested in order to show you his real character. You can form, a pretty correct opinion of him often Lu ten minutes.

On the same principle you are frequently able, from the occurrences of an hour, to judge of the history of years. This is Natures way of teaching large truths by samples For Instance, here are two or three short sentences taken from a letter, which in all does not comprise more than a hundred wTords; yet they point out what went on daring twelve years of the writer's life. Sometimes, he says, I had an awful pain and distress in the stomach, which no medicine I took relieved. I had a sour taste in the mouth and pain after all 1 ate There was also a sense of fulness and tightness of the chest, and I was constantly belching up wind. From time to time I consulted a doctor, who gave me medicines, but I got no better.

In this manner I continued to suffer for twelve years. Now think a -minute what this means; healthy people cannot understand it at all; but most of us have undergone pain enough, some time or other, to help us to fancy what such a long and weary stretch of it must be. It Is like a cold rainstorm that never ceases; like a corpse in the house that Is never removed; like a screeching noise in the ears night and day; like the knowledge of an enmy following you every step you take, and standing over your bed when you try to sleep; like but whats the use? No illustration can adequately set forth what it (means not to see a well day for a dozen years. It is worse than a sharp fit of Illness, which lasts a few weeks and then ends In recovery or death a thousand times worse. Well, the letter says that after almost half an average lifetime of this, a.

customer came intjo the writers shop and told him of a remedy which she had the best of reasons for believing in, as it had cured her husband of the same kind of disease. He procured it, and soon realized its virtues. It had power to reach the very source of his malady. The wearing, exhausting pain became less, and soon returned no more; what the doctors, with all their experience, failed to accomplish was done by this medicine, so easily that It seemed like the act of one who, by some strange power, says to an evil tiling Depart! nnd it vanishes. Having gratefully announced Ills recovery, the writer of the letter adds: Since then I always keep this medicine in the house.

When any nf my family are ill we resort to it, and it never fails-us. You can publish my statement that other sufferers may hear of It. Yours truly, (signed) Wm. I'arry, nork 435 New Chester Bond, Bock Ferry, near Liverpool. December 20th, 1892.

Another man tells a similar story the history of eight years instead of twelve, to le sure. Yet eight years are quite enough to be filled wlh physical nnd distress. Pal i lu the chest, sides and stomach, the eructation of sour, frothy water; le-ing so inflated with wind that wn obliged to loosen Ids clothing: loss or appetite and sleep, and tho uselessness of all mdlcnl etc. this is the substance of what- he was called upon to pass through. He, too at last heard of this medicine, nnd used It.

Now, lie says, I am altogether new man, and my health Is better tlin.u ever. (Signed) Charles Apployard. Loddiam. near South Milford, Yorkshire, February 9th, 1893. 8o runs the story of Illness nnd recovery thousands of them in England thousands of them everywhere.

The same dreadful indigestion and dyspepsia (the curse of the race), nnd the same cure in every case in which it has Wn tried Mother Selgels Curative Syrup BY THE WQMRFUL RIGBY PROCESS. The only way you know the cloth is waterproof is that the water don go through it. It looks and feels precisely as the same cloth did before it wad Itigby" proofed. It is Odorless and porous; does not confine the body like a rubber-proofed garment. It i sold In Men's Overcoats and Saits, Ladies' Cloaks and Dresses, Golf Capes, Bicycle Suits, Coachmen Livery Overcoats, or la Tweeds, Me; jus, Beavers, Drees Goods, and in fact, all woolen fabrics, by the yard.

Dry, Warm and Comfortable, permits free respiration of the pores of the body and keeps out the wer ARk for RIGBY Proofed Cloth. ed by acclamation, TOWN OF ST. BONIFACE. With one exception the town council of St. Boniface was elected by acclamation.

The only contest was in ward 2. G. B. Lanzon and A. Gaudanr were the candidates.

Mr. Lanzon was elected by a majority of four over his opponent. The council for lfc9G will be composed as follows: Mayor Hon. J. E.

Pendergast. Councillors Ward 1, Moileste Laiflon-tagne, Daniel McAnnay; ward 2, Isiae Lavoie, G. B. Lauzoa; ward 3, L. N.

Betoarney, G. A. Blenu; ward 4, Antoine Gavin, Alphonse Toupln. For school trustees there were con-teste in wards 1 and 4, G. A.

Fender-gast being elected In ward 1 by a majority of four over P. F. Coucy, and L. G. Levecquo In ward 4, by a majority of 42 over S.

Gaudanr. The school board of the town for next year will be composed of the following gentlemen: L. N. Betourney, C. Marchand, G.

P. O. Allaris, E. TuTdel, H. Belveaa, E.

Doumour, G. A. Pendergast, and L. G. Levecque.

STONEWALL. The municipal elections resulted as follows Councillors, ward 1, Rock- wood, Thok May, elected by a majority of 12; ward 2, Grass mere, Jos. Walton, elected Jby majority of 23; ward 3, Brant and Ridgeway, J. n. McClure, elected by majority of 12; ward 4, Wm.

by 8 majority; ard 5, Greenwood, Wm. Cook, elected by majority of ward 6 not reported. KILDONAN. The election contests in the rural municipality of Kildooan yesterday resulted in the return of the following lteeve Wm. Fraser.

Councillors Messrs, i Gann, Rlott, nopper, MUNICIPALITY OF. ST. BONIFACE. The elections for the rural municipality of St. Boniface resulted as follows: Reeve Victor Major, elected over Jos.

Biel by a vote of 60 to 55. Ward 1 H. Bruce, 67; C. Carriere, 03. Ward 2.

P. Dumas, 63; J. B. Hall, 6L ST. PAUL'S.

The result of the elections In the rural municipality of St. Pauls was as follows: Reeve Ilngli Pritcliard. Councillors James McNaughton, W. S. Lister, George Mac Beth, j.

T. Hay-W'ood. OTHER ELECTIONS. Stratliclalr, Dec. 17.

Reeve, Robert Morton, majority 11. Ward 1 W. lntterscvn, acclamation; ward 2, Hugh ward 5, John Nixon; ward 4, Hood ward 5, William Crawford, acclamation; ward 6, Jos. Williamson, acclamation. Morton, Dec.

17. Election returns Tor the municipality of Morton were: Reeve, a s. line. Councillors Wardl, J. G.

Washington; ward 2, L. IIealey; ward 8, J. T. Elliott; ward 4, Thomas Walker; ward 5, no returns; ward 6, Jan. Argue.

Louise, Dec. 37. Reeve and councillors of Louise are as follows: Reeve, W. II. Green way; ward, 1, John Pollock; ward 2, J.

C. Fleming; ward 3, Jas. Macnamee; ward 4, Win. McKIt-rick; ward 5, John Lawrence; ward 0, Jos. Stephenson.

Shoal Lake. Dec. 17. The result of to-ilays election for the municipality of Shoal Lake is: Reeve, G. Manson; councillor, R.

Ramla.ll, John Men-zle, John Simpson, Tlios. Martin. Winchester, Dec. 37 J. M.

Fee 290, Major Cates 192, Jos. Young 70. CnuiuTilora, Word 1, John Scott; Ward 2. II. Manz, Ward 3, D.

N. Ward 4, E. Kerr. Five and six not heard from. Carherry, Dec.

17. The elections here to-day resulted in the election of Duncan Pearson, for mayor; ward 1. N. E. Dirkie and W.

H. Duff, councillors; W. Logan, school trustee; ward 2, R. F. Harg, and W.

I. Smale, councillors; Geo. Rogers, trustee. Souris, Dec. 17.

The election In the municipality of Gtanwood resulted Reeve, Crisp, 68 majority; councillors Young, Lovatt, Bastedo, Stephenson, Kerr and Gerow. West Selkirk, (Dec. 17. The following were elected to-day for the town of Selkirk Mayor, Dr. Grain, elected over W.

H. Eaton by 12 majority; councillors, ward 1, E. Comber, L. Moncrieff ward 2, R. Comber, R.

C. Moody, acclamation; ward 8, J. G. Dagg, R. Bullock, acclamation.

Gladstone, Dec. 17. Councillors elected to-day were W. McKelvy, P. Broadfoot, J.

Madill, W. T. Bailey, W. Eccles, and R. Galloway.

Returns from the country not in. Emerson, Dec. 17. The school trustees election, to-day, which was keenly contested, resulted in the return of J. W.

Irwin for ward 1, C. Whitman for ward 2, and D. II. McLean, by acclamation, for ward 3. Minnedosa, Dec.

17. McDermott was elected mayor of the town to-day by six majority over Sewell, with two votes only for Turner. Waddell and Thompson, were elected councillors. Oda-nali is not all heard from, but Jackson is likely elected reeve. McGregor, Dec.

18. The reeve and for North Norfolk will be as follows Reeve, J. B. Young; coun cillors, ward one, A. Stone; ward two, W.

Cairns; ward three, E. Hamblen; ward four, E. Keeping; ward five, A. Campbell; ward six, A. Cameron, acclamation.

Tike contest was keen throughout the whole mtmicdpality and the actions of the old council strongly endorsed. Oak Lake, Dec. 38. The election of reeve of the municipality of Siftou resulted in Mr. A.

D. Chisholm being elected by G2 majority. The councillors were elected by acclamation. Deausejour, fcc. 18.

St. Clements election returns for ward ftgave J. Shaw a majority of 3(5 over J. Acoster. This is tho only ward in which there was any election in this year.

THE EDITOR IS UPHELD Minnedosa County Patrons Repudiate the Action of the Grand Executive Regarding the Advocate. At a meeting of the County Association, ratrons of Industry, held nt Rapid City, tho following resolution vras passed: Moved by S. I Head, president of llie Rapid City Sub-Association, seconded by John McBride jircsident McBride tlmt whereas nn article appearing In tho Patrons Advocate, -n-tided Provincial Patron Candidates, has vailed forth the wholesale condemnation of the grand executive, which tiny have published in the Winnipeg da if ly papers. Be it resolved that we, the County Association of Mimicdosa consider that the action of the executive in tills respect was wjiolly unwarrantable and tlmt the article complained of does not warrant the high-handed proc.ued-ure of the grnnd executive, and furthermore that the grand executive have nut acted In a friendly or Patron-like manner towards ilie editor of tin Patrons Advocate in disgracing him nnd the Patron order in the public lnunner in ner in which they have done. Carried.

ENGLISH SCARCE. Bwrbolim. the grain authority, says: General atatlsticnl positions may be said to favor -tho maintenance of nt least present level of vwheat values, seeing that the quantity nfio.it from which our imnWliate supplies are to 1) drawn hi much ludow average at this season of year, nnd bearing Jn mind, too, English wheat has seldom been so fcaree a It is this year CARDWELL NOMINATION. Another Three Cornered Fight Rat tie Between the McCarthyite and Conservative Fears of Bribery. Toronto, Dec.

17. The nominations for Cardwell were held this afternoon at Mono were followed; by a lively public meeting. Up to the last many had held there was a possibility of the Liberal candidate, Henry, dropping out of tho contest, but all doubts were dispelled by his acceptance of nomination, and giving a dcN lnite promise to remain in the field, Stubbs for (the McCarthyite, nnd Willoughby for the Conservative made similar declarations. Minister Foster w'ho is stumping (tho constituency, turned up to speak for Willoughby Jas. McMillan.

M. I and Frank Pod-ley, young Toronto lawyers, spoke for the Lilicral candidate and McCarthy came to the aid; of Stubbs. None of these candidates Is a good sneaker, but 8tubbs is tlie best. The nurprise of tho day was the changed attitude of tho government candidate Willoughby, who while having previously pledged himself to support remedial legislation, to-day declared lie held himself free on the subject until he had seem what sort or legislation tho government would bring in. 1H point is, he will not- restore, schools as they were before 1890, though he might not Ik opposed to separate schools in some shapo Stubbs of course declnwsl himself against separate schools f)f any kind, and Henry announced that ho occupied the same position as Laurier nnd advocated a.

commission, McCarthy during tlie afternoon read n. letter written by Willoughby on Nov. 7, 1895. in which the latter declared lie would. If elected, vote against remedial legislation of any kind, McCarthy said if Willoughby had remained faithful to this nrinciple he would not have opposed him.

Speaking of the contest generally, the fight generally Is believed to be between Stubbs nnd Willoughby with chances favoring the latter. Conservatives have as usual very effective.