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HAMILTO N PflUCEJ Al SHOT Citizen Who Was Aiding in Attempted Capture of Thief Also Wounded. A despakh from Hamilton says: thug, though she later Baid he was Constable Harry Smith was shot by n"t a comiuon tramp. It has been 1 I u u »„;„„ »« thought by sonae in the face of tho » burglar whom he was going to , ^^^^»^^^_-;^^^ ^,^^^ ^^^^^ 3^,„„g. •rrest on Thursday "'f'-^. about contradict it. that the mur- 8.18. near tho corner of Ray and ^^ ^ ^^j ^,,^ incident Mark^-t rtre,as. and James H«»- 1 h„, streagthenod that opinion, la Ur. 14 lUy s«x««t. who *''«_^-'_tH^^^„„„«„ ^ ^li„g «{ dread ifiiipir*'^ by tho oa«e bus beua in- Ubi t» readef ast-fstanco k cattJi ing tkd burglar, was shot in tho temple. Both men were at onco taken to the city hospital and op- erated on. It is believed that they will recover, though their injuries are critical. Their assailant got out of the house in the e.vcitement that fol!oHe<l, climoed over several fences, got on King street and made his escape. He was discovered in the house of E. W. Kapclle, south- toiisified, and the police are at their wiis' ond with two such cases on their hands. BULLET REMOVED FROM BRAIN. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS n.irPENlXCS FR03I ALL OVEU TUE ULOKG. Tuicffraphio Briefs From Onr Owu •ad Other Countries ol Iteccnt ETonts. CANADA. A snowfall of eleven feet was re- corded at Quebec this winter. tit. Thomas policemen have re- ceived an inwroas© m pay. I'he C. P. R. is planuing large cxtoasioas to the niwkor gKreet Station at Moatroal. Two bundled men have been laid off at tho 1 oint Bt. Charles shops of the Grai,d Trunk. Two Italians were convicted, on Friday, of tho murder of Edward Friday evening Constable Smith, ^'^en. the Montreal pedler at the victim of Thursday nis^t'sr n"\' f;,^- „ , , shooting, was operated on at the U°^" th« new tobacco, act a City Hospital by Dr. Cummings ' ^^^viction was registered in To- and\ portion of the bullet that was I -to^a^^^^^^^^^^^ -an who gave hzs of the VV/..CV- â€" , "..- â€" â€" I, J .„„,•_ _„„iiJ Thnuirh *-*"a*"an i^ortnem Railway have •ral neighbors to assist hjm in ^.r- ; [fver^ »nd___restmg_^easUy._^ T^^^^^^^^ ^^^.^ federated organiz- east corni-r of Hay and Market, »"" -fv """"." V "" 7" 'â„¢A«<..,l I sons cigarettes. streets, about 9 o'clock by tho odged in his bram was removed^ ] ^he mechanical union, constable, who at once asked sev- {lie;vas_reportod as_b6.ng free^from^.^^^.^^ Northern rounding the house. They were it is believed he has a good chance passing "through a side alley to en-jt'' recover, it is feared that men- ter the house from the rear when Ungitis may set in, which would be the burglars opened fire on them i extremely dangerous. He waa - «... One'taken to Dr. Cummings' surgery from the rear of the house bullet struck Constable Smith on I this afternoon in the aniblance and i ation at Winnipeg I A bar of gold was stolen from a dentist's office at Portage lai Prairie, and a society woman is' implicated. The spring rush of immigration tTeside ofthe head, and '^e.^eccnd i the^-x'^ra^>^ was^put^on^his head. ^,,^-^y-^^^,^^ ^^^^^^-^ ^^^, hit Mr. Hanley on the temple. andU> "»= "'"~"/"'-:;- 'AT'tK«" t^mnle i ''^^''S of immigranU it is understood that a third shot which struck him on ^j^^ /^^P'*' Halifax this week, was fired, which also hit Mr. Smith, was split in two by the skull. Une- Both men fell to the ground, but half entered the b ram nearly taJI did not lose consciousness. When an inch and lodged m it. while the thev were picked up they were able other portion traveled along a • ridge of the skull for three or four inches and lodged behind his ear. inflicting a ccalp wound that is not will arrive at to walk to the street, and the am- bulance being called, they were taken to the hospital. _ „- . , That such a daring attempt to dangerous. Smith wajS conscious murder a police officer and a citi-jall the time he was at the doctor s, ton who was assisting him in his, but was suffering severe pain, and duty should take place early in the I once asked for an opiate. Bight, not far from the centre of i The police adnut with consider- , ^^^^^ ^^^ engineer the citv. has confirmed the feeling 'able regret that they have very lit-: ^^^^ ^^^^ ^.^j^ ^^^ that there is a gang of desperate tie hope of catching the desperado criminals in this city, who will stop, They have followed up everything at nothing. It will be remembered that looks like a clue, but tne man that Miss Florence Kinrade stated seems to have disappeared as com- 1b the first place that the man who'pletely as if the earth had opened •hot her sister appeared to be a and swallowed hina. John Welch, who was serving a life sentence at Kingston Peniten- tiary for attempting to blow up the Welland Canal, is dead. At the Mining Institute meeting at Montreal President Miller stat- ed the total mineral prodtictien of Canada last year to be $$7,323,848. After jumping the track near Uartland. N. B.. an engine rolled over three times and landed in the The engineer and fireman engine, but P. C. SMITH'S ASSAILANT. Shooting Had No Connection Wijth liiorade Murder. A despatch from Hamilton says : Tlie firot threads of a web of evi- dence which the Hamilton and Provincial detectives have been trjing to gather up against tho man who fired upon and perhaps fatally wounded Constable Smith of Hamilton last Thursday night, have been obtained by the authori- ties, who are now satisfied that tho â- hooting of tlie policeman and tho murder of Mies Kinrade were not dune by eno and tlie same person. The tiieery that the man who shot tho policeman was the one who maraercd Mks Kiarude, which nvet with much favor at first because â- 0 many of the circumstanc-es of tho case supported it. ha» been eompletely abandoned by both the city of Hamilton and Provincial detectives. The investigation of the shooting •f the policeman is being left sole- ly in the hands of the Hamilton police ofBi'ers, who are looking for a man not believed to be in or near Hamilton, and whose principal oc- cupation of late has been the sys- tematic stealing of chickens. The oonnection of the man with the •hooting of the policeman ha'* been established by a bag picked up after the constable was sliot. The bag, the police assort, was a shurt timo before in the posBession of a man •een loitering around t)i« homo of Bishop Dowling, which is just in tho rear of the dwelling where Police Constable Smith was shot. Tho man was about 6 feet 8 inches in height, and spoke with a decided English accent. He is al.so de- scribed as having rosy checks, with » two-weeks' growth of a mous- tache. His clothing consisted of a light brown or grey euit and peak escaped unhurt. GREAT BRITAIN. Large quantities of diseased meat from the United States were re- ceived at the port of London. The Daylight-saving Bill passed cap. That the man was an ordin-|the second reading in the British ary chickea-thief is evident, the House of Commons on Friday, police say, from the number of Mr. Arthur Dewar. Solicitor- feathers found inside the bag which General for Scotland, was returned was carried by the man, and after- J as member for South Edinburgh in wards picked up at the scene of the British Commons. the shooting. TWO MES FOUND FROZEN. Tragedy at MacLeod River in Brit* ish Columbia. A despatch from Vancouver says : Word has been received from Bar- korville that R. Peden, F. Aken and J. Goldie report the discovery of two men frozea to death on the MoIjoo^I River, a point about sixty miles from Barkorville. It is be- lieved here that the bodies are those of Charles Baker and James MoCurdy, who left Barkerville about six or seven weeks ago, ac- companied by two hardy old tim- ers, Messrs. Spittal and Hender- son, bound for TeLo Janune Cache. Mr. Peden's party wa« on its way to Barkerville with dog teams to fetch a third consignment of sup- plies for tho Oaskeil party, who are cruising timber on Goat River. It is thought that Baker and Mc- Curdy had left the company of Spittal and Henderson and were returning to Barkerville when they met their death through exposure, as they had neither food nor blan- kets when found. Mr. Scott Dickson, Unionist, car- ried the Central Division of Glas- gow against the Free Trade can- didate by a majority of 2,113. Mr. Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, says President Taft, in his inaugural address, pronounced the doom of the hope for the disarma- ment of the nations. KING'S TRIP TO BIARRITZ. Not a Ilnliilny, But Dno Solely to Health Itonsons. A despatch from London says; It is ofTiciuUy announce<l that King I'xlward's forthcoming trip to IJiar- ritz is not a holiday, but is due solely to rcoHons of liealth, his phy- sicians having in I90H strongly urg>. ed him not to spend March and April in Great Britain. ANNUAL BD061T Treasurer of Ontario Says He Surplus of $450,000. Has a UNITED STATES. The CanadiaB waterways treaty was ratified by the Uaited States Senate oa Thursday. A Best«« Btan naa invrnted a machine for generating electricity from the sun's rays. The Pennsylvania Railroad's re- port shows a decrease of $7,420,- 297 in net earnings for 1908. William H. Taft was sworn in at Washington as President of the United States, on Thursday. President Roosevelt has received a present of a gold-hilted. jewelled bunting knife, costing $1,250. Practically every coal operator in Western Pennsylvariia has peti- tioned for reciprocity in coal with Canada. Detroit's lake passenger fleet will be equipped with wireless telegraph apparatus when naviga- tion opens. Imports into New York for Feb- ruary last show an increase of nearly $19,000,000 over the same month last year. United States officials at Ogdens- hurg and Watortown claim to have discovered an underground route by which white slaves are import- ed into tho United States from Canada. GENKRAL. Dinizulu, King of the Zulus, has been sentenced to four years in prison for harboring rebels. Spain fears that the agreement between Franco and Germany re- garding Morocco may be detriment- al to Spanish interests in North Africa. Hon. A. J. Matlieson, Ontario's grammar school landa, $2,000; to- Treasurer, on Thursday afternoon delivered liii annual budget speech lu the Legislature. He claimed a surplus gkT $'1.')0,000 on tho opera- tions of the pa t year ond submit- ted estimates of the rcueipt.s ex- pected in tho next ten months. The total pstimated receipts for the first ton months arc |u, 105,- S73, compared with an cstiiaatcd expenditure of $0,943,001. He sub- mitted thn fallowing :â- â€" ?l8timato<l receipts, ton months, ISOO, including oaHh balances on hand aist December, 1908: Stib- •idy $2,12«.772.08, interest on com- mon school funds held by the I)o- Diiuion $74,000, interest on invest- ments $60,000, total $134,000; lar/ds and forests, timber duos, bonus f [round rent, etc., $025,000 ; Crown ands, $60,000; clergy lands, $t\,- 000; common school lands, $10,000; tal, $1,000,000 MINES PAY. Mines, royalties, $300,000; sup- plementary revenue, $50,000; license fees, reeor<ling fees, etc., $110,000; provincial mine, $10,000; publio institutions, $130,000; Cen- tral Prison induMtrios, $47,000; education department, $40,000; I'revincial Secretary's department, $137,000; n((riculturo, $73,000; sta- tionary engineers, $10,000; casual revenue, $3,000; succession duties, $400,000 ; supplementary revenue fax (8 Fxlw. 7, Cap... 14), $690,000; tavern and brewers' ricensos, $300.- 000; law stamps, $78,000; games and Asherioi. $06,000; estimated earnings T. & N. O. Railway ten months, $300,000 ; total estimated receipts, $6,105,27)2.08; cash oal- ances Dec. 81, 1008, $3,072,130.00; total. $9,177,408.68. FHE WORLD'S MARKETS REPORTS FROM THE LEADLNU TRAOK CENTRES. Prices of Cattle. Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Uoiuo and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Mar. 9.â€" Flourâ€" Ontario wheat 90 per cent, patents, $1.05 t( $4.15 to-day in buyers' sacks outside for export. Manitoba fSeur unchanged; first pateuts, $5.- 70 te $6.90 on track, 'Toronto ; sec- ond patents, $5.20 to $5.40, and strong bakers', $5 to $5.20. Wheat â€" Manitoba wheat, $1.20 for No. 1 Northern, and $1.17 for Np. 2 Northern, Georgian Bay ports. No. 1 Northern nominal at $1.27, all rail, and Ho. 2 Northern at $1.23}^, all rail. Oatsâ€" -Ontario No. 2 white, 49c on track, Toronto ; No. 2 Western Canada oats 48c, Collingwood, and No. 3 at 46%c, Collingwood. Peasâ€" No. 2 quoted at 92c out- side. Corn â€" No. 2 American yellow 73j^c on track, Toronto, and No. yellow, 72}<;c, Toronto. Canadian corn, 68 to 70c on track, Toronto. Branâ€" Cars are $23 in bulk out- side. Shorts $23 to $23.50 in bulk outside. * COUNTRY PRODUCE. Applesâ€" $4.50 to $5.50 for choice qualities, and $3.60 to $4 for cook- ing purposes. Beansâ€" Prime, $1.90 to $2, and hand-picked, $2.10 to $2.15 per bushel Honeyâ€" Combs, $2.25 to $2.75 per dozen, and strained, 11 to ll%c per pound. Hayâ€" No. 1 timothy, $10.75 to $11 per ton on track here, and lower grades $9 to $10 a ton. Strawâ€" $7 to $7.60 on track Potatoesâ€" 62 to 65c per bag on track. Poultryâ€" Chickens, dressed, 12 to 14c per pound; fowl, 10 to lie; ducks, 14 to 15c; geese, 12 to 13c; turkeys, 17 to 19c per pound. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€" Pound prints, 20 to 21c; tubs and largo rolls, 13 to 19c; in- ferior, 15 to 17c ; creamery rolls, 260, and solids, 24 to 24'/ic. Eggs â€" Case lots of new laid, 20 to 27c per dozen. Cheese- Large cheese, 13%o per pound and twins, 14c. HOG PRODUCTS. Baconâ€" Long clear, 11% to llj^c' per pound in case lots; mess porK, $20 to $20.50; short cut, $23 to $24. Hams â€" Light to medium, 13% to lie; do., heavy, 12>i to 13c; rolls, 10,'/^ to lie; shoulders, 10 to 10%c;| backs, 16 to IcVjc ; breakfast bacon, ' 1»% to lOe. I Lardâ€" Tierces, 12%o; tubs, 13c; pails, 13%o. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, March 9.â€" Peasâ€" No. 2, 9S>^ to OOo. Oatf»â€" Canadian West-| em No. 2, 61 to 61%o; extra No. j 1 feed, 50% to 61c; No. 1 feed, 50 to 6C%c; OnUrio No. 2, 50 to 50%c;, Ontario No. 3, 49 to 49%c; Ontario No. 4, 48 to 48y,o; No. 2 barley, 63% to 65c; Manitoba feed barley, | 58 to 58%c ; buckwheat, 65% to 6Cc. | Flour â€" Manitoba Spring wheat pat-i ents, firsts, $5.80 to $U; Manitoba Spring wheat patents, seconds, â-  $5.30 to $5.60; Manitoba strong' bakers', $5.10 to $5.30; Winter wheat patents, $5.40 to $5.50; straight rollers, $5 to $5.10; do., in bags, $2.35 to $2.45; extra, in bags, $1.9J to $2.05. Feedâ€" Mani- toba bran, $22; do., shorts, $24; Ontario bran, $20 to $24; do., shorts, $24.50 to $25; Ontario mid- dlings, $25 to $25.50; pure grain mouille, $33 to $35 ; mixed mouille, $28 to $30. Cheeseâ€" Finest west- ern, 13 to 13%c; eastern, 12% to 12%o. Butterâ€" Fall creamery, 21c; Winter creamery, 20c; dairy, in tubs, I8c; rolls, lOe. Eggs â€" The demand is good and the market is fairly active, with sales at 2Bc per dozen. MB. FAY 'S LAW BEF OBM Bill Appeals to Divisional Courts Are Abolished and Privy Council Appeals Limited, The law reform measure, intro- duoed by Attorney-General Foy in the Ontario Legislature on Wed- nesday afternoon, presents four main features. In accordance with the resolution passed by the Legis- lature last year appeal to the Di- visional Court is done away with. An Appellate Division of the Su- preme Court is created under the bill primarily, consisting of the present Appeal Judges. If the pre- sent Judges find that they cannot deal with all the work, then power is vcited in the Lieutenant-Gover- nor in Council to constitute as many divisions of the Appellate Court as may be necessary for the despatch of business, the selection of the new Judges, however, being in the hands of the present Judges of the Supreme Court. There will be no appeal from one division to another. The right of appeal to the Privy Council is considerably limited. It can only be taken in cases where the value of the matter concerned exceeds $10,000, instead of $4,000, as at present ; where some consti- tutional question or the liberty of the subject is involved, or in casM whore the Judges of the Appellate Division consider the interests in- volved of such magnitude that the appoal is warraat«d. A High Criminal Court, sitting monthly in Toronto, except during vacation, giving ten sittings in tho year, instead of four, is constitut- ed. The jurisdiction of the County and District Court is enlarj^ed to cover cases where the amount in- volved is $800 under a contract, and $500 in the majority of tho other classes of cases coming under the jurisdiction of these courts. Finally, it is rendered possible for a solicitor to enter into an agreement to carry on a client's litigation for a fixed sum instead ' of being paid by the present inde- finite fee system. These agree- ments will be under the control of the courts, which can enforce or nulify them according to their be- ing considered fair or otherwise. 4 white, 66Xc. Barleyâ€" Feed to malting, 69 to 74c. Milwaukee, March 9.â€" Wheat â€" No. 1 Northern, $1.20 to $1.20%; No. 2 Northern, $1.18 to $1.18%; July, $1.06% to $1.06% asked. Rye â€"No. 1, 80c. Cornâ€" July, 6C%c bid. Barley â€" Standard,' 67c; sample, 64% to 67c; No. 3, 64% to 66%c; No. 4, 64 to 64%c. Minneapolis, March 9. â€" Wheat â€" May, $1.14%; July, $1.15%; cash, No. 1 hard, $1.17% to $1.17%; No. 1 Northern, $1.16% to $1.16%; No. 2 Northern, $1.14% to $1.14%; No. C Northern, $1.10% to $1.12%. Branâ€" $23 to $23.50. r'lourâ€" First patents, $5.80 to $5.90; second pat- ents, $5.05 to $5.75 ; first clears, $4.50 to $4.75; eecond clears, $3.16 to $3.25. ghastly job and complete it. None ct the head wounds would have entailed a fatal result, as the skuU was not injured, and the bullets in the lower jaw apparently lodg- ed in the 'hroat. What then is tho explanation of the long wait between the infliction of the wounds in the head and those in the breast? The murderer musk have been in nowise hurried for time, and also must have had a determination that Miss Ethel should not live to tell any tales. EIGHT BULLETS IN BODY. Autopsy Shows That Number FJrcd at Mlas Ethel Kiorade. Hamilton, March 7. â€" That eight hullets vere fired at Ethel Kin- rade instead of seven and that a period of ten or fifteen minutes elapsed between the time of the infliction of the wounds in the head and those in her breast, are the latest startling developments in probably the most mysterious mur- der that has ever come to light in Canada. The further the case is probed "the more mystifying be- comes the atmosphere eurrounding it, not a theory having yet been advanced â€" excepting the original story of Miss Florence Kinrade â€" that can be supported by any sem- blance of motive, at least not so far as the general publio is in- formed. The testimony Dr. McNichol and the surgeons who performed tho autopsy will show that a comparatively large quan- tity of blood flowed from tlie wound back of the right temple. There were in all seven wounds, three in the breast, one near tho left ear, two in the lower jaw and the ono in the temple. The shut through tho heart would cause al- most instant death and tho circu- lation of blood would practically cease. Some time must have elapsed between the firing of the shut into the head and that into the heart. From the quantity of blood found, this period must have been between ten and fifteen min- utes in duration, and the infer- ence would be that the shots in the head did not do as much damage as was anticipated and the assassin was compelled to return to his LAND FOR TUE SETTLEBS. Two Hundred Thousand Home* Bteads Available. A despatch from Winnipeg says : Statistics compiled by the Depart- ment of Imniigr<i.tion here ehow there are still 200,000 homesteads available in the three prairie Prov- inces under the surveys which have been completed. The extension of the surveys, of course, will increase this number greatly. The free farms are located as follows, ac- cording to Provinces : â€" Manitoba, Itr.llS; Sa/skatchewan, 106,560, an4 Alberta, 71,286. Much of the land is desirable, quite as good as any- thing in the country, and all that is required to make it equal is ade- quate railway facilities. + CHILD CHOKED TO DEATH. Picked Up on llnmilton Street With Candy Stuck In Throat. A despatch from Hamilton, Out., says : On Wednesday evening, as an unknown man was walking on Cathcart street, he noticed a little girl on tho sidewalk, apparently in great pain. Picking the child up, he saw that she was black in the face and apparently choking to death. Without waiting to enquire who she was ho hurried her to the City Has^iital, where it was found that a pieoo of cnndy which she had been sucking had become lodged in her throat, and that life was almost extinct. She was hur- ried to the operating room, and an operation was performed, but in spite of all that tho doctors could do for her she died. lis'tor in tho evening the child was identified as Annie Oriflin, the two-year-old d'»"(rhfer of Mr. and Mrs. OrifHn, ' 134 Cathcart street. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto, Mar. 9. â€" The export trade is a littlo quiot, with only a few lots of shipping cattle coming in, hut prices steady around $5 to $5.25. Export bulls a little easier around $4.60 for heavyweight. Choice lots of butcher cattle firm at around $4.60 to $4.75, and a few picked odd cattle, extra choice, at $4.85 to $4.00. Average and medium quality butcher loads of cattle steady at $4.36 to $4.40. Steady demand for good butcher cows at $3.75 to $4, and anything choice at $4.25. Butcher bulls from $2.50 to $4. Canners from $1.50 to $2. Lambsâ€" Market weak, and prices easier. Sheepâ€" Steady. Hogsâ€"Select, $6.75 f.o.b., and $0.90 ted and watered. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, March 9. â€" Wh»at â€" Spring wheat firm; No. 1 North- ern, carloads, store, $1.23%; Win- ter, highsr; No. 2 red, $1.29% ; No. 3 extra red, $1.28; No. 2 white, $1.27% ; No. 2 mixed, $1.29%. Corn No. 3 yellow, 70o ; No. 4 yellow, 60%c; No. 3 corn, CO to 69%c ; No. 4 corn, 68% to 68%c ; No. 3 white, e9%c. Oatsâ€" No. 2 white, 67% to 58oi No. 3 white, 67 to 67%o; No. TO PROTECT GAME FISH. A Rigorous Anti-export Regulation Adopted. A despatch from Ottawa says; With a view to effectively protec^• ing the black bass, maskinonge and speckled trout fishery in the Prov- ince of Ontario an order in Coun- cil has boeu passed prohibiting the sale and export of these fish for a period of five years from the 30th of May ne.\t. It is provided, how- ever, that any person from a fore- ign country having an angler's per- mit may take bock with him a law- ful catch of two days' fishing. SIXTEEN MEN DROWNED. Coffer Dam in Which They Wero Working Flooded. A despatch from Liverpool says : Sixteen men were drowned early on Saturday morning in the flood- ing of a coffer dam used in the con- struction of a new dock at Birken- head. Three men rescued from the wreckage were badly injured. BAY RAIIWAY The Chief Engineer's Report on the Cost of Two Routes. A despatch from Ottawa says : The surveys of the proposed Hud- son's Bay Railway, which have been under way since last October, are i now practically complett>d, and a ' tentative report to the Govern- ment by the chief engineer, Mr. John Armstrong, estimates the to- tal cost of the road, either to Fort Churchill or Port Nelson, with necessary terminal and harbor im- provements at each place, at be- tween seventeen and eighteen mil- lion dollars. He finds no obstacle to easy and comparatively cheap construction, and submits a de- tailed estimate of the comparative cost of the alternate routes sur- veyed from Split Lake to Fort Churchill and from Split Lake to Port Nelson. The Fort Churchill route, aggregating 466 miles, will cost, he estimates, $11,608,000 for the railway and an additional five to six millions for harbor and ter- minal works. The Port Nelson route, a distance of three hundred and ninety-seven miles, would cost approximately $8,077,000, but the terminal and harbor improvements would cost suflicient to counterbal- ance the smaller amount required for railway construction. On the whole Mr. Armstrong reports in favor of the Nelson Kiver route. The estimates are based on a road sufficient to hond'.e tho traffic for from seven to ton years, a poriotl long enough to test the use- fulness of the route. Sixty-pound rails and wooden culvpvts and trestles would be used. It the lino at the end of the period was shown to be commercially feasible the road could thon be improved. With regard to the Nelson River route, Mr. Armstrong makes th« interesting statement that from in- formation obtainable it would seem that a canal could be built along the Nelson River, which would en- able ocean-going vessels to enter Lake Winnipe({ from Hudson's Bay, From Lake Winnipeg a channel ol thirty-three feet already exists t« the south end of the lake, an4 theDce the canal might be extended via the Red Biver to Winnipeg. I